Will There Ever Be Justice For The Beaumont Children?

The Beaumont Children

It was 10 a.m. on a blazing hot day in Australia on Jan 26, 1966.

Nancy kissed her three children, 9 year old Jane, 7 year old Arnna and 4 year old Grant, as they boarded the bus for their trip to a very crowded Glenelg Beach.

The children had made this trip many times before.

When they didn't return home by 2 p.m. like they were supposed to, the parents started to worry.

When Jim, Nancy's husband, came home from work at 3 p.m. he immediately drove to the beach in search of the three children.

He was unable to find them and returned home to continue the search at friend's houses and scouring the streets.

Around 5 p.m. the parents went to the police station to notify them of their children's disappearances.

Witnesses confirmed seeing the children appearing happy and relaxed at the beach with a tall, blonde, thin-faced man, in his mid-thirties, with a sun-tanned complexion,  a thin athletic build and wearing swim trunks.

Jane's family described the this fact as odd, because she was very shy.

This fact led the police to believe that the children had met this man on their previous visits to the beach and that they trusted him.

Nancy thought back at a comment that Arnna had made one day.

She claimed that  Jane had "got a boyfriend down at the beach."

The mom thought at the time that she met a playmate around her age.

It was reported that shortly after midday, the children left the beach with the man and walked to  nearby Wenzels Cake shop.

There the storekeeper knew the children and said they bought pastries and a meat pie.

This too was considered unusual, because the children had never purchased a meat pie before.

He also said that the children usually had just a few dollars, and this time they had about $25.

The children were last seen at 3 p.m. by a mailman who new them well, walking up the main road in the direction of their home.

He said they were alone, holding hands and smiling.

Investigation

The police were originally under the assumption that the children probably had lost track of time.

The search started with the beach and the adjacent areas and then expanded to the sand-hills, ocean, nearby buildings, and the monitoring of the airports, rail lines and interstate roads once it was feared the that children were hurt or kidnapped.

All of the 17 individual items that the children were carrying were never found.

On January 29th, the Patawalonga Boat Haven was drained and searched after a woman had reported seeing children matching those of the Beaumont kid's descriptions, near the haven at 7 p.m. on January 26th.

The searched turned up nothing.

Several months later, a woman reported that she saw man with two girls and a boy going into a nearby house she thought was abandoned, on the night of the children's disappearance.

She then said that later she saw the boy being chased by and roughly caught by the man.

The lady also said that the next morning the house appeared to be empty again.

The police have no idea why she didn't come forward earlier.

Fast forward to January 2018.

Animal bones were found when police excavated the back of the North Plympton factory that had previously to a possible suspect.

Two men had reported that as boys they were paid to dig a hole around the time of the children's disappearance.

The only thing that was found were animal bones.

Suspects

Bevan Spencer von Einem

He was sentenced to life in prision in 1984 for the murder of 15 year old Richard Kevin.

Police believed that he had accomplices and was possibly involved in other murders such as those of the Beaumont children.

His accomplices were never caught and Bevan refuses to cooperate with investigators.

During the investigation into Bevan, an informant came forward saying that Bevan was bragging that he had taken three kids from the beach several years earlier to his home to conduct experiments on them.

Bevan had told the informant that he preformed surgery on them and "connected them up".

He also stated that one of them died during the surgery, so he killed the other two and dumped their bodies in the bushland.

Bevan was a known perv.

He liked to spy on people in changing rooms and was preoccupied with children, however he was 21 at the time and not in his mid thirties that the description of the perp.

Bevan did meet the rest of the physical description of the suspect though.

He also was previously suspected of killing people in the teens and twenties, not little children.

Bevan's victims were from a different Adelaide Oval.

So all this means that he had to have changed his serial killer pattern, which is very unusual.

Arthur Stanley Brown

In 1998, he was 86 years old and charged with the murders of sisters.

They had disappeared on their way to school on August 26th, 1970.

Their bodies were discovered several days later in a dry creek bed.

Both of the girls had been strangled.

He was never tried, because he suffered from dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

He died in 2002.

Arthur resembled the composite of the suspect.

His employment records could not be found, perhaps due to the Brisbane flood in 1974 or due to the fact that he was a former government employee who could have changed his own records.

James Ryan O'Neill

Before he was in jail for life in 1975, for the murder of a 9 year old boy in Tasmania, James told a station owner that he was responsible for the Beaumont children's disappearances.

Derek Ernest Percy

He was Victoria's longest serving prisioner.

He died in 2013.

