In the early morning hours of June 2, 2009 a thunderstorm broke the constant quiet that existed in the Amish community of Apple Creek, OH. Inside the well kept two story white house the occupants slept fretfully because of the storm. What they did not know was that the loud noises outside were nothing compared to the danger that had sneaked its way inside. A figure walked its way through the unlocked house and down the hall to the main bedroom. They readied themselves to shoot the rifle they had brought with them. Temporarily they were illuminated by a bright flash of lighting and as a thunderclap roared its way through the house they fired the gun. The children slept on none the wiser that their lives had just been shattered by the murder of their mother. 

Olsen, Gregg, and Rebecca Morris. A Killing in Amish Country: Sex, Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Murder. St. Martin’s Press, 2016. 

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Articles found in the Akron Beacon Journal, accessed through Newspapers.com 

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ga-supreme-court/1294613.html

https://appgateway.drc.ohio.gov/OffenderSearch/Search/Details/A573154

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https://amishamerica.com/who-are-the-andy-weaver-amish/

https://www.amishbaskets.com/blogs/blog/amish-ordnung

In the early morning hours following the 4th of July celebrations in Moorpark, CA a security guard spots what he assumed was a drunk driving incident. But when he approached the accident he realized something more sinister had occurred at the intersection between Highway 23 and Los Angeles Avenue. The investigation that would follow would reveal the depth to which humanity could reach. 

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Google Maps of area (crash)

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1465032.html

https://international-spr.com/2021/06/10/haunted-lands-in-southern-california-the-santa-susana-mountains/

https://www.oxygen.com/homicide-for-the-holidays/megan-barroso-killed-by-vincent-sanchez-4th-of-july

Angels Are Watching by J.D. Berger publisher: AuthorHouse 2005 (accessed through Everand in July of 2024)

Amazon Link for Angels Are Watching

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-07-me-rbriefs7.1-story.html

https://www.newspapers.com/image/190352861/?match=1&terms=Joshua%20Reno

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Black Canyon Road View - Google Earth

Two days after she had run away and returned home 14 year old Kristy Ohnstad went missing from her home in the Happy Valley neighborhood of Bellingham, WA. The investigation that followed would reveal an evil so diabolical no one saw it coming. 

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https://cob.org/services/planning/neighborhoods

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/wa-supreme-court/1480415.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/160207745/kristy-lynn-ohnstad

Distance from home to middle school

https://www.newspapers.com/image/770914597/?match=1&terms=Kristy%20ohnstad

https://www.newspapers.com/image/770923992/?match=1&terms=Kristy%20ohnstad

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/crime/article122770324.html

Evil Lives Here | Investigation Discovery (Mark’s interview)

https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1764-1771_Online.pdf

​​https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article124043069.html

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/court-upholds-death-penalty-for-rapist-clark-elmore/

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/oct/17/us-supreme-court-rejects-clark-elmores-death-penal/

https://casetext.com/case/elmore-v-sinclair-7

Fred ‘FC’ Martinez Jr. was brutally murdered on the night of June 16, 2001. He is one of the youngest recorded victims of a hate crime in the United States. Join me as I tell John the case of the Navajo teen and his two spirits. 

Trigger Warning: mentions of suicide and hate crimes

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/09/01/gay-youths-death-shakes-colo-city/98d8eab5-4afb-41b9-b83c-35d69d7cc88e/

https://otherwisechristian.com/2020/01/06/gender-diversity-nadleehi-and-dilbaa/

https://www.pbs.org/video/independent-lens-gender-as-a-spectrum-not-a-divide/

https://www.greeleytribune.com/2019/03/02/weld-residents-face-felony-charges-for-allegedly-robbing-extorting-man-out-of-120/

https://www.denverpost.com/2009/11/27/film-explores-death-of-transgendered-colo-teen/

http://archive.cortezjournal.com/archives/1news2006.htm

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hate-crimes-media-and-emt_b_334566

Two Spirits (2009) from filmmaker Lydia Nibley

In the early morning hours of July 22, 1987 a mother and daughter were found in a car wreckage. An first responders worked to save the women's lives they quickly realized the crash had been no accident...

Detective Perspective Podcast

https://www.newspapers.com/image/175480928/?match=1&terms=robert%20peernock

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A Checklist for Murder by Anthony Flacco 

On August 3, 2013, just weeks before beginning her senior year of high school, 17 year old Alexis Murphy left her family home after telling her mother that she was going to spend the day shopping in Lynchburg, VA. Unfortunately Alexis never returned home that night so her mother reported her missing to the Nelson County Sheriff’s Department. Within a week investigators would find a suspect, but it would take years for the family of Alexis Murphy to receive justice. 

