Dardeen family homicides

On the evening of November 18, 1987, police went to the mobile home of Russell Keith Dardeen, 29 and his family outside Ina, Illinois, United States after he had failed to show up for work that day. There they found the bodies of his wife and son, both brutally beaten. Ruby Elaine Dardeen, 30, who had been pregnant with the couple's daughter, had been beaten so badly she had gone into labor, and the killer or killers had also beaten the newborn to death. The killings had apparently taken place the day before. Investigators at first believed that Keith was the prime suspect. However, that theory was discredited the next day, when his body was found in a nearby field. He had been shot and his genitals mutilated; his car was found parked near the police station in Benton. Forensic examination showed he had been killed within an hour of his family. Residents of Jefferson and Franklin counties, who were already fearful after more than 10 murders had taken place locally in the preceding two years, became even more so. Many armed themselves; some suffered adverse psychological effects. Rumors held that the killings were the work of Satanists; police soon ruled that out as well as other causes from illicit behavior such as drug dealing, marital infidelity or gambling. But the crime scene also ruled out rape or robbery as associated incident crimes, and in the absence of any clear cause or leads the crime remained unsolved. No suspects were identified in the quadruple homicide until the 2000s, after serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells, following his conviction and death sentence for murdering a teenage girl in Texas, claimed to have committed the crime. However, he was never charged since prison authorities there would not let him leave the state to assist police in Southern Illinois with their investigation, and they as well as the Dardeen family have doubts about his account of the killings. The case is otherwise cold. Background: Both Dardeens went by their middle names. Keith, a native of Mount Carmel, bought the trailer in 1986 after completing the training required for his job as a treatment plant operator at the Rend Lake Water Conservancy District's nearby facility. Elaine, who was from Albion, a little closer to Ina, moved there later with their 2-year-old son, Peter. They rented the land it sat on from a nearby farming couple. Keith worked; his wife found a job at an office supply store in Mount Vernon, the Jefferson County seat. When not working, the couple were part of the musical ensemble at a small Baptist church in the village. Keith sang lead vocals while Elaine played the piano. In 1987 Elaine became pregnant with the couple's second child. They had decided to name it either Ian or Casey depending on whether it was a boy or a girl. The pending addition to the family had led Keith and Elaine to strongly consider moving; by late in the year they had put the mobile home up for sale. However that was not the only reason for the move. According to Joeann Dardeen, Keith's mother, he had said he would move back to Mount Carmel even if he were unable to find a job there before doing so, as he regretted ever having moved to Ina, telling her that that area was becoming too violent. There had been 15 homicides in Jefferson County during the previous two years, starting with those committed by Thomas Odle, a Mount Vernon teenager who had killed his parents and three siblings as they individually returned to the house one night in 1985. Though Odle, as well as some of those charged with murder in the other cases, had been convicted, residents of the rural area had become fearful and stressed. A friend of Keith said that, after a 10-year-old girl had been raped and murdered in the area in May 1987, Keith became so protective of the family that one night, when a young woman came by the mobile home asking if she could make a phone call, he refused to let her in. Discovery of bodies: On November 18, Keith, who had been a reliable worker at the treatment plant, did not report for his shift. He had not called to inform his supervisor that he would be unable to come in, and calls to his house went unanswered all day. His supervisor called both of Keith's parents, who were divorced but still lived near each other in Mount Carmel. Neither of them knew what could have happened to their son. Don Dardeen, Keith's father, called the Jefferson County sheriff's office and agreed to drive down to Ina with the house key and meet deputies at the home of his son and daughter-in-law, between Illinois Route 37 and the former Illinois Central Railroad tracks, now used by Union Pacific, just north of the Franklin County line. Inside they found the bodies of Elaine, Peter and a newborn girl, all tucked into the same bed. Elaine had been bound and gagged with duct tape; both had been beaten to death–apparently with a baseball bat found at the scene, a birthday gift to Peter from his father earlier that year. Elaine had been beaten so severely that she had gone into labor and delivered a girl, who soon met with the same fate as her mother and brother. Keith was not present, nor was his car, a red 1981 Plymouth. Investigators assumed he had killed his wife and children and was at large. A team of armed police went to his mother's house in Mount Vernon looking for him. The search ended late the following day, however, when a group of hunters found his body in a wheatfield not far from the trailer, just south of the county line, near Rend Lake College. He had been shot three times; his penis was also severed. The Plymouth was found parked outside the police station in Benton, 11 miles (18 km) south of the Dardeen home, its interior spattered with blood. Social effect: News of the killings made area residents even more fearful than they had already been. Many residents began going about their daily business with shotguns visible in their vehicles' gun racks. After high school basketball games, students would wait in the school building for their parents to come in and accompany them to the parking lot for their ride home instead of socializing outside as they normally did. Early reports from police about the crime were limited, and sometimes contradictory, allowing rumors to spread. The two counties' respective coroners differed on whether Keith had died of a head injury or been shot; among those who reported the former, it was said that it had been inflicted when he was dragged from a car. The circumstances under which Elaine gave birth, perhaps posthumously, to her short-lived daughter, gave rise to stories that Casey (as the family called her) had been ripped from her mother's womb. Along with the mutilation of Keith's genitals, this supported speculation that Satanists were active in the area and had performed a ritual sacrifice of the family. The crime was also posited to be the work, along with three other local unsolved murders, of a regional serial killer. Dr. Richard Garretson, a family physician who doubled as the Jefferson County coroner, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in early December that many of his patients talked to him about the case and how it had disturbed them. One man who said he lived a half-mile (900 m) from the Dardeens' trailer told Garretson he was having difficulty sleeping and had lost 14 pounds (6.4 kg) as a result of the stress. Also unable to sleep was the Dardeens' landlords' daughter, who told her parents years later that she kept her bedroom light on and read all night out of fear. Robert Lewis, the Franklin County coroner, felt a lot of the fear was unjustified. "I don't think there is a rational basis for the near hysteria", he told the newspaper. "The people are frightening each other". People were so afraid, he said, that if someone ran out of gas in the county he would not seek assistance in any nearby homes but would instead walk to the nearest highway and hitch a ride. Investigation: Local police agencies joined forces with the Illinois State Police to investigate the crime. A total of 30 detectives worked full-time following leads and interviewing 100 people. None of what they found proved fruitful. A man taken into custody early on was released after being questioned; likewise, a coworker of Keith's he reportedly had been having a dispute with was cleared. No one who knew the couple had anything bad to say about them. A small quantity of marijuana was found in the trailer, but not enough to suggest they were involved in dealing. Police even believed the marijuana might have been inadvertently left behind by the killer or killers. The autopsies found no drugs or alcohol in any of the victims. The coroners put the time of death for all the Dardeens at within an hour of each other. The bodies in the trailer had been killed 12 hours before they were found, and Keith Dardeen had been dead for 24 to 36 hours when he was found. Resolving this question, however, made it harder to determine how the crime had been committed, since Keith's body was found away from the trailer, and he may have been killed at that location rather than with his family. At the trailer, the killer or killers had apparently taken the time to not only tuck Elaine's body into bed along with her children's bodies but also to clean up the scene, suggesting they did not feel any urgency to leave. The amount of effort involved led police to theorize that the crime may have taken place at night, since the trailer on Route 37, a busy state highway, but also because it could be seen at the time from Interstate 57 almost 2,000 feet (610 m) to the west. It was also an open question as to whether there was one killer or not. Possible motives: It was also hard to determine what the motive of the assailant(s) might have been. The back door had been left open; there was no evidence of forced entry. A VCR and portable camera were in plain sight in the living room. Elsewhere in the house equally accessible cash and jewelry remained. These facts argued against robbery as the motive. Elaine had not been raped or sexually assaulted. Police also found no evidence of any extramarital affairs involving either Keith or Elaine that might have motivated the other party to a jealous rage. A stack of papers with sports scores found in the house led them to wonder whether Keith might have incurred gambling debts. Joeann Dardeen told police her son was so frugal that he raised money for his young son's college fund by reselling 50-cent cans of soda at work for a small profit. Despite the widespread fear the case engendered, Lewis, the Franklin County coroner, did not believe the Dardeens were randomly chosen. "I believe it was a very personal, deliberate thing", he told the Post-Dispatch. A police expert on cults told the newspaper that the rumor that Satanists were responsible was untrue since such groups often mutilated bodies more extensively, harvest organs, and leave symbols and lit candles at the scene of their crimes. None of those had been found at the Dardeen's trailer. Police did allow, however, for the possibility that while the Dardeens were chosen purposely, it may have been a case of mistaken identity by the killer or killers. Joeann Dardeen said later that she had considered other motives someone might have had for killing her son and his family. "I think someone wanted Keith to sell drugs and he refused," she said in 1997. "Or there's a possibility someone liked Elaine and she wouldn't accept his advances and he took out his rage on both of them ... We just don't know". Continuing efforts: Eventually, the police exhausted all leads and had to start working other cases. Two FBI profilers came to the area to review the evidence. They were able to make some suggestions, but generally found the crime defied the sort of analysis they typically did. Joeann Dardeen worked to keep the public from completely losing interest. Throughout the 1990s she regularly called the one detective still assigned to the case with possible leads she had learned of, or requests for any news he could share. She gathered 3,000 signatures from area residents on a petition to The Oprah Winfrey Show, asking producers to do a segment on the killings of her son and his family. They turned her down, saying the crime was too brutal for daytime television. America's Most Wanted had a similar reaction at first, but then changed its mind and ran a segment in 1998. The show did not generate any new leads. Police were briefly interested in Mexican-born serial killer Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, then known by his alias Rafael Resendes Ramirez, after he surrendered to authorities in Texas in 1999. He often traveled around the country by hopping freight trains, choosing his victims near the tracks they traveled and often beating them to death. While those elements suggested the Dardeen killings, authorities in Illinois were never able to connect him to the crime. Apparent Tommy Lynn Sells confession: Another serial killer in Texas would soon bring himself to the attention of the investigators in Illinois. On the last day of 1999, Tommy Lynn Sells cut the throats of two girls near Del Rio, Texas. One survived and helped police identify him; he was eventually convicted and sentenced to death for that murder and another one earlier in 1999, where he had killed a girl in San Antonio. While he was awaiting trial on the first murder charge, he began confessing to other murders he had committed while drifting around the country, sometimes by hopping freights as well. One was the Dardeen family. Sells said he did not remember the details of all the crimes he admitted to, which he describes as a coping strategy from the sexual abuse he endured as a child in the Missouri Bootheel, but he did remember that one. In the mid-1980s, Sells was living primarily near St. Louis, roughly 90 miles (140 km) northwest of Jefferson County, and making money from working at traveling carnivals and fairs, as a day laborer, or through theft. For the latter pursuit, he often hitched rides on truckers or hopped freights without any particular destination in mind. "Anywhere a ride was going I was heading that way. Might be in Illinois today and Oklahoma tomorrow", Sells explained later. It was through those modes of transportation that he became familiar with the Ina area. On one trip through Jefferson County in November 1987, he claimed in 2010 to have met Keith at a truck stop near Mount Vernon or, in a different retelling, at a local pool hall. In both versions, he says, Keith invited Sells home for dinner. After the meal, Sells was simply planning to move on, but then Keith allegedly triggered his anger by sexually propositioning him, in one account to a threesome with Elaine. He forced Keith at gunpoint to drive to where his body was found, killed and mutilated him, then returned to the trailer to kill Elaine and Peter, who were witnesses, although he says it was at the time the result of uncontrollable rage that Keith's alleged sexual offer had set off in him. "I was just so pissed off that I took it to the maximum limit ... Rage don't have a stop button". He implied that it explained why he had killed the infant Elaine had delivered during the crime as well. In a third version, Sells dispensed with the encounter with Keith and the sexual proposition entirely. According to that account, he got off a freight he had hopped near Ina. When he saw the Dardeen trailer with its "For Sale" sign, he saw an opportunity for a killing. After drinking beers and waiting for the right time, he knocked on the door and told a wary Keith he was interested in buying the trailer. He then overpowered Keith, made him bind and gag his wife and son with duct tape, and forced him to drive his car to the nearby field at gunpoint, where he sliced Keith's penis off, telling him he was going to take it back to Elaine, then shot him and left it there. At the trailer he raped Elaine, then beat Peter, Elaine and the newborn to death. After cleaning up he drove Keith's car to Benton. Doubts about truthfulness: To some investigators, Sells' 2014 execution by Texas was justice for the Dardeens as well. He was never charged with their murders, but, "he remains the No. 1 suspect", Jefferson County state's attorney Douglas Hoffman said, a week after the execution. Sheriff Roger Mulch agreed. The county deputy sheriff who interviewed Sells in his Texas cell says he knew details of the crime that had been kept confidential. But even they agree that Sells may have added details to his story, as he was known to do, something that has left considerable doubt about many of the killings he confessed to. Other investigators are less sure. While Sells' account is consistent with the general facts of the case, they say, most of what he told them had previously been reported publicly. When Sells was asked about some information that has been withheld from media accounts of the killing, he seemed less reliable. His claim as to which seat of Keith's Plymouth he was shot in is belied by the evidence. And when asked how Elaine's body was positioned, he at first answered incorrectly, then correctly, which may merely have been a lucky guess. "I know people got their doubts", Sells said in his 2010 interview with The Southern Illinoisan. He responded to some of them: "They say there's no physical evidence tying me to Dardeens, but there wasn't for any of them because they wasn't looking for me. I moved. I was always a transient". Police in Texas confirmed Sells was responsible for 22 murders, but came to believe that, in conscious imitation of another Texas serial killer, Henry Lee Lucas, he was trying to avoid the death penalty by confessing to crimes he had not committed and taking advantage of the judicial system's gratitude. Their counterparts in Illinois thus wanted to take Sells to Ina so they could see how well he knew the area and the locations relevant to the crimes; he claimed he could lead them to missing evidence. However, Texas law does not allow prisoners on death row to be taken out of state, and authorities there were unwilling to find a way to make an exception. So Duncan declined to file murder charges for lack of sufficient evidence. Doubts about Sells' confession are not limited to local law enforcement. Friends and family have issues with some of his claims. For one, they doubt that Keith would have invited home someone from out of town whom he had just met to even have dinner with the family, especially given the heightened fear in the area after all the killings over the preceding two years. "If he wouldn't let a young girl in to use the phone, he wouldn't let a 22-year-old man in", said a friend, referring to Sells' age at that time. They also find Sells' claim that Keith made a homosexual advance to him unlikely. They had never perceived him as even possibly having an interest in his own sex, and police did not find any evidence of that during their initial investigation. The detectives who interviewed Sells believe that if he did kill the Dardeens, he invented that detail to make the crime seem more justified; in confessing to other crimes, he often included similar stories to make it seem like the victims had provoked him. Joeann Dardeen's change of opinion: Joeann Dardeen's position on Sells' guilt has evolved. In 2000, when the confession was first reported, she told the Chicago Tribune that she was as certain as the police that he was the suspect. She believed only talking to him could clear up any lingering doubts. "I have always wanted to know every detail", she said. "Some people may think that's gory. But when someone does something to (my family), I want to know why". Seven years later, on the 20th anniversary of the killings, a year after Sells' initial execution date had been stayed so a federal appeals court could consider a question about his mental state, she said she was "99 percent sure", and expressed again her interest in possibly talking to Sells. "There's just a little bit of doubt there. Not that he didn't do it; I'm wondering if maybe somebody helped him". In his 2010 interview, Sells was skeptical of what such a conversation might accomplish. "Joeann wants to talk to me. If she wants to come here and talk to me, scream at me, yell, kick me, hit me, she should have that right", he said. But he said that no apology he could make could possibly give her closure. "Sorry ain't gonna cut it. So what is there to say? I could tell her sorry every day the rest of my life. It's not going to stop her pain, and one thing I do know about is pain, and it don't go away". The two never did talk. By the time of Sells' 2014 execution, Joeann had come to believe he was not the man who killed her son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren. "I wanted him to stay alive until I know positively he didn't do it", she told the Associated Press shortly afterward. "The things he said do not match up with what I know about Keith", she told Pat Gauen, the Post-Dispatch reporter who had originally covered the case in 1987. "A lot of people think it's done and over with, but to me it's not".

