Case Overview & Historical Background

Between December 1968 and October 1969, an unidentified serial killer known as "Zodiac" was officially linked to five murders and two attempted murders in Northern California (Lake Herman Road, Blue Rock Springs, Lake Berryessa, and Presidio Heights). Beyond the physical attacks, the killer mailed a series of taunting letters and complex substitution ciphers (including the Z408 and Z340) to Bay Area newspapers, demanding public publication under threat of further violence.

Despite decades of investigation by the SFPD, Napa County Sheriff's Office, Solano County Sheriff's Office, and the FBI, the killer's true identity remains unsolved.

The Mystery: The Behavioral & Technical Divide

A central debate among researchers and criminologists involves the stark contrast between the physical execution of the crimes and the intellectual construction of the media campaign:

The Physical Operative: The crime scenes reflect a perpetrator comfortable with direct physical confrontation, close-range firearms, tactical containment, and bladed weapons (such as the daytime attack at Lake Berryessa).

The Cryptographic Scribe: The letters and ciphers demonstrate an intricate understanding of substitution grids, mathematical transposition, and psychological manipulation—skills typically associated with an individual with a technical, mathematical, or coding background.

Furthermore, eyewitness descriptions from different scenes varied in estimated age, build, and facial features, while physical evidence (such as fingerprints from Paul Stine’s cab and partial DNA) has repeatedly failed to match primary suspects.

Analysis: The Two-Person Cell Model

To address these contradictions, some independent theoretical frameworks propose a "two-person cell" division of labor rather than a single lone offender:

The Field Operative: Executes the physical attacks, secures physical trophies (such as pieces of Paul Stine’s bloodstained shirt), and handles on-scene logistics.

The Mastermind / Scribe: Operates completely insulated from the physical crime scenes. This individual receives scene details and physical artifacts from the field operative, constructs the ciphers, writes the taunting letters, and directs the public persona.

Strengths & Theoretical Logic:

Insulation from Physical Evidence: Explains how a primary suspect with an academic or technical profile could possess a verified alibi or fail to match scene fingerprints, while remaining the intellectual architect of the campaign.

Accounting for Disguise & Descriptions: Addresses the killer's explicit claim in his November 1969 letter that he "only looked like the description when I do my thing," suggesting a deliberate separation between public appearance and criminal identityThe Psychological Driver: A Scribe's "God Complex"

Beyond the division of labor, this framework relies on a distinct psychological profile for the mastermind: a severe God complex driven by intellectual narcissism. Instead of seeking direct physical gratification at the crime scene, the scribe's thrill comes from puppet-mastery—directing a violent field operative from afar, forcing major newspapers to print his ciphers under threat, and publicly mocking the police. Constructing complex codes and holding an entire region in fear feeds an ego that views itself as untouchable and vastly superior to law enforcementCritical Limitations & Evidentiary Hurdles:

From an objective investigative standpoint, this framework faces significant obstacles:

Lack of Chain of Custody: There is no documented physical evidence, joint correspondence, or forensic link confirming cooperation between two specific individuals.

Transfer Logistics: A two-person cell requires a secure, immediate chain of custody to transfer physical evidence (like shirt swatches) from a crime scene to a secondary writer before postmarking.

Occam’s Razor: Law enforcement officially treats the Zodiac case as the work of a single offender, as multi-person conspiracy theories inherently introduce more operational risk and points of failure.

Hey! I’ve been working on this for so long & it’s almost cost me my sanity but I found the solution!

This is annoying but I really can’t explain the logic in a uniform manner without using AI so this is a ChatGPT generated explanation because even when I use AI everybody thinks I’m making this shit up

FINAL PROPOSED SOLUTION — Z13
Proposed plaintext
L A K E B E R R Y E S S A
Position
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Proposed plaintext
L
A
K
E
B
E
R
R
Y
E
S
S
A
I. Structural premise
The proposed solution is based primarily on position, multiplicity, and transformation rules, rather than treating every Zodiac symbol as a simple one-symbol/one-letter substitution.
The 13-character plaintext contains a distinctive repetition structure:
A ×2 → positions 2, 13
E ×3 → positions 4, 6, 10
R ×2 → positions 7, 8
S ×2 → positions 11, 12
Singletons L, K, B, Y → positions 1, 3, 5, 9
That gives the proposed plaintext the structural pattern:
singleton – double – singleton – triple – singleton – triple – double – double – singleton – triple – double – double – double-member
Or, more usefully, the cipher is being separated into singletons, doubles, and one triple group.

