My family is messed up

So I don't talk about my aunt (who's is disowned by mom and I) who killed her fiance with my cousin, her kid. From what I have read and heard this is how it played out. I'm going to basically list it out in order of events.

My aunt wanted her boyfriend gone for his money, my cousin (her son) at the time was drinking and on drugs, she took money waved it under his nose and said about gldoung something for her, if you know of any junkie you know they will do anything for money, she had the brilliant idea to kill him in his sleep with an axe (Lizzie Borden it), she swung the first throw then gave my cousin the axe, they switch turns swinging, they put the body in a rug wrapped it put in a trunk, she being the sick and twisted person that she was she flipped the mattress over made the bed and slept in it, my cousin got a buddy of his to help him throw the body into a ravine, the body didn't fully go in and they did this at night so they didn't know, a woman found the body reported it, cops got my cousin first then he got a deal that if he testified against his mom he would he a lesser amount. They both went to prison, my cousin got 30 to 60 years ( he is getting out in a few years), my aunt got I don't howany year but she had passed away about 2 years ago.

The murder took place in 2000. They got convicted on 2003.

The big kicker is my cousin had a son, after my cousin got sentenced his son was murdered by the sons step father. Not only did he murder this little boy he also SA him. The stepfather got 25 to 50 years.

My family is messed up. I would go more into detail but I'm on mobile and at work. If anyone knows of the people I am talking about feel free to talk about them down in comments.

• Molly Young died on the morning of March 24th, 2012 in Carbondale, Illinois.

• She was found on the bedroom floor of her ex-boyfriend's apartment.

• The only named Suspect, her ex-boyfriend, worked as a Dispatcher for the Carbondale Illinois Police Department.

• The Suspect's mother and father were both in local law enforcement.

• The Suspect reported the death as an overdose in an initial 911 call and that Molly "bled out through the nose." (9:03am)

• In actuality, Molly had a single gun shot wound to her the LEFT frontal scalp (not left temple).

• Molly was right-handed.

• The wound was described by paramedics, a pathologist, and multiple investigators as "obvious" and "large." Crime scene photos confirm that no normal-sighted adult would confuse the wound for anything other than what it was.

• Suspect called back 7 mins later (9:10am) to report Molly had actually shot herself and that he found the gun underneath her when he attempted CPR (on someone he already reported as dead).

• The gun was a 0.45 caliber handgun, which belonged to the Suspect.

• The Suspect claims he was passed out drunk and didn't hear the single gun-shot 4 feet from his bed.

• By all accounts, Molly hated guns and had never even handled one.

• 19 forensic facts support that the Suspect committed the homicide. (Among them: GSR and backspatter on Suspect's pajamas, GSR on shorts Suspect changed into before going to the Police Department.)

• 0 forensic facts support that Molly took her own life.

• Suspect had 2 six-inch long scratches running from underneath his right scapula to his right oblique.

• Molly had 3 male DNA types under her nails. The Suspect's DNA was confirmed as the dominant source.

• Suspect told police that he must have gotten the scratches while performing CPR (on a dead person).

• Scene was obviously staged with an empty pill bottle (of the antibiotic amoxicillin) placed at Molly's feet, cardboard placed under the body, and a gun that miraculously stayed underneath the body, unseen by the Suspect and his roommate despite admitting to moving the body (again, to supposedly do CPR after she was dead).

By all rights, this should have been an open and shut case, but Carbondale Police Department and Illinois State Police and the County Coroner managed to obfuscate enough facts and conceal the most incriminating of evidence, to keep the family and media at bay. There is a documented trail of systemic misinformation in Investigative Reports and blatantly bogus logic that carried all the way up to the States Attorney's office.

Molly should have celebrated her 34th birthday last week (April 15th); instead, her murderer walks the streets of St. Louis as a corrupt and/or paralyzed system has never brought the case to Grand Jury or criminal trial.

Learn more at r/JusticeForMolly. Please help us keep this case in the public eye.

A mother and her child were found dead inside a home in Plantation and the father was found unconscious due to an overdose after an attempted murder-suicide Tuesday, police said.

Officers arrived at 1000 Northwest 97th Ave shortly after 12 p.m. to find the two victims deceased, Plantation Police said in a statement.

Police said the father was taken to an area hospital for treatment. He's being considered a suspect after the attempted murder-suicide, authorities said. His condition was unclear as of Tuesday night.

There was no information on the causes of death and the gender or age of the child.

Several neighbors close to the family told NBC6 that the father was Jean Carlos Aponte and the mother was Sara Gama. Broward County property records list the couple as the owners of the home.

Four people lived in the house including the couple and their two kids, a toddler about 3 years old and a newborn baby, neighbors said.

Neighbors said the other child was picked up by family members.

Police are still investigating the incident.

Full disclosure.

I used to be kind of obsessed with the idea of Jared from Subway. He always seemed like nothing more than wallpaper in a commercial, a guy whose job amounted to holding up a comically giant pair of pants for seconds at a time in commercials. How much do you think they paid that guy to do that?

I used to search to see if I could find out Jared's salary or his net worth because to me it seemed like he had the easiest job in the world. Just stand there and smile, hold up the giant pants, shake a few kids hands at store openings and other corporate promotional events; essentially play the character of Jared from the Subway commercials.

The Midwestern everyman who once weighed over 425 pounds and lost it all by eating at Subway every day. Of course the fine print at the bottom of the screen gave the wider context to his weight loss routine, but there was a much wider, much darker context to Jared's story that would only be revealed years later.

Jared started working for Subway in 2000. By 2005 they had stopped featuring him in commercials and their sales declined by 10%. They quickly reinstated him and he was a fixture ever since.

It is true that Jared did lose the weight, and he did do it in part by eating at Subway.

At this point it would be reasonable to ask how did he get the money as a college student to eat all his meals at Subway?

Because he was running a porn video rental business out of his apartment at the time and had an extensive collection. You've got to remember that this was in an era where media of all types was more difficult to obtain. You didn't have everything at your fingertips back then.

Subway opened up on the ground floor and Jared was lazy so he started eating all his meals there.

The rest of Jared's story is marketing mythology. A friend wrote an article in the student newspaper that got published in Men's Health which caught the eye of Subway's marketing department. Jared started working for Subway in 2000 and up until about 2007 it appeared to be a marketing master stroke. That's when the reports started trickling out. In 2007, TMZ published the story about the porn rental business.

We'd learn later that as early as 2008, Subway had received serious reports about Jared from a franchisee in Florida that Jared had befriended at a few store openings. Cindy Mills, the franchisee said:

"He would just tell me he really liked them young," she says. Fogle and Mills had a sexual relationship, which lead Fogle to disclose disturbing details of his criminal activity in lewd text messages.

Mills says she tried to blow the whistle by phoning ad executive Jeff Moody — then CEO of the Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund Trust (SFAFT) — after Fogle had told her that he had sex both in Thailand and the US with child prostitutes between the ages of 9 and 16 years old. According to Mills, Moody stopped her mid-conversation and said, "Don't worry, he has met someone. She is a teacher and he seems to love her very much, and we think she will help keep him grounded." Mills also claims she spoke with two more SFAFT execs after Moody, but ran into more dead ends.

Jared was up to no good for years, but his world really started to crumble in 2015 with the arrest of Russell Taylor. Taylor was Jared's partner in his non-profit charity and he was just as bad as Jared if not worse.

Russell Taylor, the former director of Fogle's anti-childhood obesity foundation, was arrested in April [of 2015] on three counts of possession of child pornography, three counts of child exploitation, and three counts of voyeurism.

Taylor had gotten in trouble for texting a woman a picture of bestiality and suggesting such between the two of them. It's a sick thing to think about, but that's just what Jared and Russell were up to.

In one of those text messages, according to the affidavit, “Russell Taylor asked her if he and another adult female she identified could come to Jane Doe’s residence and engage in” an act of bestiality. The woman did not agree to that request, but told investigators “you could tell (Taylor) was serious.” She also told investigators that “she received an image file via text from Russell Taylor that depicted (another act of bestiality).”

Jared's house was raided and the rest quickly became history. Subway dropped him. Sharknado 3 dropped him. Jared accused Taylor of fraud and sued him. One quarter of the funds of the charity were unaccounted for, and the only money they ever paid out went to Taylor's $73k salary.

I'm no professional but it's hard not to draw the conclusion that Jared was paying Taylor to produce child porn with a non profit charity.

The world found out about Jared in 2015, but in 2007 and 2008 two women were finding out a lot about Jared.

Jared had met a franchisee in Florida and started a sexual relationship with her. She called the FBI when Jared started texting stuff like this:

In one series of texts sent from April 2008, Fogle tries to convince the franchisee, a woman, to advertise herself for sex on Craigslist. She could make $500 per act he explains and he could watch her have sex with other men. Fogle then goes on to apparently admit to paying for sex with a 16-year-old girl off Craigslist.

The woman franchisee writes: "Is this the same website you found that 16 year old you that you f---ed?" the woman replied, according to an affadavit.

• "I still can't believe you only paid $100 for her."

• Fogle reponds: "It was amazing!!!!"

• "What part of her ad made you think she was selling sex?" the woman asked.

• Fogle says "U will have to read them to see."

The woman got a lawyer and submitted the texts to Subway who sat on them.

Around the same time, Jared met Rochelle Herman Walrond, a journalist who initially remained anonymous, who came forward and said that she got suspicious about Jared when he called middle school girls hot

According to the woman, Jared would often visit schools in Sarasota County, and allegedly told her numerous times that, 'Middle school girls are hot.'"

She contacted the FBI who asked her to wear a wire. She went on to record Jared over a nearly 5 year period, pleading with the FBI to go ahead and arrest him with them always saying that they didn't have enough evidence and needed more.

So she tried to get Jared to incriminate himself. Over that 4.5 year period they talked about a lot of stuff, like that Jared wanted to fly to Thailand to have sex with children.

"I would fly all three of us clear across the world if we need to,"[Jared] says on the tape. "It would just make things a lot easier — if we're going to try and get some young kids with us. It would be a lot easier probably."

He gave her grooming tips:

"Well, if we get them segregated out ... you know, start talking or whatever ... and we get a little closer, and a little closer and a little closer and before you know it ... it just starts to happen," the man's voice says. "But I think that girl from the broken home could be a possibility, you know."

He daydreamed on the phone:

"Do you want to watch me f— a young girl, too?" the voice of Fogle asks. "Will you f— a young boy?" When Herman-Walrond asks if that would turn Fogle on, he responds with a whispered "yeah."

“I had a little boy. It was amazing,” Fogle reportedly said, in response to a question about being with children. “It just felt so good. I mean, it felt—it felt so good.”

He also, allegedly, asked her repeatedly to let him install hidden cameras in her kids’ rooms.

“I had two young children at the time, and he talked to me about installing hidden cameras in their rooms and asked me if I would choose which child I would like him to watch,” she told Inside Edition.

The audio recordings can be heard at this link. She reported him to Subway in 2009 and nothing happened.

At the same time this was happening, Jared was flying to New York to pay for sex with minors. He asked the minors who he paid for sex if they knew anyone else they could recommend, always stressing younger if possible.

Also, according to the charging documents:

Fogle received "images and videos of nude of partially clothed minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct," which were allegedly recorded by Russell Taylor, the former director of the Jared Foundation.

Taylor secretly filmed some of the minors in his home using hidden cameras that captured them changing clothes and bathing.

Taylor was in possession of 400 videos of child pornography upon his arrest.

In 2011, someone else reported Jared to Subway via their website and yet nothing happened.

All this came raining down on Jared in 2015 when his house was raided and he was arrested and later charged with 14 acts of sex involving minors. He was ultimately sentenced to 15 years in jail and had to pay restitution to his 14 of his many victims totaling $1.4 million. His wife divorced him as quick as she could, Subway cut ties with him and the dominoes started to tumble.

All of a sudden the past reports about Jared came to light and Subway didn't have an explanation. Lawsuits started flying. Jared's now ex wife accused Subway of covering up Jared's pedophilia even from her because their marriage made Jared more grounded and more marketable.

It's now a sick joke, but at the same time of jared's arrest, Subway was trying to rebrand him as a family man.

So why didn't Subway act on the various reports it had gotten about Jared over the years? As this site puts it, it was a story bookended by laziness. Jared's laziness brought him to Subway, and their laziness in vetting stories led to the end of the Jared era with a lot of human misery left in his wake.

Subway has waffled in its response. Rather than taking the path of clear messaging and communication, and aiming to transparent and authentic throughout this terrible situation for the victims and Fogle’s family (as well as the brand), the company hasn’t been clear about where it stands in the midst of this crisis. What message was Subway sending to its employees and franchisees by keeping Fogle around for as long as it did?

