Parasomnias: Sleepwalking Can Be Murder.

💤Sleepwalking💤

💤It's more common for children to suffer from sleepwalking than adults. A child will usually grow out of sleepwalking by their teenage years. 30 percent of kids between ages 5 and 12 have experienced at least one sleepwalking episode. While 2 to 3 percent of adults having at least one sleepwalking episode per week.

💤Sleepwalking usually occurs one to two hours after falling asleep at night and usually in a sleep deprived individual. Usually all the sleepwalker does is walk, but sometimes they can do complicated movements. 

💤Often, sleepwalking is a random, harmless event. Treatment may be needed if it occurs often or causes injury. Medications and hypnosis may help.

💤Me and one of my sisters would sleep walk. She used to fill up the bathroom sink and try to drown herself and I would walk to the kitchen and take food back to bed. "Laugh" We both grew out of it, but then i started back up again for awhile in high school. I wouldn't take food to bed this time, I'd rearrange the furniture in my room or clean. Then I graduated to talking in my sleep, which I haven't done in a while. "Catburger." Oh how I wish that I still sleep cleaned. 

💤Let's talk about what happens a person's brain while they are sleeping. 

💤When a person is asleep their brain usually powers down to recharge. When a person falls asleep their body is supposed to shut down and rest, but for some people that doesn't always happen. A person's body with the sleepwalking disorder doesn't fully shut down all the time. They can move their bodies around and sometimes do extremely complicated things.

💤Some of the behaviors of sleepwalkers include; walking, sexual activities, sitting up in bed, opening the eyes and staring with a blank expression, talking, urinating in closets, shouting or screaming, even driving.

💤I forgot I used to scream and fall out of my bed onto who ever was sleeping over. "Laugh."

💤Night terrors are episodes of screaming, intense fear, and flailing while still asleep, often paired with sleepwalking. 

I hate night terrors.

💤People with certain mental health conditions such as, dementia, substance abuse disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression and anxiety disorders are at greater risk of sleepwalking.

💤Certain medications can increase a person's chances of sleep walking such as anti-depressants and over the counter sleep medications.

💤It's not too common, but some people have had terrible things happen to them and have done terrible things while sleep walking.

The Man And The Alligators

💤In 1998, James Currens was a 77 year-old retired maintenance worker and had a habit of sleepwalking. He had wandered behind his home and awoke in several feet of water in a muddy pond with his legs stuck in the mud. Several alligators, some longer than 3 feet, came around and he had to use his cane to fend them off by poking at them. A neighbor heard him yelling and called police, who used lights to scare off the gators and freed Currens. Currens suffered only minor cuts on his legs and arms from the fall.

A Sleepwalker Gets High

💤In 2005, a 15 year old girl was sleepwalking when she apparently walked out of her home in London, climbed 130 feet up a crane and walked 40 feet across a narrow beam. A passer-by spotted the sleepwalker curled up on top of a concrete counterweight and called emergency services. 

💤Police and fire crews originally thought the girl was going to throw herself off the crane, but when a firefighter crawled out across the arm towards her, he discovered she was asleep. Scared to wake her in case she panicked and fell off the arm, the firefighter then called her parents from her mobile phone at the top of the crane, who then phoned to wake her up. The whole ordeal took two and a half hours and she was finally brought down on a hydraulic lift. She was taken to hospital for a check-up, but was sent home without any sign of injuries.

I See The Food That You Eat, When You're Walking In Your Sleep.

💤In 2013, 55 year old Leslie Cusack from England said that she had to put alarms on her doors in hopes that she would wake up before getting to the kitchen. She was consuming up to 2,500 calories in one night while sleep walking.

💤It just wasn't just her calorie intake that worried Leslie. She occasionally would eat non-food substances that could be potentially poisonous, including Vaseline, paint, cough syrup and soap powder.

💤Leslie was also known to cook with her gas stove while sleeping.

My Name Is Sherlock D'oh

💤Robert LeDrew was a brilliant detective of the 19th century living in France. One night he was called to solve a very strange murder. The local police were having a lot of trouble trying to figure out exactly what happened. 

💤A Paris native named Andre Monet's body was found on a local beach and he had been shot. The only clues were a bullet, which technology wasn't advanced enough for that to be any help, and the killer's footprints.

