Over six hundred thousand people go missing within Europe each and every year on average.  Thankfully, many of those cases go resolved when the person in question is found by either the police, the family, or both.  There are of course though plenty of cases that go unsolved for a time and plenty of cases that remain unsolved forever.  This week we are going to look at a mysterious case where the missing person case went unsolved for thirty years until it was suddenly solved and under the strangest of circumstances.  This case is certainly true, but we may never in fact know what, if any crime, was actually committed. 

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The foolish game goes by many names.  In Canada we call it Ding Dong Ditch or Knicky, Knicky, Nine Doors.  In The US it’s called Doorbell ditch and Ring and Run and in Europe it goes by names like Chapppy, Knock Off Ginger and more.  Most people know the premise.  You get dared by a friend to run up to a stranger’s house and either knock on the door or ring the doorbell and then you, and your amused friends, either run or you hide.  On January 19th, 2020 in Corona, California some young teenaged boys were out celebrating a birthday when the group dared one of the friends to Ding Dong Dash at a home on Modjeska Summit Road.  Little did they know that when they drove away from that home laughing and having a good time that their night and their entire lives were about to change forever. 

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No story that we could tell would be anything except for mortifying when it deals with the death, the kidnapping or the sexual assault of a child.  This weeks case unfortunately deals with all three of those things and centers around a sexual predator who was known to police and who had served time previously for sexually assaulting minors.  It took eight years and a lot of elaborate work for the police to finally get their man and hopefully this time he wont ever get out of prison, although, his sentence certainly does allow for it. 

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Something that I have talked about a lot on this podcast is the fact that I do believe that internet sleuths and podcasts like this one are something that can be an assistance to open cases.  However, much on the flip side there are many, many times throughout history where we have seen that the victims of crimes and the families of victims of crimes can have their lives SEVERELY damaged and even ruined by people who are always quick to share their opinions and their guilty verdicts with the community at large.  Many people think that is something that came around with the advent and the growth of things like social media, something that bonded people together over cases, both open and closed.  However, as I am going to show you with this week’s case, onlookers sharing their opinions which in turn turned into rumours is something that predates the internet.  In 1973 a group of five teenagers ventured into the forest for a fire and to smoke some marijuana when they were completely ambushed by three brothers.  Four teenagers lost their lives that day and one girl survived.  However what was clearly a blessing in her life would turn into a curse. 

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Have you ever hit that point in a case where you just go ick?  What is it about a case that makes you realize that this one hits a little bit differently than the other ones?  What is it that truly makes your skin crawl?  For Julie, I know that it’s cases when children get hurt, kidnapped or murdered.  That was a line in the sand for her.  For me, it’s cases like this one.  Grooming seems like such an insignificant thing when you talk about killers, when you talk about serial killers, when you talk about the things that I do on this podcast.  Grooming though truly gets to me.  When you hear of cases where it is evident that an adult grooms and takes advantage of a child those are the ones that really get to me.  This week’s case has a man at the centre of it that seemed as though he knew how to manipulate everyone but he groomed two very young women for sure within his lifetime.

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As someone who was attended church for most of his life and someone that was indoctrinated with the beliefs and the rules that come along with being a Christian I have seen many a marriage over my years start, finish and face a lot of tumultuous times because two people starting a life together become completely inundated with information and guidelines by everyone from every corner.  You are told how to date, who to date, what to do and what not to do and you are constantly asked when the wedding is coming, even when the relationship is in it’s infancy.  This week we are going to look at a case where all of that certainly at least weighed in a little bit and we may never know just how much Christian beliefs and Christian doctrine may have gotten into a new wife’s head to cause the untimely, devastating death of her husband and the need to try to cover up everything that she had done. 

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We have done a few episodes now on serial killers and we have previously done one covering a female serial killer.  Today we are going to look at a case of a serial killer from The United Kingdom who is known now as “Britain’s Most Dangerous Female Prisoner”.  Joanna Dennehy is one of only four women in the United Kingdom to ever have been sentenced to a whole-life order, meaning that she will be behind bars for the rest of her life.  These are the most severe penalties that can be given in The U.K. and are dedicated to the worst of the worst of criminals.  Joanna is certainly an incredibly evil woman; she is in jail for killing three men, attempting to kill two other man and she shows no remorse for the things that she has done nor the lives that she has taken or altered. 

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I think that most of us know of stories of families that have split up and we are aware that even in the most amicable of situations those setups can certainly be difficult on our children.  This week we are going to look at a case where in hindsight it seems that the system that we put into place to protect our children may have had a hand in forcing an issue that led to the death of a very young boy who had his entire life ahead of him.  Perhaps even worse yet were the lengths that were taken by the guilty party in this case to avoid being caught which in turn caused even more stress and concern for the family of the young boy who was murdered.  This story, like far too many of them, comes with twists and turns and an end result that could not have possibly been more horrifying. 

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Many times in the past we have covered cases of missing people and we have covered cases of victims who were not identified after years had gone by.  This week we are going to cover something a little bit different.  One of Canada’s longest standing mysteries encircles the case of Canada’s first ever suicide bomber in Kenora, Ontario.  The man entered the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce with the intent to rob the bank and a series of circumstances led to a sudden death when the bomb detonated and the entire thing was witnessed by many people who had arrived at the scene to watch the action.  Who was the man that robbed the bank that day and lost his life in the streets of Kenora?  Fifty years later nobody knows. 

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On November 16th, 2012 a dispatcher would pick up a 911 emergency call in Lake County, Ohio and everything that happened after that call was picked up would take everyone that came into contact with the case by surprise.  On the other end of the line was a young girl who was in hysterics as she screamed into the phone and tried to express what was going on in her home.  Finally, the dispatcher was able to deduct that the young girl on the phone was telling her that someone was killing her mom.  As the case unravelled there would be surprise after surprise and heartbreak after heartbreak.  One of the worst things in the world that we can look at in the realm of true crime is cases like this one when a parent succumbs to a child.  This murder was gruesome and the details continued to come out long after the crime and scene were dealt with. 

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