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Mystery Deepens as California Hiker Is Gone Without A Trace. Update: Remains Possibly Found.

Update: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021, police found a body matching Philip's description 250 yards from the trail in the park where he was last seen and beneath a tree. A coroner is slated to examine the body to make a formal identification.

37-year-old Philip Kreycik went missing on Saturday, July 10th, 2021 when he went for a brief jog alone at Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park. Philip is an MIT grad and father of two. He is no stranger to hiking, but had never been in that particular area before. It is unknown if he had water with him on a day that reached temperatures of 106 degrees farenheight. There has been many searches for Philip, but no sign of him has been uncovered.


Family members that were in the park on Tuesday night reported hearing cries for help around 1 a.m. Different agencies were brought in and did a search that is unprecedented in scope, with some of the agencies involved are using K-9’s, fixed-wing aircraft, and drones as they comb through 50 square miles of brush and tough terrain. The the massive search operation wrapped up on Wednesday night after another pass of drones and aircraft using thermal imagery turned up nothing.


Authorities are baffled as to why they have not found him yet. The family believes he is alive and might have made it out of the park. They are asking anyone living in the area to search their property for Phillip.

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Texas Killing Fields Victims Part One: Victims 1-7

The Texas Killing Fields have been described as "a perfect place for killing somebody and getting away with it." A place where "if you yelled, no one would necessarily hear you. And if you ran, there wouldn't necessarily be anywhere to go."

It is an area bordering the Calder Oil Field, which is a 25-acre patch of land situated a mile from Interstate Highway 45. It is a place where, since the early 1970s, 30 bodies of murder victims have been found. Most of the victims were aged 12–25 years. Also, many young girls have disappeared from this area and their bodies are still missing.

It is believed that many of the murders are the work of multiple serial killers.  Some shared similar physical features. Despite efforts by the League City, Texas police, along with the assistance of the FBI, very few of these murders have been solved.

1

Collette Anise Wilson was born in Texas on November 4th, 1957 to Claire Wilson and dentist and Thomas Owen Wilson. Besides being a dentist, Thomas had been a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the Navy. Together, Claire and Thomas had 10 children.

On June 17th, 1971, Collette was a 13 year old, 5-foot-2, 100 pound girl with long black hair, blue eyes and 9 siblings. It was the summer following 7th grade and she had played the clarinet at a band camp at Dulles High School in Sugar Land. At 12:30 p.m. her band director, Charlie Mays, dropped her off at Highway 6 and County Road 99.  Her mother arrived at 12:36 p.m., with Collette's younger sister Alice in tow. She saw a car parked alongside the road with a man inside, but no sign of Collette.

Collette had learned to go to a friend’s house if she were concerned or impatient.  So, her mom drove down the road to the designated friend’s house, but they had not seen Colette. The mom was starting to get worried and drove back to the intersection where she was supposed to pick Colette up.

So they called all her friends that lived nearby, but no one had seen her. There was no sign of Collette and the family knew something  must be terribly wrong. However, the authorities initially labeled her a runaway. Collette's family decided to take matters into their own hands. They organized volunteers who searched the area for the next three weeks. The family also knelt around Colette's bed and prayed every day.

2

Brenda Kaye Jones was a student at Holy Rosary Catholic School. She was born on November 18th, 1956 in Galveston, Texas to Arthur Tyler Jones and Evelyn Regina Sanders Jones. Evelyn was employed as Custodian at Galveston Independent School District. The family was a loving and close-knit one that lived at 31-F Cedar Terrace.

On July 1st, 1971, Brenda was 14 years old when she disappeared while on her way to visit her sick aunt, Jennie Sealy, at Galveston General Hospital. Her family was poor and didn't have a car so she had to take the bus there and back home. Brenda made it to her destination and then was dropped off back at her usual spot, which was just a couple of blocks from her house. Several people on the bus, including the bus driver, attested to that fact. That was the last time Brenda would be seen alive.

The next day, a painting crew was working far above the Galveston Harbor. It was 10:30am when a few men noticed something was floating in the water just off the Pelican Island bridge.

Brenda's nude body was found floating in Galveston Bay, a slip crammed into her mouth. Her wrists and ankles were bound together with the laces from her sandals.

The coroner surmised that Brenda had been kept alive all night and then strangled by her own laces. (She could have been shot instead. I read a few places that claimed her cause of death was a head wound.) It was also theorized that she had been dumped from a pier or boat due to the lack of damage to her body.

Brenda was laid to rest at the Galveston Memorial Cemetery.

3

Rhonda Renee Johnson was born on December 16th, 1956
Houston, Harris County, Texas to Charles E. Johnson Sr and Betty Huey. Betty abandoned the family when Rhonda was only 11 years old. Rhonda became the glue that held the family together. Music and the ocean was her escape. She loved Janis Joplin. She also would hitchhike to Galveston to surf.

