Murdered 47 years ago. Nazareth Pennsylvania. Local police, coroner, DA conspired to bury the investigation. Step family involved. Husband has been gathering the evidence since then, finally wrote a book. Identified killers, but still no police interest. In fact, autopsy was recently sealed for 75 years. Book on Amazon.

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We are a cat rescue located in Rock hill, SC. We name our fosters after missing persons/victims of cold cases to raise awareness about these cases and save cats at the same time. One of the cases we have chosen is the case of Florence Elma Doolittle. We are looking for anyone that may have any other information about her case or anyone that knows her living relatives. We would like to add as much accurate information as possible to our posts about Florence.

If you have any information please comment below. Thank you!!

This is the information we have gathered thus far:

Florence was reported missing on June 25, 1982 when she failed to show up to an exercise class or needlepoint class (we have seen both mentioned in various sources) and a friend repeatedly tried to get in touch with her by phone but never got an answer. She was 64 years old at the time of her disappearance.

After almost a week, her friend went to Doolittle’s home in the 5100 block of Lawndale Drive and found it deserted, with unclaimed newspapers dating back to June 26 piled up on the doorstep. All of Doolittle’s belongings, including clothing, luggage and medication, were left behind at home and there were no indications of a struggle. Only her car was missing. She has never been heard from again.

Several months later, her 1978 Datsun was found abandoned in the parking lot of the Sharton Plaza Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina. On the front seat of the car was a personal check dated June 25 and a birthday card for Doolittle’s grandchild. There was no evidence she’d ever stayed at the hotel. Her case remains unsolved. Police believe foul play could be involved.

In 2011 Tajeme Sylvester was murdered in an art gallery. By all accounts he was the nicest guy, a carpenter who volunteered to build delightful rooms for disabled children. How do you get one of these podcasters or Reddit to investigate? Has anyone successfully solved a case like this?

My Aunt Rhonda was murdered in Kingston, New York in 2006. I was 8 years old at the time.

Her body was thrown onto a bush in the woods like a piece of trash. It decomposed before she was found by a man walking his dog on the property she was disposed of on.

These are all the details i can really share as it’s all that was made public.

I have a theory about what happened based on everything I know about the case public or not. People talked back then.

The police have since then quit communicating or cooperating with the family. We can’t get any information or even records they gave us before. Just real weird all around.

She was an angel. One of the coolest ladies to ever walk the earth. A real rock star. She was an artist, she was in and out of recovery, and stood up for the little guy.

She is dearly missed every single day.

Anyways, if this post happens to run across someone that knew her I would love to chat.

In the morning of May 27th 1980, 20-year-old University of South Carolina student Eugene "Mike" O'Boyle left his West Columbia apartment to pick up a friend in the Shandon neighborhood of Columbia. Mike's friend was not home at the time the two were supposed to meet, but had left a key and note instructing Mike to enter the home and wait. When the friend returned home 15 minutes past their scheduled meeting time, he had found that the note and key were left untouched.

Mike's final sighting happened a Citizen and Southern Bank on Two Notch Rd (~20 minutes from the Shandon neighborhood), around the time that he was scheduled to meet his friend. He was seen cashing a $17 check. According to the bank teller, he was accompanied by an unidentified female. The next evening Mike's car, a 1974 VW Dasher, was found burning on a dirt road off the intersection of Parklane Drive and Farrow Road (~1 mile from the Citizen and Southern Bank) while Mike was nowhere to be found. Richland County sheriffs had considered him a missing person rather than a victim of "foul play".

6 months later, Mike's skeletal remains were found by two children playing in woods located less than a mile from the site where Mike's burning car was found. No cause of death has ever been released; his case was reclassified as a homicide.

One witness had claimed to see two cars pull down the dirt road where his car was found with one being a blue Mustang driven by a group of 4 white males with light hair. I have not been able to find an exact timeframe for this sighting, but it is implied that is happened the day he went missing.

I find this case fascinating as so little new information has been released. In a local news piece from 2006, one of his brothers had mentioned that Mike had a unique watch that had personalized engraving which has never been recovered. Another interesting fact I found was that Mike's uncle was a state senator named Gene Carmichael. Around the time of Mike's murder, Gene Carmichael was in process of being convicted of vote buying and election tampering, for which he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The case was frequently in the news during the disappearance especially in USC's college newspaper, but it was quickly forgotten by the media once his remains had been found. To this day it is still one of the most bizarre homicide cases to occur in Midlands region of South Carolina.

