Bizarre Cases of the missing and murdered

[almagata]

Jul 28, 2023 9:11:01 GMT brody said:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12336945/Man-Amber-Gibsons-naked-body-woodland-violated-instead-telling-police-Pervert-45-told-faces-lengthy-jail-term-horrific-crimes-against-tragic-16-year-old.html



The man who found Amber Gibson's naked body in a woodland southeast of Glasgow violated her instead of telling police, it has emerged.



Amber, 16, was sexually assaulted and murdered by her brother Connor Gibson in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire on November 26, 2021.



Connor, then 19, removed her clothing and repeatedly inflicted blunt force trauma to Amber's head and body. He compressed her neck with his hands and strangled her with intent to rape her, eventually killing her.




Stephen Corrigan, 45, discovered her remains in Cadzow Glen park at some point in the following two days. But instead of contacting emergency services he intimately touched and concealed Amber's body.



Corrigan, said in court not to be known to Connor, was found guilty of attempting to defeat the ends of justice and breach of the peace. He denied the charge and had lodged a special defence of alibi.

The court heard that Corrigan told police he was at a 'complete loss' to explain why his DNA was found on 39 areas of Amber's body, including her breasts, buttocks and thighs.



His father, William Corrigan, 79, told the court his son was at his home in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, that weekend after a fall on ice left his arm in a sling, and denied lying to protect him.



Today, Lord Mulholland remanded both Connor and Corrigan in custody after the jury returned its verdicts.



Turning to Connor first, he said: 'Your sister - the last person she saw was you strangling her. It was depraved. You will pay a heavy price for that.'



The judge then told Corrigan: 'You have been convicted of two horrific crimes. You came across a young girl who had been strangled to death and was naked.



'Instead of alerting the authorities you decide to handle her body all over from head to toe including areas that were intimate - private parts - and your DNA told the story. Be under no illusion what is also coming your way.'



The judge said Corrigan faces a 'lengthy sentence'. He deferred sentence until September 4 at the High Court in Livingston for pleas in mitigation and background reports.

Lord Mulholland told Connor that he faces a mandatory life sentence with the punishment part to be decided after considering the plea in mitigation on his behalf and a criminal justice social work report.



Neither showed any emotion as they were taken handcuffed to the cells.

Connor, then 19, attacked his younger sister Amber in a park in Hamilton on the outskirts of Glasgow. He removed her clothes before sexually assaulting her and hitting her on the head, then fatally strangled her.

He denied sexually assaulting and murdering Amber but was convicted following a 13-day trial based on a combination of CCTV footage and DNA evidence, including his bloodstained jacket.



Connor now faces a life sentence after being convicted of murder and attempted rape. Corrigan was convicted of a breach of the peace and attempting to defeat the ends of justice. They will be jailed in Livingston on September 4.

May she now rest in peace.  I am always shocked at what some men will do for sex. 

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[brody]

www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2017/11/look_back_thanksgiving_foundry.html



MUSKEGON, MI - It will go down in history as one of the Muskegon area's most tragic cases: the Thanksgiving Day foundry-ladle deaths of two young boys at the hands of their mentally ill father.



Nov. 26, 1987, at a Norton Shores foundry. Bartley James Dobben, suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, placed his two sons in the ladle and turned on the gas burners.


Mental illness


It was just before 4 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day when Dobben swung into his workplace at Cannon-Muskegon Corp. on Lincoln Street in Norton Shores. His pregnant wife, Susan, and sons Bartley Joel Dobben, 2, and Peter David Dobben, 15 months, were in the car with him.


He needed to retrieve his Bible, Dobben told his wife, and brought the kids with him, saying he wanted to give them a tour of where their father had worked for nine years.


Once inside, he placed the toddlers inside a transfer ladle, suspended by cables and about 7 feet wide, that was used to move molten metals inside the foundry. And then he turned on the burners.


Afterward, he walked up to a security guard and told him "My kids are in the furnace," according to a Norton Shores Police report. When asked if they fell in, Dobben responded, "No I put them in and lit it."



Dobben and his wife had been having marital problems, brought on by his illness that had been diagnosed about a year earlier and his refusal to take his medications. Brett Gardner, Muskegon County's chief assistant prosecutor at the time, would later argue that Dobben had planned the murders as a way to get back at his wife.