Derek was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the 1969 murder of Yvonne Tuohy.

His insanity plea was partially due to him suffering a psychological condition that could prevent him from remembering the details of his actions.

He supposedly  indicated that he believed he might have killed the Beaumont children.

He was in the area at the time.

In 1966 he was 17 at the time, which didn't fit with the suspect's description.

Alan Anthony Munro

In 2015, Allan Macintyre claimed that a man he had known in 1966, according to his children, had come home with the bodies of the Beaumont children.

That man was Alan Munro, who had pled guilty to child sex offences back in 1962.

Harry Phipps

He lived only streets away from the beach where the Beaumont Children disappeared.

Are these cases related to that of the Beaumont children's disappearance?

Joanne Ratcliffe and Kriste Gordon

In 1973,  11 year old Joanne Ratcliffe and 4 year old Kriste Gordon disappeared from a football game from the Adelaide Oval when they were allowed to go to the bathroom by themselves.

They were presumed to have been abducted and murdered.

They were seen in distress and in the company of an unknown man fitting the description of the suspect in the Beaumont case.

Detectives believe that their disappearances are linked to the Beaumont children.

The Family Murders

In 1979, the body of 25 year old Neil Muir was found  in Adelaide, badly mutilated.

In 1982, the mutilated body of 18 year old Mark Langley was found.

Before his death, his abdomen had been sliced open and had been shaved prior. 

Part of his bowel had been removed and Mark had died from losing too much blood.

Over the next few months, more bodies were found all with similar mutilations to that of Mark's.

Her Parents Leave The Porch Light On For Kiplyn Every Night

Kiplyn Davis 

She was born on July 1, 1979 to Richard and Tamara Davis.

Kiplyn was a sophomore at Spanish Fork High School in Spanish Fork, Utah. 
She was last seen on in the morning on May 2, 1995.
It was raining hard that day.
She had a fight with both of her parents then attended her early driver's education class, her morning classes and was seen at lunchtime in the school's cafeteria with her friends and classmates.
She did not show up for her fourth and fifth period classes.
Her purse, makeup, dental retainer and schoolbooks, were left in her locker at school.
She was reported missing when she failed to arrive home at 5:00 p.m.
After months passed police began to suspect foul play in her disappearance. 
Her family believes she was murdered. 
Four years after her disappearance, her family held a memorial service for Davis and put up a marker in her name at the Spanish Fork City Cemetery.
In 2003, Timmy Brent Olsen and Christopher Neal Jeppson had been charged with her murder.
On May 6, the murder charges against Christopher Neal Jeppson were dropped.
In court he pled no contest to obstruction related charges and ultimately signed an affidavit that he does not know the circumstances or cause of Kiplyn Davis's disappearance.
Rucker Leifson pleaded guilty to one count of lying to a grand jury and was sentenced to four years in prison. 
Gary Blackmore and Scott Brunson have also been found guilty of lying to a grand jury, their sentences hinge upon their testimony against Olsen.
On June 1, 2009, a motion to dismiss the murder charge against Olsen was announced. 
The judge decided to defer any ruling on the motion in the case, stating he had not heard all the evidence from the prosecutors. 
An evidentiary hearing to establish whether there is evidence of death is still possible.
On February 11, 2011, Timmy Brent Olson pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
He claimed he saw another individual hit Davis twice in the head with a soft-ball sized rock and helped him move her body.
He declined to name the other individual and admitted that he helped move and bury the body.
He also refused to tell authorities where the body was located.
Olson and Leifson had come under suspicion after claiming they left school with Davis on the day she disappeared.
Olsen and another individual met up on May 2, 1995, and drove up Spanish Fork Canyon with Kiplyn. 
At some point, she and the other person went out of sight. 
After about 30 to 45 minutes, Olsen went to look for them because he heard an argument.
Olsen reached the area where the two were, he saw the other person strike her on the right side of the head with the rock. 
Kiplyn fell, and he then saw the other person strike her a second time, on the right side of the head.
Olsen approached the other person and asked what they were doing. 
That person asked him to help move the body. 
At that point, Kiplyn was unconscious and Olsen said he didn't know whether she was dead.
Olsen helped move her underneath a line of trees, then returned to the vehicle with the second person and left the area. 
The two returned later that evening and moved Kiplyn's body to the other person's vehicle. 
At that time, it was apparent she was dead.
Kiplyn's father said he believes he knows who it was that killed his daughter.
Olsen was accused of making statements to police that placed David Rucker Leifson at the scene of the crime. 
Olsen allegedly also bragged to people in the past that he and Leifson took Kiplyn from school and drove her up the canyon that day.
Leifson threatened to kill Olsen if he kept mentioning him in connection with Kiplyn's disappearance.
Richard Davis thanked Olsen for his plea, saying he forgives him.
He also begged Olsen to tell authorities where his daughter's body is located.
"It's like she's suffering, like she's still cold,"
Her parents leave the porch light on every night for her.

