Bizarre Cases of the missing and murdered

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www.denverpost.com/2011/09/16/2-accused-of-grim-real-life-weekend-at-bernies/
When Robert Young and Mark Rubinson found their friend dead in his home, they decided to take him out for one last night on the town at his expense. They threw their friend in the back seat of their car, took his dead body barhopping through three separate venues, and closed off the night by blowing $400 of their dead friend’s money at a strip club.

Unlike "Weekend at Bernie's", they didn’t actually drag their friend’s body into the club. They left him in the back seat of the car throughout the whole fiasco. So it’s not entirely clear why they bothered dragging his corpse around at all.

When the night was over, they called the cops to report that their friend was dead. But since real life isn’t a raunchy ‘80s comedy movie, the police didn’t just laugh it off. The paired ended up in jail on a pile of charges, including abusing a corpse.

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charleyproject.org/case/april-irene-vlk
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​​​​​​​On September 12, 1991 a church dinner being held in the Seaside Villas in Hilton Head, South Carolina was interrupted when a crying, bleeding woman entered. Believed to be April Irene Vlk, witnesses reported that she was barefoot, bleeding from the feet, and appeared terrified. Vlk asked for materials to make a sign to hitchhike off the island. After writing 'Washington DC' on a piece of cardboard, Vlk was given $20 to buy some shoes at a nearby Wal-Mart and left. After leaving the church, she vanished. Her father reported her missing on September 17, 1991 and initial investigative reports state that on the 12th Vlk had been involved in an argument with her live-in boyfriend, who told her to leave the apartment.

It isn't known whether or not she successfully hitchhiked off the island or what happened to her. Her Doe Network profile lists her disappearance as 'Involuntary' and there is very little information available on the case. Her DNA is stored in the National Missing Persons DNA databank and there is a $2500 reward being offered for any information leading to an arrest in the case.

Was Vlk killed by her boyfriend or the person who picked her up? Did she ever leave the island? What caused her to enter the church in such a hysteric state?


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counteverymystery.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-murder-of-terry-sutter.html



On the day of September 1st, 1973 15 year old Terry Sutter spent the day mowing the lawns. His mother had forgotten to pick him up, so he had walked home. He had wanted to spend that night at the movies and bowling alley with his friends. So his mother brought him to town, and dropped him off in Frankfort, Michigan. He was to stay with his Grandmother and his curfew was at 11 pm.



His parent's were shocked to hear that Terry didn't stay the night let alone arrive at his grandmothers house. He wasn't a difficult type of kid. He was the type who understood curfews and never broke them. This worried his family and they went out to search for him. The police did not take the family seriously as they believed he was hiding out so he didn't have to go to school.



That afternoon though Terry's body was found on the beach of Lake Michigan by a tourist. It was initially believed he had maybe died from a fall from a cliff and into Lake Michigan. It was found that his lungs were not filled with water, but instead with sand. Pointing towards being murdered. It's possible that his face was held down in sand and he suffocated to death. His neck and head were covered in bruises and his eyes were filled with sand.



Somebody then began to vandalize the poor 15 year olds grave. His head stone would get vandalized, flower pots put there for flowers were broken and even the bush planted there by an older sister was ripped out. Eventually it was decided Terry would lie in an unmarked grave as they removed the head stone.

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charleyproject.org/case/barre-kallan-monigold



One night in 1979 Barre Kallan Monigold went outside to turn his car light off and never returned."Monigold was last seen at a friend's apartment complex in the 3900 block of Old Bullard Road in Tyler, Texas on June 17, 1979. He had been on a date that night and he and his date had gone to his friend's second-floor apartment and fallen asleep on the floor.



Between 1:00 and 1:30 a.m., Monigold's friend woke him up to tell him that the dome light in his car, a blue 1978 Monte Carlo, was on. Monigold went outside to turn the light off and never returned. While he was gone, his friend was in the kitchen, which overlooked the parking lot; the car was thirty to forty feet away.



Monigold's friend didn't hear any unusual noises. After about five minutes he went outside and called for Monigold, but Monigold was gone. The Monte Carlo's driver's side door was found unlocked and there were no indications of a struggle.



Monigold left all his clothing and personal belongings behind, and he also left money in his bank account. He worked as a car salesman at King Chevrolet at the time of his disappearance. He had studied karate and could have defended himself if attacked.



After his disappearance there were persistent rumors that he had been murdered, and another story that he had fled to Jamaica after a tipster offered up Monigold's phone number there, but little evidence is available in his case.Some individuals claimed to have witnessed Barre being forced into another vehicle although these claims were never proven. A big theory was that Barre was killed by a jealous ex-boyfriend. The girl he was dating had just ended a relationship that was described as volatile. A different man later confessed to the murder although it turned out to be false. It remains unsolved.

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newsok.com/article/2025799/...focation-of-lawton-girl-life-sentence-imposed



The retrial of Jackie M. Roubideaux, accused of first-degree murder in the 1976 suffocation of a three-year-old Lawton girl, begins Monday in Comanche County District Court here.



A four-week trial early last year involving testimony from 64 witnesses ended in a mistrial when the jury could not reach a verdict.



Comanche County District Attorney Dick W. Tannery said the investigations of the girl's suffocation and a similar infant death in 1977 have been the most extensive in the county's history.



Miss Roubideaux, who was charged in October 1979, is accused of locking Mary Elizabeth Carpitcher and her twin sister, Augustine Lena "Tina" Carpitcher, in an abandoned refrigerator in April 1976. Tina survived.



The children had disappeared from their maternal grandmother's home.



Tina and the body of her twin sister were found two days later after other children playing nearby heard Tina's cries. She said she stayed alive by breathing through a small hole in the refrigerator.



Tina, now 10 years old, has been asked 13 times to recall in court her ordeal in the refrigerator. She testified before three judges in an adult certification hearing, a preliminary hearing and the first trial. She is expected to be the key witness for the prosecution again.



Tannery said the state also alleges Miss Roubideaux is responsible for the death of 19-month-old Nima Louise Carter, who was abducted from her Lawton home in October 1977. After a 23-day search, the child's body was found in a refrigerator inside a vacant, dilapidated duplex about a mile from where the Carpitcher children were discovered.



No one has been charged with the Carter child's death.

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murderpedia.org/male.R/r/ryan-michael-wayne.htm



Michael W. Ryan is just about as deplorable a person as you can find. During the 1980s, he was a leader of a religious white supremacist group, which focused on the evilness of Jews, the destruction of authority, and the inferiority of other races. This alone makes him pretty terrible, but the reason for his imprisonment is what will really make you queasy.



In 1982, Ryan was arrested for the murder of five-year-old Luke Stice, the son of one of his followers, as well as the murder of another member of his society named James Thimm. Reports indicated that Ryan had, over the course of several days, abused the child (including forcing him to have sex with his father) before killing him. Ryan then beat Thimm, forced him to have sexual intercourse with a goat, and then eventually skinned him while he was still alive. Thim eventually died when Ryan stomped on his skinned and bleeding chest.



It's not surprising that Ryan was sentenced to death, though he died on death row in 2015 before his execution.

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unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Mary_Agnes_Gross
www.findagrave.com/memorial/150647137/mary-agnes-gross

Mary Agnes Gross is the daughter of fifty-five-year-old Marlys Thomas. When Marlys was twenty, she left her husband to raise her daughter on her own. In 1962, she moved to Minnesota to be close to her mother. On June 12, 1962, she went into labor, but after she gave birth, Marlys was told that her daughter died shortly after being born. Marlys had been sedated during the delivery, but she does have vague images of her daughter moving. While being wheeled out of her hospital room, Marlys passed a bassinet which held Mary Agnes. She asked to see her daughter, and when she was shown her, Marlys did not believe her baby was deceased. Mary Agnes was not purple and looked as if she were sleeping, not dead. She also had marks on her head from the forceps that the doctor used during delivery. Marlys noticed that her daughter had long, full dark brown hair. Furthermore, the hospital did not seem interested in an autopsy to explain how her daughter died nor allowed her photos of her daughter's body. Her mother was also not allowed to take pictures of the baby at the funeral home.

