Golden State Killer

The Golden State Killer is a serial killer, serial rapist and serial burglar who committed 50 rapes in Northern California during the mid-1970s and murdered twelve people in Southern California from 1979 through 1986. Other monikers include the Original Night Stalker, East Area Rapist, the East Bay Rapist, and the Diamond Knot Killer. The "Golden State Killer" moniker was coined by true crime writer Michelle McNamara. The crimes initially centered on the then-unincorporated areas of Carmichael, Citrus Heights and Rancho Cordova, all east of Sacramento, where at least fifty women were raped between June 18, 1976, and July 5, 1979. Some suspect that earlier incidents in Visalia are also connected. In 2001, several of the Northern California rapes were linked by DNA to murders in southern California. All of the DNA-linked assaults occurred in Contra Costa County, but the distinctive modus operandi (MO) of the rapist makes it very likely the same man was also responsible for the attacks in the Sacramento area. His last known crime, the only one after 1981, took place in 1986. Several suspects were cleared through DNA, alibi, or other investigative means and methods. On June 15, 2016, the FBI and local law enforcement agencies held a news conference to announce a nationwide effort and a US$50,000 reward for his capture. On April 25, 2018, Sacramento Police announced the arrest of suspect 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo on two counts of first-degree murder. Investigation into this case- Detectives connect the crimes: Prior to officially connecting the Original Night Stalker to the East Area Rapist in 2001, some law enforcement officials, particularly several from the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, sought to link the Goleta cases separately to the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker. These postulated links were considered primarily due to similarity in modus operandi. One of the already linked Original Night Stalker double murders did take place in Ventura, California, 40 miles southeast of Goleta, while the remaining murders took place in Orange County, California, a further 90 miles to the southeast. In 2001, several rapes in Contra Costa County believed to have been part of the East Area Rapist series were linked by DNA to the Smith, Harrington, Whithuhn, and Cruz murders. In 2011, DNA evidence proved that the Domingo–Sanchez murders were committed by the Original Night Stalker. Suspects eliminated- Throughout the course of the investigation into the Golden State Killer murders, the following persons were eliminated as suspects: Brett Glasby – From Goleta, California, considered a suspect by investigators in Santa Barbara County. He was murdered in Mexico in 1982, prior to the murder of Janelle Cruz, so was eliminated as a suspect. Paul "Cornfed" Schneider – A high-ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Schneider was a career criminal living in Orange County, California, when the murders of the Harringtons, Manuela Witthuhn, and Janelle Cruz occurred. In the late 1990s, while serving time at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, Schneider provided a DNA sample to authorities. This sample cleared him as the Golden State Killer. Joe Alsip – A business partner of the victim Lyman Smith. Alsip was a friend of the Smiths and visited their home on High Point Drive in Ventura the day before the murders. Alsip's pastor claimed that he had confessed to him, during a family counseling session, but this confession was considered dubious by the Ventura County District Attorney's Office. Nevertheless, Alsip was arraigned for the murders of Lyman and Charlene Smith in 1982. After the preliminary hearing, however, all charges against him were dropped. He was also tested in 1997 for DNA and was cleared. In November 2002, journalist Colleen Cason wrote a newspaper series about the Golden State Killer murders for the Ventura County Star. According to Cason's articles, Detective Larry Pool of the Orange County Sheriff's Department visited California's Death Row at San Quentin State Prison in an attempt to locate the Golden State Killer. Detective Pool suspected that the Golden State Killer had been captured and sentenced to death for some other violent crime. Nevertheless, none of the genetic samples collected from Death Row inmates at San Quentin matched the DNA of the Golden State Killer. Continuing investigation: On June 15, 2016, the FBI released further information in relation to the crimes including new composite sketches, along with testimonies from victims and local/federal investigators. A press conference was held this same day in Sacramento, local and FBI law enforcement agencies announced a US$50,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the East Area Rapist. The initiative includes a national database to support law enforcement investigating the crimes and to handle tips and information. Joseph DeAngelo arrest: On April 25, 2018, Sacramento Police announced the April 24 arrest of a suspect in the case; 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo (born November 8, 1945). DeAngelo, a former police officer in both Auburn and in Exeter, was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Responses: The Original Night Stalker/East Area Rapist case was the motivating factor in the passage of legislation leading to the establishment of California's DNA database, which authorizes the collection of the DNA of all the accused and convicted felons in California. California's DNA data retrieval and storage program is considered by researchers to be second only to Virginia's in size and effectiveness in solving cold cases. While the California DNA database motivated by this case has solved numerous previously unsolved cold cases across the country, no suspect for the original case was identified until 2018. Significance: The case was a factor in the establishment of California's DNA database, which collects DNA from all accused and convicted felons in California and has been called second only to Virginia's in effectiveness in solving cold cases.

Next week

Next week is my last week of classes and I'm having a lesson with my visiting teachers and missionaries. I'm super excited and can't wait

vegetarian lasangua

i'm eating vegetarian lasagna today. i love it since i'm a vegetarian.

Little Miss 1565

The best-known victim of the circus fire was a young blonde girl wearing a white dress. She is known only as "Little Miss 1565", named after the number assigned to her body at the city's makeshift morgue. Oddly well preserved even after her death, her face has become arguably the most familiar image of the fire. Her true identity has been a topic of debate and frustration in the Hartford area since the fire occurred. She was buried without a name in Hartford's Northwood cemetery, where a victims' memorial also stands. Two police investigators, Sgts. Thomas Barber and Edward Lowe, photographed her and took fingerprints, footprints, and dental charts. Despite massive publicity and repeated displays of the famous photograph in nationwide magazines, she was never claimed. Barber and Lowe spent the rest of their lives trying to identify her. They decorated her grave with flowers each Christmas, Memorial Day, and July 6. After their deaths, a local flower company continued to decorate the grave. In 1991, the body was declared to be that of Eleanor Emily Cook, despite the fact that her aunt and uncle had examined the body and it did not fit the description they provided. The Connecticut State Police forensics unit compared hair samples and determined they were probably from the same person. The body was exhumed in 1991 and buried next to her brother, Edward, who had also died in the fire. Proposed identifications: In 1981, Lowe's widow announced that Lowe had identified the child and contacted her family, but they had requested no publicity. In 1987, someone left a note on the 1565 gravestone reading Sarah Graham is her Name! 7-6-38 DOB, 6 years, Twin. Notes on nearby gravestones indicated that her twin brother and other relatives were buried close by. In 1991, arson investigator Rick Davey (along with co-writer Don Massey) published A Matter of Degree: The Hartford Circus Fire and Mystery of Little Miss 1565, in which he claims the girl was Eleanor Emily Cook and from Massachusetts. Davey also contends that there was a conspiracy within the judicial system to convict the Ringling defendants, and that Segee was the arsonist. Prior to writing the book, Davey spent six years researching the case and conducting his own experiments as to how the fire really may have started. He described the original investigation both "flawed and primitive", though he did not work on the original case. Eleanor's brother Donald Cook had contacted authorities in 1955 insisting that the girl was his sister, but nothing came of it, and Donald later worked with Davey to establish her identity. Donald believes that family members were shown the wrong body in the confusion at the morgue. Ongoing questions of the girl: Various assertions put forth in A Matter of Degree have been fiercely disputed by investigators who worked on the case, as well as by other writers, most notably Stewart O'Nan, who published The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy in 2001. O'Nan points to the fact that Little Miss 1565 had blonde hair, while Eleanor Cook was a brunette. The shape of Little Miss 1565's face and that of Eleanor Cook are dissimilar, and the heights and ages of the two girls do not match up. Perhaps most significantly, when shown a photograph of Little Miss 1565, Eleanor's mother Mildred Corintha Parsons Cook immediately stated that this was not her daughter. She firmly maintained that stance until her death in 1997, age 91. Badly injured in the fire, Mrs. Cook had been unable to claim her two dead children, and was too emotionally traumatized to pursue it later. She had been told that Eleanor was not in any of the locations where bodies were kept for identification. She believed that Eleanor was one of two children who had been burnt beyond recognition and remain unidentified. O'Nan thinks she may be body number 1503. He further points to the differences in the dental records of Eleanor Cook and the records made of Little Miss 1565 after her death. As O'Nan and others have pointed out, the most likely scenario is that a family claiming a body early on mistakenly identified Eleanor Cook as their own child and she is buried under that child's name. Even when "Little Miss 1565's" picture ran in the papers, they failed to recognize her as their own due to their desire to put the traumatic event behind them. While DNA analysis could end this debate definitively, the logistics of exhuming all the likely candidates for this mix-up make this unlikely. With the questions over whether Eleanor Cook is the true identity of Little Miss 1565 still unanswered in the eyes of many, the body was exhumed after the release of A Matter of Degree and buried in Southampton, Massachusetts, next to the body of Edward Cook, the brother of Eleanor Cook and a victim of the circus fire himself. In 1992, her death certificate was officially changed from the previous identification of "1565". Since then, the Cook family has raised questions about whether the body is indeed that of Eleanor Cook, and some investigators have come to believe Eleanor's body may have been another of the unclaimed bodies from the fire and not Little Miss 1565.

finally

i'm getting SOME relief from my scoliosis pain. it's not severe but i took a "nap" or as i call it "taking a rest while listening to music". anyhow i've got some tenderness in my arm and that's killing me

my uber

a friend who gave me a ride home from church called herself "my uber".

end

it's nearly the end of the semester. it's awesome since i'll have more free time.

debunks that theory

my mom's been trying to get me to do hand modeling for YEARS but I've always refused since i have a scar on my knuckle. now i'm interested and my mom doesn't seem to want to do it any more. there goes that theory moms are their kids BFFs.

all about me

i'm a 23 year old bi-racial (Asian and white) female. My full name is Jacqueline Grace Tzou but I go by Jackie a lot more. I’m left handed, wear glasses and am the eldest and only girl in my family. I run my own YouTube channel about daily life of being me and what it’s like. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFUFd6uUMNKrSzMphh7GcOw?