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a friend who hosted a party a few weeks ago was super attentive to me. he asked if i wanted anything, had me pour color changing stuff into a fire and walked me out when i left.

Pike County, Ohio shootings

The Pike County, Ohio shootings took place on the night of April 21–22, 2016, when eight people – all belonging to the Rhoden family – were shot and killed in four homes in Pike County, Ohio, near the village of Peebles, 60 miles (97 km) from Columbus, and 90 miles (140 km) from Cincinnati. Their bodies were found later on April 22. Seven of the victims—six adults and a 16-year-old boy—were discovered to have been shot execution-style in three adjacent houses, while the eighth victim, an adult, was found shot to death in his camper in nearby Piketon. Three young children, including two infants, were left alive during the killings. At least two shooters are believed to be responsible. Investigators believe the murders were premeditated, and that the perpetrators were known to the Rhoden family. On April 25, the Ohio Attorney General's office confirmed the presence of marijuana growth and cockfighting operations at some of the crime scenes, but did not confirm a direct connection to the killings. The ensuing investigation soon became the largest in Ohio's history. In November 2018, four members of the Wagner family, known to the Rhodens, were arrested in Ohio and Kentucky, and charged with the eight murders. Details: The bodies were first discovered after Bobby Jo Manley, a sister of victim Dana Rhoden, came to feed pets at the homes. Police were first alerted after receiving a 9-1-1 call about two bodies inside a home on Union Hill Road, at 7:51 a.m. EDT. Before the police arrived, Manley discovered two more bodies in the second home on the property. Her brother, James Manley, went to check on their sister Dana, and discovered the third crime scene. The police found three victims when they arrived. At 1:26 p.m., a 9-1-1 call reported an eighth body, that of a male adult, at a fourth residence in the nearby village of Piketon. Three young children—ages three, six months, and four days—were unharmed during the shootings, with the four-day-old being found in bed with her mother's body. Seven adults and a 16-year-old were among those slain. The four-day-old and the six-month-old were placed under protective services, and the three-year-old was put under the guardianship of his mother, who was not involved in the shootings. Victims- The eight victims were identified as: Christopher Rhoden Jr. Christopher Rhoden Sr. Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden Dana Lynn Rhoden Gary Rhoden Hanna May Rhoden Hannah Hazel Gilley Kenneth Rhoden Autopsies: The bodies of the victims were taken to the Hamilton County Coroner's Office in Cincinnati, where autopsies found that all but one of the victims were shot multiple times. Four of the victims were shot once, twice, or three times; one was shot four times; two were shot five times; and the eighth suffered a total of nine gunshot wounds. Death certificates released on May 28 clarified that six of the eight victims were shot in the head only; the other two, Christopher Rhoden Sr. and Dana Rhoden, were also shot in the head, but Christopher also suffered gunshot wounds to the torso and limbs, and Dana was also shot in the neck. Bruising was also found on some of the bodies, indicating the victims were beaten as well. Some of the victims were found shot in their beds. From the number of gunshot wounds on the victims' bodies, an estimated total of 32 shots were fired during the killings. The offices of the county coroner and the Ohio Attorney General announced that the full final autopsy reports will not be released to the public, citing security concerns. However, amidst lawsuits by media outlets, the coroner's office released heavily redacted versions of the final reports on September 23. The full autopsy reports were publicly released by order of the Ohio Supreme Court on September 19, 2018. Services: On April 28, Gary Rhoden was the first of the victims to be buried, with his funeral proceedings being held in South Shore, Kentucky. Hannah Hazel Gilley was the next to be buried, on May 1 at Otway, Ohio. Funerals for the remaining victims took place on May 3 at West Portsmouth. A high amount of security was present during the May 3 funeral service. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine approved more than US$20,000 to help pay for the funerals. Reactions: Ohio Governor and 2016 U.S. presidential candidate John Kasich, who was briefed on the killings, described them as "tragic beyond comprehension". Cincinnati-area businessman Jeff Ruby (namesake of Jeff Ruby Steaks) offered a reward of US$25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in the shootings. On April 28, 2016, Ruby withdrew his reward, citing "recent complex criminal developments" in a post on Twitter. A proper reward of US$10,000 was later authorized on May 10, but announced by authorities ten weeks later on July 21 due to a "miscommunication and a misunderstanding" about public notification. On September 23, prompted by the lawsuits, the coroner's office released heavily redacted versions of the final reports. Investigation- Early stages: Police believe that more than one shooter may be responsible for the killings, since two of the crime scenes were within walking distance, a third located about a mile away, and the fourth about eight miles away. Investigators briefly considered the possibility of a murder–suicide, but it was discredited as none of the victims' deaths appeared to be suicides. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine stated that the killings were planned, premeditated, and "a sophisticated operation", citing the efforts taken by the shooter or shooters to cover up their tracks and remove any incriminating forensic evidence. All of the victims were members of the Rhoden family. Surviving family members were urged by police to take precautions, and all residents of Peebles were advised to stay inside their homes the following night. An investigative task force of at least 100 members, led by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation (BCI), was assembled.More than 251 law enforcement officials were involved in the investigation overall, and sheriffs from 25 offices across Ohio offered to provide resources to Pike County. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration provided technical expertise to DeWine's office. At least five search warrants were executed, and more than 50 people were interviewed in connection with the killings. 79 pieces of evidence were examined, including a Facebook threat aimed at Christopher Rhoden Jr., which was posted before the shootings. Discovery of marijuana and cockfighting operations: On April 25, a spokesperson for DeWine's office also confirmed that marijuana was discovered at the three crime scenes on Union Hill Road, including an indoor grow house in which hundreds of marijuana plants were being grown, as well as chickens and equipment consistent with breeding chickens for cockfighting. An estimated total of 200 marijuana plants were recovered from the crime scenes and are believed to have been grown for sale and not for personal use. It is currently unknown if the marijuana was connected to the shootings, though investigators confirmed the possibility of the involvement of a Mexican drug cartel. Marijuana problems are a common occurrence in Pike County: in 2010, 22,000 marijuana plants were seized by authorities in Latham, 15 miles west of Piketon; and a major marijuana growth site was discovered by police in August 2012, with about 1,200 marijuana plants being destroyed by investigators. In both cases, police suspected connections to Mexican drug cartels. On April 26, Dana Rhoden's father, Leonard Manley, stated that the victims knew their killer(s), citing the presence of Dana's two protective dogs. There was no indication that the dogs tried to attack anyone during the shootings, and there were no signs of forced entry at any of the crime scenes. Manley, who was not involved in the shootings, also said his daughter had no involvement in the exposed marijuana operations, saying that "they are trying to drag my daughter through the mud, and I don't appreciate that." Some family members have acknowledged Kenneth and Christopher Rhoden Sr. growing marijuana, but added that they were unaware of any high-volume growth occurring. Seizure of victims' properties: On May 3, following the funerals of the last six victims, authorities towed away at least three vehicles from property belonging to the Rhoden family; a spokeswoman for Mike DeWine said they were towed "as part of the investigation". Additional vehicles were towed the next day as well. They were all dropped off at the base of operations set up by the investigative task force. As of May 12, more than 500 tips were submitted during the investigation and 128 interviews were conducted. On May 12, DeWine and Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader announced the state's intention to relocate the mobile homes where the killings occurred to a secure location, in order to preserve evidence and protect the mementos of the Rhoden family. Three of the homes were taken to a property in Waverly, where the investigative task force set up their command center, while the fourth would arrive at a later time due to complications in removing it. As of October 6, the homes were being stored in a warehouse that was once part of a chemical processing company. On November 24, dozens of family vehicles and farming equipment, which were seized and investigated earlier in May, were returned to the victims' relatives. August 2016–January 2017 developments: On August 4, during a court hearing relating to the custody of the 6-month-old and 4-day-old children left alive, Sheriff Charles Reader confirmed investigators' early suspicions that more than one shooter was involved in the killings. He also said that the two children remained in "grave danger" because of the investigation, and that the investigation was possibly the largest in the BCI's history in terms of manpower and resources. On August 13, KVIA-TV incorrectly reported that two men arrested in Hatch, New Mexico, for the shooting death of a police officer were also suspected in the Rhoden familicide. The men, in reality, were suspected of another shooting death in Londonderry, Ross County, Ohio. DeWine and Pike County Sheriff Charles S. Reader issued a statement saying that they were unaware of a link between the case and the New Mexico arrests, that there was no evidence confirming it, and that New Mexico authorities had not contacted them about a suspected connection. KVIA later retracted the error. On August 20, DeWine announced new information regarding the investigation. He confirmed family and community members' suspicions that the perpetrators were familiar with the victims, their homes, and the surrounding area. He also announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies had become involved with the investigation. In addition, DeWine speculated that residents in the area have more knowledge than what they are sharing with investigators. On August 23, officials in Kenton County, Kentucky, located about 100 miles from Pike County, reported similarities between the Ohio shootings and a double homicide in Kenton County that occurred two weeks before. The victims, a well-known drug dealer and his girlfriend, were found fatally shot execution-style in their bed. The uncaught Kenton County killers, who were believed to be familiar with the victims' home, also left any children in the house unharmed. A total of 770 tips had been submitted to investigators as of September 23, according to court documents released on October 7. On September 28, WXIX-TV reported that the Rhoden family houses, all seized by the state as part of the investigation, were not being guarded properly. A news team had spent six weeks, starting from August 14 and ending in late September, watching the warehouse. Their surveillance reportedly turned up an absence of uniformed officers guarding the building, as well as a lack of security cameras and an unlocked, open main gate. DeWine responded to the claims, calling them "ludicrous" and asserting that the evidence was preserved and is not compromised. Reacting to the report, a former prosecutor from Hamilton County criticized the inadequate security measures and said, "Any evidence that they would pull out of that thing would be virtually useless." On October 1, DeWine said that investigators were getting leads in the case and that the state had enough physical evidence for prosecution. He also appealed to the public, explaining that there are people who know more about the shootings. On November 14, Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader issued a statement urging people with knowledge of the killings to come forward. He followed up with a second statement threatening to arrest anyone who may be obstructing the investigation, including relatives, family friends, and neighbors. Reacting to the second statement, Dana Rhoden's father, Leonard Manley, said that he "held nothing back" during the investigation. Following his reelection to the position of sheriff, Reader reiterated this belief and added that people may be scared of providing information. On January 20, 2017, DeWine, on behalf of the Ohio Victims of Crime Compensation Program, denied a request by family member David Weisel to recover lost compensation related to the massacre. Wagner family: On May 12, 2017, a SWAT team from the Franklin County Sheriff's Office raided a Pike County home approximately 10 miles from the site of the murders. Police originally stated they were searching for suspects in the murders; however, it was later clarified they were looking for evidence in the case and not suspects. Police also searched an Adams County property once owned and recently sold by Edward "Jake" Wagner, an ex-boyfriend of victim Hanna Rhoden and father of her 3-year-old daughter, but not the father of her 4-day-old daughter who was unharmed during the killings. On June 20, 2017, Ohio police announced that they were seeking additional information on Jake Wagner, as well as his parents Billy and Angela and brother George. The family is believed to be living in Alaska now and police want to learn of interactions that members of the public had with the family, specifically conversations pertaining to vehicles, firearms and ammunition. On November 13, 2018, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that George "Billy" Wagner, Angela Wagner, George Wagner IV, and Edward "Jake" Wagner had been arrested and charged with planning and carrying out the murders. Media lawsuits against coroner's office: On July 22, 2016, the Cincinnati Enquirer filed a lawsuit against the Pike County Coroner's Office, asking for the full autopsy records of the victims. On August 12, 2016 a similar lawsuit was filed by The Columbus Dispatch. In both cases, DeWine called for mediation, which attracted criticism and accusations that it was a mere delay tactic. A lawyer representing both newspapers said there was no legal basis for law enforcement's withholding of information from the public. In a filing on September 6, 2016, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine responded to The Columbus Dispatch's lawsuit against the coroner's office, saying: Public release of information known only to law enforcement and the killer(s) directly threatens the success of the investigation. Among other consequences, releasing this type of information impedes investigators' ability to separate genuine leads from fake, which wastes resources; makes it difficult to analyze confessions, which are fact-checked against information known only by investigators; and devalues information provided by witnesses who come forward after public release. On September 19, 2018, the Ohio Supreme Court overturned a lower court's refusal to release the autopsy reports that the Cincinnati Enquirer had sued to release and the reports were made public to the media. Arrests: As of November 13, 2018, the suspects accused of murdering eight family members in Ohio are now in police custody. 47-year-old George "Billy" Wagner, III was arrested in Lexington, Kentucky. The suspects are all members of the Wagner family from South Webster: -George "Billy" Wagner III, 47 (father), was arrested in Fayette County, Kentucky -Angela Wagner, 48 (George's wife) was arrested at her home in Scioto County -George Wagner IV, 27 (son) was arrested during a traffic stop in Ross County -Edward "Jake" Wagner, 26 (son) was arrested along with his brother during a traffic stop in Ross County -Rita Newcomb, 65, of South Webster, mother of Angela Wagner and Fredericka Wagner, 76 of Lucasville, mother of Billy Wagner, are accused of perjury and obstructing justice for allegedly misleading investigators; Newcomb also is charged with forging custody documents to cover up the crimes.

