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David cox

By | Published Kamis, 28 Juni 2012


David Cox

CASE DETAILS

Skeleton was discovered 5 miles away
Audiences lined up to see Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise in the hit movie, “A Few Good Men”.  But not many were aware that it was based on a true story, one that may have led to the murder of a courageous former Marine. 
David Cox joined the Marine Corps straight out of high school and was stationed at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  One day, while on duty, David became aware of a problem.  Another platoon member, PFC William Alvarado, had written to his senator complaining about Marine misconduct.
David’s former squad leader, Christopher Valdez, explains how Alvarado was targeted for a “Code Red,” or hazing:
“We didn't actually decide to have a Code Red for Alvarado on our own. Our platoon commander had given us an implied order that if we were good Marines, something should happen. Saturday night we went into Alvarado's room. We blindfolded him and gagged him and then dragged him off of his bed. Dave (Cox) started shaving his head, and within five minutes, he had stopped struggling.”

Theory: murder
David Cox convinced his platoon to stop the hazing. When they removed the gag and untied Alvarado, he was unconsciousness.
Alvarado was rushed to the hospital. He recovered, but his 10 attackers, including David Cox, were brought up on charges.  Cox was going to be charged with attempted murder. But he said he was just following orders.
Don Marcari was appointed to defend David Cox:
“I told David, that this was a defense – obedience to orders - that had not been successful at Nuremberg, had not been successful for Lt. Calley at My Lai. And plus, we had a colonel denying he ever gave an order.”
David claimed the Code Red started with implied orders from his superior officers.
For Don Marcari, that meant an even more uphill battle loomed:
“We had the additional burden of now saying he was following an implied order. And it was a very difficult case to win, and I told David that. He decided he wanted to fight it because he believed in his heart that he didn't do anything wrong. “
At his trial, David was convicted of simple assault.  He was sentenced to time already served in the brig.  He then completed his duty and received an honorable discharge.  He returned to civilian life in his hometown near Boston.
Years later, “A Few Good Men” was released.  David felt that the filmmakers had stolen his story.  David Cox’s girlfriend, Elaine Tinsley, recalls at the time:
“He was stunned.  Here was this movie company that was making tons of money off of his story, and if it weren't for him, the story never would have existed in the first place.”
David and some of the other Marines involved in the Code Red, sued the movie production company.  While they waited for a ruling, David spoke out about his case on radio talk shows.
By January 1994, David was living with Elaine and hoping his temporary job with UPS would become permanent.  The night before he was supposed to get the good news, David’s back was giving him trouble, so he spent the night on the couch.  The next morning, Elaine left at about 8:30, and then called home at about noon.  David didn't answer, but there was a message for him on the machine: UPS wanted to hire him. Elaine was happy David would be getting his wish:
“I was like, cool, Dave's gonna get this job and he's gonna be so excited. Then I called back again at 1:00 to check the messages, and that message was still there, and the UPS guy had called again, too.”
At 5:30 pm, Elaine returned home:
“When I came into the house that night after work, I realized right away that the doors to all the rooms were open, and our rabbit, who we usually just kept in the kitchen, was hopping all over the place.”
David's truck was still in the driveway, with the keys in the ignition.  His un-cashed paycheck was on the dashboard and his 9-millimeter gun was in the glove box.  But David was gone.  Elaine didn’t know what to make of the situation:
“As the days went on and there was no news from him-- we checked his bank account.  There was no activity on his bank account.  You start to believe that, you know, maybe something did happen, but why?”
The answer came with the spring thaw.  The body of David Cox was discovered on the banks of a river in Medfield, Massachusetts, about five miles from his apartment.
Sgt. Kevin Shea of Massachusetts State Police, describes the manner of death:
“He was shot, according to the ME, four times-- once at the base of the rear of the neck and three times in the left side torso area.”
It was clear that robbery was not the motive.  David’s cash and his credit cards were still in his wallet.  And police ruled out a random attack.
Sgt. Shea believes David left home with someone he knew:
“It's our belief that he got in the car willingly, that he knew who was coming to pick him up, and that he went to this area and walked into the woods with this person.  I think that if it was somebody that was just holding a gun on him or something like that, that they would do it within the first 30 or 40 yards into the woods. David was found almost three-quarters-to-a-mile walk into the woods.”
David’s attorney, Donald Marcari, thinks the murder was somehow related to the military:
“I don't know why David was killed. I personally believe it had something to do with the military. He was taken out of his house without signs of struggle, he was wearing his Marine Corps jacket, which he never wore. He was found between two hunting ranges where gunshots would not be unusual, and he was murdered execution style.”
But what was the motive?
After the release of “A Few Good Men,” David gave an interview on the radio. He was quite vocal about his story and the U.S. activities in Cuba.  David’s mother worried that he had been too outspoken:
“After I heard that interview on the radio, I spoke to him, and I said, ‘I don't like what you're doing. I think what you're doing is dangerous’ I think he felt far too free to just speak his mind.”
David's brother, Steve, had a different theory suggesting another possible scenario.  He thought that perhaps the murder was connected to David’s job at UPS:
“A couple of months before Dave disappeared, he'd mentioned to me that he had come upon a supervisor and one of the drivers involved in some type of activity, what he believed to be was theft.”
According to Sgt. Kevin Shea, nothing has been ruled out and the investigation is still open:
“It'll remain open until we solve it. Again, we'll follow any leads that come through vigorously, and do that until it is solved.”

