Aaliyah Was Killed By Her Pilot.

🎶Aaliyah Dana Haughton🎶

"I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person."

She was a recording artist, actress and model who was ahead of her time. Aaliyah's nicknames were Li-Li and Baby Girl. She was playful, compassionate and caring. She was a prankster. Aaliyah loved to sleep, play word games, shop at Fred Segal in Los Angeles, and eat breakfast food, even late in the afternoon. She also loved reading Harry Potter books.

Aaliyah was born in Brooklyn on January 16th, 1979 to Diane and Michael "Miguel" Haughton. She was raised in Detroit. Aaliyah was destined for stardom. She started voice lessons shortly after she learned to talk. At age 11, Aaliyah opened for her aunt, Gladys Knight in Las Vegas. She signed a contract with Jive Records at the age of 12. She studied dance at the Detroit High School for the Fine and Performing Arts and earned a 4.0 GPA. At fourteen, Aaliyah released an album produced by R. Kelly, called, "Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number", which sold more than 1 million copies. 

Rumors swirled that she had married Kelly when she was only fifteen and he was twenty-seven. Aaliyah denied it, even though a marriage certificate was found in a Chicago county clerk’s office. 

Aaliyah's second album, "One in a Million", dropped in 1996, and sold 2 million copies. It also launched its producer-songwriter team, Timbaland and Missy Elliott, to stardom. 

By the time Aaliyah was 18, she was on top of the world with a successful string of critically acclaimed, best-selling albums and singles. 

Aaliyah began modeling for Tommy Hilfiger and taking acting lessons, which led to a starring role in the 2000 film, "Romeo Must Die", as well as the role of Akasha in Queen of the Damned, which was released after her death. She had also been cast in both of the sequels to The Matrix, which she had started shooting in L.A. before her death.

Her third record, Aaliyah, released in July 2001, was already gold when she flew to Abaco Island in the Bahamas to finish the video for the album’s third single, “Rock the Boat,”.

The self-proclaimed "street but sweet" Aaliyah was poised to become a global icon. Her life was tragically cut short, when she died in a plane crash on August 25, 2001, on her way back to Florida. 

On board the ten-seat twin-engine Cessna 402B with Aaliyah was the pilot, Luis Morales III, and seven members of her crew: video-production director Douglas Kratz, bodyguard Scott Gallin, hairstylists Anthony Dodd, and Eric Forman, Blackground Records executive Gina Smith, makeup artist Christopher Maldonado, and friend Keeth Wallace. Less than a minute after it took off, the plane crashed just a few hundred feet from the runway. Aaliyah was among six passengers dead at the scene with three others passing away hours later.

The cause of the crash was due to the aircraft being over it's maximum weight by 700 pounds during take off. Also there was one more passenger than it was certified to carry. The pilot was to blame was well. He had falsified the number of flight hours he had in order to get his license. He also lied about how much time he had flown from his last employer. When they did his toxicology report, traces of cocaine and alcohol in his system.

Aaliyah was laid to rest on August 31st, 2001. Her funeral was closed to the public, but hundreds of her fans lined Park Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side as the singer’s casket was carried to St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church. At her funeral 22 white doves were released to symbolize each year of her life.

Later, a public memorial at Cipriani 42nd Street was attended by more than 3,000 mourners. 

Megan Brown, Her Parents And Nicholas Leonard Had A Run In With The DJ Of Death.

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Gregory Arnold & Margaret Estel Thomas Brown

🐎Gregory Brown was raised in Shark River Hills, New Jersey and was the second of five children. He was a gentleman with a big heart. An avid outdoorsman, Greg loved hunting, fishing and being on his farm. He graduated Saint Rose High School, Belmar, in 1979. He had his electrical licenses in both NJ and PA. After obtaining his NJ electrical license, he co-ran and operated Brown Electric in Neptune. He worked at Kullman Industries for 16 years and went on to work at MBR Construction Services.

🐎Margaret was born in Englewood  New Jersey and was the third of seven kids. Maggie was a social butterfly and had a witty sense of humor and a tenacious spirit. She had a lifelong passion for horseback riding, starting with her favorite horse Cinnamon. She attended Wall High School in Wall Township.  Maggie worked as an Emergency Medical Technician at SAS Ambulance in Lakewood for many years. She was the main caretaker for the children and animals.

🐎Greg and Maggie were well-known for their love of animals as well as well as their loved for each other. They loved each other with the vigor of newlyweds through all 34 years together. Their love and commitment was an inspiration for their friends and family. 

🐎Greg and Maggie were good, honest, and hardworking people with good hearts.