4

Sharon Lynn Shaw was born on Aug 11th, 1957 in Mobile, Alabama. She had street smarts and was a natural leader. She was crazy about surfing. Her aunt compared her to a fish and said that she could have been a professional surfer.

Both girls were described as tomboys and totally fearless. They also were close as sisters.

On Wednesday, August 4th, 1971, 13 year-old Sharon and 14 year-old Rhonda, were last seen, when they left Webster, Texas, to make a day-trip to Galveston Bay beach, about 25 miles away. They had went there with their friend, Glenda Willis, to go to the Wix water ski school, but the wind had made the bayou too rough for skiing. Glenda later saw the girls at the beach, but they weren't ready to go home. So while Glenda was packing up her car she watched as the other two girls headed back to Wix and the island party scene on the shores of Offatts Bayou. That was the last time she saw them.

Now the girls at first were considered runaways because they had talked before about wanting to hitch hike to California where the "good waves" were.

5

Gloria Ann Gonzales was born on October 2nd, 1952 in Houston, Harris County, Texas. She was a bookkeeper at the Houston Kroger grocery store.

October 28th, 1971 was the first day of her vacation. She was last seen walking near her apartment on Jacquelyn Street in Houston. Her roommate reported her missing when she failed to come home. 

6

Debbie Catherine Ackerman had one brown eye and one green eye. She was the type of person that was real bubbly, outgoing, laughed. She loved to surf and was a champion water skier and island native who trained at Wix Ski School on Offatts Bayou.

Debbie was born on June 23rd, 1956 in Galveston, Texas to Joseph Frank Ackerman and Deomeria Marqarete Guisti. Joseph worked as a semiskilled machine shop. He was also was enlisted in the United States Army during World War II.

7

Maria Johnson was born in 1956. She was really sweet and quiet. However, once you got her going she was hard to get quiet, too. She was a pretty teen who moved to Galveston after her parents divorced and quickly became Debbie’s best friend. Maria also had a boyfriend. His name was Bob Forester and he was two years her senior and a local ski jumper. Maria was an avid water skier herself.

On Monday, November 15th of 1971, Debbie and Maria were both 15 and students at Ball High School. Debbie's parents had agreed that she could stay at Maria's house for the three day weekend. The two girls hung out at the mall and then went to a Baskin-Robbins store and bought ice cream. Baskin- Robbins was a they frequented often, usually several times a day everyday. A classmate, who was also working at the Baskin-Robbins talked with Debbie and Maria. They stated that they were going to hitchhike to Huston. The classmate then watched as the two girls walked outside and attempted to hitch a ride from the vehicles that passed by. Soon a man in a white van with a peace sticker on the back window pulled up. It seemed to the classmate that the girls knew the man in the van. The classmate looked on as the van's back door opened and Debbie and Maria climbed in then drove away. That was the last time the pair would be seen alive.

On November 17th, 1971, Debbie and Maria's bodies were found nude from the waste down in Turner's Bayou. Both girl's hands had been bound with shoe laces and they both had been shot in the head with a .38-caliber pistol at close range.

"There is a mother who misses you
sadly,

And finds the time long since you went,

And I think of you daily and hourly,

But I try to be brave and content.

But the tears I shed in silence,

And I breathe a sigh of regret,

For you were mine, And I remember,

Though all the world forget.

Sadly Missed By: Mother, Father, Wayne and Glenn."

On November 23, 1971, a man looking for buried treasure stumbled upon Gloria Gonzales' severed remains near Addicks Reservoir. Investigators surmised that animals had detached her head from her body. One of the things they found weird was that her body still had some flesh on it and the head did not. There was a four inch piece of wood cinched around her neck with a two foot cotton cord. The cause of death was thought to be that of ligature strangulation. (However, i read a few different places that it was blunt force trauma to the head.)

There had also been a human molar found there that did not belong to Gloria. Investigators returned to the scene to search further and found Collette Wilson's nude body with a gunshot wound to the skull near the Addicks Reservoir. The body was only 35 yards from where they had found the tooth a few days earlier. Her dad identified the tooth as Collette's because he had performed her dental work himself. There was no sign of her clarinet.

Collette Wilson's  father, Thomas, lived only four years after her death. He had become obsessed with solving the case. He died of a heart attack at age 42. 

Collette's youngest brother also died 4 years after her death. He was accidentally run over and killed in their driveway by a friend who didn't know he was behind the car. When he tried to back out of the driveway, he crushed the child.

On January 3rd, 1972, two boys fishing in Clear Lake discovered what they thought was a sports ball floating in the water. On closer inspection it turned out to be a human skull with a crucifix wrapped around the jaw bone. Six weeks later, searchers discovered the rest of the body, along with that of another, in a marsh near the lake.  

