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Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert is known as the Highway of Tears because of all the unsolved murders and disappearances of young women, largely First Nations, from the late 1960s to the present. Signs warn girls not to hitchhike. (Richard McGuire photo)
Scottish Rite Cathedral, 150 North Madison Avenue, Pasadena, California. The Scottish Rite Cathedral in Pasadena was built in 1925 in the Zigzag Moderne style. The architects were Joseph J. Blick and W.C. Crowell. The building was dedicated at a ceremony on February 18, 1925 attended by approximately 1700 high-degree masons and their families. The steps of the Cathedral were the scene of a 1930s murder that remains unsolved to this day. Leonard Seiver, a prominent dentist and playboy in Pasadena, was gunned down near the Cathedral sphinxes. Despite an intensive investigation that included the interrogation of 700 young men in the area, no arrests were made and the case is still a mystery.
German autograph card by TV Spielfilm.
Handsome German actor Mathieu Carrière (1950) had his breakthrough at 16 in Volker Schlöndorf’s Der junge Törless/Young Törless (1966). In the 1970s and 1980s he appeared in many French arthouse films by directors like André Delvaux and Marguerite Duras. Carrière was very convincing in challenging roles in several literary film adaptations and he also incidentally worked as a director and a writer.
Mathieu Carrière was born in 1950 in Hanover, Germany. His parents were Bern Carrière, a neurologist and psychiatrist, and Jutta Carrière. His brother Till Carrière and sister Mareike Carrière would both become actors too. Carrière grew up in Berlin and Lübeck. The young Mathieu had his first stage riole as Emil in a school production of Erich Kästner's Emil and the detectives at the Gymnasium Katharineum in Lübeck. At the age of 13, he played the young Tonio in the film adaptation of Thomas Mann's Tonio Kröger (Rolf Thiele, 1964), with Jean-Claude Brialy as the adult Tonio. Mathieu attended the Jesuit boarding school Lycée Saint-François-Xavier in Vannes, France. This school had previously been attended by the director of Carrière's first major film, Volker Schlöndorff. Carrière played Torless, a student in a costly boarding school during the glory days of the Hapsburg empire in Der junge Törless/Young Törless (Volker Schlöndorff, 1966). The film was adapted from the autobiographical novel Die Verwirrungen des Zoglings Torless (The Confusions of Young Törless) by Robert Musil. It deals with the violent, sadistic and homoerotic tendencies at an Austrian military academy at the beginning of the 20th century. The film won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. His next film was Vrata Raja/Gates to Paradise (1968) by Polish director Andrzej Wajda. Lionel Stander stars as a monk who leads a group of children from France to Jerusalem to protest the carnage of the Crusades between the Christians and Moslems for ownership of the holy land The film is based on a novel by Polish writer Jerzy Andrzejewski that seeks to expose the motives behind youthful religious zeal. In 1969, Carrière moved to Paris to study philosophy and continue his acting.
Mathieu Carrière played the leading role in the French-Italian-West German science fiction-drama L'Homme au cerveau greffé/Man with the Transplanted Brain (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, 1971), the Belgian fantasy-horror Malpertuis/The Legend of Doom House (Harry Kümel, 1971) with Orson Welles, and the French-Belgian drama Rendez-vous à Bray/Rendezvous at Bray (André Delvaux, 1971), starring Anna Karina. After this impressive start in France, his career seemed to go nowhere when he appeared in one of the final Brigitte Bardot films, the flop Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une femme.../Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman (Roger Vadim, 1973), and in another Vadim debacle, La jeune fille assassinée/Charlotte or The Murdered Young Girl (Roger Vadim, 1974) with Sirpa Lane as a nymphomaniac. In between, he had a supporting part in the interesting Italian film Giordano Bruno (Giuliano Montaldo, 1973), about the last years of the philosopher Giordano Bruno (Gian Maria Volonté) from 1592 to his execution in 1600. An arthouse hit was the French drama India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975), with Delphine Seyrig. India Song was nominated for three César Awards in 1976. Other known films with Carrière were the French crime-thriller Police Python 357/The Case Against Ferro (Alain Corneau, 1976) starring Yves Montand and Simone Signoret, and the West German film Der Fangschuß/Coup de Grâce (Volker Schlöndorff, 1976) adapted from the novel by Marguerite Yourcenar. He also appeared in the French romantic drama Bilitis (1977) directed by photographer David Hamilton and shot in the his well-known soft focus style. Other films were the Swiss drama Les Indiens sont encore loin/The Indians Are Still Far Away (Patricia Moraz, 1977) with Isabelle Huppert, and the Belgian-French drama Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf/Woman Between Wolf and Dog (André Delvaux, 1979) with Marie-Christine Barrault and Rutger Hauer.
In 1980, Mathieu Carrière starred in Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung/Egon Schiele – Excess and Punishment (Herbert Vessely, 1981), based on the life of the Austrian expressionist painter. He then played a supporting part in the French film La femme de l'aviateur The Aviator's Wife (1981), written and directed by Éric Rohmer. Like many of Rohmer’s films, it deals with the ever-evolving love lives of a group of young Parisians. This was the first in Rohmer's Comedies & Proverbs series. He then appeared in the final film of Romy Schneider, La passante du Sans-Souci/The Passerby (Jacques Rouffio, 1982), based on a novel by Joseph Kessel. He followed it with the Belgian-French-Italian romantic drama Benvenuta (André Delvaux, 1983), with Fanny Ardant and Vittorio Gassman. He returned to Germany to play in Die flambierte Frau/A Woman in Flames (Robert van Ackeren, 1983), starring Gudrun Landgrebe. The film was a enormous moneymaker in Germany. Again with Landgrebe and with his sister Mareike, he appeared in the Hungarian drama Yerma (Imre Gyöngyössy, Barna Kabay, 1984), based on the play by Federico García Lorca. Later films include the Marguerite Yourcenar adaptation L'Œuvre au noir/The Abyss (André Delvaux, 1988), with Gian Maria Volonté and Sami Frey, and the West-German drama Zugzwang/Fool's Mate (1989), which he also wrote and directed.