One day

A little girl once dreamed about the future of her family. She dreamed that she was OK but that her daughter was in the hospital. No one could understand why the girl was having visions. In a few years, they had forgotten the visions. They were abruptly reminded when they overheard about them. They had remembered once she had more. The kids were having more of the visions. She’d had more visions about her own kids and family. They were wondering why she was having more than usual. She explained, “They’ve always been there. I’ve not mentioned them more often since I’m teased for them; even by you all so I kept quiet.”

dear diary

this is the story of a girl; a girl whose only friend is her diary. She wrote in it and carried it around with her since she was alone in the world. She had “friends” in school she would “talk to” but she wasn’t close to them. One day she forgot her diary. She panicked. She looked everywhere for it. When she located it she saw everyone had written in it. Her teacher saw it and saved it for her. Her teacher asked to see her after school so she could give it back privately. When the girl was given the book back the teacher was there along with the principal and school guidance counselor. The girl asked what was going on. The teacher asked why she wrote in her diary all the time and asked if she knew what other students were commenting on in the book. The girl said, “No she didn’t know anyone else read the book.” The teacher, principal and guidance counselor all looked at the girl. The teacher said there were some nasty comments in the book once the other kids got their hands on the diary. The girl asked for her diary back. The principal said they couldn’t give it back because it was evidence. “Evidence?” the girl asked, “Evidence of what?” “Evidence of abuse; of being bullied and harassed; of being isolated,” the principal explained. The girl knew instantly what they were getting at. They knew about her parents abusing her and her family. They knew why she was always writing in her diary all of a sudden. They said they were there to help her out of her situation with her family. They said they called in an anonymous tip about her and her family and that the police were on their way to arrest the parents and get the kids to safety. The girl cried. She didn’t want to leave the security of her house and family. The principal said, “You and your siblings needed this. Your family has been thru hell and we’re trying to help you now.” The girl cried and continued to cry since the kids were worried about this and being separated into different foster homes. The principal said she’d help the family out as much as they could. The counselor asked why the kids didn’t come forward sooner. “This is why” the girl said thru sobs. She and her siblings couldn’t bear to be alone, she explained. The school was able to keep most of the underage kids together with relatives and the older kids were set up with group homes. In the end the girl came out of her shell, relinquishing the book that had been her safety net all these years and lead a relatively normal life.

annoying

I went out with 2 friends last Wednesday. My meal was paid for by my friend. He and I aren’t dating. In my mind I’m like ok, “pay my friend back somehow.” He said it was “on the house.” This happened previously with another friend

Karl-Erivan Haub

Karl-Erivan Haub: missing since April 7, 2018 is a German-American billionaire businessman, and the managing director and part owner of Tengelmann Group. Life and family prior to disappearence: Karl-Erivan Haub was born on March 2, 1960 in Tacoma, Washington. He is the oldest son of Erivan Haub the former CEO of Tengelmann Group. From 1978 to 1983, Haub studied economics and social sciences at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. At the same time, he was a trainee at Tengelmann Group. According to Forbes, his family is one of the richest in the world. Disappearance: Haub is an experienced ski mountaineer. On April 7, 2018, he went training for a skiing tour in Zermatt, Switzerland and did not return, thus being reported as missing. Reportedly, he intended to take part in the Patrouille des Glaciers, the world's biggest ski touring race which starts in Zermatt (respectively in the valley to the west, Arolla), and ends in Verbier. He had been taking part in this 53 km long race for several years. Following his disappearance, Tengelmann announced that his brother Christian W.E. Haub would be appointed sole CEO of Tengelmann Group effective 18 April 2018. Career: He worked for Nestlé and McKinsey & Company before joining Tengelmann again. In 2000, Haub became CEO of Tengelmann Group.

good idea

it's apparently a good idea i'm having my visiting teachers over and the elders. she thinks that's a good idea

what the heck?

i'm starting to make tons of friends at the YSA i go to. i'm also missing everyone when i don't go. last weekend i went out of town i took tons of pictures for my friends. i'm shocked that i'm making tons of friends easily

spoil everyone

it seemed like i spoiled everyone from the kentlands ward since i have them nice presents (and sometimes tons of presents). it was awesome since i was "spoiled" by everyone from that ward.

struggle

once i brought gifts for tons of people at the ward i used to go to and then i tried walking up stairs in heels with the presents i hadn't given out. that was hard.

ah this is great

my back is feeling much better since i started massage therapy again. i was in pain. like mondo pain to the point of i could barely function without painkillers.

weird

i'm not as tired as i thought i'd be at the end of the semester. i'm sure if i don't have school i'll pass out and take long naps and not have to go on my computer as often.

yay

i saw a friend who i haven't seen in a long time. it was nice to see him again. as creepy as he is he's not as strange as some people make him out to be. he likes holding my hand and he is also a sweetheart.

gah

what i say when something scares me or embarrasses me. like last night i went out with friends a buddy paid for my meal.

Murder of Marcia King

breaking news: Marcia Lenore King, formerly known by the nickname "Buckskin Girl" was a previously unidentified female murder victim discovered in 1981 in Troy, Miami County, Ohio. She is known for her distinct hairstyle along with the tasseled suede jacket she wore. The victim may have been murdered by a serial killer who had killed many sex workers or dancers in the area, although this specific case had no indication of sexual activity. Nearly 37 years after her body was found, the Miami County Sheriff Department formally identified "Buckskin Girl" as Marcia King of Arkansas. She was 21 at the time of her death. Discovery and death: The victim was found within thirty-six and fifty hours of her death off of Ohio State Route 55, near Greenlee Road in Newton Township, Troy, Ohio after police responded to a call stating that a woman's body had been found along a road. A passerby had first noticed the victim's poncho and soon after discovered the victim's body. The woman had been placed along the road in a fetal position on her right side without shoes or socks. The victim had suffered trauma to the head and neck, was strangled and had a lacerated liver. Authorities believed that she had been killed elsewhere and left on the road after her death. It had been speculated that she may have been a teenage runaway or a possible victim of a serial killer who had murdered multiple sex workers in the region. However, the scene showed no signs of sexual assault, rape or other sexual activity, indicating that she had not been a sex worker. Because of the absence of footwear, some believe she may have been murdered by an abusive significant other. A retired investigator stated that the victim was not likely from the area where she was found. Description: The young woman's naturally reddish-brown hair was braided into pigtails on both sides of her head. Blue rubber bands had been used to hold the braids in place. Her eyes were a "light brown" and she had many freckles across her face. Her nose was described to be "very pointed" as well. Her personal hygiene was described to be well maintained, and all of her teeth, including the wisdom teeth, were in good condition and had no evidence of fillings or other dental work, except for a porcelain crown on her upper-right incisor. The victim had a ruddy complexion, indicating she spent a lot of time outdoors. She was between 5'4" and 5'6" and weighed 125 - 130 pounds. Several scars were also found on the body, including a vertical scar under the chin, on one wrist, the arms and the ankle. Her bra size was 32D. She wore Wrangler jeans, a patterned brown and orange turtleneck pullover sweater, a white bra, as well as a deerskin poncho that appeared to have been handmade with purple lining. She wore no shoes or socks. Investigation: The body was autopsied on the afternoon that it was discovered. The coroner officially ruled her death as being the result of strangulation. Early efforts to identify the Buckskin Girl involved the creation of a sketch of the face that would be published in local newspapers and television networks on April 28, 1981. About two hundred leads were followed as a result of media attention, yet none resulted in any solution. She was eventually buried, but her clothing remains in storage at the local police department. Because of the short time the victim had been deceased, it was possible to obtain her fingerprints. Her dental information and DNA were also taken. In 2008, the victim was entered into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System where her fingerprint, dental and DNA information were made available for law enforcement 226 missing women and girls had been ruled out as possible identities of the victim. Some believed that she had been a runaway teenager or a transient wanderer, although her excellent personal hygiene suggested that she had access to hygiene products not too long before her death. Since her body was located near a town road instead of a highway, the probability of her being a "wanderer" for a significant amount of time was initially thought to be negligible. Authorities stated that the likely reason why she has remained unidentified for so long was due to her dying far from where she originated, also stating she had not spent a long period of time in Ohio. In 2016, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children released a forensic facial reconstruction of the victim and added her case to their website, depicting her with and without her braided hairstyle. Later that year, the Miami County Police Department approved forensic palynology tests on the victim's clothing, which suggested that she had spent time in the Northeastern part of the United States, as well as in the Western part of the country, or northern Mexico. Soot particles were also found on some of her clothing, which suggested she had been in a populous region, most likely near vehicles. Isotope testing showed she had spent a total of around four months in areas such as Fort Worth, Texas and southern Oklahoma, spending two months there on two separate occasions. Serial killer theory: Some investigators speculate that King was the first of many victims killed by an unidentified serial killer who perpetrated his murders in the 1980s and 1990s, continuing until 2004, in Ohio. Such a serial killer was suspected to have killed approximately seven to ten other women, presumed sex workers and exotic dancers, in Ohio. In 1991, a press conference preceded the creation of a task force which attempted to connect various murders in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois. These cases were originally connected by a reporter who discovered similarities between unsolved murders in the area. On an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, the case was briefly detailed along with several other cases connected to the unidentified serial killer. The program connected this case with the murders of Shirley Dee Taylor, Anna Marie Patterson, Hebron Jane Doe (identified in 2017 as Patrice Corley) and other murder cases. All of the victims had been beaten or strangled and had some clothing or jewelry missing. She wore no jewelry, had her footwear removed, and died in a similar manner to that of the other victims. There are, however, several indications disputing this theory. The victim was missing shoes when she was found, but there was no indication that she had participated in any sexual activity prior to death. Furthermore, she was fairly well-groomed, unlike many of the other victims. Some, like Corley had participated in sexual activity before their deaths, a factor which indicated that they were sex workers. Also diverging from the theory, Patterson's body had been wrapped in a sleeping bag and was likely stored in a refrigerated area for "nearly a month" before it was located on the side of a highway. It is thought that the women who may have been victims of the serial killer could have met with a man at a truck stop while working as sex workers. In the case of Anna Marie Patterson, there was a suspect, identified over a CB radio as "Dr. No", believed to be between the ages of 25 and 40. Patterson's husband, who was involved with her work as a sex worker, stated that she was uncomfortable accepting the man's requests, as other local sex workers, some speaking over the radio, had expressed that they were suspicious of the man and did not wish to meet with him. Police have suspected that this person may have been her killer, and that he may also have been involved in the death of King. Earlier, it was presumed that she had been a victim of a different span of killings, known as the Redhead murders, but this theory has been ruled out Early speculation also made a connection to the murder of a 27-year-old woman in February 1981, yet police never made an official link between these two murders. Identification: King was announced to have been identified on April 11, 2018. This is the first case for the newly formed DNA Doe Project. This nonprofit organization led by Colleen Fitzpatrick and Margaret Press applied genetic genealogy tools to the identification of this "Doe". The Victim's DNA was obtained from a blood sample that had been in storage since 1981; it was processed using advanced DNA techniques and uploaded to a public genealogy database. The The match between her and the unidentified victim was confirmed on April 9. She was originally from Little Rock, Arkansas and had not been reported missing by her family, although her family continued to search for her. King's mother resided at the same residence, kept the same phone number in case her daughter would ever contact her. She will remain buried at the Riverside Cemetery, but the headstone reading "Jane Doe" will eventually be replaced to bear her name.

