Diana Vicari was last seen alive around midnight on October 23 1992 in Tuscon,Arizona.Her severed arms were found in a dumpster on oct 24 by a woman collecting aluminum cans.The arms were identified through fingerprints and a ring given to Vicari by her father.The rest of her body was never found and the case remained unsolved for years.Then in 1995 Lemuel Prion from Utah was charged and later sentenced to death in 1999,but in 2003 the conviction was overturned and the case remains cold to this day.Prions defence team theorized a man named John Mazure was responsible for the murder.Also Diana was having an afair with her drama teacher at Pima Community College.The teachers name is Robert Encila who had a fiance whos name has been withheld from the public.Dianas car was found abandoned near a house in escrow beloning to the fiances mother.This case may or may not be connected to the 1992/1992 Phoenix murders of Angela Brosso and Melanie Bernas.I decided to start this thread to gather new intell and help solve this 20 year old murder once and for all.Dianas sister Debbie Vicari worked hard for years trying to track down the killer,but passed away in 2009 from complications from surgery.I hope that we the public can come together and help solve this case. http://caselaw.findl...rt/1291382.html

Hello my name is Lucas North and I am a self-proclaimed unnoficial private investigator. This is an attempt at re-posting a topic that was deleted due to myself and another user breaking the rule of the forum and using the last names of a suspect. It is my hope that the forum moderators will allow me to post this topic if I agree to withold the last names of the suspects in these murders that were unearthed last week. I have contacted Angela Brosso's former boyfriend and gave him the names and mugshots of Ronald M. and Chris B. of Sunnyslope in hopes that he will contact the lead detective in this case with that info and hopefully lead to an interview to uncover if these individuals were in fact the same "Ronnie and Chris" who were seen with Angela Brosso's missing purple Diamondback mountain bike in the days after her death.

I also want to apologize to the forum moderators for violating your rules. I have never read them and allowed my emotion to get the best of me in this case and my desire to see the killers caught made me act reckless. It will not happen again and I implore you to allow us to continue digging up dirt on this case as the old topic had an amazing 286 responses spanning 26 pages including shocking revelations from Brosso's boyfriend who postes as SandyBeaches, Voiceinthewind who revealed the warlocks theory and the startiling revelation that the were spotted with the purple bike, Steve Rino, a friend of Melanie Bernas who said she was hit by a sedan on 40th street and thrown in the trunk the night she went missing, as well as many other interesting people. It is my belief that the old deleted topic that lasted from my creation of it in October 2011 until its demise about a week ago was the biggest break in this case in years. It has introduced a whole new generation of people to this crime and has provided new hope that it can be one day solved. I'm hoping we can continue our work and it will lead to an arrest and closure for the family and friends of these girls.

Being born in a family of Korean origins in 1954, Jossiv Kim was always known for his neurotic issues.
After the fall of Soviet Union, Kim started experimenting with the credit fraud and even took some credits from commercial banks in Russia.
He also tried to get huge loans from the Netherland banks, but could not cheat the EU system
Later on, Kim arranged a money laundering process along with his partner in crime - Dutch lawyer of Ukrainian origins Maxim Hodak. Together they started certain companies that were meant to be dealing with the “publicist” activities. For example, the Glagoslav company that is owned by Jossiv Kim and Maxim Hodak through the Arcudaand Slavinvest companies.
Kim accumulated even more money by laundering the stolen Ukrainian finances. Jossiv Kim’s counteragent company on fraudulent operation was the offshore company known as Oxlord. The company was established in Seychelles by the Intrahold AG and the Monohold AG companies.
These companies are largely mentioned in journalist investigations on the matter of Yanukovych government corruption (Ukrainska Pravda, Novaya Gazeta). These companies are often mentioned in the investigation of illegal withdrawal of funds from Moldova: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/06/the-bank-fraud-in-moldova-and-20000-opaque-british-corporations.html
In 2008 Kim was arrested in Italy for selling stolen items. He was unable to avoid jail, but soon after Hodak made sure that Kim is released under home arrest. He then ran away never to return to Italy.
In 2013 Kim appeared on the most wanted list of Dubai for the crime of forging important government paperwork.

Nowadays, Kim, his wife Angelina and his son Anton Alex Kim are in hiding. Kim himself was seen in Spain in 2013.

Many of you may be familiar with this case but it was new to me and I did not find a thread about it.

A husband and father of three, Elmer Crawford, murdered his entire family in their Glenroy, Australia home. After the murders, which included a homemade electrocution device, he staged a car accident scene 120 miles away in an attempt to frame his wife for murder/suicide. The car was intentionally driven off a cliff with his wife and children but did not plunge into the ocean as it is assumed Crawford intended. Instead, the car landed on a plateau and investigators were able to piece together what happened, even arriving at the original crime scene in the midst of Crawford's attempt to clean up. It is believed he fled out the back door as police were approaching his home.