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https://www.oakridgeestate.com/

https://www.missinginillinois.org/post/samantha-ann-clarke-19-september-14-2010-orange-virginia

https://twitter.com/AugensteinWTOP/status/1362167909259358210/photo/1

https://wtop.com/virginia/2021/03/alexis-murphys-killer-led-authorities-to-her-remains-remains-focal-point-in-virginia-murder-of-samantha-clarke/

https://wset.com/archive/the-search-for-alexis-murphy-a-timeline

https://wset.com/news/local/remains-of-alexis-murphy-missing-since-2013-found-in-lovingston

https://www.c-ville.com/inside-the-randy-allen-taylor-trial-jury-rejects-defendants-claims-delivers-murder-conviction/

https://www.wsls.com/news/2015/05/11/appeal-denied-for-randy-taylor-man-found-guilty-of-killing-alexis-murphy/

https://www.12onyourside.com/story/26095068/randy-taylor-sentenced-to-in-death-of-alexis-murphy/

On the night of August 8, 2017 15 year old Jasmine Block seemingly disappeared into thin air. When her mother returned home after only being gone an hour that night Jasmine’s cell phone was near the couch which she had left her daughter sitting on. Join me as I tell John the case of Jasmine Block. 

Correction: John told me to let you know he was wrong about St. Paul and he apologizes to all Minnesotans!

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https://www.kare11.com/article/news/crime/jasmine-blocks-mom-shares-kidnapping-story/89-472038358#:~:text=%22Sleep%20is%20hard%2C%22%20Sarah,daughter%2C%20Jasmine%2C%20was%20missing.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/442436194/?match=1&terms=jasmine%20block

https://frankweberauthor.com/blog/alexandria-teenager-jasmine-block 

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/crime/jasmine-blocks-mom-shares-kidnapping-story/89-472038358

https://frankweberauthor.com/blog/alexandria-teenager-jasmine-block

https://www.echopress.com/news/barker-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison

https://www.echopress.com/news/holby-sentenced-to-less-than-eight-years-second-man-in-jasmine-block-case-sent-to-prison#:~:text=Sarah%20Block%20said%20she%20is,has%20already%20spent%20in%20jail.

https://www.echopress.com/news/powers-pleads-guilty-in-kidnapping-case-sentencing-set-for-january

https://www.twincities.com/2018/11/21/third-man-pleads-guilty-to-abducting-alexandria-girl-holding-her-captive-till-she-escaped/

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/retired-farmer-gives-reward-money-to-kidnapped-teen

​​https://polarisproject.org/blog/2020/08/what-we-know-about-how-child-sex-trafficking-happens/

On April 17, 2016 A motorist found the burned, beaten, and frostbit body of a woman on a desolate stretch of Highway 212 in the Crow Reservation in Montana. Miraculously she was still alive. Join me as I tell John the case of Roylynn Rides Horse and the senseless act of violence that left her in the condition in which she was found. 

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Map showing distance from Kirby Saloon to Castle Rock Road

https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-sanchez-1064

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mt/pr/busby-man-sentenced-life-murder-woman

https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3642&context=mulr#:~:text=Misprision%20of%20felony%20is%20defined,respect%20of%20the%20other's%20crime.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/480228813/?match=1&terms=roylynn%20rideshorse

https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2018/12/21/man-gets-life-sentence-burning-woman-crow-reservation/2393219002/

Investigation Discovery Show: Dead Silence Season 4 Episode 8

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-woman-dies-after-being-beaten-burned-on-crow-2016jun28-story.html

https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/slain-womans-last-words-cant-be-used-in-trial-judge-rules

https://www.niwrc.org/restoration-magazine/february-2018/call-action-declare-may-5-2018-national-day-awareness-missing

Today’s case spans three countries and the course of ten years. It begins as separate tragic cases of young individuals who are in crisis, but when a 64 year old self-admitted armchair detective got involved she slowly began to connect all the dots…something horrible was happening on the internet. 

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/kajouji-s-video-diary-shows-path-to-suicide-1.802270

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/parents-plea-for-help-to-find-missing-daughter-1.282736

https://www.crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/angels/melchert_dinkel/1.html

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/mn-supreme-court/1660689.html

Newspaper.com archives from the Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Windsor Star, Battle Creek Enquirer, and New York Times

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On November 14, 2015 the most unthinkable crime was committed in the midst of a youth football game in Scottsville, KY reaffirming the scary truth that it is not the unknown we should fear, but those closest to us. Join me as I tell Johnny the case of seven year old Gabriella Doolin.

Trigger warning: sexual abuse and murder of a minor

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https://www.wbko.com/content/news/Sentencing-for-Timothy-Madden-begins-in-Allen-County-563706761.html

https://vocal.media/criminal/the-gruesome-murder-of-gabbi-doolin

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