Murdered Over Marijuana

David Grunwald

He was born on January 8th, 2000 at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska to Benjamin J. Grunwald and Edith M. Grunwald.
He had an intelligent sense of humor and loved life and his family.
David attended Mat-Su Career and Tech High School.
He was last heard from on November 13th 2016.
David was 16 years old at the time of his disappearance.
He called his parents to stay out a little later than usual in order to get his girlfriend home safely.
David dropped his girlfriend off at 8 p.m. and then decided to go hang out with 16 year old Erick Almandinger.
There was an old camper trailer parked behind Almandinger's house.
Almandinger invited David and some other friends over to smoke some marjuana and drink alcohol.
At some point David and Almandinger started arguing.
Almandinger accused David of smoking all of his Marjuana.
Almandinger had brought along a .40-caliber semi-automatic handgun and the boys used it to bludgeon David.
Then the other boys at the party, and Almandinger loaded David into his Ford Bronco he had driven there.
David was slipping in and out of conciousness as they drove him to the Knik River, where one of the boys, Austin Barrett, shot David and killed him.
Then the boys burned the bronco and left and went back to the trailer.
They then stripped the carpet and burned it in the yard.
They then used bleach in attempts to clean the blood splatters on the walls.
When David didn't return home by 10:00 p.m. his family began to worry.
About 11:30 p.m., David's parents called the Alaska State Police and reported him missing.
Police set up patrols along the Parks and Glenn Highways, but found no trace of David.
Police conducted interviews with David's friends.
Almandinger told then he had not seen David in weeks.
He did however, tell investigators that David did drop off a mutual friend the night of his disappearance.
Police obtained a search warrant for Almandinger's home.
When they searched the trailer they were overwhelmed by the scent of bleach.
Testing  and analysis inside the trailer indicated the presence of blood.
Cellphone records showed that Almandinger had been in the area David's truck had been found.
The blood and cellphone records together were enough to charge Almandinger.
Police learned through interviews with David's and Almandinger's that Almandinger had confessed to at least one other boy that he and another person killed David.

On December 2nd, police spoke with, Dominic Johnson, one of the other boys that had been in the trailer the night of David's disappearance and he led them to David's body.
David was frozen to the ground and covered in a thin layer of snow.

Almandinger was found guilty on all charges in David's murder trial.
That included  murder, evidence tampering, arson, kidnapping and assault.

REMEMBERING DAVID

ERICK POLICE INTERVIEW PART 1

POLICE INTERVIEW PART 2

POLICE INTERVIEW PART 3

Murder or Just Missing:The Strange Disappearance of Maura Murray.

Maura Murray  was born May 4, 1982, in Hanson, Massachusetts, to Frederick "Fred" and Laurie Murray.
She was an “All-American Girl” and a model student, athlete, and daughter.
She graduated from Whitman-Hanson Regional High School and was a star athlete on the school's track team.
She was accepted into the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.
Maura studied chemical engineering for three semesters, then she transferred to the University of Massachusetts Amherst to study nursing, where she completed her junior year.
She was planning to marry her high school sweetheart, Billy Rausch, who was stationed at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. 

November 2003, she admitted to using a stolen credit card to order food from several restaurants. 
The charge was continued in December to be dismissed after three months' good behavior.

On February 5 2004, Maura spoke on the phone with her older sister, Kathleen, while she was on duty at her campus-security job. 
Around 10:30 p.m., it was reported that Maura broke down in tears. 
Her supervisor arrived at her desk, and Maura was completely zoned out and unresponsive with no reaction at all. 
The supervisor escorted Murray back to her dorm room around 1:20 am. She asked what was wrong, and Maura said
"My sister."