As soon as he went to jail he instantly gained 30 pounds

In 2016, he filed an appeal which was denied. The DA's office argued:

[that] Fogle's text messages to a woman, in which Fogle stated he would "pay big" if she could procure 14-year-old children, and that he "craved" underage Asian girls. In these text messages, he also expressed sexual interest in young boys, although there is to date no evidence that he paid for sex with male children.

Later that same year, a brawl broke out and Jared was nearly killed in an attack meant to send a message to all pedophiles.

Other than that, rumor has it that Jared has it pretty easy in jail which is disappointing to hear given all that he's responsible for.

In 2017, Fogle tried to pull the Sovereign Citizen defense and claim that the feds didn't have jurisdiction over him which I imagine gave the feds a good laugh. The motion was dismissed.

So what is the takeaway from a story like this? Is there even a moral to this story? Clearly Subway lived in denial, and looked the other way as Jared helped make them relevant and business boomed. It's a meme that nameless, faceless companies do stuff like this all the time.

But this is a story where the bad guy, who also happened to be a rich white guy did go to jail. His wife took half his fortune and even though it's been rumored he pays for protection and has a lot of freedom in jail, he's reviled by the public and was nearly killed once. Jared is the kind of person jails were designed for, a sick, depraved individual who must be separated from society because he couldn't abide by it's rules and norms. Separated for life.

Thanks for the gold, reddit never informed me.

I'm the person who discovered the smoking gun evidence that put Daniel Perry in prison for the murder of Garrett Foster. I worked with Foster's family to deliver my findings to their legal time. Strong political resistance is now trying to free Perry. Please make your voices heard that Daniel Perry should never be pardoned. Please keep in mind that discovery of Perry's private messages revealed that he desired to kill more people in a similar fashion and attempt to get away with it by claiming self defense.

Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles

P. O. Box 13401

Austin, Texas 78711-3401

E-mail: [email protected]

Main Office - 512-406-5452 Parole Status Line - 844-512-0461

Anybody countering arguing with threats or "self defense" nonsense - I will not be entertaining your responses.

(EDIT) description of this crime story here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Garrett_Foster

www.valleycentral.com/news/texas-man-had-exploited-girl-who-later-committed-suicide-feds-say/

GALVESTON, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A League City man was sentenced to prison after exploiting a 15-year-old girl who later committed suicide, authorities said.

Amari Mychael Singh, 23, was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a child, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Texas stated.

“This man’s actions led to death of an innocent girl,” said U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani in the release. “While he will have to serve 25 years in prison, he will someday still have freedom and a life. She will not. The damage he caused her, her family and the other victims is immeasurable and has absolutely no place in our community.”

In 2019, a 15-year-old girl reported to authorities that Singh, who was 20 at the time, produced a “sexually explicit” video of her and was distributing it over Snapchat, the USAO said in a release.

Authorities were able to confirm the victim’s story after obtaining search warrants for the Snapchat accounts of Singh and the victim. During the investigation, they also recovered the video of Singh having sex with the girl on his cell phone, according to the release.

“Evidence from Singh’s Snapchat and cell phone showed he produced sexually-explicit videos of another underage female and used Snapchat to advertise drugs, guns and women for sale,” the release stated.

According to the release, the victim’s mother spoke at the court hearing, where she said that her daughter committed suicide in 2020.

“She also read from journal passages her daughter had written, highlighting the emotional toll of Singh’s actions,” the release stated.

As part of his sentencing, Singh must also serve 10 years of supervised release, and will have to comply with restrictions to his access to children and the internet.

A mother of seven children was arrested after she allegedly told a man he could sexually assault her 7-month-old daughter for $400.

According to a probable cause affidavit, 32-year-old Morgan Stapp sent a Snapchat message to an unidentified man on November 1, 2024, that offered the sexual assault of her daughter for $400.

"Half now rest after I'll send my address I do live alone, and her dad is not in the picture," the message reportedly said.

Authorities were notified by Snapchat itself after the company flagged the message as possibly illegal, and FBI agents contacted Stapp at her home just 10 days after the message was sent. At first sge claimed that she didn’t have access to her Snapchat because she recently purchased a new phone and therefore could not have sent the message, but later admitted to a child services caseworker that she had lied.

The FBI obtained a search warrant for Stapp's Snapchat account after learning of her confession, and reportedly found over 7,000 messages sent between Oct. 29 and Nov. 1, including 81 messages that said the same thing: "Would you be interested in buying my nudes so I can get baby diapers."

Investigators proved her lie about not having access to her Snapchat was false when they found pictures taken after the supposed date she lost access and evidence that the account was accessed from within Stapp's home, per the affidavit.

Stapp was arrested and charged with attempting to commit child sex trafficking.

Source: https://people.com/indiana-mom-alleged-child-sex-trafficking-infant-daughter-morgan-stapp-11773305

https://www.wishtv.com/news/crime-watch-8/indianapolis-woman-charged-for-sex-trafficking-her-own-daughters/

Yesterday, Naya Rivera went with her 4 year old son, Josey Dorsey, to Lake Piru, allegedly just the two of them, to go swimming. Later that day, a boater saw Naya's boat drifting. When he went to check on it, he found Josey, sleeping in the boat, alone. When questioned by the police, the little boy said that him and his mother went swimming, but that his mother didn't return. Naya's last Twitter post is a picture with her and Josey, in the water. She still hasn't been found, and is presumed dead.

I have so many questions. How did the boy return to the boat alone and just fall asleep there if he said that Naya didn't return after she went swimming with him? How plausible is it for a mother and her small child to go swimming and leave the boat unattended (since, supposedly, it was just the two of them there). From what I've heard, the police don't expect foul play. What do you guys think?

News article: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/09/entertainment/naya-rivera-missing-trnd/index.html

UPDATE 1: Here is the 911 call from the boat rental employee. It explains why the police thought Josey was a girl: https://youtu.be/0AldgBQz0o4

There is a common misconception that there was ‘No Evidence’ to convict Scott Peterson of 1st degree murder of his wife Laci Peterson and 2nd degree murder of his unborn son, Conner. This is due to the biased A&E Mockumentary ‘The Murder of Laci Peterson’ which was created by Janey Peterson’s friend, Shareen Anderson. It could have been a great documentary had they not omitted evidence, lied, twisted facts and tried to dupe their audience into thinking:

1 - Scott didn’t get a fair trial 2 - There was no evidence 3 - Scott was convicted by the media 4 - Scott’s in prison for having an affair 5 - The burglars killed Laci Peterson

These are the main talking points and phrases of the Peterson family PR campaign to sway public opinion. If you’ve ever heard these phrases parroted online, in YouTube videos, podcasts or articles, I guarantee you it can be traced back to this million dollar, decade long campaign. The wealthy Peterson’s have paid a lot of money for people to repeat their lies that have been debunked by multiple judges, multiple times.

Their duplicitous documentary has spread like a virus, with podcasters, bloggers, vloggers and other so-called ‘journalists’ using it as a ‘source’.

This list was written to combat #3 of the Peterson Family Lies.

I am the original author and my source is the 519 page respondents brief from 2015 that is available to the public on the stanislaus county website.

Enjoy!

“Scott Peterson and the Big, Bad Media”

-The Media didn’t drive 180 miles and 3 Hours roundtrip to ‘fish’ for less than an Hour, passing dozens of bodies of water along the way so they could ‘get the boat out on the water’. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t research tides, currents and the Berkeley Marina 2 weeks before the ‘last minute decision’ fishing trip. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t happen to have a pre-purchased 2 day fishing license on hand for a ‘last minute decision’ to go fishing on Christmas Eve, nor did they leave an unopened package of lures they bought with the license in the front seat of the truck while they ‘fished’. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t tell Amber Frey they Lost their wife and this would be the first Christmas without her 2 weeks before their psychic prediction came true. They also didn’t run out and buy a boat with $1400 cash that same day and ‘forget’ to register it. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t double their next months cable Bill by adding and exchanging porn channels. Then calling their cable company and telling them they are leaving the country and want to cancel all services the same day they receive a 2nd search warrant in order to hide it. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t sell their wife’s car a month after she was reported missing. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t call their Realtor buddy three weeks after their wife disappeared and ask if they could ‘put the house on the market right now’ and if they could ‘sell it furnished’. They didn’t say to ‘Keep it quiet’ either. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t refuse to take a polygraph test in order to clear them so the police could focus on other suspects. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t call their mistress right before a candlelight vigil for their missing wife and say they were in Paris with their buddy Pasquale at a New Years Celebration. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t store their wedding album in a trash can and use Conners nursery as a storage unit after going on national television and saying they can’t open the door and it’s staying closed until ‘there is someone to put in there.’ Scott Peterson did.

• The Media wasn’t seen loading Three Large Patio umbrellas wrapped in a tarp to take to the warehouse to store on Christmas Eve. They also didn’t ‘forget’ to drop them at the warehouse, driving them all the way to the Berkeley Marina and back, ‘forgetting’ once again to drop them at the warehouse and then brought them right back home again, ‘forgetting’ to take them a third time when they went back to the warehouse the next day. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t forget to try Laci’s cell phone after arriving home and not finding her there. Then without even trying her cell, calls Laci’s mother to say she’s ‘Missing’. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t turn down an interview with John Walsh. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t ask if the police were using Cadaver Dogs for a missing person within 24 hours of their disappearance. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t lie to police that there was no power in the warehouse when they came to search it so they had to shine their headlights in. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t Lie to Police again when asked how he cut his hands by blaming it on the drivers side door which had nothing in it. They also didn’t switch up their story with Gloria Gomez three weeks later and blame a toolbox for the hand scrapes that got blood on the door. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t drop the boat at the warehouse and bring the boat tarp cover home so they could try to hide it in their backyard shed and ‘accidentally’ spill gasoline all over it in order to throw off cadaver dogs and interfere with forensic evidence testing. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t skip a candlelight vigil for their missing son on his due date so they could go shopping for multiple gifts and hide them for their mistress. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t lie to their own mother when taking secret trips to the Berkeley Marina in rented vehicles to spy on search efforts. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t say that searchers were looking in all the ‘wrong places’ and wasting time by searching the Berkeley Marina. They also didn’t whistle a ‘Whew’ of relief when searchers pulled up a large anchor (while searching the wrong area) instead of a body. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t order $270 worth the fake diplomas a week earlier and then say $30 was too much for a boat anchor so they had to buy a 90 lbs. bag of cement to make ‘one’ small anchor instead, leaving an enormous mess of cement residue for several anchors in their warehouse and truck bed instead. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t grow a mustache, beard and then tell people it bleached blonde along with his hair by taking a dip in a friends swimming pool. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t have their brother drive their truck with a police installed gps on it to throw them off. Nor did they buy a Mercedes for cash, in their mothers name by saying it was their name and give the seller a Florida drivers license number for the paperwork. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media wasn’t pulled over for doing 80-100 mph near the border with $15,000 cash, viagra, camping equipment, water purifier, net, tarp, axe, multiple knives, duct tape, a shovel, clothing, shoes, FOUR cell phones, their brothers ID, Multiple credit cards and 50 feet of rope. (Everything but Golf Clubs!) Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t have a recorded voice message from their mother telling them to ‘Deny, Deny, Deny’. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t lie to their friends and family about following up on a sighting in Longview, WA by saying they talked to police up there when they hadn’t and that they are near the airport when they were an hour away from the closest one. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t lie to police that Laci was mopping so much area, he had to fill an entire mop bucket for her and move it by the front door before he left, within 24 hours of their housekeeper already cleaning the entire house including mopping the floors. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t lie to police when they showed a cozy photo of them and Amber Frey together by saying ‘Is that supposed to be me?’ And ‘That looks like a girl I went to college with’. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media’s wealthy family didn’t set up their own tip line and then not forward tips to police that implicated them. Scott Peterson’s did.

• The Media didn’t say they left at 9:30am and have cell phone records confirm it was really 10:08am. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media’s Father didn’t say ‘Why the Hell would she do that!??’ When they found out Amber Frey went to the Police. Scott Peterson’s did.

• The Media didn’t forget what they were fishing for when asked by police, nor did they lie once again to police by saying they fished for Two Hours. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t take Two Hours to grab a roll of duct tape at their warehouse on December 25th, confusing their family on what could possibly be taking them so long. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t obsessively vacuum the house on December 25th and say “I just can’t keep it clean enough”. Scott Peterson did.

• The Media didn’t have loved ones wash up 4 months later, 90 miles from home in the exact area they were fishing on the exact day their loved ones went missing. Scott Peterson did

Scott Peterson convinced me that Scott Peterson was guilty based on his own words and actions after the disappearance of his wife. Not ‘The Media’.