Soon after Mary Agnes's supposed death, a close friend of Marlys, Judy Voges, came to see the body of the baby and did not believe that it was young Mary Agnes. Judy did not see any marks on the baby's head, and the hair on the baby was light brown, and that there was not much of it; this was the opposite of what Marlys saw. Although Marlys was too sick for her baby's funeral, her mother did attend and noticed another family she did not know in attendance. There was only one fresh grave in the area. It was claimed that another family had lost an infant the same day her daughter died.
That infant was named Pamela Rae Dickey. A week after the funeral, Marlys was well enough to visit her daughter's grave. Even though there was apparently another baby that died, there was only one grave there. Three months after "losing" her daughter, Marlys received a photograph of an unidentified family, that included a husband, wife, and three children, one of which was a newborn baby girl. There was no letter or return address. When Marlys looked at the photograph, she felt that the baby looked just like her estranged husband, Mary Agnes's father. She did not recognize the people in the photo, nor did anyone in her family. She believed that someone was trying to tell her that her daughter was alive.

One year later, Marlys bought a headstone for her daughter's grave, but found that the stone had been placed a few feet off to the side. Though she moved away, Marlys periodically visited her daughter's grave. On one visit in 1989, she was shocked to find Pamela's gravestone placed atop her daughter's grave. Marlys questioned the funeral director and he said that her daughter was not buried there.
Marlys began doing more research into her daughter's supposed death. Marlys discovered that Pamela had passed away just a few hours before Mary Agnes, on the same day in the same hospital. Also, they were buried on the same day. Marlys was surprised to find her ex-husband's last name (Gross) written in the corner of one of Pamela's funeral papers. Even more puzzling, hospital records stated that Mary Agnes was healthy at birth, but the death certificate said that she had never drawn a breath. The birth certificate said that she was born at 6:23PM, but the death certificate said she died at 6:20PM, three minutes before she was born.
Marlys asked Pamela's mother Margaret for help, but she preferred not to disturb her daughter's grave. Nonetheless, Marlys had to make sure that Mary Agnes's body had not been moved without her knowledge. In November 1996, Marlys had the grave below her daughter's headstone exhumed. The remains were old, but DNA testing was able to be done. The tests confirmed that the child buried there was not Mary Agnes Gross. Also, the tests confirmed that the remains were not Pamela Dickey's either. Marlys showed the photographs her mother took of Mary Agnes's casket to Margaret Dickey. Margaret identified the casket as Pamela's and that her husband had bought it. She also said that another family was at her daughter's funeral that day; the family was Marlys's family.

Marlys now believes that Pamela is buried underneath her own tombstone and that another baby was buried where Mary Agnes was supposed to be. Marlys now believes that because she was a young, single mother that the hospital decided to give Mary to another family, which was in the picture sent to her. She hopes that she will one day find her daughter. Mary Agnes was born on June 16, 1962, at Worthington Regional Hospital in Worthington, Minnesota.

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www.bakersfield.com/archives...cle_16ba906c-d0fd-5081-8e0c-6d8d56ff1ffd.html
In May 2009, 34-year-old Angelo Mendoza Sr. went on what may have been a PCP-induced spree of nightmarish acts, the worst of which included biting his four-year-old son’s left eye out of his face and maiming the other. But that wasn’t the end of it for Mendoza Sr. After mangling his son’s face, he made his way to the backyard of an empty house, chained himself to a tree, and asked a neighbor to “look into the Sun and pray with him.” He then began hacking at his own legs with an ax and a ceramic plate. He later tried to tell police that he and his son had been victims of the Mexican Mafia.

Frightened by his father’s crazed state, four-year-old Angelo Mendoza Jr. attempted to hide behind a large dresser, where neighbors later found him naked and unconscious. He shook violently when he awoke as police arrived, and after being taken to a hospital in Fresno, California, he told a volunteer, “My daddy ate my eyes.”

Angelo Mendoza Sr. was charged with mayhem, torture, and child cruelty. In February 2011, however, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Thankfully, Mendoza Jr.’s right eye recovered.

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www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36441742

Seven-year-old Yamato Tanooka of Hokkaido, Japan, was throwing rocks at people during a family outing in summer 2016. His parents wanted to teach him a lesson. So they pulled over by the side of a road next to the woods, removed him from the car, and drove away. They returned five minutes later, hoping that their punishment had worked. But he was already gone.

Yamato remained missing for six days. The woods had tall grass and plants that the search party needed to comb through to be sure that they didn’t miss finding him, in case his body was lying on the ground. It was cold at night, and it also rained, which made it seem even more hopeless to find him alive.

Meanwhile, Yamato truly believed that his parents had abandoned him because of his bad behavior. He decided to go deeper into the woods to look for shelter. After walking for 5 kilometers (3 mi), Yamato came upon an empty military base with small huts. He opened the door of one and found a thin mattress on the floor. He was able to sleep comfortably. But aside from drinking rainwater, he had nothing to eat for six days.

When the search party finally found him, Yamato was taken to the hospital. Aside from hunger and mild hypothermia, he physically recovered.

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www.stripes.com/news/pacifi...nam-man-is-not-missing-army-sergeant-1.282643

A man who claimed in a controversial documentary that he was U.S. Special Forces soldier lost during the Vietnam War is an imposter, according to the missing soldier’s family, which cited DNA test results.

In “Unclaimed,” Dang Tan Ngoc alleged he was Army Sgt. 1st Class John Hartley Robertson, who went missing following a helicopter crash over Laos in 1968. The film, which premiered in the U.S. last year at the annual GI Film Festival, evoked impassioned responses from all sides of the POW/MIA issue.

At the time of the documentary, friends and members of Robertson’s family were convinced he was the missing GI. But, it was not to be.

Gail Metcalf, daughter of Robertson’s sole surviving sister, Jean Robertson-Holley, who was featured during an emotional reunion with Ngoc in the film, thanked Faunce and others for bringing Ngoc to their attention, something they have accused the government of neglecting to do. The family members reiterated that they believe the man is an American and will continue to seek his U.S. family.

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Very interesting cases!
Amazing how many Cold Cases and Missing People there are once you start looking. Sad actually.
Also interesting how there is never anyone who saw anything (much).

As someone I was talking w/ recently said- we really aren't very aware of our environment. (and, if we are, we usually don't want to get involved! ... But, where's the line between involved and busy-body?)

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It sounds like Robert Young and Mark Rubinson should have joined The United Appeal For The Dead.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Occg29DsI7k

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www.douglascountyhistoricalsociety.org/history/an-unlikely-senerio/

On July 3, 1990, a traveling portrait photographer from the Vancouver, Washington area walked into a local tavern. He had been in the Roseburg area working at a local store taking family photographs for about two weeks. He invited two women, Tracy Lee Poirier and Tamara Marie Upton, to a game of pool.

The next day the authorities found his naked four foot-four inch body on the Umpqua River near Elk Island not far from the Washington Avenue Bridge. He had been kidnapped, robbed, and killed in a “caveman-style killing”, this according to prosecutor Bill Marshall. The women had killed him by beating him with rocks. Later the prosecutor said that the man, Donald James Fish, had traveler’s checks and cash stolen from him. Police said the motive was robbery.

“Shortly after the slaying” the women were arrested. During this arrest it was found that they were driving a stolen vehicle from the Salem area.


Tracy Lee Poirier and Tamara Marie Upton, of Keizer, Oregon were charged with aggravated murder, kidnapping, and robbery.

Flash forward to May 1997. Tracy Lee Poirier is temporarily transferred to the Coos County Jail and enters into a romantic relationship with one of her guards, Pamela Kay Trimble. Even after Poirier is transferred back to the Womens Correctional Center she and Trimble continue to correspond.

In July 1998 Trimble quits her job after Coos County officials find out that she was still corresponding with Poirier and they had informed her of an impending investigation. She would have been fired if it was proven that there was private communication between the two women. Later, it was verified in the news agencies that Trimble did believe she was in love with Poirier and she had conspired to help her escape from prison by trying to get tools to her while incarcerated.

Poirier was found missing from her jail cell on August 28, 1998 after a routine breakfast time check. Apparently, she had squeezed through her jail cell window that had been pried from the outside by Trimble. Then she fled the prison on foot through a newly created hole in the fencing installed at the perimeter of the prison. She had to cross Mill Creek on foot before she could get into Trimble’s red pick-up truck. The pick up was found abandoned two days after the escape was made.

This escape led to a month long road trip where the two women, using the assumed names of Robin and Ciara Marcel, lied their way from Oregon to Providence, Rhode Island. First they headed to San Francisco but, they left San Francisco August 31 and arrived in Providence via bus on September 3. They told folks that they had left Washington state and that Poirier was escaping an abusive husband.

The FBI and California State Police assisted in looking for the women while they were on the lam.

Finally, the two women were caught on Sept 28, 1998 in Rhode Island after being recognized. A television show, “America’s Most Wanted,” had ran the story in order to help law enforcement.