Ms popular

I hated being Ms popular on Sunday. I love the singles ward but its also annoying and often I'd rather be left alone

Disappearance of Tiffany Daniels

At 4:43 p.m. on August 12, 2013, Tiffany Daniels left her job as a theater technician at Pensacola State College in Pensacola, Florida. She told her supervisor that she would not be returning for a few days, but did not say why. Although she returned home briefly afterwards, her housemate was busy with a telephone conversation and did not see her. She has not been seen since. Because she had told her supervisor she would be taking time off, Daniels was not reported missing until the end of the week, after she had failed to return to work. Her friends and family were unaware of any plans she might have made that would explain her absence. Tiffany's housemate also reported that she had left unusually early for work that day after some strange activity even earlier that morning. A security camera on the Bob Sikes Bridge connecting Pensacola and Santa Rosa Island recorded her car crossing the bridge almost three hours after she had left work. Eight days after her disappearance, the vehicle was found at a parking lot in Pensacola Beach, along with her bicycle, purse and cell phone. Residents in the area said the car had only been there a few days, and reported seeing an unidentified male around it. Two unidentified fingerprints were found on it, but a search of the surrounding beach area found no trace of Daniels. Several theories have been put forth to account for Daniels's disappearance, ranging from foul play to an accidental drowning. Based on an anonymous tip and several reported sightings further west along Interstate 10, her family believes she was a victim of human trafficking and may still be alive. The case was the subject of a 2016 episode of Investigation Discovery's Disappeared, which i've got to see. Background of the case: A native of the Dallas area, Daniels distinguished herself in high school through her interest in art and her outgoing personality. Her family, who described her as "free-spirited,” say she could often lift the mood of those around her simply with her presence. She enjoyed painting, and eventually took a job at the Pensacola State College theater in Florida, where she painted sets. When she was not at work, she took advantage of Pensacola's cultural and natural attractions. In the city's downtown, near her job, she often organized and attended blues and swing dance parties. From her house, a short distance from the Bob Sikes bridge to Santa Rosa Island in the Gulf of Mexico, she often went hiking or biking in the dunes. A pescetarian, she had tattooed four images atop her feet showing a plant's growth and blooming. Despite her apparent satisfaction with her life, she had financial problems. Her parents said that by summer of 2013 they had noticed she had a pattern of paying the rent for a series of housemates who were either disinclined or unable to pay their share. In July of that year, after another one had moved out, she advertised on Craigslist for a new roommate. Gary Nichols, the 54-year-old father of one of her friends who was separating from his wife and wanted to live closer to his job, answered her ad and moved in. Daniels' parents were uneasy about her sharing living quarters with a man more than twice her age, but he was able to pay his share of the bills, and the two had similar interests. He, too, liked bicycling and followed a similar diet. Disappearance of Tiffany: On August 11, Tiffany started the day with a farewell breakfast for her boyfriend, who had been accepted into the graduate robotics program at the University of Texas in Austin. He had encouraged her to move there with him, but she demurred. Her friends said that while she still loved him and wanted to continue the relationship, to the point of making plans to visit him later in Austin, she was not ready to move from Pensacola yet. After the breakfast, he left. Nichols recalls that she was slightly depressed for the rest of the day, but that was tempered with enthusiasm for a later visit to Austin, a town her friends believed she could easily adapt to. Daniels and the theater department were scheduled to start preparing sets for a production of Spamalot that fall. That night, she and Nichols decided to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the film on which that musical is based, for inspiration and relaxation, after which the two retired to their bedrooms as they both had to work the next morning. At 5 a.m., Nichols recalled that he heard the door to the house open and close several times. He looked outside from his room, thinking it might be Daniels, but did not see her. When he got up later and left for work around 7 a.m., Daniels' car, a gray Toyota 4Runner, was gone. He assumed she, too, had gone to work. Her parents, however, say it was unusual for her to get up early; in situations where she had to, she would usually leave only right before the time she had to be wherever it was. Daniels arrived at work on schedule for the beginning of her shift painting sets. She asked her supervisor if she could leave a little early that day, and also let him know that she would be taking some time off, possibly the whole week, but did not explain why other than "things she had to take care of." He assented, and she punched out at 4:43 p.m. as she left the theater. No one has reported seeing her since. That night, Nichols grew concerned when Daniels had not returned home by 10 p.m. She did not return his calls. He called his daughter Noel, who told him not to worry as Daniels was an adult and might want to hang out with friends closer to her age. He agreed with her and went to bed. Nichols again attempted to call Daniels when she had not returned by the next morning, but again could not reach her. That evening, he returned and found that the electricity to the house had been turned off. He assumed that his housemate had failed to pay her share and again called his daughter to inform her that Daniels still had not returned. This time he suggested she get in touch with her parents, which she did via a private Facebook message. Noel and Daniels' mother Cindy soon began working through the extensive list of Tiffany's friends that they knew of. None had seen her all week either; they all assumed that if she was anywhere she was visiting other people she knew, all of whom Cindy and Noel had already called. Meanwhile Tiffany had not turned up. By the end of the week they realized it was time to call the police and report her missing. Investigation into Tiffany's disappearance: Cindy Daniels at first went to the Escambia County sheriff's office, which seemed to her to be dismissive of the case. They took the information she gave them but seemed to believe that her daughter had gone out partying and would turn up soon of her own accord. However, because Tiffany had been living in the city of Pensacola and was last seen there, he referred the case to that city's police department, who Cindy found showing much more interest in the case. Detective Daniel Harnett met Cindy at Tiffany's house and searched it. He found no signs of foul play, and Tiffany's tent was still in her room. If she had decided to leave town, she was not going camping, he realized. When Harnett learned that Tiffany's boyfriend had left Pensacola the day before, he began exploring that angle. He had called Tiffany upon his arrival in Austin on the 11th, but not at all on the 12th. He was cooperative and provided fingerprints and DNA samples, and his cell-phone records showed he had indeed been in the Austin area all weekend, suggesting he had not secretly returned to Pensacola. Harnett also considered that perhaps Daniels had been depressed over his departure. Her sister later told Disappeared that she had seemed a little less vivacious than usual earlier in 2013. But she had plans for the immediate future: besides the trip to Austin she had planned a dance in two weeks time. It did not seem like she had taken her own life, or started a new one elsewhere. The investigation did find, however, that at some point after her early departure from work Daniels returned to her house briefly. Nichols was present at the time, and talking on the phone with his own girlfriend out of state, but does not recall her presence. Cindy Daniels is skeptical that he could have missed that she was there, both due to an open space between the top of her closet wall and Nichols' statement that he had heard the front door opening and closing in the morning, but police believe his account and do not consider him to have engaged in any wrongdoing, noting that he was the first to raise concern about Tiffany's whereabouts. Discovery of her car: Over the first weekend after Daniels disappeared, the case was publicized. The news media reported on it, and her friends and family distributed fliers on the street and posted them. Early the next week, it produced the first evidence related to her disappearance. A jogger, who also was a friend of the Daniels family, recognized Tiffany's 4Runner in a parking lot at Park West in Pensacola Beach near Fort Pickens, at the western end of Santa Rosa Island, on August 20, eight days after she had last been seen. She had often gone hiking in the nearby dunes of Gulf Islands National Seashore, despite her mother's warnings not to go to the beach alone (Cindy Daniels says that the car's discovery there suggested to her something terrible had happened to her daughter). Within it were her bicycle, cell phone, purse with wallet, some clothes, paintings, a jug of water and a jar of peanut butter. After it was towed to the police garage for examination, investigators found two fingerprints, one on the door handle and the other on the steering wheel, that could not be matched to Daniels or any of the investigators who had worked on the car. A resident of a nearby condominium said the car had "definitely" not been there until two days earlier. Two other residents said that they had seen a man getting out of the car earlier that day. To establish when the car had been driven to the island, Detective Harnett examined security camera footage from the toll booths at the Bob Sikes Bridge, the only road connection between Pensacola and the island. They showed that the 4Runner had passed through the tolls at 7:51 p.m. on the evening Daniels had disappeared. It could not be determined from the footage if she was driving the car, however. It remains in the police impound lot, its contents intact, in case new information comes to light for which it might be relevant. The question still remained as to whether anyone had seen anything or anyone who might have left the car in the parking lot where it was found. Two large residential complexes serving the island's summer vacation population are adjacent to it; it was possible someone there might have seen something. Friends and family again circulated flyers in the area and canvassed residents, but found no leads. At the police garage, investigators found sand on the bicycle tires but none on the cars floorboards. This suggested to Harnett the possibility that if Daniels had gone for a bike ride on the beach that evening, she might have decided to go for a swim afterwards (a friend of hers noted that the Perseid meteor shower was happening at that time, which he said was the sort of thing she might have decided to watch on the beach). If she had, it was possible that she had drowned. However, no bodies were found on the shore, and Harnett says it is usually common for them to wash up after a drowning. It was also possible that she had met with an accident or foul play somewhere on land. However, there was then no way to be sure. Santa Rosa Island is 50 miles (80 km) long, and the police did not have enough manpower to search even its beaches, much less the dunes, thickly vegetated in some areas. The weekend after the car was found, the KlaasKids, a volunteer organization founded in the wake of the Polly Klaas case, in coordination with local police and the U.S. National Park Service, which has jurisdiction over the National Seashore, searched much of the island with humans and search dogs. A few fragments of clothing and pieces of jewelry were found, but they did not belong to Daniels. Possible Louisiana sighting: With all searches and investigative procedures in Pensacola exhausted, no further physical evidence was likely. Daniels' friends and family set up a Facebook page to further the search and found themselves busy sorting through the many tips that initially poured in. One, from a convenience store clerk who claimed to have seen her several days after she had last been seen, seemed credible at first, as he recalled her foot tattoos. However, the store's security camera footage for that day failed to corroborate the account. Several months after Daniels' disappearance, in January 2014, the Facebook page yielded what her parents considered a more credible report of a later sighting. A woman who worked as a waitress at a restaurant in Metairie, Louisiana, outside New Orleans, reported that shortly after the disappearance she had seen a woman matching Tiffany's description come in with two other women, one roughly the same age and the other older, possibly Latina, and more nicely dressed. The younger women behaved strangely, both wearing long-sleeved shirts despite the warm weather, with the cuffs pulled over their hands, and never looking the waitress in the eye. Mostly they seemed to let the older woman do the talking for the group. When the waitress told one of the younger women she looked like that woman who had been reported missing in Florida, the group got up and left. Unfortunately the restaurant's security cameras had been taped over since the date of the encounter and thus it was impossible to find any documentary confirmation of the waitress's story. Tiffany's parents strongly believe this was her, for two reasons. First was that putting her sleeves over her hands was something she frequently did when she was cold. Second, the waitress recalled that the woman who resembled Tiffany had, when looking over the soups on the menu, asked whether one of them used a fish or chicken broth. Cindy Daniels recalled a similar incident when she had been eating out with Tiffany and the restaurant had substituted chicken broth in Tiffany's soup since it had run out of fish broth, a difference Tiffany could taste as she was a pescetarian and normally avoided any chicken-based foods. The Daniels family began to fear that Tiffany had not been found because she had somehow left Pensacola during that week between the last sighting and the beginning of the search—and not voluntarily. They began researching human trafficking as a possible explanation. They saw possible similarities between Tiffany's unsolved case and that of another woman who had recently been drugged and abducted from nearby Panama City and taken to New Orleans by two men who told her she was to work as a prostitute. While traffickers prefer to target women in their late teens, according to experts, they will occasionally attempt to abduct women closer to Tiffany's age, and her parents believe she would have been trusting enough to fall for whatever pretext they used to approach their daughter. Interstate 10, which passes through Pensacola and New Orleans, has been described as one of the major trafficking routes in the U.S. Detective Harnett, however, says he has found no evidence to support the trafficking theory, although he qualifies that by saying police have ruled nothing out at this point. Subsequent developments in the case: The second anniversary of Daniels's disappearance, in 2015, led to two developments in the case. The Investigation Discovery cable network decided to revive its series Disappeared, which profiles missing-persons cases, and her case was one of those chosen. A crew from the network went to Pensacola, filmed locations associated with the case and re-enactments, and interviewed Detective Harnett, Tiffany's parents, sister, and some of her friends who had helped with the investigation. The episode aired in April 2016. Before the episode aired, the first new evidence in the case since the original investigation surfaced. In December 2015, the Daniels and the police disclosed that in the wake of coverage of the case's second anniversary four months earlier, a citizen had come forward and told the police that on the day Tiffany's car was discovered, they had seen a man in his thirties wearing red shorts and no shirt opening up the car's tailgate, a report consistent with the two witnesses who said they saw a man leave the car after it was parked there. The witness remembered this because the car had been parked unusually, facing oncoming traffic, in an area reserved for wildlife.

