Solved, Unsolved or Spooky - A True Crime Podcast

• This week Steph covers the Beaumont Children's abduction, focusing on a number of suspects.
• There were a number of horrific child abductions in Australia at the time, and many child murders, 
• Authorities have tried to link many of the crimes over the years, desperately trying to find the perpetrator of the Beaumont children's abduction.
• The Beaumont children were, Jane Nartare Beaumont (born 10 September 1956), was only 9 years old, her sister  Arnna Kathleen Beaumont (born 11 November 1958) was just 7 and Grant Ellis Beaumont (born 12 July 1961) still a baby was aged 4,
• They were all taken from Glenelg Beach , in South Australia, on Australia day 1966, no one had ever found the children and no one has ever been charged with their abduction.
• It is  a very sad story and has left Australia and the rest of the world baffled for over 55 years.

References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_the_Beaumont_children  https://www.newidea.com.au/beaumont-children-witness-comes-forward   https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/who-took-the-beaumont-children-new-lead-in-iconic-australia-day-abduction/news-story/9421e7f6bf6c96a81ec6e262d65c4137  https://thebeaumontchildren.com.au/what-happened-to-the-beaumont-children/  https://somerandomstuff1.wordpress.com/2018/02/02/after-second-failed-castalloy-dig-is-phipps-responsible-for-beaumont-children-disappearance/


Photographs and additional reading.
https://www.google.com/search?q=beaumont+children+pictures&rlz=1CANHHD_enAU927AU927&sxsrf=ALeKk027teEmUCUhq7-CwthFhnbGvUAwNQ:1619768633954&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiM3a2wvKXwAhU4umMGHUEfDBYQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1366&bih=617

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https://www.beyondblue.org.au
https://www.betterhelp.com

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This week Kim is discussing, the brutal murder and torture of Colleen Slemmer, a young lady who was attending Job Corps, to better herself.
she was lured to an old steam mill, that was secluded and a place that her fruitless screams would not be heard.

Colleen was brutally slashed, stabbed and mutilated before having her throat cut many times, to be followed by a viscous attack with a piece of bitumen, that was repeatedly slammed onto her head.

Colleen suffered an hour of horror before she passed away at the hands of the three offenders, justice was served in some sense with the main perpetrator being sentenced to death, this however has not occurred.

Please have a listen to this horrific story, and please let us know if our audio has improved as we have upgraded our entire plethora of equipment.




References:
https://murderpedia.org/female.P/p/pike-christa.htm
http://malefactorsregister.com/wp/she-just-felt-mean/
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/the-job-corps-killing-passage-of-time-cant-erase-christa-gail-pikes-savage-crime/51-47dd53f5-ca2b-48aa-bdcf-7e3c93d66922
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_Pike

Photographs and additional reading.
https://murderpedia.org/female.P/p/pike-christa.htm

Resources:
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/mentalhealth/Pages/contact-service.aspx#24-hour
https://www.beyondblue.org.au
https://www.betterhelp.com

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this week we cover the story of Anita Cobby, who on February 2, 1986,

 Was walking home from Blacktown train station. when 5 men grabbed her and dragged her into a car, that they had stolen previously.
a young brother and sister witnessed the crime but were unable to help.
Anita's brutally beaten and horrifically sexually assaulted body was found by a farmer only 2 days later, he of course called the police and the search began.
The prime suspect was her recently estranged husband, but he was desperately in love with her and he would never hurt her. eventually the 5 men were charged with her murder, and there was some great police work and an incredible lady known as Miss X who helped to solve the case. all 5 of the perpetrators are found guilty of the crimes and sentenced to life in prison and their files were stamped never to be released.

References:
https://www.news.com.au/national/crime/the-most-savage-fiendish-murder-ever-known
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Anita_Cobby
https://www.mamamia.com.au/john-cobby/
https://www.noosanews.com.au/news/the-most-savage-fiendish-murder-ever-known/3655120/
https://www.mamamia.com.au/anita-cobby-killers/
Episode 56 Casefile podcast, thanks Casey 

Photographs and additional reading.
https://line.17qq.com/articles/ssrtatacrx_p2.html