On February 17th, 1972, dental records, along with Sharon Shaw's mother positively identifying the crucifix as her daughter's, confirmed that the skull and body belonged to Sharon. The other body found in the marsh was positively identified as Rhonda Johnson. There was no evidence of trauma found on either of the girl's bodies. The cause of death of both girl's were undetermined but they were classified as a homicide. (I also read where they had been bound at the feet and hands and shot in the back of the head.)

Was Jill Dando Killed Because Of Her Work With CrimeWatch?

"Don't have nightmares. Do Sleep well."

Jill Wendy Dando was a kind person and well liked. She was born on November 9th, 1961 in at Ashcombe House Maternity Home in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset to Jack Dando and Winifred Mary Jean Hockey. Jill has a brother named Nigel.

Jill was raised as a Baptist and remained a devout follower. When she was three years old, it was discovered that she had a hole in her heart and a blocked pulmonary artery. As a result, she had heart surgery on January 12th, 1965.

She wanted to be on tv so bad she wrote Jimmy Savile to try to get on his show.

Jill went to Worle Infant School, Greenwood Junior School, Worle Comprehensive School, and Broadoak Sixth Form Centre, where she was head girl. She studied journalism at the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education in Cardiff. Jill was a member of Weston-super-Mare Amateur Dramatic Society and Exeter Little Theatre Company. She appeared in plays at the Barnfield Theatre. In 1979 she was a volunteer at Sunshine Hospital Radio in Weston-super-Mare.

Jill's first job was as a trainee reporter for the Weston Mercury, a local newspaper company where her father and brother worked. After five years, she started to work for the BBC, becoming a newsreader for BBC Radio Devon in 1985. That year, she transferred to BBC South West, and presented a regional news magazine program, Spotlight South West. In 1987, she worked for Television South West, then BBC Spotlight in Plymouth. In early 1988, Jill moved to national television in London to present BBC television news, specifically the short on-the-hour bulletins that aired on both BBC1 and BBC2.

Jill presented the BBC television program Breakfast Time, Breakfast News, the BBC One O'Clock News, the Six O'Clock News, the travel program Holiday, the crime appeal series Crimewatch and occasionally Songs of Praise. She moved to Fulham in 1994.

From 1989 to 1996, Jill dated BBC executive Bob Wheaton. She then had a brief relationship with national park warden Simon Basil.

Jill was among those with the highest profile of the BBC's on-screen staff, and had been the 1997 BBC Personality of the Year.

In December of 1997, Jill went on a blind date with gynecologist Alan Farthing. The date went well and the two continued to see each other. Alan, who had been separated from his wife at the time, finalized his divorce a few months later.

On January 31st, 1999, Jill and Alan announced their engagement, which was set for September 25th, 1999.

On the April 25th, 1999, Jill presented the first episode of Antiques Inspectors. She was scheduled to present the Six O'Clock News on the evening of the following day. She was featured on the cover of that week's Radio Times magazine. Jill was also booked to host the British Academy Television Awards 1999, alongside Michael Parkinson, at Grosvenor House Hotel on May 9th.

On the morning of April 26th,1999, 37-year-old Jill left her Alan's home in Chiswick. She drove to her house in Fulham, which was a little over 40 minutes away. She had lived in the house, but by April 1999 was in the process of selling it and did not visit it frequently. It was about 11:32 am and as Jill was about to put her keys in the lock to open the front door when she was grabbed from behind. With their right arm, the assailant held her and forced her to the ground, so that her face was almost touching the tiled step of the porch. Then, with their left hand, they fired a single shot at her left temple, killing her instantly. The bullet entered her head just above her ear, parallel to the ground, and came out the right side of her head. This all happened within about 30 seconds of Jill getting out of her car and approaching her front door.

Jill had been shot by a bullet from a 9mm Short caliber semi-automatic pistol. The cartridge appeared to have been subject to workshop modification, possibly to reduce its charge.

According to a British intelligence expert, the gun was place so close to Jill's head that the gases escaping the barrel of the gun exploded inside her head and muffed the sounds of the gunshot. This also prevented blood splatter from getting on the murderer.

Richard Hughes, her next door neighbor, heard a surprised cry from Jill "like someone greeting a friend". Hughes looked out of his front window and, while not realizing what had happened, made the only certain sighting of the killer. A white man was walking away from Jill's house. He well dressed, with dark hair and a solid build. He was six-foot-tall, around 40 years old and wearing a dark Barbour jacket and possibly had a cell phone.

Jill's body was discovered about fourteen minutes after she was shot by neighbor Helen Doble. Police were called at 11:47 am. Jill was taken to the nearby Charing Cross Hospital where she was declared dead on arrival at 1:03pm. 