Christopher Duntsch moved to Dallas in late 2010 with an MD, a PhD in cell biology, a marketing team, and a website. He founded the Texas Neurosurgical Institute and in November 2011 was granted surgical privileges at Baylor Regional Medical Center in Plano for a base salary of $600,000 a year. He was charismatic, confident, and presented himself exactly as the medical system expected a neurosurgeon to look.

What nobody verified before handing him that salary and access to patients was how many surgeries he had actually performed. A neurosurgeon finishing residency is expected to have completed approximately 1,000 operations. Duntsch had completed fewer than 100.

His first surgery was on December 30 2011.

Lee Passmore was an investigator with the Collin County Medical Examiner's office. He had been referred to Duntsch by his pain specialist for what was supposed to be a routine procedure to address a herniated disc pressing on a nerve. Duntsch cut his ligament, left several screws in his back with the threads deliberately stripped so they could not be removed, and closed him up. Another surgeon had to go back in to attempt repairs. Passmore came out of it unable to feel his feet, in chronic pain, and unable to lift objects of any significant weight. He was Duntsch's first known victim and the system kept him operating.

Barry Morguloff came next. Duntsch pulled out his disc with a grabbing tool and left bone fragments in his spinal canal. When Morguloff woke up in agony and asked for pain relief, Duntsch labeled him a drug seeker and refused. Morguloff now uses a wheelchair.

Jerry Summers was Duntsch's childhood friend and former roommate. He had been living with Duntsch as his driver and personal assistant. He trusted him completely. He went under the knife to fuse two neck vertebrae to address chronic pain from a high school football injury that had worsened after a car accident. During surgery Duntsch damaged Summers' vertebral artery causing uncontrollable bleeding. He lost nearly 1,200 milliliters of blood. Duntsch packed the surgical site with so much anticoagulant foam that it constricted Summers' spine and removed so much bone and muscle tissue from his neck that his head was no longer properly secured on his body. When Summers woke up he could not move his arms or legs. Duntsch was nowhere to be found. Summers spent the rest of his life as a quadriplegic in a care facility. He died in 2021 from complications directly caused by that surgery.

Baylor Plano asked Duntsch to resign. According to lawsuits filed by his victims, the hospital never reported him to the National Practitioner Data Bank as required by law when a doctor is suspended or asked to leave under investigation. Instead they gave him a letter the day he resigned stating he had no outstanding investigations or restrictions at Baylor.

When Dallas Medical Center called for a reference check as part of their credentialing process, Baylor confirmed his employment and offered nothing else. Dallas Medical Center granted him temporary surgical privileges in July 2012.

Kellie Martin was 55 years old. She had been suffering from back pain for a year following a bad fall and came to Duntsch looking for relief. During the procedure he severed one of her major arteries. Nurses in the operating room watched blood pool around the surgical site. Duntsch refused to stop operating and refused to acknowledge what had gone wrong. Because nobody else in the room knew exactly what had happened they could not intervene effectively. Kellie Martin bled to death on his table. Baylor had literally needed him to kill someone before they moved to remove him.

At Dallas Medical Center on July 24 2012, Duntsch operated on Floella Brown, a 63 year old banker who was weeks away from retirement and wanted to address her back pain before her new chapter began. Duntsch pierced her vertebral artery with a misplaced screw and then packed it with so much material to stop the bleeding that it made the situation worse. Blood saturated the blue surgical draping around her body and dripped onto the floor. Nurses put towels down to soak it up. After the surgery Brown initially seemed stable but the following morning she lost consciousness. Pressure was building inside her brain. She suffered a massive stroke and went brain dead. She was transferred to UT Southwestern Medical Center where she died.

While Floella Brown was dying in the ICU, Duntsch was already in another operating room at Dallas Medical Center with Mary Efurd on his table.

Mary Efurd was 74 years old and anxious to get back to her treadmill. She had come in for a routine spinal fusion to address lower back pain. Duntsch operated on the wrong part of her back, twisted a screw into a nerve root, left screw holes on the opposite side of her spine, placed surgical hardware in her soft muscle tissue rather than in bone, and amputated a nerve root entirely. Every person in the operating room told him the hardware was not in the bone. He continued anyway. Efurd lost a third of her blood on the table and woke up having lost the full use of her legs. She would never walk properly again.

Dr. Robert Henderson was the surgeon called in to attempt to repair the damage Duntsch left behind on multiple patients. He later said that what he found inside these patients was unlike anything he had encountered in decades of practice. He and Dr. Randall Kirby, who had assisted on one of Duntsch's procedures in January 2012 and described him as the worst surgeon he had ever seen, began independently collecting evidence and pushing every authority they could reach. They went to hospital administrators. They contacted the Texas Medical Board. They eventually walked into the Dallas County District Attorney's office and made the case that what Duntsch was doing was not negligence or malpractice but criminal conduct.

The Texas Medical Board had been receiving complaints since 2011. They did not suspend his license until the summer of 2013 after finally establishing a documented pattern of patient injury. In that gap between the first complaints and the suspension, approximately 20 more patients went under his knife. His license was permanently revoked on December 6 2013.

After revocation Duntsch fled to Colorado. He moved in with his parents. He filed for bankruptcy. He was arrested for DUI after being found driving on the wrong side of the road on two flat tires.

In July 2015 Dallas County prosecutors arrested him on five counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The indictment listed his hands and surgical tools as the weapons. Prosecutors built the trial around a single charge of injury to an elderly person based on his treatment of Mary Efurd because that charge carried the harshest available penalty. They presented 39 witnesses over eight days. Jurors heard from survivor after survivor about what Duntsch had done to their bodies and their lives.

In February 2017 the jury convicted him. He was sentenced to life in prison. It was among the first times in American history that a surgeon had been criminally convicted for what occurred inside an operating room.

It took two retired surgeons working outside their institutions to force the issue. It took a criminal prosecution to land a conviction. It took until 2017 to put him away for surgeries that began in December 2011.

Mary Efurd sat in that Dallas courtroom and watched it happen. She had gone in trusting a system that credentialed him, moved him from hospital to hospital, and handed him a clean reference letter every time something went wrong.

She never walked properly again. She was there for every day of that trial.

About 7–8 months ago, a young woman from my village in Tamil Nadu, who was six months pregnant, was found dead in a well near her home. Her death was ruled a suicide.

I knew her personally. She was one of the sweetest, most gentle people I had ever met.

According to her husband’s family, she had been thrown out after her husband claimed he found old messages between her and a male friend from before their marriage. They said the messages were intimate, and that became the story everyone in the village believed.

What disturbed me was this: every time I asked someone, “Did you actually see those messages yourself?” the answer was always no.

No one I spoke to had seen any evidence. They had only heard what one side said.

Whether those messages existed, what they actually contained, or whether they justified what happened afterward, I don’t know. Neither did most of the people who judged her. Yet she became the villain in everyone’s version of the story.

The police reportedly treated it as a family matter, and life moved on.

Her husband attended the funeral and performed her last rites. Today, I hear his family is looking for another bride for him.

A couple of weeks ago, I went back to my village and saw him smiling, laughing, and socializing as if nothing had happened. I couldn’t stop thinking about her.

I keep wondering what kind of emotional pain a woman, six months pregnant, must have been in to reach that point.

What hurts me the most isn’t just her death. It’s how quickly people accepted one narrative without ever asking whether it was true. She isn’t here to defend herself anymore, yet she continues to be blamed.

I don’t know every detail of what happened, and I don’t want to claim things I can’t prove. But I do know how easily a woman’s reputation can be destroyed, how quickly rumours become facts, and how often people stop asking questions once the woman is gone.

I still think about her.

Does anyone else feel like we’re becoming far too comfortable judging women based on stories we’ve never even verified?

This is the story of how Ray Brent Marsh of the Tri State Crematory in Noble, GA, for whatever reason, decided to stop cremating bodies and instead starting dumping them all over his property -- and how 339 of those bodies were found in all manner of decomposition from freshly dead to mummified and everything in between, causing all kinds of civil and legal issues and leaving families without the closure they thought they'd gotten years ago.

The one huge problem with this story is why? I wish I had a good answer for you. Why, instead of cremating the bodies as he should, did Brent Marsh do something that seemed like much more work, not to mention the morality of it all?

You may remember in February of 2002, the story of the Marsh Crematory, where bodies were found stacked in a barn, piled 100 deep in concrete mausoleums, some mummified, some little more than skeletons, and some recently deceased. The state had to declare it a disaster area and they ended up spending $10 million to clean it up, bringing in lab specialists from Maryland. They had to cut a new road to the property to accommodate all the emergency vehicles.

Tommy Marsh, Brent's father, was a respected businessman who was once asked to dig a grave because he happened to own a backhoe. From there he started a crematory and being close to three states, he was perfectly situated to get business from funeral homes in neighboring Tennessee and Alabama, including the largest city in that area, Chattanooga, TN, 17 miles away.

After running the crematory since 1982, Mr. Marsh turned operations over to his son Brent in 1996. Things quickly went downhill from there. Something happened around 1997 because that year Brent and his daughter twice took a couple of bodies to a local funeral home for cremation. The owner of the funeral home thought it was a little unusual but the Marshes had helped them get their business up and running so they complied and did it for free. Mr. Marsh told her both times the crematory wasn't working.

Neighbors later reported that it had been many years since they had seen smoke coming from the property, but no one thought anything was wrong, until around 2000 when a propane gas delivery man noticed some bodies. He told his boss who called the sheriff who sent out a deputy who didn't find anything, but still the deliveryman was disturbed:

The deliveryman "was bothered by what he had seen," and he told his aunt, Fay Deal, a secretary for the FBI office in Rossville, it was testified. Mrs. Deal called the Environmental Protection Agency, and they went to the scene on Feb. 15, 2002 and found a skull in the woods - then called in law enforcement.

On February 15th, authorities found a scene that no horror movie could really touch:

they then began finding bodies in the buildings. He said several were in the crematory building. There were a number of bodies in a garage, including one in a casket and others in gurneys. Some were lying on the floor and others were under debris.

Agt. Ramey ... said a storage building had a number of vaults that contained bodies stuffed in them. "They were tightly packed in and were in various stages of decomposition," he said.

An oversized vault contained 22 bodies. Another had 10 bodies, one had eight, one had seven, and two had six.

He said other bodies were found scattered on the ground near the buildings. He said some still had clothes on and others were just skeletons or scattered bones.

Eventually, other bodies were discovered in pits on the property, including one behind Brent Marsh's house, he stated. One pit had 23 bodies, and 12 of those have been identified.

Coffins were stacked in piles. Bodies were still inside the boxes and tossed around the room, their fluids oozing on the floor. Defibrillators and syringes littered the ground.

The bodies were found in every stage of decomposition, some having been there at least five years, officials said.

Some bodies were still in hospital gowns with identification bracelets on their wrists. Others were in their best suit or dress, the way their families had last seen them.

One man's body lay halfway inside the crematory oven.

"It was like something out of a Stephen King novel," said Walker County Sheriff's Detective Walter Hensley, who was one of the first on the scene. "Every building you opened had bodies."

Outside the buildings, a body lay inside a casket in the back of a broken-down hearse. A tall man lay decomposing in a wooden crate -- still wearing his jacket and tie. At his feet lay the skeleton of a baby.

Everywhere investigators turned, someone's friend or relative was cast aside.

A woman's body lay in the dirt inside a building, her dress hiked up. Investigators believe Marsh had dragged her across the floor and left her there.

Ray Brent Marsh was arrested on 5 counts of theft by deception because what he had actually done wasn't a crime in Georgia. It was illegal to deface a dead body, but his lawyers would argue that's not what he did. I won't bore you with the legal technicalities, but suffice it to say his lawyers sought to minimize his liability as much as possible and there was no legal precedent for this. The legislature had never pondered having to pass a law to stop people who were supposed to be cremating bodies from collecting money to do so, but just dumping the bodies all over their property instead.

Oddly, the agents that visited the property noted the absence of any odor. [Ed. note: For updated information on this point see update below.]

A month and a half later, the final count would be 339 bodies found, along with 50-70 "significant bones" that were found from other bodies. There had been 697 bodies sent to the crematorium since 1997.

In the days after the bodies were discovered, law enforcement struggled to find an answer to one legal question: What was Brent Marsh's crime?

There had been no murders, no assaults, no threats. Desecration of a corpse wasn't a felony in Georgia at the time, law enforcement officials said.

Prosecutors decided he could be held financially responsible for taking money and not fulfilling the contract and not returning the bodies. He first was charged with five counts of theft by deception. But as the bodies piled up and prosecutors researched the laws, the count grew to 787 felony charges: 179 counts of abuse of a corpse, 439 counts of theft, 122 counts of burial service fraud and 47 counts of making false statements.

