Under the Basement Floor by M.P. Pellicer

Over a hundred years ago, a frail nun who lived in a remote Michigan village was murdered and buried in a shallow grave, in the very basement of the holy grounds where she lived and worshipped. What was uncovered during the subsequent trials spoke of lies, sexual trysts by those holding holy office and the attempt to spare the Catholic Church embarrassment, even if it meant covering up a murder.

Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Isadore, Michigan was dedicated August of 1883. Next to it stood Holy Rosary School, a three-story brick building that along with the church served generations of the Polish immigrant families of Leelanau County.

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A House with a History of Murder | M.P. Pellicer

The house was built in 1918. It's derelict and crumbling now, built in the Neo-Classical Revival style with its fluted Ionic columns, it's not difficult to imagine how splendid it once looked. Even now it's seems the perfect setting for a southern gothic mystery.

Originally known as the Hardie-Coleman House, it's death that made it notorious as the Allan Lucy Murder House.

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The Texarkana Moonlight Murders | M.P. Pellicer

Texarkana is a small town that straddles the state line between Texas and Arkansas, and in the spring of 1946 an unidentified assailant attacked eight people in the span of ten weeks. Five of them were killed. The news media named him the "Phantom Killer"

Between February 22 to May 3, 1946, this killer who only struck on weekends, terrorized a town. Police suspected that because he would not kill during a weekday, he held down a steady job, or perhaps he lived elsewhere and would drive to Texarkana to commit the crimes.

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The Secret Attic | M.P. Pellicer

Sometimes years, or perhaps decades pass before the fate of a person becomes known. Missing that doesn't always mean dead, but in some cases it most definitely does.

The following is a complicated story of a woman's fate, which took many years to come to light.

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The Nurse and The Hand of Death | M.P. Pellicer

In the fall of 1923, a woman's savagely beaten body was found under the portico of the deserted Hussey Mansion at Center Avenue and Cypress Street, adjacent to the Homeopathic Hospital in Pittsburgh. Underneath her body was found an envelope with the "hand of death", consisting of the playing cards an ace, a deuce, a tray of diamonds and the five of spades.

The woman's body was discovered by Alexander McGonigle when he was walking across the property.

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In Search of Little Miss X (Cold Case 1958) | M.P. Pellicer

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".

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A Nod to the Left Hand Path | M.P. Pellicer

Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was stabbed to death on April 5, 1980, Holy Saturday and the day before her 72nd birthday. There was nothing random about the identity of this victim, or when she was killed.

In 1968, Sister Annunciata became Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. Only two years before the Sisters of Mercy had allowed the nuns to use their baptismal names. She had taken the habit over 50 years before.

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When Your Lover Wants Your Heart, Along with the Rest of Your Organs | M.P. Pellicer

What's that saying about if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Blanca Arellano found this out in the most horrendous way.

Blanca Arellano, 51, met Juan Pablo Villafuerte, a med student 15 years her junior, online via a gaming app. Blanca who lived in Mexico was hooked, and on July 27, 2022, she completed a 3,000 mile trip to Huacho, north of Lima, Peru to meet the man of her dreams.

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Death of a Fortune Teller | M.P. Pellicer

In 2005, Ha "Jade" Smith and her daughter Anita were murdered. Was it a case of superstition or greed?

Tanya Nelson, 52, believed in fortune telling. She was a Vietnamese immigrant who came to the United States in 1979. Her family had done well in the Vietnamese community in Orange County, California, however in 2005, the mother of four had a downturn in her business.

She went to see Ha "Jade" Smith, a well-known fortune-teller known as "Miss Ha", who she had been consulting with for several years. The fortune teller drew clients from across the country, and was known to command a fee of $15,000.

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The Curse of No. 28 | M.P. Pellicer

 Presently stories abound about haunted houses, castles, cars, collector items etc, but for me, the real question lies in how did this come about. Take the story about the murder at the Keddie Cabins.

Is there really a way to truly release the agony, torment and terror of incidents that produced a haunting, whether intelligent or residual?

Sheila Sharp, 14, stepped from normal to a world of madness on the morning of April 12, 1981 when she returned to Cabin No. 28 at Keddie Resort where she lived with her mother and four siblings.

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