Was Justice Really Served For The Murder Of The Princess Of Buttermilk Mountain, Nancy Pfister?

👑Nancy Pfister👑

She was Colorado royalty. She was a well loved, high society, party girl and travel agent.

Nancy was born on July 4th, 1956, in Orofino, Idaho to Art and Betty Pfister. 

Art helped build the town of Apsen back in the 1960's.

He also was the founder and owner of Buttermilk Ski Resort.

 

Betty was a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in World War II, who, in later years, flew a helicopter, which she was notoriously known for parking in the family's driveway. Nancy was raised in Aspen, and later graduated from Aspen High School. She took classes at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. In her youth, she met John F. Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, Cher and Michael Douglas when they vacationed at her parents' ski resort. Nancy was briefly engaged to Douglas.

When she was 29-years-old, Nancy gave birth to her daughter Juliana. Ten years later, She later gave birth to a son. She was greatly involved with her kids, and was a member of the Roaring Fork School District PTA.

Nancy's favorite watering hole was the J-Bar in Aspen. She liked to hang out with her friend, Hunter S. Thompson. One night while at the bar, she accidentally set herself on fire.

In November 2013, Nancy had a farewell party for herself at her home on Buttermilk mountain. She was going to Australia for the rest of the winter. Little did Nancy know, it was a final far well.

On February 26, 2014, 57-year-old Nancy had just arrived back from Australia three days earlier. Nancy had text one of her friends to say that she was crippled by jet lag and trying to go to sleep. Her assistant, Kathy Carpenter, found Nancy's body, stuffed in her own closet. Nancy was bound with electrical cord, wrapped in trash bags and then completely wrapped in sheets. She had been beaten in bed to death with a hammer and her mattress had been turned over to hide the blood stains. 

Kathy frantically called 9-1-1.
Kathy: "My, my, my friend. I found my friend in the closet!"
9-1-1: "Ma'am, i need you to take a deep breath so i can send you help. I need you to tell me exactly what happened."
Kathy: "I found my friend in the closet! She's dead! My friend came back from Australia. And she had some people living there. And, um, she made threats to them about owning money."

The were a few suspects in Nancy's murder. One of them was Kathy Carpenter. They would argue a lot. It was said that Nancy sometimes didn't treat Kathy right. Kathy claims to have never touched the sheets that Nancy was cocooned in, yet she said that she saw that it was Nancy inside. Investigators learned that Kathy had taken $6,000 and two rings from Nancy's safe deposit box the next day.

William "Trey" and Nancy Styler were also suspects. Mr. Styler was a retired anesthesiologist and Mrs. Styler was a noted horticulturist. They had moved from Denver to Aspen in the hopes of starting a new life after they had lost just about everything due to bad investments. When they arrived in Aspen, they started a Botox and laser spa.

Nancy and Mr. and Mrs. Styler were involved in a nasty money dispute. The couple had rented Nancy's home while she was in Australia for the winter. Also, before Nancy had left on her trip, they also stayed with her for a month for free and she let them start up their spa there. In order to get that free month, Mr. and Mrs. Styler were to help Nancy get ready for her trip and help around the house. Nancy would allegedly walk around in the nude and be very demanding with Mrs. Styler.

While in Australia, Nancy sent accusatory emails to Mr. and Mrs. Styler, claiming that they had damaged the property and did pay the utilities. She also said that she was coming back early and gave the couple four days to vacate the premises. By the time Nancy returned, Mr. and Mrs Styler were living in a nearby motel.

Police showed up at Mr. and Mrs. Styler's motel room to take them in for questioning. Investigators discovered that Mrs. Styler hated Nancy and had threatened to kill her before. After 12 hours of questioning, they are released due to there not being enough evidence.

On garbage day, in a trash can 100 yards from the motel where Mr. and Mrs. Styler were staying, personal items belonging to Nancy, as well as a hammer with her blood on it, is found in a garbage bag. On the outside of the bag was Mr. Styler's DNA. When Investigators searched the couple's car, Nancy's blood is found in the trunk. And one more thing, the key to the closet that Nancy's body was found in, was discovered on the ground, outside the couple's motel room.

Mr. and Mrs. Styler were arrested and charged with first degree murder as well as conspiracy to commit murder. 

Mr, Styler was 65-years-old and allegedly was suffering from a debilitating a neurological disorder. To some it appeared that he couldn't commit Nancy's murder on his own. 11 days later, Kathy was arrested on the same charges. 

Were they all working together, their hatred for Nancy binding them in an unholy tryst?