On Saturday, February 7, Murray's father Fred arrived in Amherst. 
He and Maura went car-shopping that afternoon, and later went to dinner with a friend of his daughter. 
Murray dropped her father off at his motel room and, borrowing his Toyota Corolla, returned to campus to attend a dorm party, arriving at 10:30 pm. 
At 2:30 am on Sunday, February 8, she left the party.
At 3:30 am, on her way to her father's motel, she struck a guardrail on Route 9 in Hadley.
There is no documentation of sobriety field tests being conducted.
Maura was driven to her father's motel and stayed in his room the rest of the morning. 
At 4:49 am, there was a cell phone call placed to her boyfriend from Fred's phone. 
Later that morning, Fred rented a car, dropped Maura off at the university, and departed for Connecticut. 
At 11:30 that night, Fred called his daughter and they agreed to talk again Monday.

Midnight on Monday, February 9, Maura used her computer to search directions to the Berkshires and Burlington, Vermont.
At 1:00 pm, she emailed her boyfriend.
 "I got your messages, but honestly, I didn't feel like talking to much of anyone, I promise to call today though."
She also made a phone call about renting a condominium in the same Bartlett, New Hampshire condo association her family had vacationed at in the past.
At 1:13 pm, she called a fellow nursing student.
At 1:24 pm, Maura emailed a work supervisor of the nursing school faculty.
She wrote that she would be out of town for a week due to a death in her family, even though no in in her family had actually died.
The email also stated that she would contact them when she returned. 
At 2:05 pm, Maura called a number which provides recorded information about booking hotels in Stowe, Vermont.
At 2:18 pm, she telephoned her boyfriend and left a voice message promising him they would talk later.
Murray packed her car with clothing, toiletries, college textbooks, and birth-control pills.
Most belongings she packed in boxes and the removed the art from the walls. 
On top of the boxes was a printed email to Maura's boyfriend indicating trouble in their relationship.
Around 3:30 pm, she drove off the campus in her black 1996 Saturn sedan. 
Classes at the university had been canceled that day due to a snowstorm.
At 3:40 pm, Maura withdrew $280 from an ATM.
Closed-circuit footage showed she was alone.
At a nearby liquor store, Murray purchased about $40 worth of alcoholic beverages, including Baileys Irish Cream, Kahlúa, vodka, and a box of Franzia wine.
She also picked up accident-report forms from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles.
Maura then left Amherst at around 3:50 pm.
4:37 pm she called to check her voice mail from her cellphone.
After 7:00 pm, a Woodsville, New Hampshire resident heard a loud thump outside of her house and peered through her window.
She could see a car up against the snowbank along Route 112, also known as Wild Ammonoosuc Road pointing west on the eastbound side of the road. 
She called the Grafton County Sheriff's Department at 7:27 pm. 
The woman claimed to have seen a man smoking a cigarette inside the car.
Later stated that she had not seen a man nor a person smoking a cigarette, but rather had seen what appeared to be a red light glowing from inside the car, maybe from a cell phone.
Another neighbor saw the car as well as someone walking around the vehicle. 
She witnessed a third neighbor, school bus driver Butch Atwood, pull up alongside the vehicle.
The school bus driver noticed the young woman was not bleeding or visibly injured, but cold and shivering.
He offered to telephone for help, but she pleaded to him not to call the police and assured him she'd already called AAA.
AAA had no record of her calling AAA.
Atwood, skeptical of her claim, as he was aware of the spotty cell phone reception in the area, called the police after he got home at 7:43 p.m. 
He was unable to see Maura's car, but did notice several cars pass on the road before the police arrived.
Another local resident driving home from work passed by the scene around 7:37 pm, and saw a police SUV parked face-to-face with Maura's car. 
She pulled over briefly and did not see anyone inside or outside the cars, and decided to continue home.
The official police log contradicts this and has Haverhill police arriving nine minutes later at 7:46 p.m.
When police arrive there was no one was inside or around the car that had hit a tree on the drivers side.
The left headlight was severely damage and had pushed the car's radiator into the fan, rendering it inoperable.
The car's windshield was cracked on the driver's side and both airbags had deployed. 
The car was locked.
Red stains that looked to be red wine were on the inside and outside of the car.
Inside the car, there was an empty beer bottle and a damaged box of wine on the rear seat. 
There was also a AAA card issued to Murray, blank accident-report forms, gloves, compact discs, makeup, diamond jewelry, two sets of MapQuest driving directions to Vermont, Murray's favorite stuffed animal, and Not Without Peril, a book about mountain climbing in the White Mountains.
Maura's debit card, credit cards, and cell phone were and still are missing, along with some bottles of alcohol she had purchased.
Between 8:00 to 8:30 pm, a contractor returning saw a young person moving quickly on foot eastbound on Route 112 about 4 to 5 miles east of where Maura's vehicle was discovered. 
The young person was wearing jeans, a dark coat, and a light-colored hood. 
The responding officer and the bus driver drove the area searching for Murray.
Just before 8:00 pm, EMS and a fire truck arrived to clear the scene. By 8:49 pm, the car had been towed to a local garage.
At about 9:30 pm, the responding officer left. 
A rag believed to have been part of Maura's emergency roadside kit was discovered stuffed into the Saturn's muffler pipe.

