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Pamela Werner: Old Peking, Rival Theories, and Maybe Cannibalism
Recently, I was happy to see that the Redhanded Podcast had done an episode covering the unsolved 1937 murder of Pamela Werner. I was already familiar with the case and interested in it, as it has been covered in two books that arrive at very different conclusions. For those not familiar with the case, I’ll…
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The Eerie Disappearance of the Anderson Family
Of all the things I do not understand about this case, one of the of the biggest is why it is not more widely discussed. While not necessarily one of the most complex–there is one rather obvious explanation for events, as we will discuss shortly–it is one of the strangest and most chilling. A family…
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Larry Riegel
This is a very under-discussed case about a man who disappeared from Yakima, Washington, on Christmas Day in 2009. As such, it’s a bit difficult to find a particularly flashy way of introducing the material. However, I am convinced that someone needs to draw attention to this cold but by no means unsolvable case. Lawrence…
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The Keddie Cabin Murders: A Deep Dive
The events with which we will be concerned occurred in the early morning hours of April 12th or possibly the last hours of April 11ith in 1981. The location was Cabin 28 of the Keddie Campground in Keddie, California. Before I talk about the murders themselves I want to discuss the community in which they…
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The Cold Case Murder of Theresa Corley
Today I’m going to be covering a very old case, even by my standards. Theresa Corley was murdered nearly 45 years ago, in December of 1978, and although her family has been able to learn several significant facts about the circumstances, solid answers and any form of justice have remained maddeningly out of reach. All…
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The Disappearances of Felipe Santos and Terrance Williams
This is not a single case, but a pair of missing persons cases linked by one crucial factor–one crucial person, to be specific. Two young men vanished three months apart in Naples, Florida while in the company of the same Sheriff’s Department deputy. The first man was 23 year old Felipe Santos, who disappeared in…
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The Vanishing of David Lovely
The land outside of Rock Springs, Wyoming is a stark and uncompromising place. It’s a fractured terrain riddled with cliffs and deep ravines, an easy and dangerous place for someone to get lost. During the day, the desert bakes in the heat of the sun, but as soon as the sun slips behind the western…
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The Murder of Lila Leach
There’s really no skirting around the regrettable lack of information about this case. I won’t be able to explore it from as many angles as I have with some of the other cases I have covered, simply because there is very little background available to me. However, I think this is a story that needs…
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The Disappearance of Alexis Patterson
On May 3rd, 2002, a seven year old girl named Alexis Patterson disappeared into thin air between the street corner outside her school and her classroom. Except, of course, she didn’t, because no one does. Something happened to make her vanish, and the purpose of this article is examine what that might have been. Alexis…
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The Murder of Ashley Ouellette and the Vanishing of Antonio Torres
There are two ways of looking at the case(s) I am here to discuss today. One is as a discussion of two mysteries, one an unsolved murder and the other a missing persons case. The other possibility is that this is actually one case that has claimed at least two victims. My purpose here is…
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