Who's the Killer? Wichita 1974 Pt.1

It was 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 14, 1974, 1834 Edgemoor, in Wichita, Kansas.

Joseph and Julie Otero were in the kitchen cleaning up from dinner.

9 year old Joseph Jr. opened the back door to take the dogs out, when suddenly, a strange man enters the house.

The stranger confronts Mr. and Mrs. Otero, Joseph Jr. and Joseph's sister, eleven year old Josephine.

He pulls a pistol on them and claims that he was a fugitive from justice and that he just wanted food, a car, and a place to hang out at for awhile.
He then told them that he had to tie them up.
He then took them to the back bedroom.
Mr. Otero complained about being uncomfortable, because he had cracked ribs from a car accident.
The stranger loosened the ropes and put a pillow underneath Mr. Otero's head.
Mr. Otero told the stranger he'd give him his car and all their money, which was not very much.
The stranger didn't have a mask on, therefore, he could be easily ID.
The stranger put a plastic bag over Mr. Otero's head and some cords around his neck and attempted to strangle him, but he didn't die.
Then he strangled Mrs. Otero until they passed out.
After that he put a bag on Joseph Jr.'s head as Mrs. Otero woke up, pleading to spare her son.
The killer took the bag of Joseph Jr.'s head and went back over to Mrs. Otero and strangled her again until she died.
Then he went back over to Mr. Otero, put the bag back on his head and killed him.
He then went over to Joseph Jr., put a bag over his head, and took him to another bedroom.
The killer then put a cloth over Jr.'s head and a T shirt, and Jr. died.
The killer went back in the other bedroom and Josephine had woken up.

He took Josephine to the basement and hung her.
He then goes through the house, cleaning it up.

He took Mr. Otero's watch and a radio, took the family car and then drove it over to Dillion's, where he abandoned it.

15 year old Charlie, and 13 year old Carmen come home to the grizzly scene.

Then the police arrived.
They found no forensic evidence and there was no DNA data bases yet.

THE KILLING DOESN'T STOP THERE........

Murder of a Hollywood Starlet.

Christina Helm

She was born Sandra Clements on November 11, 1949 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Harry and Delores Clements.

She was best known for her guest appearance on an episode of Wonder Woman and Starsky and Hutch.

She was described as "very beautiful, tall, about 5’9" with yellow-brown owl eyes, and smart."

She ran away from home in the mid-sixties to become a go-go dancer at age 17 and later a Playboy bunny. 

She had a daughter named Nicole, who was rasied by her grandfather.

Christina's husband was killed in a car accident.

After, she went to New York and became a top fashion model.

She was a socialite in the truest form and made contacts all over West Hollywood.

She was romantically connected to notable men including Warren Beatty, Joe Namath, the Shah of Iran, Mick Jagger, Jack Nicholson, Frankie Crocker, and Ryan O’Neal.

She kept a detailed diary of her escapades.

She lived in a manson and drove expensive cars.

In 1977, the aspiring actress was found dead, beaten and stabbed 27 times, outside her agent’s home in West Hollywood.
Over 70 people have been interviewed in the past thirty years, and yet to date there has been no resolution to the case.

Peter Ivers

He was an American musician, songwriter and television personality. 

He was born September 20, 1946, in Chicago Illinois to Merle Rose and Jordan Rose.

His mother was a homemaker and his dad a physician.

He was best known as the host of the experimental music television show New Wave Theater.

Ivers' main instrument was a harmonica.

Muddy Waters referred to him as "the greatest harp player alive."

He made his live debut opening for The New York Dolls.

He scored the 1977 David Lynch film Eraserhead.

He also wrote songs that were recorded by Diana Ross and the Pointer Sisters.

Peter was found bludgeoned to death with a hammer on March 3rd, 1983, in his LA apartment. 

The LAPD officers sent to Ivers' house failed to secure the scene, allowing many of Ivers' friends and acquaintances to traffic through. 

Officers even allowed David Jove to leave with the blood-stained blankets from Ivers' bed.

Harold Ramis was briefly considered a suspect in the murder, but was quickly cleared after he was able to establish an alibi.