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Megan Elizabeth Brown

🐎She was born in 1987 to Margaret and Gregory Brown in Brick, New Jersey. Her family then moved to a farm in New Tripoli, Pennsylvania, where they opened Hidden Hills Farm, and bred and boarded horses, and operated a dog kennel. Megan was the youngest of three children. She was a lively person, beautiful inside and out, with a radiant smile and infectious laugh. She and her brother Aaron were best friends.

🐎Megan graduated from Northwestern Lehigh High School in 2005, where she ran track and competed in the PA State Finals. She won a silver medal in the Triple Jump at the 2005 PIAA Track and Field Championship during her senior year. She won an athletic scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, which she attended in 2006.

🐎In her early twenties, Megan began dating an aspiring DJ named Adam Matos. Soon, she became pregnant with his child and Megan and her family were ecstatic, but they were weary of Adam. Adam wasn't ready for a baby and the couple soon parted ways. After Megan had the baby in 2009, the couple reconciled. 

They named their baby boy Tristan, and he was autistic and needed extra help. Adam moved in with Megan and Tristan who still lived with Megan's family. Adam got on Maggie's nerves. He didn't help around the house and was always lying around. Megan and Adam didn't get a long real well either and would constantly argue.

🐎Greg decided to retire and he moved the family to Florida with Adam in tow, providing that once they got there, he would look for a job and eventually move out. In July of 2014, the family rented a two-story house in a Hudson neighborhood on the banks of a canal while their new home was being built. Maggie got a job as a clerk at a convenience store and Megan got a job as a waitress at a bar. Adam worked at a restaurant as a dishwasher, but was fired not too long after he started because he stopped showing up. Adam would just sit home all day and play video games.

🐎Adam and Megan grew farther and farther apart and argued more and more. They even slept in separate bedrooms. Megan had a group of friends that she liked to go hang out with while Adam stayed home and baby sat Tristan.

🐎Adam became increasingly violent to 27-year-old Megan. This got so bad that Megan had to make an emotional call 9-1-1 one morning after she came home from hanging out with her friends.

Megan: "I just came home, and my son's dad put a knife to my throat and he cut my hand and i'm like, bleeding everywhere and my son's freaking out."

9-1-1: "Ma'am, ma'am, he, he cut your hand with a knife?"

Megan: "Yes, i'm bleeding everywhere."

9-1-1: "Okay, and that's the father of your son?"
Megan: "Yes."
Megan sounded terrified and she can be heard trying to comfort 4-year-old Tristan.
Megan: "It's ok baby. I'm sorry. Please just have someone come out here as soon as possible. He literally tried to kill me."

🐎When authorities arrived, Adam had taken off and Megan was distraught with knife wounds on her hand that she received from the struggle for her life with Adam. After he had left, Adam texted Megan over 100 death threats and she was afraid he was going to come back and finish the job. 

🐎6 days passed and relatives of Megan and her parents called the police, when they tried numerous times to get a hold of the family, with no response. When police arrived to do a welfare check, the house appeared to be empty, but there was a foul odor that seemed like it came from within. There was a spent bullet in the driveway. Police decided to go inside the home through an open door leading to the garage. The family's van was inside, along with bloody blankets and blood all over the floor. Police searched the house, and found trails of blood, but Megan and her family were nowhere to be found.

🐎That same day, an officer noticed a foul smell came from a wooded area down the street from the family's home and called the lead detective investigating, Chet Cougill. When Chet went to the wooded area, there was a pile of bodies that were so decomposed, they were unrecognizable and they couldn't tell how many were even there until they were taken to the medical examiner.

🐎The police brought in forensic experts to the family home and when they sprayed luminol, the house exploded with pink color. Luminol lights up traces of blood pink, so there had been blood everywhere. In the garage in the van, there was a foul smell blood, maggots and a shovel. Outside there was a freshly dug up area of the yard, but it wasn't very deep due to lime rock.

🐎The police suspected that Adam was the culprit, but they weren't sure until the bodies were identified. They had to make sure that he wasn't one of the victims. When the medical examinations were finished, the bodies of Megan, Maggie, Greg and a friend of Megan's named Nicholas Leonard were identified. 

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Nicholas "Nick" Leonard

🐎He was born on April 29th, 1977 to Paula and Daniel T. Leonard. He was a carpenter and landscaper. Nick was one of the friends that Megan had been out with the night when she had came home and made the 9-1-1 call. Megan and Nick were in a romantic relationship that she had kept secret from her family and friends. Nick, however and told his family all about Megan and said that she was the love of his life that he'd probably end up marrying someday. He told them that they were keeping their relationship quiet until Adam moved out of the house, because Adam had found out about their relationship and he threatened Nick's life. Which Adam ending up taking.

🐎After the 9-1-1 call that Megan had placed that one night, she called Nick and he came over with his handgun. He told his family that he would be back, that he wanted to go keep Megan and her family safe. That was the last time they'd ever see him again.