Following the deaths, Dobben was taken to the state's Center for Forensic Psychiatry and was found by psychiatrists to be competent to stand trial. That ruling was reversed in April 1988. It was reversed again in August 1988 and his trial was set for May 1989.



During the nine-day trial, defense attorney Terry Nolan argued that Dobben should be found not guilty by reason of insanity.


Co-workers had said he was a religious fanatic that carried his Bible with him at work. His family said his "fanatical" religious rantings disrupted family gatherings and contact with him had been cut off several months before the children's deaths.



Dobben's mother, Marialyce Dobben, said he had been doing well, staying on his medications, until he became involved with the Emmanuel Fellowship, a small religious group led by Rood Vaughan.


Vaughan, according to later testimony, urged Dobben not to take his medication, and when that occurred Dobben would become obsessively religious. Vaughan would speak on Dobben's behalf at court hearings where he at times was disruptive.


It was Vaughan who put the the idea of "soul-cleansing by fire" into Dobben's head, Bruce Dobben said.



Following a nine-day trial, a jury on May 17, 1989, found Dobben guilty of first-degree murder but mentally ill, meaning he would be imprisoned for life without parole, but also required to receive treatment for his illness while incarcerated.


He was sentenced on May 23, 1989.

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I didn't have "Jeffery Dahmer didn't do it" on my list of things I expected to read this weekend.

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original.newsbreak.com/@nik-1590556/2792154041723-suicide-or-murder-what-really-happened-to-12-year-old-sean-daugherty



Sean’s sister Maria tried running into the house but the door was locked, she knocked and rang the doorbell. No answer. She called and texted Sean, who was supposed to be inside babysitting, but no response. She called her mother to ask where Sean was and her mom told her he was likely just playing video games and couldn’t hear her at the door.



Maria decided she’d try the backdoor to see if it was unlocked, but as soon she entered the backyard she froze in her tracks.



She found him hanging from the swing set. He had his arms and hands bound down by his side with a belt. He was barefoot and hanging so low that his feet dragged on the ground. He had a motorcycle helmet bag over his head, which was tied around his head with a string. His glasses were on the ground nearby, shattered.



It is also noted that he was wearing his stepfather’s clothes and was barefoot. No note was found.



In the parents’ bedroom, Sean’s underwear was on the floor. The dresser doors were open.



Before his death, Sean was babysitting his 2-year-old brother at the house while Ramona Rivas took her mother to a doctor’s appointment. Sean was excited to watch his little brother, Ramona said. Jared Rivas, meanwhile, was in Williamsburg with their second-youngest son for an appointment.

During Sean’s last moments, he completed his homework, started taking out the trash, made a snack and even had a quick phone call with his mother — about an hour before his body was discovered.



In the medical examiner’s report, it is noted that no “known history of depression or suicidality” was found. It does note that the police investigation “raised the possibility of bullying at school,” but his family said that except for one incident in December, they’re unaware of any other bullying and said Sean didn’t seem to be overly upset by it.



His family questions how the examiner and police were drawn to the conclusion of suicide



Sean's mother Ramona was arriving back from her appointment with her mother, only to find a large police presence, ambulance and fire truck parked in front of her home. She saw her daughter Maria completely distraught and the medics working on Sean, but they would not let her go near him. She ran to Maria to get the story of what had happened and then they both ran into the house to look for the 2-year-old.



Inside, Ramona found the toddler hiding beneath a pile of laundry on a chair. She would say he appeared to be limp, out of it and not really himself.



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Unfortunately, none of the neighbors had any helpful information to offer. None of them had seen or heard anything coming from Sean’s home. One neighbor had several security cameras that pointed near or towards the backyard, but unfortunately, none of them worked and they hadn’t in years.

The investigators went through the family home and took pictures of the house as well as the backyard. They took pictures of the backswing set and began to look around and document their surroundings. The family has reported that none of these photos or findings have been shared with them.



As of midnight that same evening, the home was cleared and the family was able to return. Right away, the family noticed some strange things — things that seemed out of the ordinary and like they would be important to investigators. There were also two trash bags tied up on the floor with Sean’s crocs sitting upside down beside the bags, as if Sean had begun to take the trash out, but left them there on the floor instead.



