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UPDATE!

It has came clear that Jake Davison was a gun license holder, as I understand it at this moment in time, he was licensed for the weapon which was soon used to take 5 innocent lives. Davison's certificate and shotgun were taken away from him last year, December, by police, following an assault allegation that September, it was then returned to him weeks before the massacre. This will lead into an investigation of the Police.

Another investigation of the police will take place for handing him the certificate and weapon in the first place, it is said that Jake's mother had begged the NHS (National Health Service) for mental support for Jake as he was 'very mentally ill' yet he was still handed the gun and license.

The dad of the 3 year old who were both shot on Thursday evening has been reported that he attempted to shield his daughter before both of their lives were took.

A vigil was held last night (13th August) in memory of those who's life was took in the evening of the Plymouth Massacre. May god bless their souls.

The 'Terminator' of Plymouth.

Thursday, August 12th, 6:10pm, Jake storms his mums house, Maxie Davison (pictured above) with a pump action shotgun following an argument. Jake shoots the 51-year-old, then left her to die before leaving the property and shooting another 2 people, a 3-year-old girl and her 43-year-old male relative outside. Jake then storms further down the street and kills 59-year-old male in a local park and then kills a 66-year-old woman before turning the gun on himself, just before police arrived at the scene. There is no clear motive for the murders after his mother. Two others were also shot, but survived.

Two weeks prior, Jake posted a video, his last video, on his YouTube channel which has now been taken down. In this video, he rants about how he's "so beaten down in life" and he says "I'm a terminator", he spent 11 minutes ranting about how his life has hit a dead end, as he struggles to attract women or lose weight. His YouTube channel was made up of videos of him deadlifting in a home gym and misogynistic rants in which he claims women are only interested in money and how he hasn't spoken to a woman since he was 17.

He also moaned about getting older, saying "what is there to look forward to? getting f***ing uglier every passing year? There's nothing really to look forward to as an adult, other than getting rich" In one video he said "I missed out on so much as a teenager, I hope I can make up for it. I'm not advocating this, but if I have to, I might use drugs to make it, maybe cocaine fuelled sex or something, maybe that can make up for that missed teenage experience" When asked why he was so down all the time, his response was "Try being an unemployed autistic poor sexually frustrated male with tons of health issues no social circle and being stuck in government housing with my disgusting abusive mother for years on end and having missed out on so much in life and then come back and tell me if you’re not negative."

His Facebook Profile consisted of references to right-wing American nationalism, including a picture of an eagle in front of a stars and stripes flag. It was filled with all of that American stuff along with plenty of photos of himself which were used as profile pictures, his profile also claimed he was born in Arizona however this was untrue. His Facebook has now been removed.

Jake talks about being part of the “black pill” community, which is associated with involuntary celibates or ‘incels’.The “incels” is an abbreviation online for “involuntary celibacy”. The online subculture that involves men who are unable to find a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one, often expressing hostility and extreme resentment towards those who are sexually active, particularly women. The ‘incels’ also link to other mass murders around the world.

The names of the victims have just now been released (17.46pm UCT+1) The names are, in no particular order, Sophie Martyn (3), Lee Martyn (49), Stephen Washington (59), Maxine Davison (51) and Kate Shepard (66). The response time for the police was a matter of 6 minutes, however, Jake had already turned the gun on himself.

Thank you everyone, and i will be sure to keep you all updated

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The 'Terminator' of Plymouth.

Thursday, August 12th, 6:10pm, Jake storms his mums house, Maxie Davison (pictured above) with a pump action shotgun following an argument. Jake shoots the 51-year-old, then left her to die before leaving the property and shooting another 2 people, a 3-year-old girl and her 43-year-old male relative outside. Jake then storms further down the street and kills 59-year-old male in a local park and then kills a 66-year-old woman before turning the gun on himself, just before police arrived at the scene. There is no clear motive for the murders after his mother. Two others were also shot, but survived.

Two weeks prior, Jake posted a video, his last video, on his YouTube channel which has now been taken down. In this video, he rants about how he's "so beaten down in life" and he says "I'm a terminator", he spent 11 minutes ranting about how his life has hit a dead end, as he struggles to attract women or lose weight. His YouTube channel was made up of videos of him deadlifting in a home gym and misogynistic rants in which he claims women are only interested in money and how he hasn't spoken to a woman since he was 17.

He also moaned about getting older, saying "what is there to look forward to? getting f***ing uglier every passing year? There's nothing really to look forward to as an adult, other than getting rich" In one video he said "I missed out on so much as a teenager, I hope I can make up for it. I'm not advocating this, but if I have to, I might use drugs to make it, maybe cocaine fuelled sex or something, maybe that can make up for that missed teenage experience" When asked why he was so down all the time, his response was "Try being an unemployed autistic poor sexually frustrated male with tons of health issues no social circle and being stuck in government housing with my disgusting abusive mother for years on end and having missed out on so much in life and then come back and tell me if you’re not negative."

