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February 2 2012 - Jeff Buziak speaks with members of the local media before the 2nd annual Walk for Justice, held to honour his daughter murdered realtor Lindsay Buziak. The four year old murder is still unsolved.
In 1912, eight people - six of them children - were bludgeoned to death with an ax inside this house. The murder remains unsolved to this date. Like it or not, Villisca is kind of stuck with the distinction of being the hometown of Iowa's most heinous crime on record. The house has been restored and one can take a daylight tour or the more adventurous can book an overnight stay in the house - at their own risk, of course :)
...on Goldenrod (Solidago).
The Monarch is probably the most well-known and beloved of North American butterflies. Its wings when open feature an easily recognizable orange and black pattern, with a wingspan of 3.3 - 4.9 inches (8.5 - 12.5 cm) . The females have darker and thicker veins on their wings while the males have a spot in the center of each hindwing from which pheromones are released, and which also helps to easily distinguish them from a females.
In North America, the Monarch ranges from southern Canada to northern South America. It rarely strays to western Europe (sometimes as far as Greece) from being transported by U. S. ships or by flying there if weather and wind conditions are right. It has also been found in Bermuda, Hawaii, the Solomons, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea, Ceylon, India, the Azores, and the Canary Islands.
Monarchs are especially noted for their lengthy annual migration. In North America they make massive southward migrations starting in August until the first frost. A northward migration takes place in the spring. The Monarch is the only butterfly that migrates BOTH north and south as birds do on a regular basis. But no single individual makes the entire round trip. Female monarchs deposit eggs for the next generation to complete the journey during these migrations. How the offspring know where to go remains one of nature's unsolved mysteries.
In eastern North American the Monarch population begins the southward migration late summer - early autumn and can cover thousands of mile from the United States and southern Canada to Mexico. The western North American population, west of the Rocky Mountains, most often migrates to sites in California, but have been found overwintering in Mexico.
Besides Mexico and California, overwintering populations of Monarchs are also found along the Gulf Coast, year-round in Florida, and in Arizona where the habitat provides the specific conditions necessary for their survival. The overwintering habitat typically provides access to streams, plenty of sunlight (for body temperatures that allows flight), appropriate vegetation on which to roost, and is relatively free of predators. Overwintering, roosting butterflies have been seen on sumacs, locusts, basswood elm, oak, osage orange, mulberry, pecan, willow, cottonwood, and mesquite.
ISO400, aperture f/11, exposure .003 seconds (1/320) focal length 300mm
HONG KONG - JUNE 20: Mr Chan, a cage dweller stands beside cages on June 20, 2007 in Hong Kong, China. The poorest of Hong Kong's citizens live in cage homes, steel mesh box constructions, stacked on top of each other. The division between poor and rich in the former British colony, which celebrates the 10th anniversary of its handover to Chinese rule on July 1, remains an unsolved problem. (Photo by MN Chan/Getty Images)
Directed by: William Castle
Cast:
Richard Conte - Larry O'Brien
Julie Adams - Sally Rousseau
Richard Egan - Lt. Lennox
Henry Hull - Vincent St. Clair
Fred Clark - Sam Collyer
Jim Backus - Mitch Davis
Synopsis:
Economically utilizing the Universal Studio itself as a "set," Hollywood Story is a murder mystery centered in the film capital. The story concerns a long-unsolved homicide case involving several silent-film stars (an echo of the William Desmond Taylor scandal of 1922). Producer Richard Conte decides to make a movie based on the case, and to this end rounds up its surviving participants, including a once-great star/director (Henry Hull) reduced to bit parts.
This is a series of photos taken July 19, 2010 of a still unsolved pollution spill in the Huron River, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Photos are taken from 7:31 pm to 9:12pm on July 19th. First video taken at 6:49pm, last video taken at 9:01pm. No rain, so event was not caused by rain. Photos taken near pedestrian bridge, located near Nichols Arboretum and Mitchell Field. This case is still unsolved.
NOTE: This spill was not caused by a rain event. It rained that night, but the initial flushing/dumping was NOT caused by a rain event. Booms were in the water before the river rose.
For documents relating to this case, look here:
and here
The AAFD photos and my photos are the only known photos of this event. I tried giving these photos to University of Michigan Police (who investigated the spill that ran through University of Michigan grounds), but they weren't interested in entering them as evidence. So you won't find these photos in the official police record of the spill. But, I saw it and you can see it here.
In Alex Rosenburg’s article, “Why I am a Naturalist”, he says that, “Naturalism is itself a theory with a research agenda of unsolved problems.” Even though naturalists have confidence to solve these problems, it should not be mistaken for dogmatism. Dogmatism means that they would be talking about these principles that they believe in being true without any real evidence or the opinions of others. In the picture above, is the sketch of a juvenile chimpanzee. Science has shown us that the human skull is very similar to the juvenile skull of the chimpanzee. In his article, Rosenburg talks about in 1784 Kant said that, “There will never be a Newton for the blade of grass.” This means that science could not explain anything with a purpose, like human thought or a flower bending to the sun. However, science can do this. We have learned about evolution and how the early humans have evolved from other species in the past. It shows how similar we are to the chimpanzee. Science can tell us many things just by looking at the skull of this baby chimpanzee in the picture. Naturalists have a fear of giving up the scientific spirit.
German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt and his companions headed west from the Darling Downs in 1848. They were never seen again and the disappearance of their expedition remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of Australian exploration.
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt was born in Prussia in October 1813 and became fascinated with exploration at an early age. After some study in languages and science, Leichhardt emigrated to Sydney in February 1842 and later that year began making field observations of the Hunter region in New South Wales.
