Are there more victims of a Dangerous Unknown Killer?

carmendelucaIt was Thursday, September 12, 1985, when a customer of the Gas & Save Station found employee, Carmen J. DeLuca, dead  inside a temporary office trailer located at 163 Bridge Street in East Windsor.  The 23 year old Agawam, Massachusetts resident  had been fatally shot in an apparent robbery and there were no witnesses to the cj deluca murder suspect sketchcrime.Three hours later, a clerk of an AM/PM convenience store in Orange, Connecticut, was shot by a black male during a robbery. A bullet recovered from the injured clerk was matched ballistically to the bullet that killed Carmen DeLuca.  The clerk in the Orange shooting had complied with the robber’s demands but was still shot by the unknown suspect. A description of the killer in the Orange robbery was established.  He was a black male between 5’8″ tall to 6’0″ tall. He was skinny and around 18-25 years of age. The injured clerk in the Orange robbery also stated that the suspect was a passenger in a silver four-door Cadillac Brougham.  The killer had headed south from the East Windsor murder.  There is a possibility that the car could have been from Georgia.  But the killers could have been anywhere, even Connecticut.  Both robberies were near main roads, in the case of Deluca’s murder, it was only feet away from Interstate 91.  

Anyone with information about the homicide of Carmen J. DeLuca should call the East Windsor Police Detective Division at 860-292-8240.  

(Sources The Hartford Courant & Fox 61)

Hiking Trail Mystery: Who was the man named Ben Bilemy?

floridahiker2018It’s a mystery that Collier County Sheriffs in Florida have been trying to find out for more than a year.  On July 23rd, 2018, a deceased hiker was found in his yellow tent at  the Noble’s Campground in the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Everglades.  Law Enforcement believe the man had been dead for several days and do not suspect foul play.  He was described as a white male between the ages of 35 to 50 years old.  When found he was five foot eight and weighed 83 pounds. He had a salt and pepper beard with bluish gray eyes.  His teeth were in excellent shape and had been cared for.  At the time of his death, he had not been in good health.

floridahiker3After a composite sketch was posted of him online, people remembered meeting him while hiking.  He used the hiking names, “Denim” and Mostly Harmless”.  He also used the name Ben Bilemy as he signed into several hostels where he stayed along the Appalachian Trail and Florida Trail in Virginia, Georgia and Florida.  There were pictures taken of him as well as video, still no one knows his real name or where he was from.  There is some belief that he may have worked in the IT industry and had connections to Louisiana and New York State.

Here is a link to a potential timeline of his time on the various hiking trails.

https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/fl-big-cypress-national-preserve-male-hiker-denim-and-mostly-harmless-23-july-2018.385078/page-13

Here is a link to a video of him on the trail.  https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=245369582985667

If you know the identity of this man, please call the Collier County Sheriff’s Office at 239-252-9300.

12-23-2020:  Journalist Jason Nark in the Adventure Journal claims that 42 year old Vance Rodriguez, formerly of Louisiana and New York is the hiker known as “Mostly Harmless:.  No confirmation yet from Law Enforcement.  

https://www.adventure-journal.com/2020/12/the-mystery-of-deceased-hiker-mostly-harmless-is-at-long-last-solved/

A Brutal Execution and Grisly Scene

dawnevansIt was a horrible crime scene in front of 169 Pavillion Avenue around 12:40 am in South Providence on June 14, 1989. Police got to the scene of a truck that was on fire. Inside in the passenger seat of the cabin was the horribly charred body of an adult female. According to early media reports, the truck had been abandoned for a year and the victim was found to have been shot in the head. One witness reported seeing a white car that drove away from the area at an intense rate of speed. The victims would be identified as 19 year old Dawn Evans who lived at Holly Court. She was the mother of a young son and was taking college courses at Community College of Rhode Island to be a nurse. She also worked at the Subway Sandwich Shop on Tiogue Avenue.

If you have any information about who killed Dawn Evans, please contact the Providence Police Department at (401)272-3121.

A Young Woman is Attacked and Slain, an unknown sadistic Killer remains on the Loose

brittanyphillipsmurder

Brittany Phillips was brutally raped and murdered by a still unidentified assailant.  By the time she had been found, she had been deceased for several days at her residence  at the Union apartments where she lived alone in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  She was a student at Tulsa Community College at the time of her death.

Or visit this website http://www.brittanyphillipsmurder.net/

26 Years Later Song Still Echoes those that are Lost

Aundria Bowman missing 1989In 1992, the band Soul Asylum came out with their biggest hit, “Runaway Train.”

The easy going music matched up with lyrics that told the heartfelt stories of children needing to run away from trauma at home. A music video would come out with pictures of missing children.  Some were found, some remain missing to this day.  One in particular at 2:08 of the video shows a young black haired girl with a large smile but empty eyes.  She is Aundria Michelle Bowman who has been missing from her home in Hamilton Michigan.since March 11, 1989.  At the time she was last seen, she was 5’5; 115 pounds with brown hair and green eyes.

Aundria Bowman missing 1989A facebook page alleges some disturbing details that point the finger at her adoptive father who has a criminal record that includes a crime of a cruel sexual nature.  Days before she disappeared, she accused her father of sexually assaulting her.  Her biological mother is desperate to find her but fears that she succumbed to foul play.  To get more information visit here.