His Facebook Profile consisted of references to right-wing American nationalism, including a picture of an eagle in front of a stars and stripes flag. It was filled with all of that American stuff along with plenty of photos of himself which were used as profile pictures, his profile also claimed he was born in Arizona however this was untrue. His Facebook has now been removed.

Jake talks about being part of the “black pill” community, which is associated with involuntary celibates or ‘incels’.The “incels” is an abbreviation online for “involuntary celibacy”. The online subculture that involves men who are unable to find a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one, often expressing hostility and extreme resentment towards those who are sexually active, particularly women. The ‘incels’ also link to other mass murders around the world.

The names of the victims have just now been released (17.46pm UCT+1) The names are, in no particular order, Sophie Martyn (3), Lee Martyn (49), Stephen Washington (59), Maxine Davison (51) and Kate Shepard (66). The response time for the police was a matter of 6 minutes, however, Jake had already turned the gun on himself.

Thank you everyone, and i will be sure to keep you all updated

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A Man Called Alexandra: He Posed As A Woman Online and Raped Young Girls

The crimes

Atheer as-Suhairy was born in 1973 or 1975 in Iraq but fled to Sweden at the age of 17. Atheer lived in the city Sundsvall for several years and studied at university, but moved to the southern city Malmö in the late 1990s. People that knew him described Atheer as a funny and easy-going person. However, Atheer used his charming personality to contact young girls online and have them send nude pictures.

Atheer had several accounts on various social media sites where he posed as a 25-year-old woman named Alexandra. “Alexandra” began talking to young girls between the ages of 12 and 17, and they formed a friendship. The girls became close to Alexandra, and they were flattered when she told them that they could become models. Alexandra asked the girls to send pictures of themselves in compromising positions and then sent money to the girls. Alexandra claimed that they were being paid by her modeling agency that was looking for new models. After a while, Alexandra told the girls that she was occasionally selling sex. However, she described herself as an escort and not a “typical” prostitute. She told the girls that she met up with rich men who bought her drinks and took her out to fancy dinners and that it was an easy way to earn some extra money. Alexandra suggested to some girls that she could contact one of her favorite customers and set up a meeting between them.

Of course, Alexandra’s favorite customer was Atheer. Atheer started talking to the girls under his real name and told them that he would pay them for company and sex. Some of the girls decided to meet up with him, and he bought them plane tickets to come to Malmö. During their visits, Atheer would rape the girls and then pay them. He would rape them orally, vaginally, and anally. In interviews, some of the girls described the situation as being extremely scary, but they kept on visiting him because they needed money. As soon as the girls had returned home from Atheer, Alexandra texted them and asked them about their experience with her “favorite customer”.

Atheer had contact with over 50 girls during the early 2000s; some girls only sent pictures, others spent their weekend being raped by Atheer. A few girls decided to contact the police and tell them about the mysterious Alexandra who had put them into contact with a man who had bought their bodies. The police managed to track Alexandra’s IP address, and Atheer was soon apprehended.

Atheer refused to admit that he and Alexandra were the same person, despite the extensive evidence. Atheer and Alexandra had the same IP address, some of “Alexandra’s” phones were found in Atheer’s apartment, and Atheer could not explain how the police could get into contact with her. Furthermore, Atheer had previously been convicted of sexual assault after meeting up with young girls whom he had met online while using the alias Alexandra.

Trial and aftermath

The trial started in 2005. Atheer’s victims testified against him in court and detailed the sexual abuse. Most of the girls were between 14 and 16 years old, and they reported being depressed and turning to self-harm after being sexually assaulted by Atheer. However, some of the girls said that the worst part was not being raped; the worst part was finding out that Alexandra was not real. The girls thought that they had found a real friend they could talk to, and losing her was harder than anything else. Some of the girls had a hard time accepting that Atheer and Alexandra were the same person; several girls were convinced that Alexandra was real since they had talked to her on the phone. However, the police concluded that they had in fact talked to Atheer on the phone. He had a high voice to begin with but talked in an even higher pitch when posing as Alexandra, which made him sound as if he was a woman.

Atheer was found guilty of rape, sexual assault of minors, and assault. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and had to return to Iraq after being released from prison and could never return to Sweden. Atheer was also ordered to pay 2,4 million (around 274 945 dollars) Swedish crowns in damages to the girls he had sexually assaulted. He was released from prison in 2011 after serving five years of his ten-year sentence.

