30 Cold Cases, True Crime Tales & Murder Mysteries...

Manuela bua I'm Virginia poo on April 23rd 1992 14-year-old Virginia espo asked her mother for money which she intended on using to buy a birthday cake for a party she was attending later that afternoon however Virginia never attended the birthday celebration that she had told her mother about instead she met up with one of her closest friends 13-year-old Manuel bua and the pair took the train to Rosa About 18 mil from their Hometown they had plans to visit a nightclub and had made sure to hide this fact from their parents they had invited a third

friend to join them but Shar declined opting to stay at home instead at around 900 p.m. Virginia and Mella left the club and began to make their way home investigators believe that the two girls had decided to hitchhike back after discovering that no return trains were running at that time of night they were Last seen by a witness who who was in fact a resident of their Hometown and who was unable to offer them a ride as her car was full she told investigators that she saw the two girls enter a white vehicle described as

a seat 127 with a valider liid license plate near the town's Main Street Manuel and Virginia were never seen again but there were no indications that the pair planned to run away they had very little money on them and only Wore the clothing on their backs nothing was missing from their bedrooms as the hours passed and the girls failed to come home their families went to the Civil guard but were met with an element of resistance from the agents back in 1992 the protocols for missing children were not the same as they are today the

families of manuella and Virginia were told they'd need to wait 48 hours before a search could be launched this would later cause the Civil guards to receive Criticism and backlash as it's understood that the first 24 hours after an individual goes missing are the most vital Virginia's sister recalled being told by an agent they have gone to a party they will come back whenever they want during the early 1990s a Spanish journalist named Paco larton presented the public service program who knows where which is similar to the BBC's crime watch program in the UK viewers

could phone into the show with tips and Information about unsolved cases with who knows where focusing specifically on missing person cases the show aired an episode about manuella and Virginia and it received dozens of calls as a result alleged sightings placed the girls all over Spain while other callers appeared to be unwell cruel hoaxers who said they would bring harm to the girls and that their parents would never see them alive again family members traveled as far as a stous to see if they could track down Their missing loved ones but instead were met with

young girls Who Bore a resem Lance to the pair no trace of the real manuella and Virginia was ever found in October of 1994 a group of friends walking near the ray hardar Reservoir about 25 miles from where the girls were last seen found two skulls two members of the group were writers for a newspaper that published their findings without analysis or forewarning the families claiming the skulls could Possibly belong to the two missing girls the lead after all that turned out to be a dead end the skulls did not belong to Manuel and Virginia

they were too old believed to date back to the 1930s 3 years later in 1997 a witness claimed that the girls were in Madrid with what he described as a punk Community he alleged that manuella had cut her hair short and dyed it blue with one small white section investigators put together composite images of the Girls and how they may have looked in 1997 but when they finally located the women the witness had described it was discovered they were not in fact Manuel and Virginia in 2001 two more skulls were discovered but they were determined

to belong to victims of the Civil War furthermore in 2018 a human jawbone was found in a Reservoir in canabria but it did not belong to the missing girls then in 2021 New Hope came for the families of Manuel and Virginia when a woman Called into a TV program about un solved cases to tell them that one year before the girls went missing she and one of her friends had suffered an attempted kidnapping after alerting the TV show The Woman gave a statement to the Civil guard which led to a new line of inquiry being

investigated the woman and her friend had struggled with the driver causing him to Veer off the side of the road she and her friend then took the opportunity to flee the details of the Case were chillingly similar to that of Manuel and Virginia the two women had been hit hiking and had been picked up by someone in a white seat 127 more hopeful still the witness was able to identify the man driving the vehicle and he became a suspect in the case he had a criminal record which included being arrested four times for attempted sexual

assault another suspect came to light around this time but law enforcement never recovered a photograph of him from 1992 he is described as having been a young man in 1992 between the ages of 20 and 20 5 investigators noted that he' temporarily left the country in August of that year this suspect reportedly gave conflicting accounts to law enforcement as he initially denied knowing the girls but then stated in a later interview with the Civil guard that he had been introduced to them at the club by a friend he then added that he'd never seen the

girls again after The brief introductions were made over the years several allegations have been made that the remains of Manuel and Virginia are in the font toia mine an anonymous individual tipped the police off very early on in the investigation and while their bodies weren't recovered at the time it has been noted that a thick layer of mud prevented law enforcement from seeing the bottom Additionally the nearby sovus cave hasn't been searched either though in 1993 the Civil guard reported that it would be an ideal location to hide bodies in 2021 the case was reopened

by the Civil guard but still Manuel and Virginia and their families are yet to receive Justice man of SoMo on January 11th 2015 a group of hikers walking by the as 227 Road less than a mile from the town of Puerto D SoMo discovered the dead body of a man in the nearby undergrowth investigators Arrived promptly on the scene and found the body wrapped inside a blanket missing one leg and with no clothing upon first glance there was some indication that he had been taken care of during his final years his hair had been combed

his beard had been trimmed and he was clean with clear skin this made it confusing to investigators when they noticed his missing leg initially they suspected that John Do's end had been a violent one however it was later Determined during the postmortem that the man's leg had lightly gone missing as a result of Scavenging animals the blanket he was found with was analyzed and it was deemed to have been made in the 1950s carried by only two stores in the entire country receipt records hadn't been kept however meaning the authorities were unable to trace the

purchaser John Doe is described as being incredibly short at Just 4 fo5 he had a beard and was likely between the ages of 45 and 60 his body appeared dangerously thin with one investigator noting that it resembled one of the bodies from the Holocaust he weighed just 77b his Limbs and fingers were described as being disproportionately long while his head was unusually small he also suffered from Pectus carinatum or pigeon chest a deformity where overgrowth of the cartilage between the ribs and sternum causes the chest to stick out unusually furthermore John Doe's upper Back was

hunched there was briefly some speculation that the man suffered from Marin syndrome a genetic disorder resulting in an abnormally curved spine incredibly flexible joints and long arms legs fingers and toes sufferers are often tall and thin and complications with the hearts and aorta can arise from the condition however as John Doe was exceptionally short in height they began to theorize that his growth had been halted by chronic malnutrition the Autopsy showed that John Doe's nutrition had been satisfactory he was not malnourished as had been originally theorized it was also concretely determined through DNA testing that

he didn't have marfin but suffered from cocaine syndrome a rare genetic disorder often featuring growth disorders intellectual deficits neuromotor difficulties and impaired vision and hearing children with this condition generally look older than they are and Often don't make it to age 12 there are several variants of Co syndrome some adults live to their 20s or even 30s While others with a milder slower version of the condition can live to their 40s and 50s John Doe's odd appearance now made sense with his strange features lining up with the diagnosis his cause of death was established as

a heart attack this wasn't uncommon in those with the condition as it can affect the heart and The aorta the Rarity of John Doe's condition LED investigators to believe that it wouldn't take take them long to close the case but they were wrong they visited Puerto D SoMo the nearest town to where the body was found but found no clues to his identity searching further a field yielded no answers either not even at hospitals and housing facilities next detectives looked into birth records and spoke with gynecologists and midwives who may have helped deliver the Baby

but this turned up no new leads they then attempted to look for women who may have worked as unlicensed rural midw wies around his estimated time of birth but found nothing another dead end came when they reached out to construction companies looking for Builders who may have created a basement space or a false wall to another room inside a home law enforcement began to put together some theories in the absence of answers they suspected John Doe was from somewhere much further than SoMo or that he had been hidden by his family possibly due to shame

or a fear of judgment and that nobody knew of his existence because he had been locked away for most of his life being cared for but unacknowledged by those outside the family as he was likely born between 1955 and 1970 there was also some speculation that he had been born to a single mother Spain's government was still deeply religious at the time and An unwar mother would have been met with disapproval and difficulties if JN Don's mother had been unwar at the time of his birth she likely hid her pregnancy from every one and delivered

the baby alone or with someone she trusted to avoid conflict or Community backlash she likely kept the child hidden investigators theorized that John Doe had been left somewhere he could easily be found had he been left further down the slope his body likely would have Become covered in snow and never been recovered authorities believed that whoever had cared for John Doe wanted him to have a proper burial he was buried with a blank headstone at a local Cemetery while his DNA has been entered into several databases some of which are international the real identity of

the man of SoMo remains a mystery Malin Rodriguez in meor on December 2nd 2013 15-year-old Malon Rodriguez awoke at 6:00 a.m. and proceeded to carry out her normal morning routine she got dressed had breakfast and left for school when the day was over she hopped onto a bus to get home before realizing that she had left her keys in the house since her father was at work and her brother was out she got off the bus and called her boyfriend 17-year-old Daniel asking if she could come and have lunch with him his parents gave the

pair the okay and she left a message on her father's Voicemail letting him know where she was following this Malon began the journey to Daniels on her skateboard she was around 2 2 and A2 miles from his home and many witnesses placed her on the cycle path that day CCTV showed her at 3:51 p.m. skating towards the village of sonera 300 M ahead of her at a petrol station was another CCTV camera still on maron's route but the 15-year-old never passed it she vanished in the section of the cycle path between the two cameras When

Marlin didn't show up to Daniel's house he and his parents became concerned soon a missing person's report was filed like the case of Manuel and Virginia though investigators seemed to shrug off the concerns of the 15-year-old's loved ones they believed she was a runaway teenager and refused to begin looking for her until 48 Hours had passed when they finally began to investigate they found that her mobile phone had run out of battery so they Were unable to trace her this way an examination of the CCTV from the petrol station which Marin should have passed but

failed to do so further revealed that the teenager's younger brother had been cycling nearby in fact the two should have passed one another as they were riding in the opposite direction but they never did her brother Bruno never saw her over the next few weeks authorities combed through wooded areas in search of Marin using Mountain Rescue Specialists Agents from the Civil guard local police and firefighters nearby Coastal Cliffs were checked and divers took to the Lakes at a neighboring golf course no sign of the 15-year-old was discovered law enforcement theories about what became of marlin

seemed to split into two camps the camp that thinks she ran away from home and the camp that believes she met with Foul Play by all accounts Marlin had previously lived a very troubled life Originally from Argentina she her brother and her parents relocated to myor when Maron was five she was described as outgoing and independent and was a Keen rock music enthusiast who hoped to go to art school and dreamed of one day opening her own Tattoo Studio however her family life was heavily troubled when her parents divorced in 2006 just 3 years after

the move to Spain Malin and Bruno began living with their father Marlin's relationship with Her mother was said to be difficult but she was no better off with her father who was sometimes physically abusive at some point Marlin began experimenting with drugs when she was just 13 her father Alfonso discovered her undressed in bed with a boy and she was horrifically beaten by him to the point that she had to be hospitalized several years later though she stopped using drugs and began to take care of herself eventually meeting Daniel an aspiring Musician whom she began

dating Daniel told investigators that in the days before her disappearance Marlin had been frequently seen crying and had made an appointment with the school counselor the following day her friends backed up these statements this led to some speculation that she was so troubled she decided to leave everything behind investigators who believed she met with Foul Play however Drew this conclusion from information which indicated that Her father was in business with people who were part of organized crime the son of a drug trafficker he knew offered 3,500 in exchange for the whereabouts of Maron but this

failed to produce any leads there are some allegations online that the man who offered the reward began to distance himself from Alfonso afterwards her mother Natalia was on a trip to Thailand at the time of her daughter's Disappearance in the years since she has repeatedly voiced her Disappointment and frustration with the Civil guard for being unable to find any answers in the case she noted that while her daughter was stubborn she was also mature she believes that Marlon was taken by somebody she knew in the decade since Mar went missing no trace of her has

ever been found at the time of her disappearance 15-year-old Marlin Rodriguez wore red trainers ripped jeans and a PL shirt with a t-shirt underneath she also wore a denim jacket when she Went missing she weighed 121 And stood at 5'3 she is described as having long curly brown hair and brown eyes if you have any information about Marlin's disappearance you can call the local missing person group on plus 34642 65775 Valeri andri born April 10th 1957 Valeri Andre is better known in his home country of Russia as the or Maniac raised in the village of

shaari not much is documented About Val's childhood upon leaving school he became a trucker and on the surface appeared to live an ordinary and well-intentioned life he was married had two children and was not known to abuse substances or alcohol his friends and family valued him and spoke highly of him but all that changed in the mid 2000s when he appeared to begin behaving differently becoming distant and isolated preferring to work alone on Long Haul drives and not engaging with His colleagues and friends the way he once did it wasn't until 2012 that Russian investigators

began to suspect that was more to Valeri than met the eye in June that year 18-year-old Olga Zur of loova disappeared Witnesses last saw the young woman entering a white SUV and the vehicle was captured on CCTV it was later spotted in the city of Ork luckily for investigators the vehicle was far from Common Place only two such SUVs were registered in the city one of them Belonged to Valeri investigating the 55-year-old truck driver ever further authorities learned that Valeri had been in the same location as Olga shortly before she vanished this could be proven

using his mobile phone data Valeri was arrested and detained in connection with Olga's disappearance a month later but was ultimately released however his vehicle company truck and garage were all searched during his time in custody and they showed traces of human DNA and Blood when his colleagues were approached they reported that they had assumed the trucker had begun to use the services of sex workers because contraceptives jewelry women's underwear hair accessories and other feminine items were often found in his vehicle Valeri was asked to appear for questioning again but he didn't come to the police

station he was last heard from on July 6th 2012 when he contacted his wife and has not been seen or heard From since Val's profession as a Long Haul truck driver allowed him to access all sorts of routes and different areas of of the country after he was reported missing an extensive search was launched with the aim that he could be tracked down before he attempted to leave the country but no sign of him was ever found the remains of his last confirmed victim Olga were found on September 10th 2013 in the years since he

vanished law enforcement has received dozens of calls And messages about possible sightings of Valerie which indicate that he may still be in Russia or as nearby as Kazakhstan several areas in and around Russia have been searched in response to the tips received by investigators but so far the authorities have come away empty-handed each time one of the most recent sightings of Valeri was in October 2019 when he was positively identified in the luga district of the Leningrad oblast region of Russia the witness who saw him Reported the sighting to several law enforcement bodies but despite

residents of the area confirming that they had also seen him no actions were taken to capture and detain Valeri by the ministry of internal affairs or the investigative committee at the end of that year Interpol decided to take up the search for The elusive serial killer in 2020 when Interpol announced they were searching for Valeri he was placed at the top of their list of wanted Fugitives a reward the equivalent of $20,000 was offered for information on his whereabouts in 2021 a witness reported seeing Valeri near Moscow Valeri is now aged 65 and is linked

to the rapes and murders of eight women however he is suspected of killing more than 100 women between 2006 and 2016 if he was truly responsible for such a horrific number of crimes then Valeri would be Russia's deadliest serial killer and one of the worst in the world Valeri andri is still missing he is described as a white male with graying hair who stands at 5' 6 in tall he has a 5 cm me a scar on his abdomen he is currently 65 years old if you have any information about Val's whereabouts you can contact

your local police station or use the Interpol message form which will be linked in the description Sharon Kenny Sharon Elizabeth Hall was born on November 30th 1939 in Independence Missouri to parents you Eugene and Doris following her birth Sharon spent some time growing up in Washington state but by the age of 15 she and her family had returned to her birthplace in 1956 now aged 16 she met 22-year-old briam Young University student James Kenny at a church function the couple dated from the summer that year until the Autumn when James returned to University however shortly

