The death of Orville Gibson remains unofficially unsolved more than 60 years after the fact, although local legend and conjecture in Newbury, Vt., suggest that the community knows exactly what happened. A few weeks later, after Ginn's family had the body exhumed and an autopsy performed, the cause of death was later changed to strangulation. He asked the victim to model it and she refused. No suspect has been charged with her death. Why did Olbert Hiett take his brothers gun and how were the dots connected? No suspect has ever been arrested in this case. Realizing they didn't have towels, Spickler's cousin turned around to go back home on Foxhill Drive to get them, agreeing to meet up with Spickler at the pool. On March 31, 1922, all six were found dead. A regularly updated list of the Tuscaloosa Thread's coverage of all homicides in Tuscaloosa County in 2022. Jackson says he hopes the, Investigators in Butler County are searching for new leads in a double murder investigation. On Feb. 28, 1983, authorities in St. Louis responded to a call of a small body found in an abandoned and uninhabited building. A Minnesota man called police when he saw a man by the side of a road emerge from a compact car and throw what looked to be a body into a ditch off a rural road. The facts are these, according to CBS Newson Dec. 31, 1957, New Year's Eve, Gibson, a wealthy and disliked dairy farmer disappeared. Although, there were some leads, no one was ever charged with Pierce's death. The bodies of both victims were found in the house. During the search he acted in what retrospectively seemed suspicious, telling others to not bother looking past that ravine where Sharp's body was discovered because he'd already surveyed it. On a snowy day in February 1970, two children in the upstate community of West Saugerties, N.Y., took to sledding, according to The Daily Freeman. Rogers was shot in the shoulder and the eye (which he permanently lost the use of) but radioed in a description of the vehicle it was a dark-colored truck bearing a Confederate flag. I don't know if he knew of the rumors beforehand or what, but when his nephew was arrested for starting a fire in the forest (possibly burning evidence?) He died by suicide in 1970. I saw a quick blurb about this on the Internet years ago and couldn't find any additional information. The MPD is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. One evening, Spickler and her cousin walked to the swimming pool at Henry Park. In February 1978, workers clearing land on Lady's Island discovered a skeleton. And then she was never seen alive again. On Tuesday, March 15, 2016, at approximately 7:00 p.m. officers responded to the area of Butler Street at Warsaw Avenue for a report of one shot. Spickler's case still carries a $50,000 reward for information. Before leaving, he told his sister he'd be back in about 30 minutes, home in plenty of time for Sunday dinner. The case has proven to be a forensic nightmare for the multi-agency Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit, which investigates all homicides in the county. Sixty years later, loggers working in a rural area outside Portland uncovered an almost completely intact skeleton, along with a loaded handgun, a few coins, and police-issue shoes. The only thing I can think of would be if they had left shell casings, and forensically matched them to the gun, but that wouldn't be ballistics, per se. A mysterious and shockingly violent crime unnerved the residents of North Kingstown, R.I., in 1980. What happened to William Ebenezer Jones, III, just 3-and-a-half years old when he vanished from his home, is among the oldest missing person cases in New Jersey, according to Savage Watch, and the oldest unsolved matter involving a subject under the age of 5 statewide, per The Charley Project. Even the worst of criminal actions murder, assault, kidnapping, mutilation may go unpunished, despite mountains of evidence and eyewitness testimony, leaving survivors left to reckon with the devastating consequences. Had he been sentenced to consecutive terms it would have maxed out at 20. He recovered within a week, but then two months later, Morgan once again disappeared. The murder happened sometime after she returned home around 4:30am from a night out. This 50-plus-year-old case was never officially solved, but it may be linked to a larger criminal enterprise. Juginda D. Dobbins read more Twenty-five years later, both crimes remain unsolved. While the majority of the cases have been solved,there are still the few who's cases have yet to be closed. He arrived back at Richey's house around 11 a.m., and Richey was gone. Copyright 2019 WAFF. Then police got a phone call. Buy newspaper front pages, posters and more. Upon a