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so i've had a strong of elders have minor attractions that included asking if i was ok or if i needed anything

getting better

if any of you have seen my video scoliosis in which i talk about my scoliosis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XQRB1cJ4jA) and how it affects me i'm getting better. granted i had an accident during a muscle spasm and falling down the stairs. i'm OK but as i was doing my physical therapy my muscles weren't as severe as they'd been healing.

yay

my friend got my email address and he's going to start sending me emails

don't look alike

my brothers and i don't look 100% alike. the most is our hair and glasses but that's it.

weird

so i get a text from my brother saying his friend who goes to the same campus as i do wants to meet me. i'n like, "alright. i'll meet this person." i get the guy's information and call him immediately. turns out i've met him and occasionally seen him in the campus library.

scary

i love scary videos. my favorites are from channels like: Rob Dyke, Criminally Listed and Mr. Nightmare. they're terrifying and my parents understand i can tolerate carnage better than they can.

charcoal in my teeth

i'm using charcoal when i brush my teeth on occasion to help

i'm not leaving you

what i implied to my friend when she was upset over losing our mutual friend. she was crying and held my hand a ton. she cried a lot and hugged a ton of people, me included.

Clocaenog Forest Man

“Clocaenog Forest Man” refers to an unidentified murder victim found in the Clocaenog Forest in Denbighshire, Wales in November 2015. The body had lain undiscovered for over 20 years and despite extensive investigations by North Wales Police, national and UK appeals and input from a notable serial killer the identity of the body and the murderer(s) remain a mystery. Discovery of the body: The remains were found on the evening of 14 November 2015 by two brothers. Andrew and Mark Middle were camping in Cloceanog Forest during the 2015 Wales Rally GB which they were spectating. it was dark and Mark was using a torch to look for firewood in the woods when he found a skull on the forest floor and after a closer inspection realised it was human. The skull was covered in moss was largely concealed by the undergrowth. The North Wales Police were notified of the discovery at 20:35. A local officer attended the scene and concluded that the brothers had found the fully decomposed remains of a human male. Based on tree growth, body decomposition and the fact that the area of the forest were the victim was found was planted in 1985, the police believe that the body was deposited between 1995 and 2005. The remains were found close to one of the Clocaenog sections of the rally and near to Pentre-llyn-Cymmer and Llyn Brenig. The deposition location of the body was easily accessible as it was only few meters from two forest roads. The location of the discovery was known to be near to the murder and burial location of Edward Carthy who, at 28, was the youngest victim of serial killer Peter Moore. Moore later claimed that Clocaenog Forest Man was found in ‘exactly the same place’ as Edward Carthy. Initial investigation: After the discovery, the police started a large scale search of the forest which took five weeks. The police uncovered an almost entire skeleton of a human male. The majority of the skeleton was discovered beneath in dense trees and undergrowth a few meters away from the location of the skull. The remains were removed two days after the discovery and taken away to be examined by a pathologist. A DNA profile was extracted from the skeleton. No match was found in the UK national DNA database or the UK Missing Persons Unit. Biologists and forensic anthropologists gathered samples and evidence from the undergrowth in an attempt to date the body. A pathological investigation indicated that the man died from a blunt trauma to the head. Police established that it was likely that the man was murdered in an unknown location between 2004 and 2010 and the body dumped in location where it was found. Description of the victim: It is likely that the man would have been born before 1950 and aged over 54 at the time of his death and most likely in his 60s. He would have been 'well built' in life and would have had a height of between 5ft 8in and 5ft 10.5in (1.73-1.78m). The victim had an injury to his spine, fused vertebrae, a broken nose and possible injury to his left wrist. He had arthritis and an inflammatory condition in his spine and other joints. In life, the victim would have experienced pain and reduced movement. The victim had lost a number of teeth during life which would have resulted in sunken cheeks. All the victims posterior molar teeth were absent which suggests that he was not dentally aware early in his life however this appeared to be followed by a sudden change of circumstance due to extensive dental work of very high quality completed later in life. Police stated that the victim had undergone two identifiable dental procedures in life. The first was that the victim had a number of crowns to his front teeth, work which appeared to have been done in the UK between 1980 and 2000. The second procedure was an uncommon procedure; a remedial filling to a temporary plastic crown which had been badly worn. John Rosie, a forensic odontologist, stated that as the dental work was highly distinctive and involved specialist work it could allow a dentist to identify the victim. Information regarding the victims dental work was published in dentistry journals by the police. Some items of clothing were found near to the body but it could not be confirmed that they were associated with the victim. These items were; a dark-green Pringle jumper and some dark-red decomposed Marks and Spencer underwear. The underwater was manufactured in 1999 and Pringle of Scotland confirmed that the jumper was produced between 2000 and 2004. Subsequent investigations: In June 2016 the police released a photograph of the victims jawbone in the hope that dentists may recognise their dental work and therefore identify the victim. The police also announced that they were undertaking familial DNA research. On 26 September 2016 police released images showing how the man could have looked when he was alive at the ages of 50, 60 and 70 on the BBC Crimewatch programme. in March 2017 the police confirmed that they had been contacted by, and met with, serial killer Peter Moore following his claims that he knew the identity of Clocaenog Forest Man. Peter claimed in a letter that the victim was a mature student at Aberystwyth University who had disappeared in 1996. Moore did not disclose the victims name but Daily Post journalists identified a Roger Evans of Bradeley near Stoke-on-Trent who disappeared 16 January 1996 aged 46 during his first year at Aberystwyth University. Moore later stated that his theory had been discounted by the police due to conflicting dates. In October 2017 Police support officers and race marshals distributed leaflets to attendees of the 2017 Wales Rally GB.

