On the morning of November 25th, 1983, the day after Thanksgiving, 54-year-old Glendora Glenn went to check on her uncle, 70-year-old Theodore βBusterβ Phillips Jr. at his Muncie, Indiana home located at 825 North Brady Street. Theodore had never married and had no children, however he maintained a close relationship with Glendora and his extended family.
When Theodore failed to answer his phone that morning, Glendora worried he was possibly injured and quickly drove the few short blocks from her home to his. However once inside she made a startling discovery. Theodore lay dead on the kitchen floor, his body riddled with stab wounds. Glendora immediately summoned police.
It was determined that Theodore had been stabbed 24 times with a large kitchen knife. His official cause of death was determined to be blood loss from a stab wound that directly hit his heart. However, Theodore was also stabbed and slashed multiple times in the chest, shoulder, neck, groin and leg, and had defensive wounds on his hands. The murder weapon, a knife from Theodoreβs kitchen, was found next to his body. Nothing appeared to be missing and the home showed no signs of forced entry.
Theodore was known to be particularly cautious when it came to strangers. His modest home on the dead end street was outfitted with bars on the windows and multiple locks on the doors. If someone he didnβt know knocked, he would only speak to them through the locked front door, and he never allowed strangers into his home. This detail combined with the fact police found no signs of forced entry, led investigators to believe Theodore was murdered by someone he knew.
Several people were brought in for questioning, however after providing alibiβs and taking polygraph tests, they were released and the trail went cold. Articleβs about the murder continued to be published often in the newspaper however, in the hopes that someone with information would come forward.
Just over a month after Theodoreβs murder, a leadership change at the Muncie Police Department occurred. In an article published in January 1984, the new leadership vowed to make Theodoreβs case a βtop priority.β However this was the last article published about Theodoreβs case. The case was dropped from the headlines and wasnβt again mentioned publicly until 2016.
In the 2016 article, it is revealed that further hindering the investigation is the fact that the location of the original case file is unknown. The department's investigativ
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In November 1973, the old Muncie Central High School was demolished. Prior to demolition, the four-story brick building stood on South High Street in Muncie, Indiana. This building was the location of two of Muncieβs oldest unsolved mysteries. Labeled by the press as βThe Case of the Boy Nobody Missedβ and βThe Puzzle of the Pickled Painter,β the unusual deaths of Perlie Guelsby Hogg, and Nelson Dull may forever remain unsolved.
On December 21, 1922, 15-year-old Perlie Guelsby Hogg, a sophomore at Central High School, vanished. That morning Perlie said goodbye to his aunt Minnie and Uncle Charles telling them he would probably be home late that evening. Perlie worked as a grocery delivery boy and because of the upcoming holidays, he expected to work additional hours.
When Perlie didnβt return home that evening, his aunt and uncle didnβt think much about his absence, however when morning came and Perlie still hadnβt made an appearance, they began to worry. Minnie contacted police and reported Perlie missing.
Perlie had lived with his aunt and uncle since the age of 4. Just prior to Perlieβs birth, his father, Ben Hoggs, told Perlieβs mother, Mary, he was going out to chop wood one evening. Ben never returned, leaving Mary alone to care for their son. Two years later Mary passed away leaving Perlie, orphaned. After living with other family members for two years, Perlie ended up in the home of Minnie and Charles Cooper, his aunt and uncle.
During their questioning, police learned that Perlie had often made threats to runaway or commit suicide. They discovered he had withdrawn from school on December 20th, the day prior to his disappearance. It was also learned that the day prior to his withdrawal from school, Perlie and several other boys had gotten into a physical altercation with a teacher. Several students claimed that the teacher had βthreatened them, especially Perlie.β
Minnie and Charles did not deny that Perlie wanted to leave their home. According to them, Perlie often expressed his desire to drop out of school and enlist in the Navy. Minnie told investigators that after the altercation with the teacher, Perlie had left school and claimed he wasnβt going to return.