II. Double-letter system
A → positions 2 and 13
Your working rule begins with the corresponding source positions 1 and 12 and applies a +1 positional transfiguration:
1 → 2
12 → 13
Result:
A = positions 2, 13
So the A-pair is produced by a consistent one-position displacement.

RR → positions 7 and 8
The relevant repeated source character occurs at positions:
3 and 11
Their positional difference is:
11 − 3 = 8
Your proposed interpretation places the corresponding double:
RR = positions 7, 8
This remains part of the positional/repetition system rather than an ordinary substitution.

SS → positions 11 and 12
The relevant repeated source character occurs at:
8 and 13
Difference:
13 − 8 = 5
Proposed output:
SS = positions 11, 12
Thus the two doubled ciphertext families are treated independently and generate the two adjacent plaintext doubles:
RR and SS.

III. Triple system
There is one three-occurrence family.
Its source positions are:
5, 7, 9
These are three consecutive odd-numbered positions.
Your proposed destination positions are:
4, 6, 10
Those three positions in LAKEBERRYESSA are all:
E
Therefore:
5 → 4 = E
7 → 6 = E
9 → 10 = E
This produces the complete triple:
E E E = positions 4, 6, 10
The important structural observation is therefore:
Three repeated cipher symbols occupying 5–7–9 correspond to the only letter occurring three times in LAKEBERRYESSA: E at 4–6–10.
The 9 → 10 movement is the irregular member of this positional rule and should remain expressly identified as an exception/asymmetry, rather than being quietly forced into a perfectly uniform rule.

IV. Singleton system
After the doubles and triple are allocated, the remaining plaintext positions are:
1, 3, 5, 9
Those positions spell:
L K B Y
This is significant to the hypothesis because those are exactly the four letters that must be explained independently once the repeated-symbol families are removed.
Your current singleton proposal is:
Position 1 → L
The Z/Zodiac-type symbol is interpreted as L, with L = the 12th letter of the alphabet forming part of the proposed derivation.
Position 3 → K
K remains K, making this the comparatively direct/fixed singleton.
Position 5 → B
The hook/sideways-form symbol is proposed as B.
This remains the least certain graphical interpretation and should be marked as such.
Position 9 → Y
The remaining E/Y-related singleton is transformed to Y.
One counting clarification is worth preserving in the final write-up:
E → Y is a 20-position forward Caesar shift.
There are 19 intervening letters between E and Y.
So your phrase “19 transfigurations” works if 19 means the letters lying between E and Y; if “transfiguration” means actual alphabetic moves, it is +20.

V. Result
Applying the proposed positional, repetition, and singleton rules yields:
L A K E B E R R Y E S S A
LAKE BERRYESSA
This is therefore the final proposed solution under the current hypothesis.
The strongest part of the proposal is the global 13-position structure: rather than choosing thirteen unrelated substitutions, it attempts to account separately for the ciphertext’s singleton, double, and triple repetitions and fit them to the repetition pattern of LAKEBERRYESSA.
The parts that remain evidentially weakest—and should stay marked as unresolved even in the final theory—are the precise derivation of B, the exact formal rule producing Y, and the directional exception within the 5/7/9 → 4/6/10 triple transformation. Those are the places a skeptical cryptanalyst would attack first, so preserving them as explicit limitations actually makes the proposed solution more rigorous rather than less.

