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criminol · 1 year

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The Unsolved Murder of Jessie Earl

Jessie Earl was a 22-year-old art student studying at Eastbourne College of Art and Design. Described as independent and strong, Jessie enjoyed reading and walking along the coast.

On 15th May 1980, Jessie rang her mother from a payphone on the seafront, she said she would visit on Friday. On Friday, when Jessie did not return home, her mother decided to go to Jessie’s apartment and see why she had changed her plans.

On 18th May, Jessie’s mother arrived at her daughter’s apartment and realised something was wrong- the place looked abandoned yet Jessie’s purse remained on the bed, the diary Jessie wrote in daily gave no indication she had gone anywhere. The police were called but no trace of Jessie or clues as to what happened to her could be found.

In 1989, a skeleton was discovered in undergrowth on Beachy Head, this was identified as Jessie’s body. The body was nude with a bra tied around the wrists, her jewellery was missing. A coroner claimed Jessie had committed suicide despite her parents arguing that she had no reason to and was not unhappy.

In 2000, Jessie’s death was classified as murder, however due to the original investigation being closed as a suicide, evidence had been destroyed including the bra which had been found, this prevented modern forensic techniques being used and was described as a ‘significant mistake.’

Serial killer and sex offender, Peter Tobin, was known to have been in the area of the murder at the time and Jessie had fit his victim profile however due to a lack of evidence from the crime scene no link could be found. Jessie’s murder was also linked to the unsolved murder of Louise Kays, who disappeared from Eastbourne in 1968, Louise also frequented the Beachy Head area. It was also speculated Louise was a victim of Peter Tobin, though no evidence could be found. Louise’s murder is unsolved.

Jessie’s murder remains unsolved.

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thesuitcasedetective · 4 months

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Featured True Crime Podcast: Killer Conspiracies

Today we get to introduce you to a relatively new Utah-based true crime podcast, “Killer Conspiracies with Koby & Bryan.”

Key Terms: Solved, Unsolved, Homicide, Conspiracy, Missing Persons, Episodic, Utah, 1900s – 2000s.

“Killer Conspiracies with Koby and Bryan” is a true crime podcast focusing on homicide cases, missing persons, and conspiracies, primarily from Utah. They cover open and solved cases, and their episodes range from 30 minutes to an hour. The podcast airs on major platforms every Monday, with additional mini-episodes throughout the week.

#missing person #missing #true crime #unsolved #mystery #case solved #true crime community #unsolved homicide #homicide #utah #conspiracies #conspiracy theories

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mayheminthedesert · 1 year

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MURDER BEFORE DAWN

Renzie Kirk, a 21-year-old airman stationed at Nellis Air Force Base on the northeast side of the Las Vegas Valley, left his one-bedroom apartment at 2750 East Bonanza Road before dawn one Thursday morning in May of 1973. His wife, 19-year-old Barbara Jean Kirk, was still sleeping in the bedroom as he closed the front door and headed to his car.

Less than an hour after her husband left for work, Barbara Kirk would lose her life in a vicious crime that remains unsolved nearly fifty years later.

Find out more about this cold case at our site:

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sledgehammersurgery · 2 years

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Garnett John Doe (1973)

Garnett John Doe was a young man found beaten to death in Kansas in 1973. Two gold rings with crosses and a third ring with the number 78 was found with him.

#john doe #unsolved case #unsolved homicide #unsolved mysteries #uncanny valley #cursed image #true crime #kansas #70s crime #1973 #grateful doe #tags for exposure #true horror stories #scary pictures

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chaoticdesertdweller · 1 year

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Caldwell Fields, Blacksburg, Virginia 11/24/22

#life #photography #mental health #original photographers #nature #on the road #virginia #landscape photography #virginia tech #Jefferson national forest #fields of sorrow #true crime #unsolved homicide #rays of sunshine #natures beauty #crime scene

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lollytruecrimeworld · 1 year

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Lyn Bryant — Murder Unsolved

Dog walker murdered in broad daylight

Lyn was last seen alive at 1.45 pm close to the Ruan Methodist Chapel chatting to a man described as being in his 30s and around five feet, nine inches tall and wearing ‘light’ clothing. I feel this is one of the earliest indicators of something a little unusual. Remember it was an October day and therefore not that warm, in fact, the weather forecast for that day (link below) suggested rough wet and windy conditions so why was this man dressed so lightly?

