Hoping to shed some light on a few obscure unsolved murders and disappearances.
1925 Iowa Strawstack Killing
- On July 24, 1925 a Unknown Redhead was found bludgeoned to death in a charred Carlisle, Iowa strawstack. Witnesses reported seeing two men flee the scene of the crime. Interestingly Coroner DeFord cleared out a case in his drugstore and put on display the skull, bones, teeth, and hair from the murdered woman’s body. He opened the “Strawstack Murder Sideshow” http://www.iowaunsolvedmurders.com/the-murders/the-redhead-in-the-strawstack-murder-of-jane-doe-1925/
Benjamin Collings 1931 Murder on the Sound
- On September 9th, 1931 two unknown assailants paddled alongside Benjamin Collings yacht “The Penguin” adrift in Long Island Sound. After a brief exchange the men tied Collings up and threw him overboard. One of the men then proceeded to rape Collings wife who had been below deck hiding during the scuffle. The Collings' 5 year old daughter was then placed alone in a separate craft and set adrift. The two assailants then proceeded to disappear into the night paddling their canoe. Interestingly, Mr Collings had multiple opportunities to retrieve a handgun he kept on the boat. Multiple times he was left alone by his attacks with easy access to the weapon. https://newyorkerstateofmind.com/tag/collings-yacht-murder/
Army WAC Murdered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota 1943
- On October 5th 1943 Cheney's body was found southwest of the Omaha viaduct, which was what they called the West 12th Street bridge that crosses over the train tracks west of Grange Avenue. This was a little over three blocks from her home. She lay on her back, her uniform intact but somewhat rumpled. Her purse was propped against a nearby boulder, her visor cap a short distance away and her flight cap across her chest. The WAC insignia from her left collar tip was found a foot from her body. Her shoe was scuffed on two sides and the toe crushed, as though her foot had been stepped on. Her face was bloody on one side, and blood had pooled near her head. An autopsy performed during the night by army and civilian doctors disclosed a multiple fracture of the right side of the skull and brain hemorrhages, believed to have resulted from a "tremendous blow with a rock or other heavy instrument." https://www.argusleader.com/story/life/2017/11/17/looking-back-womens-army-corp-officer-found-slain-near-12-th-grange-1943/870073001/
The 1932 Hawaiian Massie Trial/Joseph Kahahawai Mur
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DATE | KILLED/WOUNDED | LOCATION | METHOD
1958-12-01 | 95 killed, 100 wounded | Chicago, IL | Arson
1920-09-16 | 38 killed, >700 wounded | New York City, NY | Bomb
1973-06-24 | 32 killed, 15 wounded | New Orleans, LA | Arson
1939-08-12 | 24 killed, 121 wounded | Harney, NV | Derailing train by sabotaging tracks
1976-01-30 | 23 killed, >17 wounded | Chicago, IL | Arson
2013-04-17 | 15 killed, >160 wounded | West, TX | Arson fire causing explosion
1975-12-29 | 11 killed, 74 wounded | New York City, NY | Bomb
1978-11-26 | 10 killed, 34 wounded | Greece, NY | Arson
1917-11-24 | 10 killed, 0 wounded | Milwaukee, WI | Bomb
1906-05-24 | 9 killed, 0 wounded | Milton, FL | Axe; arson
1878-09-13 | 8 killed, 1 wounded | Hockley, TX | Axe; wounded victim was shot with pistol
1912-06-10 | 8 killed, 0 wounded | Villisca, IA | Axe
1982-09-07 | 8 killed, 0 wounded | Craig, AK | Shooting; bodies burned; one victim presumably thrown overboard
2016-04-22 | 8 killed, 0 wounded | Peebles, OH | Shooting
1965-11-20 | 7 killed, 7 wounded | Sunbury, PA | Arson; two victims wounded with shotgun
1928-04-20 | 7 killed, 0 wounded | El Dorado, KS | Shooting
1929-02-14 | 7 killed, 0 wounded | Chicago, IL | Shooting (submachine guns and shotguns)
1933-10-10 | 7 killed, 0 wounded | Chesterton, IN | Bomb
1967-10-25 | 7 killed, 0 wounded | Arcadia, FL | Rice and beans poisoned with parathion
1982-09-29 | 7 killed, 0 wounded | Chicago, IL | Tylenol poisoned with cyanide
1911-09-17 | 6 killed, 0 wounded | Colorado Springs, CO | Axe
1968-06-25 | 6 killed, 0 wounded | Good Hart, MI | Shooting (rifle and pistol); bludgeoning (hammer)
2008-02-02 | 5 killed, 1 wounded | Tinley Park, IL | Shooting (pistol)
1978-06-28 | 5 killed, 0 wounded | Boston, MA | Shooting (pistol and shotgun)
Philip Decker confessed to the 1958 Chicago, IL arson in 1962 and later recanted
Roger Dale Nunez was suspected in the 1973 New Orleans, LA murders but never charged
Denise Watson was arrested for the 1976 Chicago, IL arson; she was acquitted in 1977
John Kenneth Peel was arrested for the 1982 Craig, AK murders This is an extremely sad, terrible story.