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“Baby Doe” – Cold Case Case # 040491-0016

On April 4, 1991 at 10:00 AM Nags Head Officers were dispatched to the 8600 block of East Tides Drive in reference to a deceased infant in the trash can rack. When officers responded, the found the mummified body of an infant. An autopsy revealed the infant was Caucasian with blond hair. The infant was approximately 5-7 pounds at birth and 18-19 inches in length. The sex is unknown due to the condition of the body when it was discovered. The estimated age of the infant is less than 3 month. It is estimated the body was placed in the trash rack in February.

The autopsy suggests that the baby was killed with an object jammed into it's throat (death record says hair curler) which caused asphyxiation.
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www.twincities.com/2018/01/...ed-susan-swedell-cold-case-1998-30-years-ago/

During a blizzard on Jan. 19, 1988, Susan Swedell finished her shift at Kmart in Oak Park Heights at 9 p.m. and headed home to Lake Elmo to watch a movie and eat popcorn with her mother and her sister.

A half-hour later, a gas-station attendant gave her permission to leave her overheated car at the K Station, a mile from home. The clerk said she saw Swedell get into another car with a man. She hasn’t been seen since.

“We don’t know what happened that night,” said Kathy Swedell, Sue’s mother. “She was telling us that she was going to come home because it was an all-out Minnesota blizzard. When I looked out our window, I could barely see across the street, and here she was driving home. We didn’t know if she had stopped someplace or tried to walk. It was terrible. No sign of Susan. No call. Nothing. Officers did go out and look for her, but by the time they found her car, there was no sign of Susan.

When Swedell had not arrived home by 11 p.m. on that Tuesday night, her mother and sister called the sheriff’s office to request that deputies search for her car — a 1975 maroon Oldsmobile Cutlass — in ditches between Kmart and the house they rented in downtown Lake Elmo.

Deputies found the car at the K Station, at the corner of Manning Avenue and Minnesota 5.

Thinking she might have tried to walk home — during a blizzard that dumped more than 7 inches of snow on the area — they searched for Susan between the gas station and the Swedells’ house on Lake Elmo Avenue.

“As the hours passed by, all I could think was that she was frozen in a ditch somewhere,” said Christine Swedell, who was 16 at the time. “So when whoever came to the house said they found the car but didn’t find her, that just completely threw me into a whirl. I just wanted to get out there and search for her.”

Investigators didn’t learn until the next day that she had left the gas station with a man.

The gas-station attendant said Swedell pulled up to the station around 9:30 p.m., followed by a “light-colored older model car with sport wheels that was in good shape, but dirty,” said Troy Ackerknecht, a detective with the sheriff’s office.

Swedell and the man talked for a few minutes, and then Swedell came into the station and said she was having car problems, Ellickson said. “She asked if she could leave her car at the station. The attendant said, ‘Well, they’re going to plow here. You’ll need to move it.’ She moved it, and they left westbound on Highway 5.”

Swedell was wearing a short skirt and sweater and no coat or boots, according to police reports. Her manager at Kmart told police that at the end of her shift Swedell changed out of the red pants outfit she had worn to work. “He made a comment that she wasn’t dressed appropriately for the blizzard,” Ackerknecht said.

When police searched her car the next day, they found her glasses, driver’s license and purse.

After the car was found, Kathy Swedell had it brought to the house.

It sat on the street until five days later, when she drove it to Cub Foods in Stillwater to buy groceries. As she was driving, the car started smoking and steaming, so she arranged to have it towed to Lake Elmo Repair.

A mechanic discovered that the car’s petcock — a small valve at the bottom of the radiator — had been loosened, and the water had leaked out.

Did someone deliberately tamper with her car and then follow her, waiting for the car to break down?

In the weeks before she disappeared, Susan Swedell had been using telephone chat lines to talk to boys, racking up a bill of more than $300, Kathy Swedell said.

Co-workers at Kmart reported that Swedell, a graduate of Stillwater Area High School, had been receiving numerous calls at work from a man. She also continued to talk to an ex-boyfriend and had reportedly made plans to see him the night she disappeared, but he called to cancel because of the weather.

A week after Susan disappeared, Kathy Swedell returned to her job as principal secretary for the University of Minnesota math department, and Christine Swedell went back to school.

When Christine got home from school that afternoon, she couldn’t find the key to get in the house.

“We normally kept it on a shelf, right next to the door, underneath something — that’s just the way it was in Lake Elmo,” Christine Swedell said. “I was looking all over for it. I couldn’t get into the house. It was locked. That was the key. I didn’t have an extra.”

She eventually located it under a box in a back corner of the shelf. When she entered the house, she said, she “felt like someone had been there.”

There were dirty dishes in the sink that hadn’t been there in the morning, and there was a “peculiar” smell of smoke, she said.

“It smelled of something sweet,” she said. “I’ve never done drugs or had a drink, but … it was very strong. People say it might have been marijuana, but I didn’t know. I didn’t touch anything. I didn’t go upstairs. I just called Mom. Of course, it felt like forever until she got home. I was freaking out.”

Later that night, Christine found the red outfit that Susan had worn to work on the day she disappeared; it had been balled up and jammed under Susan’s bed.

None of her daughter’s personal items, including clothing, makeup or grooming products, were taken, but “somebody had been there,” Kathy Swedell said.
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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3676725/Moscow-Batman-declared-war-Russian-drug-lords.html

A man claiming to be the Russian Batman has been captured on camera walking from a drug den and leaving dealers for police.

The masked vigilante, who wears a Batman costume and calls himself the Jnec Grim Reaper, has declared war on drug dealers doing business in the Khimki area outside Moscow.

So far, he claims to have captured 40 criminals and closed down a host of illegal drug labs.

The Reaper's exploits started in June when a taxi driver witnessed a man dressed as Batman entering a building that later proved to be a drug den in the middle of the night, according to Krypton Radio.

The driver told police that he had heard people screaming and things being thrown around inside.

When the mysterious man then walked out, he threw a fire bomb at the ground disappeared into the night, captured by the witness known only as Slava.
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kitchener.ctvnews.ca/who-was-baby-parker-case-still-unsolved-after-11-years-1.3162077

www.brantfordexpositor.ca/20...ry-of-infants-body-in-2005brex-28-baby-parker

Ten years have passed since the remains of a full-term baby boy were found in a railside ravine in Brantford by a woman walking her dog.

The July 28, 2005, discovery shocked and saddened the community.

Detectives dubbed the unidentified infant Baby Parker because his body was found near Parkside Drive, not far from a municipal greenspace known as Lansdowne Park, where a group of youths is believed to have been partying days earlier.
A post mortem examination of the body, conducted at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto, noted trauma to the baby's skull and ribs. There was no evidence of alcohol or street drugs passed on to the baby, police said.

In addition, police have released the full text of a letter received several days after the body was found in 2005. Excerpts from the letter, received on Aug. 3, 2005. and purporting to be from the mother of the newborn and providing details of events surrounding the birth, were released at the time.

The author promised to contact police again, which then fuelled hope that the case would come to a swift conclusion. However, the letter writer was not heard from again.

"If you were with a group of youths in any of the parks or local hangout spots several days prior to the discovery of the lifeless infant's body, please come forward. You may hold key information without realizing the importance," she said.

The author of the letter indicated she had been "partying" at Lansdowne Park when she started having contractions. At least one other person (possibly female) was involved during the delivery and that person discarded the baby's body and the placenta, suggesting that person may be more involved with the death of the baby than the mother, police said.

It was on July 28, 2005, at about 11:15 a.m., that a woman walking her dog discovered the body of the newborn amid brush and weeds about 20 feet from the rail trail at Parkside Drive and Dufferin Avenue, near Lansdowne Park. The dog had picked up on a scent and pulled its owner toward the bushes where she made the discovery and immediately contacted police.

Police canvassed the neighbourhood and attended at more than 200 area homes. Numerous consent DNA samples were taken from males and females, which enabled investigators to rule out several persons of interest.

On July 29, 2005, at about 7:30 p.m., an area resident approached the police mobile command centre to report finding a bloodied item near his home on July 25. After learning of the discovery of the body, the resident suspected the item may be linked. Forensics officers seized the bloodied evidence, which was later identified as the placenta matching Baby Parker's DNA.
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www.reuters.com/article/us-...ning-in-new-york-cemetery-media-idUSKCN10N25K
At 3:30 PM on an August day in 2016, Batavia Cemetery caretakers in Batavia, New York, stumbled upon two dead bodies lying in the midst of the graveyard headstones. Drug paraphernalia was strewn around their corpses. However, it was apparent by the physical state of the bodies that their demise was not related to drugs.
About 12 hours earlier, a severe thunderstorm had blown through the region. Working jointly with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, investigators were able to determine that a lightning strike occurred in the area where the pair was found.
The autopsy revealed that the victims, 34-year-old Richard Garlock and 32-year-old Jenea Macleod, had sustained thermal injuries consistent with a lightning strike. Detective sergeant Todd Crossett explained, “It seems they had just gone to a back part of the cemetery and were just hanging out there.