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mystery of amtrak crash

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Sabotage causes the derailment of an Amtrak passenger train.

Four cars plunged 30 feet

Michael Bates was killed in the crash
CASE DETAILS
On October 9, 1995, 60 miles southwest of Phoenix, Arizona, Amtrak’s “Sunset Limited” passenger train jumped the track going 50 mph. Four cars plunged more than 30 feet off a trestle into a dry riverbed. One person was killed and scores injured. The cause of the wreck:  sabotage. 

Who removed the 29 spikes?
According to Bruce Gebhardt, special agent in charge with the F.B.I., agents on the scene found rails that had been tampered with:
“The investigation determined that 29 spikes were removed, purposely removed. And not only were the spikes removed, but someone had pushed the rail inside so that the two rails were not connected.”
Additional evidence convinced authorities that the saboteurs knew a lot about railroads.  The signal circuits, the electrical wires that run through the track, had been kept intact. According to Agent Gebhardt, that meant the train crew had no warning that there was a problem with the rails:
“The FBI believes that they picked that particular spot in order to create the most damage and possibly cause the most injuries or death. The train was going about 50 miles per hour.  It’s on a curve and it occurred right before a trestle.”

Similar crash in 1939
Investigators soon discovered many similarities to another act of sabotage, more than a half century before. According to historian Kevin Bunker, in 1939, 24 people were killed and 117 injured in another suspicious train wreck in the Nevada desert:
“The most mysterious connection between the accidents is the fact that the sabotage was done ahead of a bridge in a desert country of remote location. There was definitely care in advance, you know, that the wires were intact at all times. Merely moving one piece of metal, in this case, one rail, a matter of less than four inches, allowed both trains to careen off on the curve as they crossed the river and the damage occurred.”
Curiously, the story of the 1939 crash had been published in a journal for train buffs shortly before the Amtrak accident. Federal agents questioned many of the readers, but came up empty-handed.

Did this article trigger the sabotage?
Investigators have just one other concrete clue.  Near the accident site, FBI agents found four copies of a computer-printed letter attacking the federal government. It was signed, “Sons of the Gestapo.” FBI Agent Bruce Gebhardt said the group’s existence has never been verified:
“We’re still trying to investigate to determine whether or not that is a red herring to try to throw us off the investigation or whether or not that particular group exists.”
The one person killed in the crash was a sleeping car attendant named Mitchell Bates.  Whoever is responsible for the wreck will be charged with murder, as well as sabotage.


source : unsolved.com

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BILLY THE KID

By | Published Sabtu, 23 Juni 2012

From the unsolved mystery :
Did Billy the Kid fake his own death?

Billy the Kid, Age 19

Brushy Bill, Age 17
CASE DETAILS

Who is buried in Billy the Kid’s grave?
Billy the Kid was easily the most notorious desperado of the Wild West. He reportedly killed 21 men, one for every year of his young life.  History tells us that “The Kid” was born William Bonney in New York City in 1859.  He later fought against rich ranchers in the Lincoln County Cattle War in New Mexico, and was given a death sentence for killing Sheriff William Brady. 
According to most sources, Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett was eager to collect the $500 dollar bounty on Billy the Kid.  In July of 1881, he tracked down Billy in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and killed him.
History also tells us that Billy was buried the following day in a simple grave.  But now some people say that history is wrong.  That Billy wasn’t the man in that grave. Sixty-eight years after Billy’s death, a man from Texas, named “Brushy Bill” Roberts, claimed he was Billy the Kid.
Research historian, William Tunstill, believed the public was misled about Billy the Kid:
“This whole legend of Bill the Kid… 90% of what we have heard and been taught as students in schools is not true.  There is no doubt… Brushy Bill and Billy the Kid was one and the same person.” 

Brushy Bill or Billy the Kid?
Most historians completely dismiss Brushy Bill’s story.  But there is evidence to support his claim.  It all started in 1948, when an attorney named William Morrison was told that Billy the Kid might not have died in 1881.  A client said he had actually fought Billy the Kid in the Lincoln County Wars and that the Kid was still alive.  Morrison was so intrigued that he decided to do some of his own investigating.  He traveled throughout the West talking to other old timers about Billy the Kid, and he discovered that many thought that Billy was still alive.  They said he was going by the name of “Brushy” Bill Roberts.  Finally, in 1949, Morrison made the trip to Hico, Texas, to confront Brushy Bill in person.  He wanted to ask Brushy if the rumors were true.  According to William Tunstill, Brushy was at first hesitant:
“We must keep in mind that this man did not seek publicity, he did not seek to come out from seclusion, he was drawn out.”

