In February of 2023, Law Enforcement (USA) announced that Elliott Higgins, who died in 2014 at age 73, had been linked by DNA evidence to two rapes in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, and a third attack in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Higgins was an accomplished French Horn player who ran musical competitions where some of the attacks took place. The attacks occurred from 1991 to 2004 but it is possible with so many backlogs of sexual assault cases that he may have committed more crimes in different parts of the country. He had strong ties to New Mexico. Sketches below show strong similarities to Higgins from when he committed his attacks.
Somewhere in the wilderness of Pennsylvania (USA), lies a legend of buried treasure that may contain millions of dollars of gold by todays standards. The story has taken hold of generations and treasure hunters have searched for the alleged treasure which was being transported by the United States army and supposedly lost due to a band of Confederate sympathizers. It is believed that the gold was to be transported to the US Mint in Philidelphia.
A treasure hunter named Dennis Parada has engaged in legal activity due to what he states is excavation by the US Government in the area of Dents Run.
India. It is a contient of beauty and mystique. It has amazing architecture and unique cultures. Most people are familiar with the Taj Mahal complex which was an Islamic building/complex built by a sultan in honor of his deceased wife. However, there is another building, a temple that is not only priceless in its beauty but steeped with mystery and fear.
The Temple named Padmanabhaswamy is located in Thiruvananthapuram, India. Inside the structure are eight secret chambers that may contain massive treasures. Of the eight chambers Indian authorities have opened all but one of them. For unnamed reasons one chamber remains unopened. Rumors abound of an amazing treasure located behind there. Others surmise that a possible great evil may lay behind the doors of the golden temple. Whatever, the reasons, the contents behind that door of the eighth chamber continue to intrigue and terrify those who have seen it.
It was around bout 11 m on the evening of May 24th, 1989, when first responders from the town of Westport, Connecticut arrived to a brush fire. The blaze was behind a shopping plaza that was located at 377 Main Street. There they would make a disturbing find, the murdered and burned body of an adult female. She would be identified as Joan Wertkin, a married mother who was 38 years old. Whoever killed her, had strangled her and set her on fire. Her vehicle which was a white colored 1988 BMW 325 that was parked in the front of the same shopping plaza where he had been found. Her husband had stated that his wife had done grocery shopping and he reported her missing that night.
There have been no suspects named in the case but in the Westport in 1985, a still unidentified black female had been murdered and lit on fire in the woods alongside Interstate 95. Her name and murderer have never been caught. Another unidentified black female was found dead years later in the city of Bridgeport just a few miles away and she had also been lit on fire (no cause or manner death of listed). The Westport Police Department has been looking at doing more forensic evidence examination in this case and those in Westport who remember this case are hopeful.
If you have any information about the murder of Joan Wertkin, please contact the Westport Police Department at 03-520-3831 or coldcasetips@westportct.gov.
The blue diamond known as the “Hope Diamond” is available for public view at the Washington DC (USA) Smithsonian Museum. It’s origins are believed to have come from a Hindu Temple in India, then it made it’s way to stops in France, England, Turkey and the United States. Many of those that were in possession of the diamond suffered untimely death some of which were at times, violent. These range from French Kings, British Monarchs, and wealthy established American Families. Car accidents, disease and even death by guillotine were some of the causes of deaths that affected the owners as well as their loved ones. Is the Hope Diamond cursed? This video provides a short history of it’s ownership.
Police have announced that they arrested a twenty eight year old man in his mid-twentees named Bryan Kohberger for the murders of Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Kaylee GonCalves,
It was a senseless murder. An employee from the Springfield (Massachusetts) Parks and Recreation found the body of seventeen year old Shana Price’s body on the morning of December 26th, 1990 in Blunt Park. She had been sexually assaulted, beaten and strangled. With DNA evidence, it is unlikely that convicted serial killer Alfred Gaynor was responsible. However, there is hope that genealogical DNA searches may lead police to the murderer.
It’s been an issue for decades. Two cases illustrate that point.
Mary Margaret Begay worked at the Bright Angel Lodge in the famous Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona (USA). A friend of hers stated they had last seen Mary going into a vehicle with two men on August 1st, 1956. That was the last time the nineteen year old was ever seen. (Source https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/39937/details?nav
Not even a few months later, 25 year old Ida Mae Lee would go missing as well. She, just like Begay worked at a hotel in the Grand Canyon Nation Park in Arizona and was reported missing and was believed to have been last seen on Novermber 1st, 1956. (Source https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/34305/details?nav
A month ago, Law Enforcement identified the unidentified woman murdered in 1974 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Now, an even older case has a name according to people familiar with the case of the murdered Boy in the Box in 1957. The case of the little boy is one of the most famous unidentified murder victims in United States and from what it sounds like charges are still possible against someone for his death.
In August and December 1983, two women named Susan Tice (45 years of age) and Erin Gilmour (22 years of age) in seperate incidents in Toronto, Canada. Joseph George Sutherland, (61 years of age), was arrested in connection with the two slayings.
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