💤When LeDrew saw the footprints he was horrified. He realized that the killer was missing a big toe on his right foot. LeDrew was also missing the big toe on his right foot. This sent his mind racing to a few nights before when he awakened to wet socks. He realized that he was the killer. LeDrew turned himself into police. They didn't believe him at first and decided to hold him in a cell over night to see if he really did sleepwalk. 

💤After LeDrew fell asleep he got out of bed and started walking around. This wasn't enough proof that he could commit murder in his sleep, so they put a gun in his cell the next night. After he was asleep he got up, picked up the gun and shot at the guards. 

💤Prosecutors decided that he could not be held accountable, but he was dangerous, so they exiled him to a farm in the countryside under the care of guards and nurses.

💤Jennifer Aniston has claimed that she would sleepwalk as a child. She would carry on full conversations with her family before going back to bed. She has also stated that when she was married to Brad Pitt she had been sleepwalking got woken up by her alarm. She found herself in her backyard by the pool equipment.

💤Chris Colfer's mom use to find him asleep and eating bowls of cereal on the couch. He started taking sleeping pills in attempts to help with his disorder but that made it worse. This got him shopping online while asleep. One of the things he had sleepordered was a huge framed portrait of Marie Antoinette. Also, once Chris climbed onto his hotel balcony and woke up while he was climbing over the railing. 

The Ambien Defense

💤This is what Roseanne Barr used to explain some of her controversial tweets. The Ambien Defense is the argument that someone charged with a crime—and the crimes have ranged from DWI to child sexual abuse to murder— took Ambien (or generic zolpidem) beforehand and had no memory of the crime. It has helped several defendants get acquitted. After being sued by users in a class action suit, makers of the drug were forced to put a warning on the label.

A Rude Awakening

💤In 2013, in Oregon 29 year old Mandylee Kenney took Ambien and fell asleep. When she woke up in a jail cell barefoot and still wearing her pajamas. While under the influence of Ambien, she got up, ran a bath, took her dog for a walk and got into her car and crashed into another vehicle. Kenney used the "Ambien defense" and was acquitted of driving under the influence and reckless driving.The prosecution couldn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that  she wasn't sleep driving a possible side effect of Ambien.

It Ain't No Joke

 

💤When stand up comedian Mike Birbiglia get's anxious, he sleepwalks. He wrote a memoir about his sleepwalking adventures called "Spending The Night With Sleepwalker Mike Birbiglia", which was eventually made into a movie. In his book, Birbiglia tells about how when he was on tour in Washington when he had a nightmare. He dreamed that there was a guided missile headed towards his hotel room. As he was dreaming, Mike climbed onto the windowsill and jumped out of the window of his hotel room. He fell two stories and had to get 33 stitches for gashes in his legs, but he survived. This incident made him go to a sleep specialist for overnight observation. They found out that Mike was suffering from a dopamine deficiency.

💤Dopamine is the chemical is a chemical that your brain releases to put your body to sleep so you don't act out your dreams.

WAKE UP

💤It is a myth that it is dangerous to wake up a sleepwalker because it may cause them a heart attack, shock, brain damage, or something else. It can be dangerous to wake them up because they might accidentally hurt themselves or the person trying to wake them up.

💤There are times where the sleepwalker or someone else might get hurt if the sleepwalker isn't woken up. If you can, the best thing to do  is to help the sleepwalker return safely their bed without waking him or her, if possible. Taking care not to touch the sleepwalker too much, gently turn them in the direction of their bed, and walk near the person until they get back into bed.

💤If returning a sleepwalker safely back to bed doesn’t work, from a safe distance use loud, sharp noises to wake up the person instead. This will most likely startle the sleepwalker, but it's better than shaking the person in close range, because that might trigger the sleepwalker to feel attacked and lash out and hurt you.

💤People who wake up from sleepwalking are often confused, disoriented, and scared, so it's nice to tell the person "You've been sleepwalking."

Megalodon AKA REALLY BIG Shark That Is Now Extinct

🦈Megalodon🦈

🦈The Megaladon is an extinct species of shark. Experts aren't sure when exactly it when it died off because the fossil records are incomplete. Most of the fossils go back to 15.9 million to 2.6 million years ago, so a REALLY long time ago it was alive. 