I’ve never posted on Reddit nor really post these types of things but when I watched the YouTube channel Fern video on the unsolved murder in room 1046. When I heard the last bit of the case I’ve personally never heard that information stated anywhere before so I googled it, yet when I pressed the Reddit link it linked me r/unresolvedmysteries i believe and it was a word for word copy of the video but it was posted 10 years ago ? I’ll link the video and the Reddit post.. but honestly it’s kinda sad been watching awhile and when I commented about it they deleted it

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/59hazo/the_1935_murder_of_artemus_ogletree_one_of_the/?solution=a7680ac3f7b9cb6ba7680ac3f7b9cb6b&js_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9ec23a06945e4762517d86f8eb02b216bf3&jsc_orig_r=

https://youtu.be/zy6ZN1qM3sY?is=Dpj7wUbvuWjXkztn

Some of you may remember the January 2023 house fire in Lebanon Junction that killed 27-year-old Eryn Toogood, who was six months pregnant, her six-year-old daughter Haisley Heath, and her six-year-old stepdaughter Raegan Maraman. Eryn's unborn son, Holten, also died.

More than three years later, the cause of the fire remains officially **undetermined**.

In July, the families and community members gathered outside the Bullitt County Courthouse asking for an independent investigation. After reading the recent local reporting about the case, I think that request deserves more attention across Kentucky.

Investigators believe the fire originated in the laundry/utility room. Records reportedly showed two smoke alarms had been purchased and investigators were told they were installed, but no evidence of those alarms was recovered.

Body-camera footage from the morning of the fire also contains details the families believe deserve further examination. The sole survivor told responding officers that he grabbed his six-year-old daughter, attempted to get her out through another room, put her down when he couldn't open a window, moved into another room, and ultimately couldn't get back to her.

The Bullitt County Sheriff's Office maintains that investigators found no evidence establishing a criminal connection to the fire. The survivor has never been named a suspect.

**This is not a request for Reddit to decide what happened, and it isn't an accusation that someone committed a crime.**

It's a request for an independent agency to look at the entire case.

Finding no evidence of a crime and establishing that every reasonable avenue was fully investigated aren't necessarily the same thing. The families have questions about whether the original investigation went far enough, and they're asking for an outside agency to review it.

A petition has now been started asking Bullitt County Commonwealth's Attorney Amanda Hernandez to formally request an independent review, including by Kentucky State Police and/or the Kentucky Attorney General's Department of Criminal Investigations.

Kentucky law already provides a mechanism for a Commonwealth's Attorney to request assistance from the Attorney General in a criminal investigation.

If an independent review determines the original investigation was complete and the evidence supports its conclusions, then the families deserve that confirmation.

If something was overlooked or additional investigation is warranted, they deserve to know that too.

**We're not asking anyone to decide what happened. We're asking Kentucky authorities to make sure everything that reasonably can be done to find out has been done.**

If you're in Kentucky, please consider reading and signing the petition, and sharing it with others who may remember this case;:

https://c.org/7nzhy7f7VQ

Eryn. Haisley. Raegan. Holten.

**Four Kentuckians deserve answers.**

I suspect that my biological father, [redacted] of Arcata, California, in addition to many other acts of violence, may be the infamous Zodiac Killer, who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area with a series of murders and cryptic, braggadocious letters to newspapers in the late 1960s. I also suspect that he is responsible for many unsolved disappearances in Humboldt County over a period of over four decades.

I know [redacted] as well as anyone will ever know him, and the letters sent by the Zodiac Killer remind me strongly of his personality: his aggressive egotism, his need to be feared for his violence, his need to feel intellectually superior, his obsession with puzzles and riddles, his internalized, self-hating homophobia and misogyny, his addiction to taking risks, and his emotional need to express his anger and feelings of grievance and inadequacy by harming animals and innocent people.

From observing [redacted]’s violence durning my lifetime, I believe he gets emotional gratification from killing people, and has shown a gleeful willingness to kill for political reasons, to send messages to specific people, and for no reason at all other than he likes it.

[redacted] was severely abused by his father, and as a boy “hunted alone” with a shotgun for small game. I think by the time he was a young man, he had simply moved on to what he considered more challenging game.

The first murder positively correlated with the Zodiac Killer took place shortly after [redacted] moved to the Bay Area, as a 25-year-old postdoctoral chemistry student at UC Berkeley, and to work at Berkeley National Laboratories. He hinted several times that this work included manufacturing drugs used in covert government projects.