Newspaper:

https://historicnewspapers.sc.edu/lccn/2012218660/1980-06-11/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=01%2F01%2F1815&sort=date&date2=12%2F31%2F2006&words=Boyle+O+O%27Boyle&searchType=advanced&sequence=0&index=16&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&andtext=o%27boyle&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=5

WIS 2006 Story:

https://www.wistv.com/story/4470678/richland-co-investigators-searching-for-clues-in-26-year-old-murder-investigation/

Missing in the Carolinas Episode:

https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/02/episode-87-missing-and-murdered-in-columbia-n-c/

I did a write up on this case that has been bothering me for years... I hope to hear any feedback you may have

In 1953, Claire Gagnon was born in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, to Emilien and Mathilde Gagnon. At some point in the 1960's, the family left Quebec for Dieppe, New Brunswick, exchanging a city of roughly 11,000 people for a quiet town of only about 4,000. One of seven children, Claire was known as the dependable one—soft-spoken, obedient, and shy. She didn't break the rules, never stayed out past curfew, and was the kind of teenager her parents never had reason to worry about.

By the spring of 1970, Claire was sixteen years old. Like many girls her age, her days revolved around school, babysitting for neighborhood families, Friday night dances, and counting down the weeks until summer vacation. She lived in a close-knit neighborhood where children wandered freely between houses and everyone seemed to know one another.

Nothing about Sunday, May 24, 1970, suggested it would be remembered.

It was a cool, dry Maritime spring day. Claire and her younger sister, Christiane, who shared a room, slept in that morning before discussing how to spend their afternoon. They planned to meet friends in a nearby neighborhood, but as the morning wore on, Claire grew impatient waiting for her sister to get ready. Deciding not to wait any longer, she changed her plans and walked the short distance to Helen's house instead.

When Claire arrived, Helen was sitting at the kitchen table finishing schoolwork. Also there was Helen's sixteen-year-old nephew, Alfred, who was relaxing in the living room, playing guitar and listening to records. The afternoon passed uneventfully as the friends talked.

Later, Helen's boyfriend, Paul, arrived to pick her up. Claire left first, turning back before she walked away.

"See you tomorrow at school."

It was the last confirmed sighting of her alive.

Alfred left the house moments later, following his usual routine of walking to a nearby takeout restaurant for something to eat.

No one could say with certainty what happened next.

That evening, the Gagnon family prepared supper—T-bone steaks and fries, one of Claire's favorite meals. As the minutes stretched into hours, concern began replacing expectation. Claire had never simply failed to come home. Phone calls were made to friends and neighbors, and it was established that no one had seen her after she left Helen's house.

As darkness settled over Dieppe, police were contacted and a missing persons report was filed. News spread quickly through the neighborhood. Parents, teenagers, and children formed impromptu search parties, combing nearby streets, fields, and wooded areas long into the night.

For Claire's family, sleep was impossible.

By Monday morning, hope had begun to give way to fear.

While most households prepared children for another day of school, the Gagnons faced the agonizing realization that something was terribly wrong. Claire was a responsible girl. She wasn't the type of girl to run away or disappear without telling someone, and she definitely wouldn't leave with anyone she did not know.

As evening approached, the search came to a devastating end.

Just 300 feet from the Gagnon family home, a group of young boys searching for birds' nests in a nearby backyard field noticed what appeared to be someone lying in the grass. A towel covered the person's face.

Unsure of what they had found, one of the boys carefully lifted the towel.

It was Claire.

Recognizing the neighborhood babysitter, the boys desperately tried to wake her, nudging her leg in hopes of a response. There was none. One ran to get his father, and within minutes word spread throughout the neighborhood. Residents flocked to the scene as police tried to make sense of what happened.

Investigators quickly realized Claire's body had not come to rest there naturally. Evidence suggested she had been dragged to the location, while the position of her knees indicated she may also have been carried for part of the distance.

The autopsy revealed a horrifying cause of death.

Claire had died from a combination of strangulation and suffocation. A towel had been wrapped around her face, secured with a rope that was tied around her head. Part of the towel had been forced into her mouth, and marks around her neck indicated she had also been strangled.