Angel of the Meadow

The Angel of the Meadow is the name given by the media to an unidentified murder victim who was discovered in 2010 in Angel Meadow, Manchester, United Kingdom. Despite an extensive international investigation the woman's identity, and that of her killer, have never been established. Discovery of the body: The body was discovered on 25 January 2010 at the site of a former carpark located between Angel Street, Dantzic Street and Miller Street in Manchester, England. The area is known as Angel Meadow and was the location of a notorious Victorian slum which Friedrich Engels notably referred to as “hell upon earth”. At the time of the discovery the site was being prepared for redevelopment into the new head offices for the Co-operative Group. A workman noticed a skull which lead to the discovery of a human skeleton concealed underneath sections of blue carpet. The police were called at 15:50 to attend the scene. Description of the victim: The victim had suffered a fractured neck, clavicle and jaw. The police initially believed that the woman was aged 18-35 when she died. The date of her death was identified as the 1970s or 80s. Police believe the woman was born between 1950 and 1954. In life the victim was a size 12 and her height was between 5ft 1in and 5ft 7in. She was probably European but possibly from India or the Middle East. The victim had a number of fillings and her first upper right pre-molar was missing which would have been apparent in life when she smiled. The victim was wearing a blue jumper, blue brassiere a green pinafore dress and black stiletto court shoes of which, only one was found. The pinafore dress was distinctive in that it had large buttons and a unique '1970s-style' pattern. A number of items were found with or near the body; a plastic Guinness measuring chart from the late 1960s, an orange patterned carpet, dark blue and blue carpets, tights and a handbag. One of the carpet pieces which covered the body was thought by police to have been removed from a Ford Cortina and featured a hole cut for a gear stick. Initial investigation: The death was initially treated as non-suspicious until the postmortem revealed that the woman had suffered a violent death. The investigation commenced with a search of missing person records and an appeal to the public in a hope that someone would recognise the items recovered with the body. Subsequent investigations: In May 2011 police revealed a facial reconstruction of the woman. On 24 May 2011 the reconstruction featured on an episode of the BBC Crimewatch programme. At this time Police confirmed that the victims dentistry did not match the dental records of 3 women known to have gone missing from the Greater Manchester area; Helen Sage (missing 1997), Zoe Simpson (missing 1996) and Helen McCourt (murdered 1988). DNA analysis done in 2011 to try to establish whether the woman was a victim of either Peter Tobin or Ronald Castree who were killers known to be active at the time showed that there was no connection. In November 2012 the police announced they had complied a list that comprised 18 potential identities for the victim which increased to 21-22 following input from the public. The police stated that the strongest candidate for the potential identity of the victim was an individual from Tanzania who had been brought to their attention after a Tanzanian family had made contact. Additional leads were investigated from Ireland, Texas and the Netherlands. In March 2015 the remains of the victim were buried in an unmarked grave in Southern Cemetery, Manchester in a ceremony attended only by the two police detectives who were working on the case. In March 2015 police confirmed that they had a DNA profile of the victim and there were undertaking a familial DNA search as part of the investigation.

The Bolney Torso

The Bolney Torso refers to the partial remains of an unknown male decedent that were discovered in woods near Bolney, Southern England in October of 1991. Discovery of the body: On Friday 11 October 1991 Colin Oliver, then 62, discovered the torso in woods off Broxmead Lane in Bolney, Sussex. Oliver was walking home to Burgess Hill from Cuckfield along Broxfield Lane. Oliver stopped along the lane and went though a gate leading to a field. Oliver went into the trees to urinate and found a bloody torso rolled up in a piece of carpet in undergrowth. Oliver then walked to the Burgess Hill police station to alert the police to his discovery. Oliver claimed to have been so disturbed by the discovery that he had trouble sleeping for several months after. Initial description of victim: The remains were found to be of a male who was believed to have been in his 60s at the time of death. The head and hands of the victim had been removed and the severed head and limbs were never found. One arm had been severed six inches below the elbow and the other two inches below the elbow, this appeared to have been done in order to remove an identifying tattoo. The arms and appeared to have been removed with an axe or bolt cropper. The victim was described as white, had a protruding belly was circumcised and had a small star-shaped mole on his right thigh. The victim was wearing turned up trousers from Fosters and a blue shirt with a distinctive motif on the pocket. Investigation: The investigation to find the identity of the victim and the murder was assigned the name Operation A23 and employed 60 people and cost £150,000. DCI Peter Kennett led the initial inquiry. Detectives searched files of over 100 missing men without finding a match and appeals for the public to come forward with an identity were fruitless. Suspects: In December 1991 police were contacted by a local estate agent with a potential lead; a large rented house in Copyhold Lane, Cuckfield, (1.5 miles from the deposition location of the body) had been abandoned which raised their suspicions. Police investigated the property and found a copy of Penthouse magazine containing an article about dismembering bodies with numbers scrawled on the pages. Gunter Josef Knieper, from Dresden, Germany, and Kornelia Maria Teusel first rented the property in September 1991 paying £10,000 (6 months rent) in advance. The couple abandoned the property some time around 9 October 1991. Knieper, who had been using the pseudonym Dr Matthias Herrman, was being sought in Germany and Ireland on suspicion of business fraud. In June 1992 Knieper was arrested in Spain. Police interviewed Knieper in Frankfurt and established that the gang intended to start a fraud operation but Knieper denied any involvement in the murder of the victim. In August 1992 police admitted there was no evidence to link Knieper to the murder. In January 1994 police returned to Germany to interview another unnamed male who had visited the property in Copyhold Lane. Burial: On 2 August 1994, after a brief service, the remains of the victim were laid to rest at Western Road Cemetery, in Haywards Heath. The coffin bore the name "Unknown Male" Eight people attended the paupers funeral paid for by Mid Sussex District Council. The mourners in attendance were representatives of the police, coroner's office and Mid Sussex District Council. Subsequent events: In December 1995, a few days before Christmas, some flowers and a note were left at the victim’s grave. The note bore the message: "For the unknown male, Peter and team, remember our loss." Re-investigation: In March 2009 police exhumed the body in the hope that advances in forensic techniques would provide additional information. On 12 November 2009 the case appeared on the BBC program Crimewatch. In 2010 it was reported that, following media appeals on UK Crimewatch and its German equivalent, numerous suggestions for the victim’s identity had been received however, none bore fruit. Police stated that three missing persons had been discounted as the identity of the victim and their families had been informed. In 2011 it was revealed that evidence gathered in 2010 indicated that the victim had been dressed post mortem and that the clothes did not belong to the victim. The re-investigation examined a femur, rib bone and toenail from the victim. This revealed that the victim likely came from Southern Germany or a surrounding country. Analysis of the toenail suggested that the victim spent the last year of his life in the UK or the French/German border. Revised description of the victim: The revised description of the victim was that his height was between 5 ft 6 and 5 ft 8 tall and aged between 30 - 45 and most likely in his late 30s at the time of death. The victim had a strongly built upper body Analysis of the skeleton indicated that the victim was strong, well-nourished and healthy at the time of his death and he had no signs of any degenerative illness.

Nude in the Nettles

The Nude in the Nettles is the name given by the media to the body of an unknown female decedent found concealed under a nettle bush near Sutton Bank in North Yorkshire, England in 1981. The police were notified of the body’s location by an anonymous caller who claimed that they could not give their name for reasons of ‘national security’. Neither the identity of the woman nor the caller has never been established despite an extensive investigation. Discovery of the victim: On Friday 28 August 1981, at around 8:00 am, C John Jeffries of Ripon Police received a telephone call at the Police Station from a man who was described as well-spoken with a slight trace of a local accent. The caller stated: “Near Scawton Moor House, you will find a decomposed body among the willow herbs.” The caller then gave instructions on how to find the body. The called lasted for less than a minute and when the caller was asked for his name and address he stated that he could not give this information for “reasons of national security” and he abruptly terminated the call. The local village constable attended the location identified but could not initially find the body, however, after careful searching, he uncovered human bones underneath a large bed of Rosebay Willow. The CID were called to the scene and cleared a large area of undergrowth. The body was discovered near to Sutton Bank Top on an unclassified road between Sutton Bank and Scawton and Rievaulx near the junction with the A170 Thirsk to Scarborough Road. It is thought that the body had lain undisturbed for up to two years. A clue was a discarded lid from a tin of meat paste, which was found to have been sold on 6 October 1979, which was found beneath the body. Police believe the woman was murdered but have never revealed how she died. The body was so well concealed that it was highly improbable that it could have been discovered by accident despite the fact that the location was near to the entrance to Scawton Moor House Farm which was a popular family picnic area. The anonymous caller was later a suspect in the murder but their identity was never established. Description of the victim: In life, the woman was 5 feet 4 inches tall. She had dark brown hair with a length of around 4-6 inches which was untreated and cut in a page-boy style. The victim’s toenails were painted with Max Factor Maxi, pale-pink and she wore a size four shoe. The woman had given birth to two or three children during her life and although no wedding ring was found it is believed that she had been married. No jewellery or clothing of any kind was found with the body implying that someone had tried to conceal the victims identity. Analysis of the skeleton revealed that the victim had a neck vertebrae abnormality which would have caused a bad back in life. The victim also had a displaced septum and an old ankle fracture. Bone analysis revealed that until the age of seven, the woman lived in an area with high levels of natural fluoride in the drinking water, two local areas that had such water were Hartlepool and Grimsby. All the victims upper teeth, and all but six of her lower teeth, were missing and an upper dental plate had been fitted. The woman had heavy staining on her remaining teeth which indicated that she smoked and drank heavily and did not pay much attention to herself in life. Subsequent events: Following the investigation of the site of the discovery the wider investigation discovered some female clothing, a black evening gown and some underwear, hanging from a tree about a mile away from the location of the body. The items could not be proved to relate to the discovery of the woman but no one has come forward to claim them. Police investigated the possibility that the woman was an escaped inmate from Askham Grange open prison. However, the prisoner unexpectedly responded to a request to prove that she was still alive by sending investigating officers two thumb prints and a signature on a blank sheet of paper. In November 1981 medical students constructed a waxwork of the woman in one of the first examples of using this technique to identify an unknown decedent. In 2012, the body was exhumed so that a DNA profile could be created. The profile was compared to samples from five families, two of whom came forward of their own volition, that could potentially be related to the woman. No match was found. In 2013 police stated that they had added the woman’s DNA profile to the national database in the hope that a match would be found in the future.