After the murder, an investigation by the Metropolitan Police, Operation Oxborough, began. Within six months, they had spoken to more than 2,500 people and taken more than 1,000 statements.

The possibility of Jill's murder being a contract killing was thought of first, but since she was living with her fiancé and was only rarely visiting her Fulham residence, it was considered unlikely that a professional assassin would have been sufficiently well informed about her movements to have known at what time she was going to be there. CCTV evidence of Jill's last journey did not show any sign of her being followed.

It was also argued that a professional assassin would not use such a poor quality weapon. The police began to entertain the idea that the killing had been carried out by a crazed individual acting on an opportunist basis. This is what led them to Barry.

Little process was made within the first year, so the police concentrated their attention on Barry George. Barry lived about half a mile from Jill's house and had a history of stalking women and sexual offences. He was put under surveillance, arrested on May 25th, 2000 and charged with Jill's murder on May 28th.

Immediately after Jill's murder, a number of telephone calls were made to the BBC and other media outlets claiming responsibility for the killing on behalf of Serb groups. The callers spoke with central European accents and threatened further killings. These calls were mainly seen as hoaxes. However, Barry's defense barrister, Michael Mansfield QC, proposed that the Serbian warlord leader Arkan had ordered Jill's assassination in retaliation for the NATO bombing of Radio Television of Serbia's headquarters on April 23rd, 1999.

Mansfield suggested that Jill's earlier presentation of an appeal for aid for Kosovar Albanian refugees may have attracted the attention of Bosnian-Serb hardliners.

An opposition journalist was assassinated outside his home in Belgrade just a few days before Jill's murder and the method used in both cases was identical.

Barry was tried, convicted, and on July 2nd, 2001 was sentenced to life imprisonment. Barry appealed twice, both were unsuccessful, but after discredited forensics evidence was excluded from the prosecution's case, Barry's third appeal succeeded in November 2007. A second trial lasting eight weeks ended in Barry's acquittal on August 1st, 2008.

So if Barry didn't kill Jill... who did? 

Cold case reviews by the police after 2008 have concluded that Jill was killed by a professional assassin in a "hard contact execution". Conservative MP Patrick Mercer was reported as saying, "It [Jill's murder] had all the hallmarks of covert forces. The killer even used specially tailored ammunition, which was a Serbian assassination trademark and something I saw when I was over there."

Susan Cox Powell

 

Susan Marie Cox Powell was generous and kind-hearted person who liked to make others feel good. She liked to ride horses. She did well in church and school. She loved choir. She also loved getting her hair and nails done and would wear stylish clothes.

Susan was born on October 16th, 1981 in Alamogordo, New Mexico to Judy and Chuck Cox. She had 3 sisters.

She was pursuing her cosmetology license and actively involved in the LDS church when she reconnected with Josh Powell. Josh Powell had previously dated Susan's older sister and now he had his sights set on Susan.

Josh in 1976, to Steven and Terrica Powell in Puyallup, Washington. Joshua's parents had a dysfunctional marriage. Steven allegedly shared pornography with Joshua and his two brothers and refused to teach or enforce limits on certain behaviors. When Josh was a teenager he allegedly killed gerbils belonging to one of his sisters and threatened his mother with a butcher knife. He also had a history of attempting suicide.

By 1998, Josh was living in Seattle and attending the University of Washington. He met Catherine Terry Everett at a local LDS Church congregation. The two moved into an apartment together and Josh became possessive. He would limit what she could and couldn't do when it came to her family. When Everett visited a friend in Utah without Josh she didn't return and broke up with him over the phone.

During a dinner party at Josh's Tacoma apartment in November 2000 Susan fell in love with Josh. They began dating and in the Portland Oregon Temple in April 2001 they were married.

Due to financial difficulties, in 2002 Josh and Susan Powell briefly moved into Steve’s home in South Hill, Washington. Steven began following Susan around the house with a camera. He would secretly steal her underwear and replace it with duplicates. He also used a small mirror to spy on her when she used the bathroom, read her journals, and even posted love songs online.

Josh and Susan moved into their own apartment. When Steven would visit he'd take Susan's childhood journals and make copies. 

In July of 2003 that Josh and Susan were considering taking a new job in Greeley, Colorado. This news spurred desperation in Steven to confess his love to Susan.

On July 13, 2003, Josh and Susan traveled to a trucking firm in Kent, Washington because Josh was interested in a trucking job. Steve drove to the trucking company as well with camcorder in hand.

Josh practiced driving a semi and Steve offered to give Susan a ride to her parents’ house in South Hill. Susan agreed and pretty soon, Susan and Steve were in his minivan on their way to South Hill. 