Think about it for a minute. Your loved one died and was cremated and you received an urn with their ashes. Then you find out that the ashes in your urn aren't your loved one at all, instead it was probably concrete dust. When families started hearing the stories about how the bodies were found, it ripped open those wounds and traumatized these people all over again. A woman, whose mother was left lying against a wall with her skirt hiked up and dragged across the floor, got caught sneaking onto the property to collect evidence and was later served with a restraining order.

Many families were left, of course, wondering why? Why had he done all this instead of simply cremating the bodies as he should. Many people noted that what he did required more work. He was in the process of ordering four more septic tanks to hold more bodies. The only answer that he gave was that the retort, or cremation oven, was broken. However,

Georgia officials said earlier this week the crematory at the Noble, Ga., site where 339 uncremated bodies have been found has been tested and is working.

and

An employee of the Florida company that sold the retort to the Tri-State Crematory came to the site and fired the retort up after changing two wires.

Of course lawsuits soon followed, with one settlement for $36 million and another one for $80 million settled in 2004.

Marsh ended up pleading to a sentence of 12 years plus 7 months time served, plus a concurrent sentence in Tennessee and his lawyers successfully argued that he hadn't done anything to a live person. Expense of trial was also cited as a concern by the government. Marsh had given people bags of dirt mixed with ashes from burning wood chips and/or concrete dust -- ashes that they thought were their loved ones. After the sentence was handed down, Marsh issued an apology that left people puzzled.

Judge Bodiford, who is from Marietta, said that in victim-impact statements, many family members "wanted to know why this happened."

Marsh did not give family members the "why" they sought. He said, "I can't give you the answers that you want, but I will stand up here like a man. And I will not cry when I go into that cell. I will not whimper."

More family members reactions can be found in this article.

One victim said

She has tried to reason why it happened. She said it was found the machinery was workable, and she said Marsh is not stupid. She said one theory is he was lazy, but she said, "Doing the job right was easier than what you did."

Marsh has never given a public interview. And he never offered an explanation in court for what happened.

Theories circled as to why he did it:

He got behind on his work, Walker Sheriff Steve Wilson suggested.

He didn't want to be involved with his family's business anymore, Detective Michelle Brown said.

He had developed mercury poisoning from being exposed to fumes from the silver fillings in teeth as bodies burned, said his attorney. It was as if his mind was in a fog, and he isn't even able to explain what happened, Poston said.

In a letter written to the victims he again declined to explain why he'd made those decisions.

In 2007, his attorneys offered Mercury poisoning as a reason claiming

that physiological testing had indicated that Brent Marsh was a victim of mercury toxicity from the cremation of bodies with mercury dental amalgam. They stated that a faulty ventilation system exposed both Marsh and his father to toxic levels of mercury.

In 2016, after serving his 12 years, Marsh was released from prison, opening those wounds again for many people. Marsh didn't speak, but his attorney asked people to forgive him and let him live his life.

Others did speak:

“My Nanny taught us respect. She taught us to respect the elderly, babies, animals, anything that can’t protect itself. Obviously (Marsh) wasn’t taught that. There will never be closure.”

Marsh was sentenced to 75 years probation, was ordered to begin paying restitution and was disallowed from profiting off his story.

A great many victims are still left with questions prohibiting them from gaining the closure they thought they had when they received an urn containing the ashes of their loved ones.

As a result of the case crematory law in the United States was changed in a great many states. Marsh had exploited lax regulation and a loophole that allowed him to escape state licenses. Besides, there were only two inspectors for the entire state anyway and inspections were rare.

Today a stone at the Tennessee Georgia Memorial Park southeast of Rossville marks the place where 133 bodies that couldn't be identified are at rest. The marker reads: "May they and their families have everlasting peace and consolation."

Other sources:

NY Times | 1 2 3

Wikipedia

Ranker

Update

After many commenters noted that it was difficult to understand how a lack of odor was detected I did some more digging and I found an article that I somehow missed the first time. This is a serious omission because this article adds so much more description to the scene. Here's the link to the full piece if you want it, but there's no need because I'm quoting in full the pertinent sections. I've bolded the section relating to the odor.

The propane gas delivery man testified in a civil trial against Marsh.

He said the man who had the Marsh route asked him to go in his place because "he just didn't like to go there."

Mr. Cook said he drove up to the crematory on Oct. 3, 2000, and found it cluttered and junky. He said, "There was a lot of trash and debris. . . just clutter, a lot of junk. It was scattered everywhere."

He said he saw a propane tank, but knew it would not hold his 200-gallon delivery. He said he got out looking for a larger tank.

Mr. Gerald Cook told the jury he walked around a building and "I saw the first skeletal remains" about 10 feet away. He said it appeared that a small backhoe had been used to push some debris along with the bodies into a heap.

He said he saw some skulls, some bones and "one whole body with a little skin clinging to it."

The witness said, "I just stood there looking at it a couple of minutes. That's not the normal thing you see."

He said he then heard Brent Marsh yell out twice, "Gas man. Gas man." in what he said was a "loud, panicked" voice. He said he then ran to the edge of the building so Marsh would not know he had seen the bodies. He said, "I didn't want him to see me looking at them."

Asked if he told Marsh he had seen the bodies, he said, "No. I was scared."

He said he drove around afterwards and was sick. He said he didn't do his other deliveries that day.

He said, "I just really didn't know what to do. I knew that it wasn't right."

Mr. Cook said he told his manager, and the next morning the manager said he had not been able to sleep and was going to Sheriff Wilson with the information that morning.

Mr. Cook said he had another gas delivery at the crematory on Oct. 23, 2001, and after he drove up he saw a body 20 feet from the propane tank. He said it "was not covered up or anything. It was totally exposed lying on the ground."

He said it was decomposed. "There were no distinctive features. It looked like it had just melted. But I could tell it was a body that shouldn't be there."

He said Marsh told him at one point that "business had been real good. He had been up in Tennessee soliciting business. He had more bodies to take care of." He said Marsh said it required 75 gallons of propane for each cremation.

He said Marsh, when it was time for deliveries, would call the office to make sure to know when he was coming. He said he would call that day, and the office would call to say Marsh was waiting for him.

Mr. Cook said he made two more deliveries to the Marsh property in December 2001. He said on one occasion he saw a large blue tarp. He said Brent Marsh, without being asked, said it was put there because he had septic problems. Mr. Cook said he did not see any piles of dirt that indicated it was a septic dig.

He said on his last visit "I didn't look (for bodies). I was very worried."

He said at that point "I figured if I had told my boss and he had gone to the sheriff and nothing was done about it, I had better tell somebody else." He said he went to his aunt, Faye Deal, an administrative assistant at the FBI office in Rossville.

Asked his response when news of the finding came out, he said, "I was glad that it had been found, but I was surprised at how many bodies there were."

Dr. Sperry described the site as "very junky. There were things piled up, old farm equipment rusting."

Dr. Sperry said there was no discernible odor that cold night. But he said it warmed up over the next few days, and the odor of decaying bodies became so strong that it was found necessary to move a tent where food was being served to the workers.

He said that night he learned that bodies had been found in the crematory building, in a Butler-type building near it and in the woods.

He said one body was in the incinerator, one was outside the unit, and two more were in a back room of the crematory building.

He said the "family waiting room" at the Tri-State Crematory was filthy with rodent droppings on the furniture. "There was dust and mildew all over the place."

Dr. Kris Sperry said other bodies were found stacked in the Butler building, which had been locked when the first investigators arrived.

He said there were five heavy vaults in that building and one vault outside and all turned out to be "piled high with bodies."

The medical examiner said bodies were found in seven pits in nearby woods. He said they were stacked one on top of the other. He said dirt was not pushed on any of the bodies until all were in, then an effort was made to cover them.

But he said body parts could be seen sticking up out of the pits.

He said a casket was opened on the property "and rats ran out." He said animals had gotten into the bodies and moved the bones around while gnawing on them.

The witness said, "We began to find there were hundreds more bodies than we could ever conceive of. As we walked along everywhere we stepped we were stepping on human bones."

Edit to add: Thanks to everyone’s help, I was able to figure out how to download my Ancestry results and submit them to GEDmatch, and allow them to be used by law enforcement. I’ll update here if I get any updates.

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My uncle was always a recluse. We’d see him now and then, and then he would disappear for several years at a time. He was EXTREMELY diligent in making sure that he had almost no digital footprint anywhere, you can hardly find his name online today.

Once when I did see him, I mentioned that I’d done an Ancestry DNA kit and he was angry at me about it. He asked me why I would ever want the government to have my DNA, etc. He told me that the government could use my DNA to frame me for crimes.

Weird, but whatever. So fast forward to 2022 when he passed away and I helped clear his apartment. SO MANY weird things were found, we won’t even get into it. Many things that indicated intense and unusual sexual, um, interests? but nothing obviously criminal in nature.

One thing I will say I found was medroxyprogesterone which is used in men to treat/decrease the desire to commit sexually deviant behaviors

I just wonder if the reason that he didn’t want my DNA somewhere was so that it wouldn’t be able to be used to identify him in some way? For a crime?

How can I go about “entering my DNA” somewhere where it can be used for investigations? There was just so much weird stuff in his apartment…. Actually hardly anything normal at all. It was all things for his “secret life.”

Carla Walker was 17 years old.

It was February 17 1974. She had just left a Valentine's Day dance at Western Hills High School in Fort Worth Texas with her boyfriend Rodney McCoy. They stopped at a bowling alley parking lot.

A man yanked open the car door, pistol-whipped Rodney unconscious, and dragged Carla away screaming into the dark.

She was kept alive for two days.

When her body was found three days later in a culvert near Benbrook Lake the autopsy revealed she had been beaten, tortured, raped, injected with morphine, and strangled to death.

She was 17 years old.

Here is what makes this case different from every other cold case.

Police found a .22 Ruger magazine on the ground in the bowling alley parking lot the exact model of gun owned by a man named Glen Samuel McCurley. Weeks after the murder detectives brought him in for questioning.

He sat across from them and lied.

He told them his gun had been stolen six weeks before the murder. He said he didn't report it because he was an ex-convict and didn't want the trouble. They gave him a polygraph. He passed it. They eliminated him as a suspect and let him walk out the door. That was 1974.

For the next 46 years Glen Samuel McCurley lived one mile from where he took Carla Walker. He had a family. He had children. He grew old. He watched Carla's family bury their parents without ever knowing who killed their daughter.

The DNA from Carla's clothing had been sitting in evidence storage the entire time. Fort Worth police couldn't process it. The technology didn't exist in 1974 and when it finally did exist nobody approved the budget to apply it to this case.

In 2019 Carla's case was featured on a TV show hosted by cold case investigator Paul Holes. After the episode aired Holes connected Fort Worth detectives with Othram a private lab that specializes in processing degraded DNA from old evidence. The technology pulled a full genetic profile from the same clothing that had sat untouched for 45 years.

They ran it through GEDmatch. Found family matches. Built a family tree. The trail led directly to Glen Samuel McCurley living one mile away the entire time.

When detectives went to his home in 2020 they didn't knock on his door. They went through his trash. They pulled DNA from discarded items outside his house and sent it to the lab.

It matched every sample from 1974.

When they finally confronted him he said he had never seen Carla Walker before in his life. He said he didn't do anything like that.

Then they showed him the DNA evidence. Then they showed him the video of his own 1974 polygraph. Then they showed him the gun he claimed was stolen in 1974 the same gun they had just found hidden inside his house.

On the third day of his trial in August 2021 Glen Samuel McCurley changed his plea to guilty mid-proceedings. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. He died in custody in July 2023.

Here is the part that should make you angry. He was in that interview room in 1974. Police had his name. They had his gun's magazine from the crime scene. They had a motive to look harder. They had a polygraph that could be beaten by any calm liar. They let him go.

Carla's boyfriend Rodney McCoy spent 46 years under a cloud of suspicion the last person seen with her, unable to fully clear his name. He told the court after the conviction that McCurley had hung a cloud of suspicion over him for all those years and that was torment.

Two people paid for Glen McCurley's lie that day in 1974. Carla paid with her life. Rodney paid with 46 years of suspicion.

McCurley got 46 years of freedom. A family. Grandchildren. A full life. The gun he swore was stolen in 1974 was sitting inside his house when police arrested him in 2020. It was never stolen. He lied to detectives faces and walked out the door. And nobody checked again for 46 years.

Source: WFAA Fort Worth man pleads guilty in 1974 killing

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/crime/fort-worth-suspect-in-1974-murder-of-carla-walker-pleads-guilty-gets-life-in-prison/287-fd28958f-0c98-4e00-9896-520b2d1a9b63

Why does solving a 1974 murder require a TV show and a private lab in 2019? What does that say about every case that never gets that attention?