In 1844, he began an unprecedented horseback expedition across Australia, travelling from the Darling Downs to Port Essington, north of Darwin. He was accompanied by nine volunteers, including two Aboriginal guides. The party departed on 1 October 1844 and arrived on 17 December 1845, having travelled nearly 4,800 kilometres. They were celebrated as heroes when they returned to Sydney.
A year later, Leichhardt attempted a second major expedition across the breadth of Australia, intending to travel from the Darling Downs to what is now Perth. The expedition was rained out and forced to return after six months. Undaunted, Leichhardt prepared to reattempt the crossing, setting off on 3 April 1848. Allan Macpherson, owner of Cogoon Station, and several of his workers farewelled the party as they headed towards the sunset. They were the last people reported to have seen the group.
Despite attempts to find the expedition, little evidence of the cause of their mysterious disappearance was ever found. A brass plate and a burned gun were discovered by an Aboriginal stockman around 1900 in the Sturt Creek region, wedged into a bottle tree on which the letter ‘L’ had been carved. This suggests that Leichhardt’s party made it as far as Western Australia.
Before he left, Leichhardt was awarded the London Royal Geographical Society’s Patron’s Medal in recognition of the ‘increased knowledge of the great continent of Australia’ he had gained by his first expedition. He was celebrated as the nation’s most daring young explorer and honoured posthumously. He was only 35 at the time of his disappearance.
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John Hook speaking with attendees at an event titled "Who Killed Bob Crane?: The Final Close-Up" at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Starring Bela Lugosi, Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Lionel Atwill, Jean Hersholt, and Michael Visaroff. Directed by Tod Browning.
youtu.be/irNxN9PmE58 Trailer
synopsis
Mark of the Vampire is Tod Browning's remake of his own 1927 thriller London After Midnight, which unfortunately no longer exists. The sudden appearance of ghostly vampires in a remote mittel-European community is seemingly tied in with an old, unsolved murder case. Police inspector Neumann (Lionel Atwill) and occult expert Prof. Zelen (Lionel Barrymore) investigate, with the full cooperation of leading citizen Baron Otto (Jean Hersholt). For awhile, it looks as though the vampires -- Count Mora (Bela Lugosi) and his chalky-faced daughter Luna (Carroll Borland) -- will continue to hold the community in thrall, but the truth behind their mysterious activities is revealed midway through the film, whereupon the story concentrates on identifying the well-concealed murderer. In the original London After Midnight, Lon Chaney played both Count Mora and Prof. Zelen, which should provide a clue as to the film's incredible outcome.
review
Director Tod Browning's 1935 murder mystery Mark of the Vampire is essentially a lesser remake of two of his earlier films: 1927's Lon Chaney silent London After Midnight and 1931's Dracula with Bela Lugosi. Originally titled The Vampires of Prague, the film is most notable for its stunning conclusion, which reveals that the various murders being blamed on the supernatural have been committed by a more natural source. The bloodsucker father and daughter, played by Lugosi and Carol Borland, are given minimal screen time, but provide the film's best chills and appear to be the inspiration for Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space. This picture originally insinuated that Lugosi's vampire had an incestuous affair with Borland that resulted in a murder-suicide, leaving them both undead. This explains the mysterious bullet wound on the side of Lugosi's head throughout the film. However, MGM was wary after Browning's Freaks spawned great controversy, so cuts were made to ensure that Mark of the Vampire was safe for public consumption. The barely feature-length production looks rather stagey and the special effects are typical of the time (bats on strings, fake rats, etc.), but Browning's atmospheric style and the great cast, including Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, and Lionel Atwill, makes this good entertainment. Cinematographer James Wong Howe shot test footage of Rita Hayworth for Borland's part.
Stupid Doo Doo Dumb sticker, seen in San Francisco, California. Stupid Doo Doo Dumb was the second album by Bay Area rapper Mac Dre, released in 1998. On November 1, 2004, Mac Dre was killed by an unknown assailant after a performance in Kansas City, Missouri, a case that remains unsolved.
The Woman Who Reduced Impunity in Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY (IPS) – Guatemala’s first female attorney general has managed to reduce impunity in a country where over 90 percent of murders go unsolved.
'A child who disappeared from this parish in April 1969 of whom nothing has since been heard.'
This stopped me in my tracks in the graveyard at Metton. April went out on her bike to take some cigarettes over to her sister's house at Roughton but she never made it. Her bike was found some time later in a field off the Roughton Road. She was 13 years old.
Metton is a classic sleepy hamlet lying half-way between Hanworth and Felbrigg. April lived in one of the council houses opposite the church.
John Hook speaking with attendees at an event titled "Who Killed Bob Crane?: The Final Close-Up" at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Who wouldn't love a good night's sleep in the site of one of the most notorious "unsolved" double murders?