As a child, I unknowingly drew a symbol very similar to the “signature” used on the Zodiac Killer’s letters on the chalkboard in the kitchen where my mom wrote out grocery lists, and when [redacted] saw it, he reacted with extreme anxiety that he could not explain. I’d been reading ‘The Dark is Rising,’ by Susan Cooper, a YA fantasy novel, which described a repeated motif of ‘a circle, quartered by a cross,’ that protects the young protagonist from evil, and I doodled the symbol on the chalkboard. [redacted] saw it, and erased it quickly and thoroughly, scrubbing the chalkboard with the eraser in frenzied agitation, then he followed my to the room I shared with my brother and cornered me, shoving me against the wall and shouting at me, trembling with fear and rage, at the edge of violence, shaking me by the shoulders while staring straight into my eyes. “Where did you see that symbol?” “In a book? What book?” He didn’t seem to believe my answers and asked the questions several times. Then he said I was never allowed to draw that symbol again anywhere. “But why?” I asked. “None of your fucking business,” he said.

Another circumstantial detail that leads me to suspect [redacted] is the Zodiac Killer is that footprint analysis concluded that the killer wore size 10 “Wingwalker” boots, which have specialized soles for walking on aircraft surfaces, at one crime scene. [redacted]’s shoe size is 10, and around the time of the murders, he trained for and acquired a private pilot’s license. He was always a “gearhead,” always wanted to have all the specialized equipment for his hobbies. He liked to tinker with machines, and for many years drove a jeep that he’d built from a kit.

Also, there are specific threats made in the Zodiac Killer’s letters, detonating a fertilizer bomb, and attacking a bus full of schoolchildren, that I have good reason to believe [redacted]carried out later in life, using controlled individuals and technology to carry out the attacks. I have good reason to believe he directed terrorist and mass-casualty attacks specifically intended to terrorize people close to him, in much the same way that the Zodiac Killer terrorized the public. I have written about these attacks in more detail in other posts on Substack.

[redacted] counts on his wealth, national security connections, and our family’s longstanding connections to organized crime to insulate him from consequences. But with that safety net, I think he enjoys taking risks, as if he is playing a game, and wants to be known for his acts of violence, as if they were feats of cunning or athleticism. I’ve heard him say “Jails are for stupid people,” and also chuckle that some crimes are so outrageous that “people” get away with them because nobody can or wants to believe that such concentrated evil exists. In later years, he repeatedly threatened that no one would believe me if I spoke out about his violence, and that he would frame me as being crazy if I did, which indeed he has tried to do.

I think [redacted] realized he came close to getting caught from the brazenness of the Zodiac murders and letters, and the case generated so much notoriety that his privilege might not be sufficient to protect him if he was identified by law enforcement. I don’t think this checked his addiction to murder, or hunger for recognition, but I think he became more cautious as he aged, and stopped leaving bodies where they could be found. Many of the unsolved disappearances in Humboldt County, where [redacted] has lived since the early 1980s, corresponded to times when he was emotionally stressed, and some of the disappeared physically resemble people [redacted] was angry with at the time, including my mother and myself. Some of the disappearances are recent, and though [redacted] is now in his 80s, I have good reason to believe he is still killing, with the help of accomplices, some or all of whom may be controlled through blackmail and other forms of underworld coercion.

The last purported communication from the Zodiac Killer was a postcard mailed from Eureka, California, in 1990. There is debate about whether the card was mailed by actual the Zodiac Killer.

[redacted] meticulously, anxiously cultivated the appearance of a normal life, and I think having a family was part of that. He rarely interacted with my brother and I, except to periodically gratify his emotions by physically, psychologically, and sexually abusing us. He made continual excuses not to be at home, and when he was, would say “I just live here.” He is currently on the [redacted], and is the semi-retired director of the [redacted] at [redacted], a laboratory I believe he funded with his own laundered money and used as a cover for clandestine activities.