🦈Only 5 percent of the ocean has been explored, so the Megaladon could be hiding in the depths of the ocean. Experts say that there is only a 1 percent changed that the Meg is still alive because of the habitat that they once probably lived in. They believe that the  mega liked warmth. and that it hunted in the warm, shallow seas that covered much of the planet. Experts think that it may have gone extinct when these seas dried up, the ice age began and water was locked up at the poles. The Meg either starved or was frozen into extinction.

🦈Experts believe that the Meg's life span was between 20-40 years.

🦈It's name means big tooth and it is the largest shark documented.

🦈It's 276 serrated teeth were HUGE. 

🦈7 inches in length, which is almost three times longer than those of great white sharks. There teeth have been discovered on every continent except for Antarctica. Researchers have estimated that the Meg had a bite force of 40,131 pounds per square inch. 

🦈Compare that to the Nile crocodile, which has the strongest bite of any animal alive today. It's bite force is only 5,000 pounds per square inch.

🦈It is believed that the Meg swam at least 20 miles an hour.

🦈Scientists are in arguments about the  size of the Meg. Most scientists think the creature was somewhere between 60 and 80 feet long, there are some that think the Meg was much closer to the size of sharks we have today.

Religious Groups That Seem A Little Bizarre.

Nuwaubians

The Nuwaubian Nation or Nuwaubian movement is an American religious group founded in the 1970's and led by Dwight York. The Nuwaubians'  belief system mixes black supremacist ideas with worship of the Egyptians and their pyramids, a belief in UFOs and various conspiracies related to the Illuminati and the Bilderbergers.

Nuwaubians believe that aborted fetuses are living the in the sewers and plan on taking over the world. Another belief is that Satan had a child that was born in New York City and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is the mother... They also believe that aliens are coming to take 144,000 chosen people in a flying saucer. 

The truth might be out there... who knows.

Dwight York got busted for child sex trafficking, racketeering and child molestation, so he didn't lead the group anymore.

Prince Phillip Movement

It is a cult based in the island of Tanna in Vanuatu, off the coast of Australia. The Yaohnanan tribe on the island worships believe that Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, the consort to Queen Elizabeth II, is a divine being.

The story goes, he son of the mountain spirit traveled over the seas to a distant land. There he married a powerful lady and in time would return to them. That lady is believed to be Queen Elizabeth the II.

For a long time Prince Phillip had no idea that he was their divine being, but when he found out he sent the tribe a self portrait.

The Church Of Euthanasia

It is a religious organization founded by Reverend and musician Chris Korda and Pastor Kim in Boston, Massachusetts, United States in 1992. As stated in the Church's website, it is "a non-profit educational foundation devoted to restoring balance between Humans and the remaining species on Earth" There church's single commandment is "Thou shalt not procreate."  There are also four pillars of the church: suicide, abortion, cannibalism, and sodomy. The group is also federally recognized in the United States as a non-profit educational foundation.

Famous People That We've Lost So Far This Year: Steve Bean

Steven Joseph Levy AKA Steve Bean

He was a Massachusetts native who got his start in the stand-up scene, becoming a house hold name in Boston. Steve later moved to Los Angeles and started writing for the Tim Conway Show and ABC's Dot comedy. As an actor he landed roles on such series as “Quantum Leap,” “Murder She Wrote,” “Married with Children” and “Monk,” and the Bobcat Goldthwait comedy “Shakes the Clown.” Most recently, Levy appeared on episodes of “Shameless” and “Ray Donovan".”He had been diagnosed in 2016 with a rare form of nose cancer. He had been given a year to live after undergoing surgery that removed his nose. Steve managed to fight the cancer for awhile before he passed at the age of 58 in January 2019.  

Famous People That We've Lost So Far This Year: Dick Miller

Dick Miller

Dick Miller appeared in over 180 films. You might remember him from the 1980's movie Gremlins. He played the inebriated Murray Futterman who was yelling about foreigners putting Gremlins in everything including watches. Dick Miller wasn't always an actor.

This Bronx born actor was the son of the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. His mother was an opera singer and his father a printer. Dick made a name for himself in the boxing ring while serving a tour of duty in the United States Navy.  After he finished his tour in the Navy, Dick attended the City College of New York, Columbia University, and New York University, eventually attaining a PhD in psychology. Dick was a writer before turning to acting.

Miller performed on Broadway and also worked at the Bellevue Hospital Mental Hygiene Clinic and the psychiatric department of Queens General Hospital.