Elmer Crawford then disappeared without a single credible trace in the 46 years since. A very large reward for information leading to his arrest offered in 2008 has gone unclaimed. It is a completely different type of vanishing more in line with the search for Mengele in South America than the typical cases of missing innocents.

Crawford would be 85 years old. Although it's quite possible he is deceased, the mystery can and should still be solved.

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

I'm just curious on people thoughts.   Also is this done in other countries.

An example might be that a jury decides guilt or innocence.   Then maybe rate their certainty.  Made 1 to 5 with 5 being the most certain.  Then the judge sentences the person based off of that number.

I suppose with the beyond a reasonable doubt in play, this isn't an option.   I just wonder if something like this should be.  

Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympian described by a judge as a "fallen hero," was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in a South African prison for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a ruling viewed by some as too lenient.

However, Judge Thokozile Masipa appeared to anticipate criticism of a jail term that fell far short of the normally mandated 15 years for murder under South African law, declaring: "Our courts are courts of law, not courts of public opinion."

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/07/06/oscar-pistorius-sentenced-to-6-years-in-prison-for-murder-girlfirend.html

Previously -

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/295602-oscar-pistorius-has-major-depression/

I am living in Bavaria, Germany, and usually our state is quite peacefully and sometimes even boring. Just recently something really mysterious happened here. Better said at the world-famous attraction of the Neuschwanstein Castle.

The castle was built by the Bavarian king Ludwig II in the year 1869 in order to create a magical place, just like you read about in classical fairytales. Including some beautifull rooms and halls. . . . It almost ruined the financial status of Bavaria, which led to the prohibition of Ludwig II, but nowadays it is the most visited attraction in Germany which welcomes thousands of tourists every day; more than 1,4 Million visitors per year! In general they come, watch the castle, make some photos and leave again. But not a couple that got lost and disappeared.

As the media here is reporting, it`s about a married couple from China. The man is 37 Years old, his wife is two years older than him. The couple belonged to a group of Asian tourists that should have visited Germany, Austria and Italy by bus. The group arrived around 16 o'clock at the Neuschwanstein Castle, but didn`t show up when it was time to leave at 18 o'clock. The group waited then another two and a half hours and started to search on their own, but at the end they called the police.

The search began at the same evening in and around the castle, but brought nothing. The next day the search continued in a wider area and the police also took advantage of a helicopter. They also searched the nearby lake and canyon, but again found nothing. It`s like the disappeared into thin air.

It is the first time ever that something like this happened at Neuschwanstein Castle. Police and media seem to have absolutely no clue, what could have happened to them. Let`s be clear: we are not talking about a lonesome county. In fact there are many villages around the castle, many people also visit the woods around the building and you don`t have to forget the countless tourists. So if the couple just lost their way, somebody would have found them or at least some hints. But there are not witnesses, no clothing or other traces that could lead to the couple. Even our police stated, that their disappearance is a total mystery.

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PALERMO , Italy, July 13 (UPI) -- Longtime Mafia leader Bernardo Provenzano died in a Palermo, Italy, prison hospital Wednesday, Italian media reported.

Provenzano, 83, was arrested in 2006 after 43 years on the run from authorities, and was sentenced to life in prison for several murders, including the killings in 1992 of anti-Mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

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OK I HAVE heard of feet being washed up in training shoes before....but not in the UK.

So the news is saying a left foot was found.... and as if that wasnt bad enough....it was found not far....from a previous find of a left foot! How horrible! There is a suggestion it may have been a training aid...but even so...dont these things get burnt after? Plus it was found in someone back garden....now that;d be freaky if that was your garden....

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Second human foot found in back garden in Bath

A second human foot has been discovered close to the spot where another was found just months ago.

The left limb was found in undergrowth in the back garden of a property in Weston Park, Bath, on Monday morning.

Police said they were linking the find to another left foot, which was found in a park in February, due to their "physical similarities" and close proximity of the discoveries.

The first was probably a teaching aid, detectives said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-36713509

 

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Now, some help might be on the way in the form of an expanded cold case unit inside the San Francisco Police Department’s homicide unit.

The department has asked Mayor Ed Lee and Interim Chief Toney Chaplin for funds to expand the unit, which currently has one full-time inspector and two retired inspectors, according to Cmdr. Greg McEachern, who heads SFPD’s Investigations Division.

The roughly $160,000 budget ask would pay for two additional retired inspectors who would work part-time in the unit.

“Ideally, we’d like to look at every unsolved homicide,” McEachern said, but the staffing is not there. If funded, the new unit should be in place by the end of the summer, he said.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/expanded-sfpd-cold-case-unit-help-solve-hundreds-killings/

This might be something interesting to keep an eye on for all of us to discuss.. I really don't know much about what is actually in the SFPD cold case files, but I bet a bit of digging around will give us an idea..

