As a raging blizzard tore across the state of North Dakota, Adolph Martel sat warm and safe inside a mental hospital. A former drifter named J.J. Murphy stood talking with him, helping the time to pass. Little did they know it, but a patient’s presence nearby would result in the death of one of them […]
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Jamestown, North Dakota, November 21, 1941 Adolph Martel settled back into his chair. It was chilly inside the hospital, but, then again, it was absolutely freezing outside. The papers had said that temps were supposed be hovering right around 0 with winds gusting upwards of 50 mph. One of the patients, a man named J.J.
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Fifty years ago, Mary Schlais was murdered and left in a rural Wisconsin ditch. For decades, decades searched for her killer. Now, thanks to a new scientific discipline called Forensic Genealogy, her killer has finally been found. Fifty years ago, Mary Schlais was murdered and left in a rural Wisconsin ditch. For decades, decades searched
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SOLVED: Mary Schlais: Justice at Last I’ve always been a big fan of genealogy. Genealogy, the study of family history, has been a popular discipline and hobby for many people for decades. After I graduated from college, I took my first real steps into researching my own family tree. At first, it was a
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October 31st, 1957 – Halloween Night Peter sat up in bed. The doorbell was ringing, over and over again. He blew out his breath. What kind of kid went trick or treating this late? Peter stood up and began to make his way downstairs. As he did, the doorbell came again. It couldn’t be kids.
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On a summer day in 2001, Donna Stabile knocked on the front door of Leticia Aguilar. She babysat Leticia’s five children nearly every night but hadn’t seen them for a few day. Donna had started to get worried, so she went to the house. On a whim, she opened the front door and stepped inside.
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It was August 30, 2001, and Donna Stabile stood at the front door of the Aguilar home, reading the note. It read, “Me and the kids went to Sioux Falls. Too much stress.” Donna thought that it was a little strange. Donna ran a day care out of her home, and regularly watched Leticia Aguilar’s
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Swift Runner and his family journeyed into the Canadian wilderness in 1878 for the winter. Only Swift Runner emerged the following spring. He said that his entire family starved to death, but there was something off about his story. When police investigated, one of the most infamous tales of murder and cannibalism in Canadian history
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Swift Runner slowly squeezed the trigger, holding his breath. He had been hunting his entire life and was confident in his aim. The rifle let out a loud report, echoing off the vast hills of the wilderness surrounding him. The moose went down, falling in a heap in the snow. Swift Runner let
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William Nelson was a private pilot who had just married the beautiful Omaima Nelson, a woman 23 years younger than himself. Then, just after Thanksgiving 1991, he disappeared. He was found in early December, murdered and dismembered by his new bride. But had she killed him out of self-defense, or had she murdered him in
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