The Zodiac Killer appears to have taken elaborate precautions to hide his identity when mailing letters to newspapers, but that was before the development of DNA analysis. In 2002, a researcher found a single human hair sealed beneath a stamp on a letter sent by the Zodiac Killer. This letter is positively correlated to the Zodiac Killer, in part because it included a piece of fabric from the shirt of one of the murder victims.

If I am correct, and my biological father, [redacted], is the Zodiac Killer, and it is possible to extract DNA from the hair sound under the stamp, it will correlate to members of my family. I won’t get into the difference between mitochondrial and chromosomal DNA, since not everyone is a biology nerd, but you can look it up. Recent advances in DNA analysis may make it possible to extract chromosomal DNA from the hair, and if so, and I am correct, it will be an approximately 50% match with my and my brother’s DNA. If mitochondrial DNA is extracted from the hair, which is more likely, it will, if I am correct, match the mitochondrial DNA of my aunt, [redacted], and my cousin, [redacted].

This post is an allegation, no person can definitively said to have committed a crime unless or until they are convicted in a court of law, which I sincerely hope my father will be. May justice reach him.

Destiny McClain was just 23 years old when she became the victim of murder in the early morning hours of July 18, 2021.

She was in line at a food truck at 17^th Street and McDowell in Phoenix. An unidentified man pulled out a gun and fired several shots into a crowd of people. Destiny was stuck by a single bullet and passed away. 

The suspect fled in a black 4 door sedan and to this day has never been identified. Destiny’s mother Brenda has been active on social media in advocating for people to come forward with information. 

The case is being investigated by Phoenix police and Silent Witness program currently offers a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer.

Sources 

Silent Witness

https://silentwitness.org/cases/homicide-destiny-mcclain-area-of-1700-e-mcdowell-rd-phoenix/

12 News

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/destiny-mcclain-murder-remains-unsolved/75-a879ac97-f794-4306-adfc-78b3e75377e4

Interviews with Destiny’s mother Brenda Gilliam

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5i8YPtZdYTkvCF3jmNsWv0?si=ULTrIEWgSD2-cvaJmxHwTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPoSypiUHWU

I haven’t been able to see my mother who was murdered by her ex husband name Gary Golding!! But I know that she was on montell Williams, inside edition, and channel 7 news!! For being stalked and beaten by her ex Micheal, and at the time she was dating my stepfather named Gary Golding…and I’d love to actually be able to show my kids who my mother was!! As SHES been gone almost 25 years!! And has never met my children.as I was only 14 when she was murdered any help would be greatly appreciated

In 13 months — from February 1976 to March 1977 — four kids vanished from the suburbs just north of Detroit. Mark Stebbins, 12, last seen leaving the Berkeley movie theater. Jill Robinson, 12, taken off her Royal Oak paper route. Kristine Mihelich, 10. Timothy King, 11.

All four were found shot. I grew up here, and I only learned the full story as an adult — because honestly, a lot of the worst parts of Detroit's history got buried or reduced to a paragraph nobody reads. So I started digging into the actual court records and old news coverage. This is the case that stuck with me most.

The man many believe did it, Arch Sloan, died at 84 this past June — and detectives say he gave them "new information" before he went that's never been released.

I made a short documentary about it (Part 1 covers the first two victims). If you remember this case, or grew up hearing about it, I'd genuinely love to know — what do you remember?

----> https://youtube.com/shorts/5V5jRrJJZRY?si=XXslmWmjMpao86xu

[link]

New to Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). Will be working with a local group to help find missing kids, hikers, etc. Would love to hear you techniques and tricks for find that first thread or rabbit hole.

Someone reached out to me about this case. It has very limited information online. It involves a woman who was allegedly murdered by an unknown suspect, thrown from a ferry and no charges were ever filed. Posting to raise awareness on a forgotten case.

Shayla Nicole Hudson was 28 years old, lived in Richmond, CA, and worked as a nursing assistant. She graduated from Pinole Valley High School with the class of 2000. She also attended Contra Costa College.

Public records show she had lived in several different places around the Bay Area and at one point had lived in Anchorage, Alaska where it appears some of her family is from.