after his departure Sharon penned the 22-year-old a letter explaining that she had fallen pregnant with his child James felt it was his responsibility to now look after Sharon and the child and so he returned to Independence and the couple married on October 18th 1956 Sharon's age was falsely listed as 18 at the time about a year after they married the pair had a second more formal wedding by this time Sharon who had not actually been pregnant in the first place had explained away her lack Of baby by claiming she'd miscarried however she did eventually end

up pregnant giving birth to a daughter named Dana in the Autumn of 1957 following their second wedding ceremony Sharon and James spent some time living in Provo Utah before returning to Independence where they both got jobs Sharon as a babysitter and James as an electrical engineer at Bendix Aviation where he mostly worked nights Sharon was keen on a life of luxury she often spent Large sums of money on frivolous things and attempt to live well beyond her means she and James initially lived in a rented home next to his parents but eventually built their own

home a ranch style house elsewhere in the city eventually Sharon grew Restless she'd had another baby a boy named Troy and she'd become bored of being a mother and a wife and yearned for excitement as her husband was always working nights she turned her attention to other men and Began engaging in Affairs one of these relationships was with an old high school friend John balitz by 1960 James was considering divorcing Sharon he suspected that she was carrying on with other men and was also frustrated by her Reckless spending habits on March 18th he spoke with

his parents about the matter devout morons James's parents encouraged him to stay and make their marriage work he told them that Sharon would agree to the divorce if she was Able to retain the house keep custody of their daughter and he paid her $1,000 in alimony still James's parents parents insisted that the couple had simply hit a rough patch and just needed time to sort things out together the next day at around 5:30 p.m. Sharon heard a gunshot ring out from the direction of the master bedroom she would later tell the police that when she

went to investigate she discovered the couple's 2-year-old daughter Dana sitting on the bed next to Her father he had a gunshot wound to his head and Dana was holding his 22 caliber handgun according to Sharon James must have been cleaning the weapon when he decided to take a nap he must have left the gun out as he went to sleep Emergency Services were promptly called to the scene but James was declared dead by the time he arrived at the hospital after his death law enforcement began to investigate the incident they were unable to obtain prints

from the Pistol's grip however and then failed to carry out testing for gunshot residue on both Sharon and Dana speaking with friends and relatives of the family investigators discovered that the 2-year-old was known to play with Firearms unattended and in a test carried out by the police Dana proved her ability to pull the trigger on a gun which was the same make and model of her father's as there was no evidence to prove it was anything else James's death Was ruled as an accidental homicide after the investigation was closed James was buried and his wife

collected on his life insurance policies which were both the modern day equivalent of around $230,000 using this money Sharon bought herself a new new Ford Thunderbird from a car salesman named Walter T Jones on April 18th Walter and Sharon began an affair shortly thereafter while Sharon wanted to get married again and thought Walter would be the perfect second Husband he already had a wife 23-year-old Patricia Jones his high school sweetheart with whom he had two children in May that Year Sharon asked Walter to go to Washington with her however he declined her offer and so

she took her brother Eugene instead upon her return she met up with her boyfriend and told him that she was pregnant with his baby Sharon was sure that this would tip the scale in her favor that Walter would have a strong reason to leave his wife And be with her but Walter didn't announce that he would divorce his wife instead he ended the couple's Affair following the breakup on May 26th Sharon decided to call Patricia and tell her that her husband was having an affair with Sharon's sister the pair met to discuss the situation that

evening and according to Sharon she dropped Patricia off a few blocks from home afterwards but Walter reported that his wife never made it back to their house he alerted The police to her uncharacteristic disappearance the following morning once he' notified the authorities he began to call Patricia's friends and loved ones looking for somebody who may have seen her one of her friends who cared to and from work with her informed him that the 23-year-old had discussed being approached by a woman who wanted to meet her Patricia asked the carpool driver to drop her on a

street corner in Independence and the friend had noticed Another woman waiting in a car nearby they didn't recognize the woman but gave Walter her description which was immediately familiar to him after hanging up Walter called Sharon and asked if she had seen or spoken with his wife she admitted that she had and informed him that she told Patricia of the affair she then claimed that she had last seen the 23-year-old when she dropped her off near their house Sharon said that Patricia began speaking with An unknown man in a green 1957 Ford shortly before Sharon

drove off Walter and Sharon met later that evening where he insisted that she provide more details about Patricia's last known movements he would later admit that he had threateningly held a key to Sharon's throat that same day on May 27th shortly before midnight Sharon and John balitz whom she had an ongoing affair with discovered Patricia's body in a secluded Lover's Lane out outside the city she Had been shot four times by a 22 caliber pistol sustaining two wounds to her shoulder and one to her abdomen the Fatal shot was to Patricia's head the bullet entered

near her mouth at an upwards trajectory she is estimated to have died at 900 p.m. on May 27th powder burs on the hemline of Patricia's skirts which had been pushed up to her waist indicated that the gun had been fired at close range at least once and a white powdery substance discovered in her hair LED investigators to initially theorize that she had been killed elsewhere and dumped in the secluded area however it was later determined that the substance was fly eggs as no other crime scene could be located the notion that this was not the

crime scene was dismissed authorities attempted to locate the murder weapon and the bullet which had passed through Patricia's abdomen they searched the lovers lane with the help of a group of Boy Scouts but they were Never able to recover the weapon despite going so far as to empty nearby bodies of water the bullet however was eventually discovered buried in the ground underneath the body on May 28th Walter Sharon and John were all questioned both John and Walter admitted to dating Sharon in written statements on June 1st they both took polygraph tests which they passed Sharon

however would not put anything down in writing and refused to take a polygraph her Brother Eugene was also questioned on March 31st although he opted not to talk to investigators that same day at 11:00 p.m. Sharon was arrested for Patricia's murder the Jackson County Sheriff caught wind of her arrest and asked the prosecutors to consider a second murder that of James Kenny following her arrest Sharon was released on a $20,000 Bond her preliminary hearing was scheduled for June 16th meanwhile the gun used in the death of her husband was ruled out As being the murder

weapon in Patricia's case it was still locked up and under the possession of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office reportedly after James's death Sharon attempted to get the gun back but it was never returned to her a male friend of hers then came forward and admitted that he had purchased a 22 caliber handgun for the Widow and registered it under her name but she had asked him to re-register it under another however the weapon Couldn't be found inside her house Sharon originally claimed that she had lost it on her trip to Washington then recanted this story

and said it had gone missing at some point in mid June Sharon's trial was delayed as she was heavily pregnant with her third child she gave birth to a second daughter Mara on January 16th 1961 on June 13th 1961 Sharon's trial for the murder of Patricia Jones began the prosecution cited both Walter and a police Lieutenant named Harry Nesbit as evidence of the motive behind the crime Nesbit recalled that Sharon had stated I was afraid I was losing him he acted funny meanwhile Walter told the court about how he had broken off the relationship after

Sharon told him that she was pregnant the prosecution alleged that Patricia had been killed because Sharon wanted Walter all to herself however they were unable to firmly establish if she owned or had once owned The handgun that killed the 23-year-old after calling 27 Witnesses the prosecution rested its case on June 21st meanwhile Sharon's defense team focused focused on breaking down the motive and means of the crime claiming the mother of three had no reason to kill Patricia and stating that the weapon that allegedly belonged to her had not been proven to be the murder weapon

the jury spent just over an hour and a half deliberating before a quitting Sharon of The charge they had found too many loopholes in the prosecution's case bizarrely immediately after the verdict was announced one juror asked Sharon for her autograph she obliged before she was returned to jail to await the next trial on January 8th 1962 the jury selection process began for Sharon's second murder trial the prosecution's case heavily relied on their contention that she was so interested in seeing her husband gone from her life that she was willing to Pay for it they had

John balitz testify about the time that Sharon had offered to pay him $1,000 to kill her husband however Jon undermined his own testimony by claiming that Sharon may have been joking this caused the prosecution to attack the character of their own witness the prosecution also explained that James and Sharon's marriage was on the verge of breaking down at the time of his death and noted that she hadd been engaging in extramarital Affairs Which had caused the Divide between the couple they pointed out that Sharon would only be able to collect James's life insurance money if

she was still his wife Sharon's defense for their part focused on the fact that much of the evidence in the case was circumstantial and called John balitz a poor mixed up kid who would sign anything and attacked the reliability of his testimony they also observed that the police during their original investigation had thought James's demise was obviously accidental and presented testimony which supported the idea that James had often left guns in reach of his children and that Dana could pull Triggers on toy guns which were stiffer than the one on the 22 caliber which had

killed him the jury deliberated for over 5 and a half hours before returning a guilty verdict on January 11th in April Sharon was sentenced to life in prison and began to serve time in the Missouri Reformatory For women her deceased husband's family continued to believe that Dana had been responsible for the death and that it had been nothing more than a tragic accident stating we still don't feel that she committed murder Sharon for her part told reporters that the verdict was a mistake a week after her conviction Sharon's lawyer requested that she be released on

bond which was supported by a petition signed by 132 individuals who thought she was innocent however the Motion was denied as first degree murder was not a bailable offense in response Sharon's defense then requested that the conviction be vacated because the jury had delivered a verdict based on smise and speculation rather than substantial evidence they went on to list some errors that they alleged had been made before and during the trial while this was denied by a judge in April 1962 the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the conviction in March 1963 a new trial was ordered

on the basis of Sharon's defense having been denied adequate preemptory challenges during jury selection she was denied bail in May that year but 2 months later was released on a $25,000 bond which had been posted by her brother as her second trial was scheduled Sharon and her three children moved in with her mother her next trial began on March 23rd 1964 but a mistrial was declared shortly Afterwards because a law partner of one of the prosecutors had once been retained by one of the jurors Sharon's thirdd trial started on June 29th that year a new

witness testified for the prosecution a female acquaintance of the mother of three who stated Sharon once jot that the witness should quote get rid of the woman's old man like Sharon did during this trial Sharon took the stand to declare that she was innocent of all charges a second mistrial was Declared when the jury deadlocked 7 to 5 in favor of acquit her fourth trial was scheduled for October of 1964 however while free on bail Sharon traveled to Mexico with her alleged New Lover a man named Francis puges she left her children in the care

of their grandfather and traveled under the pretense that she and Francis were a married couple using the name Janette puges technically although the bail itself wouldn't have prevented Sharon From traveling out of the states the company that posted her bail prohibited her from doing so without explicit written consent from themselves thus her going out of state went against the conditions the company had set in Mexico Sharon and Francis registered as a married couple at hotel Jinn while in the country Sharon purchased a weapon claiming that she felt unsafe as she was unfamiliar with Mexico however

she and Francis had also brought one to two Weapons with them across the border so it's unclear why Sharon required a third gun on the night of September 18th 1964 the mother of three left the hotel alone while out she encountered Francisco odones a mexican-born US citizen at a bar she went back to his hotel with him later telling the police that he had wanted to show her some photographs he had taken however in the hotel room Sharon claimed Francis made sexual advances towards her and so she fired Her gun at him in self-defense she

stated that she simply wanted to scare him off instead she shot him in the chest killing him immediately the sound of the gunfire drew the attention of a hotel employee who entered the room and narrowly avoided being killed by Sharon 2 the employee was shot in the shoulder and he promptly fled the scene closing the door behind him locking Sharon in the room until authorities arrived the police did not believe Sharon's version Of events they suspected that she had attempted to Rob Francisco and had shot him when he didn't comply she was quickly arrested for

homicide and assault with a deadly weapon the mother of three maintained that she didn't want to hurt anybody but had to defend herself the police discovered the gun and ammo in her handbag and further guns and ammo in the hotel room she was sharing with Francis Francis was also arrested his crimes included entering The country illegally and carrying an unlicensed fire firearm one of the weapons retrieved from the hotel was found to be the same one which had killed Patricia Jones but because Sharon had been acquitted she could not be retried for this crime both

Francis and Sharon were tried in the summer of 1965 Francis was cleared and deported back to the US while Sharon was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison she attempted to appeal her Conviction but was given a further 3 years behind bars as the court didn't believe that she'd been given a long enough sentence in jail she was nicknamed the gunfighter a name which was soon after adopted by the media on December 7th 1969 4 years after her conviction Sharon was found to be not present for the 5:00 p.m roll call in prison

however her absence was not noted until a few hours later it wasn't until 2: a.m. that her Disappearance and presumed Escape were reported to the Mexico City police a large scale Manhunt ensued in the days following Sharon's vanish in act the police suspected that she may have been going to visit a former inmate whom she had grown close with but they also notified the US authorities including the FBI in case she attempted to make her way back home authorities initially believed that the prison guards had been bribed to look the other way as Sharon Made

her escape from prison an atypical blackout had occurred around the time she vanished and a door had been left unsecured when it should have been locked additionally there were fewer guards on duty at the time theories began circulating about what may have happened to the mother of three some suggested that her mother had helped her Escape others that she had a boyfriend who was in the police force and he had been responsible for helping her flee in The years since it has been suggested that she disguised herself as a man to leave the prison and

the country while a 2002 article from the Southeast Missourian suggests that Francisco's family had helped her Escape so they could kill her the search for Sharon lasted until December 18 investigators said they suspected that she had gone to Guatemala although it's unclear how they reached this conclusion Sharon had become fluent in Spanish due To her time in prison and authorities believed this would help her blend in better and allow her to go anywhere where Spanish was the main spoken language in December of 1969 investigators announced that they'd run out of leads in the case after

her failure to turn up for her fourth trial in October of 1964 a warrant for sh 's arrest was issued in 2010 it was still outstanding and was at the time the oldest outstanding murder warrants known To exist in the Kansas City area Sharon Kenny's fate is still unknown she is described as a white woman with gray eyes at the time of her disappearance she weighed 125 and had blonde hair she is 5' 7 and has a skin pigmentation disease with a red port wine scar on the left side of her face if she is

still alive she will be 83 years old paty morati was born on March 30th 1947 in the village of K County Limmerick Island he was likely conceived out of wedlock and according to the Australian was possibly raised as a foster child at the age of 18 He immigrated to Australia and later worked as a station hand ringer and grer driver in 2008 he moved to Lara and purchased a vacant Service Station 2 years later for $30,000 Patty was last seen on December 16th 2017 by then he was a regular fixture at the Lara hotel which

featured a crocodile named sneaky Sam in a pool Outback as well as what is described as a makeshift Zoo containing dozens of different birds Paddy was an employee at the hotel at the time of his disappearance telling engaging colorful Tales to torist S at the bar he reportedly drank his typical 8 to 10 beers that evening before climbing onto his quad bike his faithful dog Kelly hopped up next to him and they set off to make the 800 meter Journey back home the last person to see Paddy and Kelly Was a tourist who offered the

can9 some chicken for dinner when Patty didn't report for work the next day locals began to suspect that he'd had an accident been bitten by a snake or fallen into a sinkhole all of these were common in the remote Australian Outback police were called to the town several days later and their first course of action was to investigate the 70-year-olds home though there was no sign of Paddy or Kelly they found his Two hats Keys bank card medication and a plate of food that was ready to be consumed furthermore his quad bike was out the