Name: Estelle Carey (born Estelle Smith; took stepfather's name)
Nickname: "The Cinderella of the Night Clubs"
Brief Bio: Born in Chicago in 1909; orphan (fatherless, mother later remarried and brought her home); waitress turn Rush Street (Chicago nightclub district on Near North Side) dice girl; paramour of numerous gangsters; made frequent visits to Miami; brutally tortured to death (beaten and burned) in her apartment in Chicago on February 3, 1943, allegedly on the orders of the leadership of the Chicago Outfit. Once told her mother, "Don't worry about me, mother. I can take care of myself." Believed to have been killed to intimidate Chicago mobster "Nicky Dean" Circella into keeping his mouth shut about the so-called "Hollywood Extortion Case." A friend later summed her up: "She dressed beautifully and had a tremendously attractive personality. I'd call her naive -- almost dumb, really, but always eager to improve herself." In addition to the love of her life (Nicky Dean), romantically linked to "Dago" Lawrence Mangano (murdered, 1944), Marshall Caifano, alias Johnny Marshall (natural causes, 2003), Eddie McGrath (New York mobster, head of old Irish bootlegging gang in Manhattan), among others. The last time anyone knew her spoke to her was a friend she talked to on the telephone early on the day of her murder, to which she said before hanging up: "Shall I marry or go to business school? We'll talk it over later." Courtroom testimony later linked her murder to Gerald J. (Gerry) Covelli, a Near North Side mob enforcer linked to numerous mob hits in 1940s and '50s who became a cooperating witness in the early 1960s and who was car-bombed while in hiding in California in 1967. He would have only been 21 at the time of her murder. Her murder was never solved.
Janet Smith was a Scottish nursemaid whose infamous murder captivated Vancouver in 1924. It remains unsolved to this day.
This make-shift memorial has been erected the Rocky River Reservation of the Cuyahoga County MetroParks, near where friends Kate Brown, 33, and Carnell Sledge, 40, were found shot dead on June 4, 2019. The couple were sitting on the bench in the background where police say each was shot in the head by an unknown suspect. A $30,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the offender.
This series of maps, written in Japanese, remains one of the unsolved mysteries of the collection.
Featuring regions of New Guinea and the north-eastern Australian coastline, it is suggested that they were used to investigate North Queensland bases in 1942, right as the Second World War progressed and fears of a Japanese invasion of Australia were escalating.
The maps clearly show Horn Island, Australia’s northern-most airbase and a direct target during multiple Japanese air attacks with about 500 bombs dropped on the island alone. The constant bombardment throughout the Torres Strait led to the formation of the Torres Strait Light Infantry, Australia’s first and only First Nations battalion.
Townsville is also well-marked on the map, home to tens-of-thousands of US troops during 1942. The map includes the lighthouse Japanese pilots would have used to orient themselves during three separate attempted bombings of the city. Thankfully, none of the bombings were lethal, except for the destruction of one coconut tree.
Official records suggest that these maps are the creation of the Japanese Waterways Department, but without truly knowing their origin or how they came to be in the possession of the state’s public record, the intentions of these maps may never be truly known.
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A tragic unsolved murder victim.
See:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatton_murders
Australian Cabinet Card photo by Poul C. Poulsen, Queen Street, Brisbane & Maryborough
Pontianak, Kalimantan Barat (West Kalimantan), Indonesia.
(Jalan Sutoyo, Pontianak).
A short visit to the Rumah Adat Betang, a vernacular longhouse of the Dayak tribes in Kalimantan Barat. I found the visit not an educational one leaving many curiosities unsolved and subjected to further interpretation. On that point are no proper story boards, pamphlets, and other relevant references at the site. Ironically, the visit was greeted by a shabby cleaner, I presume, who disrespectful was casually doing the sweeping act using a damp mop, and raising high in the air. The first thing he demanded of me was - money.
This particular replica of the vernacular house belongs to the Dayak Kanayatn (Dayak Kendayan, Dayak Kedayan) political ethnic identity to conveniently referred as Land Dayak- Klemantan. There are claim the grouping includes Dayak tribes speaking the Bakati/ Banyadu, Bajare, Banana, Baahe, Badamea/ Badameo languages, but still unclear and debated. Dayak Kanayatn form the majority among the numerous Dayak tribes concentrating in the districts of Kabupaten Landak, Kabupaten Pontianak, Kabupaten Kubu Raya, and Kabupaten Bengkayang.
Ref. and suggested reading:
id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suku_Dayak_Kanayatn
id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpun_Dayak#Rumpun_Dayak_Kanayatn_...
Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (Russian: А́нна Степа́новна Политко́вская; 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian journalist, author and human rights activist well known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and then-Russian President Vladimir Putin. On 2006-10-07, she was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment building, an unsolved assassination that continues to attract international attention.
PH.D IN MURDER is a cozy mystery short by bestselling author @RBarriFlowers, now in eBook.
A doctoral student’s independent study reenactment of the well-known and still unsolved murder of Marilyn Sheppard ends with a modern day murder and killer on the loose.
Also includes a bonus mystery suspense short, “Kill and Say Goodbye.” Woman discovers a dead woman on the beach that bears a striking resemblance to her.
Included as well are excerpts from the bestselling woman’s sleuth novel, MURDER IN HONOLULU: A Skye Delaney Mystery, by R. Barri Flowers.
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“Be patient 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.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
they want him to go back
first it was burning of his
churches than tarnishing
the name of revered mother
theresa ..crimes well stacked
but the rape of a 71 year old
nun in W Bengal another
Indias Daughter grieves
Hope Humanity hijacked
our country our respected
PM who says Sab Ka Sath
Sab Ka Vikas ..empty words
backtracked ..now whom
will the Home Minster Ban
Or which official will he sack
as a nation we are ending
up with far too many cracks
5 year old girls raped we
rejoice on cow protection
but rape victims sidelined
die in ignominy unsolved
cases gathering dust on
police racks ..a future
grim sullen dark black
Sri Lanka is ranked fourth with nine unsolved journalist murders or 0.443 unsolved journalist murders per one million inhabitants according to CPJ ~ Committee to Protect Journalists, international media watchdog.