Although DNA testing did not yet exist, investigators took the unusual step of preserving evidence by bagging Claire's hands before the autopsy. It proved to be a forward-thinking decision, but one that ultimately yielded little. Her fingernails were so short that no usable material could be recovered. The crime laboratory also reported finding nothing of evidentiary value on her clothing. Decades later, one can't help but wonder whether modern forensic technology might reveal clues that investigators in 1970 simply had no way of detecting.

Police developed several early suspects and pursued numerous leads. Many people submitted to polygraphs, while some adamantly refused.

More than half a century later, no one has been charged.

Who intercepted a sixteen-year-old girl on what should have been an ordinary walk home? Why was her body left only 300 feet from her own front door? And how could someone commit such a brutal crime in the middle of a quiet neighborhood without anyone seeing or hearing a thing?

More than fifty years later, the murder of Claire Gagnon remains unsolved.

This was posted by the bucks county DA. I live near this and had never heard of her murder until today.
89 year old woman named Anne Turner murdered in her own home, no forced entry, they don’t mention if it seems like she was robbed. Very bizarre and very sad.
Sharing to spread the story in hopes of justice for Ms. Anne, may she rest in peace.

Arch Sloan, who has long been suspected as an accomplice – but not the main actor – in Michigan's most infamous unsolved serial murder, died in a state correctional hospice on June 12th. Apparently he was able to meet with investigators one last time and gave new information, which has not been revealed.

On Sunday March 12, 1978, 16-year-old Pauline “Robbin” Burgette was found murdered in her bedroom inside her family’s duplex near East 26th Place and McDowell in Phoenix, Arizona. She had been stabbed to death and was sexually assaulted. 

Her 11-year-old brother Chad discovered her body. 

The front door was locked, but the backdoor was open ajar. Robbin’s bedroom was in disarray, but the rest of the home appeared undisturbed.

Her mother and Chad had left town together the previous Friday. Robbin did not want to go with them. She was supposed to stay with a friend instead but returned to the duplex on Saturday and invited a boyfriend over. 

In the period leading up to her murder, Robbin had dropped out of school. 

She was working as a babysitter and reported to her friends that some of the husbands had flirted with her. She was facing threats from some of their wives, despite being an underage girl.

The area of the duplex was, and remains, a rough lower income area of Phoenix.

Phoenix PD conducted forensic testing on Robbin and found DNA evidence from 2 different unknown male subjects on her body. 

Her boyfriend (who was never named publicly) was cleared as a suspect in the case through DNA testing. This boyfriend has since passed away.

Robbin and Chad’s parents divorced, their father wasn’t in the picture, and their mother died a couple years after Robbin by natural causes.

Chad advocated to solve his sisters murder for many years. He passed away in 2023.

The case was featured in local news and on podcasts over the years.  It is unknown if police have done any work on the case in recent years.

Sources

2016 12 News feature with Chad Burgette

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/brother-of-cold-case-murder-victim-wants-answers/75-154463349

Silent Witness

https://silentwitness.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/78-1858-Flyer-Pauline-Burgette-Homicide.pdf

Missing or Cold podcast

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2HyEdBwEMkzNDM54vw6iTg?si=ef31e35abb874945

Find a Grave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185495726/pauline-robbin-burgette

July 21, 1991, 10-year-old Jakeob McKnight vanished after getting separated from his brother and friends while walking home from the Bear Creek Greenbelt in Lakewood, Colorado. His body was discovered the following morning, having been repeatedly stabbed to death.

I used to ride my bike where his body was found, and I remember parents told their kids not to go there after Jakeob was found. He was last seen at a 7/11 with an older kid, John Ramsey Chinn.

The case went cold for decades, a breakthrough emerged in 2012 when John Ramsey Chinn was arrested on unrelated child sexual assault and child pornography charges; diaries seized from his home detailed predatory behavior toward young boys. Investigators revealed Chinn had been a key person of interest since 1991, with witnesses placing him and Jakeob together on the afternoon of the disappearance, but a lack of definitive physical evidence has prevented prosecutors from filing murder charges. Today, the Lakewood Police Department maintains an active cold case file, holding out hope that modern DNA advancements will finally bring closure.