Atheer applied for several teaching jobs in Iraq soon after his release. He used a false name when applying to the jobs and said that he had graduated from a university in the UK and was qualified for the job. However, the university did not exist and the school soon discovered his true identity and what he had been convicted of in Sweden.

Atheer participated in several interviews while incarcerated. He never confessed to Alexandra not existing and claimed that he did not know that the girls he had met up with were minors. Atheer said that he was only guilty of buying sex, which is a crime in Sweden. He also stated the following (my translation from Swedish to English): “I don’t want to glorify prostitution, but the girl in Pretty Woman started out in that way”.

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The mysterious disappearance and reappearance of Danny Filippidis.

February 2018, Danny Filippidis, a Canadian man, was on a ski trip with his friends in New York. It was around two in the afternoon and the friends had been skiing for hours. They started getting ready to go into the lodge when Danny said he wanted to go on one more run down the mountain before their lunch break. It was around 4pm and Danny was out of sight and at this point, has been since that last run down the mountain. He was failing to return any texts or calls, leaving the friends concerned. After a search for him and no good news, they turned to the employees at the lodge for help, a team of 130 people scoured the mountain, still, no good news.

Six days later, Filippidis' wife received a phone call from a number she didn't recognize, it sounded 'far away' and 'staticy'. Regardless, she picked up and it was Danny's voice, he was alive. He was incoherent and confused, he then hung up the phone. She called him back and advise him to call 911 for help, so that's what he did. He didn't have a clue of his whereabouts so he just described his surroundings. When the paramedics found him, he was still in al of his ski gear and was in need of medical attention, however, he was holding a brand new iPhone and he had a fresh haircut.

He was found in Sacramento, California, at the airport terminal car rental depot, 3000 miles from his place of disappearance. He had no recollection of how he got there or even what day it was. He became very overwhelmed and emotional when he learnt where he was and how long people had been looking for him...

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Kristen Galvan was only 15 years old when she vanished on January 2nd, 2020. She was last seen at her grandmother’s home in Spring, Texas. Kristen left the home on the day of her disappearance and never returned. She has never been seen or heard from again.

Despite the fact that Kristen left on her own accord, her loved ones immediately began to worry for her safety. Her family members began to suspect that she had been sold into trafficking by a boy whom she had been hanging out with prior to her disappearance. Kristen’s picture was reportedly seen on a website known for prostitution. Her family members attempted to locate her on Bissonnet Street–an area in Houston that is also well known for prostitution and trafficking. Unfortunately, Kristen’s family members were unable to locate her. Kristen’s mother has since hired a private investigator, who reportedly might have tracked Kristen down in the Lake Charles area–but no other sightings of Kristen have been reported. It’s unclear if she is still believed to be in the local area. She remains missing today. If you have any information that could lead to Kristen’s whereabouts, please submit an anonymous tip here.

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Britain's Youngest Killers..

12th February 1993, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson had gone to The New Strand Shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside. The two 10 year-old boys were skipping school, and decided to go to the shopping centre to 'waste the day'. Reportedly, the boys had been shoplifting sweets, a troll doll, batteries and a blue can of paint.

That same afternoon, three year-old James Bulger was with his mother, twenty-five year-old Denise. At around 3:40pm she had walked into a butchers shop, took less than a minute to order her meet and then went back to where she had left James for a minute, however, he wasn't there. In fear, she ran for security staff and had informed them that he was missing and what he was wearing. James was wearing a blue anorak with a hood and mustard-colored lining, silver-colored tracksuit bottoms and white trainers.

After a thorough search and no good news, they looked to receive help from the police. Robert and Jon had noticed James stood alone outside of the butchers shop and had apparently lured him over to the pair where they had started talking to the young lad. After a few seconds of conversation, they boys were captured on CCTV taking the little hand of young James Bulger and heading out towards the exit.

The boys had taken James on a 2.5 mile walk around Liverpool. First, they had taken him to the canal where they had picked James up and intentionally dropped him on his head, as a result, James had a severe looking bruise on his forehead. After, they boys had made jokes about pushing James into the canal before deciding against the 'decision'. 38 individuals had witnessed the poor boy with the two lads. Many later reported that James had a bruise on his head and was in tears but just assumed they were all related and therefore did nothing. 38 wasted chances to prevent what was coming for the young James. The pair was challenged a few times by these members of these members of the public about the crying child however, they had an excuse and therefore got away with it.

Eventually, the trio had reached the railway line near Walton and Anfield railway station, close to Walton Lane Police Station. The boys had no intention of taking James to the police station, instead, they carried him up to the train tracks. This is where one of the boys had threw blue paint at James' face, they then kicked and hit him, using bricks, stones and a 22 pound iron bar that had been left at the side of the tracks. It is also reported that they placed batteries into the mouth of James. Police have highlighted that there may have been a sexual element to the crime.