close examination of the crime scene, police discovered that each victim had been struck in the head with some kind of blunt object. In the four decades since, and after using technology to generate photos of what the murder victim would have looked like as a living person, Townsend police have never found a viable lead on the woman's identity, let alone that of who killed her. Still, Wasilewski's case sits unresolved in BPD files. On the morning of Sept. 11, 1980, the body of Williams, 20 years old, was found in a cul-de-sac in Mobile, with police quickly ruling the cause of death to be murder by stabbing. Submissions should outline a mystery and provide a link to a more detailed review of the case such as a Wiki article or news report. Adan Medrano read more A newspaper delivery driver later reported that about 2:30 a.m. the night of Au's disappearance, she saw a man drive by with a female passenger who appeared unconscious. On July 18, 1999 at approximately 1:30am, unknown suspects entered the home of Serafin Maldonado located in the 12000 block of Bone Camp Road (Northport) in Tuscaloosa County. The Shelby County Sheriff's Office is investigating an arson case that occurred on September 24, 2001 at Kinder Care Child Care located at 1700 Corporate Drive Birmingham, AL. In 1988, Charles Hiett was indicted for possesion of an illegal firearm, although oddly enough it was a different one than the one seized at the family reunion, and for hindering prosecution by "altering the second shotgun to make it appear that it was used in the slayings" and "providing criminal assistance to Bill and Jerry Hiett by intentionally hindering the apprehension, prosecution, conviction or punishment of Bill and Jerry Hiett for conduct constituting a murder". According to KFOR, Fishermen working on the North Canadian River, about 20 miles outside of Oklahoma City, made a grisly discovery on April 18, 1980, spotting on a bank the body of a woman. The body of Julie Speerschneider, who left a campus bar in March 1979, was discovered in the Yahara River in 1981. On June 1, 1964, he and David Rogers were hired as the first African-American deputies in the Washington Parish Sheriff's Department, with the office heeding to civil rights leaders' demands across the South to fill law-enforcement positions with non-white individuals. The female had been murdered by strangulation. The trunk was found by hunters nearly three years to the day later, with only the elderly brothers' suits inside. Jerry was found guilty of two counts of first degree perjury for lying to the grand jury about the murders and was sentenced to two life terms in prison; however he certainly didn't serve them, as he was a free man as long as I can remember. The murderer hadn't fully killed her the party had assaulted and attacked van Zanten, but she'd gotten away at McHugh Creek State Park and ran away, only to fall off a ledge and freeze to death. According to the attendant at Forrer Hall, she checked out around midnight, got into her car, and headed home on Upper Street, where witnesses spotted her. She was found dead in her residence by a family member. He was also spotted deep cleaning the vehicle the day after the disappearance. Her husband died a violent death at a business in south Huntsville. There was also evidence she'd suffered seven severe blows to the head. Mobile Fire-Rescue responded and pronounced the victim dead on the scene. He left the area, calmly getting into his dark green Jeep Cherokee and drove away. November 20, 2020 / 6:33 AM / AP. The man is yet to be officially tried (or named), and so this case remains a cold one. Randall H. Whitfield read more, Morgan County The remains of what police at the time believed were a total of seven men and five women appeared in or near the Kingsbury Run area of Cleveland, in a creek bed near the Cuyahoga River in the southeast portion of the city. Mobile and Baldwin Counties case files still include some trails that have gone cold through the years. A Women's Army Corps officer, the 25-year-old walked home from the state's U.S. Air Force base one day in early October 1943, but she only got within about three blocks Cheney's body was discovered underneath a bridge by a 10-year-old girl playing nearby, reports the Argus Leader. However, Denver police were never able to determine who was responsible for the homicide and their reason for the murder. He was caught and served six months, after which he was dishonorably discharged. Lisa A. Stowe read more The last activity on the case came in response to a tip in 2008, which ultimately proved fruitless. On October 26, 2017, at approximately 9:12 a.m., Lymon and Banks, both 22 years old, Gov. On July 21, 1910, according to My True Crime Stories, Janie