Details on the letter-->>https://alcornnewsms.com/mississippi-news/executed-mississippi-inmate-said-he-left-letter-describing-details-of-unsolved-murder/
Details on the crime he was executed for-->>https://msnewsgroup.com/breakingmississippinews/david-cox-is-set-to-be-executed-for-a-terrible-crime-he-may-hold-the-secret-to-another-unsolved-murder/
Teen With Two Lives: The Unresolved Murder of Nadine Reyes
On July 8th, 2002, a homeless man wandering through the cold San Francisco winds stumbled onto the streets of Treat Ave and 17th/18th Street. Known as the Mission District, this area was known for its Latino culture and colorful art that painted the shops and stores up and down the block. Seeing a trashcan, he decided to wheel it down the block. After finally opening the container,he would discover the lifeless body of a young woman stuffed face first in a trash can, later to be identified as recent high school graduate, Nadine Reyes.
Nadine Reyes had recently graduated high school and turned 18 years old. Residing in Sacramento, CA for her last years of high school, the teen had done quite a bit of moving. First attending high school in San Francisco before finally graduating at Del Campo High School in Sacramento. Though not mentioned in the articles, I found a few high school friends that vividly remember Nadine, and it revealed why the teen attended several high schools.
Nadine’s father, Stephen Reyes, and other family members described the teen as “a good student who was about to join the Army”. Her obituary lists the teen as a member of the JROTC. However, her high school mates remember a different, more promiscuous Nadine. It was apparently a well known fact that she was involved in a couple sex scandals at Thurgood Marshall High, resulting in her having to transfer to Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High in early 1999 while still in her freshman year. At this new school, she continued to be proud of her hyper- sexuality, gloating about being sexually active. Nadine was even reportedly caught in the bathroom with several boys. Sometime between 2000 and 2001, the teen moved from her father’s in SF to her mother’s home in Sacramento.
While living in Sacramento, the teen kept in touch with her SF friends. Allegedly weeks before being found deceased, she reached out to one of those friends to confess that she was working as a prostitute and “hated” it. She would also confide in this friend an even deeper secret: she was being molested by a close family member and had been for years.
Weeks after the teens brutally chilling confession, she decided to celebrate her 18th birthday in San Francisco. She had also just graduated high school. While in San Francisco, she intended to visit her father and his family and some of her old friends. On July 2nd 2002 , the same day as her birthday, Nadine h
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hi, this is my first post. This is a local mystery for me that I heard about recently and thought I'd share it here. The case seems to have received a lot of media attention when it first happened in the 80's , unfortunately all news articles about it seem to only exist in physical form so there is little information about it online apart from a very short documentary from 2010, which from here I collected most of the information. All of this took place in the city of Quito, Ecuador's capital. I apologize for any errors, english is not my first language.