Steve placed his camcorder in a bag but accidently left it recording. The picture on the tape was black, but the microphone captured Steve's confession of love.  It also recorded Susan's awkward reply.

"I don’t know where you’re going with this." 

Poor Susan was trapped in a minivan with her deranged father in law that was obsessed with her. 

Susan and Josh relocated to West Valley City, Utah, in 2004. Susan took up a job with Wells Fargo Financial. In Susan's emails she attributed her marital problems both to financial stress brought upon by Joshua's extravagant spending habits and to his "very, very controlling" behavior towards her.

Joshua filed for bankruptcy in 2007, declaring over $200,000 in debts.

By 2008, Susan was expressing fears and frustrations about her marriage to friends.

She recorded a video in July 2009 surveying property damage she attributed to Joshua and wrote a secret will. In the will she said "I want it documented that there is extreme turmoil in our marriage" and, "If I die, it may not be an accident, even if it looks like one."

December 6, 2009, Susan and her two sons, Charles and Braden, attended church services at the Hunter 36th Ward.

A neighbor visited them at home in the afternoon, leaving about 5:00 p.m. The neighbor said that Josh fixed pancakes for dinner and that Susan got very sleepy afterwards and went to bed early.

The entire Powell family were reported missing on December 7 by relatives. Joshua's mother Terrica and sister Jennifer Graves went looking for the family at their house shortly after being informed that the children had not been dropped off at daycare that morning. They called the police when they failed to make contact with Joshua and Susan. The police broke into the house and found no one inside, but noticed two fans blowing on a wet spot on a carpet in the house. Susan did not show up at her job on December 7. Her purse, cell phone, and car were all found at the house.

About 5:00 p.m., Josh returned home with the two boys and was taken to the police station for questioning. He claimed he had left Susan sleeping at home shortly after midnight on December 7. He had taken his boys on a camping trip to Simpson Springs in western Utah, in a snow storm.... Police visited Simpson Springs on December 10, but found no evidence of the campsite that Joshua had described.

Police searched the Powell residence on December 9 and found traces of Susan's blood on the floor.

They also found life insurance policies on Susan for US$1.5 million, and a handwritten letter from Susan expressing fear for her life.

DNA test results, released in 2013, matched one blood sample with Susan, while another sample was determined to have come from an "unknown male contributor".

August 2012, West Valley City police released documents showing that Joshua "did not appear to be concerned about Susan's welfare" He liquidated her retirement accounts, cancelled her regularly scheduled chiropractic sessions; withdrew his children from daycare and spoke to coworkers about how to hide a body in an abandoned mineshaft in the western Utah desert.

Police interviewed the eldest son, Charlie. He confirmed that the camping trip Joshua described took place. Unlike his father, he stated that Susan had gone with them and she did not return. A teacher reported that Charlie had claimed that his mother was dead. Susan's parents claimed that, while at daycare, Braden drew a picture of a van with three people in it, and said that "Mommy was in the trunk".

Investigators informed the media that they planned to question Joshua again, and subpoenaed all footage and interviews of Joshua from local television stations. December 14, Joshua retained an attorney. Police said that he grew increasingly uncooperative. He took his sons to his hometown of Puyallup, Washington, to stay with his father Steven for the holidays. December 24, Joshua was considered a person of interest in the investigation. January 6, he returned with his brother Michael to pack the family's belongings.

Soon afterwards, the website SusanPowell.org was established.

The site's anonymous entries defended Joshua as the victim of a smear campaign by Susan's family, his sister Jennifer, and the LDS Church. Posts also speculated that Susan's disappearance was connected to that of Steven Koecher, a Salt Lake Tribune journalist who vanished the same week as Susan. The posts claimed that the two had run off to Brazil together. 2010, both men claimed that Susan had abandoned her family due to mental illness and that she had left with another man. Susan's family rejected these claims as being "unsupported" by any evidence

Investigators' learned that Joshua's father, Steven "Steve" Powell, had been obsessively infatuated with his son's wife.

Computer images seized from Steven's house in 2010 turned up 4,500 images of Susan taken without her knowledge, including close-ups of specific body parts.

September 14, 2011, Utah authorities discovered a possible gravesite while searching Topaz Mountain, that Joshua had frequented as a campsite.

There were signs of recent soil disturbance and shoveling.

After digging a few feet down, police were unable to find any remains, in spite of careful sifting of the soil. Federal anthropologists ruled out the possibility of the site being an ancient burial ground. Authorities said they were following a scent detected by their sniffer dogs.

After a police raid in their home in 2011, both Joshua and Steven spoke to major news outlets regarding journals that Susan had allegedly written about the relationship between Steven and herself. Steven claimed that he and Susan had been falling in love prior to her disappearance.