Some of Iver's friends believe that David Jove killed him due to their contentious relationship.

That David was capable of anything.

Following the publication of a 2008 biography on Ivers, the LAPD re-opened the investigation into his death.

It is still unsolved.

NASCAR Driver Chris Trickle, Couldn't Out Race Death.

Chris Trickle

He was an American stock car racing driver and the nephew of NASCAR's Dick Trickle.

He was born May 30, 1973, to Chuck and Barbra Trickle.

Trickle was father of twins, Joelyn Hope and Cole Trickle Miele.

He began driving motorcycles when he was 8 years old and had two track championships by the time he was 15.

Trickle gained national attention while appearing on the NASCAR Winter Heat series on TNN and ESPN2.

He was scheduled to join the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series in 1997.

February 9, 1997, Trickle left his home in Las Vegas around 9 p.m. to play tennis with a friend at a lighted court.
As he was driving over the freeway, a car drove alongside and fired shots into his car hitting him in right between the eyes.

His car spun off the road and hit a sign.

When Chris was pulled from the car, he was barely alive.

He had no known enemies.

They couldn't take the bullet out at the time for testing, it would have killed him instantly.

Chris survived in a semi-comatose state for 409 days, occasionally looking like he would soon awaken and then relapsing.

March 25,1999, he died from complications to his wounds at age 25.

Police thought it might have been a thrill kill.

His murder remains unsolved.

Even Columbo couldn't solve Barbra Colby's death.

Barbra Colby

She was an actress, known for her roles on The Odd Couple, Kung Fu Gun Smoke, the Mary Tyler Moore Show and Phyllis.
Her first important television role was in the series premiere episode of Columbo.

She was born July 2, 1939, in New York City.

On July 24, 1975 Colby, 36,  and colleague James Kiernan were walking to their car following an acting class in Venice, Los Angeles, California.

They were shot inside a parking area. Colby was killed instantly, but Kiernan was able to describe the shooting to police before he later died of his wounds.He said that he did not recognize the two men who shot them.
He also stated that the shooting had occurred without warning, reason or provocation.
Police concurred because there was no attempt to rob the pair and concluded that it was a random drive-by shooting or a targeted killing.
At the time of her death, Colby was separated from her husband, Bob Levitt.

The killers were never identified and the case remains unsolved.

Punk Might Not Be Quite Dead Yet, But Nancy Spungen is. UPDATED 1/1/2020

🧷Nancy Laura Spungen🧷

"We are partners in crime. And we have good fun. And we help each other out." 

Nancy Spungen

She was the American girlfriend of English Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and a figure of the 1970's punk rock scene.

Nancy was born February 27, 1958, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Franklin and Deborah Spungen. Her father was a businessman, and her mother owned a health food store in nearby Jenkintown, PA, known as "The Earth Shop."

She was very smart and skipped a few grades in school, but she was also emotionally disturbed. Her fits of anger lead to violence got her expelled from the local public school at age 11, and her parents sent her to psychotherapy. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 15.   She is also reported to have attempted suicide several times, and suffered from extreme depression.

After graduating from Devereux Manor High School, she briefly attended the University of Colorado. Shortly after leaving the University of Colorado, she moved to New York City, and became a groupie of rock bands, including Aerosmith, The New York Dolls, and The Ramones. To earn money, she reportedly worked as a stripper and occasionally as a prostitute in New York City

In 1976, she moved to London and met Sid, and soon moved in together. The relationship was turbulent and riddled with drug use and domestic violence.

October 1978, Nancy was found dead under the bathroom sink of the couple's hotel room. She was stabbed once in the abdomen. 

Sid Vicious was charged with second degree murder and plead not guilty. He supposedly owned the knife that killed her.

Before the case even went to trial, Sid died of a heroin overdose while on bail in February 1979.

Various authors and filmmakers have speculated about Sid role in Nancy's death.

There was also a possibility that Nancy was killed by a drug dealer who frequently visited their room.

Vicious had gone on to have a Europe-wide solo hit with a tuneless version of the Frank Sinatra classic My Way. And just days before Nancy's death, he had received $25,000 in cash, royalty payments from Richard Branson's Virgin Records.