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newsok.com/haunted-by-deathb...ed-questions-leave-fatherspan/article/3173605

On Halloween night in 1977, the parents of 19-month-old Nima Louise Carter placed their child inside her crib at their Lawton, Oklahoma home. The next morning, Nima’s parents were shocked to discover that she was missing.
Since the windows in Nima’s bedroom were locked, it’s theorized that her abductor had been hiding in the closet and sneaked the child out of the house while her parents were sleeping in the living room. A month later, a group of kids were playing in an abandoned house four blocks away from the Carter home. When they opened up the house’s refrigerator, they received a horrifying shock when the decomposed body of an infant came tumbling out. The child was identified as Nima Louise Carter, who died of suffocation.

George Carter is still haunted by the memory of his daughter's murder.

"My wife and I lived for years with the what-ifs,” said Carter, now 57 and a recovering alcoholic who has turned to ministering to others. "Nima cried that night when we put her down to sleep. We never got up to check on her.

"We figured we didn't want to spoil her; that she would eventually go to sleep. I now believe that person was already in her room, probably hiding in the closet. What if we had opened the closet? What if we had gotten up to check her that night? What if we had brought her in to sleep with us?

"What if? What if?”

Carter, whose wife died in 2000, is dogged by one other disturbing thought: No one was ever charged with his child's murder.
The passage of three decades has helped ease the pain for Carter, but unanswered questions still burn within. Long ago, police detectives became convinced they had identified Nima's killer, but they too were left with a sense of unfulfilled justice.

Then-Comanche County District Attorney Don Beauchamp did not file charges, explaining the evidence was too flimsy.



A terrified community
Lawton always has been a rough-and-tumble town, from its infancy in the aftermath of the 1901 Land Lottery to its steady growth as a military community. Bars and pool halls once dominated the downtown night life, as did an occasional bare-knuckle brawl, knifing or shooting.



But the abduction of children was unheard of in Lawton until April 8, 1976, when twin sisters Mary Elizabeth and Augustine "Tina” Jacqueline Carpitcher were stolen in broad daylight while they watched TV in their grandmother's home.

A young female the children knew unlatched a living room door and coaxed the children outside. The three and half years old twins followed the girl, at first blindly.

Then they became scared.

Area resident Thelma McCaig once described the scene that day in her neighborhood. McCaig noticed a teenager she would later identify as 16-year-old Jacqueline M. Roubideaux dragging two girls. McCaig said Roubideaux "had hold of the two girls by the wrists, and they were trying to pull loose.”

McCaig didn't report the incident to authorities, reasoning, "... I guess like other people, I didn't want to get involved.”

So the nightmare continued.

"She took us to a house ... It was white, near railroad tracks,” Tina Carpitcher would testify years later as a 10-year-old. "There was broken furniture inside. When we got inside she took us to the refrigerator and told us to get in. She said our aunt will be there to get us out and take us for ice cream later.”

The abductor shut the refrigerator door and left.

"I remember people were scared,” recalled Ray Anderson, then an investigator for the Comanche County district attorney who is now retired and living in Lawton. "How could this happen? Parents were going out and buying new locks for their doors.”

Two days later, children were playing in a deserted house when they heard the cries coming from a grungy refrigerator. Kathy Ford and another neighborhood child bravely opened the refrigerator door, and Tina Carpitcher miraculously jumped out alive.

Tina survived by breathing through a tiny hole in the refrigerator. Her twin sister died of asphyxia.

The then-11-year-old Kathy asked Tina who put her and her sister in the refrigerator, and she replied, "Jackie Boo or Jackie Burr,” meaning Jacqueline Roubideaux — the child's babysitter and friend of her aunt.

Roubideaux instantly became the target of a police investigation, but a lack of physical evidence and the youth of the survivor left authorities desperate for a confession. The investigation soon stalled.

Roubideaux remained free.

She maintained a quiet, shy demeanor around those who came in contact with her. She also found an occasional job as a babysitter. By 1977, she agreed to sit for a young American Indian couple known within her family circle. The husband and wife both held full-time jobs but on weekends, they liked to party.

The couple frequently called on Roubideaux to watch their baby girl — Nima.

"You know, I've learned to appreciate all the little things,” he said. "When Nima was a baby, I look back at all the time I wasted — partying and drinking.”

Carter often reflects on that wasted time whenever he recalls that Halloween night 30 years ago.

The intruder lifted Nima from her crib, and with the windows locked, crept into the hallway of the tiny Lawton home and boldly past the parents sleeping in the living room and out through a door.

"I remember the next morning,” Carter recalled. "It was one of those cool, crisp Oklahoma mornings — a day I might have otherwise enjoyed immensely.”

Instead, he and his wife lived every parent's nightmare. Their baby was gone.

George's heart raced. He and Rose checked the kitchen cabinets, the closets, outside by the doghouse, underneath the house, in the field behind the backyard fence.

Nima was not to be found.

Detectives immediately suspected George and Rose, given the high percentage of parental involvement in missing child cases.

"Naturally, we called them in for questioning,” recalled Cecil Davidson, a retired Lawton police detective who worked the case and now lives outside Meers. "They agreed to take lie-detector tests, and passed with flying colors.”

Everyone fell under the net of suspicion, including neighborhood babysitters Joy Smith and Jacqueline Roubideaux.

"Then someone remembered Roubideaux had been questioned in the Carpitcher case — almost identical circumstances,” Davidson said.

Davidson finally confronted Roubideaux about Nima's abduction and murder. Roubideaux said she was playing bingo the night Nima disappeared.

"She was very quiet,” Davidson recalled. "She never looked you in the eyes; her eyes were always somewhere else or looking at the ground. She would always get right close to telling you something critical, and then she'd back off.

"We could never get her to confess. The frustrating part was we had no physical evidence — no fingerprints, no footprints, no hair, no blood., nothing.”

Mostly Davidson remembers an odd response from Roubideaux.

"She was very angry about the fact that everybody got to play bingo, and she would get stuck babysitting,” said Davidson, scrunching his eyebrows.

"To this day, I'm convinced Jackie Roubideaux murdered Nima. But the DA never felt we had enough to prosecute.”

Not everyone is convinced Roubideaux abducted Nima, including George Carter.

Two months prior to Nima's abduction, the Carters found their dog poisoned. A few days later, they returned home to discover it trashed by vandals.

"I find it hard to think all those events were mere coincidence,” Carter said. "The Jackie Roubideaux we knew? No, it just doesn't add up. I never sensed that about her. Whenever Jackie came over, Nima would run up to her and give her a hug. But several years ago, I saw an interview with Jackie in a newspaper. She said she was on drugs at that time in her life.

"Was it someone we knew? I think so, someone who was familiar with our house. But I've never been fully convinced it was Jackie.”

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www.insideedition.com/woman-...end-dies-meth-passed-through-their-kiss-38356

Inmate Anthony Powell was serving a life sentence for killing his mother-in-law. He met his new girlfriend, Melissa Ann Blair, through a friend named Brandy Pokovich.
Pokovich had used social media to hook him up with women who loved to date convicts. Melissa visited him at the Oregon State Penitentiary. At the end of their talk, Melissa and Anthony exchanged a passionate kiss.
Little did the guards know that Melissa was passing seven tiny balloons filled with meth into Anthony’s mouth. He swallowed them, planning to pass them in the bathroom later and retrieve them from the toilet.
Their plan backfired. The balloons ruptured in Powell’s stomach, and he died of an overdose. The judge ruled that Powell’s death was both of their faults and sentenced Melissa to two years of prison plus required treatments for her drug and mental health problems.

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mynorthwest.com/144981/mother-of-missing-child-has-new-baby-declared-unfit-mother/?

On November 6, 2011, Julia V. Biryukova allegedly drove her two-year-old son, Sky, to Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue, Washington. His four-year-old sister was also in the car. Afterward, she said that Sky had fallen ill and that she had to take him to the hospital, but the car ran out of gas on the way there.[4]
Julia decided to leave Sky in the car, taking his sister along on a 1.6-kilometer (1 mi) walk to find a gas station. However, when she got there, she didn’t get gas. Instead, she phoned a friend to come and get her and her daughter. When she eventually got back to the car an hour later, Sky was missing.
Suspicion fell on Julia when police found that the car hadn’t run out of gas at all and was in perfect working order. She had called the police at 9:50 AM to report Sky missing, but witnesses said they saw the car as early as 8:00 AM with no children in it. On top of this, Julia refused to take a polygraph or speak to police directly. Later, it also came out that she often left her children at home by themselves, sometimes up to 11 hours at a time. Yet in spite of all the above, Julia was never named a suspect, and Sky remains missing.