Plaque honoring Brushy Bill
Brushy Bill finally admitted that he was, in fact, Billy the Kid, and asked Morrison to help him get the official pardon that New Mexico’s governor had promised him back in 1879. But Morrison wanted proof that he was indeed speaking to the infamous outlaw.  It was then that Brushy Bill showed Morrison his scars, all of which matched the wounds received by the Kid during his time as an outlaw.  To further convince him, “Brushy Bill” took William Morrison on a guided tour of some of Billy’s former haunts in Lincoln County. Morrison died in 1976, but his daughter, Barbara Kuchler, remembered her father’s trip:
“Brushy Bill would give incidents that only someone that was actually involved in the Lincoln County War would have known. My father was convinced that this man was… Billy the Kid.”
Morrison then contacted five people who had known Billy the Kid during the Lincoln County War.  Each of them, separately, met Brushy Bill in person.  All five witnesses signed sworn affidavits stating that Brushy Bill Roberts was indeed Billy the Kid.  If this is true, then one puzzling question remains … What really happened on the night the Kid was supposedly killed?
According to Brushy Bill, on the night of the shooting, he was with his girlfriend, Celsa, and his partner Billy Barlow, at Jesus Silva’s house.  Unknown to the Kid, Garrett and his posse were waiting for him across the yard.  When Garrett opened fire, one of the first shots struck Barlow.  The shots that followed struck the Kid in the head and shoulder.  He passed out from the pain and woke up the following morning under the care of Celsa.  She informed him that Barlow had been killed and was being buried in Billy’s place.
According to William Tunstill, Pat Garrett knew he killed the wrong man:
“In a normal procedure, the sheriff would have brought the corpse to a place for anyone to witness.  He would have demonstrated his guns, his clothing, his boots, his rifle.  Pat Garrett did not follow that procedure.  He took every precaution to conceal the identity of the corpse.”
By 1950, William Morrison felt he had gathered enough evidence to request a pardon from Governor Mabry of New Mexico.  The Governor agreed to meet both men in person.  But the meeting turned into a press circus.  Brushy Bill was 90 years old at the time.  He was confused and scared by the crowd of reporters. 
According to Barbara Kuchler, Brushy Bill’s testimony was all for nothing:
“The governor never even gave him a chance to present the evidence, by just flat out telling him he wasn’t even going to consider it.”
Morrison’s legal arguments and affidavits were not even entered into evidence.  Brushy Bill felt he had been humiliated, his claims ridiculed.  His pardon was not granted. Shortly after the meeting with Governor Mabry, Brushy Bill suffered a heart attack and died on a street in Hico, Texas.
Was Brushy Bill Roberts the notorious outlaw, Billy the Kid?  His friends and neighbors believe so and have even erected a memorial in his honor which reads, “…he spent the last days of his life trying to prove to the world his true identity.  We believe his story and pray to God for the forgiveness he solemnly asked for.”

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mystery of antrax murders solved

By | Published Jumat, 22 Juni 2012

From unsolved mystery :
Five are dead after exposure to anthrax.

Who was sending anthrax through the mail?

The letters were postmarked from Trenton, NJ

CASE DETAILS

The letters were all sent by the same person
On Tuesday, October 16, 2001, Norma Wallace reported for work at the postal office in Trenton, New Jersey.  Norma wasn’t feeling well and thought it was a mild case of the flu.  But as the day wore on, she became increasingly ill.   She could barely breathe. 
Some 200 miles away in Washington, DC, another postal worker, Leroy Richmond, was suffering nearly identical symptoms.  He too became gravely ill.  In a matter of days, both Norma and Leroy were hospitalized and their conditions grew worse by the hour.  They seemed to be slowly suffocating to death–and doctors couldn’t figure out why.  But after administering a battery of tests, they finally came up with a diagnosis—anthrax poisoning. 
Like millions of other Americans, Leroy and Norma were aware that anthrax had killed a man in Florida just days earlier.  Now they were suffering from the most deadly form of the disease.  Suddenly, in the wake of September 11th, the nation faced a second wave of terrorism.