A tourist found the body of Lyn Bryant in the gateway to a field at 2.30 pm, her clothing had been disturbed possibly indicating a sexual motive for the murder, She had been savagely attacked with multiple stab wounds to her neck, throat and back. The tourist called 999 and when the air ambulance arrived at around 2.50 pm Lyn was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.

Evidence shows that Lyn had fought hard with her killer and therefore the person responsible for her death would have been covered in blood, probably bruised and certainly pretty shaken. Forensic officers say that they believed that the killer had been with Lyn Bryant for some time and that injuries suggested that she had been stabbed whilst standing up and again laying horizontally. The dog had not been harmed at all during the attack.

Lyn had been to her regular job as a cleaner at a local house, then briefly popped in on her parents on her way home. She had then gone out again driving her car, a grey Ford Sierra, when she first visited Harris Garage but having discovered that they were out of petrol she then drove on to Chenoweth’s garage where she filled her car with petrol, bought some foodstuffs and went home.

It was noted that during her drive Lyn was followed by a man described as being of large build and around 50 years old with a scruffy beard, he was driving a white van, possibly a Volvo van which was seen on the forecourt of Chenoweth’s garage at around 1.05 pm. More than 6,700 white vans and their owners have been identified and tracked during the course of the long-running investigation.

Lyn returned home and had lunch with her 19-year-old daughter Erin during which they discussed Lyn’s upcoming 41st birthday, before setting out to walk the dog.

A critical sighting was made by a farmer at between 2.45 pm and 3 pm when he saw a man walking across a field which does not have a footpath close to it or surrounding it and according to the farmer was never normally used by walkers. The man was wearing what the farmer described as normal clothes and shoes which of course is quite odd for two reasons, firstly the weather was wet and rough and secondly, he was crossing fields in late autumn when it would obviously be muddy.

A vital piece of evidence is a quantity of vivid blue polyester-cotton mix fibres found on Lyn’s body. The police have since identified them as the sort used in the manufacture of polo shirts and sweatshirts. There has been no identification as to a specific manufacturer or brand thus far, obviously, that would narrow things down still further, It is fair to assume that the fibres were left by the killer as they were completely alien to Lyn and her home, again this is suggestive of a link to the man seen wearing ‘normal’ clothes perhaps, but we should not explore a line with no supporting evidence either.

Some four months after the murder on the 2nd February 1999, Lyn’s tortoiseshell spectacles were found just 3 feet from where her body had been discovered plainly sitting on top of the mud, an area which had been intensely searched by police.

The 2nd February was a dry and mild day with temperatures as high as 8 degrees Celsius in Cornwall so it’s not like the glasses suddenly blew out of a tree in a storm or anything. So did the killer return to the murder scene for some strange reason maybe to relive his or her sick fantasy again? Another question which pops into my mind is, did the person that reported finding the glasses actually “find” them on that day or on the day of the murder? Did that person have a connection to the murder, maybe the killer was known to them and they hid that from the police.

The police are absolutely certain that there was no way the glasses could have been missed during the in-depth search of the area in October and as the area was a muddy and well-used entrance to a field the glasses would have been damaged or buried long before a six-month period had passed. There is something really quite curious about the “discovery” of those glasses that I feel somehow is very relevant to identifying the killer. I truly believe that when the person found those glasses and reported the find to the police it was one of the moments when the police were, in fact, closest to revealing the killer’s identity.

During the murder investigation, the police interviewed every male aged between 14 and 70 years old on the Roseland Peninsula but they did not reveal anything of real relevance and certainly did not find Lyn Bryant’s killer.

The area where this murder took place is a very remote area of Cornwall and the murder investigation team is satisfied that the killer was almost definitely a local person with good knowledge of the area. Senior investigating officer detective Stuart Ellis said “This is a very remote area and not the kind of place someone is liable to just wander into” He went on to say that it is much more likely that the killer was someone that had a definite reason to be there, whether that be work, family or another connection but the indication is that it is almost certain that the person that was responsible has good local knowledge and local contact.

A very interesting little twist to this story is that in 2013 a self-proclaimed psychic medium and drag queen known as Tristan Rees came forward to police claiming that he had seen regular visions of Lyn’s murder and that he was visited by her spirit. During such “visits,” the spirit showed Tristan what he described as almost film-like footage of her being followed and then murdered. He said that he had begun to receive these spiritual communications just a few months after Lyn Bryant was murdered and they were very graphic, however, he did not contact police as he felt he may be made a suspect.

