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dailyunsolvedmysteries · 1 year

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The Broomstick Killer

Kenneth Allen McDuff was born at 201 Linden Street in the central Texas town of Rosebud, the fifth of six children born to John Allen "JA" and Addie McDuff. At Rosebud High School, McDuff earned the reputation of being a bully. He was careful to pick on weaker individuals after the large but not strong McDuff lost a fight he had picked with an athletic and popular boy named Tommy Sammons. As a result, he quit school and worked for his father's business doing manual labor. McDuff would often brag in later interviews that old ladies loved the way he mowed their lawns, making others jealous. McDuff was convicted of a series of burglaries and put in prison.

On August 6, 1966, McDuff and Green, whom he had met around a month earlier through a mutual acquaintance, spent the day pouring concrete for McDuff's father. They then drove around, as McDuff said he was looking for a girl. At 10 pm, Robert Brand (aged 17), his girlfriend Edna Louise Sullivan (aged 16), and Brand's 15-year-old cousin Mark Dunman were standing beside their parked car on a baseball field in Everman, Texas. While cruising around, McDuff noticed Sullivan and parked around 150 yards away from the soon-to-be victims. He threatened the trio with his .38 Colt revolver and ordered them to get into the trunk of their car. With Green following in McDuff's car, McDuff drove the victims' Ford along a highway and then into a field, where he ordered Sullivan out of the trunk of the Ford and instructed Green to put her into the trunk of his Dodge Coronet. At this point, according to Green's statement, McDuff said he would have to "knock 'em off"; he proceeded to fire six shots into the trunk of the Ford in spite of Dunman and Brand's pleas not to. McDuff then instructed Green to wipe the fingerprints off the Ford.

After driving to another location, McDuff and Green, the latter allegedly under duress, raped Sullivan. After she was raped repeatedly, McDuff asked Green for something with which to strangle her. Green gave him his belt. However, in the end, McDuff opted to use a 3-foot-long (0.91 m) piece of broomstick from his car. He choked Sullivan, and then Green and he dumped her body in some bushes. They purchased Coca-Cola from a Hillsboro gas station before driving to Green's house to spend the night. The following day, McDuff buried his revolver beside Green's garage, and their mutual acquaintance Richard Boyd allowed McDuff to wash his car at his house. The next day, Green confessed to Boyd's parents, who told Green's mother, who convinced him to turn himself in. McDuff was arrested by Falls County Sheriff Brady Pamplin (who served with Texas Rangers before serving in World War II with United States Army Air Corps) and Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Parnell “T.P.” McNamara, Sr.

McDuff received a death sentence in Texas' electric chair; Green received a 25-year sentence and was released in 1979. McDuff's death sentence was commuted to a life sentence, and he hired a lawyer, who amassed a dossier of various evidence that claimed to show that Green was the real killer. Some members of the parole board were impressed by the dossier. During a one-on-one interview with a board member, McDuff offered him a bribe to secure a favorable decision on the parole application. He was given a two-year sentence for trying to bribe the official. It proved meaningless, as board members thought McDuff could still "contribute to society" and decided to grant him a parole. He was released in 1989.

McDuff was one of 20 former death-row inmates and 127 murderers to be paroled. After being released, he got a job at a gas station making $4 an hour while taking a class at Texas State Technical College in Waco. Within three days of his release, he is widely believed to have begun killing again. The body of 29-year-old Sarafia Parker was discovered on October 14, 1989, in Temple, a town 48 miles south of Waco along the I-35 corridor. McDuff was not charged with this crime. However, he was soon returned to prison on a parole violation for making death threats to an African American youth in Rosebud.

Addie McDuff paid $1,500, plus an additional $700 for expenses, to two Huntsville attorneys in return for their "evaluating" her son's prospect of release. On December 18, 1990, McDuff was again released from prison. On the night of October 10, 1991, he picked up a prostitute named Brenda Thompson in Waco. He tied her up, but then stopped his truck about 50 ft from a police checkpoint. When a policeman walked toward McDuff's vehicle, Thompson repeatedly kicked at the windshield of McDuff's truck, cracking it several times.

McDuff accelerated very quickly and drove at the officers. According to a statement filed by the officers later, three of them had to jump to avoid being hit. The policemen gave chase, but McDuff eluded them by turning off his lights and traveling the wrong way down one-way streets. Ultimately, he parked his truck in a wooded area near U.S. Route 84 and tortured Thompson to death. Her body was not discovered until 1998.

Five days later, on October 15, 1991, McDuff and a 17-year-old prostitute named Regenia DeAnne Moore were witnessed having an argument at a Waco motel. Shortly thereafter, the pair drove in McDuff's pickup truck to a remote area beside Texas State Highway 6, near Waco. McDuff tied her arms and legs with stockings before killing her. She had been missing from home for 7 years by the time her body was discovered on September 29, 1998. McDuff is also believed to have murdered Cynthia Renee Gonzalez, 23, who was found dead in a creek bed near County Road 313 in heavily wood terrain 1 mile west of I-35 on September 21, 1991, some six days after she was reported missing in Arlington.[4]

McDuff and an accomplice, Alva Hank Worley, murdered Colleen Reed, a Louisiana native, on December 29, 1991. McDuff and Worley drove to an Austin car wash and kidnapped Reed in plain sight of eyewitnesses before driving away. Worley admitted in an April 1992 interview with the Bell County Sheriff's Department that he had raped Reed and tortured her with cigarettes, but he stated that he did not participate in her murder.