The victim
So, Ivan Germanico Egas was an ecuadorean student born in 1959, he was studying to become an architect at Universidad Central at the time he was murdered. He had at least two siblings, one brother and a sister, who would be the one to identify his body. His family described him as ''very calm and respectful.'' The night of september 10, 1982 (the night of the murder) he went out in his car to meet and hang out with friends and that is the last time his family saw him alive. I couldn't find more information as to where did the group went or Ivan's movements that night.
The crime
In the early hours of the morning of september 11, Floresmilo Bolaños, the gatekeeper of the lion's cage located in the military school Eloy Alfaro (from what I have been told the building was both a school and a zoo, yes I know that's weird) went to check the animals, there were four in total, an adult male, an adult female and their two cubs. Floresmilo noticed a shoe sticking out from beneath the male lion and soon realized the animal was feeding on a dead body. Police was called and an autopsy was soon carried out. This first autopsy concluded the victim had been intoxicated and walked inside the lion's cage, the death was ruled a suicide. However Ivan's family strongly disagreed with this, claiming Ivan had no suicidal tendencies. On top of that, Ivan's car was later found at a significant distance from the military school, it showed bumps as if it had collided with something. A second autopsy was performed the following month at the family's insistence, this time the coroner found that, on top of being partially eaten, the body showed evidence of blunt force trauma as well as genital mutilation and the death was reclassified as homicide. Floresmilo was then arrested in connection to the case despite the lack of evidence against him, he would spent the next six years in prison without being convicted o
... keep reading on reddit ➡The "Monster of Florence" is the name used by the Italian media to refer to the perpetrator(s) of seven double murders that took place near Florence between 1974 and 1985. In 1982 a double homicide of uncertain attribution dating back to 1968 was also connected to the Monster. In 2000 the investigation led to the conviction of two men identified as the perpetrators of four double murders. They were the nicknamed "snack companions": Mario Vanni and Giancarlo Lotti , while a third man, Pietro Pacciani (sentenced to several life sentences and subsequently acquitted on appeal), died before being subjected to a new appeal process in 1996. The investigations also focused on a possible motive of esoteric nature (which would have prompted one or more people to commission the crimes) without however highlighting any objective evidence in this investigative direction. The story had a lot of media coverage as it was the first case of serial killings in Italy recognized as such and one of the bloodiest in the country. It also had an impact on the habits of the population living in the province of Florence in the 1980s, who began to avoid secluding themselves in isolated places at night. The fact that the victims were young couples in secluded public places opened up the media debate on whether to allow kids the possibility of finding intimacy at home, thus avoiding isolated and dangerous places.
*** Sorry for any mistakes, English is not my native language. Hope that everything is understandable! This is going to be a long and confusing story.
- Modus operandi and profile
The murders were perpetrated over 11 or 17 years, depending on the attribution of the first crime. The victims were couples killed with similar or identical modus operandi, while they were in secluded places around Florence. The killer usually struck on new moon nights, or in any case during very dark nights and on weekends or days before holidays. The killer usually assaulted the victims while they were inside thier cars. The ambushes took place in the summer, with the exception of the crime on October 22 1981. One or more sidearms were used in the murders, with the exception of the attacks in 1968 and 1983. From 1974 to 1985 the same firearm was always used. It was identified as a Beretta series 70 pistol (probably the 74 or 76 ten-shot model), 22 Long Rifle caliber: a model that had entered the market in Italy in 1959. It was loaded with Winchester ammunition marked with the letter H on t
... keep reading on reddit ➡December 11th, 2008
Rosemont, Montreal, Qc, Canada
Catherine Daviau was a 26 years old woman living alone in her apartment at 5165 5th Avenue in the Rosemont neighbourhood of Montreal. On the evening of December 11th, she came home from work at around 6 pm and was seen entering her apartment by neighbours around that time. She also talked to a friend on her cellphone at around that time, which shows that Catherine had originally safely reached her home.