In the 1950's, Dick met legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman. He went to star in many of Corman's movies. Dick's biggest role was in 1959, when he starred as a murderous busboy in Walter Paisley's film, A Bucket Of Blood. Dick is also fondly remembered for his supporting role as the flower-eating Burson Fouch in Corman's legendary 1969's film, The Little Shop of Horrors.

Some of Dick’s other films include “The Terminator,” “All The Right Moves,” “Night of the Creeps,” “Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight,” “Amazon Women on the Moon,” and “The Howling.” He also appeared in the music video for Rod Stewart’s song “Infatuation” in 1984. He was also the subject of a documentary, “That Guy Dick Miller” directed by Elijah Drenner, which looked at his long career.

Dick died of natural causes at age 90 on January 30, 2019, in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles. His wife, Lainie Miller, said he died after a heart attack and had congestive heart failure and pneumonia.

This Isn't The First Time That Former President Bill Clinton's Name Came Up With A Pedophile's.

There are those out there that thought Jennifer was a nut fabricating stories against Bill Clinton, now with the whole Epstein situation, some people realized that the idea is not so far fetched.

Jenny Marie Moore a.k.a Taskforce, was a former police officer turned investigative journalist and an advocate who investigated abused and trafficked children.

She had a Master's degree in Psychology and often worked with abused and traumatized children.

On August 13, 2018, she was found dead in the Country Inn Suites by Radisson, Washington, D.C. East, in Capitol Heights, Maryland.
This comes just four weeks after reporting Bill Clinton to FBI & DHS for allegedly raping a boy.

Moore had been in the process of investigating allegations by a 26-year-old man claiming, that when he was a young boy, he was sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton and pimped out at private sex parties attended by other D.C. elites.

Moore filed details of the alleged victim’s claims with the Department of Homeland Security, detailing the allegations against Clinton. 

She also contacted Homeland Security beginning on July 6th through July 9th.

A week later, she contacted the FBI with identical details about the victim and the allegations against Clinton.

Police are looking closer at her death, after her friend and former F.B.I. agent turned whistle blower, Robyn Gritz, contacted them thinking that foul play might be involved.

Now Bill Clinton is denying that he knew anything about Jeffery Epstein's sex trafficking. 

Investigative journalist Conchita Sarnoff said Monday that former President Bill Clinton isn’t telling the truth. Will she be the next to be "rubbed out"?

Symbols That Might Not Mean What You Think.

The "Jesus" Fish

The actual name for this symbol is ichthys or ichthus. It is one of the most recognized symbols used in Christianity. It's use in the religion dates back to 2nd century AD after it was adopted from the Pagans. The symbol's origins date back even further. It has been associated with female fertility and Greek goddesses such as Aphrodite and Venus. The vagina use to be seen as sacred, since it was responsible for bringing life into the world.

Mistletoe

It's actually a parasite. Mistletoe attaches itself to other plants and shrubs, stealing away its host’s food and water. This can lead to the host plant’s weakening, disfigurement, and eventual death. Unlike many other parasitic plants, mistletoe has chlorophyll, so it can also produce food from the sun’s energy through photosynthesis. Mistletoe has been described as a cancerous growth.

There are many types of Mistletoe and can be found all over the world. The kind of mistletoe that’s picked and sold during the holidays typically is plucked from trees such as cottonwood, sycamore, willow, and ash.
Mistletoe can be spread by birds and their droppings. Most species of mistletoe produce small berries that are white, pinkish, or green-tinged and are delicious to birds.When the berries are eaten, they stick to the birds’ beaks and feet. The birds then carry the berries to other plants and trees, where the mistletoe can attach and sprout.

Mistletoe is extremely difficult to get rid of. It tends to grow up high in the canopy where the sunlight hits, making it hard to access. Even if you prune it, buds embedded in the host plant’s branches mean it’s likely to grow back.

The druids worshiped mistletoe that grew from oak trees. They believed it was a symbol of fertility, strength and manliness and hanging it in your home would bring you these qualities. Cutting from the tree was also seen as a form of ritual castration.

The Norse had their own legend of Mistletoe. The viking god, Baldur, grandson of the Norse god Thor, woke up one morning certain that each and every plant and animal on earth wanted to kill him. His mother as well as his wife consoled him, but all to no avail. As Baldur cowered in his room, half-wild with fear, his mother and wife decided to ask every living thing to leave their poor Baldur in peace. They begged the kindness of the oak tree, the pig, the cow, the crow, the ant and even the worm. Each agreed, but they had forgot about mistletoe Then, as Baldur paused to celebrate his release from torment, he felt a pain in his chest as an arrow poisoned with mistletoe pierced him. He died, but then was brought back to life and decided that the plant must not be a symbol of death and so it must never touch the ground.

