Mollie Tibbetts' Preliminary Autopsy

Mollie Tibbetts was followed by Rivera as she was jogging.
She was abducted, stabbed to death and put in the trunk of his car.
Then the murderer dumped her in the corn field where her body was found.
Rivera has been charged with murder in the first degree.
He enters his plea at a later date.

Mollie's parents want her to be remembered and mourned.
They don't want her memory to get lost in all the politics.

The Mysterious Death Of Elisa Lam

Elisa Lam(Lam Ho Yi )

She was born April 30, 1991 and the daughter of emigrants from Hong Kong.

Lam was Canadian student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, who was taking a trip, by herself, on Amtrak buses to the San Diego Zoo.
She posted pictures and videos on social media.

January 26, 2013, she arrived in Los Angeles.

January 28, two days later, she checked into the Cecil Hotel, near downtown's Skid Row.
She was initially assigned a shared room on the hotel's fifth floor, until her roommates complained about "certain odd behavior."
She was moved to a room of her own after two days.
Lam called her parents everyday, until the day she disappeared.

On January 31, 2013, she was scheduled to check out of the Cecil and leave for Santa Cruz, her parents did not hear from her and called the Los Angeles police.
Her family then flew to Los Angeles to help with the search.
There was hotel staff who saw her that day and said she was alone. Katie Orphan, manager of a nearby bookstore, recalled seeing Lam that day.

"She was outgoing, very lively, very friendly." 

She was getting gifts to take home to her family. 

"She was talking about what book she was getting and whether or not what she was getting would be too heavy for her to carry around as she traveled." 

Police searched Lam's room and had dogs go through the building, including the rooftop, but the canines were unsuccessful in detecting her scent. 

"But we didn't search every room," Sgt. Rudy Lopez said.

"We could only do that if we had probable cause".

February 6, flyers with her image were posted in the neighborhood and online.

On February 14, the LAPD released a video of the last known sighting of her taken in one of the Cecil's elevators by a video surveillance camera on February 1.

Lam was behaving strange in the video. 

The camera at one of the elevator's rear corners looks down from the ceiling, offering a view not just of its interior but the hallway outside. 

The timestamp at the bottom is obscured.
Lam enters from the left, clad in a red zippered hooded sweatshirt over a gray T-shirt, with black shorts and sandals.
She goes to the control panel, appears to select several floors and then steps back to the corner. 
The door fails to close, she steps up to it, leans forward so her head is through the door, looks in both directions, and then quickly steps back in, backing up to the wall and then into the corner near the control panel. 
She walks to it again and stands in the doorway, leaning on the side. 
She then steps out into the hall, then to her side, back in, looking to the side, then back out. 
She steps sideways again.
For a few seconds she is mostly invisible behind the wall she has her back to just outside. 
Her right arm can be seen going up to her head, and then she turns to re-enter the elevator.
She puts both hands on the side of the door, and then goes to the control panel, presses many more buttons.
She then returns to the wall she had come into the elevator from. She puts both hands over her ears again briefly as she walks back to the section of wall she had been standing against before.
She turns to her right and begins rubbing her forearms together, then waves her hands out to her sides with palms flat and fingers outstretched, while bowing forward slightly and rocking gently. This can all be seen through the open elevator door.
After she backs to the wall again and walks away to the left, it finally closes.

ELEVATOR VIDEO

Some people suggested that the video was altered before it was released.
Some argued that she was attempting to hide from a pursuer, perhaps someone ultimately responsible for her death.

Guests at the hotel began complaining about low water pressure shortly after Lam disappeared.

Some later claimed their water was colored black, and had an unusual taste.

February 19, Lam's body was found, by maintenance workers, in one of four 1,000-gallon tanks providing water to guest rooms, a kitchen, and a coffee shop.

February 21, the Los Angeles coroner's office issued a finding of accidental drowning.

And stated that her bipolar disorder as a significant factor.

The full coroner's report, released in June.

It stated that Lam's body had been found naked.

The clothing similar to that she was wearing in the elevator video was floating in the water, coated with a "sand-like particulate". 

Her watch and room key were also found with her.

Her body was moderately decomposed, bloated and mostly greenish.

It had some marbling evident on the abdomen and skin separation evident. 

This means it was there for quite sometime.