Sharp walked a mile and a half into town to run errands first to the post office and then to the general store. His body was found on Nov. 13, 1966, and testing suggests he died sometime in 1965 or 1966, that he was a white male about 5-feet 10-inches tall, and no older than 25. Mrs. McRae was thumbed cuffed behind her back and both she and her husband had been shot in the head. Technicians were able to find living descendants of Clark, but the bones might not be his. The MPD is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case. The cause of death a gunshot to the back of the head, oddly from his own gun. In the 2010s, Mobile police took another look at Williams' case, re-interviewing as many witnesses as they could find and using technology not at their disposal in 1980 to examine evidence. According to Of Misdeeds and Mysteries, cab driver Edgar Ray "Jack" Zachary picked her up at a train station and then dropped her at Brackenridge Hall at approximately 9 p.m. Zachary would later tell investigators that he saw Carpenter walk to a parked convertible where she spoke familiarly to two young men inside. Yu C. Goodson read more, Jackson County Today, on the three-year anniversary of the murder, the reward remains . A full and frantic hourlong search of the neighborhood didn't turn up the missing toddler, and police were summoned. During the initial investigation, a witness called and reported a strange person coming to her house asking about a baby stroller she had for sale. Thanks for posting this! Over a 14-year period, seven women were killed in what became known as the Capital City Killings, according to Madison.com. We need to get this case solved, said Johnson. According to All That's Interesting, Tucson financial manager Chuck Morgan left for work on the morning of March 22, 1977 and then didn't come home for three days. The MPD is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Eleven years later, his homicide is the focus of our Cold Case Investigation series. In 2019, there were 39 murders in Montgomery County, Alabama. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Sharp had also been stabbed under her chin and suffered an intense, blunt blow to the head, and footprints and scattered belongings suggested that she fought her attack. A man in southern Oregon named Alex Arnold confessed to the murder, although Quincy didn't believe him to be guilty. It was a mysterious death, which led to a fruitless investigation, at least at first. A neighbor heard a scream around that time but thought it was a cat and also saw a shadow in the garage, assuming it to be Ginn. Thumbing a ride was much more common in the 70s than it is today, and it's a practice Schlais engaged in often, according to her family. And then, just like that, Clark disappeared a hefty cash award offered by the subject's daughter didn't lead to any viable information about her father's whereabouts. The case of Annita Price is the longest-standing identified but unsolved murder still on the books for West Virginia state police. They say the killer or killers dumped the body in Baldwin County. November 28, 2003. Texas Rangers sent to the area aggressively patrolled the town, and after three months with no more murders, they left town, just like The Phantom Killer apparently did. James Brazier implored McDonald to not get violent, but he beat and arrested Odell Brazier, falsely alleging drunk driving. Authorities thought this might be a sign that Self was the intended target. Allyn's is the oldest unsolved murder in modern Massachusetts and the only unsolved murder in Westfield. Williams' wife long attested that law enforcement had something to do with the death, and an investigation was re-opened in 2018 after the passage of Tennessee's Civil Rights Crimes Cold Case Law, which sought to find justice for unpunished murders of Black men and women in the civil rights movement era. They ran to neighbors for help, who found Camp still alive, but with four deep stab wounds an inch apart in her spinal column. Colorado Springs, Colorado - Female was sexually attacked by a male who responded to an ad for a wedding dress being sold by the victim. Mobile and Baldwin Counties case files still include some trails that have gone cold through the years. Mobile Fire-Rescue responded and transported the victim to a local hospital where he was later succumbed to his injuries. David B. Sargent read more, Marion County Whether it was lingering spiritual unrest or just some psychological trick my mind played on me because I had prior knowledge of the atrocity that occurred there, the chills that I felt and the "darkness" that seemed to envelope the century-old farmhouse were as real as anything I've experienced before or since. Missouri's