However, about only an hour later at around 7:07 PM, a neighbour would call 911 to report a fire at her apartment.
When the firefighters arrived at the location, they found that the doors were locked and there wasn't any sign of someone breaking into the apartment. They busted the door down and that's when they found Catherine's body on her bed.
Catherine was nude, had visible marks of violence and had been tied up. Her agressor had beaten her up and raped her before setting her room on fire and leaving.
The Evidence
The neighbour's quick call to 911 had resulted in a decent amount of evidence being preserved. The evidence collected by investigators informed them of a few facts.
1- Catherine's attacker had planned ahead. he had brought tie-wraps and bags with him to restrain Catherine. Which shows that the whole thing was planned and not a random act of violence.
2- The attacker was a smoker and smoked Players filter cigarettes, since a few botched up cigarettes had been left behind and Catherine herself was not a smoker.
3- Setting the place on fire however might have been a last minute decision since the "accelerant" used to light the fire was a bottle of Catherine's perfume.
DNA was collected at the crime scene but no match was found in any database.
The investigation
The investigators deduce that Catherine's killer might have stalked her for a while before the attack and learned of her usual schedule because of the very short time frame between her arrival home and the time by which the fire had been discovered by the neighbour. Which means the time between her arrival home and being attacked was even shorter.
While police wouldn't officially state the exact cause of death, the publicly available coroner report shows that the cause of death was from being repeatedly stabbed in the throat and stomach.
Catherine's family find it hard to understand that nobody would have heard her being attacked considering the type of building she lived in (a typical Rosemont triple
... keep reading on reddit ➡The I-70 Killer
The I-70 killer is an unidentified American serial killer who is known to have killed six store clerks in the Midwest in the spring of 1992. His nickname derives from the fact that several of the stores in which his victims worked were located a few miles off of Interstate 70 (I-70).
His victims were usually young, petite, brunette women. One of the victims was a man, but it is believed that he was mistaken for a woman by the killer as he often wore a ponytail. All of the stores attacked were speciality stores and were usually only robbed of a few hundred dollars. He is also suspected of shooting three more store clerks in Texas during 1993 and 1994, one of whom survived.
Despite the case being featured on Unsolved Mysteries and Dark Minds, the killer is yet to be identified and investigators have not publicly identified any suspects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-70_Killer
The Murder of Billy Brossman
On November 30, 2001, at approximately 6:30pm, an unidentified man entered the 7th and 70 Liquor Store located at 2701 Prairieton Road, Terre Haute, Indiana, where he robbed, then shot and killed the store clerk, 31-year-old Billy Brossman, with a 38. caliber handgun, without any known motive, while the whole incident was caught on surveillance camera.
Police describe the suspect as a white man about 5'8 to 6'0, medium build with thinning hair, between 30-40 years old. Several photos of the suspect were recovered from the store video, and have been distributed since the homicide more than 20 years ago.
The shooting occurred just seven blocks from the murder of Michael McCown during the 1992 serial-murder-spree. The investigation received national attention when it was featured on the show America's Most Wanted.
In 2021, multiple sources close to the investigation told News 4 they were closely looking at a convenience store homicide in Terre Haute in 2001, Terre Haute police sergeant Troy Davis confirmed to News 4 there are similarities between the 2001 murder, and the I-70 serial murders.
Davis said investigators have identified a person of interest in the 2001 case. That person is not in custody. Investigators emphasize they are looking at each case separately before drawing any conclusions at this point.
Investigators are cautious to publicly make any connection between the cases at this point. But another police source told News 4 he is confident the person who killed Brossman
... keep reading on reddit ➡On the night of 18th August, 1980, Thomas Cooper, an 18 year old apprentice plumber, and his 16-year-old girlfriend drove to the beachside carpark at Rickett’s Point in Beaumaris, Melbourne, located near the Beaumaris Yacht Club. The car park was a well-known spot for couples to go "parking", and Thomas went there several times a week with his girlfriend. The seclusion of the area also provided the opportunity for someone to hide and stalk anyone who happened to visit the carpark that night.