Pentagram

A pentagram is the shape of a five-pointed star. Pentagrams were used symbolically in ancient Greece and Babylonia, and are used today as a symbol of faith by many people that practice Wicca. Even though the Christian religion has deemed the pentagram to be evil, in pagan traditions it is a symbol of protection from evil. And the inverted pentagram symbolizes conquering evil.

In early Christianity it represented the five wounds of Christ on the cross.

The upward facing point represents the spirit, while the others represent water, fire, earth and air.

The Inverted Cross

The Cross of Saint Peter or Petrine Cross is an inverted Latin cross traditionally used as a Christian symbol. When Peter was to be crucified he requested to be hung upside down, because he didn't believe he was worthy enough to die as Jesus did.

In recent times also used as an anti-Christian symbol. Satanist have adopted it as one of their most popular symbols.

The inverted cross is still used by Catholicism and is currently on the pope's throne and hat.

Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam started out in satirical comics about the United States Government. Taken from a mixture of Yankee Doodle Dandy and the character Brother Johnathan. Uncle Sam was used to embody the U.S. government and political system and show how dishonest and incompetent it is.

According to legend, came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for businessman Samuel Wilson, who supplied the army with barrels of beef during the war.

It wasn't until after the American Civil War that the Uncle Sam image was used on recruitment posters.

Uncle Sam eventually became the unofficial symbol of the USA and it's military.

Rabbit's Foot

The belief the foot of a rabbit bringing good luck  is held by individuals in a great number of places around the world. The tradition of cutting off a rabbit's foot and using it as a good luck amulet has existed for centuries across many cultures. The tradition got it's start in Europe in 600 BC.

It is also associated with African American voodoo folklore, which believed that witches disguised themselves as rabbits and in catching one you could inherit it's power. In order to harness the power, the rabbit had to have been shot with a silver bullet, or it had to have been caught in a graveyard. It had to be the left back foot and it had to have been chopped off during a full or new moon.

Swastika

The Swastika wasn't always used as a symbol of evil and prejudice. Before it was adopted by Hitler and used as a symbol of the Nazi party, it started out as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions. The Swastika is over 12,000 years old and was used in many cultures all over the world before he was perverted into what is stands for today. It is considered a sacred symbol in Hinduism and Buddhism among others. Swastika in ancient Sanskrit means good fortune.

Peace Sign

This universal symbol of peace, love and unity was popularized by Pablo Picasso after World War II, however, it use to stand for something else. The symbol was originally designed in 1958 by British artist Gerald Holton as a symbol for the campaign for the Nuclear Disarmament March. He intended the image to look like a person that was bent over in despair.

Guy Fawkes

You might recognize it as the mask that the group "Anonymous" wears as they fight against corruption. It was designed for the V for Vendetta comic book series that began in 1982. The inspiration for the this was Guy Fawkes. Back in the 1600's, Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up the House of Lords in British Parliament using barrels of gunpowder. He did this in order to kill Protestant King James and replace him with a Catholic head of state. After his capture he was tortured till he gave up his fellow plotters, all of them died, either resisting capture or put to trial, convicted and executed. As Guy Fawkes awaited his punishment on the gallows, he leapt from the platform to avoid having his testicles cut off, and broke his neck.

The Heart

The heart is usually used as a symbol of love and of Valentine's Day. This symbol can be traced back to an ancient plant called silphium, which was a species of giant fennel that used to grow on the North African coastline near the Greek colony of Cyrene. The plant was used by the Greeks and Romans as a natural form of birth control. They used the plant so much, that the plant was extinct by 1st century AD. The symbol also meant sex and health. If you turn the heart upside down, it looks like testicles.

A Murderer Walks Free And A Mother Drives A Caravan To Catch A Killer.

"Every now and then a beautiful angel comes to earth disguised as a human being."

Brittany Evonna Sara Phillips was born on Oct 4th, 1985 in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida to Dr. Maggie Zingman. She was her mother's best friend. She was always so friendly to everyone. She had energy and light that would really do people in.