For three months, the trio sat behind bars awaiting their court appearance. Once inside, Mr. Styler signed a written affidavit stating that he murdered Nancy all by himself and without the knowledge of his wife or Kathy. He stated that he went over their to discuss the money dispute and also to retrieve some of their equipment that they left at Nancy's house. He claimed that while she was sleeping, he struck her in the back of the head. He then took her pulse and when he realized she wasn't dead, he turned her over and beat her in the front of the head. 

Did Mr. Styler really commit this dubious deed by himself?

Mrs. Styler's cellphone pinged at a tower by Nancy's house when Mr. Styler said he was there committing the murder. Mr. Styler claimed that he had taken his wife's phone, because his was dead.

In August of 2015, Mr. Styler hung himself in his jail cell. Months before he killed himself, he made a 8 hour video confession detailing Nancy's murder. In the detailed video, Mr. Styler was very emotional as he talked about his wife.

Was justice served? Or is there one or more accomplices out there?

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If you've read any of my O.J. Simpson articles than you know there might be more to his story than you think. Now a new documentary about O.J. is being made by his former manager Norman Pardo. In the new documentary entitled "Who Killed Nicole", Pardo claims that O.J. Simpson was framed for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman by Robert Kardashian. The nearly two-hour documentary, also claims that Ron and Nicole were killed two hours apart by a man named Glen Rogers. Glen was supposedly hired by Robert as revenge for O.J. allegedly sleeping with his wife.

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The Legend Of La Llorona- The Wailing Woman

According to one popular legend,  a woman named Maria was  blessed with natural beauty and determined to marry only the most handsome man she could. She eventually fell in love, married and had two children. Maria was abandoned by her husband and left to raise their children alone and they ended up drowning. In many versions of the tale it is suggested that Maria had been overcome with grief of her lost love and killed the children before dumping them in the river. When Maria is refused entry to heaven without her children, she is forced to search the waters for their remains during the afterlife.

There are reports of seeing The Wailing Woman all across the United States and Mexico. The most reported sightings are in California and New Mexico.

The Haunting Of Goatman's Bridge

Built in 1884, the "Old Alton Bridge" aka "Goatman's Bridge" and the forest surrounding it are rich with hauntings, murders, and mysteries. People from all over the United States to have Goatman's Bridge in order to see if they could get a glimpse of the Goatman. Some unfortunate things have happened to people who have decided to visit the bridge. 

The bridge lies in Texas and was built to connect Alton to Denton and for horses and automobiles to travel across the river. The bridge can no longer handle automobiles and is strictly a pedestrian crossing. 

Alton was founded in 1848 and some say that it originally had a population of 1. Alton was chosen as the legal center of Denton county and remained that way for about 10 years. After the county seat was moved to Denton, the residents of Alton moved to other towns and Alton eventually disappeared. Today, the Baptist Church and the Alton cemetery are all that remains of the Alton village

Some people believe that Satanists have performed dark rituals on the bridge and opened a portal to another dimension. Pet stores in the area have stopped selling cats, due to many of their tortured little dead bodies being found in the woods. There have also been reports of inhuman screams coming from the woods, or maniacal laughter sounding. On Halloween, if you go the bridge and honk your horn twice, you may see the fiery red eyes of the Goatman, preceded by the stench of decaying flesh. Numerous reports tell of a Goat-headed man-beast stomping in the wooded shadows, or a frightening apparition of a maniacal Satyr carrying the heads of goats or humans in his hands. Many ghost box sessions have resulted in the name Steven being heard.The spirits are theorized to be violent and angry. Many people that have visited the area have claimed that they have been dragged, struck in the head or scratched three times, which is a mock of the Holy Trinity. Some people have also reported to feel an urge to kill whomever they are visiting the area with.

The legends the bridge differ depending on who tells it, but one of the most popular version is that of an African-American entrepreneur named Oscar Washburn. Oscar and his family tended a farmstead goat herd near the bridge that was renowned for quality meat, milk, cheeses and hides. When the popular businessman proudly hung a sign on the Old Alton Bridge directing “This way to the Goatman,” which caught the attention of the local Ku Klux Klansmen. On a dark night in the late 1930's, a infuriated lynch mob made up of the KKK stormed Oscar’s shack and kidnapped him. They then dragged the screaming Goatman to their noose waiting on the bridge, tightened the rope around Oscar’s neck, then mercilessly flung him over the side. But when the the mob stumbled down to the dark river’s edge to confirm their murderous handiwork, they were shocked to empty noose dangling over undisturbed waters.

The KKK were confused and upset that their insidious plan didn't work  rushed to Oscar’s shack, setting it afire with the Goatman’s family shrieking inside, perhaps to bait a desperate rescue attempt by the vanished Oscar. Oscar was never seen again, they say, but a vengeful spirit has haunted the Old Alton Bridge ever since. 