front coroner Greg cavana later noted that Patty was bald and self-conscious about the shape of his head he would always go out with a hat on examining the evidence as part of a 2022 inquest cavana reported it appeared that in the midst of a meal preparation something unexpected happened but not such that he did not have time to close The door and put the mats and Bessa Block in place law enforcement also believed that if Patty had met with an accident or wandered off they would be able to find Kelly because the K9 was missing

though they suspected that someone had taken both Patty and his dog incredibly in a town of 12 people nobody had seen a thing with no surveillance footage and no physical evidence investigators struggled to figure out how a man and his dog could disappear in Such a minuscule Community authorities combed the area on foot and by car even bringing in helicopters at one point they searched through Caverns dumps and the dam and interviewed all the remaining residents of Lara but found no leads one of the most notable residents of the town is Fran hodet who ran

a tea house and pie shop on the sturt highway Patty lived opposite the tea house and had known hodet for three decades though the two were initially on good terms all That changed when hitz divorced her husband and Paddy took his side during the split hits would later accuse the 70-year-old of stealing her property threatening her customers and even killing her plants in 2016 they signed a court-ordered mediation letter agreeing to be polite and limit their interactions with one another but the piece didn't last and the two became embroiled in more fallouts in the following

months when hodet hired Owen Lorri as a gardener words exchanged between Lori and Patty included more allegations of plant murder just days before Patty vanished he reportedly fought with lri according to reports lri had told Patty you need to shut that effing dog up or I'll shut it for you to which Patty replied shut your mouth or I'll take your knees out from under you a witness the hotel Barman advised Patty to be careful he simply replied it's all good I've got a baseball bat still Lori Denied knowing what became of the 70-year-old after he

went missing he stated that he never saw Paddy come home that night despite being in a phone box with a clear view when the elderly man arrived home Lori argued he was too old to hurt someone he was 71 and stated I'd break all my Bloody Bones I have osteoporosis hodet meanwhile denied rumors that she had killed Patty chopped up his corpse and put it in her famous pies investigators made sure to Thoroughly check her incinerator and set tank but found no evidence of Paddy or Kelly hodet told police that those she' talked about killing

the 70-year-old she' only been joking her ex-husband Bill noted that he had had a beer with Paddy on the night he vanished and he was going to let him borrow his lawn mower but he never showed up to collect it when asked by the media what he thinks happened to Patty he stated I haven't got a clue but whoever done it They done a bloody good job of it in 2021 police offered a 200 $50,000 reward for information that would help solve the case though it brought in no new leads in the spring of 2022

an inquest was held where coroner Greg cavana stated his belief that both Patty and Kelly had died sometime on the night of their Disappearance in my opinion he said Patty and his dog were killed in the context of and likely due to the ongoing feud he had with his Nearest neighbor cavana suggested that a upon coming home Patty began sorting out food for both he and Kelly and that the two stepped outside at some point during the evening cavana continued there is no evidence as to where he went however in my view it's likely that

the new plants at France Place were of some attraction to him the inquest also heard eight audio recordings featuring a man identified as Owen Lor singing and talking about the killing the recordings Had been made in secret by the police One recording features a man's voice saying effing killed Paddy hit him on the head smacked him on the effing nostrils with my claw hammer and I killer Old Pad I struck him on the effing head and killer the bastard Basher him in another the same man says well they didn't effing find the hammer well they

can't get me for anything and you got to find out who effing done it mate that's if you don't find the effing Body to find out who done it I can tell you you are not finding out I tell you effing repeatedly you are not finding out you are not finding out the recordings had been gathered by police in the 6 months after The Disappearance and had been recorded in Lor's own home lorri though disputed that the voice on the tape was his he claimed that it wasn't and stated again that he knew nothing of

Patty's disappearance he then determined that he should stay silent so That nothing he said could be misconstrued or incriminate him it also emerged at the inquest that two other allegations had been regarding pad's disappearance one of them came from an individual named Wayne ledwitch who claimed that in 2017 he had overheard a conversation between his friend Brian Roberts who is now deceased and Fran hodgetts he alleged that hoggets had offered Roberts $10,000 to get rid of Patty hodet who spent time in Melbourne While receiving cancer treatment Deni denied that any such conversation took place and

denied knowing Roberts stating I never ever ever paid anyone to bump Patty off I swear on my mother and father's grave I don't know him and I never said that notably hodet struggled to explain to investigators how $30,000 of cash she kept in a freezer had decreased to 7,000 by the time they found it leading to some suspicions that she had paid somebody off meanwhile a Truck driver named Michael panqui told the court that he believed Roberts had been involved with another death that had occurred back in 2001 however investigators have been unable to find

corroborating evidence for the claim in 2005 another man was arrested and convicted of the 2001 murder to this day the remains of Paddy and Kelly have never been found there has been no further progress in the case and it's unclear what became of the two on the Night of their disappearance Fran hodet returned to Lara in late 2022 following her cancer treatment her grandson Brent Celia currently runs her tea house and has spoken about the way his grandmother was treated following The Disappearance speaking with ABC News he stated there's been a world of abuse as

people drive past the house also phone calls people have called her and said stuff to her there's been vandalism all over the shop people have painted over signs that I Repainted over and rubbish gets thrown and stuff goes missing from under the house he noted that much of the mistreatment came from Outsiders not LMA residence the way she has to live now and seclude herself is making her feel lonely and depressed and emotionally in a bad way around this same time the Northern Territory Public Trustee announced that it intended to administer Patty's estate meaning it

could be sold off Celia said if it gets Sold and fixed up then it won't be that that place anymore since Patty's disappearance two residents have died Barry sharp the owner of the pub and Bill hodet Fran's ex-husband Fran for her part has stated that Lara is a better place without Patty but continues to insist that she is not responsible for his disappearance she has though admitted to having her own suspicions about Owen ly who has never been charged with Patty's murder due to a lack of Evidence most notably a lack of a body she

claimed that his behavior following The Disappearance led her to sack him as her Gardener hitz told Digital Spy I don't like to blame somebody for something they didn't do but I was worried because Owen said to me something's going to happen also when they were searching across the road he said to me I thought they came for me I didn't say nothing to him but I thought oh my God why would he say that I just Put two and two together and that's why I sacked him and told him to go hitz told the Washington

post that she wasn't sorry Patty was gone and that his disappearance had done some good for the town stating well it's put Lara on the map hasn't it basan Ada on July 9th 1975 33-year-old basan Ada a Dutch conceptual and performance artist and photographer set off from Cape card Massachusetts in a 13t modified pocket Cruiser named ocean wave Baran aimed to singlehandedly cross the North Atlantic from west to east if he succeeded his boat would be the smallest to cross the Atlantic he believed the journey which he had been carefully planning for months would take

him around 2 and a half months he planned to reach Falmouth England and from there he would travel to the Netherlands for an exhibition of his work not only did he aim to check Off a sailing goal but his voyage would also be part of an art project he was working on which he named in search of the miraculous a reference to a book of the same name by P D ensky his wife Mary Sue Anderson adder in a piece written for the Brooklyn rail in 2022 recalled that baras Yan an enthusiastic sailor had once

sailed from Morocco to California with the owner of a 70-year-old 45 ft wooden catch the two men had endured a hurricane two broken Masts a failed engine and no radio or navigation equipment their extraordinary tale of survival was proven when the US Navy towed the massless catch into San Diego Port before he disembarked on this new Voyage Mary Sue recalled feeling afraid telling Baran that it was too dangerous I don't want to lose you he informed her that you are stuck with me for the next 50 years no ocean can get in the way she

wrote in 2022 the sea was my only competition he trusted me and he Trusted the ocean it would never harm him Mary Sue waited for her husband to come home but he never did on April 18th 1976 around 150 nautical miles from the southwest coast of Ireland the team Manning a Spanish fishing troller stumbled across a small Sailing Boat floating aimlessly across the surface of the sea its bow completely submerged as it drifted vertically the trollers crew subsequently hauled The Craft on board and searched its cabin finding canned Goods sailing equipment and several IDs the

boat was ocean wave and belonged to basian Ada Barnacles attached to the boat's Hull indicated that the craft had been drifting for around 6 months there was no sign of basan and his camera and notebooks which had taken to document the journey were missing Mary Sue soon heard from Interpol who asked her if she was the wife of Bas Yan Ada her details had been found amongst the papers still on board the ocean wave when she was Told that the craft had been found Mary Sue recalled that she numbly listened and asked for details there

was a big hole in the back wall of the cabin which baran's safety lines would have been attached to and the rigging was missing shortly afterwards Mary journeyed to Spain with her husband's brother Eric the the Dutch Embassy then revealed that the ocean wave had vanished it had been stolen from the Boatyard belonging to the trollers Captain Ban's brother Eric An accomplished sailor himself has suggested that the hole in the boat left by the removal of the wall to which Bas Yan's Lifeline would have been attached was likely the result of the fixed point being

ripped out by basan Falling overboard in bad weather conditions Eric reached this conclusion after interviewing people in Spain who saw ocean wave before it went missing still to this day it's unclear what became of basan the ocean wave has never been Located Caz 2 on April 15th 2007 the Cass 2 a 32t catamaran set sail from aliri beach with three men on board all of whom were residents of Perth Western Australia the men included 56-year-old Derek Bon 69-year-old Peter tunstead and 63-year-old James tuned While most of the men were fairly inexperienced Sailors Derek had undertaken

a sailing course and had journeyed several times on the cast 2 prior to April 15th that Day the men planned to head to Townsville Queensland But ultimately wanted to sail the castto around Northern Australia to Western Australia for 2 days there was nothing a miss it wasn't until April 18th that trouble seemed to make itself known when a helicopter spotted the boat a drift near the Great Barrier Reef and reported that the cast 2 was in distress 2 Days Later authorities caught up with the boat and discovered there was nobody on board an Employee at

the Queensland emergency management office reported what they found was a bit strange and that everything was normal there was just no sign of a crew the Queensland Emergency Management Office later noted that the boat was in adequate condition furthermore food and table wear had been laid out a laptop was turned on and sitting undisturbed on a Surface the boat's engine was still running and the radio and GPS were both in full working Order even the life jackets were still in place untouched and the Cass 2's anchor was up the only obvious sign of something having

gone wrong was that the boats sails had been shredded though there was no life raft on board it's unclear if there was one before the men set off the same day the boat was spotted by the helicopter Pilots search and rescue efforts began a Navy aircraft helped in the search as did Bowen voluntary Marine rescue at night an Aircraft with infared abilities was dispatched and the following day a fullscale search and rescue effort was launched despite the efforts of authorities though no sign of the men was found experts noted that it would be very unlikely

that the members of the c 2 crew were alive given how much time had passed since they'd gone into the water on April 21st the search was called off a forensic examination of the Cass 2 was soon carried out though no Evidence was ever found that would indicate Foul Play or third party involvement in a sealed container beneath Derek and Bon's bed they discovered a firearm and ammunition none of which appeared to be missing the boat's GPS revealed that on April 15th the cast 2 was steered Northeast into an area where rough seas and sharp

winds were strengthening and later that day the boats was a drift in early August 2008 an inquest Into The Disappearance Was held led by Queensland State coroner Michael Barnes 27 Witnesses testified and 107 pieces of evidence were submitted no Derek's wife Jennifer was adamant about her husband's habits of putting Safety First Derek had experience with sailing and had been around boats for 25 years he had taken several sailing courses over the years including one shortly before the cast 2 departed and had a qualification in marine radio she and Derek had traveled On various motorboats every

summer and they'd taken the cast 2 out a few times before Derek departed with his friends the men meticulously planned the trip for months allowing themselves 6 to 8 weeks to get back to freemantle noting that they did not want to sail at night for safety reasons the inquest also heard from the cast 2's previous owner who noted that the boat was in good working order and he had helped Derek James and Peter plan their route two Days before the helicopter spotted the cast 2 a drift the skipper of a fishing vessel recalled seeing a

white yacht resembling the cast 2 with a torn sail drifting sideways through a narrow passage near Bowen Gavin Howland the skipper recalled that he came within 50 m of the boat but was unable to see anyone on board though he thought it was strange he admitted that he didn't contact the authorities as it did not occur to him the crew might be in Distress queensland's State coroner Michael Barnes wrote that he cannot be so definitive about the circumstances under which the deaths occurred but he did propose a theory as to what happened to the crew

members of the c 2 on April 15th 2007 he suggested that since a fishing lure was discovered entangled in the port side Rubber and a recovered video recording from the boat that morning showed Peter fishing Peter tried to free the lore and fell overboard James then jumped in after him as he was unable to climb aboard leaving Derek still on the ship when Derek went to drop the sails which he needed to do to turn back for his friends the ship's movements or the wind could have knocked the boom which in turn knocked Derek overboard

in seconds the boat would have been out of their reach and without life jackets the men likely would have struggled in the turbulent sea there have however been several other theories Proposed over the years Townsville authorities noted that the weather worsened just after the cast 2 Departed the sea had been rough and the winds sharp this led to some speculation that the three men had gone overboard due to to the bad conditions but relatives of the men have pushed back against this noting that their fishing lines and laundry were set out when the boat was

found and their life jackets were still stowed suggesting that whatever had Happened had not been something they had been prepared for additionally the items found inside the boats did not bear the signs of bad weather everything inside was neatly placed and had not been moved by the rough Seas it has also been theorized that the men willingly or unwillingly moved on to another boat this is because the castto was discovered with its fenders out suggesting it may have docked with another vessel however Townsville Investigators noted that small boats often left their fenders out at all

times so nothing could be concluded from the fact that the fenders were out at all other theories in the case include a faulty GPS leading them astray the c 2 becoming stuck on a sandb near George point where their last radio message was made a freak wave knocking them overboard or even that the men staged their own disappearances for insurance purposes it is worth noting that this Final theory has no supporting evidence however what exactly happened to the crew of the Cass 2 remains a mystery to this day since the events of April 15th 2007

the boat has been dubbed the ghost yacht and the modern day Mary Celeste Donald curst on October 31st 1968 36-year-old Donald crowhurst set off from tin mouth England to begin his journey as part of the Golden Globe race the event was a Non-Stop single-handed Round theor yacht race and the first of its kind sponsored by the British newspaper the Sunday Times the race was open to anyone skill was not an issue unlike many other races and sailing events at the time which required entrance to demonstrate their abilities before they could be approved for entry the

winner would receive a trophy and £5,000 the equivalent of around 8,000 today at the time of his departure Donald was a father of four a Businessman a member of Bridgewater B Council and an amateur sailor the boat he built for the Golden Globe race was named the tin mouth electron a modified 40ft traran and he remortgaged his home to help pay the costs of building it reportedly this type of boat was not commonly used for the kind of lengthy Journey he'd be embarking on and it was unclear how well it would serve Donald at the

time traran could become slow if overloaded and had difficulty sailing Close to the wind before he disembarked Donald attempted to put together safety devices to help ensure his victory or at least his survival he hoped that he could prove his inventions useful by completing the race and planned to manufacture and sell the devices upon his return to England however he had only a brief period of time to build the boat secure finances and sponsors for the race and finish the equipment as a result most of his safety measures were Left incomplete though he planned to