“She said her throat was parched. I picked up a glass of water, but the doctors advised me not to give her even a drop. They told me that her internal organs had collapsed, and her body will not accept water. They said they can only give her fluids through injections and nasal pipes. To see her on the hospital bed, longing for a few drops of water, was the most disturbing scene. It still flashes in my head whenever I pick up a glass of water to drink. Why was she made to suffer so much? How did all this happen? Do you think I will ever forgive the men who made her so helpless? She was my brave girl and took care of everyone in the family. And I could not even give her a few drops of water in her last hours.”

- Asha Devi (Jyoti’s mother)

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At 9:30 pm on December 16, 2012, a 23-year-old medical student, Jyoti Singh, had just finished watching “Life of Pi” with her friend, Awindra Pratap Pandey. They tried to find a taxi to return home but couldn’t find one… a few minutes later a private bus stopped in front of them and offered them a ride.

Before we get into what happened that night, let’s talk about Jyoti. Jyoti was born and raised in Delhi, India. Her parents were from a small village in the district of UP. Her parents named her Jyoti because in Hindi it means divine light/flame and they believed she would bring that into their lives. When Jyoti was born, the locals did taunt them saying things like, “why are you celebrating like you gave birth to a son” but they didn’t care, to them Jyoti was their everything.

From a young age, Jyoti always wanted to become a doctor and she got accepted to Sai Institute of Paramedical and Allied Sciences. Her father worked as a labourer and to pay for her tuition he worked double shifts and sold his ancestral land.

People were confused as to why he was willing to support her dreams, thing is when he was young, his dream was to become a teacher but back then school wasn’t considered important.

So from that moment, he vowed to himself that he would never deny his children of education, in a way sending them to school was fulfilling his desire for knowledge.

Jyoti also worked 8pm to 4am at an international call center to help support herself while attending medical school.

December 2012…Jyoti had returned home for break after writing her final paper in medical school. Her mother said, “Jyoti seemed relaxed and happy and would say, mom everything will be okay now, your daughter has become a doctor”.

The horrific day, December 16, started off like any other day cooking, cleaning etc…that evening though her friend Awindra called her and asked her to come out for a movie. Jyoti told her mom she was going to go since in a few days her internship was going to start and then she won’t have any time for her friends.

Back to the moment when Jyoti and Awindra got on the bus…

They saw four boys in the driver’s cabin and 2 boys sitting behind the cabin. The rest of the bus was empty, so they sat on the left side second seat from the front... As the bus was moving, 3 boys came out of the driver’s cabin and Awindra noticed that the bus was moving in the wrong direction and the doors were tightly shut. He asked what was going on and the boys started fighting with him, swearing at him, saying nonsense about where he was going with his girl so late. One of the 3 men hit him and the other 2 picked up iron rods and beat him up. Jyoti tried to get involved but the men pushed her to the back seat. At this point Awindra was unconscious, and the 6 men then took turns raping Jyoti.

Jyoti resisted, she bit 3 of the attackers and then one of the men, the youngest one, took a rusted iron rod and penetrated it into her vagina. Another put his hand inside of Jyoti and felt something rope-like coming out of her. He pulled it out and realized it was her intestines. The men then assumed she was dead and wanted to quickly get rid of her body. They tried to open the back door of the bus but couldn’t open it, so they took Jyoti and Awindra to the front door and threw them out of the moving bus.

By now Mukesh, who was the driver, said they started sobering up and decided to head home. The boys knew Jyoti and Awindra had brought stuff onto the bus, so they had to get rid of it. Pawan wore Awindra’s shoes, Akshay wore Awindra’s jacket and within 10 minutes they parked the bus on the side of the road and walked home. Before the culprits went their separate ways, they came to an agreement that everyone would stay quiet and if the police do start investigating and end up questioning them, they would not say each other’s names.

Around 11pm a passerby saw Jyoti and Awindra. He immediately called the Delhi police who then took the victims to Safdarjung Hospital. Once at the hospital, the doctors saw numerous bite marks all over her body and they confirmed that there was penetration of a rusted L-shaped iron rod, which caused massive damage to her genitals, uterus and intestines.

Jyoti’s parents were getting worried at home, they had expected Jyoti to come home a while ago and she wasn’t picking up her phone. A short while later, the father received a call from the hospital, asking who he was to Jyoti. He replied saying he was Jyoti’s father and asked if she got into a car accident? The doctor replied No, but she had been raped.

According to Dr. Rashmi Ahuja, Jyoti was brought into the hospital around 11:30 pm and was bleeding profusely from her vagina. Jyoti was conscious and described everything in detail to the doctors and the female officers.

The doctors told the parents that in over 20 years of their careers they have never seen a case like this before. According to Jyoti’s injuries, they were expecting her to survive for a minimum of a few hours to a maximum of a few days.

The media got a hold of what had happened, and the news spread like wildfire throughout India. According to Indian law, the real name of a rape victim is not to be released. Media outlets used various other names such as Jagruti (which means awareness), Amanat (which means treasure), Damini (lightning) and the most well-known was Nirbhaya (which means fearless one). The father on January 5th was quoted saying, “We want the world to know her real name. My daughter didn’t do anything wrong, she died while protecting herself. I am proud of her. Revealing her name will give courage to other women who have survived these attacks. They will find strength from my daughter.”

Protests and chaos erupted all over India on December 17 (the day after the attack). It wasn’t just about what happened to Jyoti, it was about the need for change. Why a woman is always wrong, why can’t a woman feel safe in her town, why can’t a woman wear want she wants and go where she wants. People wanted justice.

The police started their investigation and started looking at the CCTV footage of nearby hotels to see if they could get a clue. One hotel had their camera pointed towards the highway and saw a bus had passed by the hotel twice, which is suspicious for a bus going on the highway, especially a school bus. This helped them narrow down to 56-60 buses.

A bit later, a tip came in that there was a school bus parked on the side of the road close to where Jyoti and Awindra were found. Right away a team went to check it out. The bus fit the description and as the police approached the bus, Ram Singh ran off the bus in the opposite direction. The police quickly nabbed him, and he admitted to everything. 4 of the 6 rapists lived in that area. The police went and arrested Pawan, Vinay, and Mukesh. The juvenile was arrested on December 21st. Akshay Thakur, was the last one left to be arrested. He had fled to Bihar, and from there the police arrested him on December 21st.

Protests went on for a month. Not only were there protests in Delhi, but there were protests in all the major cities across India. Jyoti’s news also spread into mainstream media internationally

Outside of the hospital where Jyoti was, people would come and leave notes at the gates. On December 19, Jyoti went through her 5th surgery... which removed most of her remaining intestines that were damaged in the attack.

On December 21st the government appointed a team of doctors so she would receive the best care. By Christmas, she remained intubated, on life support, and in critical condition. She had internal bleeding due to sepsis which was somewhat controlled.

On December 26, a cabinet meeting took place, and a decision was made to fly her to Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital and Medical Centre. Many people didn’t support the decision to transfer her, and some called it a political move, but we don’t know that for sure. During the 6-hour flight, Jyoti went into cardiac arrest. The doctors on the flight did stabilize her but she was without a pulse for almost 3 minutes.

On December 28, the chief executive officer of the Mount Elizabeth Hospital said the victim suffered brain damage, pneumonia, and abdominal infection and that she was fighting for her life.

On December 29, Jyoti had passed away... In an interview, Jyoti’s mom recalls her last moments, “She had ragged breathing and said ‘Sorry Mummy, I gave you so much pain I’m sorry’ and then she passed away”.

(there is some information floating around of what exactly were her last words, some media outlets said that she told her parents to keep fighting and get justice for her, other outlets said that she spoke to her father last and said, “You go to sleep, I will also sleep”... in a BBC documentary, Jyoti’s mother, Asha, mentioned in her interview that Jyoti’s last words were, “sorry mummy I gave you so much pain I’m sorry”. She then saw the vertical lines become flat.

On December 30 – Jyoti was cremated in Delhi under high police security.

Let’s talk about the rapists,

Mukesh and Ram were brothers. From a young age, they were always creating mischief. Had fights with other kids, and as kids gave each other shocks from loose electrical wires.

In an interview, Mukesh said “boys and girls aren’t equal. Girls are made to look after the home and be in the home, not to be outside going to bars and clubs and wearing western clothes. A person claps using 2 hands, just like that, girls are also equally responsible as a man when rape happens.”

According to Mukesh, Ram had violent tendencies. Vinay Sharma was a gym instructor and would also fight with people for the smallest thing. He apparently took injections that made him stronger and more powerful. One time he took a double dose, and he became so violent that no one could control him. Pawan Gupta would also fight but would mostly sit in the bus by Mukesh as he drove and just talked to him. Akshay Thakur was close with Ram, each morning he would come to their house and bring chai. He had a wife and a young son. The juvenile who was 17 at the time of the incident would help clean the bus. On the day of December 16, around 5:30pm Ram went over to Akshay’s house and suggested getting food and chill since he brought a bottle of alcohol. They ended up getting way too drunk. After they met up with the others and decided to drive around and have some fun.

The Trial

Awindra Pratap Pandey, testified in court on December 19, 2012.
On December 21st he recorded his statement with a sub-divisional magistrate at the hospital in front of the Deputy Commissioner of police. Also, the government promised to file the charge sheet quickly and seek the maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
Because of all the protests, on December 24, the police promised to file the charge sheet within one week.
On December 27, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs met along with the Union Home Secretary and the Delhi Police Commissioner to discuss the issues

This led to the Delhi High Court approving the creation of 5 fast-track courts to try rape and sexual assault cases. The first of the 5 approved fast track courts was inaugurated on January 2, 2013. Mukesh, Ram, Pawan, Akshay, and Vinay were tried together and the 17 year old juvenile whose name was protected in the media was tried separately since he was not considered an adult yet.
Many people and political parties pushed to have the juvenile tried as an adult but were rejected by the Juvenile Justice Board.

January 3, the police finally filed charges against the 5 adult men for rape, murder, kidnapping, destruction of evidence and the attempted murder of Awindra.

Senior lawyer Dayan Krishnan was appointed as the special public prosecutor. Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur and Pawan Gupta denied the charges. Some of the men had confessed earlier; however, their lawyers said that their clients had been tortured and that their confessions had been coerced.

On 10 January, one of their lawyers, Manohar Lal Sharma, said in a media interview that the victims were responsible for the assault because they should not have been using public transportation and, as an unmarried couple, they should not have been on the streets at night. He went on to say: "Until today I have not seen a single incident or example of rape with a respected lady. Even an underworld don would not like to touch a girl without respect.” He also called the male victim "wholly responsible" for the incident because he "failed in his duty to protect the woman" (This man publicly supported the humiliation of woman, he said if his daughter did the same thing he would publicly ‘embarrass’ her since she brought their family name down)

In March 2013, Ram Singh was found hanging by a rope in his prison cell which he shared with 3 other prisoners. It is suspected he committed suicide, but his family claims it was murder.

The four surviving adult defendants went on trial in a fast-track court. The prosecution presented evidence including witness statements, the victim's statement, fingerprints, DNA testing, and dental modelling. The bite marks found on Jyoti were a match to Akshay Thakur and Ram Singh. The case was completed on 8 July

On July 25 the verdict was going to be announced but it was deferred to August 5 and then again to August 19.

On August 31st, 2013, the verdict was delivered. The 4, Mukesh, Akshay, Vinay and Pawan were charged with gang rape and sentenced to death and the juvenile who was 17 years and 6 months at the time of the incident was given the maximum sentence that a juvenile can get which is 3 years in a special home. On September 10, 2013, the 5 were transferred to prison.

The juvenile was released on December 20, 2015. At the release, the juvenile got a new name so he could lead a new life to avoid any backlash or violent reaction. According to the report, he learned cooking and tailoring while staying at the reform house. A one-time grant of 10,000 rupees, ($130USD) from the government was given to support him initially. The Department of Women and Child Development stated, that it would provide the money and would arrange the sewing machine and other tailoring tools from an NGO.

On March 15, 2014, the Supreme Court of India stayed the execution of Mukesh and Pawan to allow them to make their appeal against their conviction on March 31. This was eventually extended to the second week of July. Hearing this, Akshay and Vinay also asked the Supreme Court to stay their execution to allow them to make an appeal of their convictions and it was approved.

On May 5, 2017, the Supreme Court rejected the convict's appeal and said they committed “a barbaric crime” that had “shaken society’s conscience,” the court upheld the death sentence of the 4 who had been charged for murder. The convicts then filed a review petition to the Supreme Court which was rejected on July 9, 2018.

In November 2019, the Supreme Court dismissed a review petition from Akshay pleading for mercy. The court retained the death sentence. After the verdict, Akshay’s lawyer told the Supreme Court that he would appeal to the President and for this to happen he should be given an extra 3 weeks.