satisfied

i'm satisfied with the amount of food in my system. i'm a vegetarian and love sweets. i need a replacement for the sweets. so i tried vegan cookie dough again and i loved it.

tried it again

i tried the vegan cookie dough again. it was awesome since i flavored it right.

Paturis Park murders

The Paturis Park murders are a series of 13 murders of gay men committed between February 2007 and August 2008. The murders took place in Paturis Park ("Parque dos Paturis") in Carapicuíba, Brazil, and were perpetrated by an unidentified killer dubbed the "Rainbow Maniac". this is horrifying since most of the world it seems accepts LGBT people. Murders and investigation: The killings took place between February 2007 and August 2008 in Paturis Park.[1] The victims, all gay men, were aged 20–40. All but one were shot, 12 of them in the head; one died from blows to the head. The last victim was shot 12 times. According to Brazilian media, the park is in an area frequented by prostitutes. Police dubbed the killer the "Rainbow Maniac", a reference to the gay pride flag. The first murder occurred on 4 July 2007 and the last on 15 March 2009. Officials from the São Paulo State Public Safety Department announced that the killer could be a state police officer. As of 2008, tests are underway to see if the same gun was used in each murder. Suspect arrested: On 10 December 2008, police arrested a retired state police sergeant, Jairo Francisco Franco, based on witness statements implicating him in a murder which occurred on 19 August 2008. A witness claims to have seen Franco shoot a black gay man 12 times that night. Another witness told police that Franco often visited the park to look for gay men and victims. Suspect released: On 23 August 2011, Jairo Francisco Franco was released after the trial, having been declared not guilty by the jury by 4 votes against 2.

Phantom of Heilbronn

The Phantom of Heilbronn, often alternatively referred to as the "Woman Without a Face", was a hypothesized unknown female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at numerous crime scenes in Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009. The six murders among these included that of police officer Michèle Kiesewetter, in Heilbronn, Germany on 25 April 2007. The only connection between the crimes was DNA, which as of March 2009 had been recovered from 40 crime scenes, ranging from murders to burglaries. In late March 2009, investigators concluded that the "Phantom" criminal did not exist, and the DNA recovered at the crime scenes had already been present on the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples; they belonged to a woman who worked at the factory where they were made. The events were fictionalized in the 6th season episode "Dead Reckoning" of CSI: NY and the 15th season episode "Death Has No Dominion" of Silent Witness, which i want to see. Investigation: An analysis of the mitochondrial DNA from the samples collected in Austria showed that it was most often found among people in Eastern Europe and neighbouring Russia. This was not discovered in the German investigations as the analysis of DNA may not be used in criminal proceedings to determine personal attributes of a suspect other than sex. The investigations were concentrated in a special task force "parking lot" at the Heilbronn police department. In January 2009, the reward for clues regarding the whereabouts of the person was increased to €300,000. The existence of the Phantom had been doubted earlier, but in March 2009, the case took a new turn. Investigators discovered the DNA sequence on the burned body of a male asylum-seeker in France - an anomaly, since the sequence was of a female. They subsequently came to the conclusion that the mysterious criminal did not exist and that the laboratory results were due to contamination of the cotton buds used for DNA probing. Although sterile, the swabs are not certified for human DNA collection. The cotton swabs used by many state police departments were found to have been contaminated before shipping. It was found that the contaminated swabs all came from the same factory, which employs several Eastern European women who fit the type the DNA was assumed to match. Bavaria, although a region central to the crimes, obtained their swabs from a different factory. They had no reports of crimes committed by the Phantom. Associated crimes: The DNA attributed to the "Phantom" was found at the scene, as well as purportedly at the sites of the following crimes: -on a cup after the killing of a 62-year-old woman on 25–26 May 1993 in Idar-Oberstein, Germany (the DNA was analysed in 2001) -on a kitchen drawer after the killing of a 61-year-old man on 21 March 2001 in Freiburg, Germany -on a syringe containing heroin in October 2001 in a wooded area near Gerolstein, Germany -on the leftovers of a cookie in a trailer that was forcefully opened on the night of 24 October 2001 in Budenheim, Germany -on a toy pistol after the 2004 robbery of Vietnamese gemstone traders in Arbois, France -on a projectile after a fight between two brothers on May 6, 2005 in Worms, Germany -on a stone used for smashing a window, after a burglary on 3 October 2006 in Saarbrücken, Germany (DNA was discovered and analysed only 2008) -after a March 2007 burglary at an optometrist’s store in Gallneukirchen, Upper Austria -after 20 burglaries and thefts of cars and motorbikes between 2003 and 2007 in Hesse, Baden-Württemberg and Saarland, Germany; Tyrol, Austria; and Upper Austria -on a car used to transport the bodies of three Georgians killed on 30 January 2008 in Heppenheim, Germany (the DNA was analysed on 10 March 2008) -after a burglary on the night of 22 March 2008 in a disused public swimming pool in Niederstetten, Germany -after four cases of home invasion in Quierschied (twice), Tholey and Riol, Germany in March and April 2008; -after an apartment break-in in Oberstenfeld-Gronau during the night of 9 April 2008 -after the robbery of a woman on 9 May 2008 in a club house in Saarhölzbach -in the car of an auxiliary nurse who was found dead at the end of October 2008 near Weinsberg, Germany

cute

so a couple times i was drinking something and both times babies were like, "look nice lady with a drink". they both wanted my attention despite me drinking something. i said "hi baby" both times. one became a "student" of mine and i played with her.

acting out

I've never acted out when i was upset. i was acting out when i was sad or angry. when i lost my grandpa i didn't cry in public. at the hospital defiantly. at the church? no.

odd

there's this Elder in the singles ward i go to that i can't quite put my finger on. he's a sweetheart and seems nice it's just there's something about him, i can't quite read. maybe that's just him

thanks

i was pleased with the fact everyone in the kentlands ward liked my talk and that i was thanked for my inspirational words

scoliosis

scoliosis has been a huge thing that makes me who i am. while at times (like when i'm in tons of pain like right now) it sucks. on the other times it's awesome. i can dances like it's nobody's business. i am 1 of the luckier ones in the sense i never needed a brace or surgery. my mom needed a brace growing up (she gave me scoliosis).

tomorrow is april

i can't believe tomorrow is April fools day and Easter. we are speeding thru the semester and seasons. i can't believe we're nearly done with the semester and with that comes finals and then summer. it seemed like yesterday was the start of the semester and my birthday was a couple weeks later.

hate

i hate eating meat. i prefer not eating meat (unless it's chicken or fish) due to a muscle disorder.

Looked different

Once after my birthday I'd gone to church and asked a friend if he'd lost weight because he looked different

i wonder

i wonder who the boy a friend had in mind for me to marry. maybe that's what i'll pray about tonight.