All of James' bottom half of clothing had been removed. Before leaving the, now dead, young James, they placed his body on the railway tracks and weighted his head down with rubble, they thought that if they did this it would come off as an accident. Once the boys left, a train hit James, slicing his body into two.

At the same time that James Bulger was suffering from this torture, the police were at the shopping centre questioning Denise and others about James. Using the description of James, police searched around the nearby area on foot to see if James had maybe wandered off alone and gotten lost. While the shopping centre was being searched again, another team had looked at CCTV to discover the two boys leading James away. Almost instantly, the CCTV footage was circulated all over the media along with posters of the boys posted to every wall in Liverpool.

Sunday 14th February, two days after the vicious murder of James, a young boy had been playing on the tracks before discovering what seemed to be a dead animal, only to realise it was two half of a young three year old boy, James Bulger. The boy immediately ran home to inform his parents, who then informed the police.

The boys were then found and arrested on suspicion of the abduction and murder of James Bulger. While being questioned, they denied everything, they then tried to blame each other, but truth soon came out and they were sentenced to many years in prison. Please feel free to ask any questions or give me your opinion. If you would like me to go into more depth about the trial and aftermath, like and reblog! Thank you!

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The only murders I'll never talk about:

The Chris Watts murders

The murder of Gabriel Fernández

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Rachael Runyan

Rachael Marie Runyan was born on June 23, 1979, in Weber County, Utah. Rachael was a child beauty queen, having been crowned “Little Miss Sunset” the year before her murder. She has been described by her mother as a well-behaved child. 

In the late morning of August 26, 1982, Rachael Runyan and her five-year-old brother Justin asked their mother if they and their younger brother Nathan, aged 18 months, could play in the playground of Doxey Elementary School. Although Elaine Runyan had never allowed her children to play unsupervised anywhere outside the family home, because she was preparing lunch for her children when they made the request, and the school playground was just 15 feet (4.6 m) from her home, well within sight of her kitchen window, she agreed to it. Nonetheless, Runyan looked repeatedly out the kitchen window and conversed with her children as she prepared the meal.

When she called her children to lunch at approximately 12:55 p.m., only Nathan and Justin returned home. Justin blurted out to her that Rachael had been taken from the park by force moments before by a young black man who had initially offered to buy her ice cream and bubble gum at a nearby supermarket. According to Justin, the man had approached them as they played in the sandpit, attempting to lure the siblings into his car with an offer to purchase candy for the trio. When they were close to the man’s car, Rachael told him she liked bubble gum-flavored ice cream. The man claimed to have this flavor of ice cream in his car. Justin said when he warned Rachael not to accompany the man any further, she began to turn and walk away from him. In response, he simply picked Rachael up and placed her over his shoulder before bundling her, screaming, into his car as Justin stood frozen in fear with Nathan standing by his side.

Elaine rushed to the supermarket the kidnapper had mentioned, repeatedly asking staff and shoppers: “Have you seen a little blond girl? A 3-year-old with a black man?” Nobody she encountered had seen her child. Approximately 20 minutes after her daughter’s disappearance, Elaine reported Rachael’s abduction to the Sunset Police Department.

At 5:00 p.m. on September 19, a family traveling on a mountain road in Mountain Green, Utah (approximately 50 miles (80 km) from Sunset) stopped their vehicle at a turnout close to Trapper’s Loop Road to let their children play at a nearby stream and throw rocks into the water. Close to a pile of brush, the children observed what they initially believed was a doll, partly covered in shrubbery floating at the edge of the stream. On closer inspection, the children realized the doll was actually the nude body of a female toddler with her hands bound behind her back.

Rachael’s relatives were able to offer tentative identification of her body from a chipped tooth and piercings in her ears. Due to the advanced state of the body’s decomposition, the precise cause of Rachael’s death was never established. The coroner was unable to exclude smothering as the cause of death.

DNA testing conducted on items found near Rachael’s body in 2007 yielded tentative results, although they have not helped advance the investigation. Rachael’s family has never given up hope her killer will be found.

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Before computers, executed criminals had death masks made of them in order to keep a record of who had been killed. This practice was first brought in by the English in approximately the 1800s, but it was quickly introduced to Australia years later where it remained popular. The masks were so detailed, that you could see eyelashes, hairs, and even the rope marks from the noose that had taken the criminals life.