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culturecrossfire.com/etc/crime-mystery/the-night-a-serial-killer-became-the-victim/

Two cases:
First up - Social media and texting help bring down a new mother and her boyfriend in a heart wrenching case of child abuse and exploitation.

Then we look at the life of a serial killer who spent nearly a decade on a killing spree, only to pick a couple who were ready and willing to fight back, ultimately ending his reign of terror after a night of violence that included knifes, guns, and mayhem.
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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...apitate-horrific-suicide-revenge-ex-wife.html

A businessman decapitated himself in his sports car to get back at his younger wife for leaving him, an inquest has heard.

Gerald Mellin, 54, taunted his estranged wife Mirrielle, 33, with threats of suicide.

He even showed her the rope he was going to use, which he kept in the boot of his open-top Aston Martin DB7.

The court heard that the day before his death Mrs Mellin had been awarded an extra £100 a week in maintenance from her former husband.

Mr Mellin had then sent her a text message which read: 'Congratulations XXX.'

It was the last time she heard from him.

The businessman tied one end of the rope to a tree, then climbed into his Aston Martin and wrapped the other end around his neck.

He then drove the £90,000 car into a busy main road, forcing other drivers to watch his horrific death. Y

The inquest in Swansea heard that after her husband's death she discovered he had cancelled a life insurance policy which would have paid out to her.

She said: 'He ran up an extortionate amount of debt. I've got to sell the farmhouse now, just to pay the debts.'

A suicide note was found in Mr Mellin's pocket detailing his funeral wishes.

The cause of death was given as decapitation. Recording a verdict of suicide, Coroner Phillip Rogers said: 'I'm satisfied this was a deliberate attempt by Mr Mellin to kill himself.'

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morbidology.com/the-unsolved-sawmill-murder-margaret-martin/

On the 21st of December, 1938, 19-year-old muskrat hunter, Anthony Rezykowski, made a gruesome discovery as he was laying traps alongside the icy cold water of Keelersburg Creek in Northmoreland Township, Wyoming County. As he approached a disused bridge, he spotted a burlap sack bobbing up and down with the flow of the water. Protruding from the burlap sack was a human hand.

The search was over: it was Margret Martin and she had been viciously abused.

She had been slashed across the abdomen and leg. It’s presumed that the killer had attempted to dismember her. In addition, she had been bludgeoned with a heavy rock. Her body was bound with a clothesline: both legs were jammed up underneath her chin. She was raped before being strangled.

Martin’s mother had the traumatising task of identifying her body.

50 State troopers were called in to search the isolated, snow-covered countryside where she was found. Within days, they expressed the belief that Martin had been murdered by a “sex maniac with a cruel, distorted mind.” They soon received an anonymous tip from somebody who claimed they had overheard the anonymous caller making the telephone call to Martin in which he offered her a job. He was described as being between 25 and 30-years-old with sandy hair. He was said to be “neat” and “suave.” This was the only tangible clue they had to go on. 3

While the search of the surrounding area was unfruitful, investigators reached a breakthrough several weeks later when they discovered the site where Martin had been tortured and murdered. Inside a steam boiler of an abandoned sawmill near Forkston, approximately 15 miles away, was a pile of burnt clothes. The burnt clothes matched what Martin was wearing on the day of her disappearance. Also discovered in the ash were several pieces of jewellery that Martin had been wearing on the day of her disappearance.

Outside the abandoned sawmill, investigators found footprints of a man and a woman in frozen mud. At one point in the track, the woman’s footprints disappeared and thereafter there were signs that some kind of object had been dragged.4

A man living nearby the sawmill reported seeing light from the sawmill fire as somebody opened the door at approximately 9PM on the same day Martin disappeared. He told investigators that he had fired several warning shots in the direction of the sawmill but didn’t think to investigate any further as he assumed it was just a trespasser. Was the killer disturbed as he attempted to dismember Martin and dispose of her body in the sawmill? Investigators believe so.
Four years after the murder, 21-year-old Orban Taylor from New York City handed himself into authorities and confessed that he had killed Martin. A former resident of Wilkes-Barre, Orban was brought in for extensive questioning and after 20 long hours, admitted that he had fabricated the confession. While some of what he had said matched the facts of the case, the majority contradicted evidence. Nevertheless, police had to investigate his claims. They could find no evidence to substantiate his claims and he wasn’t charged in relation to the murder of Martin. He was, however, charged with second degree assault in an unrelated crime. Two years later, he died in prison after drinking a cocktail of typewriter cleaning fluid, orange juice, sugar and water.6


The search for Martin’s murderer gripped the Wyoming Valley for years and even left many Kingston residents too terrified to venture outside. Pennsylvania authorities never close the cold cases in their archive. In fact, every year, unsolved murders are reopened and reviewed each and every year and Martin’s murder is no different. However, over the forthcoming years following her murder, tips and leads have dwindled significantly and police aren’t hopeful that this case will ever be solved.
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www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...r-drunk-driving-bust-report-article-1.1966005

A Wisconsin man and woman were sentenced for allegedly having sex in the backseat of a cop car while being driven to jail.

Travis Husnik, 33, and Heather Basten, 29, had been pulled over for drunk driving in Oconto County on Aug. 3, the Green Bay Press Gazette reported Tuesday.

The deputy told the man to pull his pants up and ordered him to sit in the front seat, according to the local paper.

Both parties were charged with lewd and lascivious behavior and disorderly conduct.

"What do I sentence a guy who has sex in squad car to?" Conley asked during sentencing. "I'm getting to be (a) pretty old guy, and I've never seen that situation in my legal life."

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SAN DIEGO -- (KSWB) -- A downtown resident beat, raped and strangled a female friend after watching her have sex with another couple, then stuffed her body in a suitcase and put it out with the trash, a prosecutor said Monday, but a defense attorney said her client was "heartbroken'' and "humiliated'' when the woman he loved made fun of his sexual inadequacies.

In his opening statement, Deputy District Attorney Martin Doyle alleged that Joshua Matthew Palmer videotaped himself doing "unspeakable things'' to Shauna Haynes' body after he killed her at the Chadwick Hotel in San Diego on April 5, 2016.

Palmer, 34, then stuffed the 21-year-old victim's body into a suitcase and threw it in a hotel trash bin, Doyle alleged in his opening statement.

The prosecutor said Palmer went out the night of April 4, 2016, and met a woman, Chelsea Shea, who intended to have sex with him back in his room, but the defendant was unable to get aroused.

Haynes and a man she had met that night, Anthony Kern, arrived at Palmer's room and started having sex, and Shea eventually joined in, the prosecutor told the jury. At some point, Palmer sent Haynes a text saying, "I can't watch you have sex with another man.''

Doyle said Palmer got upset and kicked Kern and Shea out, but Haynes -- who worked with Palmer at a downtown restaurant and had a platonic relationship with the defendant -- stayed in the room.

The prosecutor said Palmer went out later on April 5, 2016, telling friends how proud he was of the "foursome'' he was in earlier.
he trash bin containing the victim's body was never picked up and two men saw the suitcase with what they thought were body parts sticking out and called 911, Doyle said.

The prosecutor said Palmer should be convicted of murder and murder during a rape, murder during sodomy and murder during a rape by an instrument. He faces life in prison without parole if he's found guilty.


Deputy Public Defender Katie Belisle said Palmer was "humiliated" when Haynes said "He can't get it up!" as she had sex with a random man she had just met.

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melmagazine.com/arturo-alva-moreno-was-9-11-victim-2-754-or-was-he-987ab8e4a6f0

Arturo Alva-Moreno Was World Trade Center Victim #2,754. Or Was He?
His daughter is certain he died at the World Trade Center. But as far as the government is concerned, he never even existed
Her father said he worked at the top of the Tower, midway between the ground and the sky. So he must have been in there, somewhere, when the plane hit and the Tower vanished on September 11, 2001.

He wasn’t supposed to be there. Not really. He was an undocumented immigrant. He had no work permit. His papers were forged. But he was definitely there, right at the top. She was sure of it. Where else could he be?