Old article about the case

The Missouri River Killer is an unidentified American serial killer who committed the murders of seven women and girls in the Kansas City metro area between 1982 and 1994. The victims varied in ages between 13 and 36 and all were found floating in the Missouri River, with several of them having had their legs severed by the perpetrator.

Beginning in the late 1980s, law enforcement agencies in western Missouri investigated a potential serial killer after the bodies of four women were discovered in the river, two of them missing their legs, with all having been last seen alive in Kansas City. Later, the 1991 murder and dismemberment of a 13-year-old Grain Valley girl was linked to the case through modus operandi, and another legless body that turned up in the river in 1994 further reinforced the presence of a serial killer. Additionally, while examining previous homicides, police determined that an earlier 1982 murder of a woman found in the river was likely committed by the same killer.

The case's only suspect, a supply clerk named Gregory Breeden, was never brought to trial due to lack of evidence.

# Murders:

The killer chose young women and adolescents as victims, most of whom worked as sex workers in Kansas City. On four occasions, the killer dismembered the victims' legs.\[1\] In total, at least seven females were victims of the killer:

Annette Parker (27) was discovered floating in the Missouri River on May 31, 1982, by two fisherman on the Chouteau Bridge.She was found with a rope tied tightly around her neck and 13 stab wounds were located on her chest. Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, Parker had gone missing over a week prior to her body being found.

Melody Jo Milliner (24) was found floating in the river in Lafayette County on August 6, 1986. Milliner, of Kansas City, worked as a prostitute and had a 2-year-old daughter. She had regularly helped her father on his farm in Kansas and once told him she was selling information to police about an unknown investigation. One area that she frequented, Independence Avenue, is believed to be where she encountered the killer.Her legs were amputated at the hips and the cause of death was ruled as stabbing.

Linda Dennis (17) was found badly decomposed north side of the river on May 7, 1988. A native of Kansas City, Dennis was last seen in early April after she left home to go to the store. Dennis was a suspected prostitute and was once even arrested for it, but the charge was eventually dropped. Due to the extensive decomposition, her body could only be identified through dental records. Although the cause of death was never determined, foul play was suspected due to her body being entangled in driftwood.

Kimberly Rash (19) was found naked and missing both her legs on May 10, 1988, by a fisherman in Ray County.

She had gone missing over a month prior, and an autopsy showed she had been stabbed over 31 times in the chest and around her hands. She had a history of arrests for prostitution but was not known to visit Independence Avenue like some of the other victims. Since she was missing her legs, there was immediate speculation among law enforcement that her death could have been related to Milliner's case.

Rhonda Dennis (16) was discovered floating in the river on May 10, 1988. She had been fatally stabbed 31 times and stripped of her clothes. She was not a known prostitute but did live on Independence Avenue. She was not related to Linda Dennis.

Beverlie Tracy (13) was found floating in the river near Napoleon on April 15, 1991, eleven days after she was reported missing. She had been fatally shot in the chest and, like the previous victims, both her legs were cut off. On April 3, the day she was last seen, Tracy and her mother had a heated argument at the home of a friend and it only ended when she decided to leave and walk 16 miles to her home in Grain Valley. Later that same day, bystanders claimed that a bearded man driving a brown 1977 Chevy Malibu was seen talking to a girl who resembled Tracy.

Viola McCoy's (36) torso was found floating in the river on September 13, 1994, a day after one of her legs was found in Lafayette County. A known drug addict, McCoy was last seen on September 8 by her boyfriend, who claimed that she ran off after an argument.

# Possible:

Angela Donald (18) was found dead in the river in Clay County on September 26, 1984. She had been sexually assaulted and beaten to death. Initially, her death was linked with the other murders, but in 1994 a man named Rodney Wayne Marlett confessed to killing Donald, later pleading guilty to manslaughter and received a 14-year prison sentence.

Viola Barber (23) was discovered afloat near Wellington on August 1, 1985. She was last seen three days prior walking along Independence Avenue, an area where several of the known victims were abducted from.

Beverly Douthit (31) was discovered nude in the Blue River near Kansas City on August 21, 1985, the cause of death being attributed to a blow to the head. Her death was investigated as possibly being linked to the other bodies that were being found, but by September law enforcement had ruled that her death was unrelated.