When she was little she had long blonde curls that would just cascade around these dark brown eyes and traffic would stop just so people could take a look.

She was a child model and actress.

As she grew older, she became interested in athletics. She ran track, was involved in swimming, and experimented with shot put. She was very active as a gymnast and wanted to get back into modeling despite her insecurities about being short, which she would joke that she inherited from her mother.

Brittany's father was not really an active presence in her life outside of her early childhood, which is when her parents divorced. Both Brittany and her brother, Josh, would be raised by their mother Maggie.

Brittany and her brother, Josh, were close, but they did have sibling rivalry like most siblings tend to do. Josh was only 15 months older than Brittany, so the two were just a grade or so apart for the entirety of their childhoods. 

The death of her paternal grandmother to cancer inspired her to study stem cell research. Brittany attended her mother's alma mater, Eckerd college, in St. Petersburg, Fla on a full Chemistry scholarship. Due to Brittany's keen intellect, she was younger than most freshmen. After a year she moved back and into apartments right next to her old high school and went to Junior college. She lived by herself in a quiet second story apartment  complex named Gleneagles Apartments. 

It was September 24th, 2004, and this was the last time Joshua saw his sister alive was sometime between 6 and 7 p.m. in the junior college cafeteria before she headed off to the doctor's office.  Around 9 p.m. Brittany called her mother stating that she had terrible allergies and could not get into a clinic. They talked about calling and getting her appointment for that Friday. She thanked her mom and told her that she was going to drop off her friend that had came with her to the clinic and that then she was going to bed. Brittany and Maggie then told each other "I Love You."This would be the last time Maggie heard from her daughter.

For the next three days, Maggie heard nothing from her daughter and her many calls were unanswered and her messages unreturned. The first two days, Maggie wasn't that worried, she knew Brittany had a heavy work load at school. By Thursday however, Maggie was worried.

Maggie didn't know, but Brittany hadn't showed up to any of her classes and this prompted a worried friend to call police. When the police did a welfare check they found signs of an altercation.They also found Brittany raped and strangled to death on the floor by her bed. She had been laying there for three days. 

It was about one in the morning and the rain was crying from the sky. There was a knock on Maggie's front door, when she answered it, there was a sheriff standing there, staring down at a piece of paper. He asked if she was Maggie Zingman and when she answered yes he briskly stated “You need to call the Tulsa police. Your daughter’s been murdered.” And then walked away. Maggie was in shock and didn't know what to do.

Maggie lived 50 miles away from Tulsa and by the time she arrived at Brittany's apartment it was swarming with investigators. Brittany's body had already been taken to the medical examiner's office. 

Maggie never was able to see Brittany's body. Her family was Jewish, so she was never embalmed. And between that and her being murdered and autopsied, the funeral director wouldn't let Maggie set eyes on her baby girl that was once so full of life. So Maggie had to say goodbye to Brittany with her body head to toe with a blanket. Maggie ran her finger down her nose and said, "I'm sorry Britty. I'm sorry this happened, I'm sorry I didn't protect you, I'm sorry that they won't even let me touch you."

Brittany was laid to rest on what would have been her nineteenth birthday. Her pink casket was carried from Tulsa’s Temple Israel as Maggie clutched a teddy bear. Brittany was interred at Rose Hill Memorial Park in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

8 months after Brittany's murder, her maternal grandmother died of cancer as well.

Brittany's two-story apartment faced a storage unit. The cluster of eight apartments shared a common attic space, which made each apartment accessible to the other. The window screens in Brittany’s apartment had been taken off possibly by Brittany or the perpetrator. Police theorized that the killer could have gone through the windows or had climbed onto her balcony and gone in through those doors. DNA was found at the scene, and after six months the police had a DNA profile They have tested it against thousands of local suspects, along with approximately one million suspects in CODIS and to this day there is no match.

After two years of no leads and no national media attention Maggie came up with a brilliant idea to help not only catch her daughter's killer, but help victim's family's throughout the United States and to educate communities about the DNA process. 

This is when Caravan To Catch A Killer was born. She has driven over 200,000 miles  and has visited 48 out of 50 states to spread her daughter’s story.

In 2018, a break in the case brings the police one step closer to capturing Brittany’s killer. A company named Parabon Snapshot released a DNA phenotype composite image of the person who raped and murdered Brittany. 