Hmmmm. Anyone know about that area that can help out?

It's one of the most notorious mysteries in the history of skyjacking. D.B. Cooper was last seen in November of 1971, wearing a business suit as he jumped out of the back of a plane carrying $200,000 in cash. He would have landed somewhere in the Northwest of the country, and the FBI has spent the past 45 years conducting one of their most thorough investigations to find out what happened to the skyjacker.

http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2016/07/13/87021672/

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/case-closed-fbi-no-longer-looking-for-db-cooper/

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Editor's note: This story was first published on April 28, 2016, and is being republished to mark the 50th anniversary of the murders. 

A couple of days after his basement flooded, John Schmale finally mustered the energy to head downstairs and investigate the damage.

In the basement's dim overhead light, a big, brown cardboard box caught his eye, a box so soggy its bottom was ready to fall out. He lugged it upstairs. He opened it.

Inside sat four square, off-white boxes labeled "Kodak," and on top of them lay a sheet of thin pink paper. He instantly recognized his mother's cursive handwriting.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-richard-speck-chicago-mass-murder-victims-20160421-story.html

The Mysterious Death of Carol Wayne

This is my first thread started in this forum, and I’m not sure if this case has been discussed before, so please bear with me…

Carol Wayne (September 6, 1942 – January 13, 1985) was a television actress most active in the 1960’s and 1970’s. She is perhaps best remembered for her re-occurring role as “The Matinee Lady” on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson. She was also a frequent guest on The Red Skelton Show, and had many appearances on other popular shows of the time.

Carol had spent many years perfecting the role of the “Ditzy Blonde Bombshell”, and perhaps no one played the part better. She was so good at it that she seldom had an opportunity to play anything else.

The success of the Tonight Show, helped lead to her ultimate professional downfall. Johnny Carson began to push for a reduction in the shows run time from 90 minutes to 60, and while this was good news for the network, as it led to the creation of “Late Night With David Letterman” it led to her spot in the show being reduced drastically.

She was married several times, first to Rock and Roll photographer Barry Feinstein then later to TV and film producer Burt Sugarman.

Following the cuts in the Tonight Show she was having severe financial problems, and reportedly had fallen into drug and alcohol abuse. Toward the end of her life she had resorted to being an escort for rich men.

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In January 1985, Wayne and her companion Edward Durston were vacationing at the Las Hadas Resort in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico. After an argument with Durston, Wayne reportedly left to take a walk on the beach. Three days later a local fisherman found Wayne's body in the shallow bay.

Authorities later discovered Durston had checked out of the resort the day the couple argued. He had left Wayne's luggage at the airport. Later, an autopsy performed in Mexico revealed no signs of drugs or alcohol in Wayne's body. Her death was eventually ruled as "accidental".

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Carol was deathly afraid of water, and would not have gone swimming. The water she was found in was only 4 feet deep.

Excerpt from Carol Wayne website http://www.tvparty.com/wayne.html )

According to published reports, Carol Wayne was on vacation in Santiago Bay, Mexico with Los Angeles car salesman Edward Durston on January 10, 1985 when (it has been reported) the couple had a argument about where they were going to stay that evening (they were scheduled to fly back to Los Angeles the next morning).

Durston checked into a hotel and Wayne reportedly left to walk down the beach (to cool off?). That was the last time anyone saw her alive. Local fisherman Abel de Dios found her limp body floating in the shallow bay waters three days later.

Mexican authorities wondered how Carol Wayne came to drown in waters four feet deep, fully clothed. There were no cuts or abrasions, so a fall from the nearby rocks was ruled out. The coroner stated that death occurred 3 - 4 days earlier and the body tested negative for drugs and alcohol.

Suspicions were raised: Carol Wayne had to be identified by workers at the Las Hadas resort where the couple had been staying earlier in the week. When locals went to look for Wayne's traveling companion, they discovered that Edward Durston checked out three days earlier - leaving Wayne's luggage at the airport with a message that she would pick up her bags in the morning.

As an aside, many readers may remember the (alleged) LSD related death of Art Linkletter's daughter Diane. She jumped (or fell) from a sixth floor apartment building in 1969.

Art Linkletter basically ended his successful television career when he started crusading against drugs with a fervor that made it hard for middle America to find the afternoon talk show host funny anymore.

Not that it necessarily means anything, but Diane Linkletter's companion the night she was killed was Edward Durston.

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http://www.kake.com/story/32447162/one-in-a-billion-shot-deputy-under-fire-shoots-bullet-into-suspects-gun?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KAKE-TV

An off-duty Colorado sheriff's deputy under attack managed to fire his gun and made a "one in a billion" shot.