🐎Megan, Maggie, Gregory and Nick were accounted for, but there was no sign of Tristan. It was a relief in a way, but that meant that he was either buried somewhere else or possibly with the monster that ended his family's life. It turns out that when the police went to the family home to do a welfare check, Adam had been at the house. When they knocked on the door, he went out the back with Tristan, ran through the back yard, stole a canoe, paddled to the other side of the canal and hailed a taxi to a hotel. At the hotel, he checked in under his own name.

🐎Good thing that he was so dumb that he checked in under his real name because this led investigators right to Adam and a traumatized Tristan. Police tried to talk to Tristan, but he wouldn't really say anything. When they took Adam into custody, investigators told him that he was being arrested for domestic violence from the night that he attacked Megan with a knife. They didn't tell him anything about finding her body or that of her family and new boyfriend. Police wanted to see if Adam would confess or let anything slip about the murders. Adam tells investigators that he didn't attack Megan the night of the 9-1-1 call and she was making it up.

🐎After Adam was squared away, investigators informed him about the Nick's and the family murders. He said that he was shocked and that he'd never kill Megan or her family. Adam even went further to claim that it was an ex-girlfriend of Nick's that did the deed. Police investigated Nick's ex and she had a air tight alibi. There was also a witness to the murders, Tristan. 

🐎Police one again questioned Tristan, who had been staying with Megan's mother's side of the family. This time, he managed to talk to police and retell the horrifying tale that had unfolded in front of him. With the details added by Tristan, investigators were able to come up with a pretty solid timeline of the events and confirm that Adam was the killer.

🐎Investigators believe that Adam staked out the family home and was aware that Nick was staying there for the night. They think that he was waiting to strike once Maggie got off her shift at work around midnight. Once she pulled into the garage and exited the van, Adam pounced, and beat her in the head with a hammer many times until she was still. He then tied Maggie up and put a bag over her head for good measure. Adam then made his way up stairs and into the room where Megan and Nick were sleeping. He beat Nick to death with the hammer as he tried in vain to defend himself. He had been hit 21 times. As Nick was being murdered, Megan and Tristan ran for their lives to her parents room where Greg had hunting rifles. When Adam was finished with Nick, he took Nick's gun and made his way to Megan's parents room. Adam entered the room and fired two shots at Greg's back, who was in his closet loading his gun. Adam then turned his attention to Megan. While she desperately plead for her life, he shot her once in the face.

🐎You'd think that after Adam carried out his heinous act, that he would clean up the scene and then leave. Sadly for Tristan, that's not what happened. After Adam threw the murder weapons in the canal, he and Tristan stayed in the house with the bodies while Adam sold the family's dogs and valuable possessions online. He even had food delivered to the house. Some of the family's neighbors questioned Adam why he was at the house. He told them that the family was away on vacation and he was taking care of things while they were gone.

🐎Poor Tristan, not only did he have to witness the terrible violence inflicted by Adam, he had to sit for nearly a week with the bodies of his loved ones.

🐎When Adam did decide to take care of the bodies, he first tried to bury them in the yard with a shovel he went and bought. After that didn't work, he loaded them up in the van and dumped them in in the woods were they were discovered.

🐎Adam was charged with 4 counts of 1st degree murder. And what did he plea? Not guilty. Adam said that he was there to get his belongings and he was just defending himself from a family that was trying to kill him. 

🐎Is that why he jumped an unarmed woman when she was getting out of her car and then proceeding to beat her to death with a hammer? Oh and to make sure she was good and dead, put a plastic bag over her head? Was Maggie a Kung Fu fighter or what?

 🐎Thankfully, the jury didn't by Adam's lies and he was found guilty on all counts. However, he did not receive the death penalty when 1 person on the jury voted to spare his life. This bewildered and angered the presiding judge, Mary Handsel.

"If there was ever a case that I’ve ever heard that 12 people would have decided that death was appropriate, this was probably it," said Mary.

Mary sentenced Adam with the maximum conviction she could, which was life in prison without the possibility of parole.

🐎Adam tried to make a statement to the family member's of his victims about how sorry he was, but Megan's brother Aaron to yelled at him to shut the f*ck up.

🐎I hope another one of the prisoners gives Adam what he deserves.. 

🐎Rest In Peace Megan, Nick, Maggie and Greg, the world is much darker without you in it.


To Tristan: “God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.”
― Shannon L. Alder

The Devil's Island Monster Took Jacque Away From Her Triplets.

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Jacque Sue Waller

👶👶👶“I leave you now for a little while for a home that awaits us all. Cry not out of sadness but, rejoice that what was lost has been found.” -Reverend Cody Alley

👶👶👶She was born on December 26th, 1971 in Bonne Terre, St. Francois County, Missouri to Ruby and Stan Rawson. Jacque was a beautiful, outspoken, kind, empathetic, woman that was full of compassion. She also was a prankster at times. 

👶👶👶 wanted nothing more than a family of her own, so when she became pregnant with triplets, she was overjoyed. 

👶👶👶 husband, James Clay Walker, was a little awkward and had a speech impediment. That made Jacque feel sorry for and want to take care of him. Jacque's parents, however, didn't like Clay at all and thought he was a jerk. For awhile Clay worked as a deputy at the Cape Girardeau county sheriff's office. This only lasted a year though. Jacque already had a good paying job as manager at Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, so she was able to support the family while Clay bounced around from job to job.

👶👶👶 Jacque loved her babies and enjoyed every minute with them. Clay, however, was unwilling to help with the kids. He also had become emotionally and physically abusive. He began threatening her and the children. He would pull a gun on Jacque. Jacque began to fear for her life and her children's. She began documenting the abuse in her computer. Allegedly, Clay also had multiple affairs, which he'd always deny when she would confront him. Jacque asked for a divorce and her husband said "If you take my kids, I will kill you". Her husband would threaten to kill her children as well.

👶👶👶Clay lost another job and they lost their house. Jacque saw this as a blessing in disguise and she took the kids and moved in with her sister while Clay moved in with a friend. They both seemed to move on and were both in relationships with other people. 

👶👶👶As the divorce grew near, Jacque began confiding in her older sister. Jacque felt she could handle her husband and things would work out fine. Sadly, she was dead wrong.

👶👶👶On June 1st, 2011, 39 year-old Jacque finalized their divorce and she was to pick up her son that stayed at Clay's house the previous night. She called her sister Cheryl and told her that she had just pulled up to Clay's house and she was going to get her 5 year-old son and be on her way home. That was the last time Cheryl heared Jacque's voice. 

👶👶👶Three hours later, Jacque still wasn't home. Cheryl had a sick feeling and started calling Jacque's phone, desperately trying to get a hold of her, to no avail. Cheryl then began bombarding Clay's phone, but he didn't answer either. Then on the last attempt, Cheryl made to Clay's phone stating that she was going to give him five minutes and then she was going to call the police. Clay called her back immediately. He said that if he sees Jacque he'd have her call and then he hung up on Cheryl.

👶👶👶Cheryl didn't wait around and drove to Jackson, where Clay lived, and went into the police station. She told them that Clay killed Jacque and even though she had no evidence of this fact, the police began immediately investigating and sent someone out to question Clay.

👶👶👶During police questioning, Clay said his son wasn't at his house, he was with Clay's girlfriend and that Jacque had come over to talk more about their divorce. He stated that Jacque arrived at his house around 4 p.m. He said they got into an argument and she stormed off on foot. Clay said he left and that when he returned about two hours later, her car was gone. 

👶👶👶Police didn't buy Clay's story and assembled a team of investigators from different agencies. A few hours later they found Jacque's car abandoned on the side of the road, with a punctured tire. Investigators said the scene looked staged.

👶👶👶Investigators wanted to search Clay's house and vehicle, but Clay said that his attorney advised against the searches. Investigators acquired warrants and later that afternoon, began the searches. Blood was found all over Clay's truck, but when the test results came back it wasn't from Jacque. It turned out to be fish blood. Clay had video tapped himself smearing fish blood all over his vehicle. He claimed in the video that he was doing this to see how corrupt the police were and if they would plant evidence.

👶👶👶When Clay's house was searched investigators noticed that the hall carpet was gone as well as there being blood in the hallway. This led investigators to sermonize that a violent confrontation took place. 

👶👶👶One of the detectives who had searched the basement, stumbled onto a crawlspace. Inside that crawl space was the missing hallway rug, soaked in blood.

👶👶👶Investigators look at surveillance video from around town of the day that Jacque disappeared. 

👶👶👶At around 11:00 a.m. on June 1st, 2011, Jacque was seen at a drug store where she met Clay. 

👶👶👶At 1:00 p.m., Jacque went to an ATM and that was the last time that she was seen alive. 

👶👶👶Later that day, Clay at a store and in different clothes than he was wearing in the video where he had met Jacque. He was with his girlfriend and his son, buying toys. There is video of his truck as well, with a garbage can in the back. 

👶👶👶Later in the evening, there is also footage of Clay at a car wash, scrubbing out a boat he was towing. When authorities issued images of Clay's boat to the public, witnesses came forward saying that they saw what appeared to be Clay's boat floating next to a sandbar called Devil's Island earlier in the day. Police searched that area several times, but found no trace of Jacque.

👶👶👶The authorities being suspicious about Clay, had one of their detectives convince Clay to come into the station for a formal interview. Allegedly, Clay claimed that the blood found at his house was from a minor accident. 

👶👶👶A lot of blood can come out of a small wound depending on what place on the body it is located. However, why would you attempt to hide the rug instead of throwing it out?

👶👶👶Investigators had put a tracker on Clay's truck, in hopes he might lead them to a clue on where Jacque might be located. This didn't turn out to be a fruitful endeavor, quite the opposite. It is believed that Clay suspected that there was a tracker on his vehicle and it appeared that he kept leading investigators on wild goose chases that wasted their time.

👶👶👶On July 11, 2011, Jacque’s business cards were found inside a packet along Missouri Route 177, which was about 10 miles from where her car was found.

👶👶👶Clay allegedly started harassing Jacque's family and even flipped off search crews. Cheryl had been awarded custody of the kids, which angered Clay profusely. 

👶👶👶I'm not really sure if he loved them, but  I think he saw them more as his possessions.

👶👶👶In fact, Clay got so angry that he sent Cheryl a death threat online and so he was arrested on a federal charge for that threat. He was also accused of stealing money from one of his jobs and threatening a friend.

👶👶👶Clay is questioned again about Jacque and this time he says that a former co-worker killed Jacque and that he can prove it eventually. Police know that this is another lie that Clay is trying to spin and that the co-worker has a solid alibi. 

👶👶👶Up to this point, Clay seemed cocky and thought that he was smarter than everyone else, but he wasn't. 

👶👶👶As police continued to question him, they urged him to tell the truth, which they let him know they knew he hadn't been telling. Despite all of this, Clay still held steadfast to the claim that he didn't kill Jacque. 

👶👶👶In September, 2011, Clay’s father related to police his son’s confession to him that he broke her neck during an argument. Waller’s father was ill and in a nursing home when the interview was conducted by law enforcement and prosecutors were unable to obtain a video affidavit before he died on December 20th, of that year.

👶👶👶In October, 2011, Clay pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Jacque's sister in a message he posted online.

👶👶👶On January 3rd, 2012, Clay received a five year sentence in federal prison for threatening Cheryl online.

👶👶👶Despite the lack of Jacque's body, Clay was charged with first-degree murder. After this, Clay's attorneys approached prosecutors about making some kind of deal. Jacque's parents wanted justice, but they wanted their daughter's body back as well, so they told prosecutors to make a deal. The deal entailed Clay to plead guilty of second degree murder and get in 20 year sentence in exchanged for details about what he did to Jacque and what he did with her body. Clay agreed and told investigators that Jacque's body was buried on Devil's Island after all.

👶👶👶Devil's Island is a thickly wooded island in the Mississippi River. Clay told investigators that he couldn't quite remember the exactly where he had buried Jacque's body. This led them to wonder if Clay was spinning another lie. Clay told them that he did bury Jacque with a bag of fertilizer on top of her in order to decompose the body faster. 

👶👶👶This was a good thing in a way, because i guess too much fertilizer will make plants sick.

👶👶👶When investigators saw a sickly looking tree they started digging by hand and found Jacque's body. And now that her body was found, the family had to try to explain to the the now 7-year-old kids where their mom was and who took her away from them.

👶👶👶As the last part of Clay's deal, he had to do a full video tapped confession of what transpired between him and Jacque. He said that everything started a year before that fateful day of her demise. She had told him that she was thinking about ending their marriage. He said that he calmly warned Jacque that if she took the kids away from him he'd kill her. 

👶👶👶Clay continued to go on about the event that brought him to the breaking point. He said that Jacque came to his place on May 1st, 2011 and was saying that she wanted a divorce. In the confession he said that he knew she was going to die now and told investigators that he had dug Jacque's grave on Devil's Island the day before he killed her.

👶👶👶Even though, by admitting that he knew that she was going to die and about digging her grave the day before he killed her, Clay then says that her death was an accident. He claimed that he accidentally bumped Jacque's nose with his head, causing her nose to bleed. He then said that this made Jacque freak out and she ran and tripped in the hall. Clay said that that is where she started provoking him and threatened that he would never see the kids again. He then goes on to say that he hit her in the neck, which knocked her down. Then he punched her in the nose and choked her until she passed away.

👶👶👶"I wasn't intentionally pre planned to kill my wife that day. That wasn't the case at all." said Clay.

👶👶👶Right, Clay... we all dig graves for the fun of it.

👶👶👶So, basically he changed his story. At first he says that he pretty much planned Jacque's murder with the act of digging her grave and then he claimed it was an accident. Essentially he lied to police about it not being a premeditated murder and also about how he killed her. 

👶👶👶Jacque's autopsy proved that Clay had lied. Instead of just getting hit in the nose and strangled, she had "multiple fractures to the face and skull consistent with blunt force trauma."

👶👶👶Clay went on to say that after he killed Jacque, he put her into a garbage can and put it in the back of his truck. That was the garbage can that was seen on that surveillance tape in the back of his truck when he was shopping with his and Jacque's son...

👶👶👶After he dropped his girlfriend and Jacque's son off, he says he went in his boat to Devil's Island where he buried Jacque.

👶👶👶On December 19th, 2017, Clay was sentenced to 20 years. An extra 35 years was tacked on for interstate domestic violence, since he had dug the grave in one state and then killed Jacque in another. In total he should end up serving a 55 year sentence.

👶👶👶At Clay's sentencing, Jaque's son gave an impact statement, which seemed to have no effect on Clay.

👶👶👶"Dear dad, this is Maddox. The son of you. You betrayed... you know what you did you killed our mom. You betrayed your kids you big fat jerk. You're a big fat jerk do you know that? I wish you were never my dad you big fat jerk. I never want to see you again for my entire life. We don't like you anymore. This is the last time you'll hear of me. Okay? Bye!" 

👶👶👶Besides not seeming to care about the feelings of his children, Clay seemed not to care that he had killed Jacque either. He said in a telephone conversation to a family member that he wasn't sorry and that he only regretted having to spend time in jail. Clay even wrote a book about murdering Jacque entitled, "If you take my kids i'll kill ya."

👶👶👶I hope something happens to him in jail and he has to stay in there for the rest of his life. Those kids should never have to deal with a monster like that ever again.

👶👶👶"We miss her to pieces, miss her to pieces and I'd do anything for her," said Stan Rawson, Jacque's dad. "But all we can hope for is we'll see her again someday."

👶👶👶Cheryl legally adopted the triplets who are teenagers now and miss their mother very much, but are growing up in a happy caring home.

A Knightmare: Who Killed Tawnya?

Tawnya Dawn Knight

She was born on February 7th, 1981 to Lori and Frank Knight.

Tawnya was a pretty teenager that boys gravitated towards. She was a tomboy, and someone who always had a smile on her face. Tawnya could probably outrun most of the boys her age. She was very fast. She grew up in Arizona with her mom, but had come to live in Kansas with her dad a few years before her murder. 

On December 7, 1996, Tawnya asked her father if she could have a sleepover at a friend’s house. Tawnya was always on time and when she didn't show up the next day, Frank was concerned. The Spring Hill Police Department considered Tawnya a runaway, and told the family that she would be home in a few days.

On June 7th, 1997. Her body was found in brush in a farmer's field. A farmer was in the middle of tilling his field when he spotted something that he was about to run over. When he took a closer look he realized it was a human skull and a partially decomposed human body. Tawnya's parents were able to identify her through dental records. Detectives had no indication if it was a natural, accidental, or homicidal death. However, the Johnson County Coroner at the time was sure Tawnya was murdered.

No arrests or suspects have been named in the case, so Lori hired a private detective named Jeff McDonald. He thinks that Tawnya was led to believe there was going to be a party.

McDonald said. "I can't find anyone who can say, 'I remember that night. I remember there was a party.'"

McDonald believes it was a lie. A fabrication by two people he called "The Mastermind," a girlfriend of Tawnya's, and "The Heavy," a boy that had a crush on Tawnya. McDonald thinks that the two concocted a murder plot motivated by "The Mastermind" being jealous and "The Heavy" having his advances being shot down by Tawnya.

McDonald learned The Mastermind dropped Tawnya off at a boy's house the night she went missing. McDonald said the boys who were playing video games were surprised to see Tawnya and didn't know why she was there. The Mastermind never came back to pick Tawnya up, one of the boy's mothers offered her a ride home, but she decided to walk back around midnight. The mother watched Tawnya leave and walk down the road.

She is the last person known to see her alive.

To get home, investigators said she had to pass a graveyard just off the main path. McDonald said he believes she was lured into the graveyard by The Mastermind and The Heavy and murdered there. And then her body was dumped just over an adjoining chain link fence from the graveyard, and the spot where her body was found.

The Mastermind and The Heavy were interviewed. The Mastermind was also polygraphed. She thought that the polygraph was fun, and she also failed the test.

Sadly, Tawnya's case remains unsolved. 

"I just got to keep believing that I'm going to get justice because you can't give up hope, and you've got to believe in something," Lori Knight said.

If you believe you have information about the night Tawnya went missing, the Johnson County Sheriff's Department asks that you call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS.

There is a $10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction. You can remain anonymous

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Will You Help Get Justice For Rachel Galbreath?

Rachel Galbreath

"If tears could build a stairway and memories were a lane, I would walk right up to heaven to bring you home again.
No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye.
My heart still aches in sadness and secret tears still flow.
What it meant to lose you - no one will ever know."

On May 9th, 2014, when 33 year-old Rachel worked at a dog grooming salon. When she didn't show up for work, one of her co-workers and friends stopped by Rachel's apartment in South Holland Illinois. It was about 10:30 a.m., and when her co-worker made her way inside, she found Rachel savagely beaten to death and lying in a pool of her own blood in her living room. She had been hit over 20 times by a blunt force object. When Rachel's family went to identify her, she was unrecognizable.

Investigators theorized that Rachel's murder could have been a crime of passion, rage, from someone she knew and trusted. Someone that attacked her from behind and without warning, since Rachel was trained in martial arts and could have probably defended herself otherwise.

Rachel and a tumultuous relationship with her boyfriend. They lived on and off together for eight years. He allegedly had a jealous and violent streak. One night, Rachel had woken up with him on top of her holding her down. This scared her pretty bad. Rachel had also found out that he was engaged to another woman the whole time they had been living together. A few weeks before her murder, she kicked him out. 

Two months after Rachel was killed, her boyfriend got married. He was the sole beneficiary of Rachel's life insurance policy that was activated 30 days before her death. Oh, and the pay out was between $100,000 and $200,000. The boyfriend has never been named a suspect.

Rachel's family said that they will never give up on getting justice for Rachel.

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Do You Know Who This Woman Is That Was Found In Indiana?

Jane Doe Boone County, Indiana

On Sunday, May 3, 1992, on a rural highway in Boone County, Indiana, a local farmer found the naked body of a young female lying face down in a side ditch with water. Investigators said it appeared that she was dragged part of the way down the hill and then just tossed. The women's face was so badly decomposed she was unrecognizable to anyone who might have known her. A cause of death could not be determined either, but investigators think her being strangled was likely.

Investigators surmised that she was 17 - 22 years old and that her hair was born, red, reddish brown or auburn. It was also shorter than collar-length. She was  about 5'6" tall, and 130 pounds. Her tattoos included the following: "MOM" upper right arm; A cross and "LOVE" on the right breast; A cross on webbing between the index finger and thumb on the right hand. She was wearing a light-green tank top and anklet socks.

She might have been born in New Mexico, Texas, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York or Pennsylvania. She probably spent the last weeks of her life in western and south western Indiana.

The victim is believed to have died three to five days prior; however, the cause of death could not be determined. Foul play is suspected.

Who Was Really Was William L. Toomey And Why Did He Poison Himself With Cyanide?

On December 4th, 1982, a well-dressed stranger walked into the Sacred Hearts Church in Boise, Idaho.He appeared to be between 35-45 years old and was heavily suntanned, had sun-bleached hair. He apparently wanted to go to the confessional, but it was occupied at the time, so he waited. As parishioners entered for the 6 p.m. mass, one of them found the man lying dead on the floor. The police were called to investigate. None of the church members recognized the man and he carried no identification.

An autopsy determined that he had committed suicide by swallowing cyanide tablets.The man was dressed in Western attire
Belt was brown leather with a large buckle displaying a Mexican 100 peso coin in the center, bolo-type tie made of turquoise and silver. He had a wallet on him,  but all items of personal identification had been removed, worn spots on the wallet indicated that it had previously held several items. There was also $1,900 in cash and a typewritten note which stated:
"In the event of my death, The enclosed currency should give more than adequate compensation for my funeral or disposal (preferred to be cremated) expenditures. What is left over, please take this as a contribution to this church. God will see to your honesty in this.". The note was signed "William L. Toomey" However, no person with that name could be located. Police did discover that a Boston company which manufactured ceremonial garb for priests had the same name. Despite this, they could find no connection between the company and the dead man.

Police traced some of his clothing items back to Phoenix Arizona and took the  man's fingerprints. No matches were found in any databases. The church's priest believes that the man came from a Catholic background and decided to end his life in church so that he could make peace with God and be taken care of by the church members.

The man known as Toomey has never been identified. However, investigators have looked into the possibility that he may be connected to the murders of two priests in the Southwest in the early 1980's. Both priests had connections to Arizona, which was where Toomey bought the belt buckle. Also, the second murder happened just weeks before his suicide. Despite this, there is little evidence connecting him to either case. There has also been some speculation that Toomey was connected to the murder of Father Reynaldo Rivera, who was murdered in New Mexico in 1982

A Cold Case Squad Is Taking Another Look At The Murder Of Lisa Au.

Lisa Au

She was a happy and lively 19 year old and working as a hairdresser in 1982.

On January 20th, 1982, flooding rains were pouring down on Oahu when Lisa finished up work at the Susan Beers Salon in Kailua. She had been working happily and talking about her dinner plans, telling her co-workers she was going to see her boyfriend, Doug Holmes, at his sister’s apartment in Makiki. Now she was headed out into the bad weather. Lisa had just gotten her driver's license two days before. On her way, police reports show, she stopped to buy poke, which was diced raw fish. And after dinner, she headed home to Kailua. But she never got there.