During the following decades Mathieu Carrière started to work more and more for television, but there war still several film roles. In 1991, he appeared opposite Isabelle Huppert in the German-Austrian drama Malina (Werner Schroeter, 1991). The screenplay was adapted by Elfriede Jelinek from Ingeborg Bachmann's novel Malina. It was followed by a part opposite Bruno Ganz in the German drama Erfolg/Success (Franz Seitz Jr., 1991) based on the famous novel by Lion Feuchtwanger. His first American production was the historical adventure film Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (John Glen, 1992) with Marlon Brando, followed by the American World War II drama Shining Through (David Seltzer, 1992), starring Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith. He returned to Germany to co-star with Nina Hoss in Das Mädchen Rosemarie/A Girl Called Rose Marie (Bernd Eichinger, 1997), a remake of the highly-regarded film Das Maedchen Rosemarie/Rosemary (1958). This fact-based drama follows the rise and fall of a German beauty who went from ex-convict to courtesan of some of Germany's most powerful men to the victim of an unsolved murder. Later films include the biopic Luther (Eric Till & Marc Canosa, 2003) starring Joseph Fiennes, the French crime-adventure film Arsène Lupin (Jean-Paul Salomé, 2004), based on the iconic series of novels about gentleman thief Arsène Lupin created by Maurice Leblanc, and the French thriller La marque des anges – Miserere/The Mark of the Angels – Miserere (Sylvain White, 2013), starring Gérard Depardieu. Despite a large budget, the latter film was poorly received by critics and failed to make an impact at the box office. Mathieu Carrière has two daughters, Alice Isabelle (1985) with Jennifer Bartlett; and Elena Carriere (1996) with Bettina Catharina Proske. After losing a legal battle over custody for his daughter, he became a strong activist for the rights of fathers. In a controversial performance, he was symbolically crucified in front of the German Ministery of Justice in 2006.
Sources: AllMovie, Wikipedia (English and German), and IMDb.
WYP and Calder Valley Moorland Search looking for a man apparently seen carrying a body on the moors near Scommonden Dam, in September 1979. The mystery remained unsolved.
Headstone marking the grave of “Jane Doe” in the Pima County Cemetery in the city of Tucson, Arizona….
Jane Doe’s body was discovered on November 5, 1984 in a trash filled cistern located in the open desert near the community of Marana, Arizona. She was wearing three gold colored necklaces (two of them had small medallions and keys) and a wide band ring with an open cut design on her right hand ring finger. According to the medical examiner, she was between 50-85 years of age, was 5’ 8” tall, and had been dead for a few days. Her body had been burned beyond recognition…
Homicide Candle Memorial for 28 year old Faja Perry who was gunned down inside the house on the right located at 30 Chester Street on April 2nd 2016. Another female was shot inside the house but lived. She was the 10th person murdered in Buffalo NY in 2016, her murder case remains unsolved.
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Starting December with a cold and foggy morning in the city. I can't believe that it's already December! This year has been something else indeed... Pic taken from around San Jose, CA. (Tuesday early morning, December 1, 2020; 7:54 a.m.)
*“When life is foggy, path is unclear and mind is dull, remember your breath. It has the power to give you the peace. It has the power to resolve the unsolved equations of life.” ― Amit Ray, Beautify your Breath - Beautify your Life
...toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” Rilke
This is a walk made in the autumn of 2018, 32 years AFTER the murder of prime minister Olof Palme of Sweden. It follows his path that fatal evening. People in the streets have, of course, nothing to do with the case. The murder remains unsolved and has given rise to conspiracy theories.
On Friday, 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET (22:21 UTC), Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. Lisbet Palme was slightly wounded by a second shot. The couple did not have bodyguards at the time.
Christer Pettersson, who had previously been convicted of manslaughter, was convicted of the murder in 1988 after having been identified as the killer by Palme's wife. However, on appeal to Svea Court of Appeal he was acquitted. A petition for a new trial, filed by the prosecutor, was denied by the Supreme Court of Sweden. Pettersson died in late September 2004, legally declared not guilty of the Palme assassination. The case remains unsolved and has given rise to conspiracy theories.
Despite being Prime Minister, Palme sought to live as ordinary a life as possible. He would often go out without any bodyguard protection, and the night of his murder was one such occasion. Walking home from the Grand Cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen, close to midnight on 28 February 1986, the couple was attacked by a lone gunman. Palme was fatally shot in the back at close range at 23:21 CET. A second shot wounded Mrs Palme.
Police said that a taxi driver used his mobile radio to raise the alarm, and two girls in a nearby car tried to assist. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital at 00:06 CET on 1 March 1986. The attacker escaped eastwards on the Tunnelgatan.
Deputy Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson immediately assumed the duties of Prime Minister and as new leader of the Social Democratic Party.
Sequence of events
Cinema decision
Palme's decision to visit the Grand Cinema was made at very short notice. Lisbet Palme had discussed seeing a film when she was at work during the afternoon, and called her son, Mårten Palme, at 17:00 to talk about the film at the Grand Cinema. Olof Palme did not hear about the plans until at home, at 18:30, when he met with his wife, by which time Palme had already declined any further personal bodyguard protection from the security service. He talked to his son about the plans on the phone, and they eventually decided to join Mårten and his girlfriend, who had already purchased tickets for themselves to see the Swedish comedy Bröderna Mozart ("The Mozart Brothers") by Suzanne Osten. This decision was made about 20:00. The police later searched Palme's apartment, as well as Lisbet's and Mårten's work places, for wire-bugging devices or traces of such equipment, but did not find any.[1]
Grand Cinema
Grand cinema.
Crossing of Sveavägen–Tunnelgatan where Palme was shot.
Tunnelgatan. The assassin's immediate escape route.
At 20:30 the Palmes left their apartment, unescorted, heading for the Gamla stan metro station. Several people witnessed their short walk to the station and, according to the later police investigation, commented on the lack of bodyguards. The couple took the subway train to the Rådmansgatan station, from where they walked to the Grand Cinema. They met their son and his girlfriend just outside the cinema around 21:00. Olof Palme had not yet purchased tickets which were by then almost sold out. Recognizing the prime minister, the ticket clerk wanted him to have the best seats, and therefore sold Palme the theatre director's seats.[2]
Murder
After the screening, the two couples stayed outside the theatre for a while but separated about 23:15. Olof and Lisbet Palme headed south on the west side of Sveavägen, towards the northern entrance of the Hötorget metro station. When they reached the Adolf Fredrik Church, they crossed Sveavägen and continued on the street's east side. They stopped a moment to look at something in a shop window, then continued past the Dekorima shop which was then located on the corner of Sveavägen and Tunnelgatan.