McDuff's next victim was Valencia Joshua, a prostitute who was last seen alive knocking on McDuff's door. He strangled Joshua on February 24, 1992. Her body was discovered on March 15 at a golf course near their college. Next was Melissa Northrup, a 22-year-old store clerk at a Waco Quik-Pak (the same store that McDuff had worked in at one point), who was pregnant when she went missing from the store. The kidnapper also took $250 from the cash register. McDuff was a suspect because he had been seen in the vicinity of the Quik-Pak at the time of Northrup's disappearance. During the investigation before the body was found, a college friend of McDuff's told police officers that he had attempted to enlist his help in robbing the store. Northrup died on March 1, 1992, and a fisherman found her body on April 26.

A major problem for investigators was that McDuff's post-release victims were spread out across several Texas counties. This made a single coordinated investigation difficult. However, the police learned that McDuff was peddling drugs and had an illegal firearm, both federal offenses. Consequently, on March 6, 1992, a local state attorney issued a warrant for his arrest. In April 1992, Bell County investigators had brought in Worley for questioning on the basis that he was a known acquaintance of McDuff's. Worley admitted to his involvement in the kidnapping of Reed. He was held in a Travis County jail while the police continued their search for McDuff.

McDuff had moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he was working at a refuse collection company and living under the assumed name of Richard Fowler. On May 1, 1992, a coworker of his named Gary Smithee watched the Fox television program America's Most Wanted. Smithee noticed how similar McDuff, who was featured on the program, was to his new co-worker. After discussing the matter with another co-worker, Smithee telephoned the Kansas City Police Department, which searched Fowler's name and found he had been arrested and fingerprinted for soliciting prostitutes. A comparison of the fingerprints taken from Fowler to those of McDuff showed they were the same. On May 4, 1992, a surveillance team of six officers arrested McDuff as he drove to a landfill south of Kansas City.

On February 18, 1993, the jury, in a special punishment hearing, opted to sentence him to death. Following a number of delays while appeals were heard, the Western District Court denied habeas corpus relief and rescheduled the execution date for November 17, 1998. As he was denied authorization for another, he gave up Reed's burial location a few weeks before his execution.

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John Allen, Bernalillo County’s sheriff, said in a statement on Friday that the ban challenged the Constitution. He said he was wary of placing his deputies in positions where they could be vulnerable to civil liability, “as well as the potential risks posed by prohibiting law-abiding citizens from their constitutional right to self-defense.”

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dailyunsolvedmysteries-movedd · 8 months

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The Broomstick Killer

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Allen, Hayden James

Nyssa, OR

Age: 19 Arrest Date: Tue 2/27 Time: 9:33 AM Status: OUT

Charge Count: 4

Agency Ada County Sheriff

Juvenile Probation Violation/ Informal Adjustment Violation JPV Warrant

M Officer-Flee or Attempt to Elude a Police Officer in a Motor Vehicle I 9-1404(1) Criminal Charge

Juvenile Probation Violation/ Informal Adjustment Violation JPV Warrant

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I'm your huckleberry (Tombstone 1993) (Doc Holliday)

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The joys of modern inventions and miracles are often taken for granted. Your hungry or thirsty? Get something from the fridge or make it. You need to go somewhere? Drive or call an uber. Your hurt? Go to the doctor.

Your bored? Watch a movie, play video games, watch videos on the internet, talk to people without ever leaving your house.

Some much time is in our hands... but back in the 19th century... you wouldn't last very long.

Diseases are rampant, gun violence is higher, no modern technology, barely any good medicine, almost all of your favorite food doesn't exist and most of the people are rude as hell. But... That doesn't mean all of them were so bad. Love was not something most people in this time really cared about. At least, in the town of Tombstone, Arizona.

After falling asleep with a nice looking stone you bought at a small stand at the carnival, your whole world becomes the opposite. Six people from the past discover you unconscious and alone in the blistering heat and offer help but it was their help that let you meet the most amazing man you've ever met.

John Henry "Doc" Holliday.

Chapter 4

Previous ~ Next

After dropping off the luggage from the wagon to the cottages, you and Wyatt along with his brothers headed out to explore the town. Wyatt had asked you to leave the cell phone in the cottage which you flat out refused to do and still wouldn't comply with wearing a dress to fit in with the crowd. He knew he wasn't going to convince you and just told you to keep it in your pocket.

As you all walked around, people would walk by and stare at you. But then continue on with their buisness. You wanted to take pictures of the buildings but that would be a dumb thing to do since everyone already noticed you and would spot you doing that. Wyatt went off somewhere and his brothers formed a sort of protection circle around you which you thought was nice but it was actually because they were keeping a strict eye on you since they didn't want you running around like a crazy person and getting hurt.