Arturo had told her he washed dishes at Windows on the World, the fancy restaurant at One World Trade Center, up on the 106th floor. He made a few bucks an hour, but he sent cash to Mexico whenever he could. The cash stopped in the second week of September 2001, and there were no more stories from the restaurant at the top of the world. But there was another phone call. The man on the line was from the Mexican Consulate, the one opposite the Chrysler Building. Someone had found Arturo’s wallet in the rubble, hidden beneath the twisted metal and scattered debris. The call confirmed what Laura already knew: Her father died in the World Trade Center.

“Many Mexicans worked in the U.S. under a false name or with a fake ID, which made it difficult for their loved ones to claim them,” Padilla explains. They — the undocumented — worked menial jobs, had no Social Security numbers, got paid in cash, sacrificed their identities. Arturo was part of this underground labor force — one of the invisible, careful not to leave a paper trail. Now, the feds wanted proof he lived in New York — “A document with his name on it, or a witness,” Padilla remembers — or his family wouldn’t receive a death certificate.

Padilla chews over the few clues. “Maybe Arturo was living under a different name like many other illegal immigrants,” he says. “But maybe he didn’t live in New York. Maybe he didn’t die in the 9/11 attacks. Who knows! The family’s payment from the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund could’ve reached $7 million. Can you believe that?”

He wonders if Arturo seized an opportunity — the ultimate opportunity — to disappear; if he exploited an American tragedy. “Many people I talked to in New York thought he was alive and living in California,” Padilla says. “I was thinking of searching for him, but I need time and money to do that.”

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www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-reggie-cole/

Around midnight on March 28, 1994, LAPD homicide detectives arrived at an apartment building on the corner of 49th and Figueroa streets. The two-story building was a brothel, and John Jones, a pimp who ran prostitutes from apartments on the first floor, lorded over the property from upstairs.

Hours earlier, a man named Felipe Gonzales Angeles had walked up to the locked door and asked to see a prostitute he knew named Melinda. The man standing guard said Melinda was busy, and as Angeles returned to his car, he was accosted by three gunmen and shot to death.

Police questioned Jones, who told them he saw the faces of three men as they shot up at him from below while they fled.

Detectives had little to go on, but weeks later a tip led them to Cole.

By 1994, Cole, now 19, was selling crack at the motels along the Figueroa Corridor, a pistol tucked into his jeans. Sometimes he ran into his boyhood friend Obie Anthony, a fellow member of the Nine Deuce Hoover Crips who also sold drugs there.

The two were in jail when they learned they had been charged with murdering Angeles.

At the trial, they insisted they were innocent, and their defense attorneys argued that they were home hung over after drinking heavily the night before at a friend’s birthday party. No physical evidence connected the pair to the crime.

The prosecution’s case relied almost entirely on eyewitnesses who identified them as the shooters. The star witness was Jones, the pimp, who said he was sure they were the men he saw.

The verdict came back guilty on all counts. Cole and Anthony were given life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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The blade came from below and nicked his neck. Cole stumbled away. He looked at the face of his attacker and backed off. The yard was silent. He wiped at the dribbling blood.

It was Devil.

Eddie Eugene Clark was a respected elder in Cole’s old gang and neighborhood, and a shot-caller among the black inmates at Calipatria State Prison in Imperial County.

On that morning in November 2000, Cole had known revenge could be on its way: He had refused an order from Clark to take the fall for a higher-ranking inmate who was caught with a knife.

Fear is currency in prison, and after six years of his life sentence, Cole saw what happened to those who allowed their fear or weakness to be known. They were raped, beaten, stabbed or killed. Failure to follow orders from above carried the same punishments.

He knew Devil would come after him again.


Cole dug out a knife from the yard that he fashioned from parts of a stapler, and hid it in his pants.

Minutes later, he dug the knife into Clark’s neck.

For a second time, Cole was charged with murder. This time, he was subject to the death penalty because of the 1995 conviction. That drew the interest of the California Innocence Project, which reviews inmates’ claims of wrongful conviction.

Cole argued that he acted in self-defense.

“I play it over and over in my head, trying to figure out a way around me killing him,” he recalled. “I was going to kill him, or he was going to kill me.”

Cole pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years on top of his life sentence. He was sent to solitary confinement.
The California Innocence Project filed a habeas corpus petition to have Cole’s murder conviction in the brothel case thrown out. The group argued that Jones, the pimp, who had a previous conviction for manslaughter and was a police informant, had fabricated most of his testimony. A judge looked at the evidence and agreed.

After 16 years in prison, and 10 years in solitary confinement, Cole was free — but not fully exonerated.
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ccwsafe.com/blog/the-limits-of-the-castle-doctrine-the-byron-david-smith-case-location

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6RGXGgTr6g

A day after Byron David Smith shot and killed two teens who broke into his Little Falls, Minnesota home, he admitted to police that he shot the intruder more times than was necessary.

Less than a month before, Smith reported a break-in, claiming burglars had absconded thousands of dollars worth of gold coins and sentimental items such as medals he earned serving as an airman in Vietnam. He claimed to have been victim to several other break-ins over the preceding year, and he felt so insecure in his own home that he had resorted to carrying a holstered pistol -- even when simply doing household chores.

Clearly, he imagined a day when he would have to defend himself in his own home, and that day arrived on Thanksgiving 2012. Smith saw teens Nick Brady and Haile Kifer casing his property and peeking into windows. He retreated to his basement and waited. When Brady broke in and ventured down the steps, Smith shot and killed him. When Kiefer followed ten minutes later, Smith shot and killed her too.

To provide some clarity regarding how Smith exceeded the limits of the Castle Doctrine, we can look at testimony given by pathologist Dr. Kelly Mills at trial. She said Brady was shot three times -- once in the shoulder, once in the abdomen, and the final shot went through Brady's palm and into the side of his head.

As for Kifer, Smith shot her six times -- but it was the final shot that caused the most concern -- a single shot placed under her chin.

In self-defense, every shot counts. In order for a shooting to be justified, the first and the last shot must all be considered reasonable compared to the threat.

The first shots Smith fired, as the Intruders each descended into his basement, may very well have been justified. But once the teens had been shot, tumbled down the stairs, and we're spread prostrate on the floor, the immediate threat they once posed vanished. The final shots -- the one in Brady's head, and the one in Keifer’s chin -- weren't necessary to end the danger. They were excessive, and in court, prosecutors described the final shots as executions.

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Keep em coming 😀👍🏻

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www.oxygen.com/crime-time/anthony-patrick-accused-dipping-baby-hot-water-burning-off-his-skin

Anthony Patrick, Jr. was charged with felony child abuse after an 8-month-old boy sustained severe burns and also suffered a brain injury. 

Anthony Patrick Jr., 26, was charged with felony child abuse or neglect causing serious injury on Sunday, the Associated Press reported.

Two days earlier, on Friday, the Cardinal Glennon Medical Center called police to investigate the boy’s injuries after he was admitted to the hospital. Not only did the hot water scald the baby’s skin so badly that it burned portions of his skin off, but he also suffered cuts to his liver, a blood clot near his kidneys and a severe brain injury. The baby underwent surgery for the brain injury.

Patrick allegedly told investigators he put the boy in a sink of hot water, police say. Doctors do not think the injuries were accidental, according to a report by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It’s not clear what Patrick’s relationship is to the baby boy.

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www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/the-death-of-ame-deal-did-it-change-arizonas-child-protective-services-9364502

​​​​​​​In July 2011, ten-year-old Ame Deal died after she was stuffed in a padlocked 78- by 30- by 36-centimeter (31 x 12 x 14 in) footlocker by her family and left outside overnight in sweltering desert temperatures. Why did they do this? Because she took a Popsicle without permission.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, this was not an isolated incident. Ame lived with her parents and other relatives, including 11 other children, in a filthy house in Phoenix, Arizona. She seemed to function as the family scapegoat, as she was the only child in the family to suffer such abuse. The other children even intentionally got her in trouble. The range of “punishments” Ame suffered included things like being beaten with a wooden paddle, also known to the family as “the butt buster,” crushing cans with her bare feet, eating dog feces if she missed any while cleaning up the yard, walking along pavement in 46-degree-Celsius (114 °F) temperatures, and being forced to do backbends for hours at a time.

Being locked inside the relatively tiny footlocker (Ame was 122 centimeters [4′] tall and weighed under 27 kilograms [60 lb]) was not an unusual occurrence for Ame, either. Sometimes, her relatives would kick or flip the box, throw it in the pool, or sit on it after forcing her into the cramped space. Witnesses say they could hear her inside, crying.

On the night of her death, one of her relatives forced her into a backbend for over two hours, physically putting her back into the position if she fell. He then told her to run around their yard in the 39-degree-Celsius (103 °F) heat before locking her inside the airtight container, in which she suffocated to death.

