Category: Uncategorized

An infamous Murder at an Ivy League College Still remains Unsolved…. amateur sleuths think they have a suspect…. but police don’t agree…

Suzanne Jovin was bright, popular and a caring person. The blue eyed, 21 year old Yale University student born in Germany, yet her life was violentally ended on an early morning on December 4th, 1998 near the Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut. Those that knew her are still haunted by her violent death and that no one has ever been arrested and prosecuted for it. In the beginning, Law Enforcement in New Haven, Connecticut focused on her thesis advisor a man named James Van De Velde, but he has never been charged. Some experts say the investigation was bungled from the start and that police should have no focused on Van de Velde. 

The Connecticut Insider’s Randall Beach wrote an article recently about the case that talks about this and a potential potential person of interest that amateur sleuths think should be looked at. Twenty five years later, Suzanne’s family waits and hopes for answers. 

https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticutmagazine/news-people/article/suzanne-jovin-yale-murder-investigation-18533355.php

There is also a video by a group of amaterur sleuths that look at the involvement of a possible mystery suspect alluded to in the article by Randall Beach. https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticutmagazine/news-people/article/suzanne-jovin-yale-murder-investigation-18533355.php

Music Mogul/Rapper and his Father’s Unsolved Murder

Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy are just some of the nicknames for Sean John Combs. An entrepreneur, he lived his early years on the hard streets of Harlem, New York City where he would eventually attend Howard University, drop out, work his way up in the music industry and eventually form his own record label, Bad boy Records.

Despite having an estimated financial worth of around a billion dollars according to Forbes Magazine, Combs has had his fair share of legal issues and controversy. These include getting into an argument with a patron at a bar and having a member of his entorouge be found guilty of a shooting at a bar. Several allegations of sexual assault by various women including one from long term girlfriend Cassie Ventura which was quickly settled out of court.

Combs also suffered from tragedy in his life, a long term girlfriend and mother of his children died in 2018 and his own father was murdered on the 1970’s mean streets of New York City.

Melvin Combs was a drug dealer in a heroin dealing operation and was an associate of famous Harlem Drug Lord Frank Lucas (who was portrayed in the movie “American Gangster” by actor Denzel Washington).

New York Law Enforcement believe that Combs was killed by members of a heroin drug dealing syndicate. Combs had been previously arrested in possession of heroin and around forty five thousand dollars of cash. A New York Times article stated a member of this drug dealing gang was raided after Combs arrest. Combs was shot to death as he sat in his car in the area of Central Park West in 1972. There has never been any proof that indicated why Combs was murdered and it is believed the case was never thoroughly investigated. Several associates of this drug dealing gang that Combs was involved with were eventually convicted and served time for their role in the illegal distribution of heroin. Frank Lucas was quoted in a New York Post article stating that he believed that Combs was not a police informant and most likely killed for other reasons.

To this date though, the murder of the 33 year old US Air Force Veteran remains unsolved and the killers at least unknown to the general public. However, even decades later…. the streets still talk.

Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/24/archives/ten-found-guilty-of-heroin-charge-convicted-of-taking-part-in.html

https://nypost.com/2010/06/07/druglord-gangster-fashion-victim/

Identity of Man Solved, now to find his Killers…

Skeletal remains of a man were found on April 8th, 1985, by a driver traveling person driving on Interstate 195 in the town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts (USA). Thirty Eight years later, DNA tests would reveal that he was named Keith Olson a 27 year old man from Cranston, Rhode Island who had gone missing in 1981. There are strong suspicions that Olson was killed by the ex-romantic partner of a woman he was currently dating. That man was named John Broccoli, who also went by the name Michael Corleone. Law Enforcement believe that at least two people were involved in Olson’s murder. One has to wonder if one of several mob guys in Rhode Island well known to Rhode Island Authorities could have been involved as well.

IF you have any information about Olson’s disappearance and murder, please call Detective AnnMarie Robertson at (855)-627-6583.

Source: https://www.masslive.com/news/2023/11/bristol-county-da-identifies-homicide-victim-found-in-fairhaven-after-almost-40-years.html

https://nypost.com/2023/11/28/news/skeleton-found-28-years-ago-idd-as-ri-man-keith-olson/

Missing Person Alert

Todd Davidson age 53 years old was last seen on September 27, 2023 in New Hartford, Connecticut (USA). He is a white male with green eyes, long brownish/gray hair. He is around 160 to 180 pounds and around five foot ten inches tall. According to the NAMUS database the Plainville Police Department is handling the case and can be contacted at (860) 747-1616.

Todd Davidson Missing from New Hartford, CT

NAMUS Page is here at https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/111230/details?nav

Who killed an older Woman on a Hiking Trail?

honoree flemingSeventy seven year old Honoree Fleming of Castleton, Vermont was slain by a gunshot wound to her head on Thursday, October 5th on a hiking trail near the Vermont State University Castleton Campus. She was a former Dean at the Universit and was the wife of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Powers.

The incident occurred on the Rail Trail near 1660 South Street in Castleton. There is a potential suspect who was described as a white male around five foot ten inches, with short dark hair, had a dark gray t-shirt and was carrying a black backpack. The Vermont State Police ask anyone on the rail trail around this time who may have observed the male to call the Vermont State Police.

If you have any information about this case, contact the Vermont State Police at 802-773-9101. Tips can be submitted anonymously https://vsp.vermont.gov/tipsubmit.

Sources: https://vtstatepolice.blogspot.com/2023/10/vermont-state-police-identify-victim-of.html

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/09/us/honoree-fleming-castleton-vermont-killing/index.html

Arrest made in Birthday Party Slaying

new britain murder solved

Gabriel Pereira went outside a birthday party and was shot to death in a parking lot nearby in the city of New Britain, Connecticut (USA) on August 1st 2017. The case went cold until recently. Michael B. Coleman has been arrested in connection to the homicide.

A CT man was shot in the head at a 2017 birthday party. Police have charged a suspect in the cold case.

http://gunmemorial.org/2017/08/01/gabriel-pereira

More Than Three Decades Later…Police Hope Someone will talk & Identify this man and his Killer

Mystery man stabbed to death in Manhattan in 1988. who is he? Who killed him?

An unidentified murder victim, described as light-skinned and in his 20’s with black hair. He was stabbed in his upper body around 4:10 am August 14th, 1988, at the Hamilton Fish Pool on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City (USA). He was taken to nearby Bellevue Hospital where he died. IF you know who he is or who took his life, please call the group Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS. Your call can be kept confidential.

(source: New York Daily News) https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/09/13/nypd-sketch-stabbed-1988-lower-east-side-pool/