Police did indeed treat Tristan Rees as a suspect in as much as they took DNA samples from him but no action was taken against him. Tristan later said that he believed the police had taken his samples because of how much detail he was able to give to them. He described the vehicle in which the killer fled the scene and the killer himself but I think the police possibly saw Tristan Rees more as a suspect than an informant due to the length of time that had passed before he came forward.

Tristan described the killer as having ginger but greying hair, a wrinkled face and wearing a blue boiler suit and heavy boots which were covered in blood when he left the scene. He was driving a large white van. The clairvoyant said that he was plagued by the spiritual images and visions for some 15 years before he eventually found the courage to contact Devon and Cornwall police and give them his drawings of the suspect and details of the murder. I personally feel that there is good and credible evidence in Tristan Rees’s words but it seems the police did not take things seriously enough.

He said that he left the drawings and description documents at the police station and the spiritual communications stopped, that was the last that he heard of it all until some two years later when two plain-clothed police officers arrived at his home and took DNA samples. As far as I am able to ascertain Tristan has not been contacted further and is unsure whether he may still be considered a suspect.

I would love to speak to Tristan Rees but I have not so far been successful in establishing contact, I will, of course, advise you here and via social media if and when that changes.

In 2015 police went back to basics so to speak and undertook a full forensic view of the case during which they examined hundreds of exhibits. A partial DNA profile of the person believed to be Lyn’s killer was able to be found

It has been suggested that there may be links to some other murders of lone women walking dogs within a few months of each other, do I think they are linked? In all honesty, I doubt it. There is a slight possibility that the murder of Kate Bushell may possibly be linked due to some similarities but I feel that the murders of Helen Fleet and Julia Webb are almost certainly separate cases.

Helen Fleet was murdered in March 1987 so over 11 years before Lyn Bryant and Julia Webb’s murder took place some 310 miles away from Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall and even 223 miles from Exwick in Devon and there was no stabbing of the victim at all. The only way I see any link that could be established between the killing of Helen Fleet, Lyn Bryant and Kate Bushell is to explain the very long gap between the murders. If anyone has anything that you would like to suggest then do please get in touch, I would be delighted to hear from you my contact details are below and of course, you can leave me a comment here.

Of course, if anyone reading this knows anything or even believes they do then please do get in touch with Devon and Cornwall Police or Crimestoppers at once, remember even the smallest piece of evidence, a name, a vehicle identity or a location can change this enquiry and lead to justice for Lyn and especially for her family left behind, still not knowing who was responsible for her horrific murder or why.

Points of interest

(Not necessarily related to the case)

20th October 1998 was Tuesday and was the 293rd day of the year (the 42nd Tuesday of the year) This pattern of dates will be exactly the same will be 2026 when in effect you could reuse your 1998 calendar

In mythology, October began the season for military campaigns and ended the season for farming. In the Roman religion October 19th, the day before this murder the festival of Armilustrium was celebrated in honour of Mars, the god of war. On this day soldiers, and weapons were purified

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unsolved-mysteries-tarot · 1 year

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This is what I got for the unsolved mystery of Black Dahlia, may Elizabeth rest in peace🙏🏾.

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actualearthling · 2 years

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Justice For Gina Marie Thomas

Thank you for stopping by to hear my mom's story.

She was 21 when she was brutally murdered at the Wilson Motel on Admiral Wilson Blvd in Camden, NJ on June 22nd, 1987.

The month before she was beaten, strangled, and finally stabbed to death, she was arrested with another woman (who I haven't determined whether to name yet publicly), and Camden County Freeholder & GOP Official Peter DelGrande at his home on charges of theft and prostitution involving another man who reported the alleged crime. DelGrande, a long time politician and convicted criminal who had been deeply involved in drugs (twice convicted of possession of cocaine) and sex trafficking in Camden and other locations during his career somehow managed to have his charges dropped under the reasoning that he did not know that the women were being intimate for money with the man in his home. While he was present.

Only a few months later, in early 1988 DelGrande was found shot to death in his Collingswood, NJ home.

Gina was found stabbed to death at 4am by the same woman arrested with her and DelGrande just a month earlier. As the only survivor of the trio, I am currently seeking her out to ask her what she remembers.

