Strange & Unexplained

"A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too." -Miranda Kerr

Lashaya had set the quote from the former Victoria Secret Angel on the top of her Facebook page in the winter of 2015…and it's still there today.  I don't know if Lashaya was the rose or the sunflower but her mother claims she brought life into any room she entered. She loved to learn and had a drive that would surely have carried her to success. But all that vanished one night along with Lashaya...

 

 

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Sources:

https://youtu.be/a8scIC3PL0Q

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/07/23/aurora-teen-lashaya-stine-missing-3-years-suspected-trafficking/

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/lashaya-stine

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/07/15/lashaya-stine-missing-aurora-teen/

https://charleyproject.org/case/lashaya-nae-stine

https://sites.psu.edu/onyxpassion/2021/03/12/the-case-of-lashaya-stine/

https://www.pollyklaas.org/missing-children/lashaya-stine/

Enos was not the first chimp in space, but he was the first to orbit the earth. Just months before Ham, the first chimp to go to space, was making headlines. Three months later, the first American appeared in suborbital flight. On May 5, 1961 Alan Sheperd became the first American to break through the earth's atmosphere and experience the vastness that is space. But by then, the Russian’s had now sent a man into orbit. So the celebration was short lived and the race was on! Now the question was, Can a human body withstand the effects of space orbit? Only one way to find out, we need a test subject, and what better than a chimpanzee? What could go wrong right? Well, there's a reason Enos didn't make it into your history books.

 

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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/11/the-horrible-thing-that-happened-to-enos-the-chimp-when-he-orbited-earth-50-years-ago/249241/

https://youtu.be/ctXO5uAPkyE original audio

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/enos-forgotten-chimp

https://www.history.nasa.gov/SP-4201/ch12-7.htm

https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/ma-5/ma-5.html

https://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/Mission/miss/165#:~:text=The%20flight%20of%20Mercury%2DAtlas,two%20orbits%20of%20the%20earth.

https://www.inverse.com/science/enos-the-chimpanzee-nasa

Maura Murray went missing on February 9, 2004 after crashing her car into a snowbank in rural New Hampshire. No one knows where she was going or what she was up to. Did she wander into he snow and become a victim of the elements? Did she runaway? Or was she met with something more sinister?

 

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https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/missing-persons/maura-murray---haverhill-new-hampshire

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing-maura-murray/id1547855593

https://youtu.be/a86zzG0bpP4

https://www.doj.nh.gov/criminal/cold-case/victim-list/maura-murray.htm

https://dnasolves.com/articles/brianna_maitland/

https://dailycollegian.com/2004/10/student-still-faces-long-road-to-recovery/  hit and run victim

 

Questionable nutrition choice for body builder, French dad blacks out internet for whole town, naked lawyer passes the Bar, then stops at the next one, and more!

 

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https://www.mystateline.com/news/weird/woman-quits-job-to-breastfeed-boyfriend-full-time/

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/man-arrested-3-times-within-16-hours-in-glendale/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/dad-takes-down-towns-internet-by-mistake-to-get-his-kids-offline/

https://apnews.com/article/europe-animals-denmark-marsupials-kangaroos-720656fe46dcc9f8730cfc3579f73744

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/florida/naked-lawyer-collar-567420

https://everwildoutdoors.com/school-fined-30000-after-mountain-rescue-call-out-over-dangerous-hike-on-helvellyn/

Normally we try to give every story their individual spotlight on this show, but in this case it was necessary to mention these two women together.  The cases are not legally connected. The women did not know each other. Though they both were reported dead on the same day, in the same city, in eerily similar fashions. But the main thread that connects them is in the gross mishandling of their cases by the Bridgeport, Connecticut Police department. I believe sharing these stories side by side is important in reflecting that. These women and their families deserved better.

Here are the stories of Lauren Smith Fields and Brenda Rawls.

 

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https://www.gofundme.com/f/xf665j-justice-for-lauren GoFundMe for the family: Smith-Fields

https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-brenda-lee-rawls GoFundMe for family: Rawls

https://youtu.be/xqpaX67stpU

https://bronx.news12.com/families-of-lauren-smith-fields-brenda-lee-rawls-to-testify-before-bridgeport-police-commission

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lauren-smith-fields-death-police-investigation/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/who-is-brenda-lee-rawls-woman-found-dead-same-day-as-lauren-smith-fields-prompts-questions/ar-AATkyuw

https://www.blackenterprise.com/another-black-womans-family-questions-bridgeport-polices-handling-of-her-murder/

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/27/1076148088/lauren-smith-fields-death-criminal-investigation

https://youtu.be/XGPNLy2djcY

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bdw5/lauren-smith-fields-death-family-to-sue-police

​​https://www.drugs.com/drug-interactions/hydroxyzine-with-promethazine-vc-1303-0-1857-7271.html#:~:text=Using%20promethazine%20together%20with%20hydrOXYzine,%2C%20confusion%2C%20and%20memory%20problems.

https://youtu.be/2NHjdLOBsYs

https://www.wtnh.com/news/family-of-missing-manchester-woman-expected-to-provide-an-update/#:~:text=Sherrian%20Howe%2C%2022%2C%20was%20reported,worried%20that's%20not%20the%20case.