Bedgebury Forest Woman

Bedgebury Forest Woman refers to an unknown female decedent who was found in Bedgebury Forest, Kent, England on 23 October 1979. Despite multiple investigations, an arrest and a trial the woman has never been identified. Discovery of the victim: The body was found by a woman riding on horseback through Bedgebury Forest on Tuesday, 23 October 1979. The forest floor was dry as the weather had been dry and sunny for a few weeks. The body had been battered, mutilated, murdered and dumped but little attempt had been made to conceal the body and it was apparent in the undergrowth from the riders position. The victim had suffered massive head injuries from a beating. A bloodstained wooden stake found near the victims body was later concluded to have been the murder weapon. No handbag or means of identification were found with the body. Police believe that the victim had been killed up to five days prior to her discovery. Description of the victim: The severity of the injuries to the woman’s head and body prevented identification. The woman was aged between 30 and 35, she was quite short at 5ft 1in and she had a thin build. She had brown eyes and straight shoulder-length hair which she had kept in its natural, dark-brown colour. The victim was wearing black shoes, a distinctive floral dress, a black polo neck jumper and a yellow blouse. The police stated that the black and white patterned dress was the clue that was most likely to lead to the discovery of her identity. The dress was found to have been homemade from furniture fabric. It had been altered on multiple occasions; once to the hem and another to the chest area. The dress had been purchased at a charity, or second hand shop. Police believed that the victim was very poor and possibly from the north of England. The autopsy revealed that the victim had an ectopic pregnancy which had been present for 4-6 weeks and bleeding for 2-3 weeks. The victim would have been in severe pain and may have visited a doctor suspecting appendicitis as the pain would have occurred on her right side. Stretch marks on her stomach indicated that she had probably given birth to at least one child. The victim’s molars were very worn down and she had wisdom teeth which indicated that she was at least 30 years old. There was no evidence that the victim had ever visited a dentist in her life. The victim had prominent, visibly decayed teeth. No nicotine staining was found on the victim’s hands, teeth or lungs. Additionally, the victim’s lungs did not exhibit the carbon deposits typical of a city-dweller, indicating that she probably lived in the countryside. Police believe the woman was of no fixed address and was a regular hitchhiker along the M1 and M6 motorways and may have had a connection with the Vale of Evesham. There was a possibility that she may have been working as a sex worker, operating from Spitalfields in London. Initial investigation: After the discovery the police searched the missing persons databases at New Scotland Yard and the UK Social Services. Hospitals and doctors surgeries were also polled for persons who matched the description of the woman. A large poster campaign was launched throughout the UK and Europe. All of these investigative efforts failed to produce a match to the woman's identity. Subsequent events- Crimewatch 1984: In December 1984 the victim was featured on an episode of the BBC TV program, Crimewatch. Police appealed for the persons that made, or altered the black and white dress to come forward. Reopening of the case: In October 1998 the case was reopened after an investigation by forensic scientists on archived evidence. The victim's case was highlighted in the national media as one of a number of such cases that had been reopened due to a new DNA technique that enabled the generation of DNA profiles from much smaller samples than had been previously possible. The size of these samples was described as being as small as a single blood cell, or a flake of skin. Arrest: In January 1999 the first arrest in the case was made. Harry J R Pennells, then 75, of Ticehurst, East Sussex was charged with the victim’s murder. Pennells, who was 54 at the time of the murder was a retired lorry driver and had worked for Henley’s Transport who were based in Kent at the time of the murder. Pennells had originally been questioned by police a few days after the discovery of the body. He had been interviewed three times between 1979 and 1980 and was one of a number of suspects. He had not been charged following the initial investigation, however, after specks of blood found in his lorry in 1979 were re-examined and linked to the victim police were able to make their arrest. Pennells was subsequently bailed and a report was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service. Crimewatch 1999: On 22 February 1999 the victim’s case was featured on Crimewatch for a second time. It was revealed that after the original Crimewatch appeal in 1984 the person who made the black-and-white dress had made contact. The woman, who was from Stratford-upon-Avon stated that she had given the dress to a charity shop in Evesham, Worcestershire after which, police could not trace it. It appeared to have been subsequently altered to shorten the length, remove the zip from the back and add a black lace ruff to the collar. An appeal was made for the person who made these alterations to come forward. Trial: The trial started on 4 May 2000 at Maidstone Crown Court. Pennells was accused of picking up the victim at Spitalfields Market on 19 October 1979, taking her in his lorry to a delivery in Keighley, West Yorkshire, then back to drop her off in South London on the morning of the 20th October and beating the victim to death with a wooden stake. Pennells told the court that he had picked up a female hitchhiker. He admitted that the hitchhiker may have been the victim, but that he had dropped her off alive and was innocent of her murder. Witnesses called by the prosecution stated that they had seen a woman matching the victims description in Bedgebury Forest on 21 October 1979 which was the day after the murder was suspected to have happened according to some estimates. Two witnesses who were at the Keighley lorry depot stated that they saw, and spoke to, a young woman who was with Pennells. Staff at the Henley Transport's Rochdale depot also stated that they saw Pennells with a woman who was similar to an artist's impression made of the victim. Samples of blood and flakes of hair found in a sleeping bag on the passenger seat of the lorry matched the DNA profile of the victim. Additionally, particles of foam from a mattress in the cab of the lorry were found on the victim's dress. The trial lasted for four weeks, after which Pennells was found not guilty in an unanimous decision made after the jury deliberated for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Subsequent appeals to identify the victim: In October 2007 the charity missing persons appealed to the public for someone to come forward and identify the woman.

Body in the cylinder

The “Body in the Cylinder” refers to a male decedent discovered within a partially sealed steel cylinder on a derelict WWII bomb site in Liverpool, England. The discovery was made in 1945 and it is believed that the body had lain undiscovered for 60 years. Inquiries named a strong (but unconfirmed) candidate for the identity of the decedent however, the cause of death and the reason for their presence in the cylinder remain a mystery. Discovery of the cylinder: In the summer of 1943 American soldiers were clearing a blitzed site at the back of the Methodist Church on Boundary Street East in Liverpool. An American bulldozer uncovered the cylinder while it was clearing building debris. One end of the cylinder was capped with a steel plate and the other was open. The bulldozer moved the cylinder and during the operation it unintentionally crushed the open end. Building contractors then extracted the cylinder from the building rubble and laid it level. After the summer of 1943 the cylinder went largely unnoticed. A local witness, Norman Garner of 278 Great Homer Street, stated that he had seen people use the cylinder as a seat and children often played with it. About two weeks prior to the discovery of the body witnesses saw children rolling the cylinder across from some waste land in Great Homer Street to Claudia Street. Description of the cylinder: The cylinder had a length of 6 feet 9 inches (2.1 m) a diameter of 19 inches (480 mm) and was made of gauge 9 steel which has a thickness of 0.156 inches (4 mm). The metal cap to the closed end of the cylinder was bolted in place. The open end of the cylinder had been compressed, and almost crimped shut, by the bulldozer leaving an aperture of about 4 inches (100 mm). No traces of paint were found inside the cylinder and the opinion in 1945 was that it had been part of a ventilation shaft. Discovery of the body: On 13 July 1945 three small boys were playing with the cylinder. They were rolling it through the streets when one tried to see what was inside. At first they saw what appeared to be a shoe, however, on closer inspection it appeared to be part of an human skeleton. The police were called to the scene and they used an Oxy acetylene burner to cut the cylinder open. The contents were revealed to be a complete human skeleton accompanied by a number of items. The police removed the remains and took them to the mortuary. Description of the victim: The remains were found to be those of an adult male who would have been about 6 feet (1.8 m) tall in life. It was thought, in 1945, that the man was aged between 25 and 50 at the time of his death. The body appeared to have been in situ for a long time. The left base of the skeletons skull was missing. The cranium was broken near to the left middle-ear but this did not appear to be due to violence. The head and torso had become detached at some point through movement. A small amount of hair was found still adhered to the skull. It appeared that the man had crawled into the cylinder. The position of the skeleton suggested that the man was lying down and using a brick wrapped in sacking as a pillow when he died. The body was found fully clothed and lying full length on some sacking but not within it. He was dressed in clothes typical of the later Victorian period and they appeared to be of good quality. Items found with body: Numerous items were found with the body. These items included two diaries, seven keys (heavily corroded), and some miscellaneous papers. No money or other valuables were found in the decedents pockets. The list of items found in the cylinder, as reported in 1945, is as follows: -Two diaries dated 1884 and 1885. The diaries were largely illegible to the coroner in 1945 but one diary entry dated June 1885 noted an 'appointment for 1 pm with F C Gredy at Cons'. -A postcard (decayed but reconstructed by coroner), postmarked Birmingham, date stamped July 3rd 1885. The postcard was addressed to T C Williams from Mr A E Harris. -A handkerchief, however, there was nothing identifiable on it. -A brooch in the cylinder. -A gold signet ring of a green stone flecked with red. The signet ring was very much worn and carried the hallmark 'London 1859'. -A London North Western Railway advice note dated 27 June 1885. -Five account sheets, (four unused) from T C Williams and Co. -A billhead receipt from T C Williams and Co, Leeds St, Liverpool. Investigation: The inquest was opened on 19 July 1945 and adjourned for a month by the Liverpool Coroner Mr G C Mort. There was no evidence that the man had been killed in the blitz as had been suspected initially. The pathologist noted a large amount of moisture in the cylinder which indicated three possible scenarios. 1. The victim could had been in the unsealed cylinder for about 10 years. 2. The cylinder could have been sealed airtight. 3. There could have been moisture ingress and it had not dried out. The last two scenarios indicated that it was possible that the body had been in the cylinder since 1885 or 1890. Conditions in the cylinder indicated that the body had undergone normal decomposition. On 31 August 1945 the coroner closed the inquest by recording an open verdict stating that it was impossible to establish cause of death due to insufficient information. The date of death was believed to have been 1885. Thomas Creegan Williams: In August 1945 the inquest named T C Williams, a paint and brush manufacturer of 5 Leeds Street, Liverpool, as a potential identity for the decedent. T C Williams and Co. were a paint, varnish and colour merchants in Tithebarn Street with works in Smithfield Street around 1885. Thomas Cregeen Williams, lived at 29 Cambridge Road in Seaforth, then Woodville House, Abbotsford Road in Blundellsands. Williams was declared bankrupt on 10 March 1884. The inquest hypothesised that Williams had left his family home due to financial difficulties and was sleeping in the cylinder at what were assumed to be his business premisses. Somehow the cylinder became sealed and he asphyxiated. It was thought that his disappearance may been interpreted in 1885 as deliberate absconding in order to avoid his creditors as working ones passage on ship to another country was not an unknown method of escaping debt at the time. According to records obtained by the inquiry Williams’s wife was buried alone in Liverpool but no records of the death of Williams or his burial in Liverpool could be found. Indeed, there were no records in England and Wales of a T C Williams being buried. T C Williams had one son born 1859. The inquiry sought relatives of Williams but had no success at the time.

random

when i was randomly checked on it was that: random. my back was killing me but the guy checking on me didn't know my back was killing me because of too much fun.

you tube videos

i love making them. i have my own vlog where i talk about whatever's on my mind for that week. sometimes i'll post more than 1 video a week. i did that a ton over the summer and at the end of the semester last spring as i had more free time.

didn't leave me

my grandfather didn't leave me quiet yet after his funeral. i felt him on the way to and from the graveside service as well as in church.

vegetarian food

tomorrow i'm eating tons of vegetarian food. my diet usually consists OF vegetarian food. stuff i like eating that's vegetarian are: pb&j, omelets, oats, toast, mac and cheese and the like. i can't eat beef on a regular basis as i've got a minor allergic reaction to it.

A piece of pie

A little bit of the punishment or the whole thing. Also my friends when I was working on something people wanted in.

funny

so i was writing a paper before i went to game night and i was listening to something. i'd accidentally written some of what i heard on the video. luckily i corrected my mistakes before i have to turn it in

classic

i'm re-listening to an old favorite song. it's Lugia's song. it's awesome.