Ramona also noted two additional empty garbage bags lying on the floor all ripped up — and she said they appeared to be different than the ones she kept in the home. These garbage bags had blue handles while the bags they owned had red handles. The heat in the home was set to 85 degrees Fahrenheit/or 29 degrees Celsius, definitely higher than what the family usually kept the heat at.



Sean’s jacket and flannel he was wearing earlier that day were found hanging in the closet, but the T-shirt and shorts he had been wearing were never found. So where the hell did his clothing go?



Sean’s little brother, the one that he had been babysitting who was discovered hiding in the pile of clothes — was now telling a strange story. He said that Sean’s friend had been at the house that day and was punching him.



But there was more. They discovered what looked like blood drops, and a large handprint on the window of the backdoor…it looked as if the handprint had some sort of film or residue on it which really made it stand out. The family says that all of this information was shared with the police the following day, and they even came back to try to lift the fingerprints off the handprint to send them out for testing.



A few weeks later the lead investigator would tell them they got a good print from the lift of the hand, but that there weren’t any matches in the system. A month later, when they came back for more prints, he said there weren’t any good prints lifted, and therefore nothing to test.



The family have been critical of their local police, and in turn — the police have pushed back, releasing a video on Facebook that I can only describe as cold-hearted. In the video, they state that the family has not taken the opportunity to meet with them and the medical examiner’s office to go through their findings.

They clarify a few things — like that the yard was not muddy that day, which would explain Sean’s clean feet. That they tested the rope for DNA and only found Sean’s DNA on the part of the knot. They talk about a blood mark found in the house and say that it was found in the home later, but was not present on the day of the investigation. They say they placed bags over Sean’s hands to preserve evidence. They also say there was no evidence of an intruder or any sign that Sean was sexually assaulted.



There were also conflicting statements made by Sean’s sister Maria, and the police — she said his feet were touching the ground when she found him, while the police say there was a chair that had been moved from the deck to be under sean when he hung himself. They say they moved it out of the way to perform life-saving measures.

[brody]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11760107/Killer-bus-driver-raped-murdered-eight-year-old-boy-refused-parole.html



In May 1997, school boy Jamie Lavis was abducted and murdered by bus driver, Darren Vickers. Vickers then moved in with the Lavis family, claiming that he wanted to help them find Jamie because he was haunted by the fact he might’ve been the last person to see him alive. The Lavis family was so blinded by his false determination and desire to bring their son back home alive that they allowed him to continue to live with them.

Jamie’s remains weren’t found until two years after his disappearance. During that time, Vickers would make very public appeals on television as he urged the public to help find Jamie and took part in searches he knew were going nowhere. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 1997. He was denied parole in February 2023.



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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Allen#Trial_and_shooting



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Trouble came when the jury found Allen guilty.



“Floyd Allen was an older gentleman and he made his way through life by doing whatever it took to make things work,” local historian Mark Harmon said. “He was sentenced to a year in prison and he stood up and said, ‘I ain’t a going,’ and 57 shots were fired in 90 seconds.”



When the smoke cleared, the sheriff, judge and prosecutor were all dead. A juror and a witness would later die too.

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www.politico.com/media/story/2012/01/the-real-story-of-headless-body-in-topless-bar-as-argued-by-veterans-of-the-post-000201/



Dingle is the man convicted of fatally shooting the owner of a topless bar and then forcing a hostage to decapitate him in April 1983. His grisly crime (which also involved a rape) inspired what may be the most celebrated Post wood of all time: "Headless body in topless bar."



www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090605/Killer-Charles-Dingle-spawned-New-York-Post-headline-HEADLESS-BODY-IN-TOPLESS-BAR-hoping-free-30-years-bars.html


His horrific rampage began at strip joint Herb's Bar in Queens when Dingle - then 23 years old - gunned down the bar's owner, Herbert Cummings.



He then took four women hostage, raping one of them and robbing the others in an alcohol and cocaine-fueled rage.



But Dingle’s crime spree took a bizarre turn when he found out that one of his hostages was a mortician after finding her business card.



He demanded that she extract the bullet from Cummings' head so authorities would be unable to match it to his gun, but when she couldn't do it, he ordered her to cut off Cummings' head with a steak knife, the Post reported.



He later released two of the hostages and took the remaining two with him in a stolen livery cab - with Cummings' head in a box.