The perpetrator was identified
The anthrax terror plot came to light on October 5, 2001, in Boca Raton, Florida.  63-year-old Robert Stevens, a photo editor at the Sun newspaper, died after he was exposed to anthrax spores.  Experts believed they came from a letter that was opened.  But the letter had been thrown away—its origin unknown.  Suddenly, Federal investigators were thrust into the world of bio-terrorism.  According to Van A. Harp, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Washington field office, it proved to be no ordinary crime scene:
“We don't have a crime scene in the traditional sense.  We don't have witnesses.  And, we really don't have anyone that we can call an informant at this point.”
The same week in Manhattan, NBC News and the New York Post received anthrax-tainted letters.  But this time there was a clue—post marks on the envelopes from Trenton, New Jersey.  A swarm of FBI agents checked every mailbox in town for traces of anthrax.  They found none.
Then, on October 9th, 2001, in Washington DC, two more letters laced with anthrax were discovered.  Once again they were postmarked Trenton, New Jersey.  This time, politicians were the targets—Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy at their offices in DC.  According to Dr. Meryl Nass, the letters contained a form of anthrax so pure and concentrated, it was termed “weapons grade”: 
“This is dangerous, dangerous stuff.  It was estimated that two trillion spores went into each of those envelopes, which would have been two grams.  One envelope may have had a hundred million lethal doses.”
Under the right conditions, just two grams of anthrax could potentially wipe out one third of the U.S. population.  Investigators came to a significant conclusion.  Notes contained within the anthrax-laden envelopes had similar handwriting, leading authorities to believe they came from the same source.  Did references to 9/11, “Death to Israel” and “Allah is Great” point to Arab terrorists?  Or, to someone who wanted investigators to think Arab extremists were involved?  Assistant Director Harp said the FBI was looking at three broad possibilities:
“The first being international terrorists.  Domestic terrorism.  We’re looking at some of the individuals within the United States.  And then we're looking at the lone wolf, as well.”
By October 20th, postal worker Norma Wallace was fighting for her life.  Her temperature had soared above 100.  She was in shock.  The anthrax spores were releasing a lethal toxin, causing blood vessels to break and the bacteria to pulse through her bloodstream:
“I felt like I was dying.  I felt like I couldn't breathe.  Once the spores enter your lungs they actually attack the tissues and the lymph nodes and this causes the anthrax to actually take possession of your body.”
The prognosis for Leroy Richmond was also grim.  Suffering excruciating pain, Leroy laid helpless as his lungs filled with fluids.  Even worse was the fact that doctors knew their most powerful drugs were rarely effective in fighting this silent killer.  Leroy recalled how he practically stared death in the eye:
“I think I was… as near to death then as I ever was going to get.  My breathing had become so shallow that I was actually panting like a dog would breathe.  And I heard a couple guys say, man he’s not going to last but a couple hours and that’ll be it for him.”
Miraculously, both Norma and Leroy survived their harrowing ordeals.  However, four other anthrax victims were not as lucky–bringing the death toll to five:  in Washington, DC, Leroy’s co-workers, Thomas Morris and Joseph Curseen and in New York City, hospital worker Kathy Nyugen.  Three weeks later, Ottilie Lundgren in Derby, Connecticut.
Update:

On July 27th, 2008, a government scientist named Bruce Ivins was rushed to a Maryland hospital suffering from a massive overdose of prescription drugs.  He died two days later.  Shortly after, the FBI announced that Dr. Ivins had been the prime suspect in the anthrax terror of 2001. 
One of the country’s leading anthrax researchers, Dr. Ivins helped investigate the attacks that killed five Americans and terrorized the nation.  But Ivins eventually became a suspect himself, and according to the FBI, there is no doubt that he was the anthrax killer.  The case is officially closed, though a motive for Dr. Ivins’ alleged crimes has not been established.    

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Airliner Crash at Gander

By | Published Jumat, 23 Maret 2012



A witness saw weapons and ammo boxes
CASE DETAILS

Harvey Day, rescue worker
Unsolved mystery.- On December 11th 1985, the 101st Airborne unit of the U.S. Army left Cairo, Egypt, on a chartered Arrow Air DC-8. They were going home to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, after a six-month peacekeeping mission in the Sinai. After one stop in Germany, they landed for refueling at the Gander Airport, in Newfoundland, Canada.  Just after takeoff, the DC-8 suddenly crashed, killing 248 soldiers. Wreckage was strewn over nearly a quarter mile.
Almost immediately, a terrorist organization, Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility. But U.S. Army officials quickly dismissed the possibility of terrorist involvement. Later, a Canadian Board of Inquiry stated that ice on the plane’s wings had brought it down. 

However, four of the board’s nine members publicly disagreed, insisting that ice didn’t cause the crash. Aeronautical Engineer Les Filotas was one of the dissenting board members:
“There was certainly some kind of an explosion. A small explosion that disabled the control system. But what caused that explosion, whether it was sabotage or whether it was the accidental detonation of some kind of military equipment that was carried against regulations, we really don’t have a better idea than we had in 1988.”

Wreckage suggests explosion inside plane
To the four dissenting board members, the crash itself seemed highly irregular. Usually, in a takeoff crash, large sections of the plane remain intact, and many passengers can survive. But at Gander, according to Les, the wreckage was extremely fragmented and no one survived:
“A normal kind of take-off accident can be quite serious and can involve a fire, but basically, the aircraft isn’t completely destroyed.”
The U.S. Government strongly denied that either explosives or ammunition were carried as cargo. However, eyewitness reports from the Cairo airport contradict the government’s claim. They say that several large wooden boxes were loaded onto the airplane. Many believe the boxes contained some type of classified weapons. One of the rescue workers, Harvey Day, said he saw five wooden boxes at the Gander crash site:
“I decided to walk down to see what was in this area. And I saw five large wooden boxes.  They were black, a bit burnt from the fire, and I saw things like missiles, and little metal boxes, they looked like ammunition boxes. And it was all piled up very neatly into this cordoned off area.”