Wearside Jack

Wearside Jack is the nickname given to John Samuel Humble, an Englishman who pretended to be the Yorkshire Ripper in a number of hoax letters and an audio communication in 1978–79. Humble sent three letters, taunting the authorities for failing to catch him, as well as an audio-message spoken in a Wearside accent, causing the investigation to be moved away from West Yorkshire area, home of the real killer Peter Sutcliffe, and thereby helping prolong his attacks on women and hinder his potential arrest by two years. Some 25 years after the event, a fragment from one of Humble's envelopes was traced to him through DNA, and in 2006 Humble was sentenced to eight years in prison for perverting the course of justice. Taunting letters to police and media: Over the course of a year between March 1978 and March 1979, Humble sent three letters claiming to be the Yorkshire Ripper. Postmarked from Sunderland, two were addressed to Assistant Chief Constable, George Oldfield a member of the West Yorkshire Police who was heading the Ripper inquiry, and one to the Daily Mirror. First letter: 8 March 1978 Written to Detective George Oldfield Dear Sir, I am sorry I cannot give my name for obvious reasons. I am the Ripper. I've been dubbed a maniac by the Press but not by you, you call me clever and I am. You and your mates haven't a clue that photo in the paper gave me fits and that bit about killing myself, no chance. I've got things to do. My purpose to rid the streets of them sluts. My one regret is that young lassie McDonald, did not know cause changed routine that night. Up to number 8 now you say 7 but remember Preston '75. get about you know. You were right I travel a bit. You probably look for me in Sunderland, don't bother, I am not daft, just posted letter there on one of my trips. Not a bad place compared with Chapeltown and Manningham and other places. Warn whores to keep off streets cause I feel it coming on again. Sorry about young lassie. Yours respectfully, Jack the Ripper; Might write again later I not sure last one really deserved it. Whores getting younger each time. Old slut next time I hope. Huddersfield never again, too small close call last one. "Preston '75" was a reference to the murder of Joan Harrison. The actual Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, was never charged with this crime. It would remain unsolved until 2011, when DNA evidence from the crime scene was matched to a man named Christopher Smith. Wearside accent: On 17 June 1979, Humble sent a cassette to Assistant Chief Constable Oldfield, where he introduced himself only under the Christian name "Jack" and claimed responsibility for the Ripper murders to that point. Message: I'm Jack. I see you are still having no luck catching me. I have the greatest respect for you George, but Lord! You are no nearer catching me now than four years ago when I started. I reckon your boys are letting you down, George. They can't be much good, can they? The cassette ended with a segment from the 1978 single "Thank You for Being a Friend" by Andrew Gold. Despite George Oldfield and other senior officers being informed by the FBI the author of the tape was a blatant hoaxer, the police focused on Humble's Wearside accent. Together with voice analysts, they decided (based on dialectology) that the accent was distinctive to the Castletown area of Sunderland. This led to 40,000 men being investigated – to no avail as the real killer actually came from Bradford, approximately 78 miles southwest. Police also commenced a substantial publicity campaign, including 'Dial-the-Ripper' hotlines, billboards, and full page ads in newspapers. Around £1 million was invested into the publicity campaign alone. Peter Sutcliffe (who actually committed the murders) was interviewed about the murders a total of nine times, both before and after Humble's correspondence, before he finally confessed to the crimes after his arrest in January 1981. The police concentration on the voice on the tape as a point of elimination rather than as a line of enquiry was one criticism of a notoriously botched police investigation. The satirical magazine Private Eye (no. 463 of 14 September 1979) reported under the headline "STOP PRESS: Ripper – 'I'm a woman'" the receipt of "a video cassette in which (the Ripper) claims, in a strong Irish accent, to be the Leader of the Liberal Party". Hoax revealed: While the West Yorkshire Police were investigating the leads, Sutcliffe was free to continue killing, murdering three more women. It was only after Sutcliffe's confession that Wearside Jack was proven to be a hoax. ACC Oldfield took early retirement following what he considered to be a complete humiliation; he died in 1985. Following Sutcliffe's conviction, the identity of Wearside Jack remained a mystery for over 24 years. On 17 September 2003, the BBC reported that police had decided to call off the search for the hoaxer. Assertions were also made that there were no plans to re-open the case, as too much time had passed and modern forensic tests would most likely be inaccurate due to chemicals used in original testing in the 1970s. Revisiting the mystery: A major breakthrough came during 2005 when senior officers from West Yorkshire Police's Homicide and Major Inquiry Team (HMIT), headed by Det Chief Supt Chris Gregg, decided to review the case. A small piece of the gummed seal from one of the envelopes was located in a forensic laboratory and following publicity about the cold case review the hoax tape was retrieved from a retired scientist who had worked on the original investigation. As a result of this cold case review, DNA from envelopes sent by Humble as part of the hoax were matched in the United Kingdom National DNA Database with samples police had obtained from Humble in an unrelated incident in 2000, when he had been arrested and cautioned for being drunk and disorderly. By this time Humble had become an alcoholic loner. Humble, who was living on the Ford Estate in Sunderland, was arrested on 20 October 2005, and charged with four counts of perverting the course of justice. Upon his arrest, Humble had been so drunk that police had to wait several hours before he was considered sober enough to be interviewed. Humble admitted responsibility for the letters and the cassette, but denied perverting the course of justice, and his legal team pushed in vain for a lesser charge of wasting police time. At times during police interviews Humble appeared ashamed of what he had done, referring to the acts as evil although not being able to explain why they were evil. He revealed that the motive for his crime was a quest for notoriety, although a BBC documentary later suggested he had a hatred of the police dating back to 1975 when he was imprisoned for assaulting a police officer. Humble laughed at several points during the interview, including when asked about the tune played at the end of the tape. During the interviews he also claimed not to have told any other individual he was a hoaxer, and that he did not realise the impact his actions were having on the police investigation. Humble also confirmed to police that he had used library books as a source of inspiration for his letters and tape. He confirmed he had attended school in the Castletown area of Sunderland, and that he had panicked as police interviewed men in that area. It was also revealed that his neighbours had been interviewed by police searching for Wearside Jack, but he had not. In fact Humble attended Havelock Senior School in Fordfield Road, Ford Estate near to Flodden Road where he was eventually captured. Trial and conviction: Humble was remanded on 20 October 2005. He was tried at Leeds Crown Court on 9 January 2006, and initially pleaded not guilty. He admitted to being Wearside Jack on 23 February 2006, and on 20 March 2006, changed his plea to guilty on four counts of perverting the course of justice. During the trial, his defence barristers reported he had attempted suicide on a number of occasions, including one occasion shortly after the tape was made public. The defence also claimed he had lived an "inadequate life", and had been driven by guilt to alcoholism. Despite this, Humble did not contact the police voluntarily to acknowledge his guilt, even when it was obvious his tapes and letters were diverting police resources away from the real Ripper. A BBC documentary broadcast on 27 March 2006 reported that Humble had telephoned the incident room and informed them that the tape was a hoax. Although key individuals in the investigation were convinced that this caller was the hoaxer, it was officially discounted. In addition, the US profiling expert Robert Ressler revealed in his book, Whoever Fights Monsters, that he told the English police that the main tape was a hoax immediately when he heard it. After hearing Humble's change of plea, the mother of one of the victims of the true Ripper expressed her belief that Humble should be punished, telling the BBC: "I think it's started off as a hoax but he should have realised he was misdirecting the police and he was causing criminal damage to people". On 21 March 2006, Humble was sentenced to eight years in jail. In July 2006, he launched an appeal against his sentence, which was rejected in October of the same year. Release of John Humble: On 5 September 2009 the Daily Mail Online ran a story "Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer Wearside Jack to be freed from prison next month". In an article published in July 2013, Humble was confirmed to be out of prison and gave his first interview.

Gift

I'm giving my visiting teacher a gift for all the rides she's giving me over the last year

Pain despite

I'm in pain despite having physical therapy and heat therapy. Granted I was on my cycle last week so maybe I'll get better by next week

Bored

I got bored 1 day and decided to dress up for no reason. It was awesome.

Chrochet

I'm chrocheting a scarf for a friend. I figured she could use something nice. I know its a little early for Christmas gifts but considering that she needs something nice its ok.

teased

i'm usually teased. my brothers teased me about my height as well as having to use the selfie stick. i wonder WHY i had to use it (it was foisted upon me).

Gilpin County Jane Doe

The burned body of a woman was found on September 30, 1952 in a forest near Highway 119 in Blackhawk, Gilpin County, Colorado. The victim had been placed under a log that was set afire after being doused with an accelerant approximately 20 to 30 days before her remains were found. The victim was believed to be aged between 25 and 30 years old at the time of her murder (born between 1922 and 1927), although she may have been as young as 17.[40] Her hair is believed to have been dark in color, which was found attached to the skull and she was approximately five feet seven inches tall.[41] Because of the condition of her body, her weight and race are unknown, as her remains had deteriorated to the point that they weighed 14 pounds. One of the legs was severed from the body, which may have been caused due to animal activity. The victim had an overbite, which has been described as fairly noticeable. Jewelry found at the scene included a necklace with rhinestones and three earrings. Burned clothing was also found; a light blue sequin top, jeans and a shoe were all recovered, but were fragmented. A lipstick container, an electric razor, a purse, and a man's ring were also at the scene. She was believed to have been hit on the head with a bloody stick nearby before being burned, although it is not known if she was killed after the blow. The stick and one of the earrings were later found by a woman who visited the scene after hearing about the case. The individual who discovered these remains, Charles Damoth, was initially believed by authorities to be the killer, although his daughter believes otherwise. At least five others were ruled out as possible perpetrators. Damoth admitted to finding the body days before reporting the killing, which some have found suspicious. He claimed he also had cut wood in the area, including the log found on her body. One person also stated they had seen Damoth's truck near the scene around the time the victim was estimated to have died. Polygraph tests used on the suspect never revealed additional evidence. This murder is also referred to as the "Pyre Case," and the victim has also been nicknamed as "Maria."

David Mason (murderer)

David Edwin Mason was an American serial killer who was executed in San Quentin's gas chamber in 1993. This marked the second execution in the state of California since 1967, and the last execution by gas chamber in that state. Mason killed four elderly people in 1980, his cellmate in 1982, and is suspected of murdering his male lover. The crimes David Manson committed started in July 1977, Mason stabbed a store clerk with an ice pick after robbing the store. He threatened to kill her if she called the police and testified against him. Mason was sentenced in November 1977 to 36 months in state prison. In March 1980, Mason assaulted and attempted to rob a victim who was returning home late at night. During the ensuing fight, Mason struck the victim on the top of the head with a gun. In December 1980, Mason gained admittance to the home of an elderly couple through the pretext of selling and delivering firewood. Mason then handcuffed the victims to chairs and robbed them of $47,000 worth of jewelry and coins. At the time of his arrest in February 1981, Mason had in his possession a loaded sawed-off shotgun and pistol and other ammunition. He was convicted and sentenced in April 1982. He confessed to these crimes and was sentenced in June 1982 to a total of 124 months in state prison for both 1980 crimes. The murders: In 1980, Mason committed four murders, one on March 6, one on August 28, one on November 11, and one on December 6, and a murder of a cellmate in 1982. Mason was wanted in Butte County for the 1980 shooting and killing his lover while the victim was sleeping. He committed many other infractions. On January 27, 1984 he was sentenced to death. He was executed on August 24, 1993 in San Quentin's gas chamber. History of abuse of David: Mason was subjected to severe physical, psychological and verbal abuse by his strict fundamentalist Christian parents. He attempted to commit suicide at the age of five by swallowing a bottle of pills and setting his clothes on fire, the first of at least 25 reported attempts in the next 20 years. His behavior from an early age was uncontrollable. He set fires, attacked other children, and at the age of eight was found standing over his baby brother’s crib with a knife. His parents reportedly resorted to locking him in a room called “the dungeon”, a bedroom with the windows nailed shut. When he was 11 and defecated himself, his mother pinned a baby’s soiled nappies on him and made him wear his own soiled underwear on his head. On another occasion, his father allegedly strapped him to a workbench, gagged him and beat him unconscious. Mason was diagnosed with PTSD. Execution: Mason was executed August 24, 1993 in the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison. He was the first condemned inmate to voluntarily waive his appeals on a federal level. The execution was scheduled for 12:01 a.m. At two minutes before midnight, a federal judge called the prison to verify that Mason's attorney was present should Mason wish to stop the proceedings. At 12:05 a.m. Mason was escorted onto the chamber. At 12:08 a.m. Warden Daniel Vasquez stepped into the chamber, pointed out the location of Mason's attorney in the witness area, and asked Mason if he had changed his mind and wished to stop the proceedings. According to Warden Vasquez, Mason said, "No Warden, I want to proceed; thank you Warden." At 12:09 a.m. the lethal gas was introduced into the chamber. Mason was pronounced dead at 12:23 a.m. Mason spent his last day visiting with family members. At approximately 6:00 p.m. he was escorted to the death watch cell. Mason was given unlimited use of the telephone to converse with his family members. Mason refused any last meal, requesting only ice water while in the death watch cell. Mason told the warden that he had no final words to impart.