A protest was organised by Free Media Movement (FMM), Sri Lanka Tamil Media Alliance (SLTMA), Sri Lanka Muslim Media Forum (SLMMF), Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), Federation of Media Employees Trade Union (SLMETU),Media Movement for Democracy (MMD) and South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA).Nearly 47 journalists from Colombo traveled to Jaffna by A9 highway to show solidarity. They condemned the brutal assault by protesting in front of the Sri Lanka Transport Board bus stand in Jaffna on 16th of August 2011. It was a rare protest for the Peninsula people to witness. “ஏதாவது பிரச்சினையோ?” ~ “Is there any problem?”, “என்ன பிரச்சினை?” ~ “What is the problem?”, “இங்கை என்ன நடக்குது?” ~ “What is happening here?” a few onlookers, passers ~ by and shop keepers asked me while the protest was getting underway on a balmy day in Jaffna. “இங்கை உண்மையா என்ன நடக்குது? ~ “What is actually happening here” asked the owner of a newly built restaurant, while I was running to the restaurant roof top to capture the moments on my camera.
There was chaos as the protesters arrived in Jaffna town with placards in Tamil. Police in the vicinity came closer and asked them not to block the traffic. Verbal argument took place between the Police and the protesters. But the protesters kept chanting and walking. The traffic came to a standstill for a couple of moments, as the protesters took the space on the mot busiest road in Jaffna, the Hospital road while carrying the placards in Tamil ~ “யாழ்ப்பாண ஊடகவியலாளர்களுக்கு யார் பாதுகாப்பு?” ~ “Who is responsible for the lives of the journalists in Jaffna?”, “ஊடக சுதந்திரம் பாதுகாக்கப்பட வேண்டும்” ~ “Media freedom needs to be protected”, “எப்போ முடியும் யாழ்ப்பாணத்தில் அடக்குமுறைகள்?” ~ “When will the suppression come to an end in Jaffna?”, “ஊடக சுதந்திரத்தைப் பாதுகாக்க ஒன்றுபடுவோம்” ~ Let’s unite to protect media freedom”, “குகநாதனுக்கு விழுந்த அடி உண்மைக்கு விழுந்த பேரிடி”~ Assault on Kuganathan is an assault on the Truth, “ஊடகத்துறைக்கு எதிரான அடக்குமுறையை ஒழிப்போம்” ~ Eradicate Suppression Against the Media” “ஊடகத்தின் மீதான தாக்குதலை உடனே நிறுத்து” ~ “Stop Attacking the Media Immediately”, “ஜனநாயகத்தின் குரலை ஒடுக்காதே” ~ “Don’t Suppress the voice of Democracy”, “தேர்தலில் தோற்றவர்களா மண்டையைப் பிளந்தார்கள்?” ~ “Did they split the head those who lost the elections?”
The protesters chanted “Let Us Write”,“Continue; Continue; Continue to Write”,“Do Not Kill; Do Not Kill; Do Not Kill Us; Do Not Kill the Journalists, Do Not Kill the Democracy”,“Uthyan was attacked, but nobody was arrested”, “Bring the culprit to the courts”“Do Not Attack; Do Not Attack; Do Not Attack the Media”, “Take Your Hands Off Media”“Stop; Stop; Stop the Suppression” “Kuganathan; Kuganthan who wrote the plight of the people”, “Kuganathan was attacked with Iron rods”,“Kuganathan; Kuganathan; Keep Writing, “Lift the Emergency Immediately” in Tamil and Sinhala. There were nearly 350 journalists, activists and politicians participated in the protest according to the organisers.
“I want to continue to highlight the activities against the humanity” ~ Gnanasundaram Kuganathan. Please click passionparade.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-want-to-continue-to-... to read and view more.
Sri Lanka is ranked fourth with nine unsolved journalist murders or 0.443 unsolved journalist murders per one million inhabitants according to CPJ ~ Committee to Protect Journalists, international media watchdog.
A protest was organised by Free Media Movement (FMM), Sri Lanka Tamil Media Alliance (SLTMA), Sri Lanka Muslim Media Forum (SLMMF), Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), Federation of Media Employees Trade Union (SLMETU),Media Movement for Democracy (MMD) and South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA).Nearly 47 journalists from Colombo traveled to Jaffna by A9 highway to show solidarity. They condemned the brutal assault by protesting in front of the Sri Lanka Transport Board bus stand in Jaffna on 16th of August 2011. It was a rare protest for the Peninsula people to witness. “ஏதாவது பிரச்சினையோ?” ~ “Is there any problem?”, “என்ன பிரச்சினை?” ~ “What is the problem?”, “இங்கை என்ன நடக்குது?” ~ “What is happening here?” a few onlookers, passers ~ by and shop keepers asked me while the protest was getting underway on a balmy day in Jaffna. “இங்கை உண்மையா என்ன நடக்குது? ~ “What is actually happening here” asked the owner of a newly built restaurant, while I was running to the restaurant roof top to capture the moments on my camera.