In January 2020, a 5-judge bench of the Supreme Court rejected the petitions of convicts, Vinay Sharma, and Mukesh.

On January 7, 2020, a death warrant was issued for the men by a Delhi court. With an execution date of January 22, 2020

Now, under prison rules, if a case has more than one convict awaiting the death penalty and one of them moves a mercy plea then the execution of all the convicts would need to be postponed until a decision is made on the pending mercy plea. Mukesh filed a mercy plea to the President of India. On January 17, the President of India rejected the mercy plea. And hours later Judge Dharmender Rana issued a second death warrant to be hanged after a mandatory 14-day gap on February 1st. According to the law, when a mercy plea is rejected they must have a 14 day gap.

On January 17, Pawan appealed to the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court order that rejected his claim that he was a juvenile during the crime in 2012.

On January 31, the Delhi court rejected it and did not issue a fresh warrant for their execution.

Over the next few weeks, numerous pleas and appeals were made by both the families and the convicts including to the International Court of Justice. There was a 3rd death warrant which was issued on February 17 and then a fourth issued on March 4.

On March 20, 2020 at 5:30 am, Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur and Pawan Gupta were hanged and pronounced dead after 30 minutes. The 4 convicts refused their offers of a last meal and new clothes prior to their execution. Mukesh allegedly requested to donate his organs.

Nirbhaya (Jyoti Singh) was posthumously awarded one of the 2013 International Women of Courage Awards of the US State Department.

In December 2013, the family of the Jyoti along with social entrepreneur Sarvesh Kumar Tiwari established the Nirbhaya Trust, an institute formed to assist women who have experienced violence to find shelter and legal assistance. Due to the fact that Indian laws do not allow the publishing of a rape victim's name, it was named Nirbhaya which means fearless in Hindi, after the name used by the media. The victim's father stated, "So many people supported us, so ... we want [to] help those girls who have no one.”

“My wife and I brought up our children with the sole intention of making them good citizens. I can proudly say that we have achieved that. Our daughter has shown society its true face. She has changed the lives of many young girls. She remains an inspiration even after her death. She fought back those devils. We are proud of our daughter.”

— Badrinath Singh (Jyoti’s Father)

BBC did make a documentary produced by Leslee Udwin called India’s daughter. In the documentary, they interviewed the rapist Mukesh, the families of the convicts and Jyoti’s parents. The Indian government blocked its broadcast in India by obtaining a court order. When the documentary was uploaded on YouTube, the Indian government told Youtube to block the video in India and Youtube agreed. The film generated a great deal of controversy in both India and worldwide.

Netflix also made a 7-episode series titled Delhi Crime which won Best drama series at the 48th international Emmy awards. I did not watch Delhi Crime but I did watch the BBC documentary and I do suggest watching it if you can. I had to pause the video a few times. Not because of how gruesome it was, but because I could feel the pain of the parents and the arrogance of the rapists and their lawyers. An example is when Mukesh said, “oh before guys would rape and let them go but now guys will make sure they are dead before they leave the body”…“how a clap is done by 2 hands so girls are equally responsible for the rape as men.” The lawyers who were on the side of the rapists supported those views and said even more backwards things.
(I did add a few of their interviews to my you.tub.e ..crimewithm)

Thanks for reading! until next time..bye

-Crimewithm

Today’s tale has all the elements of a classic mystery:

1. A mysterious disappearance

2. Sri Lanka

3. Handball

Okay, well... at least maybe just the first thing.

Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive and Dodge

You’ve trained your entire life for this moment. You’ve sacrificed blood, sweat, and tears to become the best physical specimen and teammate that you can possibly be. You’ve earned your place to represent your country on an international level…

Only to lose every single match and then disappear completely.

Was it out of shame? Or something more… malicious? Sounds like a heck of a mystery, even if one player went missing. But the entire team? 23 players plus their coach & manager? What in the wild wild world of sports happened here?

Munich, Germany

In September of 2004, the German Sports Exchange Programme (GSEP) hosted a handball tournament for countries from all over the world to participate in. Sri Lanka showed up and played… pretty dismally. The team lost every single match and were “suspicious to begin with.”

The day after their poor performances, no one could find them. Originally, the GSEP thought,

“the team had got[ten] lost in nearby woods while jogging.”

But it was after the Sri Lankan government was contacted that things became even more confusing. Turns out… Sri Lanka sports officials informed the GSEP that there “was no such team.”

FREEDOM

With this revelation, the authorities were contacted and the “handball team’s” hotel rooms were searched. Police found a letter in English left behind in their lodgings, thanking the local club for its hospitality and saying they had left for France. They “even left their dirty laundry,” according to the police.

As the true data came to light, the reality was that the entire team plus the coach & manager were absolutely not a professional handball team. According to the GSEP officials:

“They presented documents, and the documents looked all right, so there was no reason to [not] give [them] a visa.”

They were all legally allowed to stay in Germany for over a month so, taking advantage of that fact, they ducked out at the very first opportunity.

What we don’t know is motive (the main theories are political asylum or illegal immigration) and how everything turned out for the “team.” The original letter left in the hotel seemed to be a false lead and there were rumors that the team had gone to Italy instead.

The only thing we do know for sure, is that the head of the GSEP was… a little salty about the whole thing.

“This will be the last time we will be doing this,” claimed Mr. Doering, “I am not planning to invite anymore teams from Sri Lanka.”

Deeper dives:

So, what do we think? Where did the team end up?

• Some actual handball highlights

• The movie based on this true story

Also I’m Andy. If you like stuff like this, my writing partner and I have a free weekly newsletter about mystery/crime and pop culture. We'd love to write it full time and the more of you reading, the likelier that becomes. Check us out: https://mysterynibbles.substack.com/

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**DISCLAIMER: This is my first long write-up here, so I apologize in advance for any errors! In addition, I am both non-American and non-military so please let me know if anything should be corrected! 

About Fort Hood:

Fort Hood is a military base that is located just outside of Killeen, TX, about halfway between Austin and Waco. Home to over 55 000 staff, Ft. Hood is one of the largest bases in the world. The base covers around 340 square miles and is home to III Corps and The First Cavalry Division, as well as many tenant units.

Vanessa Guillen Case:

Fort Hood has recently made international news due to the tragic case of a missing soldier, who was later found murdered. Spc. Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old soldier originally from Houston, went missing outside her barracks on April 22, 2020. Before her disappearance, Guillen had recently disclosed to her family, friends, and coworkers that she was being sexually harassed, potentially by a sergeant or supervisor. 
On June 30th, Guillen's remains were found on the Leon River about 20 miles east of Ft. Hood. The next day, a suspect was located - another soldier name Aaron Robinson. After fleeing the base, Robinson killed himself. A second suspect was arrested, Cecily Aguilar, who was Robinson's girlfriend and the estranged wife of another soldier on base.
According to the Guillen family lawyer Natalie Khawam, Robinson bludgeoned Guillen with a hammer in the armory room on base. He put her body in a Pelican case and then returned with Aguilar several hours later to dispose of Guillen's remains.
Vanessa's case has been highly publicized and her family is calling for a change to how the military handles sexual violence. Based on descriptions she disclosed of her harasser, it may not have been Robinson. Vanessa's case has also pushed several other unresolved Ft. Hood murders into the spotlight. The Murder Squad podcast recently did an episode on some of the most recent murders, and social media has amplified these cases. 

Other Unresolved Cases:

Since March 2020, there have been six other potential homicides at Ft. Hood. The remains of a missing soldier have also been found.

March 1: 20-year-old Spc. Shelby Tyler Jones is found with a gunshot wound outside a convenience store off-base at 3:45 AM. Base officials believe the shooting happened 40 minutes earlier at Club Dreams, a half-mile away, and that his body was dumped in the store afterward.

March 5: 29-year-old Christopher Wayne Smith is found unresponsive at his Ft. Hood residence. Latest case updates indicate that foul play isn't suspected, but nothing has been ruled out.

March 14: 23-year-old Specialist Freddy Delacruz Jr and 23-year old veteran Shaquan Allred are found shot at Summerlyn Apartments in Killeen. A third victim is a 22-year-old civilian named Asia Cline. Officers were initially dispatched to the apartment after reports of gunfire at around 1 am, but did not discover the crime scene until a report of a water leak was called in around 40 minutes later. All three victims had been shot multiple times. Delacruz was a decorated soldier who was described at an 'outstanding trooper' according to his battalion leader. Allred recently retired from the army after working as a combat engineer and previously studied at Duke University. There unfortunately is not much information online about civilian Asia Cline, an Ohio native, who worked as a bartender according to her Facebook profile.

May 18th: 27-year-old PFC Brandon Rosecrans is found shot 13 miles off-post in the nearby city of Harker Heights. His vehicle, an orange 2016 Jeep Renegade, is found on fire nearby. Brandon's father alleges that Brandon was attacked at gunpoint a week before he was killed, possibly by the same suspect(s). 

June 19: The remains of 24-year-old PV2 Gregory Wedel-Morales are found in a shallow grave in a residential neighborhood in Kileen after an anonymous tip is called in. Morales was classified as AWOL on August 20 2019 after he failed to return to base. Morales was last seen driving his newly purchased 2018 Black Kia Rodeo off-post in Killeen on the evening of August 19. His last known contact was the following day when he called his mother, Kim Wedel, to ask for some gas money and she gently teased his about his ability to afford a new car but not having the money to gas it up. After Wedel-Morales did not show up to work that day, his sergeant went to his house to look with him, and his wife, Penny Morales, said she had not seen him since the night before. A couple of weeks later, Morales was classified as a deserter, and little effort was taken from the army to look for him. 

In December, a family member saw on CARFAX that someone in the Dallas area was trying to have his car inspected and alerted the Army's investigative division (CID). CID took the car into their possession a month later, promising Morales' family that they would run tests on it, yet it is unknown whether these tests were ever run. Wedel-Morales, an Oklahoma native, was a decorated soldier who entered the army in 2015 as a motor transport operator. He got married during his service and changed his last name from Wedel to Morales. During the month that he disappeared, he was in the process of separation. Wedel-Morales had plans to exit the army in September, and was making arrangements to work post-military. Wedel-Morales' family fought to have his status changed from deserter so they could have a proper military burial for him, and were successful as of this morning. 

An organization called Military Justice For All has been tracking Foot Hood cases, as they believe there is a disproportionately high death rate at this base. Since 2016, there have been 133 stateside deaths in Ft Hood. In addition to the 7 deaths officially categorized as unresolved homicides, there is suspicion around several of the cases of soldiers being found dead on- and off- post.

• * 1 homicide on post (Vanessa Guillen)

• * 13 homicides off post (7 unsolved)

• * 20 deaths ruled suicide

• * 33 found dead on post

• * 15 found dead off post

• *40 died in accidents (training, motorcycle, automobile, swimming/boating)

• * 8 died from medical issues

• * 1 died in pre-trial confinement at local jail

• * 1 declared dead after missing for 2 months

• * 1 veteran found dead at Belton Lake, Ft. Hood

Additional Info:

HOPCC

When Vanessa Guillen was first reported missing, some on social media thought a Killeen Church may have been responsible for her disappearance. The House of Prayer Christian Church (recently renamed to the House of Help) has been described by many as a cult that has had a continuous, ominous presence at Ft. Hood. There are 2 Church locations in Killeen and 10 more around the country, mainly near military bases. Ex-members have claimed that the Church has committed fraud, multiple forms of abuse, and continually exploits its congregation, many of whom are soldiers. The Church capitalizes off of soldiers' and veterans' educational benefits by enrolling them in a $24 000/year unaccredited Bible seminary with no clear graduation date. In addition, there have been multiple accounts posted online from soldiers describing the aggressive recruiting tactics of the Church, which happen both on and off-base. On the Fort Hood Fallen Facebook page, soldiers have described being approached by the Church at the Killeen Mall, in town, and even outside their barracks. People exposing the Church have also reported being stalked by current members- some have described cars waiting outside their homes, being video-recorded and photographed, and being sent threatening texts and emails. Could this Church/cult have been involved in any of these recent homicide cases?

Sexual Harassment

In the wake of Vanessa Guillen's murder, the hashtag #IAmVanessaGuillen has spread over social media as service members shared stories of the sexual harassment and violence they had faced in the military. Thousands of soldiers have signed a petition started by Guillen's family that calls for the shut down of the base, a thorough investigation into Vanessa's death, and a moratorium of Army enlistment until these demands are met and the systemic sexual violence in the military is addressed. Service members face a disproportionate amount of sexual violence - around one in three female soldiers has reported experiencing sexual assault, compared to around one in five female civilians. A 2014 study from victim advocacy group Protect Our Defenders found that there were an estimated 885 sexual assaults and rapes that year at Fort Hood, adding up to over two a day. Additionally, in 2015 a Ft. Hood soldier named Gregory McQueen was arrested for trying to run a prostitution ring out of the base.  McQueen was a member of the US Army's Sexual Harassment and Assault Response/Prevention program at the time, the same unit Guillen would have reported to had she had the chance to lodge a complaint was charged for. McQueen ran 'sex parties' for high-ranking officers and tried to recruit subordinate female soldiers to pimp them out. He was sentenced to only two years in jail. The sexual violence at Ft. Hood likely creates an extremely toxic environment for the soldiers who live on the base. Could this be contributing to the high death rate?

