Mistaken for a Monster | M.P. Pellicer

In July of 2018, Brad Jackson, 65, was found brutally murdered inside the business he managed. Pankaj Bhasin, 34, was accused of killing Jackson. He claimed that he had stabbed the man because he thought that Jackson was a werewolf.

On July 13, 2018 a woman driving her Mercedes Benz in Old Alexandria, Virginia was shocked when a bloody, naked man opened the back passenger-side door, and jumped into the backseat. She yelled at him to get out of the car and then she did the smart thing, which was to get her daughter and herself out of the vehicle they kept locked until police arrived.

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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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Monsters of Ecatepec | M.P. Pellicer

In 2018, a couple is arrested transporting plastic-wrapped body parts in a baby carriage. Further investigation, found they were responsible for at least 20 other murders of mostly single mothers.

According to Mexico's state prosecutor, Alejandro Gomez, during interrogation the man admitted to raping and sexually torturing the victims before killing them. He also said that he sold some of the body parts. The man said that he had also ground the bones to be used as fertilizer and the flesh chopped up to be used as pet food. He also implicated his wife as committing the murders as well, even though it's believed she was used to lure the victims with the promise of baby clothes into situations, where they could be kidnapped and killed.

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The Ripper's Mystery Letter | M.P. Pellicer

Not only was the identity of Jack the Ripper a mystery, but also if indeed he was the author of several letters received by the police after the murders. A forensic linguist from the University of Manchester has found part of the answer.

A forensic linguist from The University of Manchester who analyzed letters supposedly signed by Jack the Ripper, has concluded that two of the most famous examples were written by the same person.

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The Perils of Pauline | M.P. Pellicer

The year is 1940, the place is Rockland, Maine and one day Alzada Pauline Young, who is only 16 years old, inexplicably disappears on Halloween Day, and despite an intensive search for her she is not found, until one day.

The Phelps family lived in a duplex on 28 Crescent Street. Thelma Phelps, the mother had two children by a prior marriage, Pauline age 16, and Evangeline age 13 who lived at the Pownal State School, where children with disabilities or behavior problems were institutionalized. She had married John Phelps, a man 20 years her senior, and had two children with him, Rachael age 11 and Bernard age 9.

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Occult Crime Still Unsolved After More Than 40 Years | M.P. Pellicer

A brutally slain couple was discovered on a roadside off Route 80 in 1979. Beyond the mystery of who killed them, is why the case remains unsolved after more than four decades.

At first blush it was believed the couple were murdered in New York, and taken across state lines to be dumped in West Paterson, New Jersey.

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The Backpack Killings | M.P. Pellicer

In November 1993, evidence of ritual murder was discovered when seven victims were found shrouded in camouflaged, coffinlike canopies in an area known as Executioner's Drop.

The New South Wales government offered a 250,000£ reward for what was considered the country's most wanted man believed to have killed at least seven people.

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The Zombie Maker | M.P. Pellicer

Jeffrey Dahmer was captured more than three decades ago, however mention of his name still causes a shudder.

Dahmer was incarcerated in 1991, to serve 16 life sentences for the crimes he admitted to, which were: drugging, strangling and dismembering his victims. He had sex with four corpses, ate parts of others, and flushed brains and other organs down the toilet.

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The Cellar Murders | M.P. Pellicer

In July 1927, police finally had their man. His name was Ludwig Halverson Lee, janitor of the Prospect Place House, where the hacked bodies of two women were found in the cellar of a brownstone in Brooklyn.

June, 1927
Brooklyn, New York

Ludwig Halverson Lee was a sailor turned handyman and carpenter, who had immigrated from Norway four years before. When police questioned him about the grisly murder of the two victims he steadfastly denied knowing anything about it. Lee (Lie) was described as a "big, bull-necked powerful man" who had not bent under an interrogation that lasted for 20 hours.

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Fishkill Jane Doe | M.P. Pellicer

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.

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43 Years Worth of Murders | M.P. Pellicer

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.

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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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Prom Queen's Murder Solved After 60 Years | M.P. Pellicer

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.

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Murder Without Motive | M.P. Pellicer

In 1970 Carol Anne Fitzmaurice, a 23-year-old nurse, without any known enemies was savagely stabbed to death in her home. Both her family and the investigators in the case, not only question the identity of the killer but the motive as well. Despite the passage of more than 50 years both of these questions have never been answered.

Carol Ann Fitzmaurice née Manzo was murdered on October 20, 1970 in her home at the corner of West Five Mile Home and Chapin roads in Allegany, New York. She was found stabbed to death on her living room floor; her husband Dan (who would die in motorcycle crash in 1972) found her body around 6:00 pm.

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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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Mystery of Child's Murder Solved After 62 Years | M.P. Pellicer

In 1960, Sharon Lee Gallegos, 4, was kidnapped by two persons, a man and a woman, driving an old-model green car. Despite a good description of one of the kidnappers and the vehicle, as well as reporting it right away to the police, the child's fate remained unknown for 62 years.

Within hours, police set up roadblocks across southern New Mexico with a description of the kidnappers and the vehicle they were driving. They also reported Sharon as having light brown hair, light complexion and brown eyes. She was wearing pink shorts and white shoes. In September, she would have celebrated her fifth birthday.

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Lovely and Unlucky | M.P. Pellicer

Late on the afternoon of October 7, 1949, 26-year-old, bit-part actress Jean Elizabeth Spangler left her Los Angeles home, which she shared with her 5-year-old daughter and other family members. This was the last ever seen of pretty Jean.

Jean Elizabeth Spangler was born in Seattle, Washington on September 2, 1923 and had appeared in minor roles in Hollywood films and early television. She married Dexter Benner, had a daughter Christine born on April 22, 1944 and when the couple divorced he was granted custody of the child, due in part to Jean's infidelity during the marriage. Benner also cited her lifestyle as a party girl that did not coincide with being a good mother as part of the divorce suit. He denied Jean access to Christine.

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Narco-satanists and the Murder of Mark Kilroy | Podcast & Video

In March, 1989, Mark Kilroy, a pre-med student disappeared from the streets of a Mexican town just across from Brownsville, Texas. What was left of him was discovered in a ranch on the outskirts of Matamoros and the horror that was unearthed there spawned books, and questions; many that have never been answered. | Host - M.P. Pellicer

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What's in the Crawl Space | Unsolved Mysteries

Three true crime stories of unexpected and gruesome discoveries. | Host/Narrator – M.P. Pellicer | www.MPPellicer.com

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The Barrel in the Crawl Space | True Crime Mystery

It started during the summer of 1999, when a last minute walk thru from a home buyer uncovers a large, 55- gallon drum hidden in the crawl space of his new home, and what's uncovered inside brings to light a crime that occurred over 30 years before. | Host - Marlene Pardo Pellicer

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