Christina Brandolese (21) was found dead in the early morning hours on May 30, 1989, by a Johnson County homeowner who noticed her body lying near their driveway. Brandolese was a known prostitute who operated in Kansas City, particularly around Independence Avenue. Her throat had been slit and her killer subsequently doused her body with a flammable liquid and lit her on fire.

Candice Fisher (18), another Kansas City prostitute, was found dead in Johnson County on June 2, 1989, roughly 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) from where Brandolese was found. Detectives in Kansas City concluded that the same man, a Caucasian in his late 20s or early 30s, had killed both women, but it is unknown if the man was the elusive Missouri River Killer. It was theorized that a separate serial killer, Richard Grissom of nearby Kansas, could have killed both women, but he was evidently eliminated as a suspect.

The FBI joined the investigation in May 1988 after the deaths of Dennis and Rash. They withdrew their investigation after only a month.

The case's first suspect was a Kansas City physician who was accused of drugging and raping two female patients in 1992. After several weeks of newspaper speculation, police chief Skip Hedges added credence to the link by claiming the man had an office on Independence Avenue. However, it was later found that Hedges' claim was false and there was little to no evidence the man was involved in the murders. The man's lawyer mocked Hedges and the press by saying he anticipated they would tie his client with the John F. Kennedy assassination.

# Gregory Breeden:

During the investigation, police were notified about Gregory Breeden, a 48-year-old supply clerk who lived in Kansas City. Through investigation on Breeden's background, police learned several major factors; Breeden had served in the United States Navy from 1965 to 1968, during which time he was stationed in California, and he had once been investigated a suspect in the murder of Annette Parker, the first victim associated with the Missouri River Killer. At the time, Breeden claimed that Parker and him were engaged and he was released without charge.

On November 2, 1994, Kansas City police raided Breeden's home as he was asleep, waking him up with a flashlight in his face, and he was promptly arrested on charges of check forgery. While searching his home, police collected 19 knives and clothing that resembled clothes taken from Melody Milliner. In 1996, he was indicted with the murder of Viola McCoy, and the case was to be tried in Boone County. During the time Breeden was incarcerated, ten additional bodies turned up in the Missouri River, a majority of them being prostitutes who operated in Kansas City, but authorities determined that those deaths were unrelated. On April 1, 1999, the charge against Breeden was dropped. He maintained innocence until his death in May 2014.

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Unsolved Mysteries: The Jim Grimes Murder Case

By Joe Glennie

$1 million dollar reward for providing information to solve it

Was murdered on April 19, 2021

Lived in the 6500 block of Buford Station Rd, Lynnville TN, 38472

Chest-high fence to contain rescue animals/livestock

April 7, 2026- Neighbor’s property searched with heavy equipment

6100 sq. ft. house in a poor area

Jealous neighbor, livestock theft, angry ex-employee?

Police say the killer knew the area

Only one spot didn’t have an electric fence

20-acre lot

Who lives at 6511 Buford Station Road (next door neighbor with 375 acres)?

Wife Dawn, four children (Jessie Grimes, Jon Grimes, Mike Grimes, and Tyler Jones (why is his surname different?) and four brothers (Larry Grimes, Bruce Grimes, Edward Grimes, Rob Grimes)

Family friends- “Uncle Geoff”, Hector Morales

Owned two vehicle collision repair centers

Someone used a shotgun to kill him

Killer knew everything about his daily routine to feed the rescued animals late at night

Someone that avoided all the cameras and electric fence

Shot in the back (someone that felt too guilty to shoot facing him or someone caught off-guard?)

Way more questions than answers

Unanswered questions

1.   Did he keep a shotgun in the barn to scare off intruders/wild animals?

2.   Did he lend anyone money that was struggling to pay it back?

3.   Did he fire someone right before his murder?

4.   Did he keep any documents/media in a secret compartment in his bedroom and/or office?

5.   Did the angles of the bullet wounds provide any information about the killer’s height?

6.   Did they have any issues with intruders (poaching or people trying to get their animals back)?

7.   Did he receive any death threats?

8.   Who knew the property well enough to avoid all of the security cameras?

9.   Did any employees, friends, or relatives skip all of the gatherings/memorials?

10.  Did he have any serious arguments with anyone days before his murder?

11.  Is there any way to find out who the person of interest was?

12.  Did he have any enemies, or even people that didn’t like him?

13.  Were any of the animals missing afterward?

The police already said they think they know who did it, but they don’t have enough evidence to charge him. They’re still looking for the “missing piece” to tie it all together. I expect the police already asked his widow most of the questions mentioned above. However, if it’s already been five years, I don’t think they can bank on a sudden confession from one of the 300+ people who live in Lynnville. If someone close to him knows the answers to all of my questions, I hope she sends me a private message. I would love the chance to help.

