During the summer months of 1996, a young girl, Amber Hagerman was riding her bike down the neighborhood streets in Arlington, Texas. Only nine years old, she was abducted by a white or Hispanic man driving a dark truck, while Amber was screaming for her life. Neighbors who witnessed the kidnapping called 911 reporting that she had been pulled off of her bike and thrown into a random male’s truck. After extensive searches through woods, waterways and other possible hiding spots, Amber’s body was found four days later in Northern Arlington. Autopsy reports stated that she had to have been held for two days before she was murdered and that she had been molested while being held captive (Examiners, 2013). To this day, Amber’s killer is still…
Darryl Hunt worked at a local news department in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. On April 10, 1984, Deborah Sykes was found killed and raped. Deborah Sykes was a co worker of Darryl Hunt’s, he claimed they had never talked really while he had worked there. The man who found her dead, called 911 and introduced himself as Sammy Mitchell, although the man was actually John Gray( Innocent Project). The police questioned John Gray and had him do a line up, to find the man he saw with Deborah Sykes. At first John identified a man who was in jail at the time, which police knew the man could not of done it for he was behind bars.( Innocent Project).…
One late night on November 19, 1986 there was an intense blizzard casting its cold winter snow over Newtown, Connecticut, but that wasn't the only thing cold brewing In Newtown that night. 'Twas the night that the famous “wood chipper murder” came to be. Richard Craft, an airplane pilot, was married to Helle Craft, a stewardess. They were married for many years, and had 3 children. Helle suspected Richard was being unfaithful so she hired someone to investigate her husband. Sure enough the private investigator was able to capture photographic evidence of richards infidelity. Helle demanded a divorce, divorces cost a pretty penny and Richard did not want to lose a cent, so that’s when he decided to kill his wife. He beat Helle with blunt object to her death, froze her, then cut her…
Facts: In 1968, 10 year old Pamela Powers was abducted and murdered outside of the YMCA in Des Moines, Iowa. A young boy claimed to have seen Williams, outside the YMCA carrying a bundle wrapped in a blanket with two white legs hanging out. The following day Williams, car was spotted approximately 160 miles outside of Des Moines. Additionally, several of the young girls clothing items were found. ; Along with Williams and with the blanket as described by the witness. Based upon these findings, a warrant was issued for Williams’ arrest. While a search was under way, Williams surrendered to the Davenport police, and obtained counsel. Des Moines police advised Williams counsel that they…
In the early 1980’s in a small Podunk town of Ada, Oklahoma, a young woman named Debra Sue Carter, was savagely raped and killed in her own apartment after work at the local cocktail bar. Quickly, the town drunk was arrested in relation to the rape and murder with nothing more than a single “eyewitness” that placed him at the woman’s job that night. Many regulars to the bar said that “they would know if Ron Williamson was at the Coach Light and he wasn’t there.” They, in fact, named another man: Glenn Gore, the prosecution's main witness. Gore was also the man that Debbie’s friend said that she was afraid of and he was supposedly at Debbie’s apartment the night of the murder, according to the friend who received a phone call that night from Debbie. Gore was also seen being pushed away by the victim at the victim’s car the same night as the murder.…
a book that has a similar story line. This book is called The Witch of Blackbird Pond by…
He next assaulted a 19-year-old Oregon State University student Karen Sprinkler and took her home, raped her, and killed her. He also removed her breasts when she died. Another victim, Linda Salee, was abducted and raped and murdered at the same workshop. He dumped her body in the river. The difference with Salee’s case is that her body was the first to be discovered by the police. A strange knot on the nylon rope was used to tie her body to a car part to weigh her down. The following days, Sprinkler’s body was found and with the same knot was used to her body.…
In 1981, a young woman was abducted from her vehicle after leaving her shift at the Tri-State mall in Pennsylvania. The police found her body the following day behind a local church, brutally stabbed, beaten, and raped. Crime scene investigators examined biological evidence such as sperm samples and fingernail scrapings from the body of the victim. A few days later, police stopped Nicholas Yarris…