Robert Cox, “ … it got to be rather scary.”
Day said he also saw an unusual pile of wreckage burning out of control. Two firefighters were trying to put it out with water:
“And the minute he took the water away, it just flared back up again. And he said, ‘We have to do this until it burns out or it cools down to the point where we can remove what’s there.”
Within weeks, Harvey and several other rescue workers began to complain of health problems. The symptoms sounded suspiciously like radiation poisoning. Robert Cox is the president of the Union of Canadian Transport Employees:
“I think we had over thirty members who described some type of malady or sickness as a result of the crash. They range from liver problems to what people thought were heart attacks, and just general illnesses. And this is what was checked out and it got to be rather scary.”
Harvey Day said he received some disturbing health news:
“When the medical reports came in, the receptionist called me. And I went to him, and I’ll never forget this, he said, ‘Harvey, how much do you drink?’  I said, ‘Pardon me?’ He said, ‘How much do you drink?’  I said, ‘I don’t drink. Why?’ He said, ‘You’ve got a liver that is equivalent to somebody who’s been drinking excessively for 20 years or more.’ I couldn’t believe what he said.”
According to one unnamed source, the U.S. government sealed its records of the crash for seventy years. However, several government agencies, including the Department of Defense and the National Transportation Safety Board, deny that any such records exist. 
Doug Phillips is the father of one of the crash victims:
“The files on the Gander incident would not be sealed for seventy years if it was simply ice. We know that there had to be something politically embarrassing that could have been very harmful to the Reagan administration that had to be covered up.”
Zona Phillips stepson died in the crash:
“As one family member put it, she wants to know if her family member died protecting this country or if he died because our government was protecting itself.”
U.S. government investigators did appear to behave strangely. For one thing, the crash site was bulldozed within three months, a highly unusual practice. The U.S. Army says it was done simply to discourage souvenir hunters. As a rule, downed airplanes are reassembled in order to study the crash. But in a highly unusual move, authorities quickly buried wreckage from the Gander site in a dump.
Dr. Douglas Phillips and his wife Zona were troubled by the official reports. Their son died in the crash and they formed an organization called Families for Truth about Gander. They requested several pieces of the wreckage and were surprised when the government actually sent them. An expert hired to analyze the scraps claimed that the edges were bent outwards, showing that a blast had occurred inside the plane. For Doug Phillips, this meant only one thing: 
“The airplane exploded in mid-air and then went down and hit the ground with a gigantic fireball when the fuel ignited. But there’s no doubt in my mind that there was a fire or explosion, while the plane was still in flight.”
Dr. Phillips turned up one final telling fact. Autopsies revealed that many of the dead soldiers had a significant amount of carbon monoxide in their bodies:
“The toxicology report showed that the victims had indeed breathed in carbon monoxide prior to the plane hitting the ground and exploding. This had to be from a detonation, a fire or explosion on board the craft.”
In 1990, Congress convened a hearing on the Gander disaster. The committee faulted the government’s investigation, but didn’t insist on a new one. The families of the soldiers who were killed at Gander have been left to wonder why and how their loved ones really died. 

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The Mysterious Suicide Of Marilyn Monroe

By | Published Senin, 05 Maret 2012

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Could she have been murdered because of her engagement with Kennedy?

Years after her the loss of life new details indicates she may have been the sufferer of nasty perform. Why would someone that had so much to stay for, make suicide?
Why did she attempt to reach her masseur, Ralph Roberts? Was Marilyn murdered or did she commit suicide as reported?
Why would someone that had so much to live for, commit suicide? Why did she attempt to reach her masseur, Ralph Roberts? Was Marilyn murdered or did she commit suicide as reported? Was there a cover-up in the death of Monroe? What does her relationship with Bobby Kennedy play in her death? Was she a liability that needed to be dealt with? Was Marilyn Monroe that unstable that she killed herself? Why were there no traces of drugs in her digestive system? Why are there so many inconsistent stories relating to her death by the police and those that knew Marilyn?

There are a couple of possibilities that have to be considered in this case. Could she have been killed because of her involvement with Kennedy? If word got out about his affair, it could have been detrimental to his political career. Could she have been killed because someone knew about the relationship, such as the Cuban Mafia? Remember Kennedy was said to be the one that initiated the contract put out on Fidel Castro. Scandal and revenge are good motives for murder. Marilyn may have been a pawn in a revenge plot or a poor victim of love and lust for a political figure.

Marilyn told friends that she feared for her life. It is said that she was being watched and someone had bugged her home. It seems that Bobby Kennedy liked to have some pillow talk before and after sex. Marilyn knew things that she was not supposed to know. Close friends had seen a dairy that included the conversations that the two had. Although friends had seen the book, it was never seen after Marilyn's death. Robert Slatzer, a close friend of Marilyn Monroe remembered an entry in the dairy about the assignation contract put out on Fidel Castro.