finish them on Route he never did one experienced sailor who spent a few days with Donald before his departure noted that the tin mouth electron sailed swiftly but could get no closer to the wind than 60° furthermore the vibrations produced by the speed led the screws on Donald's self steering gear to come loose which led to the two men constantly having to fix them almost immediately upon Donald's departure on October 31st he ran into issues the boat sprung a leak he lost some of the screws he'd repeatedly have to fix and had no spares on

board meaning he had to cannibalize other parts of the boats to replace them then his generator broke down over the next few weeks he made considerably less progress in the race than he' intended largely due to a lack of speed he soon began fabricating his positions when making his radio reports often being vague about his whereabouts Though he was meant to be in the Southern Ocean he reportedly moved into the Atlantic Ocean and stopped in South America to make repairs to his boats a violation of the event Rules by December many believed he would be

the winner of the race due to his false reports and the fact that many contestants had already dropped out two months passed and one of the other contestants dropped out while another became the first to complete the race this led Donald and Another contestant Nigel Tetley both in the running for second place at least according to Donald's reports in reality he was nowhere near Nigel who was far ahead of him still Nigel was spurred on by his desire to win second place and he pushed his frail boat further and further before eventually he had to

abandon ship on May 30th 1969 there is some speculation here that Donald was now feeling the weight of the pressure of the race if he looked to have Completed the fastest circumnavigation it would lead his log books to be thoroughly examined by experienced Sailors who would undoubtedly see through his false reports he was last heard from on June 29th while his last log book was dated July 1st his boat the tin mouth electron was found empty on July 10th it is assumed that sometime around July 1st Donald crowhurst fell or stepped overboard and drowned the

boat itself did not indicate as to what may Have happened to him it showed no signs of accident or a rogue wave that could have swept him overboard many including Donald's biographers have concluded that Donald took his own life after suffering some sort of mental breakdown brought on by the stress of the race they theorized that he believed he had two options to complete the race as a fraud and live with the guilt for the rest of his life or lose his house and face Financial ruin and public humiliation if he Admitted to his lies

biographers Nicholas Tomlin and Ron Hall suggested that Donald spiraled into classical paranoia a psychotic disorder in which deluded ideas are built into a complex intricate structure the writings in the last few weeks of his log entries were noted to have become increasingly erratic and irrational meanwhile a clinical psychologist named Jeff Powter speculated that Donald suffered from undiagnosed bipolar disorder which may Have contributed to the Stark mood swings noted in his later log book entries which showed him switching between Manic and depressed episodes on June 24th four Donald began writing in a new log book he

titled philosophy inside it was a 25,000 word manifesto which described how all of mankind could achieve an advanced evolutionary State he called a second generation Cosmic being the log book contained incoherent ramblings Throughout but he wrote that life was a game overseen by Cosmic beings God and the devil who set The Rules by which the game was played however he wrote man could eventually become a second generation Cosmic being himself so he could set the rules of the game personally his final entries dated July 1st include writings such as 10234 cannot see any purpose in

game 10:29 now is revealed the true nature and purpose and power of the game Offense I am what I am and I see the nature of my offense it is finished it is finished it is the mercy many who read these logs believe that Donald had come to peace with himself and his situation by deciding to take his own life while his body has never been found this is the most commonly held theory in the case still it cannot be discounted that Donald fakes his death or met with an accident both theories have also been

suggested over the years Simon curst one Of Donald's Sons believed that part of the appeal of his father's story which has since inspired plays films books and even an opera lies in the fact that he was one lone man going out into the world against the brutal elements of the sea accompanied by nothing but a radio and a few log books it is a story that people remember and that's a consolation it's a story that tells you something about what it means to be human Olive Walker at about 6:45 p.m. on the evening of May

15th 1970 18-year-old Olive Walker left her home on Leslie streets in the city of rarua New Zealand she planned to visit her sister so that she could babysit her children for her that night and although she was meant to head to malfroy Road she was last seen at what was then the odian theater on pukaki streets at 7:50 p.m. Olive Sister Mary waited for her youngest sibling to turn up but she never did it wasn't Until the following morning that she caught wind that a body had been found at 11:30 the previous night a group

of teenagers had discovered Olive's body she had been beaten sexually assaulted and dumped at the side of the road the estimated time of the murder was around 900 p.m. investigators believe that the 18-year-old was picked up by someone who attacked her before leaving her body by the highway Olive's horrific murder however has never been solved though There have been several Suspects over the years with police looking at as many as 100 potential suspects in 2007 the police confirmed that one such suspect was a sex offender who was currently Behind Bars his name came up in

the investigation after detectives worked with Australian psychic Dan Weber to produce an e fit of the suspect and upon looking into his background and criminal history they deemed it possible that the man had been responsible for Olive's Rape and murder though investigators planned to try and Link the suspect to the case via DNA they noted that a lack of time and resources was hindering the case a more recent article from the New Zealand Herald in 2018 noted that this suspect was now out of jail and still residing in the rotar Rua area authorities stated there

is no immediate plan to interview him without substantial information to put to him to this day it is still unknown who this Man is and if he is responsible for the crime and though in 2018 investigators were looking for forensic evidence to move the case forward it has remained at a standstill there has been no progress in Olive's case in recent years and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much information about the initial investigation online Olive was described as a shy girl with few friends and was just one of 11 siblings her father died in

1982 at the age of 76 her older Sister Mary blamed his death death on Olive's murder noting that he was never the same after she was killed she stated the pressure and stress that killed him Mary added that she's not entirely sure she wants to know what happened the night that her sister was killed due to how much it would hurt to rake it all up again she told the New Zealand Herald in 2005 it doesn't make me feel good that no one has been caught for it but if it happens it happens I'm sure

everyone Would like to see Justice done but it's been 35 years Olive's case is still unsolved if you have information about her murder you can contact Crim Stoppers at 0800 555111 or call the rotor Ru police station on 07 34899 Cheyenne Vasquez on April 8th 2002 the body of 14-year-old cheyen skz was discovered partially submerged in a draining pond in Boise Idaho she had gone missing in January that year cheyan was last seen alive on January 16th at around 900 p.m. when she was spotted at a convenience store off the corner of Maple Grove and

oval and roads in Boise reportedly a man named Romero Granado had dropped her off there at this time leaving her to make her own way home according to news articles Shan had been babysitting for Granada a family friend in his 30s since she was 13 but the situation was not ideal for her as Granado reportedly pled Cheyenne with alcohol and behaved inappropriately towards her despite Cheyenne's failure to return home on the night of January 16th she was not reported missing until 3 weeks later in early February her grandmother claimed she didn't report The 14-year-old's Disappearance

because she believed she was either staying with a friend or had gone to see her mother who was residing in the city of NAA Idaho at the time when she was finally listed as missing However it seemed that law enforcement was uninterested in chasing down leads she was dismissed as a runaway and the investigation into her disappearance was virtually non-existent on April 8th employees of a gardening company working at Eagle Business Park in the area where she was last seen discovered Cheyenne's body she was identified a few days after she was found though she'd been

there since January her body hadn't been noticed due To overgrowth as the area was not maintained during the winter she was wearing only a bra and a pair of unzipped genes that had been pulled down around her hips though many reports note that the cause of death couldn't be found due to the state of the body Cheyenne was described as being swollen and bruised around her mouth and one eye leading investigators to treat her death as suspicious and she had a blood alcohol level Of11 at the scene another item of clo clothing was recovered a

sweatshirt that was soon determined to belong to Romero Granado shortly afterwards he became investigators number one suspect in 2003 Granado admitted that he had raped Cheyenne earlier on the day she went missing when authorities found DNA evidence in his truck he also confessed to giving her alcohol however he denied being involved with the murder he was charged and convicted of lewd conduct With a minor and at his sentencing the judge ruled that he'd be required to serve at least 8 years before he'd be eligible for parole they also noted that Granado had taken advantage of

shyan and her unstable home life using the sadness of her life to Foster an inappropriate relationship with her his defense attorney meanwhile argued that Granado a father of five was simply a family man who'd got himself into a giant pickle Granado made numerous attempts to lessen His sentence but was never successful in 2014 he was denied parole once more and it was ruled that he would no longer have the right to an automatic appeal for parole every 2 years 19 relatives and Friends sent letters to the parole board before a decision was reached each and

every one detailing how Cheyenne was vulnerable and Granado prayed on that vulnerability nine members of her family attended the hearing her aunt Rachel stated we miss her every day we have so Many questions yet so little answers Cheyenne's case is still unsolved if you have any information about her case you can call Crimestoppers at 208 343 2677 Kelly Cook on April 22nd 1981 at around 8:20 a.m. 15-year-old Kelly Cook was getting organized for school when her morning rituals were interrupted by a phone call Kelly a resident of standard Alberta Canada was the oldest of three

children a popular and academically skilled Student and well known in the local area as a reliable babysitter so when the caller that morning offered her a babysitting job she didn't immediately say no the problem with the phone call was that the man on the other end of the line was not someone Kelly had babysat for before nor had she ever met him Bill Christenson as he himself claimed that he needed her to babysit for him between 8:30 and midnight that night he noted that he'd received her number from Another babysitter who declined the job because

she was busy and he had asked if she could recommend some other sitters understandably Kelly's family were concerned about the job and advised her to not immediately take it as they had no idea who Bill Christenson was her mother suggested that she ask around at school to see if anyone else knew this man or had Babys sat for him before before if people knew him she could accept the job but if not she would Decline Kelly agreed to this idea and set off to school with the plan in mind however it wasn't long before another

issue arose Christenson was a fairly common surname in standard and it led the 15-year-old to be given mixed information some people had heard of him and heard nothing bad but still it was hard to say whether or not this man was the same man despite the uncertainty of the situation Kelly appeared to be reassured by her peers responses and so She let her mother know that people at school knew him her mother subsequently allowed her to accept the job that night at 11:30 p.m. A car pulled up outside Kelly's home she said goodbye to her

parents and her siblings before leaving the property and climbing into the passenger side of the vehicle she promised her mother she would call as soon as she made it safely to Bill's house but that call never came hours passed and Kelly's parents grew more and More concerned at 12:30 a.m. they contacted the police to explain the situation and reports of their child missing law enforcement soon began extensively searching for Kelly Vehicles were stopped the occupants questions Woods ditches Barns and Fields were all combed through and officers were dispatched to check out Kelly's regular haunts but

there was no trace of the 15-year-old days gave way to weeks and weeks on unfolded into months nobody saw Kelly nobody heard from her nobody knew if she was alive or dead it wasn't until June 28th just over 2 months later that the Cook family and the town of standard received an answer that day a group of teenagers were out exploring the countryside when while near chin Lake a reservoir around 2 and 1/2 hours from Kelly's home they discovered a body on the shoreline a girl was lying face down fully clothed Bound by ropes and

weighed down by cinder blocks investigators used Dentals to identify her due to the body being badly decomposed this was 15-year-old Kelly Cook missing since April 22nd reports indicated there was no sexual assault and that she died of asphixiation shortly after Kelly's Body turned up law enforcement determined that this murder had been planned for several months before it came to fruition it was not a spur of the- moment crime and had been carefully planned the only suspect in the case was Bill Christensen the man who called Kelly and picked her up on the night of her

disappearance he is described by Kelly's family as being around 30 to 45 years old weighing 180 lb and standing at around 5' 10 he had weathered tanned skin short dark hair a nose with a large bridge and a round face the family added that he looked unattractive notably when this description was released of Kelly's killer a local petrol station owner contacted investigators to let them know That someone of a similar appearance had been in his store the day of Kelly's disappearance and had asked to use his phone the man according to the owner was around

5'9 with black curly hair and tan skin he reportedly had an unpleasant attitude and dialed a local number the petrol station owner listened in on the call which pertained to babysitting however this man was never identified and questioned it's still unclear if he is the same man who picked up Kelly on The night of her disappearance eerily still a report claims that shortly after Kelly's death when her body was at a funeral home in Calgary on July 2nd an unidentified man demanded to see her body claiming to know the family he was denied however and

eventually left detectives noted that the whereabouts of Kell body at the time were not common knowledge it's unclear how he knew she was there it's also unknown who this man was but L enforcement believes that he May have been Kelly's killer throughout the investigation over 2,000 possible suspects were looked into by the police and although the case remains active there are still no answers for Kelly's family her younger sister Mani told Global News it's just life now it's just what we've had to learn to live with there's no Acceptance in it there's no closure if

you want to use that word she added that after so long of not knowing the idea of finally having answers is Just as terrifying as never having them at all if it all changed tomorrow and we had those answers I don't know if any of us are prepared for that Justice makes that individual accountable but it doesn't bring her home it doesn't change it chillingly police believe that over the years they have likely encountered and spoken with Kelly's killer at least once but they are no closer to identifying him today than they were in 1981

a $100,000 reward is being offered by the village of standard for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Kelly's killer if you have information about Kelly's case you can contact the serious crimes Branch South airry at 403 42049 or alternatively you can call Crim Stoppers at 1 18002 222 8477 Diane and Mark Yoli 7-year-old Diane Moon Yoli and her half brother 2-year-old Mark Eugene Yoli were last seen at around 3:15 on the Afternoon of September 13th 1962 the two children were on their way to the playground at Camp lour a military base in North

Carolina where their father was stationed given that this occurred in the early 1960s the par parents of Mark and Diane were not immediately alarmed when they didn't come home they were known to be adventurous children who often wandered off one time they were even found sleeping beneath a tree but as the day Turned into night and the sky grew dark their parents grew concerned from their home in the 700 block of Butler Drive they set off looking for their children and alerting the base and authorities to The Disappearance a massive search was soon launched with

over 1,000 Marines joining in with the efforts over the next few days the area of Camp lejour was extensively combed through but no evidence of the children was found it seemed as if they had Disappeared Into Thin Air police originally theorized that the pair had fallen into the swamp bordering the base but no sign of the children was recovered for decades the case lay dormant it wasn't until 1992 that a break came when a woman named margerie hunt contacted enlo County Sheriff Ed Brown and told him that she knew what had become of the children