Yay

Adanan sayed is getting a new trial

green river running red

i have so many memories with that book. i read it as an audio book. a friend introduced me to her son while i was listening to it. i also listened to it while at my family reunion. when i got a copy of the book i read it and it totally broke.

scared

when i was in the ward in Kauai i turned my head and reacted since i saw 2 elders there to take me to Sunday school which done on my own if i was given directions. another time i was scared since 1 elder looked at my flashlight and then asked about being in the celestial kingdom

Flying while Muslim

Flying while Muslim or Muslim while flying is an expression referring to the problems Muslim passengers can face on airplanes, during stopovers or in airports in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. It is constructed in an analogy to the older expression driving while black, which similarly satirizes racial profiling of African Americans by police and other law enforcement. Incidents: An early usage of the phrase is dated mid-September 2001. The issue was brought to media attention in 2006 when six Muslim imams were removed from a US Airways flight after they allegedly engaged in suspicious behavior reminiscent of that of the 9/11 hijackers. In 2009 AirTran Airways removed nine Muslim passengers, including three children, from a flight and turned them over to the FBI after one of the men commented to another that they were sitting right next to the engines and wondered aloud where the safest place to sit on the plane was. Although the FBI subsequently cleared the passengers and called the incident a "misunderstanding", AirTran refused to seat the passengers on another flight, forcing them to purchase last minute tickets on another airline that had been secured with the FBI's assistance. A spokesman for AirTran initially defended the airline's actions and said they would not reimburse the passengers for the cost of the new tickets. Although the men had traditional beards and the women headscarves, AirTran denied that their actions were based on the passengers' appearance. The following day, after the incident received widespread media coverage, AirTran reversed its position and issued a public apology, adding that it would in fact reimburse the passengers for the cost of their rebooked tickets. Southwest Airlines incidents: On November 18, 2015, in two separate incidents, passengers at Midway Airport were allegedly not permitted to fly aboard Southwest Airlines flights when other passengers claimed to be afraid to fly with them because they were speaking Arabic, or appeared to be Muslim. The refusal sparked widespread condemnation on the airline's social media pages and received prominent coverage, in the US and internationally, accompanied by calls for a boycott of the airline. According to The Economist, "in the two Southwest cases, it was the passengers themselves conducting their own vigilante profiling; the airline was merely bowing to their demands." On April 6, 2016, Southwest Airlines removed a passenger from a flight at Los Angeles International Airport for speaking Arabic before pushback. The FBI detained the passenger, searched his belongings and questioned him for several hours. A Southwest spokesperson declined to apologize and defended Southwest's decisions by saying "We will not be apologizing for following our obligation to adhere to established procedures". The passenger, Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, an Iraqi refugee, later said that those actions were "playing straight into the rhetoric of the Islamic State—they fall into the trap" and, "That is when I couldn't handle it and my eyes began to water ... the way they searched me and the dogs, the officers, people were watching me and the humiliation made me so afraid because it brought all of these memories back to me. I escaped Iraq because of the war, because of Saddam and what he did to my father." On April 15, 2016, Southwest removed a Muslim passenger from a flight at Midway Airport after she traded seats with several other passengers. A spokesperson from the Council on American–Islamic Relations called on Southwest to explain their actions and the passenger's husband said "She was humiliated because of her religion and the way she dressed".

mental image

i can't get the mental image of someone finding 2 elders to help me find a Sunday school wishing i'd ditched

helpful

so i tried being helpful to my mom since she's taking 2 of my brothers to a couple college visits. i offered to help them get some food for the trip. i told my brothers eat as much as they could for reasons: 1) time to get to 1 college area and 2) not 100% sure if they were going to stop off for food.

goofball with the camera

that's me: goofball with the camera. i'm usually the 1 taking photos and videos of everyone.

aw you remembered

when i wanted to meet with the bishop he asked about my muscle disorder. i'm thinking like, "you remembered those?" that was sweet he remembered my muscle disorder. nearly everyone who knows about them remembers them.

hell for me

what i find torturous is being nice. the reason: i like doing things myself. there's nothing wrong with a little help once in a while it's overly nice

can't unsee

if your 1 of the lucky few who has NEVER heard of or seen the human centipede than good. i can't say this enough (and ask anyone who has heard of it or seen it) and ask about their nightmares. it's scary beyond belief. i saw the trailer and i got nightmares from that.

Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes

this looks like a for forensic linguistics or something. Two hand-written documents were found in the pockets of murder victim Ricky McCormick when his body was discovered in a field in St. Charles County, Missouri, on June 30, 1999. Attempts by the FBI's Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU) and the American Cryptogram Association failed to decipher the meanings of those two coded notes, which are listed as one of the CRRU’s top unsolved cases. On March 29, 2011, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation issued an appeal for help from the public in obtaining the meaning of the messages. A few days later, they updated their website to note the "outpouring of responses", and established a separate page where the public can offer comments and theories. Murder- Victim: McCormick was a high school dropout who had held multiple addresses in the Missouri/Illinois regions of St. Louis, Belleville, and Fairview Heights, sometimes living off and on with his elderly mother. According to a 1999 article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, McCormick suffered from chronic heart and lung problems. He was not married, but had fathered at least four children. He had a criminal record, and had previously served 11 months of a three-year sentence for statutory rape. At the time of his death, he was 41 years old, unemployed, and on disability. Discovery of body: McCormick's body was found on June 30, 1999 near a West Alton, Missouri cornfield by a woman driving along a field road off Route 367. The reason he was 15 miles away from his current address is another mystery, as he did not own a car and the area is not served by public transportation. Though the body had already somewhat decomposed, authorities used fingerprints to identify McCormick. There was no indication that anyone had a motive to kill McCormick and no one had reported him missing, so the authorities initially ruled out homicide, but no cause of death was officially determined at the time. McCormick was last seen alive five days earlier, on June 25, 1999, getting a checkup at St. Louis' now-defunct Forest Park Hospital. Description: News stories in 1999 did not mention anything about cipher messages, which were not announced until 12 years later when the FBI listed the death as a murder, and posted a notice for help on the main page of their website. Investigators believe the notes in McCormick’s pants pockets were written within the three days before his death. The two notes are written in an unknown code consisting of "a jumble of letters and numbers occasionally set off with parentheses" and are believed by the FBI to possibly lead to those responsible for the killing. Dan Olson, chief of the FBI’s Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit, said, illustrating the significance of the notes, "Breaking the code could reveal the victim’s whereabouts before his death and could lead to the solution of a homicide.” Attempts by both the FBI's Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU) and the American Cryptogram Association failed to decipher their meaning, and Ricky McCormick’s encrypted notes are currently listed as one of CRRU’s top unsolved cases, with McCormick's killer yet to be identified. According to members of McCormick's family, Ricky had used encrypted notes since he was a boy, but apparently no one in his family knows how to decipher the codes, either. The FBI has had so many responses with suggestions for the cipher, that they later requested helpers to not call by phone nor use email. An FBI news release has stated, "This story has generated an outpouring of responses. To accommodate the continuing interest in this case, we have established a page where the public can offer their comments and theories about the coded messages." Criticism: In a 2012 interview by the Riverfront Times (June 14–20, Vol. 36, #24, pp. 8–15) McCormick's "family members say they never knew of Ricky to write in code. They say they only told investigators he sometimes jotted down nonsense he called writing, and they seriously question McCormick's capacity to craft the notes found in his pockets." His mother, Frankie Sparks, said "The only thing he could write was his name. ... He didn't write in no code." His father, Charles McCormick, said "Ricky couldn't spell anything, just scribble." It was also noted that although other contents of the victim's pockets were revealed to the family members, they knew nothing about the notes "until the local evening news broadcast a report on the codes" twelve years later.

Aw

Once a little girl was hugging everyone when she left for the day. Her BFF was like, "wah my best friend is leaving me". The girl hugged her friends, her teachers and her grandma. Before she hugged her grandma a woman was like, "can I have a huggie?" And the little girl ran to her grandma saying "grandma. I don't know this person." The mom gave the woman a hug

teen vouge

i got this as a gift a couple years. it's nice and cute.

Oak Grove Jane Doe

Oak Grove Jane Doe is an unidentified murder victim found dismembered in the Willamette River south of Portland, Oregon near Oak Grove over a period of several months in 1946. Media at the time referred to the case as the Wisdom Light Murder, as the initial discovery of the woman's torso occurred near the Wisdom Light moor in April 1946. Portions of the woman's body were recovered from the river over the following six months, with her head ultimately being discovered in October 1946. The case received national media attention, appearing on the front page of numerous news outlets, but her identity and killer remains unsolved. In 2004 her murder case was formally reopened, but remains a cold case. The evidence as well as the woman's remains were lost by law enforcement some time in the 1950's, rendering contemporary DNA testing impossible. Discovery: On April 12, 1946, three people walking along the bank of the Willamette River near Oak Grove, Oregon (south of Portland) discovered a burlap sack floating in an eddy offshore. Inside, they found the torso of a caucasian female, along with clothing and curtain sash weights. Initially, the individuals who found the sack believed it was a "sack of drowned kittens." The following day, April 13, the woman's right thigh and both arms were discovered in the river in similar burlap packaging, floating above Willamette Falls, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) from the location where the torso was discovered. Sash weights were also discovered in the package containing the arms and thigh, and it had been wound with telephone wire. The hands had been severed from the arms, and the foot severed from the leg, neither of which could be located. Two fishermen made the discovery, and told authorities they had noticed the burlap package floating in the area at least 30 days prior, but did not immediately find it suspicious; however, after reading of the discovery of the torso downstream, they returned to the area, and found the package still floating against the falls' lock system, after which they notified law enforcement. Three months later, in July 1946, the woman's left thigh was discovered floating under the Oregon City Bridge near McLoughlin Boulevard. In September, "what appeared to be fragments of a human scalp" were discovered near Willamette Falls. The following month, on October 13, 1946, a package containing the woman's severed head was found near the location her torso had been discovered by a married couple from Oak Grove. The hands and feet of the woman were never recovered. At the time, the murder was referred to by the media as the Wisdom Light Murder, based on the fact that the torso had been discovered near the Wisdom Light moor. Investigation- Initial: Dr. Warren Hunter, a pathologist from the University of Oregon medical school, examined the torso upon its April 12, 1946 discovery, and estimated it was a female "past middle age...about 50." It was also believed that the torso had been placed in the water no more than 36 hours prior to its discovery. Prior to the pathologist's analysis, local newspapers had reported the body was of a girl in her "teens or early twenties," resulting in a barrage of phone calls to law enforcement from concerned parents. The pathologist concluded the woman was between 5 feet 2 inches (1.57 m) and 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m) tall, weighed approximately 140 pounds (64 kg) to 150 pounds (68 kg), and had light brown hair. The lower portion of the torso showed burn marks, possibly from a blow torch, leading police to believe the victim had been tortured. The day after the torso was discovered, on April 14, 1946, a false confession was made by a man from a telephone booth in Milwaukie; the man claimed to have known the woman's identity, as well as the location where she had been dismembered. Law enforcement however determined the call was a prank, and dismissed any connection to the murder. On September 9, 1946, it was reported by the Albany Democrat-Herald that law enforcement were investigating a possible connection between the remains and Marie Nastos, a 47-year-old woman from Seattle, Washington, who had gone missing on August 24, 1945 en route to Seattle after a trip to Wenatchee. Nastos matched the physical description of the victim, standing at 5 feet 2 inches (1.57 m), weighing approximately 120 pounds (54 kg), and having brown hair. Upon the discovery of the victim's head in October 1946, it was revealed the woman wore dentures. The cause of death was determined to have been blunt-force trauma to the head. After death, the victim was dismembered—potentially via saw—and disposed of in the river. Law enforcement at the time investigated a potential connection between the woman and two missing persons cases in California and Indiana, but were unable to make a connection between the two. In July 1951, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation interviewed convicted murderer Roy Moore from his prison cell in North Carolina; he purportedly recounted in detail his murder and dismemberment of a woman who he claimed to have disposed of in the Molalla River, but provided no information linking him to the Oak Grove Jane Doe. 2004 reopening: In 2004, the case was formally reopened by the Clackamas County Police Department. In a 2017 interview with Portland Police Bureau cold case detective John Krummenacker, it was revealed that evidence in the case—including the location of the woman's clothing, jawbone, dentures, and other remains—were unknown. It is believed the evidence was lost sometime in the 1950's. In the 2016 book Murder and Scandal in Prohibition Portland: Sex, Vice & Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign it was written that "no new leads" have surfaced in the woman's murder, and "there is little hope of ever being able to solve the case" based on the lack of living witnesses and the loss of remains and other physical documentation. Theories: Crime writers J.D. Chandler and Joshua Fisher speculated that the identity of the woman was Anna Schrader, a married Portland woman who allegedly had an affair with William Breunning, a married police lieutenant. In 1929, Schrader and Breunning had a heated argument in which a gun was fired; Breunning stopped Schrader by jumping on top of her, and turn broke several of her ribs. In April 1946, around the time the body was discovered, The Oregonian ran a notice seeking Anna Schrader, who had disappeared; she had previously told friends she was considering moving to Minnesota, but as of 2017, no public records of residence or her death are known. Local crime writer Theresa Griffin-Kennedy also stated that the Jane Doe's remains matched the physical description of Schrader.

