Unsolved murders, crime, treasure and the paranormal.
It was on November 30th, 2010, when 64 year old Sherry Black was found stabbed to death inside her bookstore, B&W Billiards and Books at 3466 S. 700 East in Salt Lake City Utah. Nearly a decade later, an arrest with the help of DNA and good old fashioned police work has caught her killer. Twenty Nine year old Adam Duborow. Good job Law Enforcement.
It was early Sunday morning on May 27th, 2018 when 21 year old Sofia Mckenna and her friend Spencer Mugford (age 20) disappeared off the coast of Connecticut, near Avery Point in the town of Groton. That morning Sofia’s mother received several missed phone calls from Spencer’s phone number but she was asleep and unable to answer them. Spencer did not know Sofia’s mother’s phone number and Sofia’s phone was in her car parked at the UCONN Avery Point Campus. No calls were made to 911 from Spencer’s phone. It is believed that the two friends either took a kayak, sailboat or paddleboard out to Ledge Light. A picture posted on Spencer’s snapchat revealed they may have reached the Ledge Light Landmark in the Sound. Spencer’s body would later be found on Friday, June 8th. Autopsy revealed that he had drowned. However, Sofia remains missing and family and friends believe that she may have been kidnapped or murdered. Most of all they want answers To learn more about this case visit the facebook page dedicated to finding her.
It was a brutal, rape, torture murder of a beautiful 17 year old woman named Carla Walker in Forth Worth, Texas in 1974. More than 45 years later, a monster named Glen Samuel McCurley was arrested for her brutal slaying. https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/fort-worth-pd-announces-arrest-in-1974-cold-case-murder-of-carla-walker/2448016/
Frances St. John Smith was born in 1909 to wealthy parents in New York City, New York. Her parents, St. John Smith and Florence Howland, were descended from families who sailed to the United States on the Mayflower and are very well-established names on the East Coast. Her parents had high hopes for Frances and her brother, St. John Smith, though only the latter would go on to achieve them. By 1928, Frances was missing and presumed dead.
Jovanna Stacey Crawford never had a chance. A chance to grow up with her mother, brother and extended family. Not even two years old, the Bridgeport, Connecticut toddler was last seen by a male baby sitter named Ronald Garrett (her mother’s then boyfriend ) on June 5th 1981 in the tough P T Barnum Housing Project in the 80 block area of Taylor Drive. The boyfriend claimed that Jovanna’s great grandmother had sent a boy around the age of 10 to 11 years old to fetch Jovanna and bring her to the great grandmother who lived nearby. The boy was described as being of African ancestry with small braids in his hair. Jovanna was never seen again.
There have been questions in Garrett’s story. Family members claim that they never sent a young boy to get Jovanna who was not quite two years old. He would be convicted of felony risk of injury to a minor and would serve a year in prison. His story has never changed, and Jovanna if alive today would be in her forties. For more information about this case visit http://charleyproject.org/case/jovanna-stacey-crawford
IF you have any information about the case please call Lt. Christopher Lamaine at the Bridgeport (Connecticut) Police at (203) 581-5183.
UK Blogger Jared Adams explores how the murder of Kate Bushell may have been committed by the same person who may or may not be responsible for the murders of two other women.
Joan Carolyn Risch by all accounts was a happily married mother of young boy and girl who was pregnant with her third child to her husband Martin. However, on October 21, 1961, Joan would vanish leaving questions unanswered for decades. According to library records, Joan had taken out books weeks earlier on disappearances and how to remove oneself from society. Did she leave behind her life as a loving mother to escape with a new lover? Or perhaps something more sinister happened as there was large amounts of blood found in her home. Did she try to perform an abortion on herself? Or was she a victim of foul play.
True Crime Author Michael Bouchard obtained the case files which are over 5000 pages thick and wrote a book about what he believes happened to Joan Risch the day she disappeared. Masquerade: The Joan Risch Cold Case – A Cops Perspective
Jam Master Jay an integral part of legendary Rap group Run DMC was gunned down in a New York City Music studio in 2002. Various outlets have announced two arrests in his murder. Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan have been arrested.
It was on July 8th, 1993, when when thirty-seven year old Betty Conley was working an overnight convenience store shift in the Town of Charlton in Upstate, New York. The married mother was slain during a robbery, .Her life and that of her family was destroyed for less than $100 that was taken from the cash register. Close to three decades later, the puzzling homicide is still unsolved.
To read more visit the reddit post by alwayssunnyinupstate
(Sources: https://www.girlgonesmart.com/post/girl-gone-local-unsolved-mystery-in-upstate-new-york)
The Netflix show “Don’t F**k with Cats” detailed how a group of internet activitsts tracked down a man filming himself killing kittens and putting in on the dark web.
Soon the activists would notify police about a young man named Luka Magnotta, who was born Eric Kirk Newman. The Canadian resident worked as a stripper, escort and appeared in adult films. He also a criminal record which included fraud. He was identified and his name given to law enforcement but nothing was done.
The saying goes that killers start with animals and gravitate towards humans. That would soon happen to Magnotta as he would kill a 33 year old Chinese National named Lin Jun. He would video tape himself killing and abusing Jun’s body. Magnotta would eventually be captured overseas and returned to Canada to face justice. He would eventually be sentenced to life in prison.
For some animal abusers that post their crimes online, prison is not the only thing they have to worry about…..
It was around 9:28pm December. 21st, 2014, when David Wheelock was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds that he suffered from while inside the home he owned at 170 Pearl Street in the town of Keene, New Hampshire (USA). Police think that someone in a brown Buick LeSabre or Buick Century killed the former military veteran. The 48 year old victim suffered from Multiple Sclerosis and was wheelchair bound. He was also a registered sex offender due to possession of child pornography.
But there are troubling theories on the internet that Wheelock may have been involved in other sexual misconduct activities. A housemate of Wheelock named Nicholas A. Coll was eventually arrested for sexually abusing dogs. It was not the first time that Coll had sexual relations with a dog.
Police believe is that Wheelock may have been involved in filming these episodes and posted them on the dark web. There is also strong belief that other men may have been involved in the abuse.
It is possible that Wheelock’s killer may have been angry at him either due to his sex offender activities or as a result of his filming of activities involving the abuse of dogs. Police believe that the killer may have been a white male in his mid-twenties. But is also possible that the killer could be female. When I asked a Keene Police officer about this case, they said off the record that they wanted to solve the murder but that there were a long line of other cases that were taking priority over this one.
There is a theory that an animal rights extremist(s) tracked down Wheelock from these videos and killed him as an act of vigilante justice. Moral of the story.
Don’t f**k animals…. especially dogs…..
If you have any information about this case, please call (603) 357-9815. You can remain anonymous.
(Sources: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a30308038/netflix-dont-fuck-with-cats-luka-magnotta/
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