Ed Brown had grown up in the area he was a teenager in high school when Mark and Diane Disappeared he recalled that back then he had a girlfriend who lived next door to a couple named Henry and margerie hunt the pair were the subject of much gossip they lived off base about 13 miles from the playground where Mark and Diane vanished speaking with the national Center for missing and exploited children Ed remembered my girlfriend's family would always talk about about the suspicious things they would see going over on the Hunt's Property at the time my

girlfriend's family had a German shepherd and whenever the dog would get out of the yard he would immediately run over to the Hunt's property and start sniffing around areas of their crawl space margerie hunt unfortunately died before she could be questioned by law enforcement but on her deathbed she had told her daughter what her ex-husband Henry had told her at the time Henry who died one year earlier at the age of 85 Was a convicted child molester and is the only suspect in the case Marjorie claimed that at the time of the children's disappearance he

had told her he was responsible for the vanishing and their subsequent deaths Hunt's story goes something like this on the day of The Disappearance he collected the children from the park and took them fishing on his boat while out on the water two-year-old Mark toppled over and fell in subsequently drowning meanwhile Panicked Hunt killed killed Diane and recovered Mark's Body he then navigated to a rock quarry in meville North Carolina where he disposed of the bodies due to his previous experiences with the hunt family namely his former girlfriend's dogs obsession with the homes crawl space

and the numerous rumors floating around town about the couple Sheriff Ed Brown was convinced that instead of leaving the bodies in the Quarry Henry hunt had brought the Corpses home and buried them on his property it wasn't until some years later however in 2011 that any progress was made on this front a developer eventually purchased the land and was informed of the story by Ed who asked him to remain Vigilant in case he came across any evidence during Redevelopment the developer did as Ed asked while demolishing the home the team working on the property discovered

a shovel Jawbone two smaller bones and a child-sized pink Vinyl belt underneath the floorboards while the bones were later found to be animal rather than human the owner of the pink belt has never been established all this time later Brown continues to suspect that hunt was responsible for the disappearances of Diane and Mark noting you don't leave two children that can talk and walk and run and play with a bad memory in their mind that they could go tell someone about later still despite the suspicions and the deathbed Confession the case remains unsolved and Mark

and Dian have never been located Diane and Mark were last seen on their way to the playground at Camp Lan a military base in North Carolina at around 3:15 on the afternoon of September 13th 1962 Diane was 7 years old at the time and is described as a white female with blonde hair and blue eyes she was 3' 11 and weighed 79b at the time of her disappearance she was last seen wearing A white or printed blouse with white sleeves and a pair pair of shorts if she is still alive she will be 68 her

half brother Mark was two at the time and is described as a white male with dark brown hair and weighed 303 when he vanished on the day he disappeared he was wearing a t-shirt and brown shorts he will be 63 if he is still alive if you have any information about The Disappearance of the siblings you can contact the enow County Sheriff's Office At 1 1910 455 3113 or alternatively you can call the national Center for missing and exploited children at 1 1800 843 5678 Sarah Avon 6-year-old Sarah Elizabeth Avon was last seen with her

younger sister on the corner of Richard streets in Joliet Illinois on July 21st 1981 the two girl met with friends there but after Sarah argued with another child she walked away from the group and crossed over to The other side of the street not long afterwards she vanished from View and has never been seen again at 9:00 that evening her family reported her missing her parents later noted that they'd last seen her around 8:20 p.m. old newspaper reports from the time note that the search for Sarah lasted into the following day involving volunteers neighbors and

police officers while volunteer firefighters manned five boats and dragged a quarry near Richard Streets and Interstate 80 Sarah's mother recalled that her daughter knows a lot of people in this area that I don't adding that she regularly went to church took swimming lessons played football and even practiced ballet she stated I've been racking my brain trying to remember who she might trust she is very perceptive of people but despite the efforts of police locals and Sarah's family no trace of the six-year-old was ever found for over a decade the case Lay dormant then in January

1993 a former neighbor of the Avon family Ernest Wilson senior died in Arkansas shortly afterwards his nephew Robert taded approached the police with information he claimed that his uncle had made a deathbed Revelation about Sarah's disappearance though Wilson had been unable to speak he drew a triangular shape on a piece of paper before adding a circle inside it Wilson's family members took this Triangle to represent the similarly shaped lot he had lived on back in 1981 and theorized that the circle was the spot where Sarah's body was buried Robert went on to explain that his

cousin Wilson's son had implicated himself and another boy in Sarah's death in 1981 the cousin was 15 years old and described as mentally Disturbed he admitted that he had molested the six-year-old and she was killed inside their home Robert told the Tribune in May 1993 he said he molested Sarah but was upstairs when she was murdered there was no doubt in my mind at that time that he had done it because everything fit the only question was where was the body Robert suspected that his uncle had covered up the incident by burying Sarah's body on

their property a further witness corroborated this idea by stating that in 1981 they had seen Wilson digging a hole in his garden the hole was deep up to Wilson's chest and When asked why he was digging Wilson claimed that he was going to move some of his flowers around notably this same witness saw something else odd sometime later when Wilson using his bulldozer began moving mounds of dirt near Hickory Creek and knocking down trees he later moved his family's pool down there after all this information was revealed to the police they began digging up the

empty lot on Miller Avenue that had belonged to Wilson in 1981 after a few days of Extensive searches however they recovered no evidence and the event was called off the witness who had seen Wilson digging a hole in his garden at the time of The Disappearance told investigators that he believed they weren't digging deep enough although they reportedly paid no mind to his complaints one official did however later agree that Laur enforcement had not searched a big enough area of the property meaning the possibility that Sarah's remains are still there cannot be ruled out one

other person of interest in the case is an individual named William Billy Ren 10 years before The Disappearance he was convicted of aggravated battery against a 19-month-old child and served over three years behind bars before being released in 1975 in 1981 he was residing in the 200 block of reichman streets with his mother just minutes away from Sarah's Home furthermore he was her father's cousin he knew Sarah and regularly visited her house Ren died in 2010 and while his former home was searched and excavated in 2019 9 years after his death no evidence of Sarah

was recovered still rumors of Ren's involvement persist even today Sarah's old babysitter recalled Billy Ren was creepy really really scary everyone was kind of thinking it was Billy she also remember remember that one of her own children Would later become terrified of delivering newspapers or collecting payments from Ren another Local woman described him as a creep noting that when she did her paper round as a child he would say inappropriate things to me and I was scared to death of him readen was questioned at the time of Sarah's disappearance and a cursory search of his

home was carried out but nothing connecting him to the case was found though no evidence ever linked Ren to Sarah's disappearance locals remain convinced he is the culprit with Sarah's former babysitter stating we're pretty certain it was Billy the kids were all uncomfortable with him anybody that knew them pretty much thought it was Billy still the case remains unsolved Sarah Elizabeth Avon was just six when she vanished from Richard streets in Joliet Illinois on July 21st 1981 she is described as a white female with blonde hair and brown eyes and at the time of Her

disappearance she was 4T tall and weighed £75 when she was last seen she was wearing a Joliet District football t-shirt blue joggers with red and white stripes and blue trainers with a white stripe if she is still alive she will be 48 years old if you have any information about Sarah's case you can contact Will County Sheriff's Office at 1815 727 8574 Gina Brooks 13-year-old Gina Dawn Brooks was Last seen on August 5th 1989 in Fredericktown Missouri that evening at around 10:00 after watching her brother play in a baseball game she headed back home along

Marshall Street upon arriving she said good night to her mother who was going to bed Gina then decided she wanted to go out for a cycle and told her brother as much she left the family home again at around 10:30 p.m. and rode Ro through the town Witnesses would later report that she was spotted near First Street Baptist Church where the driver of an old beat up station wagon described as being either light gray green or blue in color and bearing Missouri license plates attempted to speak with her Gina however kept on riding her bike

she turned the corner onto High Street where she stopped to speak with her boyfriend before long though the vehicle appeared again shortly afterwards there was a scream overheard by several witnesses including Her boyfriend and the car hastily drove off Gina was gone taken off the street by an unidentified perpetrator all that was left was her bike abandoned on the pavement she was just five blocks from home her parents reported her missing at around 2: a.m. when her mother awoke and found Gina missing from her bed before long Lieutenant Keith despain who' found a bicycle not

far from First Street Baptist Church put the pieces together the bike belonged to the now missing 13-year-old by the time the morning came law enforcement was combing through the town City Country state and federal officials worked together to try and find any evidence of the young girl Flyers were distributed posters were blue tacked up in shops and yellow ribbons were draped across trees locals were shocked by the incident and volunteers helped search for Clues though they failed to find anything of use years passed before investigating Discovered the name Nathan Dany Williams Williams had been an

informant on a case in 1975 where he claimed to know who had murdered Laura dwy who had been brutally stabbed in her apartment he had been 14 at the time and pointed the finger at one of his friends however by 1989 Williams had racked up quite the criminal history having been convicted for the rape of a 13-year-old girl and later the rape of a 10-year-old Investigators who looked further into William were able to tie him to evidence from the Laura dwy case as well as several other unsolved crimes tracing Williams movements detectives found that the

assault of the 10-year-old girl had occurred just one month after The Disappearance of Gina Brooks More interestingly they discovered that William's brother had a close friend who lived near Gina and Williams and was known to frequent the area he was Eventually identified by a witness as the man in the back of the station wagon with Gina on the night she went missing Witnesses would also go on to identify Bryant Squires as the driver of the vehicle he reportedly made a deathbed confession to two nurses implicating himself and Williams in Gina's abduction and murder along with

several other crimes Squires was Williams's best friend and died of cancer in 1996 according to his confession Williams held Gina in the back seat and took her life a third person was also reported reportedly involved with Gina's disappearance a man named Timothy Bell who would later be charged with second deegree murder after admitting he had seen Williams kill the 13-year-old however Bell's stories were prone to change and his shifting details led to inconsistent stories as a result the murder charges were dropped and he was charged instead with lying to the FBI When he failed to

turn up Gina's remains repeatedly giving them locations and directions none of which panned out at one point he claimed the body was in an abandoned meat freezer on his father's 96 acre property but despite numerous searches over the years no remains have ever been recovered Bello plad guilty to this charge and was given 30 months in prison in 1990 he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl and given 5 years behind Bars as of 2022 he was still residing in Frederick town but authorities have labeled him as unstable and not reliable in 1998 9

years after Gina went missing Williams was charged with her murder hope for closure and Justice was shortlived though in 2003 the charge was dropped for fear of the possibility of Double Jeopardy the prosecuting attorney at the time Dwight Robbins stated I am of the firm opinion that the state should not proceed to trial and risk the Possibility of acquit thereby losing any chance of retrying the case should further Evidence become available the offense alleged is so egregious and the consequences of convictions so great that the prosecution should proceed only when the evidence is sufficient to

ensure the likelihood of conviction authorities believe Williams won't confess as a first-degree murder charge could mean he'd faced the death penalty they believe he is the man who killed Gina after abducting her in 1989 but there is speculation that he won't admit to his part in the crime without some kind of plea deal investigators have also named Williams as a suspect in The Disappearance of 12-year-old Tammy Rose sdam who was last seen at a Youth Shelter in St Charles Missouri on August 1st 1979 they suspect he is connected to further crimes he remains in prison

and will not be eligible for parole until 20139 the case is still unsolved Gina Dawn Brooks was last seen on August 5th 1989 in Fredericktown Missouri when she was approached by a beat up looking station wagon with Missouri license plates the vehicle was possibly light gray green or blue in color Gina was 13 at the time of her disappearance and is described as a white female with blonde hair and green eyes she has several white scars on the shin of her left leg at the time of her disappearance she was 5T tall and weighed 108

lb she was wearing a a blue striped top white shorts and trainers if she is still alive she will be 48 years old if you have any information about Gina's case you can contact the Madison County Sheriff's Office at 573 783 2234 or call Crim Stoppers anonymously at 866371 8477 vanito gums in November of 2020 the Department Of Justice announced that a former Georgia police officer named vanito gums was convicted on gang related charges those who knew gums were shocked 28-year-old gums was working as a deal County police officer when it emerged he had claimed

to be a Hitman for the Gangster Disciples a us gang with roots in Chicago Illinois investigators alleged that he had relayed sensitive law information to gang members and even provided weapons to them the Gangster Disciples criminal group dates back to the 1970s and is described by law enforcement as being highly structured it reportedly follows a leadership hierarchy called the positions of authority furthermore the gang follows a set of rules with the most important being silence and secrecy it disallows its members from cooperating with law enforcement and its rules are taken so seriously that anyone who

disobeys can be punished by death between 2011 and 2014 the group was responsible for 24 shootings and 12 murders gums was barely out of high school when he signed up to join the military planning to help support his pregnant girlfriend by serving in the Middle East he was just 20 when he was sent overseas where he brought supplies to troops on the front lines according to his mother Janelle gums engaged in firefights and did things he didn't want to do adding that these things would haunt him when he Came home in 2013 back home in

the US he joined the Dalal County Police Department though he was known to be struggling greatly with his mental health his mother claimed that before his arrest he wasn't eating or sleeping and had turned to drink to help him manage his mental anguish though his loved ones encouraged him to reach out for help by the time he scheduled an appointment with the Department of Veterans Affairs it was too late He was arrested the day before his meeting while investigating gums prosecutors concluded that the 28- year-old had joined or remained as part of the gang while

knowing and agreeing that the gang engaged in Murder furthermore in 2015 he sent a text message that read I am a GD Hitman during this time gums was being monitored by the FBI which had suspicions that he was involved with the Gangster Disciples and while Investigators believed that GD stood for the gang name as it was commonly abbreviated gums argued that GD meant godamn and told his attorney this he also added that he was referring to his time in the military his lawyer concluded that he was likely trying to impress the woman who he'd sent

the message to in 2019 gums was accused of assaulting a man while on duty back in 2015 he reportedly misu the man for a rival gang member the victim claimed The victim's attorney stated at the time he assaulted my client he was telling my client he was a Gangster Disciple all I know is he assaulted my clients broke his jaw and caused about $777,000 in medical bills all while he's handcuffed the FBI also noted that they recorded phone conversations gums had with the Georgia Gangster Disciples Chief inforcer a man named Kevin Clayton whom he had

befriended shortly after joining the force the doj added on later Calls the chief enforcer noted that he had Gangster Disciples police officers at his disposal some of the information gums passed to Clayton included information about a type of crime police were investigating at one point and advice that he should avoid a specific bar that the police officers intended on raiding gums was also accused of having cocaine in his police patrol car and he resigned from his position following this complaint gums was sentenced to 15 Years years in prison for racketeering conspiracy involving murder he will

subsequently face 5 years of supervised release us attorney bong Pac said of this case his Brazen disregard for his sworn Duty as a police officer betrayal of the police's trust and disregard for human life warrants the significant sentence he received in this case Jack Hudson in the city of Yuma Arizona on July 4th 1995 dispatchers were surprised To receive a call from Yuma Police lieutenants Dan Elkins in a frenzied voice the police officer could be heard saying hurry up hurry he's shooting guns he's firing rounds hurry up but just moments later Dan Elkins would be

shot dead the man he'd been referring to on the phone was the Yuma County Sheriff's deputy Jack Hudson at the time Jack Hudson Dan Elkins and Mike Crow a Department of Public Safety Sergeant were all parts of a Narcotics task force And had been working Undercover the force consisted of 22 members from local state and federal law enforcement agencies and was designed to investigate drug activity in the Yuma area reportedly on the days leading up to the July 4th shooting the officers had noticed that key evidence was missing from their office so they decided to

install a video camera to attempt to capture whoever was was carrying out the thefts then on July 4th Dan Elkins Mike Crow and evidence custodian Jim aarts headed to the task force office to find they' captured one of their own Hudson on the installed CCTV furthermore they found that the safes had been broken into and offices had been ransacked the trio as they went to leave the building then ran into Jack Hudson who without warning began firing a 9mm weapon the other three officers were not armed and though they tried to get help it didn't

arrive on time Mike And Dan died at the scene a art managed to escape when Hudson's gun jammed in reports Hudson is described as being mentally unwell with Dan Elkins claiming on his call to emergency services that his colleague had gone 918 a Yuma PD radio code meaning mentally unstable but it's unclear what his exact motive was 37-year-old Hudson was arrested outside of the building and held in Li a $15.5 million bail he had attempted to flee the scene but was arrested swiftly three Guns and a set of evidence room keys were discovered in Hudson's

vehicle while a further 40 guns were found in his home 25 of which had been lifted from the task force evidence room other items seized from the deputy included drug paraphernalia $2,700 in cash illegal substances radios binoculars multiple phones cassette tapes and a US Customs badge Hudson was convicted of murder in 1997 and sentenced to Life Behind Bars reportedly For years after the shooting he claimed he couldn't remember anything he had done as he was high on drugs at the time Hudson died of natural causes in October 2017 aged 59 while still in prison Tom