Witnesses say that on the night before Nancy's death, the room was flushed with cash. The following morning, however, the cash was gone, and a man, only known as Michael, was later seen carrying a large wad of cash secured with one of Nancy's purple hair ties.

Michael was described by witnesses as a young, slim, blond man with a penchant for alligator shoes. He spoke with a British accent and had moved into the hotel recently, befriending Vicious and Nancy. Several of the couple's friends remember seeing him with them in the days before Nancy's death. Musician Neon Leon, who had been with the couple on the night of the killing, says he called Nancy shortly before the time that she is estimated to have been stabbed. He says he could hear Michael talking in the background.

A resident of the hotel that Nancy and Vicious were staying at stopped at the couple's door shortly before the stabbing and says Michael was inside.

A would-be actor called Rockets Redglare, also stayed at the same hotel. He had been born "Michael Morra." Within days of Nancy's murder he allegedly confessed to a friend that he was the real killer.

Redglare was a well-known figure on Manhattan's Lower East Side and went on to star with Madonna in the Hollywood movie Desperately Seeking Susan and with Tom Hanks in Big. 

Redglare died at 52 years old, in May 2001 of a combination of kidney and liver failure caused by his years of drug use.

There is also a conspiracy theory that Nancy faked her death and reinvented herself. The people that believe that theory say that Nancy is really Bette Midler. 

I particularly don't think Nancy would have gotten a nose job in order to make it bigger, but what do i know?

Who killed Hogan's Hero?

"Bob" Robert Edward

Crane

He was an American actor, drummer, radio host, and disc jockey known particularly for starring in the CBS sitcom Hogan's Heroes.

He was born July 13th, 1928, in Waterbury, Connecticut.

He was a drummer from age 11.

His first major role was on the Donna Reed show.

June 1978, Crane was living in the Winfield Place Apartments in Scottsdale, Arizona.
June 29, Crane's co-star Victoria Ann Berry, entered his apartment after he failed to show up for a lunch meeting.
That is when she discovered Crane.
He had been bludgeoned to death with a weapon that was never identified.
Investigators believed it to be a camera tripod.
An electrical cord had been tied around his neck.

Crane and John Henry Carpenter supposedly filmed themselves having sex with women.

Crane had a extensive collection of this in his home, which led the police to Carpenter.

Carpenter's rental car was impounded and searched.

Blood smears were found that matched Crane's blood type.

In 1990, Scottsdale Detective Jim Raines, re-examined the evidence from 1978 and persudaded the county attorney to reopen the case.

Raines discovered an evidence photograph of the car's interior that appeared to show a piece of brain tissue.

Even though the actual sample was lost, an Arizona judge said it was admissible.

June 1992, Carpenter was arrested and charged with Crane's murder.

During the 1994 trial, Crane's son Robert, testified that in the weeks before his father's death, Crane had repeatedly expressed a desire to sever his friendship with Carpenter.

Carpenter was acquitted and still maintains his innocence. 

After the trial, Robert Crane speculated publicly that Crane's widow, Patricia Olson, might have had a role in instigating the crime..
He alluded to his dad's will, which excluded him, his siblings, and his mother, and left the entire estate to Olson.

Maricopa County District Attorney Rick Romley, who prosecuted the case, is convinced that John Carpenter killed Crane.

Some people suggest that the women in the videos Crane and Carpenter "collected" might have not been too happy and had Crane killed.

The case remains unsolved.

Who Erased Jack Nance?

Jack Nance

"We all have strange things about us."

He was known for his work particularly for his starring roles in Eraserhead , and Twin Peaks. 

Born Marvin John Nance on December 21, 1943, in Boston Massachusetts.

His wife, Kelly Jean Van Dyke daughter of Jerry Van Dyke, and niece to Dick Van Dyke, committed suicide on November 17, 1991.

Nance, who was in Bass Lake, California, filming Meatballs 4 at the time, attempted to console her on the phone as she threatened suicide. 