"Hey, Wyatt, get on over here" Morgan called out to him for him to come over. "I want you to meet Fred White. He's the town marshal". Fred White was an older man with noticeable white hair and he wore a hat that was similar to Sheriff Behans and also wore a badge. "My pleasure" Wyatt said as he shook his hand, "Lotta law around here". They retracted their hands and you all started to walk along. "I already met the county Sheriff".

"Who, Behan? He ain't no law. The only real law around here is the Cowboys" Fred White explained.

"Cowboys" Virgil said. "I had a run-in with a couple of them up in Prescott".

"Nobody does nothin' without 'em. I mean, they're it. There are four of 'em right over there". Fred White pointed across the street to four cowboys. One was sitting talking to a woman, another was also talking to another woman and the other two were speaking to Sheriff Behan. "You can always spot a Cowboy. They always wear those red sashes". You continued on walking. "The main fact is the Cowboys are good for buisness".

"'Bout all these Saloons" Wyatt asked.

"Oh thats the real mother lode here in Tombstone. All up and down Allen St. here. Twenty four hours a day, you got Liquor, hostesses, gamblin', makin' money hand-over-fist" Fred White said.

"Oohh" you said getting their attention, "I think I'm gonna like it here". Morgan just chuckled and Wyatt rolled his eyes. Fred looked at you a bit strangely but continued on with the conversation. He was already introduced to you. "All except "THE ORIENTAL"", Fred pointed to a Saloon across the street that had said name. "That's a regular slaughterhouse. Even the high rollers won't go near it". You all walked towards it until you were all standing in the middle of street. "That's too bad too. It's a nice place. Hell of a waste".

You looked over and saw Wyatt staring at the building until he decided to walk across the street to go inside. "There he goes. 'Ol Wyatt" Virgil said. "Do we..?" The three men looked at you. "Do we follow him"?

"No. Let him work his magic" Morgan said. Fred White had to leave so it left you with Virgil and Morgan. "Alright, (y/n)" Virgil said, "Stay close". You followed after them as they continued walking around. "I wish I could take a picture of this place".

"Well don't" Virgil warned, "Keep that thing out sight. Don't want nobody thinkin' your crazy".

"I'm already crazy though" you said happily. Once again, Morgan laughed. "My God, that you are. That you are". You just laughed along with him. "I gotta ask though" Morgan said quietly, "Can you tell me a little bit about the future"? You were about to answer but Virgil cut you off before you could speak. "Not out here. Someone could be listenin'".

"Alright" you said but then said, "I'll tell you about it back at the cottages". They agreed and as you all continued walking, Wyatt came from behind and said, "Well, were off and runnin'. Just acquired us a quarter interest in a game at the "Oriental"".

"Acquired" Virgil asked.

"So to speak. Now all we gotta do is keep our eyes on that brass ring, fellas".

"You're the one, Wyatt" Morgan said. It was then that a new voice called out, "Why, Johnny Tyler"! You all turned to look and who you saw made you freeze in shock. It was the same man you saw that is your supposed soul mate. Same details and everything. Your mouth hung open and you didn't move a muscle. Was it really "Doc" Holliday? "You madcap"!

"Doc" said the man known as Johnny Tyler who also had a shotgun in his hands.

"Where you goin' with that shotgun" asked the man as he stepped forward.

"I didn't know you was back in town" Johnny Tyler said. Doc stopped in front of you and, of course, saw the woman in strange clothing but beautiful nonetheless. "Well well" Wyatt said. "How the hell are you"?

"Wyatt, I am rolling. Morgan" Doc said shaking Morgans hand. "Doc" Morgan greeted. "Virgil" he said shaking his hand and Virgil greeted him back. Now all that was left was you. "And who might this young lady be"? You just stood there beside Morgan and Wyatt and only managed to say, "I... I'm-- I'm at a loss for words".

"I see. And why is that"?

"Wyatt Earp" Johnny Tyler said as if in shock himself which made him and Doc smile. "Well madam" Doc said, "Who might you be"? You still didn't respond but your face started to turn red. Oh God he was even cuter than you thought. "Oh my" Morgan said, "Look at her. Her face is turning red. You embarrassed"? The men started laughing.

"Shut up, Morgan"! You said punching him in the arm. "Alright, Morgan, lay off her" Wyatt said. "Doc, this is (Y/n) (l/n). She's with us".

"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, (y/n)" he said extending his hand to you. You accepted it but he grasped it and brought it up to his mouth to place a gentle kiss upon it which made your heart explode and even said "Ravishin'" as he released your hand. "Going into buisness for ourselves, Doc" Morgan explained, "Wyatt just got us a Faro game".

"Oh. Since when is Faro a buisness" Doc asked and taking a puff off of his cigarette.

"Didn't you always say that gambling's an honest trade" Wyatt asked.

"No. I said poker's an honest trade. Only suckers buck the tiger's odds all on the house".

"Depends on how you look at it. I mean, it's not like anybody's puttin' a gun to their head, now is it"?

