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Helen Brach Murder
1 )Thousands of people have been wrongly locked away and have falsely admitted to many murders, but we will never know the real truth behind it all. Although we wish to see inside the mind of a killer, we may never get to. The real reasons people get murdered, are simply beyond our knowledge. Since we cannot dive into the psychological and mental reasons people murder others, we can stick with diving into the fascination of the unsolved cases. For many years now, people have been obsessed with creepy and unexplainable cases.

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Brach and Sons Candy Company, Helen Brach ended up as a multimillionaire widow. One day in 1977, Helen Brach went to an annual check up appointment in Rochester, Minnesota. Afterwards she supposedly got on a flight back to her home in Chicago, but she never returned home. The household staff that worked for Helen Brach was questioned. One man in particular, named Jack Matlick was important in the police investigation. He did not report Mrs. Brach missing until two weeks later. Although this seemed suspicious, the police did not acquire enough evidence on Matlick. (LINK 3) Helen Brach's body was never found. They stated she was legally dead in …show more content…
Around midnight in 1999, Nix drove to a convenience store to use a telephone and call her boyfriend, Billy Millwood. She stayed on the phone with her boyfriend for about an hour, ending the conversation at 1 a.m. After that night at the store, Elaine Nix was never seen alive again. (LINK 4) A police officer drove by around 2 a.m and found a running vehicle sitting outside the store. It belonged to Elaine. Her mother came and picked up her car the next morning and reported her missing. Approximately nine days later, Nix's naked body was found in the woods. The police could never state the cause of her death. She had no wounds, she was just a dead naked body laying in the woods. Her clothes were also never found. No one was ever arrested for Elaine's

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