Then a lightning storm knocked out the phones in Bass Lake, Nance and the director, Bobby Logan, found a deputy sheriff who contacted Los Angeles police and the apartment manager. 

They broke in and found that she had hung herself.

On December 30, 1996, Nance died in South Pasadena, California, under mysterious circumstances. 

The day before, he lunched with friends Leo Bulgarini and Catherine Case.
He had a visible "crescent shaped bruise" under his eye.
When asked about it, he told them the story about a brawl outside a Winchell's Donuts store on the morning earlier that morning.
He described the incident as, "I told off some kid. I guess I got what I deserved."
He soon went home, complaining of a headache.

The injuries he received caused a subdural hematoma.
This means that he had brain trauma, swelling in his brain that caused pressure and damaged the brain tissue.

This resulted in his death the following morning. 

He died alone in his apartment.
His body was discovered on the bathroom floor by Bulgarini.
An autopsy revealed that the actor's blood alcohol level was 0.24% at the time of his death.

That means he was a little buzzed.

The song "I Gotta Move" by Frank Black and the Catholics, refers to the circumstances of Nance's death, as well as the murder of Peter Ivers.

Why did He get into a fight before 6.a.m. in a doughnut shop?

Who killed Jack Nance?

Did Bobby Fuller Fight The Mob And The Mob Won?

Bobby Gaston Fuller

Was an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for "Let Her Dance" and "I Fought the Law".

He was born in Baytown, Texas, in 1942.

In 1964 he moved to Los Angeles with his band, The Bobby Fuller Four, and was signed to Mustang Records by producer Bob Keane, who was noted for discovering Ritchie Valens and producing many surf music groups.

Fuller was found dead at 23 years old, in an automobile parked outside his Hollywood apartment on July 18, 1966.
In the autopsy report the corner said,“Deceased was found lying face down in front seat of car, a gas can, 1/3 full, cover open, windows were all rolled up & doors shut, not locked, keys not in ignition."
He his arms and shoulders and his body was soaked with gasoline.

The autopsy report also stated that Bobby's face, chest, and side were covered in "petechial hemorrhages" probably caused by gasoline vapors and the summer heat.

Petechial hemorrhages are red or purple spot on the skin, caused by a minor bleed from broken capillary blood vessels that can be caused my numerous things, anywhere from disease to asphyxiation or any kind of trauma.

There was no sigh that he was beaten.

The boxes for "accident" and "suicide" were checked on the report, but next to the boxes were question marks.

Even tho his cause of death was ruled as "accidental asphyxiation",

some people think he was murdered.

The investigation didn't go to well.

The crime scene left unsecured and no fingerprints taken from the gasoline can found in the car. 

Some people believed Fuller had been murdered and the perpetrators had fled just as they were about to torch his car to destroy the evidence. 

A partner of Bob Keane reputedly had mob connections.

The record company was involved in payola scams.

There has also been speculation that Charles Manson was involved.

Jim Reese, guitarist for the Bobby Fuller Four, said that four days after Bobby died, three armed men came to his apartment looking for him.
The next day, Reese and drummer Dalton Powell fled to El Paso, taking along a loaded pistol just in case.

NHL's Brian "Spinner" Spencer

Brian Roy "Spinner" Spencer

He was a Canadian professional ice hockey player.

He played ten seasons in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabres, Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins.

His dad once took over a T.V. station at gunpoint, when his son's television debut was preempted and was killed.

After hockey, Spencer, in 1987, was charged with kidnapping and murder and faced the death penalty.

Family and friends, gathered around him and tried to help. 

A former teammate from the Sabres, Rick Martin, testified as a character witness at his trial. 

The jury returned a not guilty verdict in March 1988 and Spencer vowed to change his life. 

He moved to Florida, where his life continued to spiral out of control. 

Three months later, Spencer he was fatally shot.

His companion at the time of the incident, Gregory Scott Cook, told police it was a robbery following a crack cocaine purchase in Riviera Beach, Florida.

Police Capt. Jerry Poreba said there were questions about Cook's account, however he was not a suspect.

No one knows who killed him.

His death remains unsolved.

Spencer was survived by five children from two marriages, and his twin brother, Byron.