There was chaos as the protesters arrived in Jaffna town with placards in Tamil. Police in the vicinity came closer and asked them not to block the traffic. Verbal argument took place between the Police and the protesters. But the protesters kept chanting and walking. The traffic came to a standstill for a couple of moments, as the protesters took the space on the mot busiest road in Jaffna, the Hospital road while carrying the placards in Tamil ~ “யாழ்ப்பாண ஊடகவியலாளர்களுக்கு யார் பாதுகாப்பு?” ~ “Who is responsible for the lives of the journalists in Jaffna?”, “ஊடக சுதந்திரம் பாதுகாக்கப்பட வேண்டும்” ~ “Media freedom needs to be protected”, “எப்போ முடியும் யாழ்ப்பாணத்தில் அடக்குமுறைகள்?” ~ “When will the suppression come to an end in Jaffna?”, “ஊடக சுதந்திரத்தைப் பாதுகாக்க ஒன்றுபடுவோம்” ~ Let’s unite to protect media freedom”, “குகநாதனுக்கு விழுந்த அடி உண்மைக்கு விழுந்த பேரிடி”~ Assault on Kuganathan is an assault on the Truth, “ஊடகத்துறைக்கு எதிரான அடக்குமுறையை ஒழிப்போம்” ~ Eradicate Suppression Against the Media” “ஊடகத்தின் மீதான தாக்குதலை உடனே நிறுத்து” ~ “Stop Attacking the Media Immediately”, “ஜனநாயகத்தின் குரலை ஒடுக்காதே” ~ “Don’t Suppress the voice of Democracy”, “தேர்தலில் தோற்றவர்களா மண்டையைப் பிளந்தார்கள்?” ~ “Did they split the head those who lost the elections?”
The protesters chanted “Let Us Write”,“Continue; Continue; Continue to Write”,“Do Not Kill; Do Not Kill; Do Not Kill Us; Do Not Kill the Journalists, Do Not Kill the Democracy”,“Uthyan was attacked, but nobody was arrested”, “Bring the culprit to the courts”“Do Not Attack; Do Not Attack; Do Not Attack the Media”, “Take Your Hands Off Media”“Stop; Stop; Stop the Suppression” “Kuganathan; Kuganthan who wrote the plight of the people”, “Kuganathan was attacked with Iron rods”,“Kuganathan; Kuganathan; Keep Writing, “Lift the Emergency Immediately” in Tamil and Sinhala. There were nearly 350 journalists, activists and politicians participated in the protest according to the organisers.
“I want to continue to highlight the activities against the humanity” ~ Gnanasundaram Kuganathan. Please click passionparade.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-want-to-continue-to-... to read and view more.
BOB CRANE (July 13, 1928 – June 29, 1978) was an American actor and disc jockey, best known for his performance as Colonel Robert E. Hogan in the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes from 1965 to 1971, and for his 1978 murder, which remains officially unsolved. WESTWOOD CEMETERY, Los Angeles (October 2012)
HONG KONG - JUNE 20: A cage dweller sits inside a cage on June 20, 2007 in Hong Kong, China. The poorest of Hong Kong's citizens live in cage homes, steel mesh box constructions, stacked on top of each other. The division between poor and rich in the former British colony, which celebrates the 10th anniversary of its handover to Chinese rule on July 1, remains an unsolved problem. (Photo by MN Chan/Getty Images)
In the 1980's there was a unsolved murder of a family in one of the resorts cabins. The cabin has been torn down.
"From Sorrow to Strength : #Aboriginal #Women and the Right to #Safety and #Justice " a haunting display in the #CanadianMuseumForHumanRights in #Winnipeg The abstract reads: Aboriginal women and girls - sisters, mothers, daughters - go #missing with disturbing frequency in #Canada. Their disappearances tend to receive little mainstream attention. #FirstNations #Inuit and #Métis are three times more likely to experience #violence than other Canadian women. Many of their murders remain unsolved. Their fundamental rights to safety and justice are at stake. Aboriginal people and supporters are addressing the causes of this tragic pattern of violence and indifference. They are targeting #poverty, #racism, and #sexism as well as bias in the media and justice system. Voices are calling for every woman to be treated with dignity. #visitCMHR
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I came across this memorial while driving around the isolated roads of Columbiana County Ohio. After doing a bit of research I came upon the story of Michael Williams, who was found murdered in his car in 2005 in the location where the cross is placed. The murder remains unsolved.
Remember I said there would be a better picture today? I lied.
Yep, it's late and it's been busy, so in the absence of something better here's today's unsolved conundrum.
Can you see the nine letter word?
Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon
R. Gregory Nokes
Published by OSU Press
"In 1887, more than thirty Chinese gold miners were massacred on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America. Massacred for Gold, the first authoritative account of the unsolved crime—one of the worst of the many crimes committed by whites against Chinese laborers in the American West—unearths the evidence that points to an improbable gang of rustlers and schoolboys, one only fifteen, as the killers.
The crime was discovered weeks after it happened, but no charges were brought for nearly a year, when gang member Frank Vaughan, son of a well-known settler family, confessed and turned state’s evidence. Six men and boys, all from northeastern Oregon’s remote Wallowa country, were charged—but three fled, and the others were found innocent by a jury that a witness admitted had little interest in convicting anyone. A cover-up followed, and the crime was all but forgotten for the next one hundred years, until a county clerk found hidden records in an unused safe.
In bringing this story out of the shadows, Nokes examines the once-substantial presence of Chinese laborers in the interior Pacific Northwest, describing why they came, how their efforts contributed to the region’s development, and how too often mistreatment and abuse were their only reward."
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February 2 2012 - Jeff Buziak talks with members of the local media before the 2nd annual Walk for Justice, held to honour his daughter murdered realtor Lindsay Buziak. The four year old murder is still unsolved.
Larry the Squirrel went missing yesterday, according to authorities. He was last seen in the vicinity of the bird feeder. No predator tracks were noted at the scene.
Larry's wife, Charlotte Squirrel said, "Larry just went down to the freezer yesterday afternoon, to have a bedtime snack, and he never came back." A large pool of blood with fur inclusions were found some centimeters away, but no body has been recovered at this time.