Oh, what a tangled web she and Bobby had created. Marilyn knew things that could have resulted in her demise. Marilyn often threatened to tell all with all the information she had. This would have destroyed the Kennedy brothers. There are some disturbing facts about the suicide of Monroe that have often made authorities and researchers wonder if it was a suicide or a homicide.

Marilyn never left a suicide note. She took all these pills with no water. There was no running water in a nearby bathroom. It took her maid and doctor four hours after discovering her body to call the police. The autopsy showed no drugs in her digestive system or stomach. No one did any toxicology tests on her organs. There was a bruise on her back that was new. Her discolored large intestine suggested that the drugs were administered there instead of swallowed.

Marilyn Monroe's death will always be a mystery since the government sealed her file. Most of the evidence and people involved in the case are gone. If a day comes when someone finds a piece of evidence pertaining to her death, we might then find out what happened that dreary night in August 1962.

source:http://www.unsolved-mysteries.com/crime_mysteries suicide_of_marilyn_monroe.html

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Hauntings of the Bell Witch Cave

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No ghost story has ever stirred the American imagination quite so well as the legend of the Bell's Witch has.
John Bell and Lucy Williams married in 1782. They settled on a farm in North Carolina and began their family, eventually having 4 sons. After a series of crop failures, they decided it was time to move. In 1805, they headed to “the Barren Plains” of Tennessee, to the area now known as Robertson County.

The Bell family quickly settled into their new home, and John became a successful farmer, a prominent member of the community, and an elder of the Red River Baptist Church. The couple added a daughter and two more sons to their family.

In 1817, things began to rapidly decline for the Bell family. John Bell spotted a strange looking creature in one of his fields and shot at it several times. He apparently missed it, though, and when he went home that evening, there were sounds of beating and thumping against the outside of the Bell home. Each night, the noises returned and increased with intensity and volume, and though John tried to catch whatever was making the noises, he was always too late.

The children began to complain of their blankets being snatched off them in the night, and whispers and chanting began to sound throughout the house. Betsy, the daughter, began to be brutalized by an unseen entity. The haunting, by then known in the community as the “Bell’s Witch,” became more and more violent, until December 19, 1820, when John Bell became fell into a coma-like state.

The next morning he died, and his family found a small bottle of fluid that they did not recognize. They gave some to one of the farm cats, which promptly died. At this point, the entity gleefully accepted responsibility for the apparent poisoning of John.

Although Bell’s Witch then departed, it promised to return in 7 years. In the meantime, where had it gone?

On the Bell property lays a cave. Little is known about the cave from the historical records of the Bell’s Witch. Perhaps the cave was used for storage, perhaps the children occasionally played in it as children so often do, or perhaps it was truly a gateway to hell. Perhaps the Bell’s Witch had simply retreated to the cool comfort of the limestone passageways and private rooms.

Visitors to the Bell Witch Cave can make their own determinations. Some have heard voices in distant, inaccessible parts of the cave. Others have felt oppressive weights that have caused them to literally collapse to the ground. Lights and globes can be seen flitting throughout the cave and surrounding skies at night.

A Native American woman’s bones were once entombed in the cave, but trespassers made away with them. Subsequent visitors have learned that taking rocks or pebbles will lead to dire consequences for them and their families.

Perhaps most disturbingly, many visitors have taken pictures and discovered that some of their guests have either not shown up in their photographs, or there have been extra figures or even creatures showing up that were not visible at the time the picture was taken.

The Bell’s Witch legend is a true story and one of the best-documented hauntings in America. The original Bell farm is still a farm, but the Bell family no longer owns it, and it is not open to the public. The Bell’s Witch Cave is located just off Keysburg Road in Adams, Tennessee. It is is open to the public for tours by appointment only and is listed on the National Historical Registry by the United States Department of the Interior.

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The I-70 Killer Reeking Havoc

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The highway might connect some of the major cities, but there are sinister acts that happen on the highway. The highway became known as America's Sewer Pipe in 1985 when Daniel Remeta made his way down I-70.

Daniel Remeta and Lisa Dunn met and became close when she was 18-years-old and he was 27-years-old. Remeta took control of her mind as did Mark Walter another 18-year-old. Neither Walter nor Dunn had ever been in trouble and were considered good kids with bright futures. The three set out for Florida in 1984. Dunn had her fathers .357 handgun, although how Dunn came into possession of the gun varies when Dunn gives the story, he wasn't planning a friendly trip to Florida with the gun.

Soon after the trio left for the road trip, Remeta started sexually assaulting Dunn and force the two to play Russian roulette. When Dunn said that she wanted to return home to Michigan, she was threatened and the life of her family was threatened. The gas station owner, Merhle Reeder was the first to die on February 8, 1985 after being robbed by Remeta. Two days later, he killed Camilla Carroll in Waskom at a gas station where she worked. Remeta took her into the woods, shot her in the legs, and finished her off where she lay, or so he thought. Her will to live allowed her to crawl 1/4 mile to a road where a car stopped and helped her. She survived.

