On December 6, 1974 Rhonda Susan King (22) was found dead close to her home in Detroit, Michigan. According to police, Rhonda had been sexually assaulted. She had trauma on her head and neck most likely from having been beaten. The papers mentioned an autopsy but I have not found any information about the exact […]
Case of the Month
Remembering Charles Lee Snowden
On May 17, 1986 Charles Lee Snowden was found dead in Pensacola, Florida. Depending on his date of birth, he was 32 or 33 years old. Snowden was found laying facedown on either a parking lot at 500 Belmont Street (as per Crimestoppers in the Pensacola News Journal of Dec 7, 1986) or in an […]
Jerry Dwight Laymon 1945 – 1971
Jerry Dwight Laymon was found dead Nov 24, 1971 near New Orleans, Louisiana. He had two gunshot wounds to his head. His car was missing as well as the cash from his wallet. Laymon was a geophysicist who worked for Mobile Oil. He had been transferred by the company from Los Angeles in April 1971. […]
Marquon Tyree Green (Jan 20, 1979 – Aug 27, 2000)
Marquon Tyree Green (Jan 20, 1979 – Aug 27, 2000) died from several gunshot wounds on August 27, 2000. Green was in Spring Valley Park, Missouri, attending a rapper’s concert. Another person was shot in the leg. At least two people started shooting. Whether Green and the other victim were intended targets, is unclear. Despite […]
Charles Preston Paramore (July 2, 1951 – Jan 11, 1966)
Charles Preston Paramore was 14 years old when he became the victim of a hit-and-run. He was on his newspaper route in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The newspapers have little information about this case. According to the Paramore family, his father found him and was with him when he died. The driver did not just hit […]
Lisa Lorene Wortman (Sep 29, 1971 – June 6, 1994)
Lisa Lorene Wortman (22) was found murdered on June 6, 1994 near the University of New Mexico Arena a.k.a The Pit, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lisa was reported missing by her sister and father after she had been gone for almost five weeks. Lisa’s is the only unsolved homicide case on the UNM campus. Unfortunately, […]
William Peter Cook (Dec 17, 1924 – Oct 20, 1950)
William Peter Cook (Dec 17, 1924 – Oct 20, 1950) was twenty-five years old when he was stabbed to death by someone unknown. There was an altercation on Hopkins Avenue and Marion Street, Brooklyn, New York. Before anyone understood what was going on, Cook was stabbed and passed away the same evening at Kings County […]
Richard E. Schindewolf (Jan 25, 1949 – April 6, 1989)
Richard E. Schindewolf (40) may have been the victim of a robbery. The father to a small daughter and two adult stepsons, married for 13 years to Barbara, was shot dead outside a trucking school where he worked in East Oakland, California. His body was found around 1230 AM on April 6, 1989 in the […]
The case of Annie Pladevega Sison
Annie Pladevega Sison filed a temporary restraining order against ex-husband Errol Factura Sison on December 8, 1992. She needed to do this as he had allegedly stormed into her workplace and threatened her as well as a co-worker. He was intoxicated. A judge ordered Errol to stay 150 yards away from Annie for the remainder […]
Never Forget: 9/11
Never Forget, September 11. “Each year on the anniversary of 9/11, the families of victims gather for a ceremony on the 9/11 Memorial Plaza to read aloud the names of the 2,983 men, women, and children killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks and February 26, 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Six moments […]
Robert Thomas Keith (1925 – 1973)
In 1973, Pennsauken, Camden County, New Jersey was plagued by a series of crimes. I was alerted to the shooting death of restaurant manager Robert Thomas Keith (Aug 11, 1925 – April 24, 1973) whose murder was never solved. Keith was the manager of The Pub. He had worked at the restaurant for well over […]
Myrtle M. Sayers Smith (1895-1930)
A case like this from Myrtle M. Sayers Smith, this old, is hard to solve. All people involved in the case have passed away. We would need preserved evidence hoping that nothing has deteriorated beyond what can be tested for DNA. Or, we need documented confessions, witnessed on deathbeds, or written in journals, wills, etc. […]
Owachige Elice Osceola
The authorities have a pretty good idea who killed Owachige Elice Osceola (27) but they need your help to provide that one missing piece of the puzzle. This is the Case of the Month for June 2021. The Case On September 25, 2013, Norman Police conducted a welfare check at Ridgecrest Court, in Norman, Oklahoma. […]
Petronella M. Runkaitis Petreikis
On Nov 8, 1952 around 150pm, Petronella M. Runkaitis Petreikis (1882 – 1952) finished working in the corn fields, in the Peotone Township of Will County, Illinois. She was sixty-six years old. She needed to get back to her bed-ridden (diabetic) husband Kazimir Petreikis, and only had to cross US Highway 54 (now 45) to […]
Lakota Rae Renville (1983 – 2005)
Lakota Rae Renville (July 6, 1983 – Oct 16, 2005) was only 22 years old when her body was found on Oct 16, 2005. Her remains were in an open gravel lot near Pitcher Road, Independence, Missouri. Lakota, a member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux tribe of South Dakota, was the daughter of Julie Keeble Watts […]
Rita Hester (Nov 30, 1963 – Nov 28, 1998)
The murder of Rita Hester launched the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR). It is an annual vigil that takes place on Nov 20 for transgender homicide victims and their loved ones. That day, we honour the memory of the transgender people we lost due to senseless acts of anti-transgender violence. Maybe the mainstream media is […]
The Unclaimed
Introduction One day, we all pass away. Most of us prepare for that moment. We do not wish to burden our loved ones and friends with costs when they take care of our remains. We get life insurances, some look into buying burial plots, and others make an extensive inventory of items and bequests to […]
What we lost
At the beginning of 2021, the first post in the series Case of the Month should be dedicated to what and who we lost. We lost too many people in 2020, yes. But we also lost our routines. We lost some insight in each other. And, we lost patience. The year 2020 was so unique, […]
David Mark Schwochert (1956 – 1973)
David Mark Schwochert (Aug 2, 1956 – Jan 1, 1973) was a junior at Burlington High School in Burlington, Wisconsin. He liked his woodworking class, he was quiet, disciplined, and was called “even tempered.” He had a part time job as a gas station attendant at Clark Service Station on 590 Milwaukee Ave, Burlington, Racine, […]
Missing: Amanda Lee Fravel
Amanda Lee Fravel went missing on Friday, June 13, 1986 from Las Vegas, Nevada. She was supposed to go home to see her mother in California. Her mother had even sent her an airplane ticket for the trip. She was to board June 14th. However, Amanda never boarded any plane and never arrived in California. […]