At 23:21, a man appeared from behind, shot Mr. Palme at point-blank range and fired a second shot at Mrs. Palme. The perpetrator then jogged down Tunnelgatan street, up the steps to Malmskillnadsgatan and continued down David Bagares gata [street], where he was last seen
Sunset on Lake Michigan from the Blisswood Resort near Good Hart in northern Michigan. The resort was made famous for the unsolved mass murder of the Robison family in 1968.
"Emily Griffith
(b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1868 - d. Pinecliffe, Co. 1947; b. Fairmount Cemetery)
In 1947, the most celebrated of Colorado’s many superb teachers was found shot to death at her summer cabin in Pinecliffe. This still- unsolved case may have been a suicide pact between the 79-year-old teacher, her retarded sister and their caretaker. Despite doubts about her death, no doubts shadow Emily K. Griffith’s contributions to Colorado. This tiny, mild-mannered lady made a huge difference. At a time when many Americans joined organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan to persecute poor immigrants, Emily came up with a radical alternative "For All Those Who Wish To Learn"—she offered the newcomers a free public education to help them learn English and job skills. As a teenager, the blue-eyed, auburn-haired maiden began teaching in a sod schoolhouse in Broken Bow, Nebraska. After moving to Denver in 1895, she worked in the 24th St. School in Five Points.
Miss Griffith became convinced that adults needed education as much as their children. She dreamed of making Denver the first city in the world with free universal adult education. Her dream came true in 1916, when the Denver Public Schools converted Longfellow School to Opportunity School. This adult education center at 14th and Welton Sts. has evolved into a block-long complex of the Emily Griffith Opportunity School (EGOS)—as it was renamed, despite her protest when she retired in 1933. Since 1916, the EGOS has educated more than two million people. Natives and immigrants alike have learned to read, write and speak English and been trained with marketable job skills."
La llorona,, by Juana Alicia, 2004
see : www.juanaalicia.com/content/57/
"La Llorona (The Weeping Woman), Juana Alicia’s latest mural project, picks up where Las Lechugueras left off. This time Juana Alicia takes a look at environmental struggles involving women around the world. The new mural takes its title from the much-debated Mexican myth of the woman who allegedly drowned her children and is damned to weep for them. La Llorona weaves the stories of women in Bolivia, India, and at the U.S. Border together. It highlights Bolivians in Cochabamba who have fought to keep Bechtel Corporation from buying the water rights in their country; Indian farm workers in the Narmada Valley protesting in the flooded waters of their homes against their government’s irresponsible dam projects; and the women in black protesting the unsolved murders of women in Juarez, in the shadow of the Rio Bravo and the maquiladoras (sweatshops).
Juana Alicia believes that globalization is not inherently bad, but when it takes the form of corporate forces trying to sell people their own water, or when it begins to spread poverty through women, then she must raise her brush in protest."
Some stories just need to be told: I haven’t thought about Mia Zapata in years but walking around the streets of Capitol Hill in Seattle brought back many memories cues. Especially seeing the Comet Tavern, the place Mia was last seen alive. Mia Zapata was a talented singer and guitar player of the punk/grunge band “The Gits”. Her life was cut short by a random act of violence that led to her murder. For 10 years the crime remained unsolved, and then in 2003 Jesus Mezquia (a drifter from Florida) was convicted of her murder. I remember seeing her band “The Gits” at the “pain in grass shows” in Seatlle and playing clubs like the OK Hotel. I remember when her case was unsolved and seeing wanted and reward fliers everywhere. But I most remember how kind and compassionate the community of Seattle was and how her close friends Kurt Corbain, Soundgarden, Heart, and Pearl Jam did a benefit concert in honor of their friend to immortalize her talents. Her voice should have been heard by the whole world but wasn’t because of her tragic death. There is no memorial for Mia in Seattle, the only link I have to her in Seattle now, is this Comet Tavern sign which is the last place she was seen alive.
There was a string of unsolved murders that occurred throughout the 1920s and 1930s in tropical Queensland, baffling police and terrifying the public.
Giusseppe Parisi was discovered in a creek, a bullet hole through his head. Nineteen-year-old Jean Morris’s body was found in an Ayr rooming house, savagely mutilated by over 30 stab wounds. Domenico Scarcella’s head was blown to pieces as he fed his horses and Vincenzo D’Agostino was fatally wounded in an explosion at an Ingham bakery. All had links to the notorious Black Hand: La Mano Nera, a secret society that originated in 18th century Naples.
When hard-working Italian canecutters and farmers began to prosper in North Queensland, the Black Hand infiltrated, demanding their countrymen pay exorbitant sums of money or risk extreme misfortune. Australians were warned to beware the ‘olive peril’.
At the 1935 inquest into the murder of Domenico Scarcella, his widow Francesca swore that her husband’s death was a vendetta killing. It transpired that Domenico’s brother, Severio, killed Vincenzo Speranzo in Italy. Speranzo happened to be the brother-in-law of D’Agostino and Francesca had received letters from relatives in Italy to support that theory.
A letter was also found on the body of Domenico Scarcella: an extortion letter from the Black Hand demanding £250 (approximately $24,500 today). In a post-mortem examination of the body, Dr Morrissey noted 71 pellet wounds to the torso: all had been fired prior to the fatal gunshots to the skull, which were made at close range from behind.
Jean Morris, a street girl, had been involved with several members of the Black Hand but she too had met an untimely death. Inspector O’Driscoll stated:
In all my long experience as a policeman I had never witnessed such evidence of lethal ferocity or unbridled rage. Hardened as I imagined myself to be, I admit I felt sickened by the dreadful scene in Jean Morris’s bedroom.
In 1938, as police sat by his deathbed, D’Agostino steadfastly refused to name his attackers, taking his secret to the grave.
Perhaps the string of murders stemmed from 1928, when elderly canegrower Nicky Patane refused to pay any more protection money to D’Agostino and was shot in the head, dying in the arms of his wife. Patane’s brutal murder allegedly inspired another secret society in North Queensland. On the banks of a creek at Stone River, 16 defiant farmers allegedly signed an oath written in their own blood, vowing to eliminate the Black Hand permanently.
These cases, and more, remain unsolved to this day.
IID 349599
This is a walk made in the autumn of 2018, 32 years AFTER the murder of prime minister Olof Palme of Sweden. It follows his path that fatal evening. People in the streets have, of course, nothing to do with the case. The murder remains unsolved and has given rise to conspiracy theories.
On Friday, 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET (22:21 UTC), Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. Lisbet Palme was slightly wounded by a second shot. The couple did not have bodyguards at the time.
