On a cold January evening 28 years ago in Palatine, Illinois, gunshots rang out, and the lives of seven innocent people were snuffed out. 1991, police in Irving, Texas . "It's sad but it's a reality that all counties, just about every county, in the state has some cases . She had been shot in the head and was laying lifeless in a pool of blood. MOODY, Toronto Charles RUSSELL Jr. Danielle Nathaniel And other crimes, like the time Daniel Athens peed on the Alamo, aren't quite as gruesome as they are wildly . They have described him as an "organized, coldblooded psychopath." Lynn It was also located less than a mile from Sylvia's Ceramics, where Mick was killed. Police had only an eyewitness account of a . Off-topic, but like you, having free time after I was laid off is how I really got into unsolved mysteries again. Jeff believes that the man was either on drugs or had mental problems. Tristan Her cat was somewhere in the apartment and appeared disturbed - if only cats could talk And that's where it ended. Can't remember if it was 80s or 90s. All of the stores were close to the interstates, with some being just a block from an off-ramp. Oh, that's really interesting, and a very plausible theory for what happened here, especially since there was never any mention of them finding the weapon here. Many peoplebelieve that Albright was wrongly convicted, but he's still serving time in a Lubbock, Texas psychiatric unit. shop on his patrol. Only a small amount of money was missing from the shop. As she was known for her precise punctuality by her co-workers, this caused a bit of alarm. When he removed the pillow, he saw her head had been cut off. Jeff assumed he was a hitchhiker; he came from the direction of Interstate 465, which intersects with Interstate 70. This is the last known time that anyone had contact with her. He might be a collector of antique or unique firearms. They also suspect that the killer may have switched to a different weapon due to the publicity surrounding the case. He first looked through the door but could not see anything. They note that, like in the I-70 cases, all of the Texas victims were clerks shot in the head. Murderers Texas, USA Name Date Victims Location A Daniel Clate ACKER March 12, 2000 1 Texas, USA Beunka ADAMS September 2, 2002 1 Texas, USA John Wade ADAMS March 23, 1997 1 Texas, USA Timothy Wayne ADAMS February 20, 2002 1 Texas, USA Dwight Dwayne ADANANDUS January 28, 1988 1 Texas, USA Jesus He also enjoyed being able to elude the authorities. Megan Beth Johns was a 29 year old secretary in Dallas, Texas. The third victim, Shirley Williams, was found in March of 1991 but the circumstances surrounding her murder were a bit different. Patriarch Zheng Lin was a gambler who owned the Eight Immortals Restaurant. Gerald Wayne "We don't know who did this and we don't know why they did it," Nulle said. Family members found the 47-year-old stabbed in the chest and laying in the driveway of . Additional counties and states will be added to this database as time and funding permit. Police call 29-year old Bakari Moncrief, who is a suspect in a burglary. Maintenance would have a key to open the front door so I would assume the door was secured with something that could only be operated from the inside like a chain or some special latch. The Post's analysis of 52,000 criminal homicides identified zones within cities where there were more than eight homicides but the arrest rate was less than 30 percent. He also said he had been in Terre Haute in 2001, when Billy's murder took place. Indeed, there was a pattern after all. Minutes later, at around 6:30pm, Tim heard a loud pop that sounded like a gunshot. Irving, TX Area Cold Cases Crime Map Trends Analytics Cold Cases Missing Persons Daily Archive Name Marjorie Dabney Age Cause of Death Homicide Info Homicide Agency Lewisville Police Department View Source Name Baby Doe Age Cause of Death Homicide Info Homicide Agency Lewisville Police Department View Source Name The Unsolved Murders Of Cabin 28 XIV.II. On May 10, 2021, a clan of armed gunmen ruthlessly shot up a small restaurant in Jalisco, Mexico, with no apparent motive. MARSHALL, Virgil Euristi She fell to the floor, conscious but not moving. If I remember correctly he wanted to use the bag to conceal the weapon in. "Other . Or if the killer had a key and bolted the door behind him once outside the apartment. Some of the oldest unsolved murders on Uncovered 's cold case website include the 1960 murder of Nancy Eagleson, the 1977 murder of Ann Harmeier, the 1977 murder of Roberta Elam, the 1982 murder of Tina Foglia, the 1980 murder of Eve Wilkowitz, and the 1984 murder of Laura Parker. This next entry also occurred in the month of May. In true cowardly fashion, Hennard refused to surrender and proclaimed that he would kill as many people as he could before being shot three times by the police, though only wounding him. ANDRADE, Roger GARDNER. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. It was also speculated that the killer was suffering from PTSD after being in the military. He may have connections to the military, as several of the murders have taken place near military bases. Police believe that the killer stalked at least some of his victims, watching them as they worked and "casing" the area. There's no documentation of any DNA evidence that may have been left behind, although I would hope they at least looked at those bread slices. The cases of unidentified victims within this article are those of individuals discovered in Texas. So the last thing one would think to find in a restaurant is a bunch of dead bodies. Police believe the killer had chosen the shop there because he thought only a single female clerk was in the store. Search Texas newspapers for free! He apparently had tried to enter the cabin by climbing down the chimney. I think I've read about the Christine Sanoubane case before, and maybe subconsciously it was at the back of my mind while I was writing this. In November 2021, authorities from Indianapolis, Wichita, Terre Haute, St. Charles, and Raytown met together in St. Charles to review the cases. Her eyes had been removed, but without the same amount of precision. Submissions should outline a mystery and provide a link to a more detailed review of the case such as a Wiki article or news report. Four days after Kelly Lynn Albright disappeared from her family's home, she was found dead in a field. 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It is also possible that the killer lived or worked somewhere where grinding or polishing was performed. And why? That would be Forest Hill with 30.7 murders per 100,000 people. After the store closed on December 6, 1991, unknown attackers murdered the four girls inside: Eliza Thomas, Amy Ayers, and sisters Jennifer and Sarah Harbison. Still, some of the most brutal crimes in the history of the United States happen to have occurred in Texas. The number of unsolved crimes in Texas is higher than in most states, due both to the sheer size of the Lone Star State andthe amount of empty, desolate space where dastardly deeds can be committed without discovery. They were all between the ages of six months and seven years old. Just eight minutes after Norris took her eyes off of Hagerman, she was gone. Dwayne San Miguel admitted to the police that he initially left the employees alive but changed his mind. Based on his appearance, she believed he "worked somewhere outside." Shortly after opening, a man entered. However, when they entered their manager Jean Augustes office, she was accompanied by former employee John Taylor (36) and his friend Craig Godineaux (30), and Taylor had a gun. That day, around 150 patrons were eating in the restaurant when a man named George Hennard drove his truck through the front window of the store. Zhiheng spent eight hours dismembering the bodies of the Zheng family, subsequently disposing of the remains in the ocean or dumpsters. Of those 105 murders, 57 were still unsolved as of Dec. 22. Jeff Meyrose, who worked across the street from Robin, reported seeing a strange man in the area shortly before her murder. It would have been sorta fringe back then, and is pretty sketch now. A small amount of money was taken from the register. On September 25, 1993, a year after Sarah's murder (and a month before Amy's), Mary Ann was killed while she worked alone in the store. What happened next was nothing short of a horror movie. In the end, Huberty lost his own life after taking the lives of 21 victims aged eight months to 74 years old.[9]. I was going based on what I know of the area (I'm more over in the Richardson/Garland area, but my father used to work off of 114/MacArthur) and from the descriptions in the articles, which were all written before I moved to the area. Hagerman had been riding her bike with her brotherand, according to her mother Donna Norris, the pair were only supposed to go around the block. After a year with no money or title from Zheng, an enraged Zhiheng went to the Eight Immortals Restaurant and demanded money and the restaurant from Zheng. ? 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Possible lone survivor of I-70 serial killer speaks out after 30 years, 30 Years After the 'I-70 Killer' Began His Murder Spree, Detectives Still Don't Know His Name, DNA evidence and tips continue to thaw I-70 Killer cold case. Authorities have searched hotel registrations from every hotel along Interstate 70. He returned to the freezer, where he allegedly asked the four victims to give him a good reason why he shouldnt kill them before shooting each one at close range, with three being shot multiple times in the head. 1960 - 1969 Cases. NAVASOTA, Texas - A convicted murderer serving 70 years for a 1978 slaying near Houston who was also under investigation in the unsolved killings of 11 missing girls has died in a Texas prison . He sadly passed away in 2002 without what knowing who killed his daughter and why. Maybe she wasn't. Thanks for mentioning it. I know the bread thing is probably not that meaningful and got spilled in the struggle, but I can't help but find it an interesting little piece of information in a case that is sadly lacking. Twenty-three-year-old Patricia Smith and thirty-two-year-old Patricia Magers were both happily married. ADAMS, Charles This case first aired on the May 4, 1994 episode. Stabbing ultimately feels personal in nature, but as they never revealed what the weapon used was (if they even knew themselves), it could also have been the closest thing at hand. In at least one case, the victim's purse was untouched. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office Cold Case detective is progressive and forward-thinking, utilizing numerous resources, databases along with the use of county, state, and private laboratories and recently Parabon Snapshot - DNA Phenotyping. He had no idea what had just happened inside. None of the victims were sexually assaulted. A lack of evidence led Charles Albright, or the Texas Eyeball Killer, to only ever be convicted of a single murder - but that doesn't make his alleged crimes any less grisly. In addition to the El Memo murders and the murders of the Gonzlez siblings, two others were murdered in Jalisco in one weekend. Howard McClaflin, Shirley Thompson, and George Dwayne Landrum were cleaning the restaurant after closing when two brothers, Calvin Lloyd Padgett and Max Baer Daughtry, entered the restaurant demanding money. Nicholas March 2011 marks 30 years since the murder of Bobby McBride and the crime has remained an unsolved cold case for the Brownwood Police. A few minutes later, the man asked to see a copper frame. Hennard reportedly went up to one victim while trying to hide from him and shot her point blank. DUNN, Martin Gonzalez They also noted that his killer resembled the composite sketch of the I-70 Killer. After the group was reported missing, police saw that the restaurants safe was empty and quickly theorized that the employees had robbed the restaurant and were on a drug-induced joyride. Location: 3317 Avenue H On August 13, 1977, a neighbor found the body of Eleanor Stark in her residence at 3317 Avenue H. It was apparent that someone had broken into the residence. He looked like he had been sleeping in his clothes. At 2:30pm, customers found Nancy's body in the back office; she had been shot in the back of the head. Are you referring to Bobby Lee Hines and the murder of Michelle Haupt? In 2008, forensic investigators analyzed a semen sample taken from Henry in 1990 and matched it to another unsolved rape case. He put the gun to her forehead; however, it jammed and he laughed. His murder remains unsolved. In Dallas, 48 percent of. GUTIERREZ, Jessie On January 13, 1996, nine-year-old Amber Hagerman was abducted from her home in Arlington, Texas. A security camera video showed that the killer entered the store, grabbed some beer, and then approached the counter. Interestingly, the store was located close to Interstate 70. The killer asked him to come into the back room with him. KANSAS: In 1970, 12-year-old Kelly Lynn Albright went missing and was found dead in a field in Reno County. He also went into a back room of the store. Karen was a loving mother. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas As this murder case reaches 36 years unsolved, investigators with CCPD's Homicide Unit are reaching out to the community once again for information. Four days after they finally left El Paso, a county sheriff found them, dead and mutilated, in the desolate wasteland six miles east of Van Horn and half a mile south of U.S. 80. Megan was born and raised in the Dallas area, and had never been married nor had any children. The following links contain a description of the cases that are currently unsolved: City of Arlington, Texas | All Rights Reserved | Powered by. After he left, she was able to crawl to the phone and call 911. Chatterjee was killed during the Feb. 15, 2002, robbery of his gas station on I-45, according to the Oak. Carl Lee Nelson Alvin However, an Intratec Tec22 (also known as a Scorpion) has not been ruled out. He was later seen trying to hitch a ride back to Interstate 465. The cold case unit at the McLennan County Sheriff's Office has cleared six unsolved murder cases and it's attracting national attention. ANGLETON, Larry The store was in a strip mall area, about six blocks from Interstate 35. Her body was found along I-45 in Huntsville, Texas, in 1980. Read on below to see how we crunched the numbers and how your town ranked. Overall, there were many similarities between the two sets of crimes. Ballistics tests completed by the FBI confirmed that all five women had been killed with the same gun, most likely a semi-automatic .22-caliber pistol. On January 13, 1996, Amber Hagerman, 9, was snatched off her bicycle in a grocery store parking lot in Arlington, Texas. It wouldn't be the first time a maintenance worker killed a young woman living alone in an apartment. Sadly, more than 40 years have passed since the Burger Chef murders and there is still no answer as to who committed the heinous crimes.