In the late evening of August 21, 1986 a killer swept through the Cameroonian village of Nyos. This killer claimed the lives of every man, woman, child, and animal it came across. By the morning of the 22nd, nearly 2000 people were found dead.

Many seemed to have dropped right in their tracks, whether in the middle of making dinner, or getting ready for bed, some even died while driving or walking home.  The worst part was, this was not the first time this killer had struck. This is the story of the killer in the lake!

 

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https://youtu.be/pVMcSvG5Mpg

​​https://youtu.be/zEs6j0MGTgk

https://youtu.be/OisXix7OgBY

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gas-cloud-kills-cameroon-villagers

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/defusing-africas-killer-lakes-88765263/

https://youtu.be/JzchV_gQG10

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-diverse-countries

https://youtu.be/o8AonDeS8HY

Leah Hickman was studying journalism at Marshall University when she went missing in December of 2007. She hoped to one day be a TV news reporter, she wanted to tell stories.

But unfortunately, Leah’s own story was cut short, and she never got to live that dream. We're here to talk about that tragically brief but seemingly happy life, of 21-year-old Leah Hickman.

 

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https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/father-still-fights-justice-murder-leah-hickman-12-years-after-n1102031

​​ https://www.wsaz.com/2021/12/15/death-investigation-leah-hickman-still-active-14-years-later/

https://original.newsbreak.com/@crimeneversleeps-1590148/2400890975730-leah-hickman-murder-who-put-her-in-the-crawl-space

https://www.herald-dispatch.com/leah-hickman-timeline/article_a405fc76-f63f-5aed-be37-722ad6d21dea.html

https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/strangled-body-of-missing-student-hidden-in-apartment-crawl-space-e032a06cff71

https://www.facebook.com/datelinenbc/posts/marshall-university-student-leah-hickman-vanished-on-december-14-2007-a-week-lat/10157695948841420/

Twin spends 20 years in prison in place of his brother, a police station in Alabama goes a little overboard, the UK needs sperm, and teenager accidentally stabs grandmother 60 times!

 

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https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-man-who-spent-nearly-20-years-in-prison-for-murder-released-after-twin-brother-confesses-to-crime

https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/brookside-police-patrolled-social-media-threatening-towns-critics.html?utm_source=reddit.com

https://www.wlwt.com/article/sex-acts-in-city-parks-cincinnati/38904570

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/urgent-call-sperm-donors-birmingham-22830088

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdaj4/korea-stabbing-grandmother?utm_source=reddit.com

On the morning of June 21, 2004, forty-three-year-old Jim Donnelly pulled into work and parked his car. He gets out with a muffin he had just purchased at the gas station and heads inside. Jim signs in to work, gets changed into his work uniform, walks to his office and sets the muffin on his desk…and is never seen again. It has been 18 years since Jim disappeared and we still have no clue what happened to him, let's see if we can unravel… the mystery at the mill!

 

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https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1049-a-moment-in-crime-49194262/episode/mystery-at-the-mill-the-vanishing-91618651/?keyid%5B0%5D=A%20Moment%20In%20Crime&keyid%5B1%5D=Mystery%20at%20the%20mill%3A%20The%20vanishing%20of%20scientist%20Jim%20Donnelly&sc=podcast_widget

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/mystery-at-the-mill-the-strange-and-unsolved-disappearance-of-scientist-jim-donnelly/

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/10/jim-donnelley-could-the-missing-auckland-father-have-been-dissolved-in-an-acid-vat.html

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/10/jim-donnelley-could-the-missing-auckland-father-have-been-dissolved-in-an-acid-vat.html

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mystery-at-the-mill-the-strange-and-unsolved-disappearance-of-scientist-jim-donnelly/LU2YNA44NGTMRAIMHH3UD7JDUU/

https://newzealandmissing.wordpress.com/jim-donnelly/

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/10/missing-jim-the-day-an-auckland-father-disappeared-without-a-trace.html

https://youtu.be/8vbudqhJokc

Tucked away in a beautiful southeastern part of North Carolina resides the largest Native American Tribe east of the Mississippi, the strong-willed, and resilient original southerners, the Lumbee tribe. During the racially charged era of Jim Crow, the Tribe was confronted by a hate group seeking to scare them, and run them off their land, but they grossly underestimated them.

 

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https://www.lumbeetribe.com/

https://3aa0349e-a4c3-4857-8f0a-2e7e416fac87.filesusr.com/ugd/1b5843_e7523da8764840f68c885c83958ffb7f.pdf

https://youtu.be/x4JV23zlDaE 38:00

The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle (UNC Press, 2018)-Malinda Manor Lowery

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/opinion/confederate-monuments-indians-original-southerners.html

https://youtu.be/-woWrAEOssQ

https://www.ncpedia.org/history/20th-Century/lumbee-face-klan

https://books.google.com/books?id=5VUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PP1&focus=viewport#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.uncp.edu/resources/museum-southeast-american-indian/museum-exhibits/battle-hayes-pond-routing-kkk

https://www.southerncultures.org/article/carolina-indians-went-warpath-media-klan-lumbees-north-carolina/

https://www.uncp.edu/about/history

https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/2161658

​​https://youtu.be/ZH-V3CVYzqk

https://www.history.com/topics/reconstruction/ku-klux-klan