The adults in the house were sentenced to prison time ranging from ten to 76 years. John Allen, the man who locked Ame in the box, and his wife Samantha Allen, Ame’s cousin and one of her key abusers, were sentenced to death.

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www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/07/04/what-happened-to-torontos-eight-day-bride.html

Murky water laps gently on a secluded stretch of the Severn River bank where Christina Kettlewell’s floral pajama-clad body was found seven decades ago, lying facedown in a shallow pool.

Investigators suspect the Toronto woman was already dead by the time the final licks of fire sputtered out among the charred remains of her honeymoon cottage just up the hill. There were no burn marks or signs of violence on her body, a post-mortem later showed.

An inquest into the 22-year-old woman’s death unravelled a confounding tale of elopement, life insurance policies, a possible love triangle, suicide letters, and attempted murder.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyVOi3X53bk

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Nelson
murderpedia.org/male.N/n/nelson-dale-merle.htm

A sexually dysfunctional lumberjack, Dale fought his impotence with violence and liquor.

On September 5, 1970, tanked up with booze and hatred, he drove to his wife's relatives' house where he killed a women and her seven-year-old daughter. Feeling a bit hungry, he slit the young girl's gut and munched on the half-digested food in her entrails.

He then went to a neighbor's house and killed all six inside, sodomizing an eight-year-old girl as she died. Feeling hungry again, he returned to the first house and stole the corpse he previously had for dinner.

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www.malaysiandigest.com/features/745975-woman-suspected-to-have-drowned-at-sea-reappears-1-5-years-later-on-the-same-beach-triggering-speculation-of-the-supernatural.html

Woman Swept Away At Sea Reappears 1.5 Years Later On The Same Beach, Triggering Speculation Of The Supernatural

What is even more baffling is she was still wearing the same clothes she had on when she disappeared 18 months earlier.

Nining Sunarsih, a woman in her early 50s was holidaying in Sukabumi in West Java last January.

She was reportedly enjoying a dip in the waters off Citepus Beach when a strong wave swept her away, carried out by strong currents into the open sea.

Local media reports at that time report eyewitnesses saying they heard the woman screaming and waving her hands for help, Suara.com reports.

After several days of searching for her body to turn up, authorities called off the search and pronounced her dead.

Accordng to DailyMail citing Kompas.com, Sunarsih's father began having dreams telling him that she was somehow back on the same beach that she disappeared that fateful day and waiting for rescuers to discover her.

After a few days  of the same recurring dream, the man finally went back to the beach with his family and started combing the area.

To their surprise, they managed to locate Sunarsih some 500 metres away from where she had disappeared and more astoundingly, still wearing the same clothes she wore the day she disappeared.

​​​​​​​Her family took her home and alerted the authorities. The mysterious incident had apparently not left any visible physical damage on Sunarsih but she is reportedly unable to talk, although eating and drinking normally.

Police have started investigations into Sunarsih's strange reappearence.

"We ask people not to be influenced by information that is not yet clear," Sukabumi City Police Chief Susatyo Purnomo was quoted by the UK news daily.

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Jul 8, 2018 8:15:04 GMT brody said:

www.denverpost.com/2011/09/16/2-accused-of-grim-real-life-weekend-at-bernies/
When Robert Young and Mark Rubinson found their friend dead in his home, they decided to take him out for one last night on the town at his expense. They threw their friend in the back seat of their car, took his dead body barhopping through three separate venues, and closed off the night by blowing $400 of their dead friend’s money at a strip club.

Unlike "Weekend at Bernie's", they didn’t actually drag their friend’s body into the club. They left him in the back seat of the car throughout the whole fiasco. So it’s not entirely clear why they bothered dragging his corpse around at all.

When the night was over, they called the cops to report that their friend was dead. But since real life isn’t a raunchy ‘80s comedy movie, the police didn’t just laugh it off. The paired ended up in jail on a pile of charges, including abusing a corpse.

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Interesting note: I went to high school with Mark Rubinson and this happened right before my wedding. It was so random and was the talk of the day. Many jokes were made. Most of my friends had grown up with him since elementary school and we all knew him fairly well through high school. I'd see him occasionally on campus at CU Boulder in the following years.  He was always a bit odd but seemingly in an innocent way.... In seriousness though I got the impression that he was going through a very rough patch in his life at the time this happened. I remember that his Facebook posts around the time also indicated that he was possibly struggling with some form of mental illness, possibly brought on from stress of some other things he was going through. From what I could tell it seemed like this led him to surround himself with perhaps not the highest caliber of people and the above story is what resulted. It still blows my mind and it is still hilarious in a morbid way....  Mark seems to be doing much better these days however. It seems his family was able to step in a get him the help he needed and - at least from a casual facebook acquaintance view - his life is back on track now, which is always good to see/hear..... still though, haha.

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charleyross.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/lets-talk-about-it-ricky-jean-bryant/
www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/15927722.html

This one totally reminded me of the Sodder Kids case (http://culturecrossfire.com/etc/unsolved-missing-sodder-children/)

It was December 19th, 1949.

"I was at school when it happened."

A fire leveled the Bryant family home ... "a week before Christmas" ... on this property in rural Mauston.

"It was just a great big farmhouse."

9 year-old Sharon watched the fire from a school window.

"They wouldn't let me go out. I could see the smoke coming out of the house and the flames."

Sharon's siblings 5-year-old Forrest, 4-year-old Ricky Jean and 18-month-old Elizabeth were at home with their grandparents.

"Grandma took care of us. She was more of a mother to us than our own mother."

Newspaper articles at the time tell of a dramatic 2nd story rescue of the children's grandpa by his elderly wife. But Ricky Jean, or Jeannie, was feared dead.

"I think it bothered him all of his life because I don't think he stuttered before the fire."

Sharon's brother, Forrest has told his sisters how he remembers leaving Elizabeth and Jeannie outside when a woman "... he said she was blonde ..." pulled up in a newer-looking car and told Forrest to get help. But, he says the woman sent him to a house down the road instead of one nearby.

"And when he come back... Jeannie was gone," Sharon says.

Investigators never could find any solid proof of Jeannie's death. The children's father, Raymond Bryant, searched the ruins himself.

"He was ashes from one end to the other and his face had ashes on just digging in trying to find her."

... Never truly believing he'd lost a daughter ...

"To his dying day, he said Jeannie, he didn't feel Jeannie was in that fire."

Sharon and her siblings began to wonder as well.

"None of us had the same story," Sharon says, "One of us was told she went through the stairway."

"Another one, they said, they just couldn't find Jeannie."

Sharon and her sister began a search to find Jeannie, seeking out people like Irene Carlson, a neighbor who supposedly followed Forrest back to the Bryant home the day of the fire.

"And she says, you know that poor little guy, I had to practically run to keep up to him, he took off so fast."

Decades later, Sharon says Carlson revealed a chilling conversation she'd had with their grandma.

"And my grandma, I guess, finally says ... well she isn't here. She's with relatives. You might as well go home."

Carlson's revelation, years after their mother -- Opal Bryant died -- added to the mystery surrounding her life and her relationship with her own mother, the grandma who raised them.

"My grandma never went anywhere. She was always covering up stuff my mom would do."

Sharon says throughout her childhood Opal would leave the family.
"She was never home. As soon as my dad go, about an hour later, she would take off."

Then, when the parents split, Opal moved to Washington state, where she re-married. Sharon stayed in Wisconsin with her father. She says Opal would return to the Midwest for weeks at a time though never revealing her exact whereabouts.

"She went and seen somebody... "

... Perhaps Ricky Jean?

Five years after the child's reported death, a cousin traveling through Georgia sent this postcard to Jeannie, where the family was living in Wisconsin. Sharon found it in her mother's belongings.

Sharon's sister, Liz says shortly before her mother's death, Opal returned to the Midwest with a shirt and coveralls. The clothing -- belonging to Jeannie -- was on a clothes line the day of the fire. But when Opal came back to Washington, she no longer had the items. Liz believes Jeannie is somewhere in the region, and she thinks the clothing could be key in finding her.

The family's already tested one woman who proved not to be a match. Meanwhile, Juneau County investigators say a flood destroyed the sheriff's departments original records.

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www.upi.com/Archives/1985/08/02/Man-drowns-at-lifeguard-party/3367491803200/

NEW ORLEANS -- City lifeguards who threw a party to celebrate a summer season with no drownings discovered a guest dead in the pool when the party was over.

The body of Jerome Moody, 31, was found at the bottom of the deep end when four lifeguards on duty began clearing the pool at the end of the party.