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The mind-twisting dissapearence and reappearance of Steven Kubacki

Steven Kubacki was a 23-year-old student at a private Christian university near the Eastern shore of Lake Michigan at the time of his dissapearence. Steven was quite experienced with being outdoors and was well-trusted to stay safe, however, he disappeared on February 20th 1978 whilst on a solo cross-country skiing trip near the town of Saugatuck.

The day after his trip to Lake Michigan, snowmobilers in Saugatuck spotted a cross-country skis randomly abandoned with no owner to be seen, the snowmobilers decided to call the police incase of a missing person or whatnot, police arrived and somehow, a backpack had appeared next to the skis, as if it had been there the whole time but not been noticed, at the same time as this, Steve's family had noticed he hadn't returned and had filed a missing person's report. The police confirmed the contents were Stevens and immediately a search and rescue mission was started.

however, the only clue they had was a 200-yard trail of footprints in the snow, leading past the edge of the lake which ended suddenly, leading investigators to conclude that Steve may have fallen through the ice to his death either by drowning or hypothermia. The area close to Lake Michigan was somewhere Steve had visited many times before so had been quite familiar with it. With the conclusion of Steve most likely being deceased, the search was called off.

5th May 1979, one year and three months after Stevens dissapearence, Steven had apparently woken up and found himself lying in the grass in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 700 miles away from where he disappeared. He later told reporters he was wearing brand new clothes and had a backpack filled with maps, alluding to some extensive travel and/or hitchhiking.

He also had a fresh haircut and a T-shirt from a Wisconsin marathon and said in an interview “I feel like I’ve done a lot of running”. He had no memory of those 15 months, the last thing he could remember was of the Lake Michigan shoreline where he left his footprints in the snow...

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The Long and Confusing Murder of Artemus Ogletree/Roland T Owen

Early on the afternoon of January 2, 1935, Ogletree walked into the Hotel President, in what is now the Power & Light District of Kansas City, Missouri, and asked for an interior room several floors up, giving his name as Roland T. Owen, with a Los Angeles address. Staff remembered him as dressed well and wearing a dark overcoat; he brought no bags with him. Ogletree paid for one night. The staff noted that in addition to the visible scar on his temple, he had cauliflower ear, and concluded he was probably a boxer or professional wrestler. They believed him to be in his early 20s. 

Randolph Propst, a bellhop, accompanied Ogletree up in the elevator to the 10th floor. On the way, Ogletree told him that he had spent the previous night at the nearby Muehlebach Hotel but found the nightly rate too high. Propst opened Room 1046, which per the guest’s request was on the inside, overlooking the hotel’s courtyard rather than the street outside. He watched as Ogletree took a hairbrush, comb and toothpaste from his overcoat pocket, the extent of his unpacking. After Ogletree put those items above the sink, he and Propst left the room. The bellboy returned to lock it, and gave Ogletree the key. 

After returning to the lobby, he saw Ogletree leave the hotel. A short time afterward, Mary Soptic, one of the hotel maids, returned from a day off to work the afternoon shift. She went into Room 1046 and was surprised to find Ogletree there, since the previous night a woman had been in the room. She apologized, but he said she could go ahead and clean the room. While she did, she noticed that he had the shades drawn and left only one dim lamp on. This would remain the case when she encountered Ogletree in the room on other occasions during his stay. “He was either worried about something or afraid” in addition to this preference for low light, she told police later. After she had been cleaning for a few minutes, Ogletree put his overcoat on and brushed his hair. He then left, but asked her to leave the room unlocked as he was expecting some friends in a few minutes. Soptic did as he asked. At 4 p.m., she returned to the room with freshly laundered towels. Inside, the room was dark. She saw Ogletree lying on the bed, fully dressed. Visible in the light from the hallway was a note on his bedside table that read “Don: I will be back in fifteen minutes. Wait”. 

The next morning, Soptic returned to Room 1046 around 10:30. The door was locked, which led her to assume that Ogletree was out since it could only be locked from the outside, but when she opened it with her own key Ogletree was present, sitting in the dark just where he had been the previous afternoon. The phone rang and he answered it. “No, Don, I don’t want to eat. I am not hungry. I just had breakfast … No, I am not hungry”, he said. Still holding the phone, Ogletree asked Soptic about her job as she cleaned. He wanted to know if she was responsible for the entire floor, and if the President was residential. He repeated his complaint about the Muehlebach’s exorbitant rates, after which she finished cleaning, and left. Again at 4 p.m., Soptic returned with fresh towels. Inside Room 1046, she could hear two men talking, so she knocked. A voice she described as loud and deep, probably not Ogletree’s, asked who it was. She responded that she had brought fresh towels, to which the voice said “We don’t need any”. Yet Soptic knew there were no towels in the room, as she had taken them herself in the morning. 