Another aunt of Perlieβs named Effie, told police that Perlie claimed to be mistreated by Charles, and had told her he βshould just end it allβ on more than one occasion. When questioned, Charles denied ever abusing Perlie, but told police he was βcorrected, like all boys are.β
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On the morning of May 20th, 2019, employees at a Muncie, Indiana wastewater treatment facility discovered the body of a man on one of the facilityβs conveyor belts that are used to filter out debris inside the plant.
Police arrived and removed the manβs body from the conveyor belt. He was found wearing no shirt or shoes and carried no phone or identification. There were βobvious signs of traumaβ to the mans body, however police attributed the mans injuries to the path his body had passed through to enter the plant.
Police contacted several news outlets in an attempt to identify the man. They described him as a white male, middle-aged, with a unique dragon tattoo on his upper-left arm.
A woman named Teresa Dodd was one of the many people who read about the mans body found in the wastewater facility. Two days later, Teresa would learn the body belonged to her younger brother, 41-year-old Michael Coates, after police presented her and her mother, Renee, with photographs of the deceased man.
According to Teresa the police suggested that due to the condition of Michaelβs body, they only identify him through photographs. Teresa described Michael as looking βvery beat upβ in the photos and βswollenβ. Neither Teresa nor Renee could positively identify Michael. Michael was finally positively identified by his ex-girlfriend.
An autopsy and toxicology report was preformed, however due to the condition of Michaelβs body, they were unable to determine his cause of death. It was confirmed, however, that Michael had died before entering the water. The toxicology report showed no signs of alcohol in Michaelβs system, and confirmed that Michael did not die of a drug overdose.
Due to the undetermined manner of death, Michaelβs case was labeled a death investigation, however detectives have confirmed that it is highly unlikely Michael could have entered the plant on his own accord. They believe that Michael was either dropped into one of two of the facilities cylinder pools, or was dropped in at a different location and his body was carried to the plant through a serious of underground sewer pipes.
Detectives spent an entire day following routes from manhole covers that the water treatment facility management provided to them in the form of a map and explained where a human body could fit through the pipes. Their records indicated that there were only three possible locations that Michaelβs body could have been dropped into the s
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On the afternoon of Sunday, January 25th, 1997, a motorist in Muncie, Indiana, was driving on McCullough Boulevard when he spotted the body of a young man beneath a nearby railroad trestle. Police arrived on scene just after 1:45 PM.
Investigators discovered the teen lying on his left side, clad in jeans, name brand sneakers, a green leather coat, and a class ring was on his finger. He had a rose tattoo on his ankle and in his pocket he carried chap stick, 50 cents, and a small piece of paper with two phone numbers, along with a mans name written on it.
Police could not immediately determine how the teen had died, and initially labeled his case as a βsuspicious death.β They observed a head wound on the teen, and could not immediately rule out the possibility the teenager had fallen from the bridge above. The trestle, that ran over White River, had been converted to be a part of a walking trail that led through McCullough Park. It was considered to be a popular βhook upβ spot.
Across town, a woman named Vicki Cook received a disturbing phone call from her sonβs boyfriend. He told Vicki she needed to head to the park, because the police had discovered a body there, and he thought it might be her son, 16-year-old William Gene Burton.
Vicki went to the park and talked to the officers on scene. She told police she had last seen her son around 5 PM on Friday. She described his clothing and a small rose tattoo he had on his ankle. A short time later, officers confirmed the body did belong to her son, William.
An autopsy revealed that Williamβs death was not accidental. It was determined that he had been shot multiple times in the head by a small caliber gun at close range. The coroner estimated he had died on the evening of January 24th, less than 24 hours prior to being found.
William was a student at Southside High School, and worked part-time as a telemarketer for a window replacement company. He was living in a mobile home next to his mothers home on the northeast side of Muncie. Vicki told police that on Saturday evening, she arrived home from work to find a car parked outside of Williamβs trailer. She said as she approached the vehicle, it backed out slowly, then sped off. She said she did not know if William was inside the vehicle, and did not see who was driving.
William was openly gay, according to his family and friends. Shortly before his death William was dating a local man named Roger. (He was the man who phoned Williamβs mom.) Williamβ
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