Favorite

My absolute favorite thing in the ENTIRE universe is having my last name pronounced correctly. It's often butchered and mispronounced that I'm wondering if my family is mispronouncing it. When I had my last name said correctly I'm like yes.

Done

I'm done helping the elders. My brother asked me to decline the meeting on his behalf to which I can't blame him. He's busy and I've got physical therapy to do. I'm sad but not fully shocked as he keeps declining everything. Oh well. i apologized to them for trying.

Nice

I had Chinese food, my favorite type. I also tries making sure I didn't eat my allergy

criminal justice classes

i love them. true i am studying my ass off as though i've got tests every other week and there's massive amounts of homework not always designed for me but i'm enjoying myself.

Hazelnut coffee

I love hazelnut coffee. Its awesome. I love the type and it is awesome tasting in its way I smell it. I love it since my mom got it for me that's not French vanilla

costume

i'm in my Karla Homolka costume. it's awesome.

Burger

My grandma used to say you can always tell a good burger by the grease running down your arms.

Witch's brew frappuccino

I tried 1. It's ok. I like trying new ones. It's an addiction I'm hooked

Coos County John Doe

The skeleton of a man between the ages of 50 and 80 was discovered on August 26, 1972 in Bandon, Coos County, Oregon. The victim had been killed by two gunshots; both were located on the skull, which still contained the bullets. The victim had died between 1967 and 1969, as the condition of his remains indicated. At the scene, which was near highway 101, three coins and two unfired bullets were found along with the man's clothing and dentures. He wore a hat, socks made from wool, a car key on a ring, a belt and a pair of leather boots which had white soles. It is possible that his dentures may have been from a local establishment serving veterans in 1966, as inscriptions on them indicated. In 2007, the DNA of the "John Doe" was tested against the family members of a missing Idaho man Fred Miller {Missing since August 1968}; however there was no match.

Jackson County John Doe

On July 11, 1963, the remains of an infant or toddler were discovered near Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon after one of the blankets he was wrapped in was hooked by a fisherman. His remains were concealed in a blue blanket, a patchwork quilt with several red designs. The bundle was bound by telephone wires and weighed down with metal assayer's molds. The child's autopsy indicated he likely died in the autumn of 1962 and he possibly had Down syndrome or a similar disability. The exact cause of the child's death was never determined, due to decomposition, but the case is classified as a homicide. His clothing included a red and white-striped long sleeved pullover, gray corduroy trousers which had an elastic waistband and a belt buckle. His footwear were ankle-length socks and white shoes, which may have been from a shoe store in Medford, Oregon. His other clothing may have been from a J. C. Penney store. The child was also found wearing a diaper made of cloth that was secured with pins and plastic pants. His blond or light brown hair was somewhat long, his eyes brown and eight of his teeth had erupted. What is unique about the boy's dentition is that one of his front bottom teeth was split in two, having two roots and an uncommon groove at its top. In efforts to identify the child, examiners took his footprints and compared them to those taken from other children from a local hospital and none apparently matched.

Marion County Jane Doe (2007)

On March 10, 2007, the remains of an unknown female were discovered in a wooded area of Marion County, Ohio. She was aged between 15 and 24 and had died between 2002 and 2006, most likely within the two years prior to her discovery. She was between five feet three to five feet nine inches tall and had brown, straight hair[241] No clothing or personal effects were found with her body, which was completely skeletonized. The female had unique physical characteristics. She was predominantly white, but could have had a degree of Hispanic or Asian heritage. She had also suffered damage to one of her front teeth (although this dental damage may have occurred posthumously). She did appear to have otherwise taken considerable care of her teeth although there was no evidence that she had seen a dentist during her lifetime. In September 2016, authorities announced the possibility that this decedent was a victim of alleged serial killer Shawn Grate, who claimed he had killed this victim after encountering her selling magazines door-to-door. Grate has stated he believes the decedent's name may have been Dana. In January 2018, the results of isotope analysis conducted upon her remains indicated she likely originated from the southern United States, possibly Texas or Florida.

"Belle in the Well"

Belle in the Well is a woman whose remains were discovered in a well in Chesapeake, Ohio on April 22, 1981. She had been strangled to death and her murder is believed to have been committed between 1979 and 1981. The victim was between 30 and 60 years old at the time of her death and her body bore signs of arthritis in her back. She was about 5 feet 3inches in height and weighed between 130 and 150 pounds. She had prominent front teeth and cheekbones, and wore multiple layers of clothing. In her possession were a Greyhound Bus ticket and a distinctive coin. Her DNA was analyzed by the DNA Doe Project and distant relatives have been identified in Cabell County, West Virginia. Nonetheless, the decedent remains unidentified.

bikini

i wear my bikini in a hot tub in order to get direct contact for my issues. my scoliosis is sensitive. i need direct contact on my back when it comes to water vs pads/ massage thing.

annoying

my friends from the church are annoying sometimes. as much as a want to help i have little need. I've readjusted (as has my whole family) to deal with it.

halloween

i'm so excited for Halloween. it's in a few days and i love the holiday. i just painted my nails for it. my criminal justice teacher said we should dress up as our favorite serial killer. i'm dressing as Karla Homolka.