Because of DelGrandes involvement and his known character, it's a possibility that police officials didn't work too hard to catch Gina's killer. But that is just rumor and speculation right now.

Gina would have just turned 57, meaning others involved might be older but still living. And not too old to rot in prison for whatever time they have left.

-Meredith

Many of the new facts about my mom's murder have just come to light since yesterday. I have made a Facebook page called "Justice For Gina Marie Thomas". If you are interested in this absolutely crazy and scary story and my fight to get her case reopened and the murderer/s punished, please check out that page and interact. The algorithm could get it in front of the right eyes if you do.

#true crime #unsolved crime #crime #unsolved murder #murder #serial killer #killer #cold case #nj #nj crime #camden #camden nj #unsolved homicide #unsolved

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unforgottenalcoldcases · 1 year

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Ep 8: William Charles "Pete" Fikes

In Ep. 8 of Unforgotten, Sellers and Stormy of Alabama Cold Case Advocacy discuss the positive id of Kyle Clinkscales, a 22-year-old Auburn University student who disappeared 47 years ago, and the 1976 disappearance of Pete Fikes from Walker County.

Summary In Ep. 8 of Unforgotten, Sellers and Stormy of Alabama Cold Case Advocacy discuss the positive identification of Kyle Clinkscales, a 22-year-old Auburn University student who had been missing for 47 years, and the 1976 disappearance of William Charles “Pete” Fikes from Jasper, AL, in Walker County. (more…) “”

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#ACCA #Alabama #ALCCA #Episode 8 #Jasper #Missing #Pete Fikes #Unforgotten #Unsolved Homicide #Walker County #Walker County Sheriff&039;s Office #William Charles Fikes

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runawayjusticeteam · 1 year

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#truecrime #shermanmurders #mystery #unsolved homicide #unsolved

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roosevelvet · 1 year

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Conspiracy County

There's this county in (Henry County) Virginia, USA, just above the North Carolina/Virginia state line that holds a massive conspiracy. If it were proven true, it would be a mega story in the true crime community.

It first came to probable fruition in 2006, with 41 suspected in a drug ring that INVOLVED the county sheriff and his deputies.

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But a lot of people not just in, but surrounding the county knew what was going on, or at least had an idea. Gossip circles and experiences and gossip circles ABOUT experiences is where much of the conspiracy began to brew. Some said they had seen a bunch of officers file into one bathroom (at a Christmas party. about 2000-2001), and come out with an ego that did not stagger. The eyewitnesses left soon after, not wanting to be seen anywhere near that. I mean, who would (except for the participants).

This conspiracy reaches even deeper when you go back 4 years before the suspects were caught in the act with the Short Family Murder case. With these guys in office, chances were that case was mishandled. But not only that, the SFM case has MANY red herrings and turns that you'd think it was a hedge maze. And it might as well be. The family was depicted as a kind and loving family. Mary, and her husband, Michael, each both had one bullet wound in the head. Jennifer, she was missing from the house and found under a bridge in Rockingham County, North Carolina, about a month later. The suspicious thing about it, it has been said that that very bridge was searched weeks before, and her body WAS NOT there. Rumors from gossip circles (both from HC and RC) said that, possibly, Michael Short wasn't such the good man that he was portrayed as, and he might have been a drug driver, or something of the sort, for the previously mentioned drug ring that took place. That, or he had changed his mind, and was going to nark. The way that Mary and Michael Short had been murdered wasn't a burglary gone wrong, nothing (at least, what was reported) was missing from the house besides Jennifer. Some rumors from the time theorized that, with the corrupt department that was the Henry County Sheriff's Office, Jennifer wasn't supposed to be at the house, and she was just collateral. The SFM case is unsolved because it isn't meant to be solved.

If you, metaphorically, take a shovel and dig in Henry County, you'll find dirt, you'll find a lot. Maybe, if you dig right, that dirt will be soaked with blood. Why wouldn't these things tie together? The same PD that was caught shipping ketamine through the mail across state lines was the same PD that handled the Short Family Murder case. And theories from and of the folk who had lived and occupied the area through it say that very same PD had a few hands in it.

#conspiracy #conspiracy theory #short family murder #true crime #unsolved homicide #unsolved #cold case #unsolved true crime #virginia #fbi #Youtube

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