Christer Pettersson, who had previously been convicted of manslaughter, was convicted of the murder in 1988 after having been identified as the killer by Palme's wife. However, on appeal to Svea Court of Appeal he was acquitted. A petition for a new trial, filed by the prosecutor, was denied by the Supreme Court of Sweden. Pettersson died in late September 2004, legally declared not guilty of the Palme assassination. The case remains unsolved and has given rise to conspiracy theories.
Despite being Prime Minister, Palme sought to live as ordinary a life as possible. He would often go out without any bodyguard protection, and the night of his murder was one such occasion. Walking home from the Grand Cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen, close to midnight on 28 February 1986, the couple was attacked by a lone gunman. Palme was fatally shot in the back at close range at 23:21 CET. A second shot wounded Mrs Palme.
Police said that a taxi driver used his mobile radio to raise the alarm, and two girls in a nearby car tried to assist. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital at 00:06 CET on 1 March 1986. The attacker escaped eastwards on the Tunnelgatan.
Deputy Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson immediately assumed the duties of Prime Minister and as new leader of the Social Democratic Party.
Sequence of events
Cinema decision
Palme's decision to visit the Grand Cinema was made at very short notice. Lisbet Palme had discussed seeing a film when she was at work during the afternoon, and called her son, Mårten Palme, at 17:00 to talk about the film at the Grand Cinema. Olof Palme did not hear about the plans until at home, at 18:30, when he met with his wife, by which time Palme had already declined any further personal bodyguard protection from the security service. He talked to his son about the plans on the phone, and they eventually decided to join Mårten and his girlfriend, who had already purchased tickets for themselves to see the Swedish comedy Bröderna Mozart ("The Mozart Brothers") by Suzanne Osten. This decision was made about 20:00. The police later searched Palme's apartment, as well as Lisbet's and Mårten's work places, for wire-bugging devices or traces of such equipment, but did not find any.[1]
Grand Cinema
Grand cinema.
Crossing of Sveavägen–Tunnelgatan where Palme was shot.
Tunnelgatan. The assassin's immediate escape route.
At 20:30 the Palmes left their apartment, unescorted, heading for the Gamla stan metro station. Several people witnessed their short walk to the station and, according to the later police investigation, commented on the lack of bodyguards. The couple took the subway train to the Rådmansgatan station, from where they walked to the Grand Cinema. They met their son and his girlfriend just outside the cinema around 21:00. Olof Palme had not yet purchased tickets which were by then almost sold out. Recognizing the prime minister, the ticket clerk wanted him to have the best seats, and therefore sold Palme the theatre director's seats.[2]
Murder
After the screening, the two couples stayed outside the theatre for a while but separated about 23:15. Olof and Lisbet Palme headed south on the west side of Sveavägen, towards the northern entrance of the Hötorget metro station. When they reached the Adolf Fredrik Church, they crossed Sveavägen and continued on the street's east side. They stopped a moment to look at something in a shop window, then continued past the Dekorima shop which was then located on the corner of Sveavägen and Tunnelgatan.
At 23:21, a man appeared from behind, shot Mr. Palme at point-blank range and fired a second shot at Mrs. Palme. The perpetrator then jogged down Tunnelgatan street, up the steps to Malmskillnadsgatan and continued down David Bagares gata [street], where he was last seen
We interviewed a Russian in his late 40s on the front porch of this house in 2003 in conjunction with several high profile murders that are still unsolved today.
Now in 2008 the house is boarded up and our pal is long gone.
This photo is interesting because whoever lived there last couldn't afford windows but could afford TWO mini satellite dishes?
Queensland State Archives Item ID ITM294496 Dept No.44
The murder of siblings Michael, Norah and Ellen Murphy near Gatton on Boxing Day 1898 sparked intense interest and speculation. All three were killed between 10pm and the early hours of the following morning on their way home from a dance that had been cancelled and the case remains unsolved to this day.
Contained within the QSA archived police files are pages of handwritten letters from across Queensland sent from members of the community convinced they could help solve the case using their spiritual gifts. Some are simply a few words on a scrap of paper, others take up many pages and go into lengthy detail about possible conspiracies. The police called the correspondence files ‘Astrologers, Dreamers, Theorists, etc’.
Meriwether Lewis is the Lewis of the famous Lewis and Clark exploring duo. In 1809, Lewis, while he was the governor of the Louisiana Territory was travelling the old Natchez Trace, when he stopped at an Inn, Grinder's Stand. Lewis was later found with two gunshot wounds, possibly self-inflicted or possibly an unsolved murder.
In 1848, Tennessee erected this broken column monument, symbolizing Lewis's untimely death at age 35. In 1925, President Coolidge designated this a National Monument. The county where this lies became Lewis County in 1843. In 1961, this monument and park became under the oversight of the Natchez Trace Parkway, and also maintains a campground here.
On its east side is the following inscription:
In the language of Mr. Jefferson:— "His courage was undaunted; his firmness and perseverance yielded to nothing but impossibilities; a rigid disciplinarian yet tender as a father of those committed to his charge; honest, disinterested, liberal, with a sound understanding and a scrupulous fidelity to truth."
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day"
Rainer Maria Rilke
Our urban intervention this time is at Jakarta Kota Tua. It is part of heritage city for Indonesia history. My design partner for this task is Mohd Sahrul Ahmad. The key challenge for this task is about the negotiation with the conservation context. Abandon and historical building yet we don't have so much urban void as we can proposed new building. So by applying the concept of tetrisity where new development take part at top of the existing building. Perhaps we was thinking this conceptual ideas can bridging the gap for certain unsolved problem which already exist.
Maker: Giraudon's Artist
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: albumen print
Size: 10 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in
Location: France
Object No. 2014.591
Shelf: D-19
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Notes: The photographer called “Giraudon’s Artist” remains one of the unsolved mysteries of photography history. Adolphe Giraudon (1849–1929), born in the farming community of Charost, France, opened a photographic library in Paris in 1877 at 15 rue Bonaparte, specializing in topographic, architectural, genre, and nude studies for use by architects, artists and designers and taken by an international who’s who from the Italian Alinari Brothers to the Scottish Valentine & Sons. Available also was a group of photographs of pastoral activities, presumably commissioned by Giraudon, made by an unidentified photographer working near the Fontainbleau forest. They echoed the imagery and compositions of Millet and the other Barbizon painters. The series appears to have been short-lived as none were found in the Giraudon archives nor were they listed in his period catalogues of various works for sale. These photographs remained largely unknown until a few groups emerged about thirty years ago and in the absence of a name, were indentified as being by “Giraudon’s Artist”.