** Persons with information can contact Army CID Special Agents at 254-287-2722 or the Military Police Desk at 254-288-1170.  They can also anonymously submit information at https://www.cid.army.mil/report-a-crime.html. 

Sources:

Ft. Hood Unsolved Cases

http://themurdersquad.com/episodes/the-murder-of-vanessa-guillen-and-the-unsolved-homicides-of-fort-hood/?fbclid=IwAR0YzUhGYZ4UlCwFx0tdETQwbkfC5S2wOQ6jpv64sW8OwPuD6JNr-Sdu5HI

https://www.kwtx.com/2020/07/10/i-will-find-out-who-did-this-family-of-murdered-soldier-pushes-for-justice/?fbclid=IwAR1ok-B6a2vWWeYX2ufNu4mNfyf2K1BkBcVFsgaQEg7rzF_gdPqp7MH0pnc

https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Killeen-Police-or-Investigating-a-Triple-Murder-568798261.html?fbclid=IwAR131FXXeGFNCMtE-EJrI88MAw3z_uBEpyk4P47ZqAfHjvSgIXDSwR2Q4cQ

https://hickoryrecord.com/obituaries/allred-shaquan-markell/article_e77cc87b-47e3-5e86-9b25-44a34181ca02.htmlhttps://people.com/crime/missing-fort-hood-soldier-remains-found-foul-play-suspected/

https://www.fox7austin.com/news/remains-of-missing-fort-hood-soldier-gregory-wedel-morales-found-in-killeen-foul-play-suspected

https://militarymurderpodcast.com/episode-31-missing-from-fort-hood-vanessa-guillen-and-gregory-morales/
House of Prayer:

https://www.gethsemanepressbooks.com/post/house-of-prayer-exposed-to-the-ft-hood-fallen-1?https://www.gethsemanepressbooks.com/post/house-of-prayer-exposed-ambassadors-of-truth-1fbclid=IwAR0VbFqJN1DB898Rfzx8i3ZlN-Wx8dSXmhU3xik9oIcg5zQSv90_1DTxDAg

https://www.missingpersonsofamerica.com/2020/05/07/is-a-church-responsible-for-the-disappearance-of-soldiers-from-ft-hood/

https://coastalcourier.com/news/local-news/former-members-allege-church-is-a-cult/
Other Sources:https://www.businessinsider.com/army-sergeant-gregory-mcqueen-ran-prostitution-ring-at-ft-hood-2015-3https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/14/vanessa-guillen-killing-sexual-violence-us-military

Around 1990, Anjanabai Gavit, a petty thief and pickpocket got an idea. Like many ideas it was born out of absolute self preservation and circumstance.

She was a petty thief and pickpocket who had been arrested for 125 cases of petty theft including pick pocketing and snatching people’s gold chains from around their necks at railway stations. She had also been left by two husbands after giving each one of them a daughter.

One day she was in a temple picking someone's pocket when she was caught.

That's when the idea took root: She had a child with her, threw him down and when he started bleeding and crying, creating the perfect distraction:

an angry crowd surrounded Renuka, but using the boy as a foil, Renuka said “How can a woman with a child commit a crime?”.

The crowd let her go.

Anjanabai then knew she could exploit children to help get her out of crimes or create a distraction where she could slip away.

She decided to involve her two daughters in the scheme. Seema Gavit was just 15 when she killed her first victim and her older sister, Renuke Shinde was 17.

From 1990 to 1996 they kidnapped 43 children, used them for robbery and murdered many of them after accomplishing their motive. Some would be let go, others were deliberately injured to create a distraction, or murdered when they had lost their usefulness.

At least 9 children were murdered including two 18-month olds, and a 9 month old.

In 1991, they kidnapped nine-month-old Naresh, who was starved and beaten to death because he cried too much.

Another victim, Bhavna, was the same age as Santosh. She was gagged, bundled into a handbag and taken to the ladies’ toilet of a cinema.

There she was drowned with one of the sisters holding the girls’ legs to stop her flailing in the water.

In 1993, they abducted a one-year-old child named Bunti and a girl, Swaty, 2, from Kalyan Railway station in Mumbai, and a boy Guddu, 2, from another Mumbai station.

The three women murdered Bunti and Guddu and disposed of their bodies.

In 1994, they kidnapped a child Anjali, 2, in Nashik and killed her and disposed of the body with Kiran Shinde’s help.

In 1995, they kidnapped a boy Raja from a bus stop in Kolhapur and killed him.

They kidnapped Pankaj Mamondkar, aged four, but he proved liable to talk to passers-by about his parents.

In 1996, the women hung him upside down from the ceiling and slammed his head against a wall until he was dead.

Many of the children that they killed were killed by slamming their heads against a wall.

Seema once dropped a seven-month-old baby, Swapnil, because she could not deal with its incessant crying. In one instance, they hung a two-year-old boy upside down and slammed his head against a wall. “They chopped the body of one child and stuffed it into a gunny bag for disposal. The gang carried the bag with them and watched a movie at Alka Talkies in Kolhapur and ate bhel puri while the bag lay between their feet,” says Saroday, who was associated with the case in the Supreme Court.

This went on for 6 years.

Renuka's husband, Kiran drove the getaway car in the gang and police would eventually target him as the weak link in the group.

Anjanabai had not forgotten how her last husband had abandoned her and in 1996 decided to kidnap and kill her previous husband, Mohan's, daughter. After she went mising, his wife, Pratibha, became convinced that these three women were responsible and swore out a complaint.

The sisters were caught when they visited Mohan to kidnap his second daughter in October 1996. His second wife had filed a complaint against them and their mother when her elder daughter went missing. While questioning the trio on the missing girl, the police unearthed evidence that hinted at several murders. The case was handed over to the CID.

When police went to the house they found children's clothes and pictures of some of the missing kids. The trio was arrested. In the interrogations the witnesses held firm and refused to crack until eventually, one of the sisters, Seema cracked and admitted to the kidnapping and killing of Kranti, Mohan's daughter but she said it was all under their mother’s orders.

Eventually the four were charged with kidnapping 13 children and killing nine.

In December 1997, Anjana died in custody while awaiting trial. After a 3 year trial, the sisters were found guilty of six of the nine murders and sentenced to death. There are 13 women on death row in India and no woman has been hanged since 1955.

In 2011, the supreme court upheld their appeal and then three years later, in 2014 the sisters appealed for mercy from India's president, Pranab Mukherjee, who rejected the appeals.

Having exhausted all appeals, Seema Gavit and Renuka Shinde remain on death row in India awaiting their ultimate fate. There have been no further updates in over 2 years.

What murder crime case made you almost side with the convicted?

Mine is Byron Smith.. months and months having home robberies/home invasions on his property and home, Byron put his vehicle out into the street to simulate his absence… he sat in the dark with a tape voice recorder, and shot and killed two intruders….

It's a tough case… he had the right to defend his home, no? Castle doctrine dictates that one, under certain circumstances, can defend themselves even up to lethal Force if within their own homestead dwelling or vehicle..

But did he go too far? Did he plan for their death? Did he think, maybe they’ll notice me and run off?

I wanted the be on his side for so long until I heard the recordings, and how he set up a “kill room” with a tarpaulin to catch the blood/body, and the faulty motive that he was “surprised and defended himself" in court

The issue with castle doctrine is “under special circumstances”, as in you cannot lure in victims for murder even within your own homestead.. He was motivated to kill those two errant teens. He had multiple opportunities to resolve the issue in a peaceful fashion.

Call the police after the first break-in(truck) Call the police after the second(theft)

Call the police during, there was no 911 call till after the deaths occurred.

What case made you almost, or still side with the convicted?

In 2016 a reddit user by the name of Jasoninhell would make his now infamous post on the popular sub r/relationship_advice

Jason goes on to tell us that he has discovered that his wife is cheating on him with the neighbour. After a tense confrontation with both his wife and the neighbour, he ultimately decides to stay with his wife for the sake of the kids.

His post gained a lot of attention drawing in reddit users from all over, giving their 2 cents on what OP should do. Most were baffled that he decided to stay with his wife, she also made him apologise to the neighbour which further enraged reddit. Most of the community urged him to seek advice from a divorce lawyer and eventually, OP did exactly that.

Here is a link to the video going over the case that includes the original audio of the 911 call that came as a result.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lScl5UqrSHU&t=28s&ab_channel=DarkWinterDarkWinter

***Spoilers***

After being presented with the divorce papers, OP wife murdered their children while he was asleep in the basement.

Jasoninhell reddit posts:

u/jasoninhell's Post: http://archive.is/Z8r7x

u/jasoninhell's Update: http://archive.is/Bfqyl

u/jasonincode's Update: https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/8sx160/an_update_from_jasoninhell/

Articles:

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/mom-who-killed-kids-after-husband-asked-for-divorce-gets-120-years-prison/YptRSHMXhqFZpvZb0XWFmL/

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/mum-jailed-after-chilling-911-call-over-fatally-stabbing-two-children-when-husband-filed-for-divorce/news-story/23dfb35642113dc7818ebfe8661e5ba2

A little after 5:30pm on Monday, June 28th, 2021, squad cars with loud, echoing sirens drove down a quiet road to arrive on a fittingly serene property in Yucca Valley, California. A man named Cody Orell had reported his former girlfriend and current travel partner missing - Lauren Cho. Lauren (referred to as El by her loved ones) had met Cody through mutual friends at a get-together on Memorial Day and became close right away.

Cody always dreamt of living out west, and Lauren, sick of her job as a highschool teacher, spontaneously decided to join him in his adventure. They joined a sort-of art commune named The Whole, and fit in immediately with the artists and musicians there. This decision somehow, unfortunately, led to her disappearance.

They had driven all the way from New Jersey to live in California in December of 2020, and the couple didn’t waste any time - they became fixtures in the small community they were a part of - Bombay Beach, population 415. Lauren was locally known for turning Cody’s tour bus into a food truck, and she invited people for dinner nearly constantly, winning new friends nightly with the creative recipes she had invented.

Having a food truck was her dream, and cooking was her passion. Cho was as good at making friends as she was at cooking, and a new friend, Tao Ruspoli, invited her to work as a chef in Yucca Valley for his collection of Airbnbs called ‘The Whole’. Yucca Valley was an hour and a half from Bombay Beach, and part of the deal was getting to live on the property, so Lauren gladly accepted the offer. Cody joined her in Yucca Valley.

Cody Orell claims he walked into the bus, witnessed an upset Lauren storm out. He decided not to follow her immediately. This was around 5pm. When Lauren hadn’t returned, Cody claims he searched for Lauren, calling out her name as he wandered the property. “There was a 10-minute window there and she evaporated,” Orell said in a phone interview with the Hi-Desert Star on Thursday, July 1.

Cody called 911 when there was no trace of Lauren anywhere around the property, inside or out. Lauren had been wearing Doc Martens at the time of her disappearance. Doc Martens are a brand of boots with a very distinctive pattern that would be easy to spot in the sand and dirt. When Cody granted an interview to the local paper (the Hi-Desert Star), he said of the incident, “I searched all the hills and no tracks, anywhere.”

Cody also mentioned that Lauren had said on Sunday, the day before she disappeared, that she was going out to meet someone and didn’t say who. Cody did not pry at the time, but says he regrets that now. He is convinced Lauren got into a vehicle with someone, as he believes she would have followed the trails if she did walk into the hills, and thus a sign of her would have been found by now. The police shared similar sentiments, as did the multiple search and rescue teams that combed through the surrounding desert for Lauren all through the month of July.

Multiple friends who called the sheriff’s station frantically said that Lauren had texted them expressing suicidal thoughts and talked about leaving everything behind. Within a couple of days, local residents called to say they saw her with a man at a restaurant in Yucca Valley, but nothing ever came of this lead.

According to the sheriff’s report of Orell’s call for help, placed at 5:13 p.m., Cho walked into the hills between Yucca Valley and Morongo Valley. Orell tried to find her and then called their circle of friends for help. He told the sheriff’s station she didn’t take her phone, water or food.