To clarify what's out there to be investigated, Southall begins the handbook in earnest by defining the terms, since ghosts, spirits and poltergeists are not interchangeable and represent quite different phenomena.Ghosts and apparitions are a kind a recording on the environment - a residual energy that can come from a person, animal or even an inanimate object. We can experience these lingering energies by sight, sound, smell and touch. Spirits are what people most often think of as "ghosts." A spirit is the "actual sentient presence, or soul, of an individual or individuals who have remained in the material world after his or her physical body has died." Southall continues by describing different types of spirits and the reasons they may have stayed behind.…
Twenty-nine years ago on February 23, 23 year old Jaye Potter Mintz was found brutally murdered in her not stark but blood-splattered bedroom by her mother, Lorene Potter. Jaye Potters throat had been slit, her hands tied behind her back, a pillow had covered her face, and she had been raped by her murderer. Potter's son was found crying in a corner holding on for dear life apprehensively as he saw his mother murdered right before his eyes. Earlier that week Potter had put an ad in a newspaper about a waterbed that she was selling, it was believed at the time that the murderer was a possible buyer for the bed and also knew Potter personally.…
Elizabeth Loftus talked about a restaurant manager named Steve Titus who lived in Seattle, Washington. Steve Titus was 31 years old and engaged to a woman who was the love of his life named Gretchen. The couple had gone out for a romantic meal. On their way home they were pulled over by a police officer. Titus’s car resembled a vehicle that had been seen earlier in the evening. His car resembled that of a man who had raped a female hitchhiker. Titus resembled the rapist. The police took a picture of Titus and showed it to the rape victim. She said that he was the closest to the man she had seen. The police and prosecution proceeded with the trial. When Steve Titus was put on trial for rape, the rape victim had gotten on the stand. She said that she was sure that he was the man who had raped her. Titus was convicted and sent to jail. Titus had completely lost fail in the legal system, but he got an idea. Titus called a local newspaper and had gotten the interest of an investigative journalist. The journalist actually had found the real rapist. The rapist had confessed to the rape and was thought to have committed 50 rapes in that area. When the information was given to the judge, Titus was set free. But it didn’t end there. Steve Titus had lost his job, his fiancée, and his entire savings. Titus filed a lawsuit against the police and others he felt were responsible for his suffering. He had become obsessed with his trial. Days before he was to have his day in court, he woke up in the morning and doubled over in pain. He had died of a stress related heart attack at age…
July 8, 1982, I murdered my first victim. Her name was Wendy Lee Coffield. She was only 16, just a runaway, probably dropped out of school. I strangled it with it’s own clothes. I dumped the body in the Green River. Like my favored outdoor sexual spots, these were some of the locations I also dumped these objects, what I like to refer to these outcast women as. Also in the Green River was the body of Debra Lynn Bonner, 23, Marcia Faye Chapman, 31, Cynthia Jean Hinds, 17, Opal Charmaine Mills, 16, Tracy Winston, 19.…
But some believe that the children of the town, who were bored with the lifestyle they had, started to behave odd and claim witches were to blame. This entertained them for a while, seeing as how the adults took it so seriously, so they continued with their “game”. The adults were so dutiful to their children that they took the matter farther. This caused the innocent deaths of many unsuspecting people in the area.…
The escapades of that particular night lived on in the telling and the retelling of the tale for even future generations to enjoy. The naked burial at Prairie Hill Cemetery in all probability occurred in 1920 or shortly thereafter.3 Thus, the narrative couldn’t have enraptured our storyteller, born in 1926, until the victim suffered through at least a decade of “good natured” ribbing. It’s easy to imagine Robert, a mere boy, listening to his elders entertaining themselves at poor Clarence’s expense and becoming enthralled by the tale of a live burial during a dark and mysterious night in the town’s bone yard and ending with the caricature of a full-grown man dashing naked across farmer Martin’s…
In 17th century New England witches were hanged from time to time. Most accused were women who were out spoken or lived independently. It was thought that the witch’s power challenged God’s will and the man’s standing as head of the family.…