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A Girl And Some Tunes: The Girl And The Unsolved Investigation
Sonic Youth "Antenna"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B_NVayA_VI
She's a young investigator. You previously saw her in "A Girl And Some Tunes: The Girl And The Lost Village": www.flickr.com/photos/onesharpeye/sets/72157629100912500/
This time she's got to face a very strange case. A mud road has appeared in one night near the city. And no one saw or hear anything. This is the promise for a long run investigation!
After a long day of search in the area, she found nothing. There's many strange things here, but the answers won't come easily!
Model: Tam
Between 1934 and 1944, the exotically titled Pyjama Girl Murder became the nation's most well known unsolved crime. A young woman’s body was discovered beside a country road in Albury on 1st September 1934. She had been bashed and shot, her body dumped and set alight. Police efforts at identifying the body proved fruitless. The body was subsequently preserved for purposes of identification in a zinc-lined bath at the Anatomy Department of Sydney University. She became known as the Pyjama Girl having been found dead in her pyjamas. The case was publicised nationally and internationally but the failure to indentify the woman’s killer became an embarrassment to the NSW police. Almost ten years after her death, the Pyjama Girl was identified as Linda Agostini and her husband confessed to the crime to the Commissioner of Police, William. J. Mackay in March 1944.
As soon as the cop gave this member of the street community his no-helmet ticket, the guy crunched it in his hand and threw it in the trash, right in front of the cop and his napoleon-complex.
The VicPD were down at Occupy, stopping every skateboarder, leash-less dog, and helmet-less cyclist in the vicinity. While watching this, I noticed the police didn't stop one of the hundreds of cars passing by who were obviously exceeding the speed-limit. What other crimes remain unsolved? Hmmm...
The VicPD is the most costly police department in British Columbia
The VicPD's crime-solving rate is one of the worst in all of Canada
The VicPD's officer response times have consistently worsened
VicPD's Chief Jamie Graham has been found guilty of discreditable conduct, again
(There was more property damage in the 2011 pro-child rape riots at Penn State than all 100+ Occupy protests combined.)
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Most Canadians support 'Occupy' protests, poll finds
"The Occupy Wall Street movement that has spread throughout the U.S. and Canada has the support of most of the Canadians who are aware of it, a new poll has found."
"The Nanos poll conducted for The Globe and Mail and La Presse finds that seven out of 10 Canadians have heard of the demonstrations."
Those unaware of the Occupy protests were found to be as equally clueless to those who object to the Occupy protests.
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Occupy Victoria (The Peoples' Assembly of Victoria)
Inspired by the rapidly growing Occupy Together (occupytogether.org/) movement across the US and Canada that has sprung up in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street people’s assembly. Victoria is joining the October 15 movement for global change (15october.net/).
This is becoming more than a protest about the failure of global capitalism - rather, this a moment where people all around the world are coming together and beginning to globalize democracy.
This is our time to come together and create a genuine people’s assembly of Vancouver Island in the spirit of true participatory democracy. Direct democracy comes from the people living in the communities in which decisions are made. Real democracy means being mutually respectful of all the diverse voices that join the conversation. Radical democracy is 'from the grassroots' or from the ground up. It is non-violent, and committed to mutual aid and collective decision-making.
This is a walk made in the autumn of 2018, 32 years AFTER the murder of prime minister Olof Palme of Sweden. It follows his path that fatal evening. People in the streets have, of course, nothing to do with the case. The murder remains unsolved and has given rise to conspiracy theories.
On Friday, 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET (22:21 UTC), Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. Lisbet Palme was slightly wounded by a second shot. The couple did not have bodyguards at the time.
Christer Pettersson, who had previously been convicted of manslaughter, was convicted of the murder in 1988 after having been identified as the killer by Palme's wife. However, on appeal to Svea Court of Appeal he was acquitted. A petition for a new trial, filed by the prosecutor, was denied by the Supreme Court of Sweden. Pettersson died in late September 2004, legally declared not guilty of the Palme assassination. The case remains unsolved and has given rise to conspiracy theories.
Despite being Prime Minister, Palme sought to live as ordinary a life as possible. He would often go out without any bodyguard protection, and the night of his murder was one such occasion. Walking home from the Grand Cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen, close to midnight on 28 February 1986, the couple was attacked by a lone gunman. Palme was fatally shot in the back at close range at 23:21 CET. A second shot wounded Mrs Palme.
Police said that a taxi driver used his mobile radio to raise the alarm, and two girls in a nearby car tried to assist. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital at 00:06 CET on 1 March 1986. The attacker escaped eastwards on the Tunnelgatan.
Deputy Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson immediately assumed the duties of Prime Minister and as new leader of the Social Democratic Party.
Sequence of events
Cinema decision
Palme's decision to visit the Grand Cinema was made at very short notice. Lisbet Palme had discussed seeing a film when she was at work during the afternoon, and called her son, Mårten Palme, at 17:00 to talk about the film at the Grand Cinema. Olof Palme did not hear about the plans until at home, at 18:30, when he met with his wife, by which time Palme had already declined any further personal bodyguard protection from the security service. He talked to his son about the plans on the phone, and they eventually decided to join Mårten and his girlfriend, who had already purchased tickets for themselves to see the Swedish comedy Bröderna Mozart ("The Mozart Brothers") by Suzanne Osten. This decision was made about 20:00. The police later searched Palme's apartment, as well as Lisbet's and Mårten's work places, for wire-bugging devices or traces of such equipment, but did not find any.[1]
Grand Cinema
Grand cinema.
Crossing of Sveavägen–Tunnelgatan where Palme was shot.
Tunnelgatan. The assassin's immediate escape route.
At 20:30 the Palmes left their apartment, unescorted, heading for the Gamla stan metro station. Several people witnessed their short walk to the station and, according to the later police investigation, commented on the lack of bodyguards. The couple took the subway train to the Rådmansgatan station, from where they walked to the Grand Cinema. They met their son and his girlfriend just outside the cinema around 21:00. Olof Palme had not yet purchased tickets which were by then almost sold out. Recognizing the prime minister, the ticket clerk wanted him to have the best seats, and therefore sold Palme the theatre director's seats.[2]
Murder
After the screening, the two couples stayed outside the theatre for a while but separated about 23:15. Olof and Lisbet Palme headed south on the west side of Sveavägen, towards the northern entrance of the Hötorget metro station. When they reached the Adolf Fredrik Church, they crossed Sveavägen and continued on the street's east side. They stopped a moment to look at something in a shop window, then continued past the Dekorima shop which was then located on the corner of Sveavägen and Tunnelgatan.