"That's what I love about Wyatt" Doc laughed and extending his hand to shake Wyatt's hand once again. "He can talk himself into anything". They all laughed softly together but you looked over and saw Johnny staring at you all, you in particular, and making you uncomfortable. "Alright buddy" you said getting all their attention and they quickly noticed you were talking to Johnny. "You're really starting to creep the hell out of me, so go away". Johnny wasn't expecting a very demanding tone from a woman and started getting defensive. "I don't take orders from women-"

"COME SAY THAT TO MY FACE, BITCH"! All of them were in shock. "Woah woah woah" Morgan said trying to calm you down and seeing how mad you were getting. "(Y/n), calm down". Wyatt and Virgil were appalled by that, Morgan was scared but Doc was impressed and a bit shocked. "Johnny, I forgot you were there. You may go now" Doc said dismissively.

"Just leave that shotgun" Wyatt said and holding your arm to keep you back from Johnny. "Yeah" you said mockingly. Johnny was hesitant to drop the gun but you just wouldn't stop egging him on. "Drop it" you said like you were commanding a dog. "Droooppp it... Drooooppp it" you said making the men laugh. Johnny dropped the gun. "Good boy! Now fuck off"! Doc couldn't believe what he was hearing, a woman who could curse a man out so bravely with no fear? Now that's his kind of woman.

Johnny walked away and Doc spoke. "I have to ask, where did you learn words like that"?

"Oh please, that's not even the worst thing I can say".

"I suppose I'll have to trust you on that".

"You know (Y/n)" Wyatt said, "Maybe you should tell him where you come from". You looked at him with worry and didn't know if it was a good idea but you then said, "You tell him and I'll show him". Doc was confused by what was happening and both Morgan and Virgil knew that this would get awkward. "Tell me what"?

"Listen" Wyatt said getting a bit closer to Doc, "I think you can obviously tell shes not from around here but there's a reason for that".

"What's the reason" Doc asked getting concerned. Wyatt motioned for you to come closer and you had then pulled your phone out. "Look". You were concealed and you showed your cell phone by selecting different apps and then opening up your music app. "She's from the future" Wyatt said feeling like a fool for even saying these words. Doc looked at the phone and wasn't sure what to make of it until he heard sound coming from it. It wasn't loud but it was surely magical. It sounded like music. "What is that thing"?

"My cell phone. It's meant for people to talk with each other, no matter how far away they are from each other. But since there's no service out here and I'm the only one in the world who has one right now, it may seem useless but it's not". Doc reached out to touch it but ended up changing the song.

"She doesn't know how she got here but our wives convinced us to bring her with us" Morgan added. You quickly stopped the music, put your phone away and took a step back and the small protection circle was broken. "It's incredible" Doc said.

"Oh that's nothing" Morgan said, "You know what year she's from? 2021"! Doc wasn't sure what to say but now had a million questions. "Well" Doc started, "I hope it's more civilized than here".

"Not really. It's kinda complicated-"

"Wyatt" Virgil said getting his attention, "Sheriff's comin' over".

"No more future talk" Wyatt said quietly for you all to hear. "Sheriff Behan" Wyatt called out. "Have you met Doc Holliday"?

"Piss on you, Wyatt" Doc said annoyingly which made you laugh a bit. Sheriff Behan came over and you stood next to Wyatt. "Mr. Holliday" Sheriff Behan greeted and held out his hand for Doc to shake but he only replied with, "Forgive me if I don't shake hands".

Sheriff Behan retracted his hand and spoke to Wyatt. "So, how's our little town suit you"?

"Fine, fine. You know what I was thinking, what this town could really use is a race track".

"Really? That's not a bad idea" Sheriff Behan replied. "Send a signal were growin' up".

"Way ahead of yourselves, aren't you boys" Doc said. "This is just another mining camp".

"Have you seen how everyone dresses? Awful tony for a mining camp", Sheriff Behan said proudly. "No sir! The die is cast. We are growin'. Be as big as San Francisco in a few years and just as sophisticated-"

Right as the sheriff stopped talking, a gunshot went off across the street which made Wyatt push you behind him and Doc stood next to you quickly with his hand on his gun and still smoking that cigarette. A man emerged from the saloon across the street with blood coming from his neck as he clutched it and three men came out with their guns drawn. The men around you looked ahead and you could see that the Earp brothers were starting to form a protection circle around you. The man with blood coming from his neck fell to the ground and one of them raised their guns only to be shot dead. Many people were watching and you heard Doc say, "Very cosmopolitan".

"I know right. So fancy" you said trying to pretend that this didn't happen but that little remark made Doc smile at you. Sheriff Behan glanced at you and Doc and then Wyatt spoke. "I know him. That's Creek Johnson". The two men with their guns out looked across the street and saw you all. "Wyatt? Doc"? Doc waved them over and the protection circle around you was broken. "Jack" Wyatt greeted. "What the hell's that all about, Creek"?

"He crawfished a bet and called me a liar" the man known as Creek said.

"Sheriff" Doc said, "May I present to you a pair of fellow sophisticates. Turkey Creek Jack Johnson and Texas Jack Vermilion. Watch your ear, Creek". You saw that Creeks ear was bloody and then Fred White had came over to speak. "Afraid I'll have to have those guns".

