Solved, Unsolved or Spooky - A True Crime Podcast

Show notes:

• The Villisca axe murders occurred between the evening of June 9, 1912, and the early morning of June 1, between the hours of 10PM and 5AM, or so it is thought.
•  The six members of the Moore family and two house guests were found bludgeoned in the Moore residence. 
• The Moore family consisted of parents Josiah B. (aged 43), Sarah (née Montgomery) (39), and their four children: Herman Montgomery (11), Mary Katherine (10), Arthur Boyd (7), and Paul Vernon (5). and the house guests were, Ina Mae (8) and Lena Gertrude Stillinger (12).
• All eight victims, including six children, had severe head wounds from an axe.
•  several suspects came to light, and one was tried twice. 
• The first trial ended in a hung jury and the second ended in an acquittal. 
• the suspects were as follows:
• Andrew Sawyer
• Reverend George Kelly
• Frank F. Jones
• William Mansfield
• Henry Lee Moore (no relation)
• Sam Moyer
• Paul Mueller
• The crime remains unsolved.

References:

https://www.villiscaiowa.com/history.php
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ax-murderer-who-got-away-117037374/
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD19130509.2.12&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
http://www.villiscaiowa.com/
https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/villisca-ax-murder-house-iowa/

Photographs and additional reading.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/picture-gallery/life/2013/12/06/photos-inside-the-villisca-ax-murder-house/3898221/

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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Show Notes:

• The murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between 1963 & 1965, in and around  Manchester, England.
• The victims were five children—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey & Edward Evans—aged between 10 and 17
• At least four of whom were sexually assaulted.
•  Two of the victims were discovered in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered there in 1987, more than twenty years after Brady and Hindley's trial.
•  Bennett's body is also thought to be buried there, despite repeated searches it remains undiscovered.
• They were charged only in the deaths of Kilbride, Downey and Evans, receiving life sentences. 
• The investigation was reopened in 1985 after Brady was reported as having confessed to the murders of Reade and Bennett.
•  After confessing to these additional murders, Brady and Hindley were taken separately to Saddleworth Moor to assist in the search for the graves.
• Hindley made several appeals against her life sentence, claiming she was a reformed woman and no longer a danger to society, but was never released. 
• She died in 2002, aged 60, after serving 36 years in prison. 
• Brady was diagnosed as a psychopath in 1985 & held in the high-security Ashworth Hospital.
•  He made it clear that he never wished to be released, & repeatedly asked to be allowed to die. This wish was not granted & he was force fed, when he took part in hunger strikes.
• He died in 2017, at Ashworth, aged 79.
•  The trial judge, Mr Justice Fenton Atkinson, described Brady & Hindley in his closing remarks as "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity". 

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_murders
https://www.therichest.com/shocking/15-creepiest-photos-ever-taken-from-the-moors-murders/
https://www.famechain.com/family-tree/23223/ian-brady/myra-hindley
https://killer.cloud/serial-killers/show/603/ian-brady
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/moors-murderers-myra-hindley-and-ian-brady-claimed-first-victim-pauline-reade-25-years-ago/news-story/2c0fe944c9b2a71040381a8795a8eed8

Photographs:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/Moors_Murderers.jpg

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

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This is part 2 of the house of Horrors, Fred and Rose West.

• 1973 Carol Ann Cooper, (15). Cooper was the final victim unearthed from the cellar. 
• 1973 (21). Partington was a University student  
• 1974 Thérèse Siegenthaler, (21). A sociology student . 
• 15 Shirley Hubbard, (15).  Abducted from a bus stop.
• 1975 Juanita Mott, (18).  A former lodger at 25 Cromwell Street. 
• 1978 Shirley Robinson, (18). Another former lodger at 25 Cromwell Street. 
• 1979  Alison Chambers, (16). Chambers had been placed into foster care at the age of 14.
• 1987 Heather West, (16). Heather was likely to have been murdered because Fred and Rose considered her efforts to leave the household as a threat, as she divulged to her classmates the extensive physical and sexual abuse which occurred at Cromwell Street.
• During formal questioning, Fred confessed to murdering up to 30 people, indicating up to 18 other undiscovered victims
• Fred fatally asphyxiated himself while on remand  on 1 January 1995,
• Rose is still in Prison, claiming her innocence. 

References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_West
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/inside-rose-fred-wests-horrifying-22704970

Photographs:
victims.htmhttps://murderpedia.org/female.W/w/west-rosemary-photos.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West
https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/west-frederick-

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

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  this is part one of the story House of Horrors, Fred and Rose West.

• This is a depraved tale of two disgusting monsters, who acted in the most evil ways.
• Fred and Rose, slaughtered and molested many young girls and women, prior to their arrests in 1994.
• Fred and Rose West are known to have committed at least 12 murders between 1967 and 1987.

Murders: 

• 1967  Anne McFall, (18). She was 8 months pregnant with a daughter.
• 1968  Mary Bastholm, (15). A teenage waitress at a café Fred frequented. 
• 1971 Charmaine West, (8). Fred's stepdaughter. Charmaine was killed by Rose shortly before Fred's release from Prison.
• 1971 Rena Costello, (27). It's believed Fred killed Rena to avoid any investigation into Charmaine's whereabouts. 
• 1973 Lynda Gough, (19).  Gough was a lodger at 25 Cromwell Street.
• this is continued in the following episode  and further murders will be listed in the show notes for that episode.

References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_West
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/inside-rose-fred-wests-horrifying-22704970

Photographs:
victims.htmhttps://murderpedia.org/female.W/w/west-rosemary-photos.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West
https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/west-frederick-

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

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Reginald Tex Arthurell.

• 1971, suspect in the murder, of Catherine  Page, 82.
• $100K reward, any information, call police on 1800 333 000
• 1974, murdered his stepfather Thomas Thornton with a carving knife serving only 23 months. 
•  1981, Reg killed Ross Browning  & served 6.5 years for this crime.
• 1991 Released on parole
• 1995 He beat Mulhall to death, with a piece of wood, as she would not give him her car.
• 2020, Ms Arthurell walked from jail 12/11/2020 and identifies as female

resources: 

https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/outback-serial-killer-reginald-tex-arthurell-now-eligible-for-parole-with-sentence-to-end-in-may-2021/8afec0f1-fbe6-48ed-9cad-461b4aad5773
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/threetime-killer-reginald-arthurell-granted-parole/news-story/9e4c8e1a15bba86d1f8ed03d415c54c0

Links to Photos:
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/b279987c8e0378f1de10f10ddeb6149e
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/4a0b9e33eb8763ffa438710043926417

Bodies in the Barrels

• Caton tells police about a kidnapped couple.
•  Gregory & Kathryn's burnt bodies found in the barrels.
• Snibson, Caton & Flentjar charged & sentenced.
• Kim alleges an affair, and seeks help from friends.
• Killed & placed in the Barrels.
• More information came out re: Snibson's previous criminal attempts.

Resources:
https://www.southcoastregister.com.au/story/992435/the-face-of-evil/
https://7news.com.au/original-fyi/crime-story-investigator/bodies-in-barrels-brazen-blaze-couldnt-hide-gregory-hosa-kathryn-mckay-murders-c-600538
https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/608609/bodies-in-barrel-killer-jailed-24-years/

Links to Photos:
https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/608609/bodies-in-barrel-killer-jailed-24-years/#
https://www.southcoastregister.com.au/images/transform/v1/resize/frm/silverstone-feed-data/16869be9-34f1-4c7a-89b3-6e5fb3847376.jpg/w1200_h678_fcrop.jpg

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