The deputy's bullet traveled up the barrel of a suspect's gun, colliding with the cartridge inside and lodging itself there.

"This collision rendered the .40 caliber pistol temporarily inoperable," according to the district attorney's investigation into the shooting.

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Imagine a young woman driving north, headed for New England’s White Mountains, a troubled personal life in Amherst, Massachusetts, in her rearview mirror. Mainly, it’s small tragedies that preoccupy her: a breakup, some minor credit-card-fraud charges, a dent in her dad’s car. Many people hit a breaking point in their lives. Maura Murray’s came on February 9, 2004. She was twenty-one years old.

Murray probably took I-91 north that day, having packed up her dorm room at the University of Massachusetts and printed out directions from MapQuest. She didn’t tell anyone her plans. Around 7:45 P.M., she fell off the map. Forty-five minutes earlier, she had driven her car into a snowbank along a smaller highway near Haverhill, New Hampshire, not far from the mountains. A neighbor saw the car there, and a person pacing outside it, and called 911. A school-bus driver stopped and talked to Murray, just for a moment. She begged him not to call the police; AAA was coming, she said. She was in sufficient distress that the man called the police anyway when he got home.

The cops arrived at the scene soon afterward. The car was still there, but Murray was gone. There were no footprints leading away from the scene that could have helped them follow her, wherever she had gone. The area was lightly populated, and the neighbors hadn’t seen her leave. A box of wine had spilled all over the interior of the car. Murray’s belongings were still in there, too, except for her wallet. No one ever heard from Murray again

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/true-crime-addict-and-the-problem-of-internet-sleuths

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On the morning of August 11, 1977, a Seaside, California, police officer kicked down the door to a small duplex and found four females spanning three generations of the Smith family dead from too many stab wounds to count.

Looking into the kitchen, he could see Josephine Smith, the white-haired grandmother, lying dead next to her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Suzanne Harris, who was lying dead next to her six-year-old daughter, Rachel Harris. In the bedroom, Renee Ferguson, another fifteen-year-old Smith family granddaughter and niece to Suzanne, was found dead, lying across the bed with her hands tied behind her back.

All four females had not been seen since attending church on Tuesday night, August 9. After the service, Grandma Smith promised the Assembly of God Church pastor they would return the following evening for his evangelical seminar. They never came. It wasn’t like Grandma Smith not to appear when she said she would. He thought about checking on them, but his attention was directed elsewhere.

That Wednesday morning, both Suzanne Harris and Renee Ferguson were supposed to be at work; Suzanne at an electrical firm, and Renee to her summer job she had gotten through the youth job corp. Neither one of them showed-up and Suzanne’s car remained under the carport, exactly where it had been parked the night before.

http://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/the-seaside-murders-4-females-from-3-generations-in-1-family-1977/

Stumbled across this current story, and realized it hadn't been posted yet.

Phoenix Police Seeking Serial Killer After Seven Deaths

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Phoenix police have launched a manhunt for what they believe is a serial killer on the loose, shooting people seemingly at random in their cars or driveways, and always at night, reports the Wall Street Journal. Of the seven people killed since April 1, six died just miles apart in Maryvale, a low-income, racially diverse community. Some Maryvale residents are starying stay indoors at night for safety. thers attended a community meeting to learn more about the investigation. A vigil has been held to honor the victims and their families.

http://thecrimereport.org/2016/07/22/phoenix-police-still-seeking-serial-killer-after-seven-shooting-deaths/

CNN news, July 14: http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/13/us/phoenix-serial-shootings/

After up to 17 victims, cops still can't find the Gilgo Beach Killer

By Brad Hamilton

January 3, 2015 | 8:45pm

It was a bitterly cold afternoon four years ago when a Suffolk County cop's German shepherd sniffed out the skeletal corpse of Melissa Barthelemy, 24, a Bronx prostitute who had vanished a year and a half earlier.

The cop had been looking for a different woman, but the dog's discovery of Barthelemy's body in a crumbling burlap sack amid the thorny underbrush off Ocean Parkway in Gilgo Beach, Long Island, exposed something unexpected.

It was the sickening work of one of New York's most prolific serial killers ever with a body count of at least 10 victims and as many as 17.

Read more: http://nypost.com/20...o-beach-killer/

I just finished reading Steve Thomas' book regarding the murder of JonBenet. I always knew there had to be another part of the story, a reason why it was at times obvious the Ramsey's were not telling the truth and how they seemed to be successful in evading even talking to the police.

This is a great read, although prepare to be sickened. And, no, it is not a vindication of what first happened at the crime scene. It is an explanation of what went on from there.

It is: "JonBenet: Inside the Murder Investigation" by Steve Thomas.

I'd love to hear comments from anyone else who has read the book.