According to news reports, on March 5 2010, Shayla boarded a San Francisco bound Ferry at Jack London Square in Oakland at 8:10 AM.

She apparently did not get off the ferry but it was not disclosed in news reports how this information was confirmed.

When the ferry arrived back in Oakland around 9:17 AM Shayla was unaccounted for and the coast guard was sent to search for her. Her body was found floating near treasure island and she was pronounced dead.

The coast guard claimed the waters were calm and the railing of the ferry made it unlikely she would have accidentally fallen in. T

There were no follow up articles about medical examiner findings. No information about her relationship status, and no photos of her are anywhere online.

Sources

News Articles

https://sfist.com/2010/03/06/victim_of_ferryboat_death_identifie/

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/passenger-missing-from-ferryboat-dies-in-bay-3271131.php

Obituary postings

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/eastbaytimes/name/shayla-hudson-obituary?id=21887966

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/obituaries/shayla-hudson/

I was recently reading about a cold case involving a 12 year old girl, Rosa Sandoval. She was reported missing May 28th 2004 on her last day of school after the parents were informed she never arrived. Her relatives stated that that morning her and her backpack that had soda for her class was gone. They stated she had left early without telling anyone why, they admitted it was unusual of her, but assumed she was simply excited. However, this account is one I find extremely puzzling, as I read the account from her older sister who reportedly shared the same room as her, and she said that Rosa had left the night of May 27th after the two had fought.
While the police were initially investigating the case they found traces of blood and bloody handprints in Rosa’s bedroom, and with luminol discovered blood in her brother’s room next door.
The police had believed this was a kidnapping, which could explain why the blood wasn’t tested, or if it was why it wasn’t made public.

Update: This took place in San Antonio, Texas. Rosa Sandoval went to Sky Harbour Elementary.

December 10th of the same year, her remains and clothes from the night of May 27th were found off a road only 7 miles from the Sandoval home. This confirmed that Rosa’s disappearance was in fact a murder.
In 2005 a photo of Rosa was found in an abandoned blue 1983 four-door Oldsmobile. The owner of the car has remained unknown.

My Thoughts:
I have a few concerns with this case and how the investigation played out.
My first concern is about the family’s accounts, specifically the account that she had left for school May 28th, because it was made clear by the evidence that was made public that if she ever returned home, she never got up and ready for school. This also raises the question of what happened to the reported back pack and soda, and how would they not notice she wasn’t home, and why would they say they saw her leave for school.
I also have concerns about how the police handled the case, they never released a primary suspect, and they never released anything about the blood found in the Sandoval house, and it seems as if they never questioned the conflicting accounts of the family.
The car that was found is also a thing to keep note of, because it was found in a junkyard, and it’s stated they couldn’t confirm who the car belonged to, which seems suspicious especially given that the car is pretty noteworthy and stand out.

All this to ask if anyone else knows about the case or has any information, because this is an extremely puzzling case. Please make sure you do your own research on the case if you find this interesting.

So I recently stumbled upon this cold case.
It’s about an unidentified woman whose remains were found in 1994 at a military training area in Hanover, Germany. She had been buried there and was believed to have been murdered.
What really caught my attention was her clothing. She was wearing a turquoise T-shirt that says “Little Italy, New York City”. The estimated time of death is 1989 to 1992.
I’ve gone down a rabbit hole trying to find the exact T-shirt, but so far I’ve only found similar vintage Little Italy/NYC shirts from the 80s and 90s.
I’m wondering if anyone here recognizes this particular design or knows what brand/manufacturer may have produced it. Maybe someone has seen it in an old catalogue, vintage shop, or family photo.
If anyone can help identify or find this exact shirt, I’d really appreciate it.
INTERPOL case page

Freddie M. Garcia is a 37 year old man who went missing in 2000, his wife Beth J. Hillmary said she last saw him walk into a bar and get drunk, she tried to call him outside the bar but he's not there, she went inside the bar and looked for him. She unfortunately not found him inside, she asked the bartender where he was and the bartender told her he just got out the bar with a jacket on, Beth asked the bartender where he went after he went outside the bar, the bartender didn't know because his table is near the door and couldn't see outside.