Using new technology, the company was able to take a DNA sample and create an image that will highly resemble the person. Their website offers examples of these images, including comparisons between suspect composites and the arrested individual. The composite was designed to look like a person in their twenties. It is not known how old he was then or how old he is now.

The killer of Brittany Phillips is likely a white male of Northern European descent, with hair that is either dark blond or brown, and eyes that are either blue or green.

This individual did not appear to be anyone that Brittany's loved ones knew. He didn't really looking like any of her friends or classmates, but Maggie says that he looks like the type that Brittany would be attracted to.
Authorities believe that the Brittany's killer may be someone who is up and/or alone at night. That he may have sexual problems, which he struggles to deal with on a regular basis He may be into high risk behaviors that are dangerous to himself or others (or may cause pain, such as painful sex acts) The killer may be someone with anger issues, who constantly deals with issues of self-worth. He may or may not have been previously arrest for rape; however, if he was, he was likely charged with crimes such as "Endangering" or "Public Indecency" (crimes that won't put him on investigators' radar and/or won't force him to register as a sex offender) He may live outside of the Tulsa area. He also may or may not have traveled in September or October of 2004, and upon his return, starting acting different (anxious, angry, depressed, engaging in heavy drug/alcohol abuse, etc.) The killer may have been outgoing, but possibly became more withdrawn following the murder. He may have attempted to hurt or kill himself in the past (he may have succeeded in the years since). He may drive along I-35, I-44, or I-40 because of work (or traveled through the Tulsa region semi-regularly for other reasons). He may have had a public service job that gave him access to customer addresses (jobs such as utilities worker, cell phone provider, etc.)

Maggie will never give up on getting justice for Brittany. Any tip, no matter how small matters.  And any help you can give, whether it be donations, prayers or simply sharing her story is appreciated and goes a long way. 


www.brittanyphillipsmurder.net/

Will Madeleine McCann's Disappearance Soon Be Solved?

Investigators in Portugal and the U.K. say they have two of the strongest leads they have found in recent years. 

48 year old German pedophile Martin Ney told a prison inmate in Germany something only Madeleine ’s kidnapper could know. He is serving a life sentence in a German prison for the murder of three prepubescent boys between 1992 and 2001. He is also under investigation for the suspected murder of two other children, whose bodies have never been found, and the sexual abuse of a dozen others. He resembles the photo composite released by Portuguese police based on witness accounts at the time Madeleine disappeared.

When Ney would steal children, he would wear a black ski mask and sneak into their rooms while they slept when their parents had stepped out. He often sedated the children to remove them quietly. He was working at a homeless center run by an evangelical church in the same area where Madeleine disappeared.

The second suspect they are investigating is an alleged accomplice of Ney. After watching a Netflix documentary about Madeleine's disappearance, a retired worker of Praia Da Luz resort recognized the man in the footage. She said that she had a run in with the unnamed suspect, who she says she caught stealing from the Ocean Club resort. When she confronted the man, he threatened her.

Investigators think that the second suspect may have been working with Ney as part of a sex-trafficking ring that preyed on children in the area at the time. A number of resort employees have given evidence over the years that they recognized both Ney and someone who is now believed to be the second man in and around the resort.

The second man was still working in the area when authorities brought him in for questioning. 

America's Oldest Teenager: Dick Clark

Dick Clark

Richard Wagstaff Clark was a TV personality known for the shows American Bandstand, $25,000 Pyramid and TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve among others. Sometimes known as "America's oldest teenager," Dick  was one of the most influential figures in popular music. With his show American Bandstand, he helped advance the careers of countless artists, including Paul Anka, Barry Manilow and Madonna.

He was born on November 30th, 1929 in Mount Vernon, New York to Julia and Richard Clark. His only sibling, older brother Bradley, was killed in World War II during the Battle of the Bulge. 

In school, Dick was an average student. When he was 10 years old, he decided to pursue a career in radio.

In 1945, Dick was only 16 years old when began working in the mail room at WRUN, a radio station in New York, that was owned by his uncle and managed by his father. Dick was asked to fill in for the vacationing weatherman, and within a few months he was announcing station breaks.

Dick graduated from Syracuse University in 1951 with a degree in advertising and a minor in radio. While attending Syracuse University Dick worked at WOLF-AM.. After graduation, he returned to WRUN for a short time where he went by the name Dick Clay. After that, Dick got a job at the television station WKTV in New York. His first television-hosting job was on Cactus Dick and the Santa Fe Riders, a country-music program. He later replaced Robert Earle as a newscaster.

