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Happy Holidays

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For 2023, I wish you all Happiness and health downtime without prejudice peace and inclusion.

Identified: Joseph Augustus Zarelli

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On Thursday, December 8, 2022, the Philadelphia Police Department announced the name of the child know as the Boy in the Box: Joseph Augustus Zarelli. He was four years old. On February 25, 1957 Joseph Augustus Zarelli was found dead inside a cardboard box that was left on an empty lot near then Susquehanna Road […]

Simple, Safe & Secret by Eve Carson

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On November 28, 1981 Joan Lucinda Webster, a Harvard graduate student, went missing. Joan (25) was last seen at Boston Logan International Airport, Massachusetts as she returned to Harvard from her Thanksgiving break. Her skull was found on April 18, 1990. The rest of her remains were found on April 25of the same year. Joan was […]

Elodie Kulik: appeals continue

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The Court of Cassation will review Willy Bardon’s appeal on Nov 30, 2022. Bardon is appealing his 2019 guilty verdict in the 2002 rape-murder of Elodie Kulik. On July 1, 2021 the North Assize Court of Appeal in Douai, France, confirmed the 2019 verdict of the lower court that sentenced Willy Bardon to 30 years […]

Remembering Linda Ann Wilson

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On December 20, 1992 children who were taking a shortcut  in Monroe, Louisiana found a dead body. They had ducked through a chain link fence and found the remains of Linda Ann Wilson. She was less than one hundred yards from her home. Linda was covered by a pile of clothes. In the St. Mary […]

Zeigler closer to modern DNA testing

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On Oct 27, Florida Circuit Judge Patricia L. Strowbridge brought William Thomas Zeigler a step closer to proving that he is innocent. The 77-year-old has said so from the start. The preserved evidence pieces of guns, victim fingernail clippings and clothes will prove that he did not kill four people in 1975. Modern DNA testing […]

The San Francisco Doodler Murders by Kate Zaliznock

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The Doodler refers to a Black male, young, tall, unidentified, and violent serial killer who was active between January 1974 – September 1975. His target area was the LGBTQ community in San Francisco. People did not speak out and trust in police was low. Five of his victims are known but he is allegedly responsible […]

Teresa Marie Caseiro (Nov 1, 1956 – July 24, 1973)

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Teresa Marie Caseiro (16) was found gagged and tied up with stockings in a bedroom closet inside her home in Willingboro, Burlington County, New Jersey. I do not know to whom the stockings belonged. If they were from someone living in the house we could assume that the killer did not come prepared with these […]

The Seeker Series by S. G. MacLean

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The five books in the Seeker Series by S. G. MacLean carry you into a politically challenging period. We meet Damian Seeker in 1654 when Oliver Cromwell is Lord Protector with almost unlimited powers. There is general unrest everywhere. People fight for free speech and printers work overtime to make news pamphlets. To stay ahead […]

The September Murders

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Our focus this month will be on five women who lost their lives in September. These women are Tracy Lynn Allen, Sigrid M. Stevenson, Owachige Elice Osceola, Valerie Jeanne Percy, and Deborah Lynn Rosencrans. All were found murdered, all have vanished from the media spotlight, and all these cases remain unsolved. Tracy Lynn Allen Tracy […]