"It was a fair fight. We was legal" Creek said.

"I'm sorry, boys. I gotta take 'em before Judge Spicer. Hand 'em over". The two handed their guns over and Morgan decided to say, "Law and order everytime, that's us". The sounds of galloping horses were heard and you all looked over to see a huge carriage with six horses pulling it. "I wish I had a horse" you said. They all then looked at you. "How do you not have one" Sheriff Behan asked dumbfounded.

"Her horse died" Wyatt lied.

"Oh. Well, I'm sorry madam. If you'd like, our Corrals are sure to give you a new one for a reasonable price".

"Oh-- uhh... Yeah, thank you" you said.

"What kind of town is this" Virgil asked.

"Nice scenery" Morgan said as he looked at the carriage that arrived to see a beautiful woman in a nice grey dress and with an orange umbrella for the sun. "Well" Doc said, "an enchanted moment". They continued staring at her until you cleared your throat to reel them back to reality. "You guys ok? If you like her so much go ask her out on a dat-- oh wait! Nevermind, your all married. My bad" you said which just made Morgan gently slap your arm with a laugh and the other men, Fred White, Sheriff Behan, Creek Johnson, Texas Jack had left.

"Well" Doc said to you to get your attention. "Unlike my other fellow sophisticates, I am not married and as such, I'd like to accompany you to the Birdcage Theater tonight". The Earp brothers looked at Doc in confusion but you were ecstatic. "Theater? You mean like live Theater"?

"That's what I mean. What say you, darlin'"? You starting to blush again and in a very excited tone, you said, "Yes, I'd love too" but your tone changed, "But uh.. I hope you don't mind but I won't wear a dress".

"Why is that? Have they... fallen out of style in your time"?

"No. I just don't like wearing them. They make my skin crawl and it's just not me".

"I see" Doc said eyeing your current outfit. "Is this how others dress"?

"Most but not all".

"Hmmm... Well, dress or no dress, I'll still take you".

"That'd be amazing! I'd love too"!

"Well then" Doc gently took your hand and kissed it delicately, "I'll see you tonight darlin'".

"Yeah. I'll see you tonight" you said smiling so happily and it made Doc smile back. "Gentlemen" Doc said as a departure and walked away. You turned to the Earp brothers and they looked confused but you couldn't help yourself. "I... HAVE A DATE"!

"Don't yell" Virgil said.

"I'm sorry" you said trying to relax, "I'm just so excited! I haven't been on a date in "God knows how long". Not only that, but with a hot guy"!

"Ok ok, keep your voice down" Wyatt said, "I think we've done our job for now. Let's get back to the cottages". You all agreed and started to make your way back to the cottages. Wyatt had mentioned that he would get a start with his new Faro business tonight after the theater since people will come to the Saloons for drinks afterwards.

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svalleynow · 1 month

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Pell City Alabama Man Remains Missing after his 18-Wheeler Located in Monteagle

Jallen Allen Jallen Allen, a 27-year-old man from Pell City, Alabama, is missing after his 18-wheeler was found abandoned at the Pilot Truck Stop in Monteagle, TN, on February 29, 2024. He has not been heard from since he left Alabama on February 27. According to Missing People in America, Allen is a 27-year-old black male. He stands 5’7” and weighs 290 lbs. He works for Western Express Trucking,…

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#Grundy County News #Jallen Allen #Marion County News #Marion County Sheriff&039;s Department #Missing man #Missing People in America #Monteagle #Pell City Alabama #Sequatchie Valley News

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TW: an article about a heinous femicide is below the cut.

A 25-year-old woman decapitated in in front of her home had a temporary restraining order against the man who police arrested under suspicion of being connected to the gruesome murder, ABC 7 reported.

Witnesses in the San Carlos neighbourhood, located about 24 miles south of San Francisco, who saw the bloody attack unfold described to the news outlet how the young mother of two was killed on Thursday morning, just a few steps away from the home where her 1 and 7-year-old children lay inside.

Law enforcement records of the incident note that the incident occurred just before noon, when police began receiving calls about “a 25-year-old female... head was cut off by a sword.”

The children did not witness the violent murder of their mother, San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office Lt Eamonn Allen said in a press conference after the crime scene had been cleared.

Child Protective Services swooped in shortly after to take the 7-year-old and 1-year-old girls, along with a dog and two cats who were found inside the home on a quiet residential street.

“Children are there, scared to come... want their mom,” a note from the police record read.

After arriving at the scene, officers began to work the area and were quickly able to make an arrest of the man they believed responsible for the murder.

“They began to work the scene and shortly then after, the male suspect arrived back at the scene and was quickly detained by sheriff’s deputies,” said Lt Allen.

Jose Solano Landaeta, a resident of Hayward, was arrested for homicide, the officer confirmed, adding that the weapon used in the attack was “still outstanding.”

ABC later identified the suspect as the former boyfriend of the victim, who had not been identified by authorities yet. The news outlet reported that the young mother of two had received a temporary restraining order against the man back in April but did not disclose if that order was still active at the time of her death.