At 23:21, a man appeared from behind, shot Mr. Palme at point-blank range and fired a second shot at Mrs. Palme. The perpetrator then jogged down Tunnelgatan street, up the steps to Malmskillnadsgatan and continued down David Bagares gata [street], where he was last seen
LA isn't all about glitz and glamour: witness Downtown's infamous Hotel Cecil. "Notorious" would be putting it mildly. A series of murders in the 20's, 30's and 40's, a suicide jumper who killed a passerby on the street below and the unsolved rape and murder of a resident nicknamed "the Pigeon Lady" in the 1960's. In the 80's, Night Stalker Richard Ramirez called it home base. During the 90's, Austrian serial killer Jack Unterwerger had a five week killing spree while checked in at the Cecil. Even the legendary LA crime victim the Black Dahlia is rumored to have graced its halls. In 2013, a 21 year old Canadian student named Elisa Lam met her fate in the hotel's rooftop water tank - the one that supplied water to the hotel faucets. How she got into a locked tank is still a mystery. #losangeles #haunted #hotelcecil #latergram #creepy#sleepwell #darkside
Unsolved Crimes is a puzzle-game for the Nintendo DS that was released in 2008.
It was developed under the working title "Case Cracker" which is how I knew it when I worked on it. And technically, it's the first commercial video game that I got paid for working on!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_Crimes
Released in 2008.
This is a walk made in the autumn of 2018, 32 years AFTER the murder of prime minister Olof Palme of Sweden. It follows his path that fatal evening. People in the streets have, of course, nothing to do with the case. The murder remains unsolved and has given rise to conspiracy theories.
On Friday, 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET (22:21 UTC), Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. Lisbet Palme was slightly wounded by a second shot. The couple did not have bodyguards at the time.
Christer Pettersson, who had previously been convicted of manslaughter, was convicted of the murder in 1988 after having been identified as the killer by Palme's wife. However, on appeal to Svea Court of Appeal he was acquitted. A petition for a new trial, filed by the prosecutor, was denied by the Supreme Court of Sweden. Pettersson died in late September 2004, legally declared not guilty of the Palme assassination. The case remains unsolved and has given rise to conspiracy theories.
Despite being Prime Minister, Palme sought to live as ordinary a life as possible. He would often go out without any bodyguard protection, and the night of his murder was one such occasion. Walking home from the Grand Cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen, close to midnight on 28 February 1986, the couple was attacked by a lone gunman. Palme was fatally shot in the back at close range at 23:21 CET. A second shot wounded Mrs Palme.
Police said that a taxi driver used his mobile radio to raise the alarm, and two girls in a nearby car tried to assist. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital at 00:06 CET on 1 March 1986. The attacker escaped eastwards on the Tunnelgatan.
Deputy Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson immediately assumed the duties of Prime Minister and as new leader of the Social Democratic Party.
Sequence of events
Cinema decision
Palme's decision to visit the Grand Cinema was made at very short notice. Lisbet Palme had discussed seeing a film when she was at work during the afternoon, and called her son, Mårten Palme, at 17:00 to talk about the film at the Grand Cinema. Olof Palme did not hear about the plans until at home, at 18:30, when he met with his wife, by which time Palme had already declined any further personal bodyguard protection from the security service. He talked to his son about the plans on the phone, and they eventually decided to join Mårten and his girlfriend, who had already purchased tickets for themselves to see the Swedish comedy Bröderna Mozart ("The Mozart Brothers") by Suzanne Osten. This decision was made about 20:00. The police later searched Palme's apartment, as well as Lisbet's and Mårten's work places, for wire-bugging devices or traces of such equipment, but did not find any.[1]
Grand Cinema
Grand cinema.
Crossing of Sveavägen–Tunnelgatan where Palme was shot.
Tunnelgatan. The assassin's immediate escape route.
At 20:30 the Palmes left their apartment, unescorted, heading for the Gamla stan metro station. Several people witnessed their short walk to the station and, according to the later police investigation, commented on the lack of bodyguards. The couple took the subway train to the Rådmansgatan station, from where they walked to the Grand Cinema. They met their son and his girlfriend just outside the cinema around 21:00. Olof Palme had not yet purchased tickets which were by then almost sold out. Recognizing the prime minister, the ticket clerk wanted him to have the best seats, and therefore sold Palme the theatre director's seats.[2]
Murder
After the screening, the two couples stayed outside the theatre for a while but separated about 23:15. Olof and Lisbet Palme headed south on the west side of Sveavägen, towards the northern entrance of the Hötorget metro station. When they reached the Adolf Fredrik Church, they crossed Sveavägen and continued on the street's east side. They stopped a moment to look at something in a shop window, then continued past the Dekorima shop which was then located on the corner of Sveavägen and Tunnelgatan.
At 23:21, a man appeared from behind, shot Mr. Palme at point-blank range and fired a second shot at Mrs. Palme. The perpetrator then jogged down Tunnelgatan street, up the steps to Malmskillnadsgatan and continued down David Bagares gata [street], where he was last seen
Queensland State Archives Item ID ITM294496 Dept No.44
The murder of siblings Michael, Norah and Ellen Murphy near Gatton on Boxing Day 1898 sparked intense interest and speculation. All three were killed between 10pm and the early hours of the following morning on their way home from a dance that had been cancelled and the case remains unsolved to this day.
Contained within the QSA archived police files are pages of handwritten letters from across Queensland sent from members of the community convinced they could help solve the case using their spiritual gifts. Some are simply a few words on a scrap of paper, others take up many pages and go into lengthy detail about possible conspiracies. The police called the correspondence files ‘Astrologers, Dreamers, Theorists, etc’.
The Pyjama Girl x-rays
Between 1934 and 1944, the exotically titled Pyjama Girl Murder became the nation's most well known unsolved crime. A young woman’s body was discovered beside a country road in Albury on 1st September 1934. She had been bashed and shot, her body dumped and set alight. Police efforts at identifying the body proved fruitless. The body was subsequently preserved for purposes of identification in a zinc-lined bath at the Anatomy Department of Sydney University. She became known as the Pyjama Girl having been found dead in her pyjamas. The case was publicised nationally and internationally but the failure to indentify the woman’s killer became an embarrassment to the NSW police. Almost ten years after her death, the Pyjama Girl was identified as Linda Agostini and her husband confessed to the crime to the Commissioner of Police, William. J. Mackay in March 1944.
