Major Crimes and True Crime

A Mohawk warrior attacks a Canadian Soldier while defending his territory during the Oka Crisis, 1990 The Oka Crisis was a conflict between the indigenous Mohawk people and the town of Oka in Canada. Oka sought to expand a golf course into the Mohawk territory of Kanahsetake in a pine forest known as "The Pines." This area is where the Mohawks held ceremonies, and the forest also contained a graveyard for their people, meaning that the Pines Forest was sacred land to the Mohawk tribe. For 270 years, the Mohawks fought for the recognition of their territory. However, it was continuously refused by the British and Canadian Governments. In 1989 and 1990, the Mohawks began heavily campaigning for the recognition of their land and their right of way, however, plans to build the golf course resort continued, so the mohawk people retaliated.  The Mohawk tribe has been historically known to be fierce and brave warriors, especially when it comes to defending the...

Remember her from American Horror Story: Coven? You won't believe what this real life maniac did It was April 10 and the Lalauries were entertaining their guests. The fire started in the kitchen and the fire brigade went through the courtyard to put it out. They heard screams and moans from a room on the third floor, so they went to investigate. Since the door to the room was locked, the firemen rammed it open. At once they smelled the unmistakable odor of death and some of them vomited. Yet it wasn't just the dead slaves chained to the walls that got their attention, but the living ones, who were only barely alive. One woman was so startled by their entrance that she fled toward a window and jumped.  Most of the victims had been severely maimed by medical experiments. Some were even strapped to tables. One man had been surgically transformed into a woman, and a woman looked like a human crab. Her arm and leg bones had been broken and reset into odd angles, and sh...

Alabama Executes Jeremiah Reeves After Police Torture Him Into False Confession Mar 28, 1958: Alabama executed Jeremiah Reeves for allegedly raping a white woman, who claimed rape after being discovered in her home having sex w/Jeremiah.  It was suspected that the sex was consensual. He was 16yrs old, 22 at execution. On March 28, 1958, a 22-year-old Black man named Jeremiah Reeves was executed by the state of Alabama after police tortured him until he gave a false confession as a 16-year-old child. In July 1951, Jeremiah, who was a 16-year-old high school student at the time, and Mabel Ann Crowder, a white woman, were discovered having sex in her home. Ms. Crowder claimed she had been raped by Jeremiah, and he was immediately arrested and taken to Kilby Prison for “questioning.” Police strapped the frightened boy into the electric chair and told him that he would be electrocuted unless he admitted to having committed all of the rapes white women had reported that ...

Mob Hit List in Philadelphia-South Jersey Area With AM-Mob Arrests, Bjt Rocco Marinucci (1952-15 March 1982) was a Philadelphia crime family associate. He was responsible for planting a bomb under Philip Testa's porch, killing the boss, and Testa's son Salvatore Testa avenged his father by killing Marinucci in 1982. Rocco Marinucci worked as Peter Casella's chauffeur and bodyguard within the Philadelphia crime family, and he was recruited into the conspiracy to whack Philip Testa.  On 15 March 1981, he planted a bomb on Testa's porch, killing him. Testa's son Salvatore Testa was ordered by Nicky Scarfoto kill those responsible for his father's death. Marinucci was killed by Testa on 15 March 11982, and body was found on Federal Street in Southwark,  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with bullet wounds to the neck, chest, and head. His mouth was stuffed with three firecrackers. Rocco Marinucci (1952-15 March 1982) was a Philadelphia crime family associate...

70 Years Ago Today… Tragedy in Brooklyn: Mother Kills Three Children and Herself At 6:20 yesterday morning, William Morey, of 311 20th Street, Brooklyn, yelled for help. Inside the Morey apartment, police found the bodies of three Morey children, hacked to death by their mother, Mrs. Mary Morey. She lay dead on a cot; she had cut her own throat. William Morey, and his oldest child were wounded. Her farewell note read: “We all have syphilis disease. This is the best wayout.”  Police said she was deluded. The police department firedMorey in 1938 for drinking, he hasn’t kept a job since then.  Morey went out Tuesday evening and came home to… about 1:30 a.m. Stuned by a crack on the head, he came to in time to see his wife cut her throat. The first-floor flat at 311 Twentieth street, Brooklyn, New York, shaken at frequent intervals by screams, wails, curses and crashing furniture was silent for the first time since the Moreys moved in.  Mrs. William Morey (34), and ...