Whether or not Oscar's story is true, many people still believe that the bridge as well as the forest surrounding it are haunted by spirits.

Spontaneous Combustion Or Murder? The Strange Death Of Mary Reeser.

On July 1st, 1951, 68-year-old widow, Mary Hardy Reeser, was sitting in her easy chair in her apartment in St. Petersburg, Florida. It was about 9 p.m. when her son, Dr. Richard Reeser, and her landlady, Mrs. Pansy M. Carpenter, both said goodnight and left. Before her son left, Mary told Richard that she had taken two seconal tablets, which were mild sedatives, and was planning on taking two more before bed.

The next morning, at 5:00 a.m. Pansy was awakened by the smell of smoke and she assumed it was a water pump in the garage that had been overheating. She turned the pump off and went back to sleep. 

At about 8:00 a.m., Pansy was awakened by a telegraph boy at her door, who had a telegraph for Mary. Pansy walked to Mary's room with the telegraph and some coffee in hand. She noticed the smell of smoke again and noticed soot in the hallway that led to Mary's room. Pansy knocked on the door but there was no answer. When she checked the doorknob and it was hot to the touch, Pansy became alarmed and ran outside to find some help. After enlisting the help of some carpenters working nearby, they managed to force open the door Mary's apartment only to be met by a terrible blast of heat and a ghastly sight.

The only portion of the apartment that was burned was the small corner in which sat the cremated remains of Mary and her easy chair. Only coiled chard springs were still there, the rest of the chair was but ash. Mary's skull had shrunk to the size of a tea cup. Parts of her spine remained, as well as her liver and her unburned left foot wearing her black, satin slipper.

For Mary's body to be cremated, the body would have to burn at 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit for 3 or more hours. Oddly, however, the rest of the apartment showed minor damage that doesn't make sense with a fire that hot burning for so long. Skulls usually don't shrink either, they usually become swollen or explode.

From about the four foot level on up, the walls were covered with a greasy soot, a mirror had cracked, plastic switches and a plastic tumbler in the bathroom had melted, as had two candles on a dresser which left behind their unburned wicks and a pink pool of wax. Below the four foot level, the only damage was the small circular burn area encompassing the remains of Mary and her chair, and a plastic electric wall outlet that had melted, stopping her clock at 4:20 a.m. The paint on the walls were unscorched and there was a stack of news papers close to Mary that were  undamaged. Neighbors never noticed the fire at the time it was burning  in Mary's apartment. When firefighters arrived, the heat was so intense that they were quoted as saying that they couldn't stand it.

What caused the fire? 

The electrical outlet melted only after the fire had begun, so an electrical fire was ruled out. 

An FBI pathologist tested samples of the carpet, chair, smoke and debris in for analysis. No traces of accelerates were found. The only thing that was found was melted fat in the carpet. A local mattress company said that the material that Mary's chair was made out of would not burn like that. They claimed it would have just smoldered for a long period of time. And since no sign of accelerates were found either, i don't think it could be murder.

Months later, the Chief of Police and the Chief of Detectives signed a statement attributing Mary Reeser's death to falling asleep with a cigarette in her hand. Mary was allegedly seen sitting in her chair with a cigarette in her hand the evening before she burst into flames. However, a cigarette could not create a fire hot enough to cremate her, not by itself.

A letter addressed to the chief of detectives said, "A ball of fire came in through the open window and hit her. I seen it happen." 

If that story is true, where'd the fire ball come from? It couldn't have been lightening. Lighting had been considered, but there had been none in St. Petersburg that night. 

So, could Mary have been a victim of Spontaneous human combustion?

There is no doubt that bodies can burn; crematoriums routinely reduce the human body to ashes in the course of a few hours. But can bodies start themselves on fire?

If the person is asleep, intoxicated, unconscious, or otherwise unable to move or put the flames out, the victim's clothes can act as a wick. The flames draw on the body's fat and internal gases to fuel the fire. Remember the fat found in Mary's carpet?

There is also a rare medical condition called Stevens-Johnson syndrome that, in extreme cases, may be mistaken for a case of an aborted spontaneous combustion. The skin disease, which can be triggered by a toxic reaction to medications, including antibiotics and prescription painkillers, causes the appearance of severe burns and blisters, and can be fatal.

Cases of theorized spontaneous human combustion usually entail the surroundings of the site of the fire are not drastically damaged, there is no visible source of the fire and parts of the body are left intact. All of which were found present in Mary's case.

What do you think happened to Mary?