Dick owned several radio stations. From 1964 to 1978, he owned KPRO in Riverside, California under the name Progress Broadcasting. In 1967, he purchased KGUD-AM-FM in Santa Barbara, California.

In 1952, Dick moved to Pennsylvania, where he took a job as a disc jockey at radio station WFIL, adopting the Dick Clark handle. WFIL had an affiliated television station which began broadcasting a show called Bob Horn's Bandstand in 1952. Dick served as a regular substitute host when Horn went on vacation. In 1956, Horn was arrested for drunk driving and was fired. On July 9, 1956, Dick took his place. 

Bandstand was picked up by the ABC television network, renamed American Bandstand, and debuted nationally on August 5, 1957. Due to Dick's natural rapport with the live teenage audience and dancing participants as well as the non-threatening image he projected to television audiences, the show was a hit. Many parents were introduced to rock and roll music thanks to Dick. He helped to integrate the dance floors of a "Black and White" America by inviting black dancers to his show in 1958 just one year after American Bandstand started. Under Clark's influence, American Bandstand became one of the most successful and longest-running musical programs of all time.

In 1958, The Dick Clark Show was added to ABC's Saturday night lineup. Viewership exceeded 20 million, and featured artists were "virtually guaranteed" large sales boosts after appearing. 

In 1959, a television tribute to Dick had an estimated viewership of  50 million people.

Clark became more invested in the music publishing and recording businesses, and began managing artists, hosting live sock hops, and arranging concert tours. 

Dick Clark was inducted in the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8th, 1960. 

Also in 1960, when the United States Senate began investigating  the practice in which music producing companies paid broadcasting companies to favor their products, Dick became caught up in the scandal. The investigation found he had partial copyrights to over 150 songs, many of which were featured on his show. He denied he was involved in any way, but admitted to accepting a fur and jewelry from a record company president.The Senate could not find any illegal actions by Dick, but ABC asked him to either sell his shares in these companies or leave the network so there was no conflict of interest. He chose to sell and continue on as host of "American Bandstand", which was unaffected by the scandal.

Dick moved American Bandstand from Philadelphia to Los Angeles in 1964. He became more involved in television production. Under his company Dick Clark Productions, he produced such shows as "Where the Action Is", "TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes", and more recently, "So You Think You Can Dance", as well as made-for-television movies. Dick also hosted television's "$10,000 Pyramid", "TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes" with co-host Ed McMahon, whom he introduced to Johnny Carson. He also hosted "Scattergories", and "The Other Half". Clark also had several radio programs, including "The Dick Clark National Music Survey", "Countdown America", and "Rock, Roll & Remember". 

Dick Clark said on one episode of The $100,000 Pyramid he married Kari Wigton on 7/7/77. At the ceremony there were 7 candles and 7 people in the wedding party. Actor John Davidson's father officiated at the ceremony, and they asked if he could finish the whole ceremony in 17 minutes, which he did.

In 1972, he produced and hosted the very first edition of "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve". New Year's Rockin' Eve soon became a cultural tradition, airing on ABC every year with Clark as host. Neither Dick Clark nor his wife drank, even on New Years Eve.

Dick Clark was a huge Flintstones fan and owned a "Bedrock" inspired estate in Malibu, California worth a cool 3.5 million dollars.

In December 2004, Dick suffered a minor stroke and was unable to host, so Regis Philbin stepped in as a substitute. The stroke had left him speech impaired but he returned to host New Year’s Rockin’ Eve show in 2005 along with “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest.

The following year, Clark returned as co-host alongside primary host Ryan Seacrest. Many were worried about Clark due to his slurred and breathless speech, and he admitted on-air he was still recovering but that he wouldn't have missed the broadcast for the world. The following year, Seacrest became New Year's Rockin' Eve's primary host, but Clark always returned for the countdown.

Dick has received several notable awards including four Emmy Awards, the Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994, and the Peabody Award in 1999. He was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1976, The Radio Hall of Fame in 1990, Broadcasting Magazine Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. 

Dick had been in St. John's hospital in Los Angeles after undergoing an outpatient procedure the night of April 17, 2012. Dick suffered a massive heart attack following the procedure. Attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful and he died the next morning of April 18, 2012. He was cremated on April 20, and his ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean.