Was The Right Man Executed For Sister M. Tadea's Death? Or Was Johnny Frank Garrett Innocent?

Sister M. Tadea 

Martina Benz

She was born in Switzerland on September 21st, 1905.
She was a Roman Catholic nun at the St. Francis Convent in Amarillo, Texas.
On October 31st, 1981, Sister Angela Martinez noticed 76 year old Sister M. Tadea's absence at 6:30 a.m. mass and went to check on her, because she seldom missed chapel.
About 7:00 a.m., Sister Martinez went to Sister Tadea's room on the second floor and found the door closed.
This was unusual, because Tadea was hard of hearing and always left the door ajar to hear the morning buzzer.
Martinez found Tadea's nude body on the floor with her arms outstretched and her face bloody.
Four other nuns wrapped Sister Tadea's body in a sheet, believing she had died in a fall, and cleaned up spots of blood on the floor near her body.

The nuns had the body transported to the funeral home.

An hour later Sister Florantine discovered a broken window unlatched and open, in the community room located on the first floor of the convent.
She realized a break-in had occurred and  called police.
When police arrived at 9 a.m. to investigate the break-in, officers overheard the nuns' conversation about the Tadea's death and decided to investigate.

They recovered bed linens, the victim's night clothes, and a kitchen knife under the bed. 

Fingerprints and palm prints were lifted from the knife blade and handle and from the bed headboard. 

The cut window screen and a second knife, a steak knife, were found in the driveway.

The police recovered her body from the funeral home.

It had been partially cleansed and arterial embalming completed. The autopsy revealed contusions to the head, stab wounds to the chest, and excoriation and abrasive injuries to the front and back of the neck. 

The pathologist, Dr. Erdmann, determined that death was caused by manual strangulation.

The autopsy also revealed evidence of forcible rape. 

There were signs of external bleeding and internal trauma in the vaginal area. 

Tests of vaginal contents revealed the presence of sperm and prostate secretions. 

No test was conducted from the vaginal contents designed to determine the assailant's blood type.

Pubic hairs recovered from the scene.

Prints found on the handle and blade of the kitchen knife recovered from under the victim's bed and prints from the bed headboard matched Johnny Garrett's.

Sister M. Tadea was laid to rest in the Llano Cemetery in Amarillo, Randall County, Texas on November 2, 1981.

Johnny Frank Garrett

He was born on December 24th, 1963 in Oklahoma to Charlotte Jo Cameron.

When as a little boy, Garrett was raped by his stepfather, who then hired him to another man for sex. 

From the age of 14 he was forced to perform bizarre sexual acts and participate in pornographic homosexual films. 

He was first introduced to alcohol and other drugs by members of his family at the age of ten and subsequently indulged in serious substance abuse involving brain-damaging substances such as paint-thinner and amphetamines. 

Garrett was regularly beaten and on one occasion was put upon the burner of a stove, resulting in severe scarring.

On November 9, 1981, Garrett was 17 years old and living across the street from the convent, when he was arrested for Sister Tadea's murder.

Garrett adamantly  denied committing such a horrendous act.

However, his fingerprints were those found on Sister Tadea's headboard and their was a witness claiming to have seen Garrett running away from the convent on the night of the murder.

Authorities also stated that they believed the pubic hairs looked like they came from Garret.
A steak knife found at Garrett's home was similar to the weapon found in the driveway of the convent. 

The police said that he wrote a confession, which he never signed,  saying that he Sister Tadea and choked her to death.

He also told police that she recited the Lord's Prayer during the attack.

Later Garrett said that he was in the convent, but it was 12 hours before the murder.

He stated that he was trying to find something to steal.

Garrett's abusive upbringing and mental health problems were not made available to the jury. 

According to three mental health experts who examined him  was extremely mentally impaired, chronically psychotic and brain-damaged as the result of several severe head injuries he sustained as a child. 

He suffered from paranoid delusions.

One of the experts described Garrett's case as 

"one of the most virulent histories of abuse and neglect...I have encountered in over 28 years of practice."

Garrett was convicted of killing Sister Tadea and was held at Ellis Unit, north of Huntsville, Texas and received the death penalty.

He was originally scheduled to be executed on January 6, 1992, but after Pope John Paul II asked for clemency, Governor of Texas Ann Richards gave him a temporary reprieve.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles held a hearing on whether Garrett should receive a commutation to life in prison but the death sentence was retained by a 17 to nothing vote.

He was executed at age 28 at Huntsville Unit on February 11, 1992 by lethal injection.

Supposedly he left behind a letter, cursing those who wronged him.

HERE ARE SOME OF HIS LETTERS FROM DEATHROW

Jesse Quackenbush

Jesse Quackenbush was hired by Garrett's family and questions whether evidence was ignored, the authenticity of the confession and the handling of DNA evidence.

He points out comparisons between Tadea's slaying and that of Narnie Box Bryson, 77. 

The two were slain three months apart in a similar manner in the same part of town.

In 2004, DNA evidence linked Leoncio Perez Rueda, a Cuban immigrant to the crime the murder of Sister Tadea.

Rueda admitted to sexually assaulting a "nun" four months prior to the rape and murder of another elderly woman, 

Narnie Box Bryson, for which Rueda was convicted. 

Physical evidence also linked Rueda to the crime, such as hairs found at the scene and on a white T-shirt formerly said to be that of Garrett's.

He has never been charged in Sister Tadea's death.

Black Mass Aka Mob Boss Whitey Bulger Was Killed In Prison.

89 year old James "Whitey Bulger" was found unresponsive  at 8:20 a.m., on Tuesday morning, a day after his transfer, at the US Penitentiary Hazelton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. 
Details of his murder have not yet been released.

Did She Runaway And Become A Victim Of The Green River Killer? Or Is She Still Alive?

Kristi Lynn Vorak

She was 13 years old when she was last seen on October 31, 1982.

She lived with her foster family Tacoma, Washington.

There is an unconfirmed sighting of Kristi later at a bus depot in Seattle, Washington. 

She had no history of running away or prostitution, but she did frequently explore the streets of Tacoma and the neighboring areas.

Her mothers has hopes that she still is alive, while investigators believe she is deceased.

Even thought she doesn't really match the profile, it is believe that Kristi might be the victim of the Green River Serial Killer, Gary Leon Ridgway, and has been added to his victim list.

It is believed Kristi was a victim of the murderer due to her location in the northwest United States, where many young women disappeared and/or were murdered by the suspected assailant, between 1982 and 1984.

At the time of her disappearance Kristi was 5'3 tall, 110 pounds,
with brown hair and hazel eyes. 

Due to a birth defect, Kristi's left middle finger is about an inch shorter than average.

Who Is The Lady With The Orange Socks? UPDATED: Identified

Lady Orange Socks AKA Debra Jackson

After 40 years,"Orange Socks" has been identified Debra Jackson. 23-years-old when she left home in 1977, but her parents never filed a missing person's report because she was known to have left home before. 

This year, Jackson's sister called authorities after seeing the newest forensic image of "orange socks" on the news, and believed that she was her missing sister. Photos obtained from Jackson's family were compared with the forensic image, and family confirmed additional physical characteristics matching orange socks. Her identity was further confirmed with assistance from the DNA Doe Project through the process of DNA genealogy with Jackson's relative.

Jackson's family said they feel like they can let her rest after this break in the case. They had been looking for all these years, but they just thought she had went her separate way.

Jackson's identity is a huge step forward in finding more clues to her murderer.

Records show Jackson worked at a hotel in Amarillo in 1978 and an assisted living facility in Azle the same year.

The sheriff's office is now asking for anyone from Abilene, Amarillo, and Azle with information on Jackson's whereabouts between 1977 and 1979, or worked with her, to contact their cold case unit tip line at 512-943-5204.

A female body was found on October 31, 1979 in a culvert on interstate 45 in Georgetown, Texas.

The only thing she was wearing was orange socks.

It is believed that she was to have died only a few hours before the discovery.

She was white and had been sexually assaulted.

She had been dragged to and thrown over a guardrail.

The cause of death was ruled as strangulation, as a large amount of bruising was visible on her neck. 

Other bruises were also visible, caused by the body having been dropped from the overpass.

The victim's legs were unshaven with a large number of insect bites. 

She had very long toenails.

Her fingernails were painted and a hairline scar was observed beneath the chin. 

She had not broken a bone during her life.

She had reportedly suffered from salpingitis, due to previously contracting gonorrhea.

She had long brown hair with a reddish tint, hazel eyes, and her age ranged from 15 to 30 years. 

She was approximately five feet eight inches to five feet ten inches tall, and weighed between 140 and 160 pounds.

Two of her teeth were missing.

The rest of her teeth were well-maintained.

A silver ring was found on her hand, containing an abalone or mother of pearl stone and her ears were pierced.

A towel was found at the scene along with the body,

It was likely used in place of a sanitary napkin, as though the victim was attempting to use it as a feminine napkin or tampon. 

One of two matchbooks found at the scene belonged to a hotel from Henryetta, Oklahoma, which supported the theory she was a hitchhiker or drifter.

In 1982, serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to her murder.

There was no physical evidence that he had been involved in the killing, sexual assault or disposing of the body.

He stated that he picked her up in Oklahoma, where they had sex.

And when he asked her for sex again while he was driving and Orange Socks said "not right now" and attempted to leave his car.

This is when he killed her and raped her corpse. 

He then drove her body to Georgetown.

Lucas told authorities that the victim had stated her name as being "Joanie" or "Judy". 

He had previously showed officers how he had supposedly dragged her body over the guardrail when taken to the location where her body was found.

Interrogators stated that he had contradicted himself several times when confessing to the murder, and his defense also stated that he was shown images of the crime scene before his interview.

Lucas later recanted this statement after his conviction in 1984 and, by involvement of the then state governor, George W. Bush, his death sentence was reduced to life imprisonment, as the death of Orange Socks was the only case that resulted in his receiving a capital punishment.

Lucas confessed to upwards of 3,000 murders.

Lucas himself recanted his confessions, stating that the only murder he had committed was that of his mother, Viola.

Was She Murdered Because They Thought She Was A Prostitute?

"Cindy" Hyun Jong Song

On Halloween night in 2001, she was 21 years old Pennsylvania State student.

She was dressed as a playboy bunny and partying with friends at Player's Nite Club in the 100 block of west College Avenue.

Around 2 a.m. they went to play video games at another friend's house.

At 4 a.m., she was dropped off at her home in State College Park Apartments in the 300 block of west Clinton Avenue and was never seen again.

She had been drinking that evening and was mildly intoxicated when taken to her apartment.

Her friends reported her as a missing person when she failed to contact anyone by November 4.

Police found her costume eyelashes and her cellphone in her apartment.

Her keys and her purse, containing her credit cards and driver's license, were the only items missing.

The door to her apartment was locked from the outside.

She had broken up with her boyfriend months before her disappearance.

Authorities received a tip from a woman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania shortly after she vanished.

The witness claimed that she saw a woman matching Cindy's description inside a vehicle with an unidentified male in the city's Chinatown district. 

The witness said that the woman called for help, but the man interrupted her and told the witness to leave.

Authorities are continuing to attempt to identify the man allegedly seen by the woman.

He is described as having an olive or light brown complexion with medium-length hair. 

Investigators stated that the man is not a suspect in Song's case, but they would like to question him.

Another possible suspect was bank robber Hugo Marcus Selenski.

He was arrested and several sets of human remains, believed to be from between five and twelve people, were found in his backyard. None of the remains were from Cindy.
Selenski told police that he and another man, Michael Jason Kerkowski Jr., saw her on the night of her disappearance, mistook her for a prostitute, and kidnapped her and kept her imprisoned in a walk-in safe in his home until she died. 

He says they then buried Cindy's body in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
Kerkowski could not confirm or deny Selenski's account because he was one of the people buried in Selenski's backyard. 

Selenski said he killed Kerkowski after learning that he had kept Song's bunny ears as a souvenir of the crime.

One of Selenski's friends, told police that Selenski had bragged about the murder to him.
Investigators have been unable to prove Selenski's involvement in Cindy's disappearance, but they have not ruled him out as a suspect either. 

He was acquitted of the murder charges against him but was convicted of two counts of abuse of a corpse in March 2006.

At the time of Cindy's disappearance she was 5'1 - 5'3 tall, 110 - 130 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

Her playboy bunny costume that she was wearing consisted of a pink sleeveless shirt with a rabbit design imprinted on the front, rabbit ears, a white tennis skirt with a cotton bunny tail attached to the back, brown suede leather knee-high boots and a red knee-length hooded parka.
Her ears and navel are pierced. 

She was born in South Korea.

Was Pocahontas Murdered By A Sexual Predator? Or Did She Get Lost On An Adventure?

Veronica "Voni" Lenhart Safranski

On October 26, 1996, she was 40 years old mother of four, when she attended a Halloween party at Mick's Bar and Grill, in Warren, Minnesota.

Her friend was unable to locate her inside about 12:30 a.m.

She had left with a man named Kevin Scott Skjerven around that time in his black 1997 Dodge Power Wagon pickup truck with Oregon license plates.

Kevin was a man convicted of sexual assault on multiple occasions.

He said he had no idea what had happened to her.

He has never been charged in her disappearance.

Veronica had been dressed as Pocahontas.

Months later, a belt believed to be part of her costume was found along a country road half a mile south of the crossing of Marshall County roads 8 and 6.

At the time of her disappearance Voni was 5'4 tall, and 110 lbs, blonde hair, blue eyes and her ears were pierced.

She was wearing a Mary Kay ring with diamonds in the shape of the letter "S."

A 2015 NEWS REPORT WITH AN INTERVIEW WITH VONI'S PARENTS

Harold is missing and he doesn't speak much English.

Harold William Galvis

He was 27 years old when he went missing from Salt Lake City on September 28th, 2001.
He had been in Salt Lake for eight months visiting his sister in the area of 400 East and 4100 South.
Harold is from Venezuela and spoke limited English.
He has a degree in Materials Engineering from Venezuela and was applying for a Cambridge doctorate program.
He was suffering from mental problems at the time, due to a traumatic event.
Harold wasn't taking the medicine he had prescribed to him.
He took a job washing cars when he needed money.
At the time of his disappearance he was 5'10" tall, 160 lbs, with brown hair and brown eyes.

She was drinking and driving when her and her car disappeared without a trace.

Lark Loraine (Mosher)Montague was 55 years old when she disappeared from Magna, Utah.
September 21, 2007,  at 9 a.m. her husband took and Ambeian and waited for sleep.
Lark had been drinking a lot lately and taking prescription pills.
After her husband went to sleep, she drove to a neighbor's house and stayed there drinking until 3 a.m.
She left the neighbor's house, the neighbor followed her home in another car.
The neighbor said he watched Lark pull into her driveway, but as he drove away, he saw her backing out.
She hit her chain-link fence, which her family found pieces of a busted taillight on the ground the next day.
About six the next morning, the Lark's son woke up the dad telling him that Lark wasn't home yet.
Lark's husband searched nearby bars.
He distributed fliers.
Search parties and hikes up nearby canyons were conducted.
Lark has never been found.
She was last seen driving a silver 2002 Chevy Trailblazer, with the license plate number 215LTE.
At the time she went missing, Lark was 4'11" tall, 105 lbs, with light brown hair and brown eyes.
She might have been carrying a white leather purse.
She suffers from Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and depression.

Timothy is handicapped and missing.

Timothy Scott Parry

He was 19 when he walked from his home in Cedar City, Utah on July 17th, 1989 and disappeared.

He has several conditions, including epilepsy, Angelman's Syndrome or happy puppet syndrome.
Timothy has brain damage that causes him to be un-balanced. 
When frightened he will scream and shake his hands.
His face peels under his eyes and he has porferia, an allergy to the sun. 
He has scars on both of his hands.
He may suffer from memory loss.
At the time he went missing he was 5'4" tall, 100 lbs with black hair and hazel eyes.

Murdered By A Basketball Player? UPDATED ON 12/04/2019

Kelsie Jean Schelling

She loved animals and music.

She was 21 years old  and had just found out that she was eight weeks pregnant when she disappeared on February 5th, 2013.

Her boyfriend Donthe was a college basketball star.

He was upset when he found out that she was expecting his child.

On February 3rd, Donthe sent her a text message after she had sent him a sonogram of their baby.

In the text he said that he wanted to see her, that he had something special for her.

This lead Kelsie to believe that maybe he changed his mind about the pregnancy.

On February 4th, at 8:41 p.m., she clocked out, left, and got in her car to meet Donthe.

She drove to Pueblo Colorado.

They had agreed to meet at the southside Walmart.

When she arrived there, there was no sign of her boyfriend, so she texted him a few times.

He texts her back and tells her that he is almost there and to wait.

She waited for quite and while, but Donthe didn't show up.

Instead he texted her and told her to drive to a quiet side street .

He still didn't show up, so Kelsie sent him another frustrated text telling him that she had been waiting over an hour. 

Somewhere between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m., something seems to have happened.

Her mom tried to call her, but Kelsie wasn't answering her phone.

She text Kelsie, but she got a short reply.

Her mother at first, thought that maybe Kelsie was tired and that's why she didn't really respond to her calls and texts.

Then her mother begain to worry when all of Kelsie's friends texted her mom saying  that they kept trying to call and text Kelsie and she wasn't answering them back.

Days past and Kelsie's family and friends stil hadn't heard from her.

10 days after Kelsie went missing they found her car parked outside a hospital.

Donte was interviewed by police on February 15th.

He said that he had met Kelsie as planned and drove her in her car to different locations.

He said she felt sick, so he took her to Parkview Medical Center and he stayed in the car when she went inside.

Afterwards they went to a bank where she let him withdraw money from her account.

He then took her to Walmart, where they got into an agrument.

She told him that she had to go back to Denver, because she worked the next day.

Donte is seen driving her car on February 5th in a surveillance video.

This is the same day he said they were together all day, but in the video he was alone.

It was 11:39 a.m. and he was withdrawing $400 out of a ATM at a local bank drive-through, using her card.

He then drove to Walmart and parked her car.

18 hours later, a surveillance camera showed a unknown man dressed in a hoodie driving her car out of the parking lot.

In November 2017, Donthe was arrested on aggravated robbery charges.

In December, while he was still in custody for the robbery, he was charged with first-degree murder in Kelsie's case.

No body has been found, but police state that they had enough evidence to link him to her murder.

On August 28th, 2018, Donthe entered a not guilty plea.

His trial date is set for April 2, 2019.

UPDATE: Donthe's trial has been pushed to January 14th, 2020. His defense team said that have new scientific evidence that they need to go over.

Did Quinton's sister help kill Jessica Chambers?

Did Quinton Tellis' sister help him burn Jessica Chambers?
Quinton's sister Laqunta Tellis' has the name "Eric" tattooed in large letters on her right hand.
Is this what Jessica saw as she was being burned?
Is this why her dying words sounded like "Eric"?

Will There Ever Be Justice For The Beaumont Children?

The Beaumont Children

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

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

The children had made this trip many times before.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He said they were alone, holding hands and smiling.

Investigation

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

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

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

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

The searched turned up nothing.

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

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

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

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

Fast forward to January 2018.

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

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

The only thing that was found were animal bones.

Suspects

Bevan Spencer von Einem

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bevan was a known perv.

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

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

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

Bevan's victims were from a different Adelaide Oval.

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

Arthur Stanley Brown

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

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

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

Both of the girls had been strangled.

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

He died in 2002.

Arthur resembled the composite of the suspect.

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

James Ryan O'Neill

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

Derek Ernest Percy

He was Victoria's longest serving prisioner.

He died in 2013.

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

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

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

He was in the area at the time.

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

Alan Anthony Munro

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

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

Harry Phipps

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

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

Joanne Ratcliffe and Kriste Gordon

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

They were presumed to have been abducted and murdered.

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

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

The Family Murders

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

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

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

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

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

Her Parents Leave The Porch Light On For Kiplyn Every Night

Kiplyn Davis 

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

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

Murdered Over Marijuana

David Grunwald

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

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

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

REMEMBERING DAVID

ERICK POLICE INTERVIEW PART 1

POLICE INTERVIEW PART 2

POLICE INTERVIEW PART 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A fourth and then a fifth woman came forward later.

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

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

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

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