Last night, Gopal created history (for me) by solving this incredibly crazy looking puzzle. I had picked it up 3 years back from Hong Kong for him, since he loves solving all Rubik's Cube kind of puzzles. However, at that time he warned me & asked me to not buy it. He feared he will lose a month of his life. I had to keep it away from him. The scrambled piece has lived in my office ever since. This February I brought this home.
And it took Gopal little under 2 days to FIX IT.
Not sure if it's his genius or the disapproval of all unsolved problems. Whatever the reason be, I am beyond impressed!
This is a walk made in the autumn of 2018, 32 years AFTER the murder of prime minister Olof Palme of Sweden. It follows his path that fatal evening. People in the streets have, of course, nothing to do with the case. The murder remains unsolved and has given rise to conspiracy theories.
On Friday, 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET (22:21 UTC), Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. Lisbet Palme was slightly wounded by a second shot. The couple did not have bodyguards at the time.
Christer Pettersson, who had previously been convicted of manslaughter, was convicted of the murder in 1988 after having been identified as the killer by Palme's wife. However, on appeal to Svea Court of Appeal he was acquitted. A petition for a new trial, filed by the prosecutor, was denied by the Supreme Court of Sweden. Pettersson died in late September 2004, legally declared not guilty of the Palme assassination. The case remains unsolved and has given rise to conspiracy theories.
Despite being Prime Minister, Palme sought to live as ordinary a life as possible. He would often go out without any bodyguard protection, and the night of his murder was one such occasion. Walking home from the Grand Cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen, close to midnight on 28 February 1986, the couple was attacked by a lone gunman. Palme was fatally shot in the back at close range at 23:21 CET. A second shot wounded Mrs Palme.
Police said that a taxi driver used his mobile radio to raise the alarm, and two girls in a nearby car tried to assist. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital at 00:06 CET on 1 March 1986. The attacker escaped eastwards on the Tunnelgatan.
Deputy Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson immediately assumed the duties of Prime Minister and as new leader of the Social Democratic Party.
Sequence of events
Cinema decision
Palme's decision to visit the Grand Cinema was made at very short notice. Lisbet Palme had discussed seeing a film when she was at work during the afternoon, and called her son, Mårten Palme, at 17:00 to talk about the film at the Grand Cinema. Olof Palme did not hear about the plans until at home, at 18:30, when he met with his wife, by which time Palme had already declined any further personal bodyguard protection from the security service. He talked to his son about the plans on the phone, and they eventually decided to join Mårten and his girlfriend, who had already purchased tickets for themselves to see the Swedish comedy Bröderna Mozart ("The Mozart Brothers") by Suzanne Osten. This decision was made about 20:00. The police later searched Palme's apartment, as well as Lisbet's and Mårten's work places, for wire-bugging devices or traces of such equipment, but did not find any.[1]
Grand Cinema
Grand cinema.
Crossing of Sveavägen–Tunnelgatan where Palme was shot.
Tunnelgatan. The assassin's immediate escape route.
At 20:30 the Palmes left their apartment, unescorted, heading for the Gamla stan metro station. Several people witnessed their short walk to the station and, according to the later police investigation, commented on the lack of bodyguards. The couple took the subway train to the Rådmansgatan station, from where they walked to the Grand Cinema. They met their son and his girlfriend just outside the cinema around 21:00. Olof Palme had not yet purchased tickets which were by then almost sold out. Recognizing the prime minister, the ticket clerk wanted him to have the best seats, and therefore sold Palme the theatre director's seats.[2]
Murder
After the screening, the two couples stayed outside the theatre for a while but separated about 23:15. Olof and Lisbet Palme headed south on the west side of Sveavägen, towards the northern entrance of the Hötorget metro station. When they reached the Adolf Fredrik Church, they crossed Sveavägen and continued on the street's east side. They stopped a moment to look at something in a shop window, then continued past the Dekorima shop which was then located on the corner of Sveavägen and Tunnelgatan.
At 23:21, a man appeared from behind, shot Mr. Palme at point-blank range and fired a second shot at Mrs. Palme. The perpetrator then jogged down Tunnelgatan street, up the steps to Malmskillnadsgatan and continued down David Bagares gata [street], where he was last seen
On Friday, 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET (22:21 UTC), Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. Lisbet Palme was slightly wounded by a second shot. The couple did not have bodyguards at the time.
Christer Pettersson, who had previously been convicted of manslaughter, was convicted of the murder in 1988 after having been identified as the killer by Palme's wife. However, on appeal to Svea Court of Appeal he was acquitted. A petition for a new trial, filed by the prosecutor, was denied by the Supreme Court of Sweden. Pettersson died in late September 2004, legally declared not guilty of the Palme assassination. The case remains unsolved and has given rise to conspiracy theories.
Despite being Prime Minister, Palme sought to live as ordinary a life as possible. He would often go out without any bodyguard protection, and the night of his murder was one such occasion. Walking home from the Grand Cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen, close to midnight on 28 February 1986, the couple was attacked by a lone gunman. Palme was fatally shot in the back at close range at 23:21 CET. A second shot wounded Mrs Palme.
Police said that a taxi driver used his mobile radio to raise the alarm, and two girls in a nearby car tried to assist. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital at 00:06 CET on 1 March 1986. The attacker escaped eastwards on the Tunnelgatan.
Deputy Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson immediately assumed the duties of Prime Minister and as new leader of the Social Democratic Party.
Sequence of events
Cinema decision
Palme's decision to visit the Grand Cinema was made at very short notice. Lisbet Palme had discussed seeing a film when she was at work during the afternoon, and called her son, Mårten Palme, at 17:00 to talk about the film at the Grand Cinema. Olof Palme did not hear about the plans until at home, at 18:30, when he met with his wife, by which time Palme had already declined any further personal bodyguard protection from the security service. He talked to his son about the plans on the phone, and they eventually decided to join Mårten and his girlfriend, who had already purchased tickets for themselves to see the Swedish comedy Bröderna Mozart ("The Mozart Brothers") by Suzanne Osten. This decision was made about 20:00. The police later searched Palme's apartment, as well as Lisbet's and Mårten's work places, for wire-bugging devices or traces of such equipment, but did not find any.[1]
Grand Cinema
Grand cinema.
Crossing of Sveavägen–Tunnelgatan where Palme was shot.
Tunnelgatan. The assassin's immediate escape route.