He cited the content of the journals, that were written when Susan was a teenager, as evidence to support his theory that she was mentally unstable and could have run away with another man. A judge issued a permanent injunction forbidding Joshua and Steven from publishing any material from Susan's journals. The judge ordered the pair to either return or destroy any journals already published.

September 22, Steven was arrested on charges of voyeurism and child pornography.

Police found evidence that he had secretly videotaped numerous women and young girls, including Susan. John Long, assistant Attorney General for Washington State, said that Joshua was a "subject" in the child porn investigation. A friend of Steven claimed that he was preoccupied with pornography and "was hung up on Susan sexually". Charles "Chuck" Cox, Susan's father, filed for custody of her children the day after Steven was arrested. Cox eventually was granted temporary custody of the boys. The court ruled that Joshua would have to move out of his father's home if he wanted to regain custody, even though he is a person of interest in his wife's disappearance. Josh rented a house in Graham, Washington. Authorities later alleged that he had never actually moved into that house. He just made it appear as if he had satisfied the court's instructions while continuing to live at his father's home.

September 2011, Joshua's sister Jennifer stated that she believed Joshua was "responsible for his wife Susan Powell's disappearance".

She worked with police and went undercover to try to get some answers in Susan's disappearance. She even went so far as to ask Josh point blank, while she was wearing a wire, if and what he did to Susan.

His other sister Alina had also been suspicious of him as well, but later she said withdrew her suspicions and felt that Joshua had been unduly harassed by the investigation. September 28, Mayor Mike  Winder stated, "We feel that we are getting to that tipping point where we have more hot evidence than we have had in the past two years", and that the case was moving forward.

2011, Joshua underwent a series of court-ordered evaluations.

The evaluations determined that Joshua had adequate parenting skills, a steady employment history and no criminal record or history of domestic violence. They also raised issues concerning the ongoing criminal investigations, Joshua's failure to admit normal personal shortcomings, his overbearing behavior with his sons, and his persistent defensiveness and paranoia. The initial recommendation was for Joshua to have visitation with his sons several times a week, supervised by a social worker.

January 2012, Utah police discovered about 400 images of simulated child pornography, bestiality and incest on Joshua's computer. The images, were not illegal due to their being in a hand-drawn, or cartoonish 3-D format. They were cause for "great concern", particularly given Joshua's earlier denial of possessing any such material. Joshua was recommended to receive a more thorough psychosexual evaluation and polygraph test, but no change was suggested in the visitation schedule with the Powell boys despite everything...

There has to be something wrong with the system when a man like this can still have visitation and in his own house..

Chuck Cox told child protective services and other authorities that he felt that if Josh felt cornered or pushed, that he might do something terrible to the boys.

Michael established a Google Sites page which claimed that Susan's parents were abusing and neglecting the boys in collusion with child welfare authorities. He also posted that West Valley Utah police had both mishandled the investigation into Susan's disappearance and were harassing Joshua. Lawyers for the Cox family disputed the allegations, and Google removed the site after a few days due to terms of use violations.

February 5, 2012, a social worker called 9-1-1 after bringing Charlie and Braden to a supervised visit at the house Josh rented. The woman, who was supposed to monitor the visit between Joshua and the boys, said he grabbed them and would not let her in the door.

She said she beat on the door and yelled to be let in to no avail. She went back to her car to call her supervisor. The house exploded, killing Joshua and the two children. Local authorities treated the case as a double murder-suicide, saying that the act appeared to have been deliberate.

Authorities notified Steven, who was in jail. Supposedly he "didn't seem very upset by the news, but was angry towards authorities who notified him". Steven invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not answer questions about the Susan Powell case. Cox and others have stated they believe that Steven knows what actually happened to Susan. Steven was convicted of voyeurism charges in May 2012 in a trial.

Officials confirmed that the explosion had been deliberately planned.

The cause of death for Joshua and the two boys was carbon monoxide poisoning. The coroner also noted that both children had significant chopping injuries on the head and neck. A hatchet was recovered near Joshua's body. He had attacked the boys with it before being overwhelmed by smoke and fumes. There was also found two five-gallon cans of gasoline, as well as evidence that gasoline had been spread throughout the house.

Friends and relatives of Joshua told authorities that he had contacted them by email minutes before. Some of them, received instructions about finding his money and shutting off his utilities. Records showed that he had withdrawn $7,000 from his bank account and had donated his children's toys and books to local charities the day before. Joshua named Michael as the main beneficiary of his life insurance policy.

Charles and Braden are buried at Woodbine Cemetery, which also contains a memorial for Susan. Later police believe they have another person of interest in Susan's disappearance, Josh's brother Michael. Police questioned Michael several times in 2012, after discovering that he had abandoned his car in a junkyard in Oregon several weeks after Susan's disappearance

Michael was "evasive". Utah authorities have since said they believe that Joshua and Michael were accomplices in the murder of Susan

February 11, 2013, Michael took his own life in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He jumped from the roof of a parking garage.

May 21, 2013, West Valley City police announced that they had closed the active investigation into Susan's disappearance.

After, the handwritten will, written by Susan, was found in a safety deposit box. It instructed the reader not to show her husband the will.

That is where the video she made in 2009 was kept as well.

March 2015, Cox won a court battle over the control of Susan's  estate. Joshua's mother, Terrica, and his sister, Alina, sought to have Susan declared legally dead to collect life insurance. The Cox ultimately gained full control of the estate.

Steven was released from prison on July 11, 2017. He had served a total of seven years following his voyeurism and child pornography convictions. Steven passed away of natural causes on Monday, July 23, 2018 in Tacoma, Washington. And with his passing he took whatever secrets he had about Susan's disappearance with him to his grave.

Who Killed Princess Blue AKA Julie Gwenn Davis?

"That's the last thing I remember of her, her giving me a hug, telling me she loved me, and she broke down in tears and walked away, and that's the last time I saw her," Danny said.

Princess Blue AKA Julie Gwenn Davis' remains sat unidentified for over 30 years. Her bones had been found along County Road 101 in Manvel, Texas on September 10th, 1990. At the time it was a dead end road East of Highway 288. A man had gotten out of his car to relieve himself and noticed a pile of debris setting behind a barricade. Upon further investigation he discovered what was a human skull sitting inside of a tire, with the rest of her disarticulated skeleton laying underneath. The man and his wife then went and called police.

Police collected Julie's bones as well as the jewelry found along with them. There was no purse, no ID, no clothing and no hair found at the scene.

The medical examiner could not determine the cause or manner of her death. However, she was likely between 15 and 19 years old with  two fractured ribs, a "defect" on a bone beneath her left knee and an upper left front tooth had been surgically removed. Her height was estimated at 4'8" to 5'2 and there were no drugs found in her system. It is possible that her remains could have sat there for 6 months to a year before they were found.

The police circulated her description, where she was found and pictures of a turquoise unicorn ring as well as a pearl bracelet that had been found at with her remains.

The case went cold for 16 years until a new detective on the case went through what little evidence there was. 

He discovered a 1975 graduation ring from the class from Robert E. Lee High School in Houston, Texas. The ring had a big blue sapphire in it and the detective decided to name her "Princess Blue." 

A sketch was rendered of what Princess Blue might have looked like. DNA advances revealed that she was white with African American ancestry.

There was around 650 students that had graduated Robert E. Lee Highschool in 1975. Investigators armed with the sketch focused on those students. None of the classmates that were interviewed recognized the sketch of Princess Blue.

Princess Blue's bones were sent back to the lab for phenotyping, which can determine eye, hair, skin color and her genetic ancestry.

Julie Gwenn Davis was a teenager with blonde, curly hair. She grew up in Orange, Texas and went missing in the late 1980's after she had moved to New Orleans, Louisiana at the age of 18.

Since Julie's disappearance, her brother Danny has searched and wondered what happened to his sister. In 2019 Danny and his brother summited their DNA to state police in hopes of identifying a different missing woman. 6 months later, Danny's DNA was a match Princess Blue. It was a bitter sweet moment for Danny. He would never see Julie again, but could finally put her to rest.

Julie's parents both passed away never knowing what happened to their daughter. Danny believes that Julie was murdered. He along with the rest of Julie's siblings are on a quest for justice.

Danny was told by his sister, Shelly, that Shelly met Julie's husband at one point and she said he was from Houston. That could explain the ring from Robert E. Lee High School. Danny believes Julie got married at 18, shortly after she left home and headed for New Orleans. Danny was 17 years old at the time.

A silver ring with a scroll design, a gold ring with six clear stones and two silver rings(both rings were described as almost identical to one other.) had also been found with Julie's remains.

If you have any information in Julie's case, no matter how small, please contact the Orange County, Texas Sheriff's Office at 409-883-2612.

Hope Ann Moore Was Turning Her Life Around When She Disappeared.

Hope Ann Moore was born on January 3rd, 1967. She had a troubled past but was trying to change for her two sons.

In April, 1999, 32-year-old Hope was living with her boyfriend Clint Kent, and his older brother, Scott "Scotty" Kent on the 1600 block of Channelview Drive in Galveston, Texas.

Hope had been with Clint for four years and they had a son, but she was still legally married to another man whom she also had a son with. Clint was legally separated from his wife, but not divorced. Allegedly, Hope was also secretly seeing another man. And allegedly, after Scott joined the household, Hope had problems with him and claimed he'd tried to rape her.

Hope had a steady job at at the Bob Pagan Ford dealership and gotten a raise. She was a hard worker as well as passing every random drug test.

