Model and Law Student Shot and Killed in Her Boyfriend's Bathroom.

Reeva Steenkamp was born August 19, 1983 to Barry Steenkamp and June Marshall, previously Cowburn.

She was a South African model who had always dreamed about becoming a lawyer.

At the University of Port Elizabeth she studied Law, graduating in 2005 later working as a paralegal before applying to the bar.
She used her platform to speak out on violence against women.

She had broken her back while horseback riding as a youngster and went through rehabilitation to walk again.

Reeva and Pistorius met over a lunch at a car racing track in November 2012.

On February 13, 2013, 20 year old Reeva, talked to her mom on the phone as she drove to Pistorius' place.

In the next morning, on Valentines Day, Pistorius says he panicked and he was terrified when he heard a noise coming from his bathroom.

He says it was too dark to see anything and he assumed that there was an intruder in his place.

He said that he grabbed his gun from under his bed and the rushed on his stumps to the bathroom.

So, the room was so dark he couldn't see if his girlfriend was in bed or not, but he could find his gun under the bed?

He doesn't attempt to warn her, wake her up or say anything to her about there being an intruder?He was so terrified that he ran towards the danger without a second thought?

Supposedly he shouted for Reeva to call the police.

He then fired four times through the bathroom door.

If he thought it was an intruder.. what made him stop?

What made him only fire 4 shots?

It was Reeva in the bathroom.

What was Reeva doing up at that time?

She had her cellphone in the bathroom with her.

Was she afraid and trying to call someone?

She was shot through her right hip, elbow, the little finger of her left hand was grazed by a bullet.
Finally she was hit in the right temple.

Since the first shot hit her in the hip, she would've screamed out.
Why didn't Pistorius stop when he heard her scream?

Pistorius called emergency services, but she had already passed away.

Neighbors reported hearing a woman scream, then moments of silence followed by gunshots and the more screaming and then more gunshots.

Oscar had said he fired at the bathroom door and then went back to the bedroom to check on Reeva.

When he saw that she wasn't there, that is when he put on his prosthetic legs, ran back to the bathroom and tried to break down the door, because the door was locked.

Why did she have the bathroom door locked?

Reeva sent a text message to Pistorius, three weeks before her murder.
She stated that she was afraid of him sometimes and how he just snaps at her.

On September 12, 2014 he was found guilty of manslaughter.
He was given five years in jail and served a one-year prison sentence.

On 3 December 2015, the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa overturned the conviction for mansaughter and instead convicted Pistorius of murder. 

On July 6, 2016, he was sentenced to 6 years in prison, despite the minimum sentence for murder in South Africa being 15 years. 

On appeal by the state for a longer prison sentence, the Supreme Court of Appeal extended Pistorius's prison term to 13 years and five months.

Law Student Murdered By A Stalker.

Lauren Giddings moved to Macon, Georgia from Maryland after being accepted to law school.
She was 27 years old and about to take the bar exam.
She was a Mercer University Law School student and about to make her dream of becoming a attorney a reality.
Laura regularly met up with a study group at the library.

In June of 2011, no one had seen her for several days. 

She wasn't attending her study group, she wasn't responding to emails and she wasn't answering her phone. 

Her phone eventually went dead.

Laura's sister asked a friend of Lauren's to check her apartment using a spare key. Lauren was not there, but her I.D. and keys were still inside.

A missing person's report was filed and when police arrived they noticed Lauren had also left behind a laptop, a purse and her cell phone.

Several days later, her torso was found in a dumpster outside, at the back of the apartments.

The Dumpster should have been collected that morning, but the truck was running late, leaving Lauren's remains and other DNA evidence to be discovered by police.

Her head, arms and legs were missing.

DNA results confirmed that was Lauren's remains.

Fellow graduate Stephen McDaniel  also attended Mercer and lived across from the law school. 

He was a friend of Laura's and helped in the search for her.

Then he gave a interesting interview.

Investigators start looking a whole lot closer at McDaniel.

He was described by friends as "quirky" but "intelligent." Investigators learn that his friends also considered him a bit creepy, saying he had an obsession with zombies. 

He had often asked others how to commit the perfect murder.

They searched his apartment and in his possession both a master key and key to her apartment and he had a flash drive that belonged to her that contained hundreds of her personal photos.
His computer history showed an interest in her Facebook and LinkedIn pages.
Sometimes he would be searching for images of her around the same time that he was looking up violent pornography.
Her underwear was also found in his apartment.