The next murders where Linda Marvin on February 11 at Bob's Grocery, who was shot with a .22 caliber handgun that Remeta purchased. Next, the trio picked up a hitchhiker just outside Wichita. James Hunter had no idea what he was in for when he entered the car. The .22 gun jammed and Remeta asked Hunter to fix the gun and he did. Hunter asked to be dropped off at I-70 and I-135, but Remeta refused.

The killings continued at the four made there way across I-70. There day of reckoning was coming close. Remeta shot a police officer that tried to stop their car after it was reported as a suspect car that was broadcast by the state patrol. The office lived and used the radio to alert other officers of the direction of the car. The next move for Remeta was to finds a new car and he did. At a grain elevator, Maurice Christi was shot and left to die, while Rick Schroeder and Glenn Moore were placed in the bed of Moore's truck. He later shot and killed them.

The chase was on and officers track and chased the four to a farm in Rawlins County. An officer shot Walters, Dunn was wounded in the arm by Hunter's shot and Hunter was unharmed. Remeta was wounded in the buttocks, but survived. Dunn and Remeta declared their love for each other as they were being taken away.
The I-70 Killer Trail and Error

Although Hunter, Dunn and Remeta were caught and jailed, the pain and sorrow that they inflicted on their victims and their families was about to become even harder to take. Remeta wanted to die. He had no intention on staying in a prison cell, so he wanted to go to a state where he had killed so that he would get the death penalty. Dunn was convicted of two counts of murder and kidnapping of Schroeder and Moore as was Hunter in Kansas. Arkansas and Kansas scuffled between extraditing Dunn to Arkansas because the Kansas governor was against the death penalty, which Arkansas had.

Dunn and Hunter started their appeals. Hunter argued that the judge erred when giving instructions to the jury that convicted him. The older law that renders the belief of the person in fearing for his or her life when committing a crime should not be punished for committing the lesser of the crimes. However, impending, imminent and present duress or coercion must be present. Hunter said that he feared for his life when he had to commit a felony, but the judge disagreed and did not give those instructions to the jury.

Hunter's conviction won appeal and he was tried again and found not guilty. However, shortly after his second trail that freed him, he suffered a heart attack and died. Dunn was using the hostage syndrome as an appeal, but was denied on a state level. In 1991, the federal district court judge ordered a new trail when he overturned the guilty verdict. The battered woman defense was used to get a not guilty verdict and Dunn was freed. However, she remained jailed on the Arkansas murder charge.

She pleaded guilty to hindering prosecution on that charge and was given twenty years, with credit for time severed and the rest of her sentence was suspended. She was free to walk. The events of her life after the trails were not that of an upstanding citizen and she was charged with felony embezzlement and place in jail for one year with five years probation. She was to undergo treatments for her addictions (gambling and alcohol). She married and had a child. She was not returned to Arkansas.

Remeta was sent to Florida for the murder of Chet Reeder and didn't fight it. He was sentenced to death in the electric chair, "Old Sparky." Then he was sent to Arkansas, where he was convicted and sentenced to death. Since Remeta didn't want to die in prison an old man, he wanted to die. The justice system still moves slow even when the prisoner does not appeal the death penalty.

While in prison, Remeta married a woman and changed his mind about his death penalty. He was to die on March 31, but his lawyers worked fast to stop his execution. He even went on record, as saying the all of the murders were Dunn's ideas. He said that he plead guilty so that Dunn wouldn't be executed. No one believed him and he was fed his last meal at the age of 40-years-old. He was strapped in the chair and declared dead at 7:12am on March 31, 1998.


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Eric and Pam Ellender Murder

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Christopher Prudhomme was arrested for the killings, but the family feels that there is more to the murders and more people involved than just Prudhomme. The family has asked that the investigation be re-opened. The Ellender's were found murdered in their bedroom, dead of gunshot wounds.

Pam Littleton and Eric where married after college. They owned a home by Pam's parents and Eric worked for her father. Pam and Eric had an infant girl a year after they were married. Every day, Pam and the baby would walk to her parent's home so that they would never miss one moment of their granddaughters growing up. On February 11, 1991, Pam visited her mother and received a phone call from Eric saying he was home from work at 8:45pm and Pam left her parent's home.

The next day, Pam never showed up at her parent's home and no one had heard from Eric. Huey Littleton got a phone call from his mother saying that something was wrong, that she had the baby, and the Ellender's were in their bedroom, and told him to call the police. The police went to the house and found Eric and Pam dead of gunshot wounds to the head and the baby was left alive in her bedroom.

Chris Prudhomme, 18 years old, was found with Eric's car in Baton Rouge with three friends. Detectives interview Chris about the gun. He told them he used an automatic shotgun. He said that the gun was loaded. He said that he then went and shot Eric and Pam. He said that he was glad that he had killed them. Seventeen days later, he was found in his jail cell dead from hanging.