It's also a lit creepy because they found footprints near the woods but the foot prints ended because the woods were leafy and muddy footprints on the leafs blew away, also it happened on my town

I launched my true crime channel with a different approach, aimed at an English-speaking audience.
I’m really proud of the content and research, but my biggest problem so far has been THE ALGORITHM.

Here’s the short version: since I’m based in Brazil, the distribution system seems to have a hard time pushing my videos beyond my geographic region, no matter how well optimized the search engines are.

I could be asking for likes and subscriptions here, but honestly, I’d rather just ask you to give the content a try. No commitment.

If you’re into dense true crime documentary, with a focus on the forensic side, slow-paced, immersive storytelling, this might be your thing.
Please help me untangle this distribution mess.

The Boston Strangler (˜20 min):
https://youtu.be/RjDwa8Lpr5U

For anyone who watches it and wants to discuss the content here in the thread, I’d be more than happy to.

San Luis Valley, please help us find justice for my aunt, Brenda Kay Shepard.

In 2008, my aunt Brenda, 45, was murdered and found chopped up and burning in a barrel in Saguache County. Some may remember her as “the woman in the barrel.” A small bone fragment was recovered and, through DNA testing and a bone marrow match to her mother, authorities were by the grace if god able to identify her.

A man named Daniel Bessey was later suspected of being responsible for Brenda’s murder. A few years after Brenda was killed, Bessey was convicted of a double homicide and is currently serving two life sentences at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City.
Although investigators, including the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and forensic experts in Quantico, reportedly concluded that they believed Bessey was responsible, prosecutors have not pursued charges in Brenda’s case because the available evidence is considered circumstantial.

We believe he had an accomplice, and our family has a person in mind whom we believe may have information about Brenda’s death. We are asking anyone who knows anything, no matter how small or insignificant it may seem to please come forward.

Brenda had a family who loved her. She struggled with addiction and did not have the best reputation, and we believe that affected how her case was viewed and investigated. But addiction does not make someone less deserving of justice. Her past does not determine the value of her life.

Brenda was a mother, grandmother, daughter, sister,  aunt, and someone who was deeply loved. Her family has never stopped wanting answers.

If you have information about Brenda’s murder or the people involved, please consider contacting law enforcement or Crime Stoppers. Even information you may have dismissed as unimportant could help bring her family the answers they have been waiting for.

Everyone deserves justice. Brenda deserves justice, too. Please help us bring her home in the only way we can now by finding the truth.

24-year-old Christy Davey was last seen alive in Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday, March 2, 2016.  She reported to a family member that she was headed to a McDonalds with a friend named Bianca Pervis and a man who went by the name “Homeboy George.”  She was never heard from again.

On March 9, her body was found on a conveyor belt in a City of Phoenix recycling facility located at 27th avenue and Lower Buckeye Rd. 

Phoenix PD questioned Pervis, a Phoenix based online radio host. She was not named as a suspect in the case for reasons that were never publicly released. The identity of “Homeboy George” was also never publicly disclosed.  

Detectives concluded she was murdered in a different location and dumped into a recycling container where her body was transported to the facility. 

The case grew cold, despite being profiled on Silent Witness and receiving media coverage.

Christy left behind 4 young children. She battled addiction and was involved in sex work. At the time of her death, she had plans to enter a rehab facility and turn her life around. 

Sources

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/woman-found-dead-at-recycling-facility-identified-case-treated-as-homicide/75-76732957

https://silentwitness.org/cases/christy-davey-3060-south-27th-avenue-phoenix/

Feel free to ask for anything, about anything regarding this case. I have a discovery file from the prosecution. Deputy reports, complete bodycams unedited, and much much more.

Algenonn Dorian Matlock

Over the weekend of 16 to 18 July 1976 a team came up through the floor of a Societe Generale vault in Nice. They had spent about two months underground first, digging a tunnel of roughly eight metres from the city sewer system towards the bank. Once they were inside they had the vault to themselves until Monday.