Moody was fully clothed and had not been swimming with other guests at the New Orleans Recreation Department Center, Director Madlyn Richard said.

About half the 200 people at the party were lifeguards, and four of them were on duty during the party Tuesday night.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Suzanne_Capper

Twisted Bernadette McNeilly, 55, subjected 16-year-old Suzanne Capper to a shocking ordeal in one of Britain’s most sadistic murders.
The teenager was stripped, plunged into a bath of disinfectant and forced to listen to recordings of McNeilly imitating Chucky, the demonic doll from horror film Child’s Play.

Over petty grievances Suzanne was lured to Jean Powell's house - into which McNeilly and her children had also moved - where her head was shaved and she was beaten with fists and implements for hours before being locked in a cupboard. At one point McNeilly was alone in the house when a male who ended up participating called to buy drugs. McNeilly - seemingly on a high and exhibiting gleeful delight - threw some keys to him and laughingly told him to look in the cupboard. There he saw the battered and shaven headed Suzanne cowering with fear.
McNeilly grew concerned that Suzanne's cries might disturb her children, so Suzanne was forcibly transferred to McNeilly's now unused house where she was tied naked and spreadeagled to an upturned bed. Out of earshot of anyone but her persecutors, the tortures now escalated. Over the next six days Suzanne was injected with amphetamines, starved, had loud rave music played to her on full volume through headphones all day and night, and was regularly whipped and beaten. She was also burned with cigarettes, not released to use the toilet, and had raw disinfectant poured over her whilst being scrubbed with stiff brushes so severely that her skin was removed. During each torture session, in which the brutality escalated as the participants tried to outdo each other, McNeilly in particular laughed with pleasure, and delighted in taunting her victim with the lines from a horror film - something about Chucky coming to play - before initiating each session of torture. At some point one of the males involved pulled out some of Suzanne's teeth with pliers, as Bernadette McNeilly and Jean Powell watched.

Realising that they'd serve serious jail time if Suzanne were ever released now, they decided to kill her, driving her in a stolen car to some remote woods 15 miles away. En route, Bernadette giggled with anticipation at what was to follow. When they arrived, Suzanne was forced to walk to the chosen spot where McNeilly poured five litres of petrol over her and repeatedly attempted to ignite her. Ultimately one of the males did so with a lighter. Bernadette laughed as her victim screamed in agony and started singing some song with the lyrics "Burn, baby, burn" from the song "Disco Inferno". She and others continued singing such songs whilst laughing and joking on their return - stopping en route to buy some drinks.

After being spotted by a passing motorist, she was taken to hospital and survived for four days – long enough to name her attackers and land McNeilly – then 24 – and three of her five evil sidekicks life sentences.

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www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/08/san-francisco-plane-crash-parents-of-teen-killed-by-rescue-truck-drop-lawsuit

Ye Meng Yuan was 16 years old in 2013 when she boarded Asiana Airlines Flight 214. She was on her way to Southern California from China for summer camp. That’s when the nightmare began.
Her plane crashed because it came in too low and slow. It had a rough landing just before the runway. Yuan did survive the crash, but she was injured. After she came out of the plane, she was lying on the ground, only to be run over by a fire truck.  
As a result, Ye Meng Yuan died. The firefighters were on their way to extinguish some fires that had broken out and hit Yuan on the way. There were three fatalities, including Yuan, from the crash and its aftermath.
Many lawsuits were filed against the airline, including one from the parents of Ye Meng Yuan. However, two years after the incident, the parents dropped the lawsuit. Their lawyer stated, “The parties have reached a confidential settlement on mutually agreeable terms.”
 

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www.philly.com/philly/news/crime/New-reward-Boy-Scout-Terry-Bowers-1970-murder-Chester-County.html

Parents hovered over their children. Catholic schoolboys had become central characters in a real-life whodunit that stretched from Philadelphia to Phoenixville. It felt like everyone was a suspect.

More than four decades ago, 11-year-old Terry Bowers was stabbed to death while on a Boy Scout camping trip in Chester County.  

Terry had been on a camping trip with Troop 275 from Darby's Blessed Virgin Mary parish. On April 24, 1970, the two dozen boys and six instructors had traveled to St. Basil the Great church, about 30 miles away in Chester County's East Pikeland Township, where they camped on an open field on church grounds — about 200 yards from the church buildings.

In the early hours of April 26, 1970, Terry was stabbed about four or five times while in his sleeping bag, according to news reports. Police at the time said they believed the weapon was a "Boy Scout knife or an ordinary pocket knife with a three-inch blade," the Inquirer reported.

Terry's sister, Maureen, who was 12 when Terry was killed, told the Daily News in 2012: "How did this happen? How does a boy get stabbed to death on the grounds of a Catholic church on a Boy Scout trip and nobody hears anything. The poor little guy came home in a body bag." 

Numerous theories have abounded about who killed Terry. After the stabbing, Boy Scouts in Darby Borough were hooked up to polygraph machines and interrogated, the Daily News  reported. Crime-scene investigators drained the pond outside St. Basil and swept the church's property with metal detectors.

Leads turned to dead ends. 

A former scout and convicted rapist, Lawrence Wakely, who served time in state prison, once confessed to killing Terry in retaliation for being kicked out of the Boy Scouts. Wakely, according to documents, was a scout in Spring City, Chester County, around 1958 to 1960. But according to a state police investigator, who has since retired, Wakely had mental issues and did not know answers about the case that only the killer would have known, the Daily News reported. He was dismissed as a suspect.
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community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19910504&slug=1281135

A man found dead in unusual circumstances last month after expressing fear he was the target of a witch's curse died of heart failure, medical examiners reported yesterday.

The death of Christopher Case, 35, had drawn wide interest because he had told friends he feared he was under a witch's curse. The cause of death was acute myocarditis, said Rich Garner, a medical investigator with the King County Medical Examiner's office.

Officers found Case's clothed body April 18 in the waterless tub of his apartment in the 1300 block of North 152nd Avenue in North King County after they were asked to check on him by a woman friend in Fayetteville, N.C.

The woman, whose name was not disclosed, said Case, a former radio broadcaster in Raleigh, N.C., told her in phone calls that he was afraid a witch in San Francisco had put a curse on him.

The Fayetteville woman said Case told her the witch had cast a spell on him because he would not return her affections, according to King County police.

"There was no sign of a crime, no sign of violence, robbery or foul play," Garner said.

About 10 burned-down candles and crucifixes were found by investigating officers in Case's apartment, and lines of salt had been poured along the base of the apartment walls.

Another Fayetteville woman, Sammye Souder, a psychic and a teacher who was a friend of Case, said he expressed his fear to her in several phone calls a few days before his body was found.

Souder said Case was stable and healthy and did not believe in witchcraft. She said she advised him to get help.

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www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2017/12/13/16770632/university-of-evansville-aces-plane-crash

On December 13, 1977, the Purple Aces, the men’s basketball team at the University of Evansville, were headed to Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, for a game. Shortly after takeoff, their twin-engine plane lost control and crashed in a nearby field. All 29 people aboard died.

Twenty-five died immediately on impact. Three people died later at the crash scene, and one individual died at the hospital. The whole team was gone . . . except for one player. Freshman David Furr had survived because he had not traveled with the team due to an ankle injury.

Some may call him lucky, but it didn’t last long. Two weeks after the crash, David Furr and his brother were killed after getting hit by a drunk driver. His death meant that all members of the Purple Aces basketball team had passed away by the end of 1977.


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www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-unsolved-case-file-curtis-pishon/22039680

Curtis Pishon, 40, was working as a security guard for Venture Corporation in Seabrook when he disappeared during the early-morning hours of July 5, 2000.

Shortly before he went missing, Pishon's car caught fire.

"A few things happened that night," Chief Michael Gallagher said. "One was that Mr. Pishon's car was caught on fire. No. 2, which we discovered later, was that there were vending machines and a change machine that was broken into using a forklift that was on the property."
At about 3:20 a.m. July 5, Pishon's supervisor checked on him at his guard shack.

"Around 3:45, it was noticed that he was missing from his position, and two cars were seen driving away at a high rate of speed leaving the factory," Senior Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Agati said.
Pishon served in the Army and was a retired police officer. He retired from the Concord Police Department after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a diagnosis that crushed him, family members said.

Pishon's cigarettes, lighter and lunch were in his guard shack, and his apartment was untouched. His credit card and bank activity stopped.
His body has never been found. The family had Pishon legally declared dead in 2008.

As of 2015, the family had offered a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the recovery of Pishon's body and the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for his death.