Residents in the neighbourhood relayed with horror what they saw unfold on the street in front of their homes, some so shocked they found themselves stumped with the simple question of “why?”

One neighbour, Chapel Thorborne, told ABC 7 the distressing seen he walked into when he arrived home to the Bay Area neighbourhood shortly after the attack on Thursday.

“The head was underneath the car and she was laying in the back of the car- just severed,” he said. “And they covered her up.”

Mr Thorborne, who said he’d had brief encounters with the couple before the deadly attack unfolded, described how he saw the suspect with some friends shortly after the decapitation had occurred.

“After he cut her head off, he came walking up, him and his two friends,” Mr Thorborne said to ABC. “And they walked right by me and they arrested him.”

Officers who first responded to the scene were reportedly in distress at the devastation laid out before them, Lt Allen said. He noted that peer services would be made available to those impacted from the call.

“Anytime someone loses their life it’s certainly a tragedy. As far as the shocking nature of it, I do know that the deputies that first arrived on scene were a little beset by the scene,” he said, adding that those peer services that were being made available to the officers would also be offered to the witnesses, “because there were several civilian witnesses.”

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The specter of the genealogist stereotype

In 1982, Peter Andrews wrote in American Heritage that the "stereotype of the genealogist" has been familiar in popular culture, usually a "specific type, easily recognizable and faintly ridiculous," whether an elderly lady examining musty records or a "retired clergyman supplementing his pension." He adds that this meant that genealogy, itself, "carried an air of quackery about it." However, he says this is no longer the case. This is evident in some series I have written about on this blog before, like Amphibia, Infinity Train, Steven Universe, and throughout the recent reboot of Carmen Sandiego, to name a few posts, apart from last week's post reviewing genealogy in the Outlander series. This is not unique to those series, however. After all, as a podcast, BlackGenProLive, “genealogy and history are en vogue in popular culture, largely due to the number of television programs that are themed around the topics,” and noted in FamilyTree, with The Guardian even saying the current family history boom is due to the internet and TV. [1] Genealogy and family history is widespread in popular culture, with some authors, like Juliette Eames, creating customized children's family history books for people! As Thomas Jay Kemp put it in 2013, "you can find references to genealogy everywhere in America these days."

Reprinted from my Genealogy in Popular Culture WordPress blog. Originally published on April 12, 2021.

John D. Beatty of the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center wrote in 2018 that genealogists before the 1970s especially only played "incidental roles in eccentric, snobby, or dysfunctional veins." He called the famous satirical painting by Grant Wood, Daughters of Revolution, criticizing the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), one of the first "artistic depictions of genealogists," and noted a few other examples prior to the 1970s:

In the 1942 film Castle in the Desert, Professor Gleason, a genealogist with a "moustache and walking stick," arrives at a a mansion of another affuelent man, and he is introduced as a genealogist who will “tell us about the monkeys in our family trees.” He later inquires about a notorious family and the wife of the affulent man gives him a warning, and he died after drinking a cocktail. The message of this film for such a superficial portrayal of a genealogist, is that genealogy is "something that only interested the upper classes and involved the lineages of famous families."

In a 1961 episode of the The Andy Griffith Show, “A Plaque for Mayberry," a town mayor summons a sheriff and his deputy, where they meet two elegantly dressed ladies of a Women’s Historical Society, declaring that they are "attempting to trace the descendant of a Revolutionary War hero, Nathan Tibbs, who had played a pivotal role at the Incident of Mayberry Bridge," which supposedly turned the tide of the war, wanting access to town records. Ultimately, while the genealoists serve only as incidental characters, the view of genealogical research as "a blue-blooded occupation and those who pursue it do so only to find links to prominent forebears" is communicated once more.

In a 1969 film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, James Bond goes undercover as a genealogist in order to "investigate Blofeld’s claims of nobility," and it again promotes a view of "genealogists as effete elitists, a campy profession that attracted only eccentrics."

In a 1969 comedy-drama, The Sterile Cuckoo, Pookie Adams is not a genealogist, but loves cemeteries, taking her boyfriend to a graveyard, extoling the "ability to find stories of the departed by reading their epitaphs." Beatty suggests that this shows that "cemeteries were not places that psychologically-healthy people ever visited."

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After 1970, Beatty specifically holds up Roots as shattering the "notion that genealogy was only for the blue-blooded," and says that Alex Haley "embodied a sense of normalcy that had eluded earlier caricatures of genealogists." This is much better than the "magical quality" displayed in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by transphobic J.K. Rowling, with genealogy not explored at length in the film, none of the characters as genealogists, and the family genealogy is only a minor plot device. Contrast this with the controversial film, The Da Vinci Code, in 2006, where genealogical research plays a key role in the film itself,and various popular television shows [2] where ordinary ancestors are discussed. Even though research is often minimized, Beatty argues that these shows "provide some insight into research methodology." He concludes his article by saying that new portrayals reflect a change in genealogy over time, including further professionalization and democratization which makes it more available to the masses, even while he acknowledges no one should expect genealogists to become "commonplace on the silver screen" even if they show up more in television. He then hopes for complex and diverse genealogical characters in the future which are devoid of stereotypes and are problem-solvers.