oldest unsolved death dates back to 1983, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, although little is known about the potential perpetrator or victim of the crime. Add into the equation some of the relations that are inherent in an area of this size and it makes you wonder even more. The friend was not at home so she stayed at the house to wait. The cause of the fire was determined to be petroleum based products inside the building. A resident of the city of Moundsville, 27-year-old Price left her home at about 8:45 p.m. on the night of May 30, 1974, to head to her job four minutes away at the Flamingo Club in nearby Benwood, says Unsolved Appalachia. On March 22, 1957, the bullet-ridden body of Simon. A few hours after she vanished, according to Unsolved Mysteries Fandom, boxes of Camp Fire mints were found by a bridge, and police collected more than 700 tips from locals. The $156 in his pocket apparently wasn't of interest to his attackers. Alabama News Network Staff, Central Alabama CrimeStoppers has announced that reward money is being doubled to $10,000 in an attempt to solve the murders of Ladarious Devante Lymon and Javon Cortez Banks in Butler County. The stationmaster, W.H. Dennis Lawler found a small ledge about 20 feet below a picnic area, a steep overlook and ideal spot to photograph a waterfall. and was found with a .38, the other weapon used in the murder, it probably wasn't hard to put two and two together. It is unknown if she knew her attacker. Two years later, 18-year-old Julie Ann Hall was found in a makeshift grave near Waunakee, killed by a blow to the head. David M. Burney read more The deaths were a bloody and gruesome affair, and police believe the killer had to use the barbershop's wash basin to clean their hands. Here are some crimes that are among each of the 50 states' oldest, most serious, and still occasionally investigated the ones that haunt families, communities, and investigators. But no matter what, solving the unsolved murders in the city of Huntsville is a must. I can't believe I've never heard of this, though y'all are on the opposite side of the state from me. 25-year old Robert Ellingwood was enjoying a night out in downtown Mobile on March 15, 1997, when a two men in hooded sweatshirt approach him and his friends. Authorities from the Mobile Police Department, The Mobile County Sheriff's Office and the Escambia . According to the Spokesman-Review, Candice Elaine Rogers, or just Candy, was a 9-year-old Camp Fire Girl in March 1959 when she went door-to-door in neighborhoods near her home in the eastern Washington state city of Spokane selling mints as a fundraiser. Geo resource failed to load. At the time of his death, he faced dozens of civil lawsuits and criminal charges for his alleged actions his body was discovered by a marshal serving him a new suit. (There is conviction in absentia, but that's for suspects who are alive yet out of the reach of the jurisdiction in question.). Instead, Baldwin County Sheriff's deputies opted to interview patrons and employees at bars he frequented. It was Wasilewski, and according to postmortem tests, she'd died at about 11 p.m. from a skull fracture the night before. It's not for a lack of trying on account of police departments and other law enforcement operations. There are 14 homicides in south Alabama that remain unsolved murders as 2016 comes to an end. Jennifer Powers read more She went inside to check on her newborn, Kristine, and the older children played outside until about noon, when they went inside to find their mother to ask her to make them lunch. She took the gun away from the suspect and began to hit him. Jane Jeatran was dead upon discovery, while Nick was still hanging on to life. "That's a difficult thing for a child to find his mother like that," Pears told AL.com. McGhee was last heard from by her husband and mother at 8 a.m. on March 24 after getting home from working her night shift as a nurse. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, The Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory University. Its been a long time and we havent had any good leads on the case, said Johnson. Best friends, high school classmates and coworkers John Self, III and Gregory Eadie were found slain in their Azalea Road apartment in 1982. According to Sheriff Grover Smith it should be noted that this is not what would normally be defined as a cold case due to the fact that it remains under active investigation by our department, and we are committed to bringing justice for Melinda McGhee and her family. Richey had simply vanished, seemingly without a trace. The MPD is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case. No signs of struggle were evident, and her purse, wallet, and