Where is Emily?

One New Year’s Eve someone tells a story and the suspects’ story has an airtight alibi. But where is Emily? Does she even exist? Or is she a figment of several people’s imagination? Here is the incredible story of 2 girls a mix up and a question, “what happened that faithful new year’s eve?” It was late. Sometime near midnight. A witness sees someone they say is talking to a girl. The girl has fire red hair. The suspect talking to the girl is about taller than the witness and blonde. They talk. Both know a boy from Northwest. The next morning the boy they both know storms into the suspects’ room shouting, “What’d you say to Candy?” The suspect claims their innocence saying they never talked to Candy. The boy says, “of course you know her. You talked to her. You hung out with her last night.” The girl with the streaked hair proclaims her innocence. The witness says it’s the girl with the streaked hair. The witness tells investigators it’s the girl with the blonde streak. The girl swears up and down it’s not her. She claims she has an air tight alibi: her best friend. They were together all night. The mother of the suspect also is told the girl with the streaked hair is the one who talked to Candy. Can the girl with the blonde streaked hair prove that she was the one who had the alibi? Or can’t she? Will justice prevail or will an innocent girl be framed for something she didn’t do and stuff her didn’t say? What is the truth about that New Year’s night in 2011 and who was with “Candy” that night talking? Where is this “Emily”? Was she there as the suspect now claims? Or was she made up to give the suspect an alibi? Pick a side and we’ll see if you are right. What evidence is there to help the prosecution’s claim of the blonde streaked girl talking to his friend? How reliable is the eye witness’ account of the blonde streaked girl talking to her? What about the defenses claim of the air tight alibi? Was there even an alibi? Does the defense team have any tricks up their sleeves? Are there any witnesses to the streaked girl’s story? Can that story be corroborated at all? Is it all biased on hearsay and eye witnesses? Was there someone else talking to “Candy” that night back in 2011? What really happened when the eye witness is wrong? Is the eye witness wrong and is the suspect right? What really happened back on that fateful night back in December 31st 2011? Is there really a need for such a fuss when the person was wrong? When will it happen again? Will it happen again? Most cases with eye witness are falsely identified. The prosecution claims its one person while another says it’s not them. They claim it. They have false convictions because of it. The prosecution will convict because of bad eye witnesses. The witnesses will convict due to several factors such as: relationship with the suspect/ victim. In this case the witness sees it and informs the suspects’ mother and brother. The brother wants to get information out of the suspect but can’t get anything out of her. The suspect tries her mother. The mother says that she (the suspect) was with “Candy” talking that night. The suspect can’t believe it. Did she really ditch her friend and talk to this “Candy”? She refuses to believe it. She claims unless she was in the restroom or her friend was in the restroom she was with her friend all night. There was that unaccounted for time; that “window of opportunity” that the suspect COULD have talked to her. The defense team said that she (the suspect) was here they left each other to “take care of their business”. They also claimed that her friend had some qualms with meeting and hanging out with new people. They claimed the friend wanted to go upstairs and watch Harry Potter but the suspect made her go down stairs and hang out with others. The friend was reluctant but gave in. The brother thinks this is a ploy to have an “alibi”. The only problem was that the brother, the mother and the alleged suspect knew her alibi. The mother made the suspect stick to her. She stayed true to her word. She stuck to her friend like glue and had her do things out of her friend’s comfort zone. She helped alleviate the girl’s qualms. But what really happened in the unaccounted for times when the girls had to “take care of business”? Did the witness tell the truth or mix up the people? Was the suspect really a suspect or was she not even an element in this? How much taller was this girl with the “blonde hair” than the witness? Where was the suspect’s friend? Was there even a friend? If the witness actually mixed up then who was talking with “Candy”? Did the lighting affect who the person is? It certainly can confuse people. As can time of day, how many people are in an area and how attentive a person is. Here is the account from every angle. Sometime during the night there were 2 girls talking. One had red hair and the other one had dyed blonde hair. I thought it looked like one of my former charges. I thought I saw her talking to one of the boys’ girlfriends. She was taller than I am. I thought she was Jackie. I told her mom that “Jackie was talking with Candy.” Jackie’s mom told Hunter that his sister was talking with one of his friends with the party. Then Hunter opened Jackie’s door demanding to know what she’d said to Candy. Jackie claimed she knew nothing of what happened. “My brother abruptly opened the door and yelled, ‘what’d you say to her last night’?” Jackie tells me. “I say, ‘what? You aren’t making any sense. I was with Emily ALL NIGHT stupid’.” Naturally her brother doesn’t believe her and tells her to tell him what he was talking about with Candy the other night. Jackie swears up and down she never talked to her let alone spent any significant time with the girl. She says she may’ve seen her in passing but nothing else.

Claremont serial murders

The Claremont serial murders is the name given by the media to a case involving the murder of two young Australian women, aged 23 and 27 and the disappearance of a third, aged 18 in 1996 and 1997 in Claremont, a wealthy western suburb of Perth, Western Australia. All three women disappeared in similar circumstances after attending night spots in Claremont, leading police to suspect that an unidentified serial killer was the offender. Background of the case: The case began with the disappearance of Sarah Spiers, 18, on 26 January 1996, after she left a nightclub in the centre of Claremont. Her disappearance was described by her friends and family as out of character and attracted massive publicity. Spiers had apparently called a taxi from a phone booth but was not present when the responding vehicle arrived, and her fate is unknown. Some months later, on 9 June 1996, Jane Rimmer, 23, disappeared from the same part of Claremont. Her body was found in bushland near Woolcoot Road, Wellard, in August 1996. On 14 March 1997, Ciara Glennon, a 27-year-old lawyer, disappeared from the Claremont area. Her body was found on 3 April, near a track in scrub off Pipidinny Road in Eglinton, a northern suburb of Perth. After this murder police confirmed that they were searching for a serial killer. Each of the women had attended a pub called The Continental (later renamed The Red Rock and now known as The Claremont Hotel) and/or the nightclub Club Bayview. Possibly related cases: It has been suggested by Liam Bartlett, a journalist, that Sarah Spiers was not the first victim. He wrote that police have told the father of a fourth missing woman, 22-year-old Julie Cutler, that his daughter was probably a victim of the Claremont killer. Cutler, a university student, from Fremantle, vanished after leaving a staff function at the Parmelia Hilton Hotel in Perth at 9:00 pm, one night in 1988. Her car was found in the surf near the groyne at Cottesloe Beach two days later. Her fate is also unknown. Investigation and speculation in the case: The Western Australian Police established a special task force to investigate the case. It was given the name "Macro". Several phases have elapsed in the course of the continuing work of the task force. Initial suspicion focused on the taxi-drivers of Perth because of the women last seen in circumstances where they may have been seeking taxi service. There had also been a predisposition to this possibility because of reports from late 1995 of possible improper conduct by some drivers. A massive DNA-testing exercise was carried out to cover all of the taxi drivers licensed in Western Australia; a group of more than two thousand. A thorough review of the character/background standards for drivers was conducted and led to drivers with any significant criminal history being de-licensed. Training for drivers and examining standards for license eligibility were raised. Stricter standards were also applied to verifying that decommissioned taxi vehicles were stripped of any insignia and equipment that could be used to falsely purport that a vehicle was a taxi. While this had the beneficial side-effect of improving the quality of the taxi service and enhancing the confidence of the public in using it, the investigation itself does not appear to have progressed. In the next major development, a junior officer of the Western Australian Public Service was targeted by police as the prime suspect, after he attracted their attention during a decoy operation. The suspect made himself known to the media and asserted his innocence. He was subjected to a high level of overt surveillance, apparently with the purpose of prompting a confession. Although this continued for several years, the suspect maintained his innocence and appears to have intact alibis. The police declared late 2008 that he was "no longer a person of interest". It was reported that police also investigated whether Bradley John Murdoch, the convicted killer of British tourist Peter Falconio may have been involved, although Murdoch was serving a custodial sentence from November 1995 until February 1997. One of the tactics used by the Macro Task-force was the distribution of questionnaires to "persons of interest", including various confrontational enquiries such as "Are you the killer?" The utility of this approach was disputed and the choice of persons to whom they were sent was controversial. One was a prominent civil libertarian and local government figure, Peter Weygers. He was mayor of the Town of Claremont at the time of the women's disappearance/demise and was involved in some disputes with the victims' families concerning the duty of care of the local authority in securing the district. He also was leasing a premises to a taxi-driver who attracted police attention to himself by claiming to have transported Sarah Spiers in his taxi shortly before her disappearance. Weygers' premises were raided by the police and he and his tenant were obliged to give samples for DNA testing.[20] As with other avenues of investigation, nothing was to come of it. In October 2006, it was announced that Mark Dixie (AKA Shane Turner), who was convicted in the United Kingdom for the 2005 murder of 18-year-old model Sally Anne Bowman, was a prime suspect in the killings, and the WA Police's Macro Taskforce requested DNA samples from Dixie to test against evidence taken during the inquiry. However, WA Police Deputy Commissioner Murray Lampard was later quoted as saying "Dixie was closely investigated at the time and eventually ruled out as a suspect." In a memoir titled The End of Innocence, published in 2007, Estelle Blackburn, a Western Australian journalist and author, speculated that her former partner, who had assaulted and threatened many times to kill her, may be the killer; claiming that he had performed maintenance on taxi vehicles and often had overnight access to them. This was further explored in a two-part episode of the ABC's television programme, Australian Story, in November 2007. Arrest in the case: A man was arrested on 22 December 2016, with regard to the wilful murder of both Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon. According to a report by ABC News, the man is believed to have no previous link to the case. The man, Bradley Robert Edwards, was subsequently charged with both murders on 23 December 2016. He has also been charged in relation to two other alleged attacks, one against a 17-year-old girl in Claremont in 1995, and the other against an 18-year-old woman in Huntingdale in 1988. On 22 February 2018, Edwards was also charged with the wilful murder of the third victim, Sarah Spiers. Media of the case: -The End of Innocence, published in 2007 by Estelle Blackburn, -ABC's television programme, Australian Story, in November 2007. -The case was also covered by Casefile True Crime Podcast on 20 August 2016.