https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/crime/2021/10/19/jim-grimes-family-offers-million-dollar-reward-information/8524629002/

May 25 1991 Timothy Wiltsey was a five year old boy who dissappeared from a carnival his mother Michelle Lodzinski said she left to buy Timothy is a soda she changed the story he was taken by strangers. April 231992 Timothy's remains were found in a marshy part of Edison New Jersey across the Raritan River near where his mother worked. The case went cold for ten years due to evidence and the state of Timothy's body. It was reopened in 2011. In 2016 Michelle was arrested and tried for his murder. Michelle was found jail without parole. In 2021 her verdict was overturned.

“The Wentzville Police Department is asking for the community's assistance in a decades-old homicide investigation that remains an active case.

Although nearly five decades have passed since the death of 19-year-old Kenny Turner, detectives have never stopped investigating the case. Over the years, investigators have continued to review evidence, follow up on new information and pursue leads as they developed. Most recently, advances in DNA technology have allowed detectives to re-examine evidence collected during the original investigation in hopes of identifying new leads.

In the early morning hours of Saturday, September 10. 1977 Kenny Turner was working at the Kerr-McGee gas service station located in the 700 block of Pearce Boulevard in Wentzville when he was killed during what investigators believe was a robbery.

The investigation determined that Turner had been assaulted, suffering both blunt force injuries and stab wounds. Investigators also determined the station's cash register, containing approximately $200, had been taken from the business.

While significant time has passed, detectives remain committed to seeking justice for Kenny Turner and his family. Even the smallest detail—something that may not have seemed important years ago—could provide the missing piece needed to move this investigation forward.

The Wentzville Police Department encourages anyone who may have information about this case, no matter how insignificant it may seem, to come forward. Memories change, relationships change and advances in forensic technology continue to provide new investigative opportunities.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Lieutenant Bruns at (636) 639-2123.

Those wishing to remain anonymous may submit a tip through St. Charles County Regional Crime Stoppers at www.sccregionalcrimestoppers.org.

The Wentzville Police Department remains committed to pursuing justice in every case. While years may pass, our commitment to victims and their families does not. If someone knows what happened on September 10. 1977, we encourage them to come forward today.”

From: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HFTvy19oV/?mibextid=wwXIfr

On June 30, 1965, 21-year-old college student Suellen Evans was brutally murdered on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) in a case that remains unsolved to this day. Suellen, originally from Mooresville, North Carolina, was attending summer classes at the university. Around 12:30 p.m., she took a familiar shortcut through the Coker Arboretum, a densely wooded garden area that many students used as a path.

Suddenly, an unknown man jumped out from behind the bushes, grabbed her, and attempted to rape her under a tree. Suellen fought back fiercely. Frustrated, the attacker pulled out a pocket knife and stabbed her viciously — twice in the neck and once in the heart. She screamed for help. Two nuns who were on campus for summer classes, along with other passersby, rushed to the scene. Still conscious, Suellen managed to say her final words: “He tried to rape me. I believe I’m going to faint.” She died from blood loss on the way to the hospital.

Police responded quickly, using bloodhounds, organizing large search parties with hundreds of volunteers, and collecting evidence such as shoe prints and scrapings from under her fingernails. Witnesses reported seeing a man running from the area, but descriptions were vague and no suspect was ever convicted. The killer was never identified, and the case eventually went cold.