Police say McDaniel had free access to her apartment for some time and had been stalking her every move.

Police found deleted video he had used to survey her apartment night it appears that she was murdered.
It was found in a camera in his possession.
He had took a wooden pole and had duct-taped or somehow fixed that camera to the end of the pole and then held the pole up really high to peek inside her window.

On the day Lauren's remains were found, McDaniel was arrested on unrelated burglary charges.
Cops used that opportunity to interrogate him for answers.
McDaniel was charged with Lauren Giddings' murder.
He eventually accepted a deal, pleading guilty to murder, and openly confessing the lurid details in court.

He said he had put Lauren's head and limbs in another dumpster.

Sadly, those were never found.

Stephen McDaniel was sent to prison for life.

Jose Ruiz Vazquez disappeared

Jose Ruiz Vazquez was around 50 years old when he went missing on December 22, 2012.

His family last heard from him when he called them from Salt Lake City, Utah.
He has never been heard from again.
He lead a transient lifestyle at the time of his disappearance.

Hispanic male, black hair, hazel eyes, 5' 7" and  200 to 210 lbs. 

Ruiz Vazquez has a scar on his lower lip. has long eyelashes and he had a thick black mustache at the time of his disappearance. 

His nicknames are El Primo, Grande and Jessy.

Katrina Survivor Curtis Crosby Is Missing

Curtis Crosby was around 60 years old when he went missing on October 1, 2014.

He was brought to Utah after the deadly hurricane hit his home in 2005.

He started a new life in South Salt Lake helping others who, like him, had been displaced by the storm.

Curtis was last seen by police camping in a vacant office building in Millcreek, 3949 S. 700 East, though he still had an apartment about five blocks away in South Salt Lake at the time.

He has never been seen or heard from again.

The next day, a manager from the office building told police Crosby was gone but had left his belongings behind.

When police went to his apartment to take him his belongings, he wasn't there.

His daughter travelled to Salt Lake City from New Orleans over the weekend to search for her father, checking homeless shelters and hospitals.

His daughter said that he always remained close to the family and that 

"He'll give you the clothes off his back and the food off his plate," 

Mental Health Patient Missing

Ayyub Pugh was forty five when he went missing on August 14, 2010.

He was last seen at his family's home in Layton, Utah.

He walked away and was never seen or heard from again.

Ayyub had been in New York and Florida prior to residing in Utah.
He is a mental health patient and may possibly seek or be involuntarily committed to mental health facilities.
Last known wearing Beige shirt, dress pants and carrying a bible.

He is an African-American male with black hair and brown eyes.
He has scars on his arm, chin and calf, and he may have a full beard.

Alias names: Job Apostol, Pugh Ayyub, Jose Job, Jose Linet Job, Job Linette and/or Nmi Nmi.

Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey on February 1818.

He was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman who was born into slavery.

His mother was of Native American ancestry and his father was of African and European descent.

He was separated from his mother as an infant.

He escaped slavery at age 20 and became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York.

Anna Murray, a free black woman from Baltimore he met while in captivity with the Aulds, married him in September 1838.
They had five children together.

He published the first of his five autobiographies, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
He wrote: 

“From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom.”
“Thus is slavery the enemy of both the slave and the slaveholder.”

After the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862, he continued to push for equality and human rights until his death in 1895.

He died after suffering a heart attack on his way home from a meeting of the National Council of Women, in Washington, D.C.

He was also an advocate for woman rights and specifically the right of women to vote.

His work served as an inspiration to the civil rights movement of the 1960's.

Ronald Reagan helped cover evidence in Natalie Wood's Death?

Hollywood insiders, experts and law-enforcement figures claim that former president and actor Ronald Reagan, helped cover up Robert Wagner's involvement in Natalie Wood's death.
They all were guests on podcast “Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood.”
It is a 12-part audio documentary sheds new light on her case.

Author Kathleen McKenna stated,

“They were old friends, they’d been in the studio system together. I very much doubt Ronald Reagan thought he had killed Natalie, he just thought he was grieving and wanted to protect him.”

One of the many things done wrong with Natalie Wood's case was the coroner’s failure to scrape Wood’s fingernails for tissue that could have yielded evidence of a struggle.
Retired trial lawyer Sam Perroni came forward with the contents of a secret addendum to the autopsy report that the medical examiner commissioned from colleague Paul Miller  but whose sensational findings were never made public.
Marilyn Wayne came forward saying she received a warning in the days after the actress’ demise to zip her lip  or there would be consequences.