On the 26th, Hope didn't show up for work. Her boss thought this was odd because she had never done that before. The next day Clint showed up at the dealership, handed in Hope's keys and informed them that she wouldn't be back. The next day Hope's boss called police and reported her missing.

Clint said he was visiting his parents out of town on the day Hope disappeared. He claimed that he tampered with her brand-new truck before he left, because he didn't want her to be able to leave home. Clint refused to take a lie-detector test.

Scott claimed that Hope had came home on the 25th, in a pickup truck, packed some clothes and her checkbook, and left in an older model, dirty, beat-up Chevrolet Impala. 

Both Clint and Scott are considered possible suspects in Hope's disappearance. Scott had pawned two of Hope's gold rings eight days after her disappearance, and allegedly forged a check on her bank account for $345.52, which was the exact balance of the account. 

Hope has never been seen again and there has been no activity on her social security card.

Hope's eldest son was eleven years old at the time of her disappearance. She had sent him to stay at a children's home a few weeks before she went missing. Clint later told Hope's son that she'd abandoned the family. He now believes his mother met with foul play.

Authorities have always suspected Clint and Scott in Hope's disappearance and so has a private investigator.

At the time of her disappearance Hope was 5'0 - 5'1, 145 - 155 pounds with blonde hair and green eyes. She had scars on her left knee, between her eyebrows, and on her right elbow, as well as a burn near her right thumb.

She might have been wearing blue floral-print shorts and possibly garnet earrings, a rope necklace, and rings on all her fingers when she disappeared.

Hope would be 54 years old if she is still alive.

If you have any information, no matter how small, please contact Galveston Police Department at 409-765-3770 or 409-765-3766

League City Police Department at 409-797-3767

There is a blind guy who can ride his bike in traffic using his tongue!

Daniel Kish was born blind and figured out how to use echolocation by clicking his tongue and listening to the echoes. Daniel works with a non-profit organization known as World Access for the Blind to help train around 500 blind students in the technique he named “FlashSonar.” He has been nicknamed the “Real-life Batman”.

He enjoys various outdoor hobbies, including mountain biking and hiking.

A Veteran Spat Out A Bullet That Was Stuck For over 50 Years In His Brain.

On March 24th, 1921, a 78-year-old American Civil War veteran, named Willis Meadows, coughed up a bullet that a bullet had been stuck in his head for 58 years. Willis had been shot in the eye during the Battle of Vicksburg in 1863 and was in pretty good health. In 1921 he went to an extreme coughing fit and couldn't breathe. All of the sudden, a bullet flew out of his mouth onto the coffee table.

In 1950, the man who shot Willis, Peter Knapp, saw Willis' story in a local newspaper. That is when Peter realized he was the one who had fired that bullet way back when. Within a few months, Peter contacted Willis. Despite Willis' past as a confederate soldier and Peter's as a Union soldier, the two became friends.

The History and Legends of St. Patrick's Day.

St. Patrick's Day, also called the Feast of Saint Patrick, is a cultural and religious celebration, held on the traditional death date of Saint Patrick, the foremost patron saint of Ireland.

St. Patrick didn’t always live in Ireland. In fact, he was born in Britain and didn’t arrive in Ireland until he was 16 years old, when he was kidnapped and brought to Ireland as a slave.  He later escaped, but returned to Ireland and started teaching others about the religion. He is said to have converted many to Christians.

Even though you are likely to see a four-leaf clover on St. Patrick’s Day, Patrick allegedly used a three-leaf clover, or shamrock, as part of his teachings. He used the shamrock to represent the Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit).

Ireland is an island that is green with leafy trees and grassy hills. Due to that fact, the nation is sometimes called the Emerald Isle. 

The color that people originally associated with St. Patrick was blue! Green wasn't really associated with St. Patrick’s Day festivities until  the 18th century, when the shamrock became a national symbol. 

Even the mythical fairies called leprechauns didn't use to wear green. They were actually first described as wearing red.

The reason you’re supposed to wear green on St. Patrick’s Day or risk getting pinched is a tradition tied to folklore that says wearing green makes you invisible to leprechaun. The people that the leprechaun can see they like to pinch. Some people also think that wearing the color will bring good luck, and others wear it to honor their Irish ancestry.

The first St. Patrick’s Day parade took place in the United States of America. It was held on March 17th, 1601 in a Spanish colony in what is now St. Augustine, Florida. It was organized by the Spanish Colony's Irish vicar Ricardo Artur. 

Corned Beef and cabbage was an American innovation. Ham and cabbage was eaten in Ireland, but corned beef offered a cheaper substitute for impoverished immigrants. Irish-Americans in the late 19th century and early 20th, purchased leftover corned beef from ships returning from the tea trade in China.