Disappearance of Virginia Carpenter

Mary Virginia "Jimmie" Carpenter was a 21-year-old woman from Texarkana, Texas, who went missing in Denton, Texas, in the summer of 1948. Her disappearance remains unsolved. Carpenter was last seen by a taxi driver around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 1, 1948. Numerous individuals have reported seeing her over the years, but none of these sightings have been confirmed. Her mother, Mrs. Hazel E. Carpenter (who became Mrs. Hazel Smith later in life), spent many years helping the police chase down rumors and leads. She eventually gave up hope, believing that her daughter was dead, although she still wanted her daughter to be found even if she was deceased. In 1998, Denton police received an anonymous tip that she was buried at the campus she was supposed to attend, but it turned out fruitless. Countless man-hours and almost a quarter of a million dollars were spent on the investigation. The case is cold but remains open. Speculation of Carpenter's disappearance was that the Phantom of Texarkana had gotten her since she knew three of the victims. The girl's mother convinced herself that Virginia was a victim of amnesia, not knowing who she was or where she was from, which prompted her to give the girl's life story for the second anniversary of her disappearance in the Denton Record-Chronicle; although the year before, she was convinced that her daughter was dead. Bones were found around Denton County in 1949, 1958 and 1960, but they were declared to not be Miss Carpenter. In 1985, Lewis C. Rigler, a Texas Ranger who was a lead investigator in the case, said that he was not surprised that what may have been the most famous missing person case in Texas was still drawing attention. Description of Virginia: An only child, Virginia Carpenter was 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m) tall, weighed 120 pounds (54 kg), and had dark brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a light white chambray dress with brown and green stripes (some descriptions include red stripes) and silver buttons down the front, a small white straw hat with the brim flipped up and a white feather stuck in the back, red leather platform high-heeled shoes, and a gold Wittnauer watch. Carpenter took with her a red purse, a black pasteboard hat box, and a brown steamer trunk with a matching cosmetics case. According to Mrs. Carpenter, her daughter left with no more than 15 or 20 dollars. Disappearance of Virginia Carpenter: On Tuesday, June 1, 1948, Carpenter boarded the Texas & Pacific Texas Special #31 for Dallas, Texas at Union Station in Texarkana about 3 p.m., and stopped in Denton, Texas around six hours later. She was on her way to the Texas State College for Women (TSCW) campus, which is now the Texas Woman's University, to enroll in the summer course. While on the train, she met Marjorie Webster, a middle-aged school teacher who was also enrolling at TSCW from Texarkana. After arriving at the train station, they both hired a taxi (driven by Edgar Ray "Jack" Zachary) to take them to the college dorms. As her friend was being dropped off at the Fitzgerald dormitories, Carpenter realized that she forgot to check on her trunk at the train station. She asked the driver how much it would be to take her back to the station. He replied 75 cents. Webster asked if she needed to ride back with her, but Carpenter refused, stating "No, I'll go alone. I'll be alright." After arriving again at the station, she went inside to get her trunk but came back a few minutes later claiming that she could not get it. She spoke to a railroad employee named Mr. Butrill who told her the trunk would not arrive until later. Zachary told Carpenter to sign the back of her claim check and that he would pick it up and deliver it to her in the morning. Carpenter agreed and gave him her luggage receipt after writing "Virginia Carpenter, Room 200--Brackenridge", and a dollar for the extra trip. Upon arriving back at Brackenridge Hall about 9:30 p.m., Zachary said he saw a yellow or cream-colored convertible parked in the front. There was no moon, and the street lights were out due to repair work on a cable. He reported that Carpenter walked up to the vehicle which had two young men standing by it; one of whom was tall, the other short and stocky. She asked "Well, what are y'all doing here?" He said it seemed as though she was surprised to see them. The shorter boy talked to her and lifted her on the curb. Carpenter told Zachary to place her luggage on the ground because the boys will get them for her and to leave her trunk there in the morning as well. After doing that, Zachary drove off but did not hear the rest of the conversation. That was the last anyone had seen Miss Carpenter. Reports claimed that a nightwatchman saw the girl get out of the cab and into the convertible, but Police Chief Jack Shepherd denied it. The next morning, Zachary dropped the trunk off and set it on the front lawn of Brackenridge Hall. After being there for two days, it was taken to the office. Mrs. Mattie Lloyd Wooten, the dean of women of TSCW, later explained to Mrs. Carpenter that it was the first time someone did not deliver luggage to the room. Investigation: Three days later on Friday, June 4, Carpenter's boyfriend, Kenny Branham, from Dallas, Texas called Virginia's mother in Texarkana because he could not get a hold of her. Mrs. Carpenter, now worried, called the school and found out that her daughter never enrolled. She then called friends and relatives that her daughter may have tried visiting, but they had not heard from her. On Saturday, June 5, around 12:30 a.m., she called the local authorities and the Denton police to report her daughter missing. The Texarkana police told her to "just go to bed and we'll get on the case in the morning", but she could not sleep, so she and Mrs. Lucille Bailey, a friend who was living with her, left for Denton at 2:10 a.m. Late Saturday night, the girl's uncle and friends went to Denton to help assist the police in their search with any helpful information, but they failed to shed any light. Airplanes began scanning the Denton area and motorboats were used to search ponds and lakes. Search parties searched the woods as well as tanks, storm drains, creeks, country roads and abandoned wells. The search was now statewide. Police checked out drivers of light-colored convertibles in Texarkana and Denton but came up with nothing. Lewis C. Rigler, a Texas Ranger, entered the investigation on Monday, June 7, by the request of Virginia's uncle, Dr. E.C. Dodd, along with Chief of Police Jack Shepherd and Sheriff Roy Moore. Officers talked with groups and individuals as possible witnesses. Hunters and farmers were asked to be on the lookout for freshly dug dirt or any unusual odors. Pictures and a description of Virginia were sent to the Department of Public Safety, major city police departments, protection officers of major railroad companies, every State Bureau of Investigations, and many other agencies. Miss Carpenter's trunk was eventually opened, but it gave officers no clues. Her handbag was never found. A reward fund for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible started Wednesday, June 9, and by the end of Friday night, it had reached $1,368. Carpenter's picture and description was given to Reward magazine, the official publication of Tracers Company of America which investigates missing people with rewards. Despite having 150,000 police officials as subscribers, little replies came in about Virginia and investigations came out inconclusive. On Friday, July 9, Jack Zachary took a polygraph test which concluded that he had no connection to her disappearance. By Monday, July 12, it was rumored that Virginia had returned home, but her mom confirmed that it was untrue. Chief of Police Jack Shepherd said that Carpenter knew some boys with a cream-colored convertible but he was not able to implicate any of them with her disappearance. Many leads and tips were thoroughly checked but police were no further to finding Miss Carpenter. More rumors had spread that she returned home or that her body or her luggage was found, but they were branded false by Shepherd. The reward money reached around $3,000, most of which was given back to the donors after two years of no helpful information. On June 9, 1955, Virginia was considered officially dead by a Texas civil law. Article 55:41 in the Texas Civil Statute stated that a person who was successfully absent for seven years should be presumed dead. On October 18, 1959, a three-by-one wooden box was discovered, which contained female bones including a skull, in a smokehouse near an abandoned farmhouse 7.5 miles northeast of Jefferson, Texas in Marion County. The bones, which matched the height and weight description of Virginia, were sent to Austin, Texas for examination. During that time, the previous owners of the farmhouse admitted to digging up the bones from a "Negro" cemetery. The son was a biology student and said he needed the bones. Mrs. Carpenter had hopes that it was her daughter's remains because the bones had a deformity, and Virginia had a deformity in her right leg which made it shorter than the left. Although the remains turned out to be from a white female with a shortened leg, the dental work did not match. In May 1998, the police were tipped by a man in his 70s claiming that he knew who killed Miss Carpenter and where she was buried. He stated she was buried on the grounds of the Texas State College for Women (TSCW) campus, which is now Texas Woman's University. The area was excavated, but only a leather glove, a rubber boot, and animal bone fragments were found. Reported sightings: Not long after Miss Carpenter went missing, reports of sightings came in from Denton county, south Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. None of the sightings, however, had been confirmed. Two mornings after Virginia's disappearance, a gas station attendant in Aubrey, Texas, which is 10 miles from Denton, saw a girl who resembled Miss Carpenter. He reported his sighting on June 6 after seeing Virginia's picture in that morning's newspaper. He said that a yellow convertible with Arkansas license plates occupied by two boys and two girls stopped at his station. On Friday, June 11 around 9:00 p.m., a ticket agent named Mrs. James at a bus station in DeQueen, Arkansas saw a girl who resembled Miss Carpenter. The girl got off a bus from Texarkana wearing a red dress and carrying a red purse. She waited in the lobby before departing 10 minutes later with a young man about 25- or 26- years old, weighing about 135 pounds, with light brown hair, and wearing a white shirt with khaki trousers. Mrs. James reported that before the girl met the boy, she seemed nervous by biting her lips a lot and going to the door frequently. She also inquired about local hotels. A few moments after their departure, Mrs. James received a phone call from a woman asking if "Miss Virginia Carpenter" was there. Mrs. James learned the next morning about Carpenter's disappearance and reported her sighting to the police. Bowie County Sheriff Bill Presley and FBI agent H. S. Hallett showed Mrs. James two groups of pictures in which she pointed out Carpenter as the girl she had seen. Police checked hotels and tourist camps but came up with nothing. Later, Mrs. James was uncertain of her identification of the girl. On Saturday, June 12, a girl matching Carpenter's description was reported riding in a car with two boys in Mena, Arkansas (47 miles from DeQueen). A Michigan tourist in Tucson, Arizona reported seeing a girl matching Carpenter's description on July 8 after seeing her reward poster in a local cafe. By July 12, Mrs. Carpenter said she had checked all leads in the case but was no closer to learning of her daughter's whereabouts. On Friday, January 14, 1949, Houston Press received a letter written in pencil, signed by Mrs. Gladys Bass from Chireno, Texas who claimed that she and her friends met a girl who was well-dressed and well-educated who had been hitchhiking. The girl told them she was hungry and had no money. "She called herself Virginia. She talked properly, had long brown curly hair that touched her shoulders, and wore a white hat with a feather in it, a striped dress and blue sweater," she wrote. She said while they were eating at a cafe, the girl claimed to have run away. They all departed thinking that she was telling a story. It was not until later they believed that the girl was Carpenter, but the police were unable to substantiate Bass's report. Theories: Since Virginia went missing, different theories have been proposed as the reason for her disappearance, including running away, leaving with a lover, being kidnapped, being murdered, amnesia, or even being sold into a white slavery ring. Psychiatrists and doctors who were consulted, stated she had nothing to run away from but had rather enthusiastically looked forward to the future. It was also suggested that her body could have been weighed down and sunken in Lake Dallas, which was too large and too deep to be dragged. Virginia knew three of the victims who were murdered by the "Phantom Killer", and thus, it was wondered if he had something to do with her disappearance. Texas Ranger Lewis Rigler concluded she was dead because he believed there was no reason for her to disappear. He said she did not owe anyone any money, she had no criminal past, no jealous ex-boyfriends, no lovers convincing her to run away, and according to a medical exam before her disappearance, she was not pregnant. Personal life: Mary Carpenter was born January 25, 1927 in Texarkana. She was a healthy baby, mostly feeding from Holstein milk which was suggested by her maternal grandfather who eventually gave the family a Holstein cow. She began walking at a young age and as her mother put it, she "inherited a bad streak from me of wanting to walk a little too far from home." To keep her from doing so, Mrs. Carpenter would scare her daughter by telling her that big dogs roamed the streets. When she was three, Miss Carpenter rolled down the back steps at her home and hit a tree. X-rays showed that she had no injuries. Three months afterward, she caught a bad case of influenza and could not walk. Her parents diligently searched for a cause for her illness but medical science at the time could not diagnose her. She got better for a while but then a severe attack left her badly crippled. The family went through many orthopedic surgeons until one in Memphis, Tennessee found an infection in her right hip bone. It left perforations in it similar to tiny pinholes. Virginia was placed in a contraption for a few months that pulled her leg back into proper position. Too young to understand, Carpenter was given internal medicine, a diet, and the task to sunbathe on the hospital's tar roof for two hours a day for two years. She was able to walk better with the use of a steel brace that fitted into the heel of her shoe which then came up to a leather-rolled "saddle" around her hip. Mrs. Carpenter admitted to making the mistake of placing Virginia in kindergarten while she was still in the brace. Virginia soon became self-conscious and lost weight due to a loss of appetite. She was taken out of school but returned a year later when the brace was removed. She was announced "completely cured" by a specialist when she was 12. She was one of only four complete case histories compiled for the American Medical Association. Not long after going to Arkansas High School with her cousin, her father became seriously ill. He died two years later when she was 15. She was not bright in school, but her teachers described her as a child with an unusual amount of common sense and loyalty. She was a quiet girl and rarely participated in activities because she tired easily and had a limp in her right leg from her childhood disease. She joined the band and became a majorette. Because of her participation in activities, she joined a sorority after receiving a bid from each one.[30] After graduating from Arkansas High in 1944, she went to the University of Arkansas to study journalism. After a year, she came home and told her mother that she wanted to go into laboratory technician training but it required something she did not take in high school (science). She went to TSCW from September 1945 until February 1946 when she had to quit and take care of her mother who became ill. She planned on finishing her schooling within a year. After her mother became ill, she underwent major surgery. A week later, Virginia was struck with appendicitis and was also operated on. A month later, they were both taken home by an "Aggie" (a student from Texas A&M University) named Mac. Virginia fell in love with Mac, became engaged, and set a date for their wedding. Her grandparents did not approve of the engagement. Three weeks before their wedding date, Virginia broke it off. Virginia's mother said, "I loved Mac because of his fine qualities and because he was so good to me, but I couldn't see their two personalities living together in harmony." Virginia soon started working for a clinic. She wanted to be a nurse but knew that her right leg would not support the strenuous hours of being on her feet. She decided instead to be a technician. Mrs. Carpenter revealed that Virginia wanted to be a technician because medical science did not find a cure for her father. Virginia wanted to return to school but worried about finances. She then took a job at an insurance firm because it paid a better salary. She stayed with the firm until August 1947 when she had enough money to go back to school. She started the next month at Texarkana Junior College. She now had her future planned: she could go to TSCW in the summer which would enable her to attend the technician training in the autumn of 1948. Ten days before school was out, Virginia went to the annual picnic from Texarkana Junior College at a lake near Daingerfield, Texas. She left with her date and another couple. About 5 p.m. that evening, Virginia came home and said she did not feel well. Mrs. Carpenter said her daughter "was one of the most sunburned persons I had ever seen." Virginia fell across her bed and went to sleep. Hazel woke her for supper but Virginia said she did not feel like eating. She came to the dinner table but fainted. She regained consciousness while her mother was taking her to the bathroom and then she fainted again and fell to the floor. Mrs. Carpenter did not think she would revive. She picked her up and put her in the bed before calling a doctor. While waiting for the doctor, Virginia regained consciousness and then fainted again, due to sunstroke. She was diagnosed with second-degree sunburn. He prescribed her with rest and quiet for a few days. After the third day, Virginia made an effort to take her final exams at school. While there, she told her teachers about her love affair that did not work out and that she fell in love again but the boy did not love her. In the last few months before her disappearance, she took up sketching and became quite good through the coaching of a friend. Mrs. Carpenter said that a portrait Virginia did from memory of her father was one of the best likeness she had ever seen. Virginia was recovering from her sunburn when she packed for her trip to Denton. Mrs. Carpenter wanted to take Virginia to Denton in the car, but she insisted that she would be fine on the train. On June 1, the day of her disappearance, they ran to the station and caught the train moments before it left. "I was so in hopes we would find the train gone so that I could drive her down the next morning. There was a tinge of disappointment when I saw the train had not left, but she refused to get on until she kissed me goodbye; and as she stood on the rear platform of the train waving goodbye, I wondered if there was anyone more radiant and beautiful. In my heart I offered a silent prayer because she was mine."

Had enough

When I went to the funeral last weekend I only went to the viewing and the service at the chapel. I didn't go to the graveside service because I had enough. I wasn't tired per se I just didn't feel like going to more.

unreal

when i went to a funeral it seemed unreal. the friend who passed away was so nice. one of the last things i remembered her doing at church was sitting next to me at church. my mom asked how ill she was at that point. i said very. i'm glad she's not in pain any more. i mentioned my grandfather and i'm glad they're now both not in pain. it can't have been easy for either me or the family who lost their wife. the dad said it was kinda easy (i'm hoping he meant since she's not in pain). i took a mutual friend of Elizabeth's (she's the woman who passed away) to see her and didn't leaver her (Carolyn, the woman i took to the viewing) side until she said so. she needed me. i was holding onto her hand and hugged her. i was totally numb thru the whole thing and didn't cry much. i was given a hug afterwards by a brother after he asked if i needed 1. a friend tried cheering me up by joking that i should wear a Halloween costume to the funeral. that made me smile.

running gag

the 2 running gags in recent memory is: hey i like your phone case and mispronoucing my last name

sweet

some elders are sweet. many of them had an attraction to me. i'm flattered but not intrested

can't wait

i finally started physical therapy on Monday and i'm in pain. i can't wait for it to start working. my friends who know about it as well as i can't wait for it to start working.

Accident

Might've accidentally told a friend I liked him. He's cute, sweet and very bold. I like him but I'm not sure if I love him.

Ritual

So for my "ritual" paper I wrote a strong paper on forensic science. I love that subject. My head is fried from all of it but I wouldn't change it

It stands

So I heard funny 1 liners in tv shows. Someone was like , "don't judge me" "me? Never" "is that not what the J stands for?" "It stands for Jeanette."

Evan

I reconnected with my ex-boyfriend. We became friends again after what happened to us. My friend said he and I should have a fling. It ruined our friendship and "relationship". We're now best friends again.

I can do hard things

What is engraved on a necklace that I got from my visiting teacher

dandruff

i hate dandruff. it sucks since it affects my hair and i can't have my hair ultra short.

criminally listed

i LOVE criminally listed YouTube channel. it's awesome. it's scary but i love it since it deals with forensic science stuff. my friends occasionally hear about it but never watch it.

arthritis

i have arthritis because of my scoliosis. it sucks since my left arm hurts.

love me

all the kids at the GYSA love me. when i left for 5 weeks everyone was wondering what happened to me and was happy when i came back.