Not accounting for documentaries with family history themes, like Children of the Inquisition, Birthplace, and August: Osage County as pointed out by Esther of MyHeritage, Helen, in an undated post on her genealogy blog, gives a few examples of genetic genealogy in popular culture:

The TV series Shameless. In a 2011 episode, "Nana Gallagher Had an Affair," an estranged mother tried to get custody of her son, but finds out that her ex-husband, Frank, is the biological father. In a 2016 episode "Own Your Shit," a brother takes another ancestry DNA test, showing that Carl is "part Native American, specifically Apache, securing him a reserved place." Then there's the 2017 episode "Got Bless Her Rotting Soul," where a family friend takes a DNA screening test, finding a "rare chromosomal pattern" which belongs to a fictional, and isolated, community in rural Kentucky.

In a 2018 episodes of the series, A Discovery of Witches, there is a study of genetics of various species, like demons, witches, and vampires, including an explanation of mitochondrial DNA

In a 2018 episode of the series, Bull, "The Missing Piece," a team assists a man after police identify him as a suspect using "investigative genetic genealogy via a match in a for-profit genetic genealogy company's customer database," and he finds out that he was adopted and had an identical twin brother, with the revelation of a twin brother resulting "in all charges against him being dropped."

In a 2018 episode of Blue Bloods, "Thicker Than Water," two detectives investigate an attempted murder after a daughter discovers, using a consumer DNA test that "the doctor is her biological father." Oh no, what a shock! In a later episode of Blue Bloods, "Family Secrets," in 2020, one character is puzzled by an "unknown first cousin match on his paternal side when he does a consumer DNA test for a school assignment."

In the series Grey's Anatomy, there is an episode in 2019, "Blood and Water," where a doctor orders a DNA test to "overcome her fears about her unknown genetic heritage when feeling pressured to have children." In another 2019 episode, "And Dream of Sheep," a co-worker is able to identify the birth mother of his friend using a "first cousin DNA match."

In a 2019 episode of The Good Fight, "The One where a Nazi Gets Punched," a law firm represents plaintiffs in a lawsuit against a "direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing company."

In a 2019 episode of Nancy Drew, "The Hidden Staircase," a co-worker whips out a DNA test from her lock, asking her long-lost cousin for "some of his saliva for a DNA comparison to help her uncover her mother's mysterious past."

In a 2020 episode of Stumptown, "The Past and the Furious," a former marine and current PI, is hired to track down the birth parents of an adoptee.

In a 2020 episode of Vera, "Parent Not Expected," a DCI investigates the death of a young man who had recently found, through a DNA test, that "the man who raised him was not his biological father," with the admin of an online genealogy forum helping people identify their biological fathers.

"The laws governing inheritance are quite unknown; no one can say why the same peculiarity in different individuals of the same species, and in individuals of different species, is sometimes inherited and sometimes not so; why the child often reverts in certain characters to its grandfather or grandmother or other much more remote ancestor; why a peculiarity is often transmitted from one sex to both sexes, or to one sex alone, more commonly but not exclusively to the like sex"- Chapter 1 of The Origin of the Species

On a related note, in 2013, Daisy Hildyard in The Guardian listed ten literary works about ancestors, specifically pointing to Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth, "This Be the Verse" by Philip Larkin, The Rainbow by DH Lawrence, Bleak House by Charles Dickens, On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, "The Eternity of Nature" by John Clare, Brief Lives by John Aubrey, Henry IV Part I by William Shakespeare, Chronicles by Holinshed, and The Bible. Family history themes are even more widespread than this, however. Noel Murray, in 2015, talked about nine films focusing on family secrets, specifically Little White Lie, Secrets & Lies, A Family Thing, Lone Star, Siskel & Ebert, Capturing the Friedmans, The Celebration, Ida, Daughter from Danang, My Architect, and Stories We Tell. Others have written about genealogy in the realm of theater, of which were are various examples, [3] or noted some of the "most insane families in anime." On the latter, in a post for the Anime News Network, Gia Manry mentioned:

Arcana Famiglia (La storia della Arcana Famiglia), a mafia-style family

The Rozen Maidens (Rozen Maiden), sister dolls

The Ushiromiya Family (Umineko no Naku Koro ni), a huge clan

The Matou Family (Fate/stay night), creators of a system that serves as a central conflict throughout the franchise as a whole

Eastern Europe (Hetalia), composed of personified nations

Britannian Royal Family (Code Geass), has a family history "chock-full of colorful characters, political intrigue, and outrageous deaths"

The Hair Siblings (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo), siblings fighting over their inheritance to the Hair Kingdom and are totally bonkers

The Ikari Family (Neon Genesis Evangelion), a clan which has a lot of internal family problems

Some others, like BYU Family History, lists family history themes in the White supremacist Back to the Future, and other films, like Lion King, Holes, Star Wars, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Hitch, and Mulan. As one genealogist put it, "genealogy has changed; but yet it has not," with genealogists continuing to seek out "records hidden in courthouse attics and basements."