At 12:36 pm, February 10, a "Be On the Lookout" report for Murray was issued. 
She was reported as wearing a dark coat, jeans, and a black backpack.
The Haverhill Police Department told Maura's father that  if Murray was not reported safe by the following morning, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department would start a search. 
At 5:17 pm, Murray was first referred to as "missing" by the Haverhill police.
On February 11, Murray's father arrived before dawn in Haverhill. 
At 8:00 am, New Hampshire Fish and Game, the Murrays, and others began to search. 
A police dog tracked the scent from one of Maura's gloves 100 yards east from where the vehicle had been discovered.
It lost the scent, suggesting to the police that she had left the area to another car. 
At 5:00 pm, Maura's boyfriend and his parents arrived in Haverhill. 
He was interrogated in private, and then was joined by his parents for questioning.
At 7:00 pm, the police said they believed Murray came to the area to either run away or commit suicide.
Her family doesn't believe that that was true.
Maura's boyfriend had turned off his cell phone during his flight to Haverhill. 
When he turned it back on he discovered he had received a voicemail that he believed was the sound of Murray sobbing. 
The call was traced to a calling card issued to the American Red Cross.
On February 12, at 3:05 pm, the police reported Maura might be headed to the Kancamagus Highway area and she was "listed as endangered and possibly suicidal". 
The police report also stated she was intoxicated at the crash site.
The bus driver had said she did not appear impaired.
A week after Maura's disappearance, her family expanded their search into Vermont, dismayed that authorities there had not been informed of her disappearance.
The FBI joined the investigation ten days after she disappeared.
The FBI interviewed her family and the Haverhill police chief announced that the search was now nationwide. 
New Hampshire Fish and Game conducted a second ground and air search, using a helicopter with a thermal imaging camera, tracking dogs and cadaver dogs.

Was she murdered by a stranger?
In 2004, a man allegedly gave Maura's father a rusty, stained knife that belonged to the man's brother.
The man's brother supposedly had a criminal past and lived less than a mile from where her car was found. 
His brother and his brother's girlfriend were said to have acted strangely after the disappearance.
The man's brother claimed he believed the knife had been used to kill Maura.
Several days later, the man's brother allegedly scrapped his Volvo.

On November 1, 2005, a user named "Tom Davies" logged into a message board called "Not Without Peril," which was dedicated to discussion of Maura's disappearance.
He claimed to have seen a black backpack behind a restroom at Pemigewasset Overlook, around 30 miles from Woodsville.
Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin stated that law enforcement "was aware of the backpack," but did not disclose whether it had been taken for forensic testing.

In October 2006, volunteers led a two-day search within a few miles of where Maura's car was found.
In the closet of a house 1 mile from the crash site, cadaver dogs allegedly went bonkers. 
The house had formerly been the residence of the man implicated by his brother, who had given Fred Murray the rusty knife in 2004.
A sample of carpet from the home was sent to the New Hampshire State Police, but the results were never released to the public.

In 2009, Maura's case was given to the New Hampshire cold case division, and authorities are handling it as a "suspicious" missing persons case.

Did the boyfriend do it?
Three woman came forward to ask police to investigate Bill Rausch in relation to the disappearance of his girlfriend, Maura Murray.

One of the women lived in Lawton, Oklahoma.
She knew Bill a few months after Maura Murray disappeared in 2004.
He visited the people who lived in her house, often.
Some of the people had ties to Fort Sill, where Bill was working at the time. 
He was friends with the man she was seeing at the time, who warned her that Bill "had gone off the deep end" and that his girlfriend was missing.
One day, Bill found out that her man was not home for a while and he texted her and asked if he could come over. 
There was a party at the house that night and she invited him over.
Once he arrived, he took her outside and grabbed her and started kissing her. 
He suggested they go to a hotel and she agreed and went with him in the car.
At a stoplight, she says, Bill reached over and grabbed her by the neck and said that he was going to kill her like he killed Maura.
She reached over and dug her nails into him and told him that she'd rip his crotch off.
Immediately, Bill's demeanor changed and he became gentle and started joking.
They continued on to the hotel, but she decided not to have sex.
Bill supposedly explained to her that he was glad she never slept with him because the people he has sex with dies.
He mentioned how a girl he slept with before Maura had died in an accident.
Bill told her he was working on a book, titled 
"You'll Never Be Happy Until You Realize That You Will Never Be Happy."

