Exorcist's Murder Still Unsolved | M.P. Pellicer

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.

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A Devil Named Lemuel | M.P. Pellicer

Lemuel Smith was born into the least likely of bedeviled households on July 23, 1941. He was part of a strictly religious black family living in Amsterdam, New York. His father was a minister, and both of his parents lived in the household. There were no known reasons why Lemuel would have such a compulsion to kill, which according to him started as early as when he was twelve years old when he nearly smothered a nine-year-old girl to death.

The Smith household tasted grief prior to Lemuel's birth, when their son John Jr. died of encephalitis in 1939. Lemuel was the youngest of four children born to the couple.

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Evil Never Dies | M.P. Pellicer

​​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.

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Glory's Death | M.P. Pellicer

It was a spring day in 1903 when the body of Bertha "Glory" Whalen was found in a thicket. Her family had last seen her when she left for school.

Collingwood, Ontario, 1903

The Grand Trunk Railroad seemed destined to be the site of dark occurrences the year of 1903, starting in January.

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Blind Tigers Always Keep their Secrets | M.P. Pellicer

Bones were found on the bank of the Miami Canal on April 12, 1917. The police immediately compared the crime to the murder of Eddy Kinsey, whose body had been discovered in similar circumstances a few months before.

What was left of the man was only a skeleton, with evidence that he was the victim of foul play. The bones were taken to Undertaker W.H. Combs. From the general appearance, the remains had been left on this lonely spot for about six months. It had been scattered by buzzards, which had cleaned away the flesh and only traces of garments were left behind. There was also a pair of tan shoes hardly used, which later were proven to have been purchased at an Avenue D shop. A burned buckle showed that he wore a leather belt around his waist.

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The Skeleton at Constant Street | M.P. Pellicer

On Halloween, 1900, Sanitary Chief George Walker made a startling discovery while conducting a house to house inspection. He came upon the skeleton of a woman. It was in the rear of a vacant house at 817 Constant Street, Tampa. This neighborhood was known as the Scrub.

The bones were not white and polished such as the one ones used by physicians or medical students. They were dark and a little charred, as if the flesh had been recently burned from them. Wisps of wavy, fine reddish brown hair still clung to the skull.

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The Dead Man at Devil's Elbow | M.P. Pellicer

What was left was just a skeleton found in a pine stand at a place called the Devil's Elbow.

October 30, 1886, Palatka, Florida

A boy hunting found him. His head lay to the roots of the pine tree, and his flesh had been completely stripped off by animals and buzzards. The condition of the clothes indicated he had been dead several months, and that he might have been the victim of the prior winter's freeze.

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Could They Ever Be Let Out? | M.P. Pellicer

In March 2017, Franklin county officials found a grisly scene when they arrived at a house on U.S. Highway 64, Raleigh, North Carolina.

They were responding to a 911 call where a man called to say he had killed his own mother. What they found at the scene was all too horribly accurate. Eighteen-year-old, Oliver Mauricio Funes-Machado (Machada) had beheaded his own mother with a butcher knife. He was still holding her head when they arrived. He told the dispatcher that he had stabbed his mother "like eight times and left the knife in her mouth" and that he had committed the atrocity "because I felt like it". He had been released only a week before from a mental health facility, based on a court order.

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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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The Bad Seed | M.P. Pellicer

The United States had gained its independence from Britain for only a few years, when a 19-year-old named Barnett Davenport came to work for a family on their farm. Little did they know they had allowed the devil in their midst, who later claimed he was haunted by thoughts of murder.

Barnett Davenport could be called a bad seed. He was born in 1760, and thievery came easily to him. By the time he was 15 years old he had a fearsome reputation as a robber.

 

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A Fatal Name | M.P. Pellicer

When Freda Lesser was murdered in 1919, there was a comparison made to the killing of Freda Ward in 1897, not only because of their name, but because they were slaughtered over love.

In July, 1919, the murder of a girl made the newspapers. Mostly because she was the victim of "morbid love" and that her name was Freda.

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The Memphis Murderess | M.P. Pellicer

In the winter of 1892, a gruesome murder was committed in public by a young woman, a graduate of the Higbee School for Young Ladies, where butchery was not on their curriculum.