There was no evidence of physical trauma, sexual assault, or suicide.

Not enough of her blood was preserved, so the toxicology reports were incomplete.

They did find traces of Sinutab and Ibuprofen in her system and a very small quantity of alcohol, but no recreational drugs.

One page of the report has a form with boxes to check as to whether the death was accidental, natural, homicide, suicide or undetermined, in large type and a sufficient distance from each other. 

The "accident" box is dated June 15.

Three days later the "undetermined" box was checked instead. 

This was at some point in the three days before the report's release noted as an error and crossed out and initialed.

The autopsy report does not say what the results of the rape kit and fingernail kit were, or even if they were processed.
It also records subcutaneous pooling of blood in Lam's anal area, which could be a sign of sexual abuse.
One pathologist has noted it could also have resulted from bloating in the course of the body's decomposition, and her rectum was also prolapsed.

Some people think that she was under the influence of illicit drugs, suggesting that they might have broken down during the period of time her body decomposed in the tank, or that she might have taken rare cocktails of such drugs that a normal screen would not detect.

There is a question to how she was able to get in the tank by herself and also closing the door to the tank after she got in.

Doors and stairs that access the hotel's roof are locked, with only staff having the passcodes and keys.

Any attempt to force them open would supposedly have triggered an alarm.

The hotel's fire escape could have allowed her to bypass those security measures, if she had known.

All four tanks are 4-by-8-foot cylinders propped up on concrete blocks.

There is no fixed access to them and hotel workers had to use a ladder to look at the water. 

They are protected by heavy lids that would be difficult shut if you are inside the tanks.

Since her death, her Tumblr blog was updated.

Some people say it was through Tumblr's Queue option which allows posts to automatically publish themselves when the user is away. 

Others say the blog posts could have been the work of a hacker or through her missing phone.

Her phone was not found and it has been assumed to have been stolen at some time around her death. 

Did Lam kill herself?

Or was it murder?

Some people think it was the work of evil spirits.

Whatever happened to her, we may never know.

What we do know is that the Cecil Hotel has had a dark past.

Elizabeth Short, victim of the Black Dahlia murder, supposedly made the Cecil her last stop before her death.
Goldie Osgood, the "Pigeon Lady of Pershing Square," was raped and murdered in her room in 1964, by an unknown assailant.
Serial killers Jack Unterweger and Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", both resided at there while active.
There have also been suicides from people jumping from the building.

I think she was playing around with someone. 
I think she went up to the water tank and took her clothes off.
The water tanks didn't always have the covers on.
I think she hopped in the tank and accidentally drowned due to being intoxicated with alcohol.
Whomever she was meeting up there, saw her dead and threw her clothes in the tank, then replaced the lid.

Mollie Tibbett's body found and the killer caught

Mollie Tibbett's killer, 24 year old Christian Rivera, took police to a cornfield, where he has been hiding the body.
Police saw him on a surveillance tape.
He was the last one to see Mollie alive.
The police had been questioning him for quite a while, when he finally confessed.
He said he blacked out and then woke up with Mollie's body next to him.
He panicked and hid her in the cornfield.

Mollie Tibbetts Found

Sadly, Mollie Tibbett's body has been found.
There is no details yet where her remains were located. 
More details should come later today in a news conference set for this afternoon.
R.I.P. Mollie
Whomever did this to you, i hope swift justice finds them.

Places That You Thought Weren't Real, That Really Do Exist.

The Ewok Village

The tree top community is called Finca Bellavista and it is located in Costa Rica and spans three hundred acres of rainforest.

It is connected by wooden bridges and ziplines.

The Finstone's House

It is a 3.5 million bungalow, located in Malibu, California.

It use to be owned by Dick Clark.

It has a stone inspired look.

Tatooine

The city Tatooine, is located in southern Tunisia and was used in the Star Wars movies.

The Hotel Sidi Driss, was used as Luke Skywalker's home.

Middle Earth

Isenguard was based of the University of Birmingham, in England.

The shire was inspired Sarehole.

Black Country inspired Modor.

The air and ground were black, due to the pollution from the iron foundries, steel mills and coal mines.

Silent Hill

The real life ghost town is in Centralia Pennsylvania.

It was once home to 1,000 residents, was deserted after the strip mine underneath it caught on fire.

