On October 29, 2018 renovations were being carried out in the Vatican close to the Villa Borghese. Builders were restoring a floor in the janitor's lodge. Considering the age of the buildings and the grounds, this type of work is commonplace, but not what was found which was a human skeleton.
Once the story of the discovery was leaked to the Italian press, it was inevitable the name of Emanuela Orlandi would come up.
On a cold February evening in 1945 the body of 74-year-old Charles Walton was found in a field of the Firs farm, in which he had been working earlier that same day. He was considered a recluse, and no one who lived in the Warwickshire hamlet could understand who would want to kill him, much less mutilate him.
Charles Walton was known to be a quiet man and a loner, who shared a thatch-roofed cottage opposite the village church with his niece in the hamlet of Lower Quinton. Despite suffering from rheumatism and using two walking sticks, he worked on and off doing odd jobs and lived off his small pension. His reputation as an honest, hardworking farm laborer left the authorities puzzled as to who would want to kill him, especially in such a brutal manner.
On March 20, 1980, Thomas Newman and Stanley O'Dell, maintenance workers found a steamer trunk behind a dumpster at the Hudson View Apartments. Naturally they assumed someone wanted it to go out with the trash. Then they noticed blood on the outside.
The trunk was old, green and beat up with black trim and brass fittings. There were stickers on the outside for the French ocean liner Flandre and others from the Cunard Lines. It appeared the trunk had been tampered with because there was tape around the seams, and some of it had been pulled off. The men tried to lift it, but found it was too heavy. So they opened it, and inside was the nude body of a white, young woman with her head and hands missing.
Brice Watson is the host of Esoteric Atlanta, a channel dedicated to the exploration and celebration of all things weird in the state of Georgia and around the world! We discuss stories of ghost and conspiracy theories, not to mention interesting people and places.
In 2014, Samuel Little was convicted of the murders of three women in Los Angeles. DNA had linked him to cold cases committed between 1987 to 1989. He received three life sentences. Authorities suspected he had probably committed other murders, but they never imagined what would be the final number once he decided to confess.
Samuel Little's birth name was Samuel McDowell. He said his mother, a teenage prostitute abandoned him, however police believe she gave birth to him while she was in jail. The 1940 census shows that his mother Bessie Mae Little worked as a maid, and his father was Paul McDowell, 19.
After six decades the murder of Irene Garza, a south Texas beauty queen was solved. It turned out her killer was a priest.
At the end of 2017, John Bernard Feit, 85, was found guilty of murder with malice aforethought. A jury deliberated for six hours before reaching the verdict. The crime was the killing of Irene Garza, a 25-year-old school teacher on April 14, 1960. She was a beautiful young woman who had been Miss All South Texas Sweetheart in 1958, and a former prom and homecoming queen at what then was Pan American College.
Santa Rosa is located in Sonoma County, California. During the late 60s and early 70s it was close enough to be caught up in the vortex of the hippie movement in San Francisco which was only a few miles south from the town.
In 1968 the Zodiac Killer was making the headlines and the Manson family were caught in the brutal slayings of several persons on Cielo Drive in the Hollywood Hills. During a time and place where murder was rife, the news of the discovery of the nude, tortured bodies of young women last seen hitchhiking were soon eclipsed and until this day their killer has never been caught.
Robbie Thomas is a psychic medium and criminal profiler, who helps families and police fight against crime while bringing solace to those who need it. | Host - Marlene Pardo Pellicer
It all started on August 18th, 1944 when Sheila Fox a 6-year-old disappeared as she walked home from school. Within the next 4 years 7 other children were attacked or killed, and only one of these incidents was actually solved. The common description of the perpetrator in all the cases was a thin, pale-faced man. | Host – Marlene Pardo Pellicer
It was Halloween, 1969, and St. Petersburg police was called to the scene of a gruesome murder. The body of a woman dressed only in a filmy, green nightgown was discovered neatly wrapped in plastic bags, and concealed in a black, steamer trunk near the parking lot of the Oyster Bar Restaurant at 4200 34th Street South.
This case was recently solved in 2023 via DNA. Known as Trunk Lady she was finally given her name. This is her story.
It was Labor Day weekend and Steve Liethen owner of the Good 'N Loud Music in Dane County, Wisconsin was fixing a water leak after a boiler was removed. When he shone a light into the chimney the last thing he expected to see was a human skull.
Dane County, Wisconsin, September 3, 1989
A construction crew made a hole at the base of the chimney to remove the remains. They also found a shoe, pieces of clothing and a 6-inch clump of intact reddish-brown hair.
In 1998, a priest was brutally murdered in a little, rural town in Wisconsin. His throat was slit, and despite the advances in DNA identification and the public’s mistaken belief in the CSI effect, the crime remains unsolved till this day.
Rev. Alfred Kunz had just finished co-hosting a faith-based radio show named Our Catholic Family on WEKZ in Monroe, Wisconsin on the evening of March 3, 1998. He had been dropped off at St. Michael Church by Father Charles Fiore (1934-2003), and he spoke on the phone at 10:23 pm. Later it was verified by investigators the call was to another priest to discuss church business.
There is a place in Indiana. It's a spacious house sitting on several, wooded acres, which for many years became the final, but not restful place for young men, the victims of a ruthless killer.
His name was Herb Baumeister, born on April 7, 1947, the son of Dr. Herbert and Elizabeth Baumeister. He was one of four children. His father was an anesthesiologist who had been practicing since the late 1950s. One has to wonder what Dr. Baumeister thought of the oldest of his four children. His behavior was disturbing from an early age, but it became undeniable when he reached puberty. He started to develop a fascination with death, and wondered aloud what urine would taste like. He would chase his male classmates asking for a drink. Herb would torture animals and play with the corpses. Another time he took the carcass of a dead crow he found on the road, and placed it on his teacher's desk.
It was Halloween, 1958, when off a dirt road on Skinner Ridge south of Grand Canyon National Park, the skeletal remains of a young girl were found. Her body was nude and it was estimated she had been there nine to fourteen months.
Like all cases investigated decades ago, sometimes files get lost. The coroner's inquest is one of them. The name on the girl's file was "Little Miss X".
Karen Klaas was raped and then strangled with a pantyhose. Despite the attention the case received since she had been married to Bill Medley from the Righteous Brothers, eventually the investigation went cold, and stayed that way for decades.
Karen was attacked on January 30, 1976. She lived in Hermosa Beach, California and had returned home at 9 a.m. after dropping off her son Damien at McMartin Preschool. Her older son was with his grandfather.
It was Saturday, the day before Halloween, 1926, when Marvin Aaron Clark, one-time marshal from Linnton, Oregon, took a motor stage to Portland. He's never been seen since.