Notes

[1] There may be some reviews of popular culture in Christine Scodari’s book Alternate Roots: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Genealogy Media, although I’m not sure. But I'll try to get the book and let you know what I think, writing about it on here.

[2] Like Who Do You Think You Are, Genealogy Roadshow, and Finding Your Roots. Some scholars have criticized what they call "selective rememberance" on these TV shows.

[3] In one post, Sydney Orton,talks about family history themes in Ragtime, Bandstand, The Pirate Queen, Miss Saigon, Finding Neverland, Evita, Bonnie & Clyde, Fiddler on the Roof, and Big River. In another post, she focuses on similar themes in Come From Away, 1776, Allegiance, Anastasia, 9 to 5, Les Miserables, Newsies, A Tale of Two Cities, Bright Star, Memphis, West Side Story, Titanic: The Musical, The Sound of Music, and The Civil War.

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• Housefire - Tyler Childers

• Leaving Lousiana In The Broad Daylight - The Oak Ridge Boys

• Plastic Saddle - Nat Stuckey

• East Indian Princess - Laudon Wainwright III

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• Lets Invite Them Over - George Jones

• Don't Feed the Animals - Shooter Jennings

• Things Goin' On - Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Matthew - Tyler Childers

• Ugly Woman - Jerry Reed

• Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken) - Tom T. Hall

• Girl On the Billboard -Jim & Jesse

• What I Really Mean - Robert Earl Keen

• Peace of Mind - Tyler Childers

• One Night Stands - Hank Williams Jr.

• Lousiana Man - Buck Owens

• Awful Lot to Learn About Truck Drivin' - Red Simpson

• A Week in County Jail - Tom T. Hall

• Ever Lovin’ Hand - Tyler Childers

• Chick Inspector (That’s Where My Money Goes - Dick Curless

• County Boy - Ricky Skaggs

• All Your'n - Tyler Chillers

• Loser's Cocktail - Dick Curless

• It’s Such a Pretty World Today - Wynn Stewart

• That Just Kills Me - Wynn Stewart

• Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young - Faron Young

• Crazy Arms - Jerry Lee Lewis

• High School Confidential - Jerry Lee Lewis

• Hillbilly Fever - Jerry Lee Lewis

• Settin' the Woods on Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis

• My Home Ain't in the Hall of Fame - J.d. Crowe

• Take Your Shoes Off Moses - Ralph Stanley

• Gemini - Tyler Childers

• Rank Stranger - Ralph Stanlay

• Over the Glory Land - Ralph Stanley

• Amazing Grace - Ralph Stanley

• I'll Answer The Call - Ralph Stanley

• Going Up Home to Live in Green Pastures - Ralph Stanley

• Boogie-John Hartford

• Holding - John Hartford

• Joseph’s Dream - John Hartford

• The Cover of "Rolling Stone" - Dr. Hook

• Welcome To Goose Creek - Goose Creek Symphony

• Whupin It - Goose Creek Symphony

• Creeker - Tyler Childers

• Chicken Train Stomp - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils

• Tarheel Boys - Town Mountain

• Lawdog - Town Mountain

• Up the Ladder - Town Mountain

• Foggy Old London - Jimmy Martin

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• Milwaukee Here I Come - Jimmy Martin

• One Loaf Of Bread - Dave Evans

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• She Turns My Radio On - Jim Ford

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• Working My Way to LA - Jim Ford

• Under Construction - Jim Ford

• Pinball Blues - Moore & Napier

• Mama's Got The Know How - Doug Kershaw

• Third Rate Romance - The Amazing Rhythm Aces

• Typical American Boy - The Amazing Rhythm Aces

• Countrified - John Sanderson

• Haunted House - John Anderson

• I've Got Me a Woman - John Anderson

• Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die) - Joe Diffie

• Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ - Loretta Lynn

• Gettin’ Happy - Dolly Parton

• Fancy - Bobby Gentry

• Memphis, Tennessee - Bobby Bare

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• Banana Puddin' - Southern Culture on the Skids

• Put Your Teeth Up on the Window Sill - Southern Culture on the Skids

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• Dungeon Map - Dinosaur Burps

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• Don’t Touch Me - Tammy Wynette

• Fuck You - CeeLo Green

• Don't Pay the Ransom - Nat Stuckey

• 4th Of July / He Stopped Loving Her Today - Shooter Jennings

• Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly - Aaron Tippin

• Kiss This - Aaron Tippin

• Tight Fittin' Jeans - Conway Twitty

• Hello Darlin' - Conway Twitty

• Slide Off Of Your Satin Sheets - Johnny Paycheck

• Woman (You Better Love Me) - Johnny Paycheck

• Country John - Allen Toussaint

• Shoot Low, Sheriff! - John Anderson

• Steam Powered Aereo Plane - John Hartford

• O.D.’d in Denver - Hank Williams Jr.

• Fax Me a Beer - Hank Williams Jr.

• She's All I Got - Johnny Paycheck

• Stop the World (and Let Me Off) - Waylon Jennings

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