The fire burns to this day, 55 years later.

Canyon City

It was the stone city where they discovered the Holy Grail in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

It is the city of Petra, located in Jordan.

It features a theater, a bank and a water system.

Emerald Bamboo Forest

The forest and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

These bamboo forests are located just outside of Kyoto, Japan.

Arkham Asylum

This prison for Gotham's villains was inspired by Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts, which was built in 1874.

UP

The Angel Falls in Venezuela, inspired the water fall from the movie UP.

Carl's house was based on a real house in Oakland, California.

Rosslyn Chapel

It is the church from the Da Vinci Code.

It is also discussed in the story about the Holy Grail.

The chapel is located in Rossyln, Scotland.

Was Benjamin Franklin a Serial Killer?

Benjamin Franklin was a one of the founding fathers of America as well as a great American inventor, diplomat and he also signed the Declaration of Independence.
He lived in a four story Georgian house, on 35 Craven Street in London, between 1757 and 1775.
He was an ambassador for the colonies.
Around 225 years later, the house was pretty run down, when a group called "The Friend's of Benjamin Franklin House," decided to restore it to it's former glory.
They wanted to turn it into a museum honoring Benjamin Franklin.
A month into the renovation, one of the workers made a not so pleasant discovery in the windowless basement.
A human thigh bone was sticking out of a dirt filled pit.
With the help of London police, more than 1200 more bones, all dating back 200 years or so, were discovered in the pit.
After the discovery, Dr. Simon Hillson, from the Institute of Archaeology at University College in London, was called in.
Soon he came to the conclusion that the bones belonged to William Hewson, an anatomist pioneer and the "father of hematology."
He studied blood and blood diseases.
While studying at the University of Edinburgh in 1761 to 1762, Hewson caught the attention of the Hunter brothers, Scottish scientists and surgeons.
The Hunter brothers named Hewston as their assistant in their anatomy school.
Benjamin Franklin admired Hewson's work and became his friend.
Later on, Hewson and the Hunter brother's broke up their partnership and Benjamin Franklin offered for Hewson to come live at Craven Street and open his own anatomy school there.
He opened his school in 1772.
There were remains of 15 different people found.
There were also animals remains found.
How Hewson acquired all the bodies, well some of them had to be from grave robbers.
Benjamin Franklin was far from a serial killer, but did he know about the illegal way that Hewson got some of the bodies?
We probably will never know.

The Empire State Building Has a Secret Top Floor.

Many people think that the top floor of the Empire State Building is the 102 floor.
As many as 3.5 million people visit a year.
That is not the top floor.
There is a floor 103 that can be accessed through a secret staircase on the 102 floor.
103 floor is barely visible from the street and has a 360 degree view.
There is no safety barriers.
The general population is not given access. 
Some celebrities have visited the floor.
It is reported that it is very quiet up there.
The water absorbs the sounds.

The Secret Tunnel

Underneath the Waldorf Astoria. lies a secret railway platform called platform 61 or the Roosevelt platform. 
It was created and used privately to enter the Waldorf Hotel, without crossing through Grand Central Station in New York City.
The first person to use it was army general John Pershing in 1938.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt used it in 1944, while he was trying to conceal the fact he used a wheel chair.
His armored presidential train is still there.
The platform as just about always been closed to the public.
Photographers use to have the cameras smashed and film ruined for attempting to take pictures there.

The Kaiser Center's Secret Garden

This secret garden lies in Oakland California on top of the a 5 level car part adjacent to the 28 floor Kaiser Center.
The garden has  a large pond, wooden bridge, lawns, and a bunch of trees and flowers.
It was designed by architect, Theodore Osmundson.
It was completed in 1960.
It was the first roof top garden, built in the United States, since World War II.
It is 40,000 sq. feet and open to the public.
It can be rented for special events.
It has concerts on Fridays, between noon and 1p.m. and are free.

The Eiffel Tower's Hidden Apartment

On the tower's third and top level, is a secret apartment.
It was created by the architect of the tower, Gustav Eiffel.
The tower was unveiled in 1889.

The wealthy inhabitants of Paris, heard about the secret apartment.
They offered Gustav large sums of money to stay in the apartment.
He turned them all down.
The apartment wasn't open to the public until 2015, which was 92 years after Gustav's death.