At 11 p.m. Robert Lane, a city worker driving on 13th Street near Lydia Avenue, saw a man dressed in only an undershirt, pants and shoes run into his path and flag him down. When Lane stopped, the man apologized, saying he had taken Lane’s car for a taxi. The man asked Lane if he could take him to somewhere he might be able to get a taxi. Lane agreed and let the man in. “You look as if you’ve been in it bad”, he observed; the man swore he would kill someone else tomorrow, presumably in retaliation for whatever had been done to him. In the mirror Lane saw a deep scratch on the man’s arm; he also noticed that he was cupping his arm, possibly to catch blood from a more severe wound. At the nearby intersection of 12th Street and Troost Avenue, where taxi drivers often waited for fares during the overnight hours, Lane stopped and let the man out. The man thanked him, got out, and honked the horn of a taxi parked nearby, drawing the driver from a nearby restaurant, after which Lane drove away. After Ogletree’s death, Lane went to view the body. He saw the same scratch on the arm and went to the police, telling them he believed Ogletree had been the man he picked up. 

At 7 a.m., a new switchboard operator, Della Ferguson, came on shift. She was preparing to make a requested wakeup call to Room 1046 when she noticed a light indicating that the phone there was off the hook. Propst, who had led Ogletree there two days earlier, was on shift again and drew the assignment. The door to Room 1046 was locked, with a “Do Not Disturb” sign hanging from the doorknob. After several loud knocks, a voice from inside told him to enter; however he could not as the door had been locked. The same voice told him, after another knock, to turn on the lights, but he still could not enter. Finally, Propst just shouted through the door to hang the phone up, and left. Propst told Ferguson that the guest in Room 1046 was probably drunk and she should wait another hour. At 8:30 a.m., the phone had still not been hung up. Another bellboy, Harold Pike, was sent to the 10th floor. The “Do Not Disturb” sign was still on the door, and it was still locked, but Pike had a key and let himself in. Inside he found Ogletree in the dark, lying on the bed naked, apparently drunk. The light from the hallway showed some dark spots on the bedding, but rather than turn on the room light Pike went to the telephone stand, where he saw the phone had been knocked to the floor. He put it back on the stand, replacing the handset. Shortly after 10:30 a.m., another operator reported that the phone in Room 1046 was once again off the hook. Again Propst was sent to the room to see what was going on; the “Do Not Disturb” sign remained on the knob. This time he had a key, and after his knocks drew no response, he opened the door and found Ogletree on his knees and elbows two feet (60 cm) away, his head bloodied. Propst turned the light on, put the phone back on the hook, and then noticed blood on the walls of both the main room and bathroom, as well as on the bed itself. 

Propst went downstairs immediately for help. He returned with the assistant manager, but when they did they could only open the door six inches (15 cm), as Ogletree had in the interim fallen on the floor. Eventually Ogletree got up and when the two hotel employees were able to enter the room, he went and sat on the edge of the bathtub. The assistant manager called the police; they were joined by Dr. Harold Flanders of Kansas City General Hospital. Ogletree had been bound with cord around his neck, wrists, and ankles. His neck had further bruising, suggesting someone had been attempting to strangle him. He had been stabbed more than once in the chest above the heart; one of these wounds had punctured his lung. Blows to his head had left him with a skull fracture on the right side. In addition to the blood Propst had seen, there was some additional spatter on the ceiling. Dr. Flanders cut the cords from Ogletree’s wrist and asked him who had done this to him. “Nobody”, Ogletree answered. Asked, then, what had caused these injuries, he said he had fallen and hit his head on the bathtub. The doctor asked if he had been trying to kill himself. After saying no, Ogletree lost consciousness and was taken to the hospital. He was completely comatose by the time he  arrived and died shortly after midnight on January 5.

The case returned to the newspapers on March 3, when the funeral home where the body had been kept announced it would be burying the man in the city’s potter’s field the next day. That day, the funeral home received a call from a man who asked that the funeral be delayed so they could send the funeral home the money for a grave and service at Memorial Park Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas, so, the caller said, the dead man would be near his sister. The funeral director warned the caller he would have to tell the police about the call; the caller said he knew and that did not bother him.

The caller was slightly more forthcoming when the funeral director asked why Ogletree had been killed. According to the caller, Ogletree had had an affair with one woman while engaged to marry another. The caller and the two women had apparently arranged the encounter with him at the President in order to exact revenge. “Cheaters usually get what’s coming to them!” the caller said, and hung up.

The service was postponed per the anonymous caller’s request. On March 23, the funeral home received a delivery envelope, the address carefully lettered using a ruler with $25 ($500 in current dollars) wrapped in newspaper; it was enough to cover the expenses. The sender was unknown.