Bill lost his job at Ray Group International in 2011 after a woman alleged that he sexually assaulted her in the office one night and that he had assaulted her before.
She said she was going up the escalators on the Metro one morning and someone jogged up beside her and pushed her down. 
Fellow commuters caught her before she could tumble to the bottom, but her dressed was ripped and she looked up and saw Bill at the top of the escalators. 
When he assaulted her in the office, he began by saying that it was him who pushed her down that day, all the emotion gone from his eyes.

In fall 2011, the third lady was working as a bartender at the time. 
She had sex with Bill one night. 
She said it started consensual but quickly progressed to choking, that he wanted to hear her gasp for breath. 
She too described the lack of emotion in his eyes and said that affter it was over, he was threatening that 
"This never happened."
Bill supposedly claims that that incident never happened.
The lady supposedly  has a picture of the napkin they used to communicate at the bar that night, containing his cell phone in his hand writing.

Feburary 11, 12, 13 and 14, 2014, Bill was calling Maura's cell phone, each call lasting a minute as it was likely going to voicemail.
The last call on the 15 at 4:53 was to Maura's phone, too and that one lasted from 3 - 4 minutes. 
And after that call, Bill makes no further calls on his cell phone for four days. 
There are no further calls from his cell phone until Thursday, February 19.

In 2007, Bill's sister, Heather, committed suicide in the home of their parents in Marengo, Ohio, by shooting herself in the head with a gun.
Supposedly the medical examiner of Morrow County, William Lee, said that in the days leading up to the suicide, Heather had wanted to speak to the police about a crime she knew about. 
There is no record of her contacting the police about this.

Allegedly, when Billy was interview in Maura's disappearance, he was a prime suspect. 
He was totally distraught and  said 
"I feel as dirty as Scott Peterson. 
They think I've got something to do with it."

A fourth and then a fifth woman came forward later.

The fourth woman claims she and Bill had a brief relationship in 2006. 
Said he was a pathological liar.
She said he spoke about Maura Murray only once, by saying he had a girlfriend who had "passed" but that they were broken up at the time.
She says Bill is extremely pushy, obsessive, arrogant, and controlling. 
She said even his friends at Fort Sill called him, "Billy Liar."

The fith woman claims that she spent one night with Bill when they were both working in politics in Ohio in 2008.
That he was violent and degrading towards her. 
They were at a bar with other political staffers one night when he sent me her a text  saying that he wanted to go home with her and then another one that said 
"I want to break you." 
He came to her apartment after the bar and the language he used and the demands he made were threatening and demeaning. 
They only spent the one night together, but the next day she was shaken and decided to google him.
That's when she saw the case about Maura. 
She said that she was deeply disturbed and felt lucky that nothing more had happened to her.

DC Police are currently investigating his odd behavior and subpoenas have been served for files related to Bill's dismissal from Ray Group International.
Witnesses have appeared before a federal Grand Jury.

Maura's family's odd behavior..
In 2006, the non-profit organization Let's Bring Them Home, was contacted by members of Maura Murray's family and immediately put up a $75,000 reward for information that would bring closure to the case, but the reward was quietly rescinded later.
Supposedly, the money was taken back because of Fred Murray's behavior and Helena Dwyer-Murray's secrecy raised red flags
Fred was difficult, often hostile and very controlling to some members of the charity. 
Helena was nice but they never felt like they was getting the full story.
She wouldn't answer direct questions unless it was on the phone, never in writing.
Another thing they found weird were the hang-up calls the tip line sometimes received.
Each hang-up was logged and the phone number traced and it went to a phone listed under Julie Murray's name.

Murdered By Her Best Friends Just Because They Didn't Like Her.

Skylar Annette Neese 

She was born February 10, 1996 to Mary and Dave Neese.
She was their only child.
At that time Mary worked as an administrative assistant in a cardiac lab and Dave was a product assembler at Walmart.
She was an honors student at University High School who worked at Wendy's and wanted to become a criminal lawyer.
According to her father “Skylar was a very bubbly person,” 
“She was also very loyal to her friends, the people she thought was her friends.”

Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf

They were among Skylar's best friends.
Both girls attended University High School along with Skylar.
Shelia Rae Eddy  was born September 28, 1995 to Tara Clendenen and Greg Eddy.
Rachel Shoaf  was born June 10, 1996 to Rusty and Patricia Shoaf.
Skylar Neese met Shelia Eddy at age 8.
Skylar had a close relationship with Shelia, but their friendship became strained when they met Rachel while in freshmen year at high school. 
Skylar's dad said “She was like a part of our family. 
She really was, I mean, just like one of our kids.”
Skylar reportedly became upset to see Shelia and Rachel become close and allegeded lovers.
Shelia and Rachel may have feared their secret afair would become public.

THE MURDER
On July 5, 2012,  16 year old Skylar returned to her family's apartment in Star City, West Virginia after working a shift at Wendy's. 
Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf had invited Skylar to sneak out with them. 
Skylar was initially hesitant because she had a recent falling out with the two girls.
After a series of phone calls and texts from the girls, Skylar was presuaded to go.
On July 6th at 12:30 a.m., her apartment complex's surveillance video showed that Skylar left the apartment through her bedroom window, crossed the street and got into the back seat of a four-door sedan driven.
She did not take her cell phone charger, and her window was left open, so she could sneek back in later.
The three girls then headed northwest from Star City toward Blacksville via U.S. Route 19, eventually arriving at their destination.
They were just across the Pennsylvania state border, where all three of the girls would occasionally smoke marijuana. 
When all three girls got out of the vehicle,  Shelia and Rachel told Skylar they had forgotten to bring a lighter. 
Skylar volunteered to go back to the vehicle to fetch her own lighter and  turned her back to Shelia and Rachel.
Shelia and Rachel began counting to three and then started stabbing Skylar. 
Skylar attempted to run, but was only able to get a few feet before Rachel tackled her to the ground and continued the assault. 
During this, Skylar managed to wrestle the knife from Rachel's hand and cut Rachel's knee. 
Shelia continued to stab Skylar  until there was complete silence.
According to Rachel, "Skylar's neck stopped making gurgling sounds." 
Shelia and Rachel attempted to bury the body.
They first tried dragging Skylar to the side of the road.
This wasn't working because the road ran along a creek and the soil there was too hard and rocky to dig a hole. 
Instead, they covered Skylar's body with rocks, fallen branches, and dirt.
Then they returned to the car to clean themselves and the murder scene. 
They then disposed of their blood-soaked clothing and returned to their homes.

THE NEXT DAY
Her dad said he discovered that she didn’t sleep in her bed. 
Later he found her window screen in her closet and a hidden bench.
Her dad said “Then I knew: she snuck out last night,” 
“And then, oh my god, she snuck out last night, and she’s not home.”
After Skylar missed work for the first time ever, her parents called police to report her missing. 
THE INVESTIGATION
Police investigated several unproductive leads in Skylar's disappearance.
Skylar was initially considered to be a runaway by the authorities, and an Amber Alert was not immediately issued.
Investigators soon came to believe something sinister happened to her.
Skylar's parents posted flyers about their missing daughter in the Monongalia County region.
Shelia helped the family look for her by distributing missing person fliers.
On July 7, 2012, Shelia and her mom helped Skylar Neese’s parents canvass the neighborhood looking for Skylar Neese, while Rachel Shoaf left for Catholic summer camp for two weeks.
Police determined that the sedan in which Skylar Neese was last seen belonged to Shelia. 
They interviewed Shelia and she admitted to picking up Skylar at 11 p.m., but stated that she had dropped her off an hour later after they got high at midnight.
They supposedly dropped Shelia off at the end of the road, because she didn't want to wake up her parents sneaking back in.
The FBI and the West Virginia State Police joined the search for Skylar Neese on September 10, 2012.
They began interviewing Skylar's school friends.
Jessica Colebank, who was working on the case, found Shelia's demeanor suspicious when she went to speak to her.
She said that Shelia was “Just complete blank on emotions and there was absolutely nothing. It was like iced over.”
She thought that Rachel  seemed very nervous when she first spoke to her.
She that “Their stories were verbatim, the same. 
No one’s story is exactly the same, unless it’s rehearsed,” 
“Everything in my gut was, ‘Sheila is acting wrong.
Rachel is scared to death.’”
Surveillance video and cell phone records proved Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf were lying about what happened the night they last saw Skylar Neese.
On Dec. 28, 2012, Rachel Shoaf had a nervous breakdown and was committed to a local psychiatric hospital.
After being discharged from the hospital on Jan. 3, 2013, Rachel Shoaf finally admitted plotting with Shelia Eddy to kill Skylar, because they "didn't like her".
After her confession, Rachel Shoaf led investigators to Skylar's body in Wayne Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, less than 30 miles away from Skylar's home.
On January 16, 2013 her remains were possitivly identified.
Skylar's post-mortem revealed more than 50 stab wounds.
With Skylar's body located and her blood found on Shelia's van, there was enough evidence to arresst Shelia and Rachel.