Coleman in 1999 Tom Coleman was awarded the Texas Department of Public safety's outstanding Lawman of the Year between January 1998 and July 1999 in a small Texan town named Tulia Coleman had been operating undercover as part of a drugs Task force and during his time he arrested 46 people who would later be convicted on felony drug charges notably 39 of these victims were black all of them plad guilty and received sentences of up to 90 years the first to go to trial was a man named Joe Moore Joe was touted as tulia's Kingpin but lived

in a shack and drove an ancient sedan that was barely held together Joe who' insisted that he'd never sold cocaine to Coleman maintained his innocence Throughout the trial Colman would later become well known for his distinct lack of evidence he never wore a wire and never recorded his exchanges with the supposed drug dealers he didn't even have a notebook in which to record interactions instead he scribbled names and dates on his leg more interestingly still those who' been arrested by Coleman had no drugs drug paraphernalia weapons or unusual amounts of money in their homes when

searched in all cases The state had no physical or corroborating evidence it was essentially Coleman's word against the defendant Joe Moore was accused of delivering cocaine to Coleman within 1,000 ft of a school no less while he'd been convicted of two felonies in his youth his criminal record was otherwise minimal he believed that the justice system would see him right and continued to protest his innocence throughout the ordeal Unfortunately a mostly white jury found Joe guilty he was sentenced to 99 years behind bars locals and the media celebrated the conviction Coleman they believed was taking

out the garbage and ridding the streets of so-called scumbags he was seen as a local hero month after month many Tulia residents watched in relief as one alleged criminal after another was put away even firsttime offenders like 22-year-old Freddy brookin weren't let off lightly Freddy was charged with one count of delivery and given 27 years behind bars despite like Joe Moore there being no evidence only Coleman's word but Coleman was far from a perfect witness he reportedly got dates and times wrong frequently and eventually he was seen as suspicious when his victims were able to

produce solid Alibi proving that they were nowhere near Coleman when he said they were one man was at work another woman accused of dealing cocaine was Found to be in Oklahoma on the day of her interaction with the undercover cop the prosecutor however tried to maintain credibility for themselves and for Coleman by subtly dropping cases that were causing them issues some locals began to see through Coleman they found him dubious but they needed proof a Rancher named Gary Gardner and Reverend Alan Bean decided that they would be the ones to search for answers they couldn't

fathom how a town of 5,000 people Contained 46 drug dealers who were they selling to before long out iders journalists and organizations such as the National Association for the advancement of colored people began to take note of the inconsistencies in Coleman's investigations a criminal attorney named Jeff Blackburn also turned his attention to the strange case and soon discovered that Coleman was not the lone Texas Ranger fighting the bad guys that he' painted himself out to be It was soon revealed that Coleman was a racist often dropping slurs in front of colleagues although he insisted Ed

that despite the large number of black Americans he had arrested race had nothing to do with it it also came to light that Coleman when he became employed by swisser County as a deputy was under indictment for stealing $6,700 from Cochran County Merchants where he had previously been employed as a sheriff he was also fired in Ellis County after he was accused of sexual harassment lawyer Jeff Blackburn also filed appeals on behalf of convicted Tulia residents adding to the disintegration of Coleman's reputation the deputy was finally indicted on perjury charges and was also set to

face a trial of his own 35 of the 38 victims sent to prison were pardoned by the governor in 2003 and 5.9 million was doled out as part of a settlement Joe Moore was paid over $250,000 for his ordeal he eventually purchased a pig farm with the help of a retired preacher and a former real estate agent before dying of a heart attack in 2008 meanwhile Tom Coleman was put on trial for perjury he was found guilty and received 10 years of probation but no jail time one article notes that he still stands by his

stories claiming quote they were pissed off at me because all the blacks went to jail and I was the cause of all this Misery well I wouldn't have been the cause of all this misery if they hadn't sold me dope I'm not an angel I'll own up to anything I didn't do right but I'll sure as hell not own up to anything I didn't do Patrick McDermot Patrick Kim McDermot was born in Saul South Korea in September 1956 he was quickly put up for adoption following his birth and taken in by an American family when

he was just 2 years Old as an adult Patrick began working as a cameraman in 1992 he married bet Neer an actress known for her roles in 80s and 90s TV shows such as Robocop and 21 Jump Street however the union was shortlived in 1994 the pair began proceedings for divorce later following his disappearance many of the issues surrounding their divorce Patrick's financial status and his issues as a father came to light at the time of the couple's 1994 divorce the father of one Owed $800 a month in child support and in April 2005 He

was ordered to make all outstanding payments furthermore in 2000 he filed for bankruptcy while owing around $31,000 to creditors it was also noted that in 2002 IET and Patrick had fought over visitation rights with IET stating in a petition that her ex-husband had a lack of parenting skills often encouraging their son to play hockey adding that he also had issues Controlling his temper shortly after his divorce Patrick began dating 70s pop star and Greece actress Olivia Newton John their relationship is largely described as being on and off and continued for around 9 years until Patrick

disappeared in the summer of 2005 on June 30th Patrick vanished from a fishing charter boats near San Pedro Los Angeles the boat was named freedom and had left the arena for a 22-hour overnight fishing trip Patrick often Participated in overnight fishing trips he was one of 23 passengers and crew aboard the boats and had decided to take the trip alone reportedly no headcount was carried out when the passengers disembarked at the end of the trip but staff found his belongings including his car keys passport and wallet Left Behind investigators would later discover his car still

near the marina where it had been left the previous PR day though Patrick's belongings had been found on Board the staff did not consider the possibility that something had happened to the 48- year-old instead believing the items had simply been forgotten about and left behind they were subsequently placed with Lost Property it wasn't until July 6th 2005 one week after the trip that his family noticed his absence when he didn't turn up to a pre-arranged event and even then a further 5 days passed before he was reported missing The Disappearance of Patrick best known until

this point for his relationship with Olivia Newton John wasn't reported on by the media until around a month later though Patrick's disappearance was investigated an inquiry by the Coast Guard investigative service was closed on September 15th 2006 just over one year after he vanished the inquiry quote did not find any evidence of criminal action suicide accident or hoax in The Disappearance of McDermot while a separate investigation Was carried out by the US Coast Guard it appeared to find nothing of note at the time of the case's closure in 2008 both investigations simply concluded that Patrick

had been lost at sea in the years since Patrick went missing there have been numerous rumors and theories as to what became of him the case was featured on prominent True Crime shows and news networks including America's Most Wanted and dat line NBC investiga from the latter headed by private Investigator Philip kleene went to Mexico in search of Patrick under the belief that he was hiding out there having faked his death to get out of financial difficulties they claimed that he owed around $88,000 to his ex-wife for child support and even created a fake website

which logged and mapped visitors data they hoped this website could be used to lure in and trap Patrick they noted that there had been over 20 sightings of Patrick in Mexico And S Central America at the time of their inquiry then in April 2009 Klein and his team claimed that they had successfully located Patrick and that he was living in Mexico under the name Pat Kim in Puerto valat they added that they had been contacted by a representative of his and that they had deemed the representative to be credible notably you may recognize the name

Philip Clin from one of our other videos three Eerie Missing 411 cases that will leave you Scratching for answers in which we featured the case of Dior K Jr a toddler who vanished from Idaho in 2015 Philip Klein was hired to work on dior's case but later left the investigation before being rehired he has a poor reputation with several accusations of harassment against him and he has had several defamation lawsuits brought against him too Patrick's ex-wife IET took issue with Klein's involvement in the case in March 2012 she wrote to Jeff Bezos who Was still

Amazon's CEO at the time and asked him to stop promoting Klein's book claiming that kleene was a quote well-known serial liar who was simply looking to be famous at the expense of an unfortunate tragedy in our lives she added that while kleene repeatedly promised he could prove her ex-husband was alive neither ofet nor Patrick's family ever received such evidence in 2016 Klein claims were pushed again when he spoke exclusively with Woman's Day Magazine claiming that Patrick who would have been 59 at the time was living in seita an isolated Mexican Village and that he was

probably now working in the yachting industry for a high profile family down there a year later it was reported that Patrick was alive when a photo was submitted to an Australian magazine named new idea the photo showed a woman and a man the latter of whom resembled Patrick dermat however 3 months later the photo was debunked by The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation who discovered that the couple in the photograph had come forward and identified themselves none of the reports from Philip Klein that Patrick is still alive have ever been substantiated by law enforcement he is still

considered a missing person Holly Roth born Helen marjerie Roth in 1916 in Chicago Illinois Holly Roth was raised in the US and Europe alternating her Time between New York City New York and London England due to her father's job she attended various schools and also spent some time being taught by private shors even though she was moved to and from the state often she considered herself a New Yorker and would ultimately graduate from James Madison High School in the Bor of Brooklyn she went on to study at several universities before obtaining a Bachelor of Arts

for a short time Holly worked as a fashion Model but soon gained employment as a writer and editor for newspapers and magazines she eventually began writing her first book the content assignment which in 1953 was serialized in condensed form under the title The Girl Who vanished Hollywood go on to author several more books and short stories in the spy fiction and detective fiction genre working under the pen names PJ Merill and kg Ballard finding some success one Of her stories was nominated for an Edgar award but she is considered to be an underrated writer whose

work was often overlooked during the 1950s in 1960 aged 44 Holly married Joseph franer a 32-year-old man with a Swiss passport who was born and raised in Prague in the Czech Republic the pair had met in Geneva Switzerland when Joseph had been working with the international labor organization later that year Joseph purchased a 49 ft catch a type of Sailboat named the Visa which he paid $88,500 for the Visa had been built in Norway in 1912 and weighed 225 tons Joseph subsequently put the boat in his wife's name and Holly spent around $20,000 on Renovations

Holly's brother Frank who last saw his sister just before she tied the knot noted that the newly wedded couple spent time living in Paris and mayorca for several years but spent the last year of her life living aboard the visa she wrote to her editor At the end of 1963 stating we keep trying to cross the ocean one thing or another stops us but we remain happy enough in another letter one written to her brother on March 30th 1964 she claimed that while she wanted to return home to New York her husband was having extreme

difficulty entering the us as the CIA was was blackballing him several months later on October 8th Holly and her husband left jalter planning to make the trip to the Canary Islands on the Visa however things grew difficult when two days later the weather turned and they became caught in a storm then at around 4:00 a.m. on October 11th Holly vanished yoseph stated that the couple had been 20 miles north of safy a city in Western Morocco when a force suddenly shook the boat throwing him against the wall below deck at the time Holly had been

above deck when he scrambled to check on her he noticed a 45 ft long grayc colored sailing ship moving away From the Visa Joseph believed he saw someone in the water wearing a life jacket and called out but received no answer he subsequently steered the boat in the direction of the body and threw out a boy but to no avail he then twice tied a line to himself and descended into the water to try and locate Holly but he failed to to find her back on board the boat he fired flares and a gun to

attract fishing boats he' spotted earlier before making radio contact with Safy no one immediately came to his or Holly's Rescue It wasn't until around noon that a fishing troller arrived and the Visa was towed to the city several boats search for Holly in the area where she is presumed to have fallen overboard but no trace of her was found a later report listed the 48-year-old's having died due to an accident presumed lost at sea and drowned the following month a source at the US state department noted that the investigation into Holly's Disappearance was still open

though it was reported that Moroccan police had closed the case two days later listing her death as accidental Joseph stayed in Morocco for a short while afterwards attempting to sell the Visa which had sustained almost $6,000 worth of damage during the alleged collision with the other sailboat it is unclear if Joseph ever managed to sell the Visa or what became of him following Holly's disappearance Holly's body has never Been recovered s heslop 41-year-old Sam heslop was last seen at a restaurant on the island of St John one of the US Virgin Islands with her boyfriend

Ryan Bane 44 on March 7th 2021 on the couple had met the previous year over Tinder and together had taken up work on a 47 ft long catamaran Bane own named the siren song The catamaran was moed in a bay off the western coast of St John and was available to be Rented for private Charters s worked on the watercraft as a cook before this she had been a flight attendant with the airline flybe on the evening of March 7th s and Bane had dinner together according to covid-19 restrictions at the time they should have

left the restaurant by 10: p.m. and returned to the siren song moed 200 ft from the shore in Cruz Bay this meant that the two should have taken a dinghy from the shore to the watercraft according to Bane s was asleep by 10: p.m. and had vanished by 2:30 Just 4 and 1 half hours later upon discovering that she wasn't on board Ryan took the dingy out to the island to report her disappearance to the police who in turn told him to call the Coast Guard although he eventually did Bane waited until 11:45 a.m. to

do so a whole 9 hours later he has never answered as to why he waited so long between finding out she was missing and contacting the Coast Guard s's family find Bane's Behavior to be rather suspicious with her father noting it just drives me nuts what happened between two and 11:45 in the morning he didn't shout and holler he didn't ask for nobody he just made a a phone call to the police there's just no answers adding fuel to the fire that Ryan Bane is a distrustful character is the fact that he refused to let

investigators search the siren song to this day it has never been searched he Claimed that he didn't allow authorities to search the watercraft on the advice of his lawyer more bizarrely still Bane has repeatedly declined to be interviewed something which has never been pushed back on even though he is the last person to have seen s alive Sam's phone purse and passport were all found on the catamaran and were handed over to authorities law enforcement in St John searched the coastline using drones divers and scent Docks but were Unable to locate s or her remains

furthermore they found little evidence as to what might have taken place on the night of her disappearance the most information they gathered was from a witness who came forward around 9 days after she went missing claiming that they heard a scream out at Sea roughly in the direction of the siren song in the small hours of March 8th around the time s is believed to have gone missing two weeks after she vanished the FBI was Reportedly brought in to assist with the case although s's family noted that while the FBI offered to assist their offer

was turned down loved ones described the 41-year-old as levelheaded and a strong swimmer claiming that it would have been hugely out of character for her to have gotten up in the in the middle of the night to go swimming another friend added this is someone who sailed across the Atlantic without incident only to disappear 100 ft from The shore the pieces in the puzzle don't add up in a BBC news report dated November 2022 it emerged that in October Sam's family had written to the Virgin Islands Police Department requesting the release of CCTV that was

shown to them 8 months earlier the footage showed what appeared to be Sam and Bane heading to a dinghy but the Police Stopped the footage before seeing Sam and Bane board his dinghy in the letter Brenda Street s's mother wrote I would like all of it Not a shortened version shown on the day I was there on the island this crucial bit of footage displays surroundings people actions and behaviors and information that may have been missed it was later reported that the vipd refused to show the parents the remainder of the tape or release it