January 1892, Memphis, Tennessee

The city of Memphis was rocked by a scandalous murder that took place in daytime, in full view of various witnesses. There was no mystery as to who committed the crime, but the reason for the killing, caused tongues to wag for years.

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Narco-satanists and the Murder of Mark Kilroy | M.P. Pellicer

Mark Kilroy was murdered 34 years ago this month, and for those living along the border of Mexico and the U.S.A. the crime has not been forgotten.

The reason for the attraction of Matamoros are three international bridges linking Brownsville, Texas to the notorious city where the good times are cheap.

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Bella's Bones | M.P. Pellicer

It was April 1943, and World War II raged throughout Europe when four English teenagers were hunting for birds' nests in a private estate near Birmingham named Hagley Wood.

Bob Farmer climbed up an old Wych-elm tree, looked down the stunted top and made a gruesome discovery inside the hollowed out bole that has mystified police ever since. It was not a bird that stared back at him, but a human skull.

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Who Murdered Mamie? | M.P. Pellicer

In June 1932, Mamie Thurman was killed. But who would want to murder the pretty wife of a patrolman?

On June 23, scandal was in the air. Harry Robertson, the Logan city commission president, and Clarence Stephenson his servant were being held in connection to a murder. And it wasn't just any murder, but that of Mamie Thurman, the wife of Alvin "Jack" Thurman, who was a political friend and appointee of Robertson's. The Thurmans lived above a private garage at the rear of Robertson's house on Stratton Street.

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Murder Begets Murder | M.P. Pellicer

In the span of six years three members of the same family were shot, two of them died. Now the grave of one of the victims was broken into and the head of the corpse removed.

Sabrina Tavares de Almeida, 31, was shot dead in Nova Iguaçu, Brazil in August of 2022. She was buried in Iguaçu Velho Cemetery which is also known as the Cemetery of the Slaves. It's located on a dirt road with land and brush bordering the graveyard.

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Dying for Affection | M.P. Pellicer

Amy Murphy, 17, died mysteriously. Her body was found lying in the Golden Gate Park on February 2, 1900. It was in a partially secluded area, down on Hayes Street by the big eucalyptus tree that stood on the left just beyond the peacock walk. First there was a suspicion she died by her own hand, but others thought it was murder.

The gun which fired the bullet found in the girl's head mysteriously disappeared, which made the theory of "self destruction" questionable. Later it was found out she had pawned her watch in order to buy the firearm.


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The Betrayer | M.P. Pellicer

John Morgan was only 22 years old when he took a hatchet and killed three persons that had treated him like family.

1897, West Virginia

Chloe "Cloah" Koontz married Francis Marion Pfost and had eight children, five girls and three boys. The youngest Matilda "Tilley" was only 2 years old when her father died in 1873. Chloe Pfost remarried two years later. Her second husband was Edward H. Greene, who was 28 years older than her. He had lost his wife the year before and he had seven children by her. He would have another son with Chloe named James.

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Chicago Fiend Murders | M.P. Pellicer

On a frigid day in January, 1910, the Chicago headlines trumpeted, "Chicago Fiend Second White Chapel Ripper".

The reason for the sensational story was based on the opinion of Assistant Police Chief Schuettler following the coroner's report for a post-mortem completed on the body of Mrs. Jennie Cleghorn (AKA Anna Furlong). She had been found mutilated and decapitated in a South Side rooming house, which doubled as a brothel situated over a saloon owned by James Seeley at 1702 Armour Avenue (also given as 51 West 17th Street). Little did the police or the public know that this grisly crime was only the beginning.

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The Lost Girls | M.P. Pellicer

In February, 1998, human remains were unearthed near Bothell, outside of Seattle. It appeared to be skeletal remains of two persons. The first set of bones was found by a transient who spotted a skull lying on top of straw that was scattered over a newly graded construction site.

Before the month was out they were identified as the remains of Sammiejo White, 11, and Carmen Joy Cubias, 9, half sisters, who had gone missing in July, 1996. The King’s County M.E. said the victims had been killed probably soon after they disappeared.

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