[2]. The customer started backing towards the front door, saying that he did not know "what's going on here." Several people who knew the suspect said that he matched the man in the video. The store was less than a quarter mile from Interstate 465, which intersects with Interstate 70. SONNIER, David Wayne The chicken the pair had thrown away nearly 10 years earlier had been collected and frozen by investigators; it was now thawed, and saliva samples matched Juan Luna. The police's main suspect in the murders, Charles Albright, was a taxidermist and just the type of person who'd know how to perfectly remove an eye. One of these cases is the case of Megan Beth Johns. FBI agents created a psychological profile of the killer. BROWN, David | Browns Chicken Massacre | True Crime, Brutal True Story of What They Didnt Tell You About the Burger Chef Massacre. That afternoon, an employee at the store across the street noticed a strange man loitering around his building. Four murders in three different states, separated by more than 1,200 miles. Although the MO in the deaths was considerably different (Scheanette was called the "Bathtub Killer" for good reason, after all), Megan's death was two years earlier and it's widely assumed that he may have had more victims. It's difficult to discuss young women being killed in apartment complexes in the Dallas area in the mid-1990s without bringing up Dale Scheanette, who was convicted of killing two women (Christine Vu and Wendie Prescott) who lived in the same Arlington apartment complex just three months apart in the fall/winter of 1996 and was later executed for the crimes. She had been shot twice in the back of the head. The I-70 serial killer: Will DNA nab him? The soon-to-be killer, Huang Zhiheng, had won 180,000 Yuan from Zheng, and because Zheng knew he could not afford to pay it, the two agreed that if Zheng had not paid off his debt in one year, Zheng had to relinquish his restaurant. He then ran from the store, leaving the beer and most of the money behind. Her husband, Robert Pretty, says he came home from work to find his family deceased. ROSALES, Vaughn GUTIERREZ. Featuring both well-known and more obscure cases spanning across the 20th and 21st century, Unsolved Murders combines page-turning text . He also talked to himself and was "giggling." 2010 - Present 2000-2009 On November 1, 1993, twenty-two-year-old Amy Vess was working alone at Dancer's Closet, a dancewear shop in Arlington, Texas. In the meantime, she worked as a manager at Boot Village, a Western footwear store in Bogey Hills shopping plaza on Zumbehl Road. GONZALES, Cornelius Alan was the bag found ? On December 6, 1991, Austin, Texas was shell-shocked by a vicious crime. When Amber's body was eventually recovered from the bottom of a creek, it was revealed that her throat had been slit and she was naked except for a single sock. Detective Rich Plummer of the St. Charles Police Department says that it is important to know that a serial killer never stops; they may stop for a period of time, but they never stop completely. Magers and her husband, Mark, had bought the shop a year earlier. HAMILTON Jr. Samuel Christopher Real Name: Unrevealed Their bodies were later found in the restaurants storage area after Thompsons husband called police after arriving at the restaurant and seeing the cash register empty. For sure, she has other family and friends who want those answers as well. The Greatest Rock Stars Who Died Before 30. At 10am on January 15, 1994, she opened her store; she was working alone. There was no indication of sexual assault, as she was fully clothed and wasn't restrained in any way. The Texas Rangers, including the famous M. T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas, were drafted to help catch the Phantom Killer, whom witnesses described as a man wearing a sack with cut-out eye holes. George Wilson (1963) The killing of pub landlord George Wilson is Notts' oldest unsolved murder. The owners of the restaurant, Richard and Lynn Ehlenfeldt, and five of their employees: Guadalupe Maldonado, Michael C. Castro, Rico L. Solis, Thomas Mennes, and Marcus Neilsen. According to each of the witnesses, he was neatly dressed and clean-cut. February 8, 2021, 8:00 AM, CST . The cover of "Facing September," a murder mystery based on the case of Kelly Lynn Albright's murder. Although she had the day off, she agreed to come in. At the time of her death, she wasn't dating anyone and hadn't in some time. Search for names, places, or keywords to find publications featuring your family and historical events in Texas. Those pictures are very generous to the current condition of the apartments around there. Randall Wayne The circumstances of Mary Ann Becker's death resulted in a homicide investigation involving multiple police agencies. She also had significant facial bruising and a broken nose, while the other victims did not. I suspect her door was bolted if maintenance couldn't get in. Could she be an early victim of Dale Scheanette, the Bathtub Killer? Soon after, police linked the killer to another murder and an attempted murder along Interstate 