Frank "Coop" Coopers Hawk is wanted for questioning in the disappearance. He had been seen loitering in the area the past couple of days, according to Sgt. Charles Chickadee, of the Backyard Natural Police. "This is an open, unsolved case. We know Larry didn't just spontaneously combust into thin air," said Sgt. Chickadee.
If you have information on the incident, contact Captain Duane Cardinal, Unsolved Crime Unit.
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The Postcard
A Tuck's Oilette postcard which was posted in Blackpool on Monday the 5th. August 1918 to:
Miss E. Hallam,
43, Oakfield Street,
Altrincham,
Nr. Manchester
The message on the back was as follows:
"Dear Elsie,
I am having a good time.
The weather is splendid.
I hope you are quite well.
Kind Regards,
Jack".
The Axeman of New Orleans
So what else happened on the day that Jack posted the card to Elsie?
Well, on the 5th. August 1918, New Orleans resident Ed Schneider returned home late from work to find his pregnant wife had been attacked and bludgeoned. Remarkably, she survived the attack and gave birth two days later.
The Axeman of New Orleans was an American serial killer who was active in New Orleans, Louisiana, and surrounding communities, from May 1918 to October 1919.
Press reports during the height of public panic about the killings mentioned similar murders as early as 1911, but recent researchers have called these reports into question. The Axeman was never identified, and the murders remain unsolved.
The Serial Killings
As the killer's epithet implies, the victims usually were attacked with an axe, which often belonged to the victims themselves. In most cases, a panel on a back door of a home was removed by a chisel, which along with the panel was left on the floor near the door.
The intruder then attacked one or more of the residents with either an axe or straight razor. The crimes were not motivated by robbery, and the perpetrator never removed items from his victims' homes.
The majority of the Axeman's victims were Italian immigrants or Italian-Americans, leading many to believe that the crimes were ethnically motivated. Many media outlets sensationalized this aspect of the crimes, even suggesting Mafia involvement despite lack of evidence.
Some crime analysts have suggested that the killings were related to sex, and that the murderer was perhaps a sadist specifically seeking female victims. Criminologists Colin and Damon Wilson hypothesise that the Axeman killed male victims only when they obstructed his attempts to murder women, supported by cases in which the woman of the household was murdered but not the man.
A less plausible theory is that the killer committed the murders in an attempt to promote jazz music, suggested by a letter attributed to the killer in which he stated that he would spare the lives of those who played jazz in their homes.
The Axeman was not caught or identified, and his crime spree stopped as mysteriously as it had started. The murderer's identity remains unknown to this day, although various possible identifications of varying plausibility have been proposed.
On the 13th. March 1919, a letter purporting to be from the Axeman was published in newspapers, saying that he would kill again at 15 minutes past midnight on the night of the 19th. March, but would spare the occupants of any place where a jazz band was playing.
That night all of New Orleans' dance halls were filled to capacity, and professional and amateur bands played jazz at parties at hundreds of houses around town. There were no murders that night.
The Axeman's Letter
"Hottest Hell, March 13, 1919.
They have never caught me and they never will.
They have never seen me, for I am invisible,
even as the ether that surrounds your earth.
I am not a human being, but a spirit and a demon
from the hottest hell.
I am what you Orleanians and your foolish police
call the Axeman.
When I see fit, I shall come and claim other victims.
I alone know whom they shall be. I shall leave no
clue except my bloody axe, besmeared with blood
and brains of he whom I have sent below to keep
me company.
If you wish you may tell the police to be careful not
to rile me. Of course, I am a reasonable spirit. I take
no offense at the way they have conducted their
investigations in the past.
In fact, they have been so utterly stupid as to not only
amuse me, but His Satanic Majesty, Francis Josef, etc.
But tell them to beware. Let them not try to discover
what I am, for it were better that they were never born
than to incur the wrath of the Axeman.
I don't think there is any need of such a warning, for I
feel sure the police will always dodge me, as they have
in the past. They are wise and know how to keep away
from all harm.
Undoubtedly, you Orleanians think of me as a most
horrible murderer, which I am, but I could be much worse
if I wanted to. If I wished, I could pay a visit to your city
every night. At will I could slay thousands of your best
citizens (and the worst), for I am in close relationship with
the Angel of Death.
Now, to be exact, at 12:15 (earthly time) on next Tuesday
night, I am going to pass over New Orleans. In my infinite
mercy, I am going to make a little proposition to you people.
Here it is: I am very fond of jazz music, and I swear by all
the devils in the nether regions that every person shall
be spared in whose home a jazz band is in full swing at the
time I have just mentioned.
If everyone has a jazz band going, well, then, so much
the better for you people. One thing is certain, and that
is that some of your people who do not jazz it out on that
specific Tuesday night (if there be any) will get the axe.
Well, as I am cold and crave the warmth of my native
Tartarus, and it is about time I leave your earthly home,
I will cease my discourse. Hoping that thou wilt publish
this, that it may go well with thee, I have been, am and
will be the worst spirit that ever existed either in fact
or realm of fancy.
--The Axeman".
Identity of the Axeman
Crime writer Colin Wilson speculates the Axeman could have been Leone Manfre, a man shot to death in Los Angeles in December 1920 by the widow of Mike Pepitone, the Axeman's last known victim.
According to Richard Warner, the chief suspect in the crimes was Frank "Doc" Mumphrey (1875–1921), who used the alias Leon Joseph Monfre/Manfre.