makeup remained in the car. He retraced her trip and found Au's car parked on a highway shoulder. A report came in that a girl matching Cathy's description was seen in a car with a boy in Portland on the night in question, but the lead was a dead end. Neither endeavor was successful. Spickler wasn't seen or heard from again, with no conclusive evidence of life or death ever uncovered by police, although Spickler's disappearance may be related to two otheralso unsolved Toiland County abductions that occurred later, in the early 1970s, says the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Thanks for the write-up! The manner in which he died fit the profile of a gangland-style killing, and in 1976, the case (and the man's fingerprints) were sent to Italy to see if he had any connection to the organized crime circuits there. Peggy R. Mock read more Authorities were reasonably certain it was Akey, and the remains were buried at Beaufort National Cemetery. Naomi Cheney was an Alabama native, but she relocated to Sioux Falls, S.D., during World War II while doing her part for the war effort. The MPD is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case. According to TXK Today, the assailant's first two targets, Jimmy Hollis and Mary Jeanne Larey, survived. Eleven years later, his homicide is the focus of our "Cold Case Investigation" series. They took something very valuable from us that we don't have an can never get back," said Davis. In 2002, a tip hinted that Price had been shot with a handgun and buried along West Virginia's Route 2, and in 2016, cadaver dogs searched near a gypsum plant along the same roadway. Anyone with information relating to this case should contact the Shelby County Sheriff's Office at 205-669-4181 or through the Secret Witness Line at 205-669-9116. The head of the school district and a neighbor investigated a garage a few doors down from the police station that the 33-year-old Ginn rented to store her 1949 Pontiac Firebird. Nobody else was ever charged with Sharp's murder. And in July 1982, Donna Mraz was stabbed to death outside the university's Camp Randall Stadium, and witnesses heard her scream and saw the assailant run off. Another possible murderer, according to authorities was Alfred Graves, who committed suicide the day Rogers' body was discovered. Two people, Tony Lewis and Leila Baldwin were found dead inside their homes after a house fire on February 17th. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The days without an arrest turned into months and then . Officers located 21-year-old Darius Mose suffering from an apparent gunshot. Delphine Ash Buchanan's body was found by her brother in Taylor Park in the Maysville community of Mobile in a wooded area near a baseball diamond. If you have any information regarding this case, please contact the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit by telephone 205-464-8690or by the Homicide Unit email athomicide@tuscco.com. Who killed them? HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Nov. 26, 2008 is a day Saheva Davis will always remember. Davis died the day before his scheduled conversation with the Reno County investigators. Ridulph's murder remains unsolved. Months after the murder of Joyce Drake, in August of 1970, a 29-year old man named Charles Ray Lovett disappeared from his home in Decatur, Alabama. That unsettling discovery set off an investigation that seemingly led to more questions than answers, because the identity of the murder victim and his murderer remains unknown. Sadly, however, there really was the body of a little boy with blue eyes, brown hair, emaciated, covered in bruises, wrapped in a flannel blanket, and placed in a cardboard box dumped in a wooded area off Susquehanna Road. It has been called Dr. Seuss Day because of this. Any number of parties could have murdered Allyn, found shot to death in his home in May 1940, ironically while reading a book called The Gun. In 1940, the population of Brownsville, Tenn., was 75% African-American, and yet Black residents were refused employment, the right to vote, and banking services, among other indignities and violations. The state of Connecticut still has on the books the unsolved case of a teenager who went missing in July 1968. Fascinating, and a nice write-up. Kay Ivey has put up $5,000 rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction in two unsolved killings. Authorities determined that the woman had in fact been murdered, the body abandoned. It may be the first time I've ever written it out myself. Late in the spring of 1977, a person walking on Old Union Church road in the town of Townsend, Del., noticed a corpse in a drainage ditch by the side of the road. Baldwin County Sheriff Huey