Another break

I've got another short "break" after my real spring break. No classes till Monday. Yay.

the 1st time

the 1st time i got my eyebrows and upper lip waxed i hated it and never wanted it again. that was over a decade ago and i hated it. i felt like a candle. now i'm OK with it despite it annoying.

go to McDonald's

a couple times i went to McDonald's and heard my favorite song by my favorite artist. once it said, "go to McDonald's". i'm like OK and i got something small and i heard the song. another time i went and forgot my book and my favorite song played.

St. Charles County Jane Doe

The body of a white girl aged 2 to 3 years was discovered inside a suitcase that had been thrown into Lake Alton in West Alton, Missouri, in St. Charles County on February 1, 1968. The child's remains were recovered by a fisherman who had hooked his line on the suitcase, which had been wrapped in clothesline and weighted with barbells. The girl had long, blond hair; her eye color could not be determined. She was about 2 feet 8 inches tall and weighed between 35 and 40 pounds. Distinctive features noted on the remains were an abnormally large tooth and a scar near one of the eyes. Her body had decomposed somewhat and had been in the water for an estimated "few weeks" after her death. After an image of the child was constructed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in September 2015, the body was exhumed on September 24, 2015, from an unmarked grave to obtain DNA information. It was later announced that the DNA testing was unsuccessful. She was identified then as a homicide victim, but authorities declined to explain what method was used to kill her. Exhumation would yield a more accurate estimation of the girl's age at the time of her death. If her skull were still in reasonable condition, it could be studied to create a more accurate image.

Black

I like black clothes. Its pretty

Simple

I take pleasure in simple things: like my last name being pronounced correctly

Harry potter phone case

For some reason everyone loves my Harry potter phone case. I mean yeah its a cool phone case but why is my case more interesting than others?

muscle disorder

i was born with it and i've got to check if i can get a drivers license and maintain 1.

hilarious

i often yell "eat the veggie tray" to my brothers. it's funny since it sounds like a tray is made out of veggies

Disappearance of Charity Aiyedogbon

Charity Aiyedogbon is a Nigerian businesswoman who vanished without a trace on 10 May 2016 in Abuja. Her whereabouts remain unknown. Background of the case: Charity was a businesswoman who owned a joint venture called Chavid Limited (a combination of her name "Charity" and her husband's name "David"), which consisted of a fashion-design business and a restaurant, also located in Abuja. She was a mother of four children, estranged from her husband of 15 years, David Aiyedogbon, and was living in a rented apartment. Besides her business activities, Charity was also active on Facebook prior to her disappearance, where she was popularly known by the name "Deepdeal Chacha De Hammer" and was a member of a Facebook group "FEMALE IN NIGERIA" (FIN). According to information from her Facebook friends, her last known update on social media was made on 11 May 2016 in the form of a photograph of herself sitting in a vehicle with the words "going on a road trip" at about 9:11 AM. Investigations into her disappearance: It became apparent that Charity had previously received threats to her safety from some undisclosed individuals in the days before her disappearance. Her friends revealed that the threats prompted her to contract a technician to install CCTV cameras in her apartment. After her disappearance, all attempts to contact her though her mobile phone were unsuccessful. Charity's case was reported to the Gwarimpa Police Division in Abuja. Investigators gained access into her Abuja apartment with the help of her landlady and some security personnel. Further investigations revealed that there was no indication that she had planned to go on any trip, as she had no bag packed and every item in her apartment was in order. A pot of stew was still on the cooker. Investigative efforts to retrieve her call logs revealed that the last call from her phone was made on 9 May, to a number registered to an individual named Rabi Mohammed. The last received call from another number showed the same date. The Federal Capital Territory Police Command arrested some suspects in connection with her disappearance (who were later released), while her vehicle and two mobile phones were recovered. Aftermath of her disappearance: A Nigerian lawyer, Emeka Ugwonye, accused Charity's estranged husband David of being involved in her disappearance. However, no concrete evidence could be found to implicate him. David later sued the lawyer for defamation. Some have gone on further to question the professionalism and claims of the lawyer. Charity's eldest daughter, Juliet, received backlash on social media for planning to proceed with her wedding while her mother was recently declared missing. However, the wedding was postponed indefinitely as a result of further controversy following Ugwuonye's claims about her missing mother. Various support groups have emerged to bring justice for Charity The dismembered corpse of an unidentified woman discovered in Abuja was rumoured to belong to Charity. However, no DNA test has been conducted by the police to confirm her identity. To date, no conclusion has been drawn regarding the dismembered body. Charity is still declared missing.

disappearing act

i did a disappearing act on my friends several times. namely since i have a divorce schedule.

why me?

why am i always the center of attention when i don't want it?

not missing much

if you don't drink or smoke your not missing much. it's OK but not something i'd do often. if you do drink or smoke: more power to you.

i don't know how that happened

i don't understand how i convinced my dad to take me to the singles ward. i know how i did it. i mentioned my friends and he agreed to me.

Cassie Bernall

Cassie René Bernall was a student killed in the Columbine High School massacre at age 17. It was initially reported that Bernall had been asked whether or not she believed in God before being shot during the massacre, though further examinations of witness testimony revealed that Bernall was not asked anything before she was shot. In September 2000, Bernall's mother, Misty, released the book She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall. In it, Misty describes her daughter's turbulent teenage life, spiritual conversion and Christian faith. Biography: Cassie was born to Misty and Brad Bernall on November 6, 1981. Along with her brother Chris, she was brought up in a Christian home. According to her parents, Cassie rebelled as a young teenager and began using drugs and alcohol. Her parents state that at one point Cassie became suicidal. Her mother found letters in Cassie's bedroom discussing her thoughts of killing her parents, and they decided to send her to a new school, Columbine High School, for a new start. A year and a half before her death, Cassie decided to go on a weekend church retreat and restored her faith. Cassie's father Brad said "When she came back from that retreat, she was an entirely different person. We had gotten our daughter back." Death: Cassie was killed by Eric Harris during the Columbine massacre on April 20, 1999. According to witness Emily Wyant, who was hiding under the same table as Bernall, Harris slammed his hand down on the table above them and said "peek-a-boo" before fatally shooting Bernall. Cassie's family wasn't informed of her death until two days after the massacre. Controversy surrounding martrydom claims: Craig Scott, a student who was also in the library during the massacre, told investigators that he had heard one of the shooters ask a victim whether or not they believed in God during the shooting, and the victim answer "Yes." Scott said that he recognized the voice as Cassie's, however he did not see the exchange happen as he was hiding under the table at the time. Investigators later took Scott back into the library and asked him to point to where he had heard the exchange come from. He did not point to where Cassie had been in the library, but rather pointed to where Valeen Schnurr, another student that had been shot in the massacre, had been hiding. Valeen Schnurr had been shot and was on the floor of the library when one of the shooters, Dylan Klebold approached her. She said, "Oh, my God, oh, my God, don't let me die." Klebold asked her if she believed in God. She said yes, and he asked why. She responded "Because I believe and my parents brought me up that way." Klebold reloaded but did not shoot her again, and Schnurr ultimately survived the massacre. Some media publicized the story of Cassie being asked about her belief in God before her death. The story persisted even decades later. In 2015, Rick Santorum brought up the myth during a Republican presidential debate, saying "16 years ago this country was tremendously inspired by a young woman who faced a gunman in Columbine and was challenged about her faith, and refused to deny God." She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall: In October 1999, Cassie's mother Misty Bernall authored a book She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall. The book reached No. 8 on The New York Times best-sellers list. In the book, Misty Bernall reaffirmed the story that her daughter was asked if she believed in God before she died, despite being told by investigators that the question had not been asked. Cassie's friend Emily Wyant, who was next to Cassie in the library when she was shot, also told the family that the question had not been asked. Among doubt, the Bernalls issued a statement standing behind the accuracy of their book, saying they had spoken to 4 witnesses who had told them that Cassie had defended her faith before being killed. However, the book ultimately leaves it up to the audience to make up their own mind about what happened. Legacy: Bernall’s presentation as a Christian martyr has led to her serving as the inspiration for several songs, including Flyleaf's "Cassie" and Michael W. Smith's "This Is Your Time". The video for "This Is Your Time" includes a short clip at its beginning of Bernall talking about her beliefs.

odd

i got a sympathy card from my visiting teacher back in December and my mom opened it on accident. i just got the card today despite it being back in december

wouldn't have to pay them

when i mentioned my friends from church helping out we "wouldn't have to pay them". i'd like to give them some type of compensation.

excuse to party

since my baptism was an excuse to party it was fun. i loved it since i had little to do.