The preparation is the part that gets retold, and one detail in it is worth more than all the rest. Before committing to the tunnel, Albert Spaggiari rented a safety deposit box in the branch and left an alarm clock inside it, set to go off in the middle of the night. Nothing happened. That told him the vault had no acoustic alarm, which is the one assumption the whole plan rested on, and he had bought the answer for the price of a box rental. Everything after that was labour. That was the only moment where the plan could have died cheaply, and it is the moment he tested first.

They emptied somewhere around three hundred boxes and left a line painted on the wall to the effect that there had been neither weapons, nor hatred, nor violence. The total has never been settled. The figure that circulates is around forty six million francs and I would treat that as an order of magnitude rather than a number, for the reason that applies to most vault jobs. A safety deposit box is where people keep what they have not declared, so the only people able to total the loss accurately had every reason not to.

Spaggiari was arrested a few months later. In March 1977, during a session in the judge's chambers at the courthouse in Nice, he went to the window, opened it and jumped. A motorcycle was waiting for him. Accounts differ on what broke his fall. He was sentenced to life in his absence in 1979 and the French police never had him again.

He died in Italy in 1989 and even that has two versions. The press at the time ran the story that his body turned up in front of his mother's house in France. The account that now looks better supported is that his wife was with him when he died near Belluno and drove him back across the border herself. I have seen two different cancers named as the cause, so I am not going to repeat either.

Nothing from the vault has ever surfaced. In 2010 a book appeared under a pen name whose author claimed he had run the job, and in 2018 a man from Marseille stood trial in connection with laundering the proceeds. He told the court the book was fiction. He was cleared on that charge and convicted on unrelated business offences.

So the heist is closed and the ending is not. What I would like corrected is the second half. If anyone here has worked from the French court file rather than the press coverage, I want to know what it actually establishes about who was in that tunnel, because the version everybody repeats has been shaped by a book and by films rather than by the record.

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On Sunday August 12, 2001, 17-year-old Globe High School student Paul David Sanders left his father’s home near Val Vista and Broadway in Mesa, Arizona to drive back to his grandmother’s home in Globe. He was driving his father’s pickup. It would be the last time he would be seen alive.

Later that evening, the truck was caught in a high-speed chase on the US 77. Police attempted to pull the truck over for speeding, but the driver was able to evade authorities. 

Arizona Department of Public Safety and Pima County Sheriff’s Office collaborated on an interagency chase of the vehicle which was later found near the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson, some two hours south of Mesa.

All of Paul’s belongings were found in the truck but police considered Paul a runaway and refused to conduct forensic examination and processing on the vehicle. 

Paul’s father Robert Brewer told Fox 10 News that he did not believe Paul was the driver of the truck due to the skill level the driver had used to evade authorities. He has since divorced Paul’s stepmother Lori Beavers. 

Robert and Lori were vacationing in Las Vegas when Paul disappeared.

Paul was originally from Missouri and had only moved to Arizona for the 2000-2001 school year. He lived with his grandmother in Globe and went by the name “Dave Brewer” while at Globe High School.

Paul had moved in with his father and stepmother earlier in the summer of 2001.

His friend circle in Arizona primarily consisted of his fellow classmates at Globe High School. Many students at GHS were from the nearby San Carlos Indian Reservation.

Paul’s mother Angela Rice committed suicide in 2020 over the grief of her son’s disappearance. 

Paul was 5’6 and weighed 150 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes. He had the name “Hernandez” tattooed across his back which was a tribute to his grandfather. 

His family and friends insist he would never have abandoned them, and he met with foul play. 

The case is being investigated by Mesa PD.

Sources 

Robert Brewer interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1jGwoAYnxE

Charley Project

https://charleyproject.org/case/paul-david-sanders

NaMus

https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP12249

News articles

https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/cold-case-spotlight/missouri-woman-seeking-answers-2001-disappearance-her-brother-paul-sanders-n1279535

https://silverbelt.com/stories/cold-case-of-missing-teen-paul-sanders-sees-renewed-attention,108159

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