At 20:30 the Palmes left their apartment, unescorted, heading for the Gamla stan metro station. Several people witnessed their short walk to the station and, according to the later police investigation, commented on the lack of bodyguards. The couple took the subway train to the Rådmansgatan station, from where they walked to the Grand Cinema. They met their son and his girlfriend just outside the cinema around 21:00. Olof Palme had not yet purchased tickets which were by then almost sold out. Recognizing the prime minister, the ticket clerk wanted him to have the best seats, and therefore sold Palme the theatre director's seats.[2]
Murder
After the screening, the two couples stayed outside the theatre for a while but separated about 23:15. Olof and Lisbet Palme headed south on the west side of Sveavägen, towards the northern entrance of the Hötorget metro station. When they reached the Adolf Fredrik Church, they crossed Sveavägen and continued on the street's east side. They stopped a moment to look at something in a shop window, then continued past the Dekorima shop which was then located on the corner of Sveavägen and Tunnelgatan.
At 23:21, a man appeared from behind, shot Mr. Palme at point-blank range and fired a second shot at Mrs. Palme. The perpetrator then jogged down Tunnelgatan street, up the steps to Malmskillnadsgatan and continued down David Bagares gata [street], where he was last seen
This is a walk made in the autumn of 2018, 32 years AFTER the murder of prime minister Olof Palme of Sweden. It follows his path that fatal evening. People in the streets have, of course, nothing to do with the case. The murder remains unsolved and has given rise to conspiracy theories.
On Friday, 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET (22:21 UTC), Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. Lisbet Palme was slightly wounded by a second shot. The couple did not have bodyguards at the time.
Christer Pettersson, who had previously been convicted of manslaughter, was convicted of the murder in 1988 after having been identified as the killer by Palme's wife. However, on appeal to Svea Court of Appeal he was acquitted. A petition for a new trial, filed by the prosecutor, was denied by the Supreme Court of Sweden. Pettersson died in late September 2004, legally declared not guilty of the Palme assassination. The case remains unsolved and has given rise to conspiracy theories.
Despite being Prime Minister, Palme sought to live as ordinary a life as possible. He would often go out without any bodyguard protection, and the night of his murder was one such occasion. Walking home from the Grand Cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen, close to midnight on 28 February 1986, the couple was attacked by a lone gunman. Palme was fatally shot in the back at close range at 23:21 CET. A second shot wounded Mrs Palme.
Police said that a taxi driver used his mobile radio to raise the alarm, and two girls in a nearby car tried to assist. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital at 00:06 CET on 1 March 1986. The attacker escaped eastwards on the Tunnelgatan.
Deputy Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson immediately assumed the duties of Prime Minister and as new leader of the Social Democratic Party.
Sequence of events
Cinema decision
Palme's decision to visit the Grand Cinema was made at very short notice. Lisbet Palme had discussed seeing a film when she was at work during the afternoon, and called her son, Mårten Palme, at 17:00 to talk about the film at the Grand Cinema. Olof Palme did not hear about the plans until at home, at 18:30, when he met with his wife, by which time Palme had already declined any further personal bodyguard protection from the security service. He talked to his son about the plans on the phone, and they eventually decided to join Mårten and his girlfriend, who had already purchased tickets for themselves to see the Swedish comedy Bröderna Mozart ("The Mozart Brothers") by Suzanne Osten. This decision was made about 20:00. The police later searched Palme's apartment, as well as Lisbet's and Mårten's work places, for wire-bugging devices or traces of such equipment, but did not find any.[1]
Grand Cinema
Grand cinema.
Crossing of Sveavägen–Tunnelgatan where Palme was shot.
Tunnelgatan. The assassin's immediate escape route.
At 20:30 the Palmes left their apartment, unescorted, heading for the Gamla stan metro station. Several people witnessed their short walk to the station and, according to the later police investigation, commented on the lack of bodyguards. The couple took the subway train to the Rådmansgatan station, from where they walked to the Grand Cinema. They met their son and his girlfriend just outside the cinema around 21:00. Olof Palme had not yet purchased tickets which were by then almost sold out. Recognizing the prime minister, the ticket clerk wanted him to have the best seats, and therefore sold Palme the theatre director's seats.[2]
Murder
After the screening, the two couples stayed outside the theatre for a while but separated about 23:15. Olof and Lisbet Palme headed south on the west side of Sveavägen, towards the northern entrance of the Hötorget metro station. When they reached the Adolf Fredrik Church, they crossed Sveavägen and continued on the street's east side. They stopped a moment to look at something in a shop window, then continued past the Dekorima shop which was then located on the corner of Sveavägen and Tunnelgatan.
At 23:21, a man appeared from behind, shot Mr. Palme at point-blank range and fired a second shot at Mrs. Palme. The perpetrator then jogged down Tunnelgatan street, up the steps to Malmskillnadsgatan and continued down David Bagares gata [street], where he was last seen
Here we are delighted to show you this photograph of adept, magical and metaphysical David Mathews who owns his wiccan, paga, and very magical shop and scarey museum.
Firstly the museum:
It is scarey...all floors of what is the most haunted building in Stratford are set out to actually make you feel you are indeed insde a haunted building and it is true to say that many people, obviously including myself, `pick up` instantly on the ghostly spirits that still` live` on in the building from 500 years ago. Not for the faint hearted and I wont tell you any more about the hauntings there as it will spoil it for if you go.
Having said this, dont be put off....on the contrary: Go and have the most mysterious visit to a museum that you will never forget. David also organizes Ghost Walks around Stratford Upon Avon.
The shop, the Creaky Cauldron is for the discerning witch wishing for that extra magickal bit of ritualistic retail therapy. For here you can purchase Davids specially handblended oils, potions for all things whether for health, love, money etc and if you are interested in candle magick , Truly Gifted David has THE shop for you. Fluff and I spent a totally bewitching and inriguing time with David and we cant wait to go back again soon where David and I can share lots more magickal experiences.
Enchanting and Enchanted, David is a real grounded magickal man unlike so many people that suddenly `find` spirituality, `become enlightened overnight` and are truly away with the fairies . David is someone I am thrilled to have met as we both speak the same language.
The Creaky Cauldron, 21, Henley Street, Stratford upon Avon (literally just up the road from Shakespeares Birthplace)
Telephone number: 01789 290969
Oh and bye the way, I was thrilled to accept a certificate for solving a mysterious puzzle on one of the floors. BE Amazed! And...BE AFRAID..Be VERY VERY AFRAID!
e mail: info@seekthemagic.org