35 and 45 in Texas. . Was there bag remnants or just bread? Clifton FOUST, John Steven It happened on January 25, 2019, at Barraza's home at 8623 Cedarwalk Drive in Tomball. As implied, this case is sorely lacking in coverage. Jr. Robert Leslie As of January 1995, when the Star-Telegram wrote up its annual review of homicides in the NE Tarrant County/Irving area, there were no arrests, and by the time Don Johns died in September 2002, it still remained unsolved. The bodies of four women were found burned inside, in a pile and gagged. All of the victims were shot point blank at least once in the temple and/or back of the head, execution style. She was not supposed to work that day, but a coworker had called in sick. Inexplicably, the killer, after telling the customer not to go to the police, let him go free. SKILLERN, Derrick J. The living room itself bore witness to a struggle having taken place there, as the furniture was overturned, and oddly enough, bread was scattered all over the floor. However, crimes committed in Texas haven'talways seen justice -from the, On January 13, 1996, nine-year-old Amber Hagerman was. (Texas EquuSearch) Miller, now 71, told The Guardian he believed that a man who lived down the road from the Millers before they moved to League . At around 6:30pm on November 30, 2001, a man entered the 7th & 70 Liquor Store on Prairieton Road in Terre Haute and shot Billy to death. His wallet was also stolen; however, other money in his pocket and in the register was left untouched. The Strange Deaths Of Don Henry And Kevin Ives 1 | The Setagaya Family Massacre - No Killer Identified, Despite DNA Evidence The Setagaya Family Massacre On December 30, 2000, a gruesome murder occurred in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo, Japan. The couple had been murdered. At around 6:30pm on April 11, just three days after Robin was murdered, both women were taken at gunpoint to the back storeroom of the shop, where they were each shot once in the back of the head. He has short, tinted, reddish or sandy (or possibly strawberry blond) hair, beard stubble, thin lips, a high forehead, and what witnesses describe as "lazy" or "droopy" eyelids. The shop was located just off of Interstate 35. Bobby Hardy McBride was born in May, Texas on October 3, 1939. Wednesday morning, October 5, Megan didn't show up for work. ASHBROOK. they could of taken the bag to put the knife in so it would not drip all over the floor. He appeared to be almost in a trance, as if he were thinking of something else. In 1949, he bought his wife a. -, Press J to jump to the feed. Unsolved Murders --- Megan Curl--- Lufkin,Tx 73,057 views Nov 30, 2020 4.5K Dislike Share Save Lamont At Large 391K subscribers talking about the unsolved murder of megan curl romero and. Jr. Mauriceo Mashawn Robert On the morning of April 27, 1992, he had a doctor's appointment. The heads were those of Fred and Edwina. Albert Autur TAHL. In 2002, an ex-girlfriend of one of the killers came forward and told police that her ex-boyfriend, James Degorski, and his friend Juan Luna had committed the murders. Even worse was the fact that after a 911 dispatch of shots fired was put out, police responded to the wrong McDonalds, allowing Huberty to continue his rampage for an even longer amount of time. Law enforcement investigated Robert Abel, a known sex offender, but was not able to link him to the crimes. GOSS, G. W. They called her apartment complex to do a welfare check on her around 11:30 that morning. Although a different gun was used in this murder (also a .22), the MO was so similar that police were virtually sure it was the same killer. On May 10, 1982, three Pizza Hut employees were brutally murdered for a measly sum of $100. Once again, like I always try and do with my research for these writeups, I've uploaded all the articles I can find to Google Drive, but also tried to cover as many details as I could in this post. Eliza and Jennifer had just finished a shift when Jennifers sister Sarah and her friend Amy met them at the shop so they could hang out later that night. We were told very little at time. All of the evidence had been washed away by the stream and the killer was never found. Although the killer took small amounts of money from each of the victims, robbery is not believed to be his motive. He was not nervous and did not seem to be in a hurry. The murder of Dagoberto Blanco on June 5, 2011 is another case police have yet to solve. Now, investigators believe that an unknown serial killer is responsible for them, along with those murders of Debbie Ackerman, Maria Johnson, Brooks Bracewell, and Georgia Geer. DREW Sr. Kenneth Fred and Edwina's son, 43-year-old Charles Rogers, disappeared right after, and remains the only suspect in a case that is officially unsolved. He was stabbed 14 times at the base of his skull as he walked the family's pet dog, Blackie, in the . These lists of unsolved murders include notable cases where victims were murdered in unknown circumstances.

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