She said she had suspicions that it came from a powerful Hollywood star and her being only 19 at the time, it scared her into being quiet.

Do We Finally Know Who Jack The Ripper Is?

It is no secret that painter Walter Sickert was obsessed with Jack The Ripper.
He is one of the people suspect to be him.
Writer and former crime fighter Patricia Cornwell has spend a fortune on his paintings and other items of his, in order to try to prove that he is the killer.
There is some people that think she is silly to believe that he was Jack the Ripper.
Well, a newly discovered painting could prove her right and silence her disbelievers.

 Writer Paul Christian claims that the artist left hidden clues in his painting, which prove he was behind the murders.

Christian was sent the painting in 2013 by an Essex art collector, Alper Hussain.

The painting displays the streets of London featuring three figures.

The figures are thought to be Jack and two are his victims, Mary Kelly and Martha Tabram.

A set of railings in the work that appear to bear the numbers 1888, which was the year the Ripper killings took place.

On the other side of Sickert's painting is a doodle which Christian claims is the police chief who oversaw the hunt for the Ripper.

Jonbenet Ramsey's Body To Be Exhumed

Reportedly, JonBenet's father, John Ramsey, gave the go a head in May of this year, to exhume JonBenet's body.
John Ramsey states that he made a mistake on not letting his daughter be exhumed earlier.
Also a newly appointed district attorney in Colorado's Boulder County formed a special task force to investigate 34 unsolved missing persons and murder cases.
One of the cases the task force is supposedly investigating is that of the killing of JonBenet.
If the exhumation happens, when will it happen?
Do you think that with modern technology, investigators will be able to crack the case?

Anita Knutson was murdered and the killer is still on the loose. Updated 10/25/2024

Updated 10/25/2024: Nichole Rice was arrested on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, and charged with Anita's murder. Rice was Anita's former roommate at the time and two of them didn't get along. Anita had told her family she was afraid of Rice. Rice is now a 34-year-old married mother who worked as a civilian employee at the Minot Air Force Base. Rice's trial is set for January 2025.

Anita Knutson

Gordon and Sharon Knutson had adopted Anita when she was just a baby. She was the girl everybody wanted to know. Anita was attractive and driven. She possessed that rare quality that made her the center of attention and loved by all. The Knutsons were a close and supportive family.

In 2007, Anita Knutson was an 18-year-old Minot State University student majoring in elementary education. She  juggled three part-time jobs while attending college. Despite a busy life, Anita Knutson kept in regular contact with her family. When she went two days without returning phone calls, her father went to her off-campus apartment on June 4, 2007. When repeated knocks went unanswered, her father had the building manager open the door. Her father stepped inside and he found his daughter’s lifeless body face down on her bed. Her bed was covered with blood that had soaked the entire mattress and spilled over into puddles on the floor..Authorities determined she had been stabbed multiple times, more than a day before her body was found. The murder weapon, a knife, was found discarded in a sink. Detectives found that someone had cut the screen in Anita's apartment window in order to make it look like someone broke in. There was no robbery or sexual assault. No drugs or alcohol were found in Anita's system and she had no known connections to questionable people or activities.

“I definitely think that she knew the person who killed her — at least in passing,” said Anita's sister Anna Knutson. “It may not have been that they were close friends, but possibly acquaintances.”

Police investigated neighbors, classmates, and people who patronized the same club she liked to spend weekend nights at. No promising leads turned up. They questioned the janitor several times. He was the one who knew about the window and he also had access to a pass key to her apartment. He denied any involvement and police seemed to drop him as a suspect. Less than a year after her murder, the janitor committed suicide.

Anita had a female roommate who she did not get along with. She had complained to her family about the girl many times. She even confided that they had had several arguments that turned physical. The roommate had hurt Anita's foot on one occasion and threatened her repeatedly. Anita told several people she was frightened of the girl and that she feared for her life. Police tracked the girl down and questioned her but she denied involvement. The girl's mother showed up at Anita's funeral to angrily confront Sharon about the police questioning her daughter. Police were concerned with the history between the two but her roommate had a firm alibi corroborated by her parents who claimed she spent the entire weekend at their house. Anita's father believed that at the time Anita was murdered, the girls had settled their differences and Anita had decided to remain living in the apartment.

Sadly, Daniel Knutson, Anita's younger brother never recovered from her murder. He committed suicide in 2013.

There is no new leads and no new suspects.

If you have any information that cold help the investigation, please contact the Minot Police Department at (701) 852-0111.

In Loving Memory of Anita Knutson