The couple arrived at 7.15 pm, Thomas parking his white Holden sedan and the couple remaining inside their car. They had been there for just 5 minutes when, without warning, a man smashed the driver’s window with a rifle barrel.
As Thomas attempted to drive away, the gunman yelled “don’t!”
Thomas frantically drove the car back to the main road to escape the gunman, but the gunman fired several shots with a .22 rifle and Thomas was hit three times.
Between Thomas and his girlfriend, they managed to steer the car out on to Beach Rd where it crashed into a fence. His girlfriend was able to immediately flag passers-by and raise the alarm but Tom had died.
Thomas’ girlfriend told police she saw the murderer for a only few seconds in the darkness, but that he appeared to be alone. She described him as Caucasian, about 25 years old or younger, 182cm tall, of medium build with shoulder-length black hair. He was unshaven and had a moustache, and wore a dark coloured cowboy hat and possibly a coat. His identikit image is quite distinctive, someone knew this man.
Thomas' girlfriend was not injured in the attack. Unfortunately she passed away in May 2020, without this case being resolved.
A $1 million reward is on offer to solve the case.
Senior Sgt Ron Iddles, a detective on the 2013 review of the case, stated in the media that police have identified a strong suspect. The suspect had been interviewed soon after the murders but had an alibi from a female friend (later reported to be his girlfriend at the time). “Believing that the tyranny of time might have changed things, we revisited the female who provided him with his alibi,’’ Sen-Sgt Iddles said. “Unfortunately we discovered she is still friendly with the suspect, but we will keep pursuing him.’’
In 2017, 3AW, a local radio station did a segment on the murder and received two calls, one possibly linking the son of an underworld figure to the murder, the other claimed they may have also seen the alleged murder aroun
... keep reading on reddit ➡MURDER OF ANTHONY BELLO
On March 25, 1996, 23 year old Anthony Bello was murdered in Bronx, New York. He was shot outside of a coffee shop on Morris Park Avenue. I could not locate the exact address. Anthony Bello was first shot in the stomach in the street. He then told the assailant, “Don’t shoot again. You made your point.” The gunman shot two more times, killing Anthony Bello right there. There were multiple people present at the time. Most of the people at the scene declined to speak to the police or claimed they did not see anything, although initially one witness did come forward and provide information to the police, although I do not have access to witness statements or police reports.
Anthony Bello’s brother is Frank Bello and his uncle is Charles Benante. Frank Bello is the bass player for legendary metal band Anthrax. Charles Benante is the drummer for Anthrax. By the time of the murder in 1996, Anthrax was quite well known. As such, the Bello family was well-known in the Bronx community. Frank Bello was known as the neighborhood metalhead. Anthony Bello was reportedly (according to random people on internet message boards) a good kid who was associating with a bad element–specifically a crew of wanna-be mafiosos.
On September 6, 1996, the New York Daily News reported that they had arrested a suspect in connection with the Anthony Bello murder. The suspect, Anthony Giovaniello, was hiding out in a friend’s apartment on Mansion Avenue in Yonkers, New York, which is about 9 miles from the murder scene. Anthony Giovaniello, who was 26 years old at the time of the arrest, is reported to have surrendered peacefully after detectives knocked on the door. The article states: “The suspect, who has no prior criminal record, was wanted in connection with the March 25th killing of Anthony Bello, 23. Bello was fatally shot outside a coffee shop on Morris Park Ave. Police suspect the fatal shooting was in retaliation for a January incident at a Manhattan club in which Bello reportedly punched Giovaniello in the face.” If his age is reported correctly, Anthony Giovaniello was born in 1970 which would make him 51 today.