Lauren's friend and fellow artist, Jeff Frost, who lived with Cho at The Whole, said that Lauren found value in everyone else except for herself. Despite Lauren’s many talents and achievements - being a Tae Kwan Do champion by the age of 12, and getting the chance to travel Europe as a talented soprano member of a choir as a teenager - she never gave herself value, which was devastating to everyone who knows and loves her. Her family and friends consistently tried to raise the 30 year old's self esteem.

To another of Lauren’s friend, RJ Okay, Lauren Cho is a motivated dreamer who is excited about the future - definitely not someone who would willingly leave the life she was beginning to build in California. “We had dinner the night before,” he said. “I thought for sure she’d be back for dinner again that night.”

On July 2, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department officially suspended its search and rescue operation, telling the Hi-Desert Star on July 6 that Cho's case was classified as a missing person. "At this time, there is a current investigation, there is no particular person of interest, and all avenues of leads are being looked into," Sgt. Stafford of the Morongo Basin Station told the newspaper, adding that they did not expect to resume a search effort unless new leads were developed.

But on July 24th, the search resumed when the department conducted aerial searches of the mountain terrain near where Lauren had been staying. Then on July 31st, officers served a search warrant at the AirBnb where Cho had been living, according to a press release issued by the department on Aug. 2. They used seven dogs to search the property as well as other nearby areas for evidence.

At the time, the department said in its release that more operations would be conducted as further leads were developed. It was more forthcoming about the reason for the search in a statement to the Hi-Desert Star.

"We sought a search warrant due to the property owner not being present and multiple people on site living at the location," Sgt. Eric Smoot told the newspaper, noting that it was the second search warrant served on the property. He added that the weather in the area had been hampering search efforts for Lauren.

A very important development occurred on September 21, 2021. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a press release, “Investigators with San Bernardino County Sheriff’s, Specialized Investigations Division are assisting the Morongo Basin Station in the effort to locate Lauren Cho. Investigators are investigating all leads and working with family and friends of Ms. Cho. Future search operations will occur as further leads develop.”

The investigation had previously been led by detectives from the department’s Morongo Basin Station. The Specialized Investigations Division includes the Homicide Detail, Crimes Against Children Detail and the Polygraph Detail, which investigate major crimes including homicides and suspicious deaths.

"Investigators are investigating all leads and working with family and friends of Ms. Cho. Future search operations will occur as further leads develop," according to the sheriff's department.

Those with information about the search for Cho can contact Detective Edward Hernandez or Sergeant Justin Giles, Specialized Investigations Division, at (909) 387-3589.

Callers wishing to remain ANONYMOUS are urged to call the WeTip Hotline at 1-800-78-CRIME (27463) and/or you may leave information on the WeTip Hotline at www.wetip.com

About Lauren

Lauren Cho is an Asian female who is 5'4" and 110 pounds; she has black hair and brown eyes.She was last seen Monday, June 28, 2021 in the Yucca Valley / Morongo Valley area.Lauren was last seen wearing jean shorts & a yellow top.

Tattoos:

Mushroom: lower leg/ankle

Lamb: shoulder

No Face: inner arm, above elbow

Ten Commandments: thigh

Medusa: thigh

NOTE:

Tao, a famous filmmaker, grew up on a commune in Rome, and was trying to replicate it in the California desert with The Whole. He was formerly married to actress Olivia Wilde. Tao made a documentary you may be familiar with, entitled Monogamish (2017), where he travels the US heartbroken after the divorce between he and Olivia. Mr. Ruspoli interviews people about sex, love, and marriage. One of the people he interviews just so happens to be Neil Strauss - also known as the most outspoken public advocate for the Elaine Park case, as he hosts a podcast about her called To Live and Die in LA which has sparked tons of energy and conversation regarding Elaine's 2017 disappearance (she is still missing). Either Neil doesn't know about Lauren Cho so he has not helped, or he does know and isn't helping for one reason or another... I don't know, it's all a bit strange to me.

It also appears from an outside perspective that Tao Ruspoli, despite being who invited Lauren to live at the commune he created, has not made any sort of effort to publicly share Lauren's flyers, participate in S&R, or create/donate to a reward despite having plenty of money. Perhaps Tao is working behind the scenes with Lauren's friends & family, maybe along with Strauss. Maybe not.

*NOTE 2:

A mutual friend between Lauren & Tao commented on my post saying this:

"Seriously where do you get off with this shit about Tao doing nothing? Who the fuck has ever even implied that he hasn’t done anything besides a stranger on twitter or something? Or are you just so desperate for attention yourself that you can’t possibly fathom someone who doesn’t want their name published everywhere even for supposedly-positive reasons? Not only was he out of town completely for the weeks before and the weeks after her disappearance, but even then he did everything he could, which is a hell of a lot more than you."

I wrote this about Lauren - for Lauren, to help find Lauren, to spread awareness for Lauren. I would never accuse someone of making her disappear without proper evidence, and I certainly did not accuse Tao of doing so, either. All I stated was that, publicly, he is MIA. From an outsider's standpoint, that can definitely appear suspicious. Mr. Ruspoli already has his name published multiple places for many reasons, so keeping a low profile doesn't make sense as a reason for silence (to me, anyway). If he doesn't want people to think he is mysterious or suspicious - he's going to have to say or do something publicly regarding the case. Doesn't even have to be something big - even simply sharing her flyers on socials, perhaps. I do feel bad for how worked up Lauren's friend got over the part about Tao, but I think it's important enough to be mentioned, at the very least.

If you're a rich filmmaker dude who personally invited a woman to be the dinner chef for your commune and she goes missing... people are going to be looking at you.

With that said, my name is Kelsie.I write about missing persons cases; feel free to DM me for my blog.Thanks so, so much for reading.

#findlaurencho

SOURCES

https://hidesertstar.com/news/179276/what-happened-to-lauren-cho/

​​https://hidesertstar.com/news/179284/sheriffs-department-suspends-search-for-lauren-cho/

https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/case-of-lauren-cho-missing-since-june-gets-renewed-attention

** SUBREDDIT FOR LAUREN **

https://people.com/human-interest/authorities-ramp-up-search-for-lauren-cho-nj-woman-who-went-missing-near-joshua-tree/

https://hidesertstar.com/news/179254/woman-missing-in-morongo-valley/

https://hidesertstar.com/news/180597/search-warrant-served-at-vacation-rental-property-where-lauren-cho-went-missing/

https://people.com/human-interest/authorities-ramp-up-search-for-lauren-cho-nj-woman-who-went-missing-near-joshua-tree/

https://heavy.com/news/lauren-cho-missing/

https://kesq.com/news/2021/07/06/massive-search-underway-for-high-desert-woman-who-disappeared-last-week/

https://thelocalmalibu.com/searching-for-elaine-high-level-executive-from-tenderfoot-tv-producers-of-to-live-and-die-in-l-a-hosted-by-neil-strauss-appeal-to-susan-park-to-appear-on-podcast/

https://nypost.com/2022/07/05/father-killed-himself-in-act-of-love-after-leaving-son-in-hot-car/

Father killed himself in act of ‘devotion and love’ after leaving son in hot car

The family of a Virginia dad who took his own life after discovering he’d accidentally left his toddler son to die in his hot car has penned a heartbreaking obituary for the late father.

Aaron Beck — who turned a gun on himself behind his home after finding his son Anderson dead — “sacrificed his life to his son in an act of profound devotion and love.”

Beck, 37, was out with 18-month-old Anderson when the tragic mishap occurred on June 28 in Chesterfield County, Va.

When police arrived at Beck’s home, they found the car in the driveway with the back door still open and the child’s car seat empty.

Inside the house, they found the toddler dead, cops said. In a wooded area behind the home, Beck was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The father and son shared an obituary, which described little Anderson as an “intelligent little boy” who “brought his family together and was deeply loved by his parents and surrounding family.”

Beck, a graduate of Drexel University, worked as a draftsman although his “most devoted focus was his son, Anderson, to whom he gave enormous and endless love,” the obituary states.

“He was generous, kind, caring and soft with his son. The selflessness of his love was a testament to the possibilities of fatherhood, to the possibilities of the heart.”

A GoFundMe campaign has raised nearly $5,000 to help the grieving family cover funeral costs and other expenses.

“This is a horrible tragedy on so many levels and our hearts go out to the family and friends that are going to deal with this,” Chesterfield County cop Chris Hensley told reporters after the horrible accident. “But we would be remiss to not take an opportunity for people to realize how important it is to obviously check your vehicles.”

If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts or are experiencing a mental health crisis and live in New York City, you can call 1-888-NYC-WELL for free and confidential crisis counseling. If you live outside the five boroughs, you can dial the 24/7 National Suicide Prevention hotline at 1-800-273-8255 or go to SuicidePreventionLifeline.org.

In 2004, when I was 14, I was dating a man who was 22. He was violent, abusive, and I genuinely believed he was capable of killing me. During that time, I witnessed him murder someone. I was terrified and never told anyone.

I moved away when I was 20 and tried to leave that part of my life behind. Years passed, and I convinced myself there was no point in coming forward. Then, in 2020, he was arrested and convicted of a different murder.

The part that haunts me is that he killed both victims in exactly the same way. After his conviction, his mother somehow tracked me down and reached out to me. Now I'm convinced that if I come forward, he'll know it was me. He only got 15 years for the second murder, and I keep wondering if I should tell the police what I know or stay silent and hope he never gets out.

ETA: I did not wish to give a ton of details but this is important. In 2020 he gave someone something that killed them. Texts proved it. It was not what the person thought they were getting. Then in 2004 I saw him give a kid, maybe 17, something and he died that night from it. I do not know what his parents know or think about it. Police never got involved and it was ruled an accidental overdose. To me this is murder. I did not feel it was back then but now I know that it is murder. However there is no evidence beyond something I saw 22 years ago.

ETA2: His girlfriend about 10 years ago was found shot in the head. It was determined to be a suicide. However I know at that point that she inherited a ton of money from her grandma and left him. She got her life together. Was posting happy stuff with her new boyfriend and then somehow shots herself. I don't buy it either. Again, no proof and ruled a suicide.

Honestly I would almost love to give the names and see what the internet thinks but I am sure her family wouldn't like that. I just want to know be dead. If he gets out he will ruin everyone around him.

ETA: I plan to contact his parole board. I have contacted crime stoppers like 5 years ago roughly and they said it wasn't enough information and nothing would happen. The main issue is that I don't even know his name. I know who his best friend was at the time and he could easily tell me who he is. I only ever knew his first name and now I can't remember it. However I know that if I contact his parole board, I can tell them what he did to me and that kid. I know he is not the only one. There's no way it is just 2 people. So I hope everyone will support me with that. If anyone knows how to contact the Florida Parole board, I would really appreciate it. I have even done anonymous tips to the police on him but nothing happened. However I never called the cops and flat out explained everything.

Konerak Sinthasomphone was 14 years old.

He had already been drugged. He had already been assaulted. A hole had already been drilled into his skull by Jeffrey Dahmer. And somehow he still found a way to get out of that apartment and into the street.

Three women found him. Sandra Smith, Nicole Childress, and Tina Spivey. They saw a child. Naked. Bleeding. Unable to speak clearly. They did what anyone would do. They called 911 and they stayed with him until police arrived.

When Dahmer came outside they told the officers the boy was a child. They said something was wrong. They were told to be quiet.

An ambulance crew arrived and assessed Konerak. They believed he needed medical attention. The officers sent them away.

The officers walked Konerak back inside Dahmer's apartment. Officer Gabrish later testified under oath that he detected an odor inside but did not investigate further. Behind a closed door ten feet from where he stood was a decomposing body. It was one of Dahmer's previous victims.

The officers left. They radioed their dispatcher and joked about having reunited the lovers.

Konerak was dead within thirty minutes.

His neighbor Glenda Cleveland called the police station directly that same night. She told them the boy was a child. She said she recognized him from the neighborhood. She asked for someone to check on him.

She was told the situation was under control.

Glenda Cleveland spent the rest of her life in the shadow of what happened next door knowing she had tried everything she could. She gave interviews for years. She told her story over and over hoping someone would listen.

The Milwaukee Police Department never once contacted her after Dahmer's arrest. No acknowledgment. No apology. Nothing.

She died in 2011.

The three women who found Konerak in the street that night have said publicly that what happened has never left them. They did everything right. They stayed. They argued. They pleaded.

Nobody listened.

Five more people were murdered by Dahmer after that night before it finally ended.

The officers were fired following a hearing involving 27 witnesses, 90 hours of testimony, and a thousand pages of evidence. Then a judge reinstated them and awarded them $55,000 each in back pay.

One of them became president of the Milwaukee Police Association.

Konerak Sinthasomphone was the younger brother of a boy who had been assaulted by Dahmer three years earlier. The officers never ran a name check. Ten seconds. That is all it would have taken.

He was 14 years old. He made it out of that apartment on his own. And the system handed him back to a serial killer.