Victims of the Axeman
Joseph and Catherine Maggio
Joseph Maggio, an Italian grocer, and his wife Catherine Maggio were attacked on the 23rd. May 1918, while sleeping alongside each other, at their home on the corner of Upperline and Magnolia Streets where they conducted a barroom and grocery.
The killer broke into the home, and then proceeded to cut the couple's throats with a straight razor. Catherine's throat was cut so deeply that her head was nearly severed from her shoulders.
Upon leaving the murderer bashed their heads with an axe, perhaps in order to conceal the real cause of death. Joseph survived the attack, but died minutes after being discovered by his brothers Jake and Andrew Maggio.
Catherine died prior to the brothers' arrival. In the apartment, law enforcement agents found the bloody clothes of the murderer, as he had obviously changed into a clean set of clothes before fleeing the scene. A complete search of the premises was not completed by police after the bodies were removed, yet later the bloody razor was found on the lawn of a neighboring property.
Police ruled out robbery as motivation for the attacks, as money and valuables left in plain sight were not stolen by the intruder.
The razor used to kill the couple was found to belong to Andrew Maggio, the brother of the deceased who ran a barber shop on Camp Street. His employee, Esteban Torres, told police that Maggio had removed the razor from his shop two days prior to the murder, explaining that he had wanted to have a nick honed from the blade.
Maggio, who lived in the adjoining apartment to his brother's residence, discovered his slain brother and sister-in-law roughly two hours after the gruesome attacks had occurred, upon hearing strange groaning noises through the wall.
Maggio blamed his failure to hear any noise related to the attacks on his intoxicated state, as he had returned home after a night of celebration prior to his departure to join the navy; police, however, were nonetheless surprised that he failed to hear the intruder, as he made a forced entry into the home.
Andrew Maggio became the prime suspect in the crime, yet was released after investigators were unable to break down his statement, as well as his account of an unknown man who was supposedly seen lurking near the residence prior to the murders.
Louis Besumer and Harriet Lowe
Louis Besumer and his mistress Harriet Lowe were attacked in the early morning hours of the 27th. June 1918, at the back of his grocery which was located at the corner of Dorgenois and Laharpe Streets. Besumer was struck with a hatchet above his right temple, which resulted in a skull fracture. Lowe was hacked over the left ear, and found unconscious when police arrived at the scene.
The couple were discovered shortly after 7am on the morning of the attack by John Zanca, a driver of a bakery wagon who had come to the grocery in order to make a routine delivery. Zanca found both Besumer and Lowe in a puddle of their own blood, both bleeding from their heads.
The axe, which had belonged to Besumer himself, was found in the bathroom of the apartment. Besumer later stated to police that he had been sleeping when he was bashed with the hatchet.
Police arrested potential suspect Lewis Oubicon, a 41-year-old African-American man who had been employed in Besumer's store just a week before the attacks. No evidence existed to prove the man guilty, yet police arrested him nonetheless, stating that Oubicon had offered conflicting accounts of his whereabouts on the morning of the attack.
Shortly after the attempted murder Lowe stated that she remembered having been attacked by a mulatto man, yet her statement was discounted by police due to her disillusioned state. Robbery was said to be the only possible explanation for the attacks, yet no money or valuables were removed from the couple's home.
Oubicon was later released as police were unable to gather sufficient evidence to hold him accountable for the crimes. Media attention soon turned to Besumer himself, as a series of letters written in German, Russian, and Yiddish were discovered in a trunk at the man's home. Police suspected that Besumer was a German spy, and government officials began a full investigation of his potential espionage.
Weeks later, after going in and out of consciousness, Harriet Lowe told police that she thought Besumer was in fact a German spy, which led to his immediate arrest. Two days later Besumer was released, and two lead investigators of the case were demoted due to unacceptable police work.
Besumer was once again arrested in August 1918, after Harriet Lowe, who lay dying in Charity Hospital after a failed surgery, stated that it was he who had attacked her more than a month previously with his hatchet. He was charged with murder, and served nine months in prison before being acquitted on the 1st. May 1919, after a ten-minute jury deliberation.
Lowe became the center of a media circus, as she continually made scandalous and often false statements relating to both the attacks and the character of Louis Besumer. The Times-Picayune sensationalized Lowe and her outspoken nature upon discovering that she was not the wife of Besumer, but his mistress.
A Charity Hospital source discovered the scandal, when Besumer asked to be directed to the room of "Mrs. Harriet Lowe," and was denied access as no woman by that name was a patient. Besumer's legal wife arrived from Cincinnati in the days immediately following the discovery, which further inflamed the ongoing drama.
Lowe further gained media attention as she repeatedly made statements which voiced her dislike of the New Orleans chief of police, as well as her reluctance to comply with police questioning. After the truth of her marital status was revealed publicly, Lowe told reporters from the Times-Picayune that she would no longer aid the police in their investigation, as she suspected that it had been Chief Mooney who first informed the press of the scandal.
Despite the scandal, and her delirious statements which suggested that Besumer was a German spy, Lowe returned to the home she shared with Besumer weeks after the attack. One side of her face was partially paralyzed due to the severity of the attack. Lowe died on the 5th. August 1918, just two days after doctors performed surgery in an effort to repair her partially paralyzed face. Just prior to her death, Lowe told authorities that she suspected it was Louis Besumer who had attacked her.
Anna Schneider
Anna Schneider was attacked in the early evening hours of the 5th. August 1918. The 8 months-pregnant, 28-year-old of Elmira Street awoke to find a dark figure standing over her and was bashed in the face repeatedly. Her scalp had been cut open, and her face was completely covered in blood.