as it would quote jeopardize the ongoing investigation SS's family also noted that in the CCTV she was wearing a different outfit to what had been described by Bane in the Footage she was wearing a skirt or shorts not the black floral dress Bane had described furthermore Sam's parents never received the black dress when her belongings were returned to them other criticisms leveled at the vipd include their failure to communicate with s's family her mother Brenda told the BBC they just seem to try and push it under the carpet I had an email from the vipd

a couple of weeks ago that's the first time in 18 months it said hope you're Doing well have you any further information my relationship with the authorities is non-existent they just ignore us we sent a long list of questions lawful and legal ones but they just didn't reply furthermore in 2023 it came to light that the nine 11 call to the Coast Guard made by Ryan Bane was not recorded the Coast Guard claimed that this had occurred due to a fault in the system in November 2021 the siren song was put up for sale with

its name Removed locals in Granada where it was mored alerted Sam's family to this they called for a full forensic search of the boat before it went to new owners this has not been carried out at the time of recording and whether the watercraft has changed hands is clear s Joan Lilian hop is still missing and her loved ones are desperate to find some sort of closure SSM is originally from Southampton England and was 41 when she vanished in the early hours of March 8th 2020 from St John in the Virgin Islands s is described

as a white female standing at 5'8 with long dark brown hair she has an athletic build and a large colorful tattoo on her shoulder consisting of a seahorse butterfly and flower anyone with information about Psalms whereabouts can contact the Virgin Islands police criminal investigation Bureau at 3 4774 2211 or 34778 2211 you can also contact the US Virgin Islands Crim Stoppers at 800222 tips Vince Neil born February 8th 1961 Vincent Neil Warton spent much of his childhood moving around Southern California though born in Hollywood La he spent times in the likes of Englewood and WS

before his family settled in the city of Glendora in Los Angeles County As a young boy his interests were varied he loved surfing baseball wrestling and music in 1981 Neil became the front man of the now acclaimed heavy metal band motly crew who at the time had recently formed and was still finding their feet Motley Crew has since gone on to become one of the most established metal bands in the world having sold over 100 million records and achieved seven platinum or multiplatinum certifications Neil was discovered by Drummer Tommy Lee Bas they had known each

other in school and Bas thought he would be the perfect fit for the band they recorded their first album in 1981 and their second in 1983 it was this entry Shout at the Devil which brought them Fame and Fortune and helped them cement their legendary status however as the band Rose to stardom Neil and his band mates began to spiral during the 1980s they were well known as were many musicians of the time To be using drugs specifically cocaine LSD and heroin bass player and co-founder of the band Nikki six became addicted to the latter

at some stage in much later interviews Neil admitted that his substance abuse issues had started long before he joined the band and he subsequently struggled with cocaine and heroin addiction he and his bandmates eventually wound up in rehab due to their excessive drug use during the early 1980s Hanoi Rocks was an upand Cominging Finnish rock band the first in fact to chart in the UK the Japanese public adored them and by all accounts they were set to take the World by storm formed in 1979 they launched their fifth album in 1984 the second single of

which was beginning to take rise in the chance described by music journalist Ian fortam as being an ey scorching flash of Amplified Technicolor in an otherwise Bland and monotonous World Hanoi Rocks were destined for nothing but greatness Until it all came crashing down in December 198 84 Hanoi Rocks were on their second US tour having sold out two shows in LA in just 20 minutes arriving on December 8th several members of the band including Nicholas razzled dingley the drummer and excluding frontman Michael Monroe who was recovering from a fractured ankle visited Vincent Neil at his

home in Redondo Beach after spending much of their time together partying Neil and Razzle hopped into Neil's car To purchase more alcohol at a local store however Neil was driving under the influence and it wasn't long before the trip descended into chaos when he lost control of the vehicle and hit an oncoming car while the occupants of the other vehicle were seriously injured even suffering brain damage it was Razzle who lost the most dying upon impact Neil meanwhile suffered from some cracked ribs and superficial cuts to his Face Neil was subsequently charged with vehicular manslaughter

and driving under the influence with his blood alcohol level being 0.17 well above California's legal limit at the time which was 0.10 in December 1985 he was sentenced to 30 days in jail and 5 years probation he was also ordered to pay $2.6 million in restitution to the victims of the crash and participate in 200 hours of community service he was paroled after Just 2 weeks for good behavior though this is Neil's worst off Defence he is no stranger to criminal convictions and has had a lengthy history of run-ins with law enforcement in the years

since in 2002 he was arrested for punching a record producer in a nightclub parking lot the following year he was arrested for assaulting a sex worker in Nevada between 2004 and 2016 he became embroiled in a fight that left a sound man unconscious was arrested twice for Drunk driving was charged with battery and disorderly conduct after fighting with an ex-girlfriend was sued for fraud and was charged again with battery after he assaulted a woman who' approached while asking for a photograph in Las Vegas he was reportedly restrained by actor Nicholas Cage Motley crew's third album

theater of pain was dedicated to Razzle hanoy rocks meanwhile struggled to recover from the loss of their drummer and disbanded in 1985 lead Vocalist Michael Monroe and lead guitarist Andy m eventually reunited but this new lineup was dissolved in 2009 after 8 years together some of the original band members including McCoy have spoken of their anger and distaste with the legal ramifications of Neil's actions stating quote it was a crime not only did Razzle die two young people got crippled and this guy Sat one night in jail got away with a misdemeanor McCoy has also

voiced his frustration that Although other members of motle crew apologized Neil never did Johnny Lewis born on October 29th 1983 Jonathan Kendrick Lewis grew up in Los Angeles better known by the name Johnny Lewis he was the middle of three children and his parents were Avid scientologists after graduating from high school he left home to pursue a career in acting in his late te Lewis began receiving guest roles in various American drama series including Criminal Minds and Malcolm in the Middle in 2004 he made his first film appearance as Engelbert Ki Wilson a side character

in the Hillary Duff film Raise Your Voice the following year he appeared in underclassman an action comedy starring Nick Cannon between 2005 and 2006 he played Dennis Chile childis on the OC and he also starred in the fifth season of Smallville however Lewis is perhaps best known for his role as Kip half sack EPS in the first two seasons of Sons of Anarchy in 2009 he decided to leave this role and asked to be written out of the show the series Creator Kurt Sutter noted quote Johnny wasn't happy creatively he really wanted out of his

contract Lewis's father added quote he told us he left because the show was getting into gratuitous violence he didn't want to communicate that as an artist Lewis then appeared in a few lowbudget and short films after his sons Of anak exit seemingly happy living off the money he had already earned while he worked on his debut novel reportedly about a gifted musician in San Francisco around this time he found out that his girlfriend was pregnant but by 2010 the couple had split up they attempted to live together for the sake of their daughter but Lewis

eventually moved out afterwards the pair became embroiled in a long and painful custody battle which he ultimately lost in late October 2011 Lewis lost control of his motorbike and crashed though he was checked by Hospital staff for signs of concussion he shed none and was discharged those who knew the 27-year-old however became concerned by his conduct following the accident his behavior became increasingly bizarre and erratic and his father encouraged him to undergo several MRIs all of which L refused to make matters worse his strange Behavior soon escalated and he became violent on January 3rd 202

Lewis left his parents' home in Northridge to go for a walk still in pajama bottoms and a t-shirt he made his way through the neighborhood but soon came across what he thought were cries of distress coming from a nearby unit he decided to break in but the home was empty moments later two men arrived on the scene and asked the 27-year-old to leave instead of complying Lewis went after the two men with a bottle he struck them both on the Head and became engaged in a physical altercation with the two even biting one of them

on the arm he was eventually overpowered and restrained until law enforcement arrived on the scene Lewis was charged with trespassing burglary and assaults with a deadly weapon he claimed he was acting in self-defense and was placed in jail 3 days later he was moved to a psychiatric ward after he reportedly banged his head into concrete and attempted to LEAP from the second Floor of the prison for 72 hours he remained in psychiatric care his discharged summary read Chief complaint blunt head trauma and suicidal after 8 days in jail Lewis was returned to his parents he

came home with two black eyes his sister recalling he looked like a wounded broken animal his family noted that he didn't want anyone touching or coming near him and he became hyp sensitive to life eventually disabling the fuse box in the House so that the lights couldn't ever be turned on unfortunately things never got better for the actor he attempted to take his own life in the following weeks leaving his friends and family to take turns looking after him and never letting him go out alone around a month later his family deemed that he was

more stable and they allowed him to live alone in Santa Monica but less than 2 weeks later on February 10th he was arrested for knocking a Man Out outs Inside a store after he was released on bail he walked into the ocean in Santa Monica fully clothed and was hospitalized for hyperthermia a week later on February 18th he was arrested once more this time for attempting to break into a woman's home he was released on bail again a few months passed and by May of 2012 friends commented that they didn't recognize him describing him as

someone who quote had a luck I've only seen in Disturbed Veterans of War his memory was scattered he vacillated between basic Lucid conversation and incoherence Lewis was prescribed medication for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder but refused to take them his father noted that he never received a clear diagnosis was he suffering from mental illness or did he have an undiagnosed brain injury a probation officer at the time noted his concern quote for the well-being not only of the community but that of the Defendant adding that appeared to be suffering from mental health issues and that he

believed he would quote continue to be a threat to any Community he may reside in things finally came to a head on September 26th 2012 when 28-year-old Johnny Lewis was found dead in La at the writer's Villa where he lived he had stayed at the bed and breakfast in 2009 and moved back into the Villa at some point in 2012 the property was owned and operated by 81-year-old Katherine Harris And was inhabited by upand cominging Hollywood stars be they actors writers or directors at the scene not only did the police discover Lewis but they also

found his land lady deceased and her pet cat who had been killed and discarded on the bathroom floor the LAPD had been called to the scene after the neighbors had been violently attacked by Lewis and that heard Catherine screaming a later autopsy showed that she had died by manual strangulation and blunt force Trauma to her head met with the coroner's report noting that the murder was particularly violent having obliterated the left side of her face her nose was split down the middle and her upper jaw was split open four puncture wounds were found on her

left cheek likely from the mechanical pencil found beside her body Lewis meanwhile had fled back to Catherine's property after attacking his neighbors before falling from the roof or garage dying Upon impact his autopsy revealed that he had no drugs or alcohol in his system at the time of his death despite the speculation that he suffered drug induced psychosis at the time of the attack as he had a history of substance abuse his death was ruled accidental as there was no evidence he'd been pushed or that he jumped willingly from the roof the motive behind the

attack on Catherine is unclear but one rumor among her friends was that she told him off For turning off the electricity in her home which led to Lewis punching her several times before strangling her while there was a hammer found in his room it's unclear if he used it investigators speculated that Lewis stomped on Catherine's skull before turning his rage to her cat friends and family expressed shock at the news of Lewis's death and his actions before dying in the wake of his demise Sons of Anarchy Creator Kurt Sutter tweeted it Was a tragic end

for an extremely talented guy who unfortunately had lost his way I wish I could say that I was shocked by the events last night but I was not I am deeply sorry that an innocent life had to be thrown into his destructive path yes it's a day of mourning but it's also a day of awareness and gratitude sadly some of us carry the message by dying Oscar Pistorius Oscar Pistorius was born on November 22nd 1986 in santon Johannes B South Africa the middle of three children he was born with fibula hemimelia the congenital absence of

the fibula or calf bone in both legs at the age of 11 Pistorius had the lower half of his legs amputated but it didn't slow him down throughout his school career he proved himself to be a star athlete playing rugby and water polo and attending wrestling classes he was a keen Fitness Enthusiast and trained at a Gym in Petoria with the gym owner remarking that for 6 months they didn't even realize Pistorius had no legs as he was such a capable athlete participating in exercise regimes that included boxing skipping and press UPS in 2003 at

the age of 17 he injured his knee during rugby while undergoing Rehabilitation he was introduced to running and quickly tuck to the sport shortly afterwards he had his first racing blades fitted by an expert prosthesis in South Africa but Was eventually referred to an American preist and paralympic sprin named Brian fresher so he could be fitted for special blades made by an Icelandic company as ordinary blades broke too quickly from 2004 onwards Pistorius began competing in professional running events including the 2004 summer Paralympics during which he came third overall in the 100 meter event for

single below knee amputees he also qualified for the 200 meter event final Which he subsequently won with a world record time of 2.97 seconds in the following 8 years Pistorius continued to compete in professional running events taking home numerous gold medals as well as several silver and a few bronze as well as competing in Sprint events for below knee amputees he also participated in non-disabled sprinting events he is listed as the 10th athlete to compete in both the paralympic games and the Olympic Games and in 2011 at the world World Championships in athletics he became

the first amputee to win a non-disabled world Track medal during this period of pistorius's life he was known for his incredible athletic Feats and dubbed Blade Runner by the public and the media today he is better known for the infamous shooting of his girlfriend on February 14th 2013 the police were alerted to a shooting that had taken place on pistorius's property At the time his girlfriend 29-year-old Riva steam Camp was staying with him Pistorius and Riva had met in 2012 she was considered an aister on the South African celebrity circuit and was often part of

the Johannesburg party scene after graduating from University with a bachelor of laws degree in 2005 she began working as a paralal and as a model becoming the face of Avon Cosmetics starring in campaigns for the jewelry company Savannah diamonds and Becoming a Covergirl for the FHM magazine investigators soon learned that Riva was the victim of the shooting at pistorius's home she was found dead having been fatally shot in the head and arm Pistorius would later claim he'd mistaken his girlfriend for an intruder and shot four times through a locked bathroom door three of these bullets

hit Reaver Pistorius subsequently broke down the bathroom door with a cricket bats and reportedly attempted to revive the 29-year-old while calling for help one of the first to arrive on the scene was a neighbor and doctor who attempted to open up raver's Airways using a jaw lift maneuver however he noted that she had no pulse showed no signs of breathing and her pupils were fixed and dilated attempts to resuscitate her were futile Pistorius admitted to authorities during a hearing 5 days later that he had shot Riva four times but that he' thought she was an

intruder he pleaded not guilty Adding that he had been frightened by the noise and was in a vable state of mind without his prosthetic legs still he was charged with murder and his trial began on March 3rd 2014 in ptor high court on May 20th the trial was postponed so that Pistorius could undergo psychiatric evaluation while he was diagnosed with general anxiety disorder the trial was resumed on June 30th as it was established that his disorder would not skew his notion of Right and wrong and he could be held criminally liable for his action neighbors

testified hearing the blood curdling scream of a woman on the night of the incident as well as gunshots and a man yelling for help prosecutors claimed that Pistorius had argued with Riva that night which had caused her to lock herself in the bathroom away from him during the trial Pistorius took to the stand to defend himself he offered an apology to rea's family but continued To maintain that the shooting had been an accident though he openly wept in court there were rumors later denied by Pistorius that he'd taken acting lessons in the months before his

court appearance closing arguments in the case were heard on August 7th and 8th the following month on September 12th Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide in South Africa culpable homicide is defined as the unlawful negligent killing of a human being and Is similar to the US ruling of involuntary manslaughter Pistorius was also found guilty of one fire AR related charge of reckless endangerment relating to an incident where a firearm was discharged in a restaurant on October 21st he was given 5 years maximum for culpable homicide and a concurrent 3-year suspended sentence for the firearm

conviction on October 19th 2015 however less than one year later Pistorius was released from prison he Was subsequently placed under house arrest and Correctional supervision for the next 4 years reever's family meanwhile spoke of forgiveness and empathy stating quote I didn't want him to be thrown in jail and suffering because I don't wish suffering on anyone and that's not going to bring Riva back less than 2 months later on December 3rd a South African appeals court overturned his previous conviction and ruled he was guilty of first-degree murder the court Stated their belief that a dismissal

of circumstantial evidence and a misinterpretation of the laws had caused the prose ution to only charge Pistorius with the Lesser crime of culpable homicide the year before judge Eric leech noted quote I have no doubt that in firing the Fatal shots the accused must have foreseen and therefore did foresee that whoever was behind the toilet door might die but reconciled himself to that event occurring and Gambled with that person's life the identity of his victim is irrelevant to his guilt as a result of this new ruling in the summer of 2016 Pistorius was sentenced to

six years in prison for reever's murder though for many it was an improvement over his four years of house arrest the South African National Prosecuting Authority argued that it was far too lenient a sentence and disproportionate to the crime a new sentence was therefore handed down the Following year Pistorius now 31 was given 13 years and 5 months behind bars a super Supreme Court Justice named Willie serti noted that the former sports star had failed to explain why he fired the Fatal shots and pointed out his lack of remorse during court hearings he added that

the previous sentence of six years was shockingly lenient to a point where it has the effect of trivializing this serious offense in the years since Pistorius Entered the prison system June Steen Camp has set up a foundation in her daughter's name aiming to highlight violence against women and children 10 years later she still Grieves for Riva stating we just love her so much and miss her part of her life is gone but we will see her one day and that is what we look forward to Joe pitler born on Valentine's Day 1987 in Burton Washington