Brabant killers

this is 1 i've never heard of. The Brabant killers (also the Nijvel Gang (Dutch: De Bende van Nijvel, French: Les Tueurs fous du Brabant Wallon) are believed responsible for a series of violent attacks that mainly occurred in the Belgian province of Brabant between 1982 and 1985. Twenty-eight people died and 40 were injured. The actions of the gang, believed to consist of several people who assisted a core of three men, made it Belgium's most notorious crime spree. The active participants were known as: The Giant (a tall man who may have been the leader); the Killer (the main shooter) and the Old Man (a middle aged man who drove). The identities and whereabouts of the "Brabant killers" are unknown although one may have been killed after the last known robbery. Failure to catch the gang was a major impetus behind the reform of the Belgian police. There have been many theories of ulterior motives behind the crimes. Method of operation: Some evidence police found indicated the gang were professional criminals involved in drugs and burglaries. On the other hand, odd elements were also evident: -Robbery proceeds were modest relative to the extreme risks; -The killings escalated dramatically in 1985. Bystanders were shot dead in the parking lot before the gang entered the supermarkets; other victims, including children, were shot from as close as a foot away while cowering on floors; -Firearms were a particular interest; the 12-gauge pump shotguns used were loaded with a rare, heavy buckshot; -Cars used, often Volkswagens, were stripped of distinctive trim; vehicle modifications indicated a mechanic's expertise; -The getaway driver was highly skilled; escape routes were fast and non-obvious, often to forested areas where the cars were burned. -The gang is believed to have had at least one outside helper on its last raid. The weapons the gang used were found in 1987 in a channel about 30 km outside Brussels. Ulterior motives- Official complicity: The last gang robbery (despite patrols checking the supermarket every twenty minutes) led to rumors of them having some kind of inside knowledge and possibly complicity by individual gendarmes in the attacks. Nearby Gendarmerie vehicles (which had an Uzi in a compartment) did not engage or pursue the gang. The Belgian "stay-behind" network SDRA8 (Gladio) — operating as a secret branch of the Belgian military service — was suggested by some to have links to the gang. Some units of the stay-behind network were made up of members of the Belgian Gendarmerie. One theory was that the communist threat in Western Europe was taken as justifying Operation Gladio being activated. However, the Belgian parliamentary inquiry into Gladio found no substantive evidence that Gladio was involved in any terrorist acts or that criminal groups had infiltrated the stay-behind network. The Belgian Gendarmerie were abolished in reforms that came as a result of a perceived lack of satisfactory performance in the Brabant killers case, and that of Marc Dutroux. Westland New Post: The NATO 'Stay Behind' explanation for the Brabant incidents was explored in a 1992 BBC Timewatch series named 'Operation Gladio', directed by Allan Francovich. The program centered on a by-then defunct private Belgian far right anti-communist organization named Westland New Post. The leader, Paul Latinus, said he was working with government agencies along the same lines as Gladio. Many people believe Latinus fabricated contacts with secret government agencies to boost his prestige among WNP followers. The main WNP connection to the Brabant killers was that members — including some Gendarmerie — recalled being ordered in the early eighties to covertly surveil and compile a report on security arrangements at various Belgian supermarkets. Some of the markets were in a large chain that was the main target of the later killings. WNP had a genuine intelligence operative advising on covert techniques; NATO behind-the-lines units are known to have used the planning of robberies as a training exercise. Michel Libert, the former second-in-command of Westland New Post, has never denied passing on the covert-supermarket-surveillance orders. He has denied having anything more to do with the matter. He said he was not told by Latinus what the purpose was behind the assignments. In 1983 Libert had been staying with Marcel Barbier, a WNP member, when the latter was arrested for using a weapon in a street fight and became a suspect in a double murder at a synagogue a year earlier. When police then began investigating WNP, Latinus told them that Barbier and another WNP member were behind the synagogue murders, and that Latinus had helped Barbier get rid of the murder weapon as well as other pieces of evidence. Barbier was the only person convicted for these murders; his co-accused, who was acquitted, but later convicted, of a similar double murder of diamond merchants, appeared in a Belgian TV program in 2014, where he alleged WNP was behind the Brabant killings. This claim was based on WNP apparently having compiled information on the premises raided. Libert was arrested as a suspect soon after the program was broadcast, but released without charge after 48 hours. Other speculation: Various conspiracy theories link the killings to political scandals, suggesting they were done to disguise a targeted assassination. In one version, connecting the killings to illegal gun-running mafias and legitimate businesses, a banker by the name of Léon Finné, who was shot by the gang in Overijse, was supposedly targeted deliberately. Possible suspects: Notorious professional criminals, including Patrick Haemers and Madani Bouhouche (both deceased) have been indicated as likely suspects. Haemers's height made him an apparent fit for the Brabant gang's 'Giant'. On the other hand, his known crimes lacked the gratuitous violence and small-time takings that were the Brabant killers' hallmark. Bouhouche was an ex-policeman convicted of two murders and linked to several notorious crimes of the era. Investigation: In 1983, on the basis of a forensic examination of a weapon, authorities charged the gun owner (a former municipal policeman) and several other men with the Brabant killings. Police said they obtained statements from the men under interrogation. However, the Brabant killers' Orhain raid (Oct. 2nd, 1983) occurred while the accused were in detention. It later came out that a German laboratory had concluded that the examined weapon (a pistol) had not been used in the robberies. Charges against the "Borains," as the men were known, were eventually dropped. The law enforcement agencies hunting the killers made many mistakes during the early years of the investigation. Among them were the mishandling of fingerprints believed to have belonged to one of the killers. These fingerprints were either destroyed or simply lost. The investigating magistrate was criticized for lack of professionalism in handling evidence and not considering alternatives to his theories about the case. He was later replaced. Current lines of inquiry: One suspect was C.B., nicknamed "The Giant". He was a police officer and member of the elite group Diane during and after the crimes. He passed away on May 14, 2015, before which he allegedly confessed to having committed the crimes to his brother. His brother only revealed the confession two years after the death, in October 2017. There were also a riot gun, other gun, bullets in a basket labelled "Gendarmerie-Politie", indicating it used to belong to the police, found in a canal, probably linked to the Brabant killers. Barring an extension to the statute of limitations, the gang members would no longer be punished for the crimes. The limit was due to run out November 10, 2015. The period was extended with 10 years in October 2015.

know how to party

people from the LDS church know how to party. when i was baptized so many people came and there was so much food and everything. the days after i was woozy since i was recovering from the party... i mean baptism.

cold

I've been struggling with a cold. it stinks since I've also got a bad back, diabetes and muscle spasms. luckily taking herbal remedies (such as herbal tea) and fresh air helps.

new home teacher

yesterday i found out about my new home teacher from my visiting teacher. yay. new home teacher.

break

i'm on spring break a of now. yay. i can sleep in

pretty

when i spoke last weekend a guy was really paying attention to me when i spoke.... again. guess i'm super pretty

puke

why is it that public speaking makes people want to puke?

public speaking

i did some yesterday in church. it was nice but i was running on adrenaline. i was nervous and excited at the same time.

a blessing

when i met with the bishop last summer i was upset since my dad forgot to get me and i'd missed the sacrament being given. i'd explained this along with i did instead of being in sacrament meeting (mainly crying and filling everyone in on what i was up to). unfortunately, my dad had the audacity to call me and apologize that his alarm didn't go off.... in the middle of the meeting with the bishop. when the meeting ended the bishop gave a prayer and asked for a blessing on me and my medical team on how they handle me. that makes me sad since i have family who also have issues.

Tomasz Mackiewicz

Tomasz Mackiewicz alias Czapkins is a Polish mountain climber. He went missing on January 27, 2018, near the summit of the 8,126 m high Nanga Parbat, known as the "Killer Mountain", in Pakistan. Early life and expeditions: Born in Działoszyn, Poland, Mackiewicz married twice and had two children from his first marriage and two from the second marriage. In 2008, Tomasz was awarded Colossi the feat of the year award along with Mark Klonowski for an extensive traverse of Mount Logan. In 2009 he summitted Khan Tengri 7,010 m as a solo climber. He tried several times to summit Nanga Parbat in winter. While climbing with Klonowski in 2015, he reached a height of 7,400 m and in 2016, along with the French climber Élisabeth Revol, he reached an altitude of 7,200 m on Nanga Parbat. Disappearance: On January 25, 2018, while attempting his seventh ascent of Nanga Parbat, known as the "Killer Mountain", in Pakistan, at 8,126 m , Mackiewicz along with French climber Elisabeth Revol had reached 7,400 m from the Diamer side. As the weather turned bad due to a snowstorm, Revol noticed Mackiewicz's bad condition and started taking him down. According to Revol, he could not walk, see or even communicate. She secured him from the wind, called for help and started her trip down the mountain. Mackiewicz had developed severe frostbite, altitude sickness and snow blindness while Revol had mild frostbite on five toes. Another Polish team that was attempting a nearby summit of K2 was called for rescue. On January 27, 2018 the rescue team, including Denis Urubko and Adam Bielecki, were dropped off by a helicopter at 4,900 m on the mountain. The team rescued Revol at 6,026 m and brought her to safety. Mackiewicz, who was believed to be at his tent at around 7,400 m, could not be rescued due to bad weather and a snowstorm. Ludovic Giambiasi, Revol's partner, wrote on a Facebook post: The rescue for Tomasz is unfortunately not possible - because of the weather and altitude it would put the life of rescuers in extreme danger, It’s a terrible and painful decision. ... All our thoughts go out to Tomek's family and friends. We are crying. Revol was later carried to Islamabad for treatment. Tomasz most likely died within 24 hours, but the cause is unknown and he has not been found since his disappearance.

forced me

when my grandpa passed away my mom made me: go to church and watch the Christmas devotional despite me wanting to become a zombie for 2 days until i had to go back to school. i was dragged to church and i told my mom i wanted to watch the devotional.