Mrs. Schneider was discovered after midnight by her husband, Ed Schneider, who was returning late from work. Schneider claimed that she remembered nothing of the attack, and gave birth to a healthy baby girl two days after the incident.
Her husband told police that nothing had been stolen from the home, besides six or seven dollars that had been in his wallet. The windows and doors of the apartment appeared not to have been forced open, and authorities came to the conclusion that the woman was most likely attacked with a lamp that had been on a nearby table.
James Gleason, whom police said was an ex-convict, was arrested shortly after Schneider was found. Gleason was later released due to a complete lack of evidence, and stated that he originally ran from authorities because he had so often been arrested.
Lead investigators began to publicly speculate that the attack was related to the previous incidents involving Besumer and Maggio.
Joseph Romano and The Bruno Sisters
Joseph Romano was an elderly man living with his two nieces, Pauline and Mary Bruno. On the 10th. August 1918, Pauline and Mary awoke to the sound of a commotion in the adjoining room where their uncle resided. Upon entering the room, the sisters discovered that their uncle had taken a serious blow to his head, which resulted in two open cuts.
The assailant was fleeing the scene as they arrived, yet the girls were able to distinguish that he was a dark-skinned, heavy-set man, who wore a dark suit and slouched hat. Romano, although seriously injured, was able to walk to the ambulance once it arrived, yet died two days later due to severe head trauma.
The home had been ransacked, yet no items were stolen from Romano. Authorities found a bloody axe in the back yard, and discovered that a panel on the back door had been chiseled away.
The Romano murder created a state of extreme chaos in the city, with residents living in constant fear of an axeman attack. Police received a slew of reports, in which citizens claimed to have seen an axeman lurking in New Orleans neighborhoods. A few men even called to report that they had found axes in their back yards.
John Dantonio, a then-retired Italian detective, made public statements in which he hypothesized that the man who had committed the axeman murders was the same who had killed several individuals in 1911. The retired detective cited similarities in the manner by which the two sets of homicides had been committed, as reason to assume that they had been conducted by the same individual.
Dantonio described the potential killer as an individual of dual personalities, who killed without motive. This type of individual, Dantonio stated, could very likely have been a normal, law-abiding citizen, who was often overcome by an overwhelming desire to kill. He later went on to describe the killer as "A real-life Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".
Charles, Rosie and Mary Cortimiglia
Charles Cortimiglia was an Italian immigrant who lived with his wife, Rosie, and infant daughter, Mary, on the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Second Street in Gretna, Louisiana, a New Orleans suburb across the Mississippi River.
On the night of the 10th. March 1919, screams were heard coming from the Cortimiglia residence. Grocer Iorlando Jordano rushed across the street to investigate. Upon his arrival, Jordano found that Charles Cortimiglia, his wife, and their daughter had all been attacked by the unknown intruder.
Rosie stood in the doorway with a serious head wound, clutching her deceased daughter. Charles lay on the floor, bleeding profusely. The couple was rushed to Charity Hospital, where it was discovered that both had suffered skull fractures.
Nothing was stolen from the house, but a panel on the back door had been chiseled away, and a bloody axe was found on the back porch of the home. Charles was released two days later, while his wife remained in the care of doctors.
Upon gaining full consciousness, Rosie made claims that Iorlando Jordano and his 18-year-old son, Frank, were responsible for the attacks. Iorlando, a 69-year-old man, was too ill to have committed the crimes. Frank Jordano, more than six feet tall and weighing over 200 pounds, would have been too large to have fit through the panel on the back door.
Charles Cortimiglia vehemently denied his wife's claims, yet police nonetheless arrested the two and charged them with the murder. The men would later be found guilty. Frank was sentenced to hang, and his father to life in prison.
Charles Cortimiglia divorced his wife after the trial. Almost a year later, Rosie announced that she had falsely accused the two out of jealousy and spite. Her statement was the only evidence against the Jordanos, and they were released from jail shortly thereafter.
Steve Boca
Steve Boca, a grocer, was attacked in his bedroom as he slept by an axe-wielding intruder on the 10th. August 1919. Boca awoke during the night to find a dark figure looming over his bed. Upon regaining consciousness, Boca ran into the street, and found that his head had been cracked open.
The grocer then ran to the home of his neighbor, Frank Genusa, where he lost consciousness and collapsed. Nothing had been taken from the home, yet, once again, a panel on the back door of the home had been chiseled away. Boca recovered from his injuries, but could not remember any details of the trauma. This attack took place after the emergence of the infamous axeman letter.
Sarah Laumann
Sarah Laumann was attacked on the night of the 3rd. September 1919. Neighbors came to check on the young woman, who had lived alone, and broke into the home when Laumann did not answer. They discovered the 19-year-old lying unconscious on her bed, suffering from a severe head injury and missing several teeth.
The intruder had entered the apartment through an open window, and attacked the woman with a blunt object. A bloody axe was discovered on the front lawn of the building. Laumann recovered from her injuries, yet couldn't recall any details from the attack.
Mike Pepitone
Mike Pepitone was attacked on the night of the 27th. October 1919. His wife was awakened by a noise and arrived at the door of his bedroom just as a large, axe-wielding man was fleeing the scene. Mike Pepitone had been struck in the head, and was covered in his own blood.
Blood splatter covered the majority of the room, including a painting of the Virgin Mary. Mrs. Pepitone, the mother of six children, was unable to describe any characteristics of the killer. The Pepitone murder was the last of the alleged axeman attacks.
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