Two additional envelopes with $5 each were sent to a local florist for an arrangement of 13 American Beauty roses to go with the grave, after a similar call was made to them; both phone calls turned out to have been made from pay phones. Included with this payment was a card, with disguised handwriting, reading “Love Forever – Louise”. The funeral was held shortly afterwards. Besides the officiating minister, the only attendees were police detectives, some of whom served as pallbearers. Other detectives, posing as gravediggers, staked out the grave for the next several days, but no one came to visit.

Several days after the funeral, a woman called the Kansas City Journal-Post’s newsroom to inform them that their earlier story that the dead man from Room 1046 would be buried in a pauper’s grave was incorrect, that he had in fact been given a formal funeral. She said the funeral home and flower shop could verify this. Asked to identify herself, she said “Never mind, I know what I’m talking about”, Pressed for what that was, she responded, “He got into a jam”, and ended the conversation.

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THE ABDUCTION OF JAYME CLOSS

October 15th 2018, Jake Thomas Patterson abudcted 13 year old Jayme Closs from her family home in Barron, Wisconsin. Jake had no motive for this abduction, he had no reason, he saw Jayme as he drove down the highway to his part time job, and just thought she'd be the one he will abduct, he followed her and stalked her. As his plan as to how he will succeed in his plan, he first quit his job to make the abduction his main focus, he then shaved his head so no DNA would be left at the scene, he then prepared the room in which the soon missing Jayme Closs would be staying. Before he carried his plan out, he had actually drove past their family home twice, both times he was spooked off, the first time it was because "there were too many people at the house" and the second time was because he saw Jayme's dad, James, in the house. On the third attempt, he was successful, he walked up to the Closs household with a shotgun, their dog noticed and barked as it sensed something was wrong, James heard the dog and went to go see who was at the door, he noticed a man covered from head to toe in black, black clothing, black gloves, black mask, everything black, so he told his wife, Denise, and Jayme to go into the bathroom and lock the door, hoping for their safety, James was shot while trying to protect his family. Jayme and her mum had climbed into the bathtub and had pulled the shower curtain closed. The pair, terrified, sat in silence praying that this intruder would just leave, but Jake was there for Jayme, and wasn't planning on leaving without her. He kicked the door down, one blow after the other, and once he made his way in, he ordered Denise to tape her own daughters mouth shut, but Denise being a loving mother, held Jayme tight and refused to follow his orders, so he grabbed the tape and grabbed Jayme and did it himself along with binding her wrists and ankles before shooting Denise dead in the bathtub, in front of Jaymes eyes. Jake then pulled and dragged Jayme out to his car and put her in the boot of the vehicle. He sped off, passing several police cars which were all heading to the scene, and arrived at his dad's remote cabin 70 miles away from the old Closs home. Jayme was left in the room which had been prepared for her, when he went out, he barricaded the teenager under the bed with boxes, he would also place heavy weights on top of them so he could see if she had attempted to move. Police had been told by Jayme that she would be trapped like this for sometimes up to 12 hours with no food, water or access to use the bathroom. Jayme had been beaten while kept as a prisoner to Jakes household. Although Jayme was kept locked in the basement, Jake also threw his family a Christmas party at the cabin. Jake had slept next to her in a bed but thankfully 'felt too guilty' to rape her. 88 days later January 20th 2019, Jake had gone to get a job as he felt settled with Jayme, Jayme waited until he was gone. she then ran out, put on the first pair of shoes she could find which were too big for her feet and ran off, she then approaches a woman walking her dog and screams for help, saying she's lost and who she is, this woman was Jeanie Nutter. Jeanie had took Jayme to her neighbours house where police was called, Jayme gave the police an accurate description of Jake's car and was arrested about 5 minutes away, as soon as Jake was approached by the police he said "I know why you're here, it was me, I did it". In March 2019, Jake pleaded guilty to two counts of intentional first-degree homicide and one charge of kidnapping and has now been jailed for life. Thankfully Jayme is now back happy with the surviving members of her family and trying to get back to her 'normal life'

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One of the most gruesome cases I've ever heard of...

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The Bolney Torso

Colin Oliver, who was 62, was walking home to Burgess Hill (East Sussex on the south coast of England, UK) on Friday 11th October 1991. As he was walking along Broxfield Lane (a lane with no houses nearby or passing traffic at the time) he stopped past a gate to urinate where he had the gruesome misfortune of happening upon a bloody torso wrapped up in a roll of carpet. Colin walked to the Burgess Hill police station to inform them of his discovery and an investigation commenced.