Resources:
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https://www.beyondblue.org.au
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this week we take a look at some stories about poltergeists. poltergeist is German for "noisy ghost”, or "noisy spirit” and is a type of ghost or spirit that is responsible for physical disturbances, this could be loud noises and objects being moved or destroyed. And depictions of poltergeists show them as capable of pinching, biting, hitting, and tripping people. They are said to be capable of the movement or levitation of objects such as furniture and cutlery, or noises such as knocking on doors.
  the cases that we discus are
the Enfield poltergeist
the Thornton heath poltergeist
the haunting of the Herrmann family
the Battersea poltergeist
 and the Indianapolis poltergeist
references
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_poltergeist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist
https://nerdist.com/article/poltergeist-true-story-inspired-movie/
https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/the-enfield-poltergeist
https://ss-times.com/the-indianapolis-poltergeist-conclusion/
http://weeklyview.net/2015/10/29/the-indianapolis-poltergeist/
https://occult-world.com/thornton-heath-poltergeist/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9196695/The-real-life-ghost-story-gripping-sceptics-drawn-in.html
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/19070127.battersea-poltergeist-story-shirley-hitchings/
photos
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_OWgImgIRic/mqdefault.jpg
Resources:
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/mentalhealth/Pages/contact-service.aspx#24-hour
https://www.beyondblue.org.au
https://www.betterhelp.com
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• The Cannock Chase murders  were the murders of three young schoolgirls that occurred in Staffordshire, England, during the late 1960s. 
• Raymond Leslie Morris of Walsall was convicted, of the murder of Christine Ann Darby after one of the largest manhunts in British history.
•  Morris is also considered the chief suspect in the deaths of Margaret Reynolds and Diana Joy Tift. and was found guilty of pedophilia. and other crimes.
• In November 2010, he was granted a judicial review of his case in a bid to overturn his conviction, which failed.
• Morris had many other attempts at abducting children, luckily a number of them escaped.
• this monster lived across from the police station and tried to outsmart police and Scotland Yard, with an IQ of 120, and jailed for life.

Morris died in prison in March 2014, aged 84, after serving 45 years, by which time he was one of Britain's longest-serving prisoners.

References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannock_Chase_murders
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-26557796
https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/morris-raymond-leslie.htm
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2014/10/11/child-killer-morris-chained-until-the-end/https://www.clermontsun.com/2020/10/14/marc-hoover-black-eyed-children-of-cannock-chase
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/monster-cannock-chase-killed-3-girls-1960s-england-article-1.3596631
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/sisters-who-came-face-face-11429371

Photographs and additional reading.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/gallery/photos-raymond-morris--6809156

Resources:
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/mentalhealth/Pages/contact-service.aspx#24-hour
https://www.beyondblue.org.au
https://www.betterhelp.com
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The Miranda Murders

• Leonard Thomas Lake (October 29, 1945 – June 6, 1985), was an American serial killer. 
• During the mid-1980s, he and accomplice Charles Ng raped, tortured and murdered an estimated eleven to 25 victims at a remote cabin in Calaveras County, California, 
• In the Sierra Nevada foothills 150 miles east of San Francisco.
•  After his arrest in 1985 on illegal weapons, auto theft, and fraud charges, Lake swallowed cyanide pills that he had sewn into his clothing, and died four days later.
•  Human remains, videotapes, and journals found at the cabin later confirmed Ng's involvement, and were used to convict Ng on eleven counts of capital murder
• Ng was convicted and fought a long court case, eventually being sentences to death, he is still on  death row.
• there are many videos of the horror that these two monsters perpetrated.

References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Lake
https://allthatsinteresting.com/leonard-lake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ng
https://www.ranker.com/list/charles-ng-and-leonard-lake-facts/harrison-tenpas

Photographs and additional reading.
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f963cfcd0f686256f0df14/1554996556102-5PB898CDSUS9DO3PQQ6J/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kNkMU5Z7HuZSnRkznxus3lhZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZamWLI2zvYWH8K3-s_4yszcp2ryTI0HqTOaaUohrI8PIb9URSdjpBjyc5myOCmTiKm10X1_tuC5eF7TEIUx_jQ0/charles-ng-and-leonard-lake-765x522.png

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https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/mentalhealth/Pages/contact-service.aspx#24-hour
https://www.beyondblue.org.au
https://www.betterhelp.com
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• September 1934,
• The lower half of a woman's torso, with her thighs attached, was found amputated at the knees, 
• She was washed up on the shores of Lake Erie just east of Bratenahl. 
• she had some sort of chemical preservative on her skin which had turned it red, tough and leathery.
• She was named the Lady of the Lake, and also dubbed victim 0, as she was added to the body count at a later date.
• Over the next few years decapitated and dismembered bodies were found in various forms all around Cleveland.
• body parts in bags, boxes, and baskets, and other random packaging were turning up everywhere, heads and torso’s littered the landscape.
• In all the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run is said to have killed 13 victims, including the lady of the lake.
• I believe this number to be far greater, and believe that the Lady of the Lake was not his first victim.
• Kim and I discuss many aspects and have a stab at profiling this vicious killer,  who was never  brought to justice.
• The Mad butcher is an intriguing case that I hope is some day solved.
• 
  