Mack told AL.com in 2010that the case has been difficult to solve as there is no crime scene. Last updated January 26, 2023. The case was eventually closed although reopened in 1983 when a hunter in rural Maine found remains matching that of a teen girl in early 70s clothing. They were found shot in the head at a home on Hester Lane. Once George Brooks recovered, he was unable to provide investigators with any solid information, citing cocaine and alcohol for clouding his memory. At a civil rights protest rally after Moore's death, James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, called the killing the Ku Klux Klan's "bloody answer" to those calls for more African-American police officers. More than 50 years after his remains were recovered in the woods close to Trout Lake, authorities in Michigan are yet to uncover the identity of a man known to the state only as "John Doe," or case number 83-1352-05, as per NamUs. Known in local media reports as "The Lime Lady," the individual was a white female, between the ages of 18 and 25, who stood 5 feet 6 inches, weighed about 120 pounds, who had undergone extensive dental work, and had a heart tattoo on her chest. Three months later his body, with his hands bound together, surfaced in the Connecticut River not far from Newbury. A third victim, a woman named Florence Polillo, appeared on Jan. 26, 1936. He left her alone, with her hatchet and a bag full of sandwiches, while he climbed a ridge to look for elk. According to Sleuth and Justice, he was a U.S. Army veteran who was a leader in his church, his masonic lodge, and the Parent Teacher Association. Shorter, AL. Edit: it was a sawn-off, would that be something that you could match, seeing as it would have a non-standard barrel length, and therefore non-standard spread? On Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 11:23 p.m. officers responded to the area of Airport Blvd at I-65 for a report of one shot. Mobile Attorney Rick Williams told AL.com in 2007he believes her death may be linked to a robbery that took place just before her death, in which she was accused of acting asgetaway driver. You can also contact CrimeStoppers at 205-752-STOP (7867) to leave confidential, anonymous tips. That round of testing didn't offer up many more clues, and while the investigation is still open, the cold case investigation organization the Vidocq Societytook it upon itself to solve the mystery. Kay Ivey has put up $5,000 rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction in two unsolved killings. Spokane Police investigators theorized that she'd been abducted, assaulted, and strangled with a portion of her own clothing. It's a sad and unfortunate fact of life, both today and throughout the past, that some criminals completely get away with their transgression against society and their fellow humans, taking the secret of their reprehensible acts to the grave. It's widely believed that one of the Hietts were the actual guilty ones, although noone that wasn't there can be sure. While Price was in the midst of a divorce and custody battle at the time of her disappearance, police never found any evidence connecting her ex-husband to the crime. Olbert Hiett was a U.S. Detectives interviewed dozens of persons of interest, and over the decades, more than a dozen men confessed to the Rogers' murder, albeit falsely, and they were ruled out as suspects. The Minnehaha County sheriff's office determined that Cheney had been killed by a powerful blow to the head with a blunt item as she walked, her body abandoned not far from the site of her death. A former town marshal of Linnton (later absorbed into Portland), news reports of the time say that Clark walked with a limp and had no identification on his person at the time. There's also whole nother portion that involves someone who cut firewood for the family who supposedly disappeared or died under mysterious circumstances in the years after the murder. Unfortunately, many of the people who've told me things not mentioned above have now passed and I don't trust my memory enough to quote them. That information is from a criminologist who's been look for answers for . The body was transported for autopsy. He had an alibi he'd been 40 miles away in Rockford, enlisting in the Air Force, a story corroborated by his parents. Two of the victims were discovered together, on Sept. 23, 1935. Oneal Moore was a major figure in the town of Varnado, La. However, skeletal remains found beside U.S. Highway 31 near Stapleton in January 1985 were identified as Downey's. On March 9, 1991, the body of a 24-year-old female, Jennifer Watkins Dorch, was found stabbed to death in her mobile home on Hwy 43 in Northport. 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