The next day, Lisa’s parents called Holmes at his University of Hawaii dorm. He told them he would go out to look for her. Holmes found Lisa's 1976 Toyota around noon. it was parked on the shoulder of the highway in Maunawili near the old Kailua Drive-in. There was no Lisa so Holmes he called the police. The driver's side window was rolled down about halfway, and the officer who met Holmes noted that there was about “2 to 3 inches of water” on the floor of the vehicle and that the seat was “soaked and drenched.” Lisa's purse was completely dry, leading the police to believed the scene was staged. The officer also noticed scratches on Holmes’ face. Crime scene technicians would later determine that Lisa’s car had been “wiped clean” of any evidence.

A massive search for Lisa followed, the whole time her parents hopeful that Lisa would be found alive.

10 days after she went missing, a jogger and his dog found Lisa's naked body in a ravine off Tantalus Drive. Her body was so decomposed, that the coroner wasn't able to determine a cause of death, but her death was classified as a homicide. 

Numerous theories started to emerge about her demise. Some thought that it might be a serial killer, since there was other female homicide victims around the area. These women were all strangled to death and were around the same age as Lisa.

Lisa's driver's license and car registration were missing, this made police think that it was someone impersonating a police officer. Police were so sure of this fact, they started focusing on one of their own as a suspect. For about a year, an investigative grand jury heard evidence against the Honolulu police officer suspected in the case. A Windward Oahu woman claimed she had been stopped by an unmarked police car. There was also a sexual harassment complaint against the suspected officer from a young woman during a police ride-along. He also lived near Lisa at the time. But at the time the prosecutor wasn’t able to secure an indictment. 

To this day, many still believe it was a police officer who killed Lisa.

Both of Lisa's parents since have passed away, but she has not been forgotten, quite the opposite.

A former investigator in Lisa's case started working as a private investigator for Lisa's family.  He started  the investigation over. Witnesses, before Lisa's case was moved to homicide, that detectives failed to track down, or simply ignored, were re-questioned. While re-tracing Lisa’s movements her ID was found at the store where she wrote out a check for the poke. Security guard, Thomas Thornburg, worked at the Makiki apartment building where Doug Holmes’ sister lived and where Lisa Au was last seen alive. He was not previously questioned by police. He said that saw the Lisa and Holmes arguing about 11 p.m. Holmes had agreed to two, lie detector tests and failed both. He said that he felt guilty he didn't give Lisa a ride home that night. Holmes also claimed that he was trying to end his relationship with Lisa.

About a year after Lisa's murder, her body was re-exhumed. The Au's private Investigator speculated that Lisa's original autopsy wasn't done correctly and he was right. When the body was exhumed, investigators learned her remains were still in the police body bag. There were also leaves and dirt and rubbish inside. Lisa's body had never been washed. Her skull was also examined again, but cause of death could not be determined again.

Lisa's sister just wants answers and a cold case squad is trying to help her find those answers. 

In a statement, Police Chief Susan Ballard said that cold case detectives “are looking for anything that may have been overlooked at the time or whether new technology can provide new information."

Jennifer Stone Never Made It To Graduation.

Jennifer Lynn Stone

She was born on December 9th, 1969. Her drive, personality, and intelligence made her a sure success in her chosen field.

April 23rd, 1992 was a breezy day in Georgia. Jennifer was a 22 year old senior at UGA majoring in advertising and on the cusp of graduation. She lived alone in her apartment, at 187 Hull Street, for about 8 months. It was located in the downtown business district of Athens and was connected to a clothing business behind the bus station.

Jennifer was last seen by her friend at around midnight. She had missed two meetings that day, one at noon and the other at 6:00 p.m. When she failed to show for the second meeting, the students went to her apartment to check on her. They found a side door opened a few inches, looked in and saw her body. Jennifer had been strangled to death. The students left immediately and  called police.

Investigators later surmised that Jennifer stepped out side for a smoke and that a burglar entered her house during the brief time she was away. When Jennifer came back inside, she was forced to her bedroom and raped. Then she was strangled to death. Jenny was alive at 1:00 a.m., because that’s when her boyfriend called to check on her. Her cameras were being sold or traded for dope at around 3:00 a.m.

During interrogations, local dope dealers told cops that the assailant was a stranger to them. Investigators figured he was passing through. He was described as a light-skinned African-American with a thin mustache. DNA collected from the scene confirmed that he was of mixed race.
Even though police obtained a DNA profile of the killer, he has never been caught.

Anyone with any information on the death of Jennifer Stone is asked to call the GBI TIP line at 1-800/597-TIPS.