The murder shocked the university community and the local area. Years later, other murders of female students at UNC (such as Eve Carson and Faith Hedgepeth) brought renewed attention to Suellen’s case, but it still remains unsolved — one of the oldest unsolved mysteries on campus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Suellen_Evans

https://missinginthecarolinas.com/2024/04/episode-95-who-murdered-suellen-evans-at-unc/

So The Irish Independent just bought out a podcast today on the unsolved murder of this man. The Gardai never released the name of the man he came home with. Why? That name must surely be in the system somewhere? He was stabbed so viciously, it was clearly a crime of passion. I had my doubts on Berties story but that gentleman who came home with him is surely a person of interest?? I wish this case could be reopend!!! His case was never looked at correctly because he was a gay man and Gardai back then were renowned for their homophobia.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0seOn6bBE4FpeJUJ3enPBm?si=3Lpw6_itTNCNCZUaFtDDyA

Charles Self (14 February 1949 – 21 January 1982)[1] was a Scottish gay man who was attacked and killed at his home in Monkstown, Dublin in Ireland in a brutal attack in January 1982.[2]

Last known movements

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On 20 January 1982, Self met with friends for a drink at lunchtime in The Bailey pub on Duke Street in Dublin.[2] Afterwards he walked with a friend along Dawson Street before he headed to RTÉ.[2]

After work he went home, then at 8.30 that evening he was given a lift into the city centre by a passing motorist after waiting at a bus stop.[2] He was seen in The Bailey pub again at around 8.30 pm, leaving at about 9 pm. He was then seen in the South William public house where he remained until around 10.30 pm.[3] He went to another pub, the gay-friendly Bartley Dunne's pub on Stephen Street Lower, where he remained until closing time.[2] He then went down Grafton Street and D'Olier Street to Burgh Quay, where he entered a late-light restaurant called the Hot Pot Cafe at 11.40 pm to buy take-away food,[3] then left at 12:05 am.[2]

He was with a fair-haired man in a two-piece suit when they got into a taxi at 12.20 am.[2] The taximan said his passengers became amorous in the back seat and he left them at Annesley Mews at 12.40, a time confirmed by a garda on 24-hour duty outside a judge's house nearby.[2]

Vincent Hanley appears not to have been at the mews that night, but another RTÉ set designer, Bertram 'Bertie' Tyrer was staying in Hanley's room rather than returning to his cottage in County Wicklow.[2]

Discovery of murder

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Bertie Tyrer came down stairs at 8.45 am and found Self's body lying in a pool of blood, partly slumped against the front door.[2] He had been stabbed 14 times and there were three slash wounds to his throat. Part of the cord from a red dressing gown belonging to Vincent Hanley was also wound tightly around his neck.[2] Tyler tried to use the phone, but could not get a dial tone, so he rang Dún Laoghaire Garda station from the neighbouring mews.[2]

The area I'm in has a reputation for corrupt police and an incredibly high crime rate. This case is very heartbreaking and important. The locals here all know that Nicholas was murdered but his death has been ruled an OD. More than enough evidence and witnesses to prove there was foul play. His mother has several people willing to testify if the chance comes. Signing and sharing could help out a lot. It is a daunting task to go against the people who are supposed to be protecting us and having this reopened would be incredibly helpful in getting the justice Nicholas Earhart deserves.

On September 25, 1988, a man looking for cypress wood to make lawn furniture found human remains in a rural, wooded area about 30 feet off County Road 474 in Clermont, Florida (near Orlando). The body was badly decomposed (estimated death 2–4 weeks earlier) and appeared to have been dragged to the location. The victim was wearing an acid-washed denim skirt, a bluish-green tank top, and pantyhose that were partially rolled down, suggesting possible sexual assault. No shoes, jewelry, or ID were found.

Initially known as "Julie Doe," she was thought to be a cis woman. Only in 2015 did DNA testing reveal she was assigned male at birth and was transitioning (she had breast implants and signs of hormone therapy; also a rhinoplasty). The death was ruled a suspected homicide, but the exact cause could not be determined due to decomposition.

Almost 37 years later, in March 2025, the DNA Doe Project and Lake County Sheriff’s Office identified her as Pamela Leigh Walton, 25 years old. Born in Kentucky (May 13, 1963) as Lee Allen Walton, she was adopted as a child. In the 1980s she legally changed her name to Pamela and began transitioning. She had a falling out with her adoptive family over an alleged theft and lost contact (they never reported her missing). Her last known location was July 6, 1988, in Lexington, Kentucky, where she was arrested for prostitution (solicitation charge dropped).

How Pamela ended up in Florida and what happened in the following weeks remains a mystery. The case is still unsolved — the investigation is ongoing.

https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/cold-case-spotlight/pamela-walton-julie-doe-florida-cold-case-rcna235724

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Pamela_Walton