In 1981, 20-year-old Cynthia Anderson vanished from her workplace (law firm) in Ohio. A year before she vanished, someone had painted “I LOVE YOU, CINDY—BY GW” on a wall opposite her workplace. The message remained on the wall for six months before being erased. However, the GW creep rewrote it. Cynthia started receiving anonymous calls, even at the office, and she started having nightmares. Her boss suggested keeping the office doors locked all the time. Cynthia also had a buzzer installed on her desk. Sadly, nothing worked in her favor. At noon on Aug 4, 1981, Cynthia’s boss arrived at the office to find the lights on. He smelled nail polish odor, suggesting Cynthia must have been there. Cynthia vanished without leaving a note, which she used to do earlier. Her car was still in the parking, but her purse and keys were gone. Among the most unsettling details is the suggestion that the office doors were locked from the inside when the boss arrived, there...

Thomas Grant Hadwin was logging engineer in British Columbia, who had come from a long line of loggers. In 1997, something just snapped in him and he decided to take a trip to Queen Charlotte Island and purchased a chain saw. He then headed out to locate a tree, and not just any tree. This tree in particular was knows as the “Golden Spruce,” and the tree was considered sacred by the “Haida” people that lived on the island. He then started to make a series of cuts in the tree which caused the tree to fall over a few days later. The Haida people were horrified at his actions, but according to Hadwin it was done in protest against the very logging company owned by his family. The logging companies were up to shady stuff at the time and Hadwin figured he needed to do something about it. By this time he had left the island returned home and started to send out a fax to all the local media outlets to claim responsibility for the act in question. He was later a...

In January 2013, Elisa Lam, a 21-year-old Canadian student, set off on a solo trip across the West Coast. The first few days, she regularly contacted family and updated social media. She looked and sounded content. However, things took a turn for the worse on January 26th when Lam arrived in Los Angeles and checked into the Cecil Hotel. Originally, she was supposed to share a room with a few others, but her roommates complained she was behaving oddly, so she was forced to change rooms. Then, on January 31st, Elisa Lam disappeared. Her posts on Facebook and Tumblr abruptly ceased. Her daily calls to her parents stopped without explanation. To speak in cliché, it seemed Lam had fallen off the face of the earth. Initially, there were no clues, no evidence. Hotel staff reported that Lam had been alone that day, but in good spirits. Other than that, nothing. Her face was on fliers across the city and her parents flew out to help the investigation. Soon howe...

The Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar I remember listening to an episode of  This American Life   about a four-year-old boy named Bobby Dunbar, who disappeared in 1912. “Bobby Dunbar” and his family.   (image:  Wikimedia Commons ) In 1912, Bobby Dunbar and his parents, Lessie and Percy went on a trip to Swayze Lake in Louisiana. Bobby, just four years old, played in the water but vanished. Lessie and Percy looked everywhere for their son, but to their dismay, could not find him anywhere. They called authorities immediately. Police began searching high and low for Bobby Dunbar. They even caught and dissected alligators in the lake, thinking one might have swallowed the child. But they never found a body. About eight months later, police received a tip from a man named William Walters, claiming that he found a boy matching Bobby Dunbar’s description in Mississippi. The boy, named Bruce Anderson, was the illegitimate child of Wa...

In 2004, before high school teen Craig Frear disappeared in the woods, two schoolboys saw him making a “shhh” gesture at them by putting his finger to his lips. He was never seen again. 17-year-old Craig lived in Glenville, New York, and stood 5′11″ tall. A talented football player and well-known in high school. Among his peers, he was a mutual friend between different friend groups that didn’t always get along. He had a girlfriend in the past. Years before his disappearance, there was an incident where he ran away from home but eventually came back after one night. On June 27, 2004, Craig visited Cambridge Manor Apartments in his car to meet a friend. For reasons unknown, he left his own phone and wallet at home. Shortly before noon, his mom, Veronica, called his friend’s place and confronted Craig about getting fired from his job (at a supermarket). He had been pretending to go to work without telling his parents he had been fired. He argued with his mom over the cal...

The creepiest "solved" disappearance case that you know about Among the creepiest solved missing person cases for me are the ones where people vanished because they got stuck or trapped and couldn’t get out. It gives me chills to imagine them spending hours feeling like days in agony, facing the grim realization of being totally helpless before dying. One haunting category of such cases is chimneys. Joshua Maddux (18) disappeared in Woodland Park, Colorado, in 2008. Seven years later, his remains were discovered inside the chimney of an abandoned cabin over a kilometer from his home. His death was ruled accidental, with authorities suggesting he may have gotten stuck trying to slide down the chimney. However, odd details at the scene raised questions, for example, the fireplace being blocked internally, and Maddux’s folded clothes found nearby. “Chimney Doe” was the name given to skeletal remains found in the chimney of a music ...