UPDATE 11-23-2019:  On Friday, Nov. 22, 2019 police in Dennis Lee Bowman (Aundria’s adopted father) was arrested for the 1980 Virginia murder of 25 year old Kathleen Doyle in her Norfolk home.  For more information about this arrest please visit here.

UPDATE: FEBRUARY 6, 2020, human remains have been located and are believed to be that of Andrua Bowman in a shallow grave that that had allegedly been covered by cement in the 3200 block of 136th Avenue in Monterey Township.  

Fade out Podcast doing a series on the disappearance of Doreen Vincent

Doreen Vincent Missing 1988 Wallingford, CT
Doreen Vincent Missing 1988 Wallingford, CT

She’s been missing from Wallingford, Connecticut since 1988.  Police have one person of interest in mind but are the others that could have harmed her?  Listen to the trailer at the link below.

 

http://fadedout.libsyn.com/season-two-trailer-doreen-vincent?fbclid=IwAR0DDRHhK40kZ7Tj6F0yBWOo-ErFLsYfTgW55L1cdVG6Qp1TC3lq42Q1rpM

 

Family Searches for Son and People Are Not Talking….

Timothy Poss is missing 9-1-2018 from Hot Springs, Arkansas
Timothy Poss

Timothy Poss has been missing out of Hot Springs Arkansas, since September 1 2018.  At the time of disappearance, he was staying at a meth house.  His mom got a call from him that morning around 8:30 am.  Several minutes later a female called her asking her to come get him.  Poss’s mother said she could pick him up it would be later on in the day.  Minutes later the same female texted Poss’s mother saying he walked into the woods. When family members went to retrieve him, Poss was not there.  However. several of his items were his including his cell phone.  Timothy Poss is 31 years old and is five foot six and 145 pounds.  He has blue eyes and a receding hairline that is brown.  He has several tattoos/  His right hand has MAMMA’S inked on it.  Hi left hand has BOY inked there.  The left forearm has the word “Crazy” tattooed on it.

His family is looking for him and for answers.  If you have any information as to where he may be contact the Garland County Sheriff’s Office at (501) 622-3660.

UPDATE:  3-28-2019 Sad news to report, human skeletal remains found several hundred yards away in an area north of Marion Anderson Road on March 23rd, 2019 have been identified as Timothy Poss.  Investigation continues as to cause and manner of death.  

(Source:  Case Submitted by Family & NAMUS)

 

New Years Day Mystery Still Haunts City

David Paul's Gravesite ceremony
Photo by Devin Leith Yessian of the Record Journal

 

January 2, 1988 was a cold, bitter day and while many people were busy recuperating from celebrating the New Year, a horrible death had just occurred. While walking along a wooden path in the southern part of the Connecticut city of Meriden, a woman thought she saw a little doll wrapped in pink and white blankets nestled against a tree in an empty company parking lot. As the woman approached closer she made the grisly discovery that it was a dead 7 1/2 pound blue eyed, blonde haired boy. The newly born infant had died from the extreme cold in a few short hours.

Gravemarker for Unidentified Infant found on January 2, 1988 in Meriden, CT
Photograph by David Zajac of the Record Journal

The boy was given the name, David Paul by a pastor at a local church. The name means beloved little man. It’s been almost twenty years, since David Paul’s lifeless body was found. It is suspected that he was abandoned by a female (most likely his mother) and police are looking to find her.

With the popular usage of family ancestry websites, it is possible that David Paul’s DNA will lead to either one his parents.  In 2018, the technology has helped crack many cold cases including that of a serial killer in California who is responsible for over a dozen murders and fifty rapes.  Maybe 2019, will finally give us an answer as to who this child is and why he was left to die the way he did.

There is a 20,000 dollar reward being offered in this case. If you have any information about the death and abandonment of David Paul, please call the Meriden Police Department at 203-634-3784.

For more information visit this article about David Paul

UPDATE: January 14, 2020, David Paul’s mother has been identified as Karen Kuzmak-Roche.  She was 25 years old at the time and gave birth alone.  After she had left her son in a parking lot, she had called the local fire department, to “tell them to look for something there”.  Due to the statute of limitations, charges are not expected.  Police are still trying to verify who David Paul’s father is but do not believe he had anything to do with the crime.  

(Source: The Record Journal)

 

Police Still looking for Clues in Murder of Providence Woman

Unsolved murder of Rhonda Travers in Warwick, Rhode IslandIt was June 20, 1987, when Rhonda Lee Travers body was found about 12:40 p.m. in a wooded area next to the Leviton Manufacturing dump in Warwick by an individual walking across the site.   Despite a intensive search no weapons were found at the scene.  Newspaper articles state that Travers had been dragged by her feet from a car to where she was found.  There did not appear to be a struggle at the scene.   The 26 year old had been involved in prostitution.  Some of her belongings were eventually found at a location in another part of town.   Travers was from Providence and lived on Bridgeham Street.  There have been several unsolved murders of woman that were engaged in prostitution in Rhode Island during the time of Traver’s death.  Most of those cases have not been solved.  If you have any information about this homicide please contact the Warwick Detective Division at 401-468-4261. All calls can be confidential. You can also email the Warwick Police at warwpd@warwickpd.org.

(Source The Providence Journal & Rhode Island Cold Case Unit)