The ordeal came to an end when he stopped the car in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighbourhood and passed out behind the wheel - and his hostages fled.



Two days later, the ‘HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR’ headline was splashed across the Post front page and into notoriety, often called one of the greatest newspaper headlines of all time.

[brody]

www.bbc.com/sport/mixed-martial-arts/67292222



UFC strawweight Angela Hill has many interests. She is a high-level mixed martial artist, a cosplayer, a fan of video games and a believer that "the truth is out there".



Hill is a follower of the extra-terrestrial, a watcher of the skies - she has no doubt that aliens exist, and there is good reason for it.


Her family has a special place in UFO folklore.



On a September night in 1961, Hill's grandparents, Barney and Betty, believed they were abducted by aliens.



"It has always been a part of our family history," Hill tells BBC Sport.



"It has always been a fact to us. We know something happened, even if it isn't exactly what has been put out there."



It is one of America's most famous alien abduction tales and has been adapted into a best-selling book, The Interrupted Journey, and TV show The UFO Incident.



Barney and Betty said they saw an unusual spacecraft when driving back to their home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire after a vacation at Niagara Falls in 1961.

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Nov 5, 2023 6:38:24 GMT brody said:

www.bbc.com/sport/mixed-martial-arts/67292222



UFC strawweight Angela Hill has many interests. She is a high-level mixed martial artist, a cosplayer, a fan of video games and a believer that "the truth is out there".



Hill is a follower of the extra-terrestrial, a watcher of the skies - she has no doubt that aliens exist, and there is good reason for it.


Her family has a special place in UFO folklore.



On a September night in 1961, Hill's grandparents, Barney and Betty, believed they were abducted by aliens.



"It has always been a part of our family history," Hill tells BBC Sport.



"It has always been a fact to us. We know something happened, even if it isn't exactly what has been put out there."



It is one of America's most famous alien abduction tales and has been adapted into a best-selling book, The Interrupted Journey, and TV show The UFO Incident.



Barney and Betty said they saw an unusual spacecraft when driving back to their home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire after a vacation at Niagara Falls in 1961.

Betty and Barney Hill had no children, she is Barney's granddaughter through his son Barney (III) by his first marriage to Ruby Horne. Barney Hill died in 1969, long before Angela was born.

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[brody]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11607643/Satanic-child-abuse-ring-shut-victims-oven-filmed-gang-raping-court-hears.html



A satanic child abuse ring tortured children by putting them in an oven, forcing them to kill animals and gang raping them, a court has heard.



Seven men and four women are accused of abusing three young children over the course of 10 years in Glasgow which saw them attempt to 'call on spirits and demons'.



Two girls - one of whom was allegedly shut in a microwave, fridge, oven and freezer in an attempt to kill her - and one boy were forced to kill animals as well as being sexually abused by the group, it is claimed.



Members of the group have been charged with 43 offences with among the most serious being attempted murder and rape of young children.

The High Court in Glasgow was told on Friday that the offences took place between January 2010 and March 2020 at a number of addresses in the city.



The group are alleged to have run a wheelchair over the legs of one of the girls, as well as putting a plastic bag over her head.



It's claimed she was made to eat cat food, as well as take drugs and alcohol, with the other girl also made to eat pet food.



The second girl was allegedly chased by an adult wearing a devil mask and hung by her jumper from a nail on the wall.



This culminated with her being pushed into and trapped inside a microwave, an oven, a fridge freezer and various cupboards, the court heard.



It is claimed one of the girls was threatened with being sent to Turkey with a male stranger, while the boy was put in a bath which they said was filled with blood.



The boy and older girl are alleged to have been made to take part in 'seances (and) use a Ouija board...to call on spirits and demons'.



The children were also involved in 'witchcraft' leading them to believe that they themselves had 'metamorphosed into animals'.

[brody]

www.foxnews.com/us/susan-smith-nearing-parole-murders-young-sons-says-good-stepmom-report

[almagata]

Dec 3, 2023 9:21:01 GMT brody said:

www.foxnews.com/us/susan-smith-nearing-parole-murders-young-sons-says-good-stepmom-report

The Interview Room discussed this case this week.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkLA_HCANI4

I'll be surprised if Susan Smith ever gets paroled.  The public is so angry at her.