CHARGES
On May 1, 2013, Rachel  pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. 
Rachel said that she and Shelia picked up Skylar in Shelia's van and  the girls drove to Pennsylvania.
They got out of the car, and began socializing. 
Then at a pre-arranged time, Shelia and Rachel stabbed Skylar to death on the count of three.
They then attempted to bury Skylar's body, but were unable to do so and instead covered the body with branches. 
Other students overheard conversations between Shelia and Rachel about the murder plot, but failed to report it.
Rachel pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree by "unlawfully, feloniously, willfully, maliciously and intentionally causing the death of Skylar Neese by stabbing her and causing fatal injuries". 
In the plea agreement, the State of West Virginia will recommend a sentence of 40 years incarceration.
Following her guilty plea on May 1, 2013, Rachel received a sentence of 30 years in prison, and will be eligible for parole after 10 years.
On September 4, 2013, Shelia was publicly identified as the second alleged perpetrator of the murder of Skylar Neese and announced that she would be tried as an adult.
She was indicted by a grand jury on September 6, 2013 with one count of kidnapping, one count of first-degree murder, and one count of conspiracy to commit murder.
She pleaded not guilty to these charges.
The date of the trial was originally set for January 28, 2014, but facing the prospect of charges from both federal and Pennsylvania authorities in addition to the West Virginia charges, Shelia pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. 
Shelia was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years.

SKYLAR'S LAW
A West Virginia state legislator from the Skylar's family home district introduced a bill called Skylar's Law.
It  would modify West Virginia's Amber Alert plan to issue immediate public announcements when any child is reported missing and in danger, regardless of whether the child is believed to have been kidnapped.
On March 27, 2013, the West Virginia House of Delegates approved Skylar's Law with a 98-0 vote.
On April 12, 2013, the West Virginia Senate unanimously passed the law, but made minor technical changes.
West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin signed the legislation into law in May 2013.

OTHER NOTE
Some people think that Shelia confided in her cousin, Alexis Eddy, about Skylar's murder.
Alexis denies any involvement.

Look for William McBride in the stars.

William "Bill" McBride

He was 36 when he went missing from Salt Lake City, Utah on March 22, 1994.

He may have been en route to Cedar City, Utah at the time.

He left a note for his friends which indicated he planned to take his own life; it said, 

"By the time you read this, this entity will be no more -- look for me in the stars."

His vehicle was located in Nevada after his disappearance.

At the time of his disappearance he was 5'11" tall, 165 lbs, with brown hair and brown eyes.

Ann Fox AKA Ann Knutson is missing

Ann M Fox aka Ann Knutson

She was 31 years old when she went missing from Salt Lake City, Utah on May 19, 1990.

She was seen wearing purple sweat pants, black short sleeved sweater, white trench coat and white canvas shoes. Missing 2 front teeth.

Ann was 5'2" tall, 185 lbs, with brown hair.

Marlene went missing from Salt Lake City, Utah in 1986.

Marlene (Bradshaw) Pichuskie

She was 34 when she went missing from Salt Lake City, Utah on June 24, 1986.

She has a scar on her left cheek, curly hair and has used the name Marlene Cummings.

At the time of her disappearance she was 5'4" tall, 110 lbs with, brown hair and green eyes.

Dorthy aka Peggy was suicidal at the time of her disappearance.

Dorthy E. Manka aka: Peggy Sue Briggs

She was 49 when she went missing from St. George, Utah on January 4, 1998.

Dorothy was suicidal at the time of her disappearance.

She was 5'4" tall, 200 lbs with Grey hair and hazel eyes.

Linda Peterson was 5 months pregnant at the time of her disappearance.

Linda H. Peterson aka: Gustke and Hanoian

She was 29 and pregnant when she went missing from Murray, Utah, on September 16, 1978.

Linda stopped by her husband's workplace to tell him she was going to Kentucky. 

She has never been heard from again.

Linda was about 5 months pregnant at the time of her disappearance, and was wearing an Orange maternity top and blue jeans.

She wears eyeglasses and her ears are pierced.
She has scar tissue on the inside of her mouth.

Linda is 5'8" tall, 130 lbs with brown hair and brown eyes.