Details of how the case against Anthony Giovaniello are pretty scarce. Frank Bello has an autobiography out that is entitled “Fathers, Brothers, and Sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment and Anthrax” and it contains a chapter called “Anthony” about his brother’s murder which answers some questions about the criminal charges. I listene
... keep reading on reddit ➡This happened in my hometown 10 years ago. It’s still unsolved. The murder occurred in the middle of the day, on the first day or week when students were going back to college. The area is full of people walking around during their lunch break and nobody heard or saw anything. Crazy !
https://www.thestar.com/amp/news/canada/2011/08/26/body_of_homicide_victim_was_tampered_with_police_say.html
Body of homicide victim was tampered with, police say
By Kate Allen Staff Reporter Fri., Aug. 26, 2011 Police launched a second probe into the death of a Gatineau teenager on Thursday, saying they believe the woman’s body was tampered with after she was killed.
Valerie Leblanc, 18, was found dead on Tuesday in a wooded park behind the Gabrielle-Roy campus of the CEGEP de l’Outaouais, where she was a student. Police are calling the death a homicide.
Four teenagers told police they were walking through the park on Tuesday afternoon when they saw smoke rising from an off-trail area. They went to investigate, and discovered Leblanc’s body with evidence of burns and other signs of violence.
The teens later told police that they did not realize the body was real, so they returned to class. Eventually they decided something was wrong and phoned police.
The killing, Gatineau’s first homicide this year, has rocked the community, says Mariane Leduc, a communications officer with the Gatineau police.
“The (school) is in a very quiet neighbourhood. It’s a good neighbourhood. So of course people are shocked and the students are shocked as well,” she said. “It’s very hard on everyone.”
Media outlets have reported that Leblanc and her boyfriend had recently broken up, and that they were seen entering the woods together. But police, while confirming the split between the couple, have said that investigators met with the boyfriend and that he is not considered a suspect.
Since Tuesday, police have sectioned off a huge swath of the park and as of Thursday night were still searching the crime scene. An autopsy report is expected tomorrow.
On Thursday, police launched a parallel investigation to the homicide probe, saying they believe Leblanc’s body was tampered with after her death. They are investigating charges of obstructing justice and causing an indignity to a body.
Officers have identified suspects in the second investigation, but no charges have been laid.
Investigators do not believe that the suspects of the second probe are also Leblanc’s killers. “The people who ta
... keep reading on reddit ➡I came across this case not long ago by accident and was surprised I had never heard of it before, despite it being local to me ( although it happened before my time.)
I did a quick search of reddit and did find one great write up on it from about about two years ago, Here, by reddit user u/-kelsie.
A recap:
Diane J. Olkwitz was a 19 year old secretary who lived in the Milwaukee suburb of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. In November of 1966 she was found brutally murdered at her workplace, Kenworth Manufacturing Co., a metal stamping plant of about 25 employees, where she had worked for the last eighteen months as a secretary.
The other employees at Kenworth worked until 3:30pm, but Diane, the only secretary, normally worked until 4:30pm to answer calls or accept any late deliveries. During this hour, Diane would be alone at the plant. After work, her usual routine was to drive to her best friend's workplace, which was close by, to pick her up, and the two young women would ride home together. Diane's best friend, who was also named Diane (Zimmer) had recently married, just two months earlier, and Diane had been the maid of honor at Zimmer's wedding. Diane herself was engaged; her fiance, Donald Hierlmeier, was in the Army and was currently at basic training in Fort Hood,TX.
On this particular day, November 3, 1966, Diane started work as normal at 8 am, but when 4:30 pm rolled around, Zimmer waited for her best friend to pick her up, as usual, but Diane didn't show and calls to her work number went unanswered. Concerned, Zimmer got a ride from her employer's wife, and the two women went to Kenworth to check up on Diane. It was about 5 pm at this time. Diane's car was in the parking lot but the doors to the building were locked and there was no sign of anyone, even though the two women could see through a window that Diane's purse was on her desk and her coat was nearby. Zimmer and the other woman were unsure of what to do, so they decided to walk next door to another business, where Diane's brother, Dennis, worked. The three of them returned to Kenworth around 5:20pm, just as a plant supervisor arrived to do some after-hours work.