Huey Littleton is a licensed private detective and felt that there were too many lose ends. He found that Chris had belonged to a satanic group called the S.K.A.T.E.R (Satan's Kids Against the Establishment). A girlfriend to one of the men in the group had told Huey about a meeting, where the group was concocting an alibi. The witness said that Chris and another guy broke into the house to steal, but high on LSD, they found the gun and killed the two as they slept.

Huey interviewed over 100 people. One witness, Nickie Alderson came forward and said that the S.K.A.T.E.R members had a party in the home after the deaths. She had seen people partying in the home and Chris was one of them. She asked whose house it was and Chris told her that he didn't know. She said everyone was standing and sitting around and they were in their own worlds. There were drugs visible and they were snorting it off the table.

The next day, she saw the house on the news and realized that was the house she was at and saw what she did. However, the sheriff didn't see it as reliable information. They had never seen any signs of a party in the house when they arrived. Another witness came forward and told that more than just one person molested the bodies of Pam and Eric sexually. Those facts came from a guy named Kip who was at the house.

Chip said that he had seen a video of what was going on at the house with the S.K.A.T.E.R members. Since Chris was dead, the next suspect in line was Atkins, who was with Chris when he was arrested in Baton Rouge. Atkins told Shawn Moody what had happened at the house. The wife was shot first and the husband was second. Atkins said that Chris did not shoot the Ellender's, but was taking the rap for the leader of the S.K.A.T.E.R.

More people had plenty to say about the murders and the freakish party that was held after Eric and Pam were murdered. Then a girl named Pearl taped a conversation with her cousin Kim Manuel, who described the scene in the house that she herself was also in with the members. She said that Chris shot Eric and another guy shot Pam. They were going to kill the baby, but a girl that was there said no and took the baby into another room.

The grand jury heard the tape and return two counts of second-degree murder against Kim. Some felt that this was a way to get Kim to point fingers at others. One lawyer said that he felt that it was a scripted tape recording. Pearl stands by what she recorded. One year later, all charges against Kim were dropped, but she could be charged in the future.

Huey Littleton was disgusted that the charges were dropped and police have said that he no longer has any credibility with them. Sheriff Wayne McElveen said that they feel sorry for Mr. Littleton. But he has gone to far with finding witnesses that they don't feel are telling the truth.

Huey feels that there was a cover up and destruction of evidence in this case and he will not rest until all involved are brought to justice. In 1995, three men were arrested for their involvement in this case. The case is still being pursued by the attorney generals office.

If all these people were involved and in the home, where did the evidence go and why are there no fingerprints anywhere in the home. This is a case that has three indicted, one dead and possibly more still walking around the streets.

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amtrak crash

By | Published Senin, 27 Februari 2012

Sabotage causes the derailment of an Amtrak passenger train.

Four cars plunged 30 feet

Michael Bates was killed in the crash
CASE DETAILS
On October 9, 1995, 60 miles southwest of Phoenix, Arizona, Amtrak’s “Sunset Limited” passenger train jumped the track going 50 mph. Four cars plunged more than 30 feet off a trestle into a dry riverbed. One person was killed and scores injured. The cause of the wreck:  sabotage. 

Who removed the 29 spikes?
According to Bruce Gebhardt, special agent in charge with the F.B.I., agents on the scene found rails that had been tampered with:
“The investigation determined that 29 spikes were removed, purposely removed. And not only were the spikes removed, but someone had pushed the rail inside so that the two rails were not connected.”
Additional evidence convinced authorities that the saboteurs knew a lot about railroads.  The signal circuits, the electrical wires that run through the track, had been kept intact. According to Agent Gebhardt, that meant the train crew had no warning that there was a problem with the rails:
“The FBI believes that they picked that particular spot in order to create the most damage and possibly cause the most injuries or death. The train was going about 50 miles per hour.  It’s on a curve and it occurred right before a trestle.”

Similar crash in 1939
Investigators soon discovered many similarities to another act of sabotage, more than a half century before. According to historian Kevin Bunker, in 1939, 24 people were killed and 117 injured in another suspicious train wreck in the Nevada desert:
“The most mysterious connection between the accidents is the fact that the sabotage was done ahead of a bridge in a desert country of remote location. There was definitely care in advance, you know, that the wires were intact at all times. Merely moving one piece of metal, in this case, one rail, a matter of less than four inches, allowed both trains to careen off on the curve as they crossed the river and the damage occurred.”
Curiously, the story of the 1939 crash had been published in a journal for train buffs shortly before the Amtrak accident. Federal agents questioned many of the readers, but came up empty-handed.

Did this article trigger the sabotage?
Investigators have just one other concrete clue.  Near the accident site, FBI agents found four copies of a computer-printed letter attacking the federal government. It was signed, “Sons of the Gestapo.” FBI Agent Bruce Gebhardt said the group’s existence has never been verified:
“We’re still trying to investigate to determine whether or not that is a red herring to try to throw us off the investigation or whether or not that particular group exists.”
The one person killed in the crash was a sleeping car attendant named Mitchell Bates.  Whoever is responsible for the wreck will be charged with murder, as well as sabotage. 

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