References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Torso_Murderer
https://www.clevelandpolicemuseum.org/collections/torso-murders/
https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/The_Mad_Butcher_of_Kingsbury_Run

Photographs and additional reading.
https://www.cleveland.com/life-and-culture/erry-2018/10/55d2b5ea596983/clevelands-infamous-torso-murd.html

Resources:
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/mentalhealth/Pages/contact-service.aspx#24-hour
https://www.beyondblue.org.au
https://www.betterhelp.com

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• María Delfina González Valenzuela, María del Carmen González Valenzuela, María Luisa González Valenzuela and María de Jesús González Valenzuela (known as Las Poquianchis) were four sisters from the north-central Mexican state of Guanajuato.
•  From 1945 until 1964, the sisters ran "Rancho El Ángel"', the locus of their largescale prostitution ring and the site of the murder of at least 91 people.
• It is believed that the four sisters killed more than 150 people or even more than 200 people. 
• Guinness World Records called them the "most prolific murder partnership"
• The Sisters slaughtered many young girls, ladies, babies and men, and were only sentenced to 40 years each.
• the youngest sister, did not serve the whole sentence and was released, living her life out in obscurity.
• in 2002 another 20 skeletons were exhumed close to where they operated their sordid business.

References:
https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gonzalez-sisters.htm
https://www.sandiegored.com/en/news/188449/The-Poquianchis-were-history-s-most-feared-Mexican-women-serial-killers
http://culturecrossfire.com/etc/whorehouse-91-murders/

Photographs and additional reading.
https://cropper.watch.aetnd.com/cdn.watch.aetnd.com/sites/4/2017/07/GettyImages-515247716.jpg?w=900

Resources:
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https://www.beyondblue.org.au
https://www.betterhelp.com
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• Eric Edgar Cooke 
• Born 25 February 1931
•  Put to death: 26 October 1964,
•  nicknames: the "Night Caller" and later the "Nedlands Monster",
• Active Serial Killer: From September 1958 to August 1963,
•  Cooke terrorized the city of Perth, Western Australia, 
• He committed at least twenty-two violent crimes and  eight of which resulted in deaths.
• Cooke had a violent alcoholic father who beat him and his mother
• Cooke stared petty theft while in kindergarten
• He began undertaking arson, burglary and other criminal activity which grew as he did.
• Cooke was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was would commit his various crimes during sprees
• He had many differing M/O's and this made it hard for police to link his crimes.
• he used a range of different weapons including knifes, scissors, axes and varying rifles of differing calibers', as well as cars that he would steal and run women over in.
• Cooke's criminal preference had no linkages either, he was happy to kill any one, with no particular linkage or any reason.
• It was good policing that finally put  a stop to this monsters rampage, the police found his gun leaning against a tree, and replaced it with a non working one, that Cooke later went to pick up from it's hiding place, he was arrested and later charged with many of the crimes he confessed to.
• Cooke was hanged on 26th Oct 1964

References:
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cooke-eric-edgar-9817
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/true-crime-doco-revisits-perth-serial-killer-eric-edgar-cooke-20201117-p56fa7.html
https://www.mamamia.com.au/after-the-night-stan/

Photographs and additional reading.
https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/cooke-eric-edgar.htm

Resources:
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/mentalhealth/Pages/contact-service.aspx#24-hour
https://www.beyondblue.org.au
https://www.betterhelp.com
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Martin John Bryant

• (born 7 May 1967)
• A convicted Australian mass shooter
• murdered thirty-five people and injured twenty-three others in the Port Arthur massacre, 
• one of the world's deadliest shooting sprees,
•  in Port Arthur, Tasmania,
•  between 28 and 29 April 1996.
•  He is concurrently serving 35 life sentences, plus 1,035 years, all without the possibility of parole, at Risdon Prison in Hobart.

References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bryant
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/port-arthur-massacre-a-story-that-must-be-told-not-buried-20201201-p56jgt.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9049749/Australias-worst-mass-murderer-Martin-Bryant-trades-sex-CHOCOLATE-fellow-inmates.html

Photographs and additional reading.

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmiro.medium.com%2Fmax%2F1904%2F1*g79wo5IkV7dzOzaoU9_9MA.jpeg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40danfoster_63798%2Fit-took-just-one-massacre-f157ea0d835c&tbnid=ppVDQOtHp1uoyM&vet=12ahUKEwimxoKG14nvAhWIjksFHbCIDycQMygJegUIARDKAQ..i&docid=qId51MqhL7A1QM&w=952&h=789&q=port%20aurthur%20massascre&ved=2ahUKEwimxoKG14nvAhWIjksFHbCIDycQMygJegUIARDKAQ
Resources:
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https://www.beyondblue.org.au
https://www.betterhelp.com
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