The body was believed to be a white man in his 60’s with a prominent stomach and a small star shaped mole on his right thigh. He was also circumcised. The man had been found without a head or fingertips and injuries to his arms. One arm was severed six inches below the elbow and the other arm was severed two inches below the elbow. It is believed that this was done to prevent identification from tattoos. The man was clothed, and the outfit comprised of turned up trousers and a blue shirt with a distinctive motif.

A break was made in the case in December 1991 where a local estate agent informed the police that a property that they were leasing out had been abandoned. The property had been leased to Gunter Josef Knieper and Korneila Maria Teusel, both from Dresden in Germany. They had also paid six months’ rent in advance amounting to £10000. The tenancy had begun in September and yet despite the up-front rent payment it appeared that the pair abandoned the property around the 9th October 1991.

When police began to explore the large house in Cuckfield (which is one and a half miles away from where the body was found) they happened upon an issue of the magazine Penthouse. Deeper exploration of the magazine found that there was an article on dismemberment and numerous pages had numbers littered on them. With this intriguing find police also stumbled upon the fact that Gunter was using a pseudonym and went by the name Dr Matthias Herrman. Researching both names, it transpired that Gunter was sought in Germany on suspicion of business fraud.

In June 1992 Gunter was arrested in Spain and deported to Germany. It was here that police from the UK interviewed him in connection with the murder. Gunter denied any knowledge of the murder, or the body, and informed them that the magazine was purchased for numbers of escorts and an article relating to Land Rovers which he was interested in. Police re-interviewed him two further times but by 1994 declared there was nothing to connect Gunter, or his business associates to the torso.

On the 2nd August 1994 the remains were buried in a cemetery in Haywards Heath. The service was attended by eight people, who worked on the team, and the coffin had a simple plaque stating, ‘The Unknown Man’. In December 1995 flowers and a card were left at the gravesite, anonymously, and the writing on the card read “for the unknown male, Peter and team, remember our loss”.

In 2011 the results of the exhumation were released to the public. The body had been dressed post-mortem as these were not the victim’s clothes. They also examined the femur, rib bone and toenail and deduced that the original description of the victim had been incorrect. In fact, the male was likely to be between 30-45 (likely in his 30’s) he had a strong physique, was well nourished and healthy and finally, the toenail established that the man was likely to be German but had lived within the UK for the last year.

Unfortunately, unless new evidence comes forward it is unlikely, we will ever know who was and how he ended up in Broxfield Lane

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PLEASE DONT READ IF TRIGGERED BY RAPE/TORTURE/ABDUCTION. So, for my first post, I thought I'd discuss a case which is quite brutal and not very well known, this is the case of 'the toybox killer'. David Parker Ray, better known as 'the toybox killer' was a very disturbed American kidnapper, torturer, rapist and most likely, serial killer. March 19th 1999, 22 year old woman, Cynthia Vigil was prostiuting at in a car park of Albuquerque, New Mexico, when a man had come up to her claiming to be an undercover cop and had "arrested her" for "solicitation of sex work" and put her in the back of his car, little did she know of what she was about to experience. This man was David Parker Ray, he took Cynthia to his trailer which was completely soundproof and he called it his 'toybox'. He then went on to place and chain her to a gynecologist styled table which was in the centre of his trailer then he had played a cassette tape to her which was a recording detailing all of the rules, what to expect in her "stay", that he must me addressed as "master" and his girlfriend as "mistress" and that she mustn't speak unless spoken to first before he and his girlfriend/accomplice Cindy Hendy, had tortured and raped Cynthia for the next 3 days. They both used sexual and medical equipment, electric shock tool and whips on her. Cynthia was told she will never see family or friends again and that she would be killed once she was done with. On the third day, David was at work and his girlfriend had left the keys to Cynthia's restraints on a table near where she was chained while she was left in the room. Cynthia took this as an opportunity, lunged for the keys and was able to free herself. Cindy had tried to stop Cynthia but Cynthia stabbed her in the neck with an ice pick when she got near. She sprinted out of the trailer completely naked and nothing on her other than a slave collar and padlocked chains, she knocked on a mobile home where the owner had welcomed her in and had called the police for her, David and Cindy were both arrested following this. After the arrests, the police had gained a warrant to search his home and trailer. David's trailer contained a gynecologist-type table in the middle with a mirror mounted to the ceiling so his victims could watch the horrible stuff that was happening to them. Scattered around the floor were whips, chains, pulleys, straps, clamps, leg spreader bars, surgical blades, and saws, as well as a variety sex toys. In the trailer of the “Toy Box Killer,” the police also discovered a videotape from 1996, showing a terrified woman being raped and tortured by David and his girlfriend. David was sentenced to 224 years in prison and his girlfriend was given 36. David died of a heart attack three years into his sentence.