Joseph David Wolf Gang Pitler began his acting career when he was just four years old one of five children children he managed to get cast in a string of TV commercials as a child with his family moving to LA to help him pursue his dream in 1996 at the age of N9 he played a small role in the Thriller film The Fan with Robert dairo and Wesley Snipes before eventually getting a part in the 1999 movie Varsity Blues one of his most well-known roles things only got better for Joe in 2000 When he was cast

as one of the main characters in the movies Beethoven third and Beethoven's fourth both family comedy films following the antics of a St Bernard dog around this time Joe told the media I've said no to sex and drugs I don't want to get typ cast I'd much rather do movies I like the whole atmosphere of changing characters and meeting new people in 2002 Joe made his last two appearances on screen he starred in two episodes of The Nightmare Room a children's anthology horror series and the movie children on their birthdays an independent comedy drama in

2003 his mother Kathy decided that Joe needed a break from Hollywood she was concerned that he would burn out and wanted him to be able to complete his education stating I just wanted him to have some normaly in his life he's a good boy and took it well but he wasn't really happy about it during his acting Hiatus Joe returned to his hometown Where he finished high school moved into his own AP department and took a full-time position as a telephone technician at teletech he still dreamt of pursuing acting though telling his family that once

his braces were removed he would return to Hollywood tragically Joe disappeared before he was able to do so Joe was last seen on February 5th 2006 he met with friends earlier that day who noted that he was in good spirits but at around 4:15 a.m. he Called a friend from his mobile phone the friends described 18-year-old Joe as sobbing and being inconsolable he ended the call by saying he would ring back in an hour but he never did nobody heard from Joe again after this point 4 days later his silver Toyota Corolla was discovered it

had been abandoned half a mile from Port Washington Narrows a large body of water there was a note and poems left behind in the vehicle where Joe expressed his Desire to be a strong stronger brother for his siblings he also stated that he wanted his younger brother Matthew to have some of his belongings investigators strongly believe that the notes left behind indicated Joe had taken his own life however his family disagreed noting that he was not depressed at the time of his disappearance though some reports observe that he was recreationally engaging in drugs and alcohol

when he Went missing he was not known to have any issues related to either substance his sister Shauna told kitsap's son he's probably too embarrassed to come home in the worst case scenario if anything it's foul play but not suicide one brother added he left that note saying he wanted to start over his mother also stated that Joe had left the door to his apartment unlocked and the lights on which was unusual she also alleged that someone had broken into his home Claiming that some of her son's most valuable Magic the Gathering cards had been

taken Kathy would later claim that the police investigated no other avenues staunch in their belief that Joe had taken his own life she said one police detective told her I don't know how to say this to you without sounding really bad but basically I think your son's dead and it could take months for him to show up in the water despite Mass searches for any sign of Joe or his body He has never been found his wallets and car keys were missing from the scene where his his vehicle was located 18-year-old Joe pitler was last

seen on January 5th 2006 in bremon Washington he is described as a white male with light brown hair and green or hazel eyes he still had braces on his upper teeth but his lower set had been removed at the time he is 6'2 and weighed 170 when he was last seen Joe also had a Star Wars Rebel Alliance logo tattoo on his right Forearm and a small scar across the bridge of his nose when Joe was last seen he was possibly wearing a brown T-shirt and jeans and a white metal watch on his left wrist

he may have been depressed at the time of his disappearance and he normally carries an inhaler for his allergies but did not have it with him at the time of his disappearance he is allergic to dust mites cats dogs and birds among many other things he uses the nicknames Joe And Josie if Joe is still alive he will be 37 years old if you have any information about his case you can contact the Britton police department at 360 473 5228 Harold halt in 1966 Harold halt became Australia's 17th prime minister a politician and lawyer he

entered Parliament at the age of 27 and became a government minister at the age of 31 by all accounts Harold was a keen Outdoorsman he had homes in numerous coastal towns including porty Victoria and Bingle Bay Queensland he practiced spear fishing and enjoyed skin diving and snorkeling noting that he found air tanks to be burdensome his friends described Harold as having incredible powers of endurance underwater and he reportedly would see how long he could hold his breath during parliamentary debates just for his own entertainment while he was able to tread water for Long periods of

time he was reportedly not a strong surface swimmer he had been repeatedly warned by friends and colleagues about the dangers of his hobby concern for him increased on May 20th 1967 when he had a close call while diving at a beach near point nepan in Victoria during a swim he became distressed and called for help he was fortunately rescued by his diving Companions and though he remained conscious he reportedly turned purple And vomited seawater Harold later claimed that a leaking snorkel was responsible for the event though Harold was in good health at the time of

his disappearance it has been observed that he had a family history of premature death his father died age 59 and his brother age 57 in September 1967 just a few months before he went missing Harold began receiving treatment for a shoulder injury which dated back to his youth he had injured himself in a sporting match As a Young Man and the injury had recently become painful again he was subsequently prescribed painkillers and twice weekly physiotherapy his doctor advised him to cut back on swimming and Tennis to avoid overexerting himself on Sunday December 17th 1967 at

around 11:15 a.m. Harold and four friends set out for point nepan they hoped to catch a glimpse of solo circumnavigator Alec Rose who was supposed to pass through the rip into Port Philip Bay the yacht However wasn't very visible so between that and the extreme heat the group didn't stay long while driving back to porty Harold suggested they stop off at a local beach for a swim so they could cool off by all accounts he knew the beach well and had been there on numerous different occasions despite the water looking rather turbulent the group stopped

by the beach and Harold headed into the water Alan Stewart one of his companions headed in with him the other Three members of the group stayed on land as the water looked rough Allan recalled staying close to the shore and noticing a strong undertoe Harold meanwhile ventured in further he was eventually caught up in the current and dragged out to sea he did not call for help or indicate that he was distressed but moments later he was gone from sight following the incident the police were contacted and the Australian Defense Force was put on high

alert the search For Harold began at 1:30 p.m. but amateur divers found the water to be too rough for exploration helicopters watercraft Naval diving teams and police divers all aided in the search for Harold but again the difficult conditions and limited available equipment meant that no one was able to make much progress Rescuers that day described the sea as being heavy rolling and noted that the waves were six to 8 ft High even as the tide receded things Didn't improve in the evening with the rough conditions being likened to being inside a washing machine a

second search was launched just before 500 a.m. the following morning despite poor weather conditions including torrential rain driven by a howling Gale but was suspended after a change in tide at around 8:00 a.m. another hunt the following day was hampered Once More by bad weather ultimately efforts to recover Harold's body were called off on January 5th 1986 up to 300 people were involved in the search at its peak and no trace of the Prime Minister was found the only thing remaining of him was the small pile of clothes he had left behind on the beach

a member of one of the naval diving teams noted any chance of finding the Prime Minister was lost by Sunday night following Harold's disappearance numerous theories emerged about what may have happened to him most people agree That he was lost at sea there is much debate about what exactly occurred some specul relateded that he simply underestimated the harshness of the conditions and became exhausted trying to keep afloat others theorized he suffered a heart attack other suggestions included that he was stung by jellyfish attacked by a shark or struck by Driftwood his body most likely was

washed out to sea though senior pathologist James McNamara at the time Suggested to officials that his body had been trapped by kelp and eaten by sea creatures if this is what happened to Harolds then the body would have been reduced to a skeleton in a period as short as 24 to 48 hours there are other theories regarding Harold's disappearance it is perhaps not unexpected that the vanishing of a politician would lead to conspiracy theories some believe that his death involved some sort of coverup at the Highest level of government in 1968 the Sunday Observer published

a story that claimed Harold had been killed by the CIA because he planned to pull Australian troops out of Vietnam similarly there were theories that he was killed by the North Vietnamese over 10 years after his death in 1983 journalist Anthony gray claimed that Harold had been a lifelong spy for the People's Republic of China alleging that the Prime Minister faked his death to Defect back to China other theories included that Harold took his own life or Faked his death to be with a lover both of these theories have been rejected by his family members

as well as colleagues and friends as has the the notion that Harold was a Chinese spy ricko Harris born May 19th 1977 in Los Angeles California Rico Harris was the oldest of four children his father Henry Harris was a former star forward for Idaho State who had been playing semi-professionally in LA and it wasn't long before Rico began showing his own impressive athletic abilities during Rico's teen years and early 20s he became known for his NBA level potential he attended Temple City High School at the age of 17 where he is credited with turning around

the school's basketball team putting them on the map and drawing in University Scouts the Press Telegram a newspaper published in Long Beach Noted that he was one of the best high school players in the Western United States during the 1994 to 1995 season Rico's University career though wasn't so successful he bounced between universities for various reasons he failed a specific class making him ineligible to attend one school he was arrested on charge of unlawful imprisonment at one point and he eventually began drinking and partying Los Angeles city college teammates Though noted that his skill in

the game was never affected with one noting he probably didn't get no sleep and was up all night then he dropped like 35 points that game still he' later be described as a disruptive influence and he was at one point suspended for six games Rico continued to drink he became socially isolated and his long-term girlfriend left him though recruiters continued to approach him he didn't respond he believed they were only interested in His basketball skills and not his personal development in the spring of 2000 he joined the Harlem Globe Trotters which seemed to be a

perfect fit for him however just a month into his career he got into a fight while out in LA and was struck on the back of the head with a baseball bat though he managed to escape the scene intense headaches and balance issues arose as a result of the assault he left the Globe Trotters at the age of 24 over the next few years Rico would Deal with alcohol and drug abuse issues which would lead him to be arrested over 100 times mostly for public intoxication in 2007 at the age of 30 he finally began

to get things together after an overdose led him to be sent to a rehab facility upon his release he attempted to live a normal life securing housing picking up a job as a security guard and eventually meeting Jennifer song the two began dating shortly afterwards by September of 2014 the pair were Discussing marriage Rico eventually left California to be with Jennifer in Seattle here Rico managed to get a job interview as a property appraiser and exchanged his California driver's license for a Washington one though he and Jennifer struggled to adjust from being a longdistance couple

to living together Rico was looking to make it work he wanted to have a fresh start in Seattle on October 8th he drove from Seattle to alambra to speak with his Mother and collect some clothes his girlfriend Jennifer would later tell the media that she believed Rico had also gone to visit his mother for some closure regarding things in the past quote I think he realized some things and wanted to talk to his mother he wanted her to trust him and trust us and believe in our relationship his mother Margaret would later state that she

didn't believe Rico got what he wanted from the conversation shortly after Midnight Rico began the journey back to Seattle records show that after leaving alambra he drove North on Interstate 5 he then stopped 40 mil South of Sacramento to get petrol he called Jennifer at 10:45 a.m. on October 10th leaving a message which said he was going up into the mountains to rest as he hadn't slept much after leaving Seattle at 11:15 a.m. the phone was turned off on October 13th 2014 a deputy for the Yolo County Sheriff's Office Found a Nissan in the parking

lot at the Cash Creek Regional Park he thought nothing of it until the following day when he noticed the vehicle was still there when he checked the registration he learned that the Nissan belonged to Rico Harris who had been missing since October 10th the car's gas tank was empty and its battery was dead the inside looked as if it had been ransacked a short time later his mobile phone was found in the park the battery Was dead but the device was undamaged a black backpack was propped up against the guard rail nearby it contained a

few jumper cables and some clothing and two bottles filled with alcohol and an energy drink once the phone was charged investigators recovered a video Rico appeared to have filmed of himself unintentionally sitting in his car at the park looking through paperwork from his glove box and carelessly tossing it into the back seat as music blasted from His speakers the video was from the night of October 10th around October 18th tracks were discovered in the Sand by Cash Creek they had not been there the previous day and though a cast could not be made of them

they seemed big enough to match Rico's large shoe size that same day a tall broad individual walking along State Route 16 was noted by a passing driver other sightings of a similar were reported this same week but none have ever been confirmed as being Rico Rico Harris has never been heard from again since his disappearence investigators on the case do not believe that he met with Foul Play but that he willingly came to the park there were no signs of a struggle around the vehicle and his backpack and phone bear no marks that they were

taken by force they believe Rico left his phone to avoid being tracked or accidentally forgot the device along with his backpack authorities theorized that he may have Taken a wrong turn after getting petrol and wound up in the park where he decided to stop so he could take a nap they have suggested that when he woke up he decided not to return to Seattle yet and instead wandered around in the wilderness by the time he came back to his car it was gone because it had been towed by investigators they theorized that he then hitched

a ride to another town the LA Times spoke with Rico's stepfather who recalled his last Conversation with the 37-year-old where he expressed doubts about whether whether or not moving to Seattle was the right decision when his stepfather asked why he was doing it he responded I'm ashamed of the things that happened down here and I want to start another life investigators added that in the footage of Rico in his car he seemed like a free man his mother Margaret stated he could be alive maybe he's not I don't know what the truth is I don't

know people Don't just vanish she added something sinister is lurking in that part of California Rico you are not forgotten ever I am not giving up on finding my son 37-year-old Rico Harris has been missing since October 10th 2014 he is described as an African-American male with short dark hair and brown eyes he is 6'9 and weighed 280 at the time of his disappearance if you have information on Rico's disappearance you can call the Yolo County tip hotline at 530 668 5248 and there you have the facts please leave a comment down below with your

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