After the supervisor unlocked the shipping door and they went in, the three were confronted with a gruesome sight about 20 feet away from the door; Diane was lying face down in a pool of blood, dead. The county
... keep reading on reddit ➡Almost 15 years ago, Anita Knutson was found dead in her off-campus Minot State University apartment.
School had just gotten out. It was early June when Anita's father and two maintenance workers found her laying facedown on her bed, stabbed to death.
The screen of the window was slashed, and a robe was placed over her body. Anita did have a roommate, and it was said that they did not get along. They sometimes had verbal and physical altercations. This roommate did, however, take a polygraph test and have an alibi confirmed by her parents.
Investigators found the murder weapon in the room, a small pocketknife. They still hold on to the pocketknife today in evidence.
Anita, along with her two younger siblings, were adopted when they were young. They grew up an hour from Minot. Anita and her siblings were very close. Her younger brother, Daniel, had a difficult time after her death. His personality changed, and a year and half after Anita died, Daniel took his own life.
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If this isn't allowed I'll delete it. I just thought someone here might know. I tried google but I just get certain cases
On the morning of May 6 1996 a 24 years old woman called Nada Cella was murdered in her office. She was working as a secretary on the second floor of a building in Marsala street in Chiavari (Italy), where the firm of the accountant "M. S." was located. Nada had worked there for 5 years; the case is still unsolved, but recently a new lead was considered again, the case was reopend and may finally be solved.
*** Sorry for any mistakes, English is not my native language. Edit: names redacted to follow the guidelines of the subreddit
- The victim
Nada Cella was born on July 5, 1971 in Chiavari. Her family and friends describe her as a shy, introverted girl, dedicated to family and work, with few hobbies (the gym, cinema and photography). Since 1991, Nada had worked as a secretary in the firm of the accountant "M. S." and had thus achieved her own economic independence. She lived at home with her patents and her sister.
Photo of Nada: https://images.app.goo.gl/XcR4ddzJ2fbNrMoW8
- The murder
It is not clear at what time Nada arrived in the office because no one saw her enter the building. However, we know that at 7.51 am she turned on the computer and worked on the computer for nearly and hour, then at 8.40 am a client made the first of four phone calls to the office [more about this detail later].
The assault took place between 08:50 am and 09:10 am. There were no signs of forced entry and no traces of a fight or defensive injuries. The attack was fast, she was hit with one blow after another, without hesitation. Nada must have fainted almost immediately as the assailant continued to attack her (presumably ) even when she was on the ground. Three types of injuries were found: some of them were caused by punches and / or kicks, some other were caused by a blunt instrument (almost certainly an object with a sharp edge, but the weapon has never been found), the third type of injury was caused by a very violent impact against a flat surface, probably the floor, causing fractured cranial lesions; according to medical reports these were the most lethal injuries.
Nada, unconcious but still alive, was found by her employer "M. S." [I'll call him "S" from now on], who had arrived at the office about ten minutes late, around 09:12 am. "S" found the door of the building closed but the light in the entrance hall was on; therefore he thought that there were some clients inside, because that light (when there were no clients) always remained off. Then
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The area of Ladywood near the centre of the city of Birmingham UK, has been an area that has gone many changes over the years. This was an area that was a former slum area of the city, and over time developed into housing developments for those in need and today more modern and new housing.
Alston Street now is a different place it was a hundred years ago, and 47 years when this horrible crime happened. The street now only measures 149 meters and despite a few more 1960s build houses; it only really leads into B4124 which leads to the Ladywood Circus Road. In 1974, the area was covered in derelict Victorian era houses and was part of a compulsory purchase order by Birmingham City Council in 1969. Many of the homes were empty and had few residing.
Early in the morning on the 7th of June 1974, dye-caster factory worker Intaz Ali, 39 (or 35 as some sources say) originally from Bangladesh was heading home after a night-shift at work at 6:30am. He was seen by an occupant of the multi-occupancy house at 8:30am. Sadly, this would be the last sighting of him alive.
Later that day, Intaz was discovered by his aunt in his room. He had been stabbed to death and had multiple stab wounds. A rear window had been smashed and his bedroom door forced open. Whilst Intaz showed signs of a struggle against his killer, he sadly was murdered. Eyewitness reports from the few neighbours living on Alston Street said they did see a man around in the area at the time the deceased had returned home.
Detectives working on the case were already stretched with resources working on another unsolved murderer around two to three months earlier of Barbara Forest who was killed in the Erdington area of the city. They appealed to the public that the attacker would have been heavily blood-stained around the Ladywood area and spoke with bus drivers across the city who may have seen any sighting of Intaz and his murderer within the area. The police also pleaded with former neighbours (both houses either side were derelict and empty) and spoke to any associates within the Bangladeshi community and his workplace if they have any information to help catch his killer. The police did state that the cases were not linked.
Sadly the case remains unsolved to this day and interestingly no photo was released of Intaz at all. There was not any artists sketch of the murderer too. All the efforts from West Midlands Police were in vain, and his killer is still evading justice to this day. Nobody at all c
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Hoping to shed some light on a few obscure unsolved murders and disappearances.
1925 Iowa Strawstack Killing
- On July 24, 1925 a Unknown Redhead was found bludgeoned to death in a charred Carlisle, Iowa strawstack. Witnesses reported seeing two men flee the scene of the crime. Interestingly Coroner DeFord cleared out a case in his drugstore and put on display the skull, bones, teeth, and hair from the murdered woman’s body. He opened the “Strawstack Murder Sideshow” http://www.iowaunsolvedmurders.com/the-murders/the-redhead-in-the-strawstack-murder-of-jane-doe-1925/
Benjamin Collings 1931 Murder on the Sound
- On September 9th, 1931 two unknown assailants paddled alongside Benjamin Collings yacht “The Penguin” adrift in Long Island Sound. After a brief exchange the men tied Collings up and threw him overboard. One of the men then proceeded to rape Collings wife who had been below deck hiding during the scuffle. The Collings' 5 year old daughter was then placed alone in a separate craft and set adrift. The two assailants then proceeded to disappear into the night paddling their canoe. Interestingly, Mr Collings had multiple opportunities to retrieve a handgun he kept on the boat. Multiple times he was left alone by his attacks with easy access to the weapon. https://newyorkerstateofmind.com/tag/collings-yacht-murder/
Army WAC Murdered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota 1943
- On October 5th 1943 Cheney's body was found southwest of the Omaha viaduct, which was what they called the West 12th Street bridge that crosses over the train tracks west of Grange Avenue. This was a little over three blocks from her home. She lay on her back, her uniform intact but somewhat rumpled. Her purse was propped against a nearby boulder, her visor cap a short distance away and her flight cap across her chest. The WAC insignia from her left collar tip was found a foot from her body. Her shoe was scuffed on two sides and the toe crushed, as though her foot had been stepped on. Her face was bloody on one side, and blood had pooled near her head. An autopsy performed during the night by army and civilian doctors disclosed a multiple fracture of the right side of the skull and brain hemorrhages, believed to have resulted from a "tremendous blow with a rock or other heavy instrument." https://www.argusleader.com/story/life/2017/11/17/looking-back-womens-army-corp-officer-found-slain-near-12-th-grange-1943/870073001/
The 1932 Hawaiian Massie Trial/Joseph Kahahawai Mur
... keep reading on reddit ➡The first case that comes to mind of course is Dean Corll, aka The Candyman Killer, who was shot and killed by a teenaged accomplice during the commission of a murder. Another, maybe lesser known, case was the West Mesa Bone Collector. Suspect Lorenzo Montoya was shot and killed by the boyfriend of one of his victims immediately after the crime. It’s never been proven that he is the serial killer responsible for the West Mesa murders but it’s noted that the murders stopped after he was killed. Are there any others that I’m missing?
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Corll?wprov=sfti1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Mesa_murders?wprov=sfti1
