#Unsolved Crime

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Felix Francisco Grullon

Felix Francisco Grullon, born on May 2, 1952, was last seen at approximately 5:00 a.m. on April 13, 2004, at his residence near 60th Street and Hudson Avenue in West New York, New Jersey. At the time of his disappearance, he was 51 years old, standing 5'5" tall, and weighing about 150 pounds. He is a Hispanic male with gray hair and brown eyes, and he wore eyeglasses for reading. His nickname is "Nino," and he was born in the Dominican Republic. Grullon was last seen wearing a watch with a silver band and face.

Grullon had recently quit drinking and was experiencing hallucinations as a result. He had been fired from his job at the West New York Department of Public Works a few weeks prior and planned to visit the unemployment office on April 13, after a court appearance related to a child support issue. His telephone had been disconnected due to unpaid bills.

On the morning of his disappearance, Grullon's mother visited his home and found the front door open with all his belongings inside, including keys, clothes, toothbrush, and passport. There was no indication he left the country.

Later in 2004, his family received a call from an unknown individual claiming Grullon was in the hospital, but checks with area hospitals and rehabilitation centers yielded no information. His family fears for his safety.

The West New York Police Department is investigating and can be reached at 201-295-5000.

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FANS OF THE ALIENIST WILL LOVE THE RIPPER LIVES

The Ripper Lives is a Victorian gothic murder mystery that continues the story of Jack the Ripper after the Canonical Five. The serialized novel is narrated from a first-person perspective by Scotland Yard Inspector Frederick Abberline after retirement. Abberline, greatly bothered that the public has never been given closure in the Ripper case, finally reveals what happened after the death of Mary Jane Kelly, confirming that the Ripper did not just disappear into history as many believe.

Like The Alienist, the 10-part novel follows the 19th-century investigation of an unknown serial killer and includes historical facts. Many famous names associated with the Jack the Ripper case appear and interact with the characters, enhancing the connection between the fictional story and the real-life events.

ABOUT THE RIPPER LIVES: JACK THE RIPPER'S REIGN OF TERROR CONTINUES The world’s most elusive and terrifying serial killer returns in the 10-part Victorian gothic murder mystery series, The Ripper Lives. Dripping with 19th-century atmosphere and intrigue, each thrilling, suspense-filled chapter ends with a shocking cliffhanger that compels the reader forward. The fear builds as the historical horror story unfolds, culminating in an explosive, mind-bending conclusion.

The Ripper Lives is a sequel to the true story that commences after the slayings of the Canonical Five. As a secretly appointed task force works to bring the butcher to justice under the radar of the newspapers, the unsuspecting public believes the threat has subsided. But while hiding in the shadows, the serial killer's compulsion to mutilate has grown exponentially stronger, and for Whitechapel, the harrowing nightmare of tension and terror has only just begun.

BOOK SERIES PAGE: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR7Y98R6

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True Detective: Rust Cohle's Office

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Gloucestershire Unsolved

Why Are These Cases Cold & Forgotten

Twenty days ago we began the arduous task of a deep-dive review of four unsolved murder cases in Cheltenham, Stroud, Coleford and Stonehouse.

The first of these murders that need our attention is that of Constance “Little Granny” Aris.

On February 28th 1985, the pensioner in her 70s was found by her son Keith and daughter-in-law Vanessa in her armchair, she had been battered to death with what was believed to have been an axe, the TV was still on.

Connie had been out in the early evening of February 27th 1985 to attend a Friendly Society meeting at St Marks Community Centre in Cheltenham. Sometime between 6.30 pm that evening and 9 am on 28th February she was murdered.

Now one thing that we need to clarify is the date of the killing as the national database for deaths clearly shows Constance E E Aris of Cheltenham deceased in 1986.

This is the copy of the record taken from Findmypast.com

Death quarter 2, Registration Month 4

Death year 1986, District Cheltenham

Register number 486, County Gloucestershire

Volume 22, Page 1441

So this is something we are currently exploring and have contacted witnesses to further explore this. Obviously, I will report back when we have clarification.

Links to this investigation

Since we began to review this case we have identified two possible links to other unsolved killings, one in Bristol and one in Plymouth but we cannot go into any detail on this just at the moment, as enquiries are ongoing.

Carmel Gamble

The fire brigade attended the cottage after a fire was reported at the Rodborough address. As part of the search discovered the body of severely anorexic Carmel Gamble who was 43 years old.

The worrying thing was that she had not died as a result of the fire, she had been beaten to death with several severe blows to her skull. She had been badly mutilated and then piles of clothes set around the body and set alight using paraffin as an accelerant.

There has never been any sign of this case being solved despite evidence from a woman who came forward a few years later.

In the relatively few days since we began looking at these cases we have been able to speak to two people who recall the case and are willing to talk to us. We will bring an update as we get it.

Courtney Davies

This murder was pretty horrific with the victim being a well-known gangster. His badly burned body was found frozen by wildlife rangers Neil Sollis and Ray Beasley in High Meadow Woods near Coleford Gloucestershire, it was around 9 am December 21st 2004.

The post-mortem revealed that he had been stabbed some 70 times and his throat had been cut. There was a strong smell f petrol which may well have caused the woodland fire.

Courtney Davies was a well known criminal from Cardiff with convictions for drugs, firearms and violence. In 1986 he had been sent to prison for 15 years for a violent robbery of the home of a Welsh businessman. Davies had been released in 1994 having served eight years of the sentence.

This murder is believed to have been a gangland killing it is our early opinion that this is correct.

Police appealed for the drivers of a red Ford Escort, a white Lexus, amd a red & white motorcycle seen along the A4136 between 1050 pm and 1150 pm on the night of December 19th 2004 but to no avail.

DNA found on a cigarette butt led to some arrests and 32-year-old Malcolm Martin was put on trial at Bristol Crown Court, however, the trial collapsed before it could begin and Mr Martin who had been deaf and mute since the age of 12 when he had meningitis said the arrest ruined his life.

Gloucestershire Police say that there is really very little chance of a conviction but regardless of this man’s convictions, I feel that the case needs to be reviewed, not just written off.

Richard Miles

The last case I want to bring to you as we review is that of 29-year-old Richard Miles who was stabbed to death in the back garden of his home in Newtown Near Stonehouse Gloucestershire on March 10th 1993.

He was by all accounts a well liked man and there seems to have been no explanation for the stabbing.

Over 40 police officers were drafted in to work on the case, stopping 1,140 cars and questioning 277 people that had passed through the area on the day of the killing but to no avail.

Three men were arrested in November 2013 in connection with the case, two on suspicion of murder and the third on suspicion of perverting the course of justice, they were released on bail pending further enquiries but nothing has ever come of it and the case was discontinued.

Several mystery persons have never been identified including an ‘attractive woman’ pushing a buggy near Richard’s home on the day of the killing despite police interviewing mums at Eastington Nursery School and two men seen in a nearby field.

Mr Miles was a chronic cannabis smoker but police said at the time there was no evidence to suggest any link between his drug taking and his death. It is possible that this could have been the link but I somehow doubt it as he worked full time and had no other debts so it is unlikely he would have had a ‘drugs debt’.

Richard’s mother was the person who found her son’s lifeless body with a knife buried in his chest and his father said that she will never recover from that day.

Why was this man killed? He worked full time as a panel beater and police were unable to find anyone who even had a bad word to say about him so what caused his murder? Hopefully we can start to get some answers to these questions, as despite the passage of time someone out there knows what happened and who was responsible.

Ongoing Enquiries

We are spending time speaking to people in each area, taking photographs and video footage as well as making enquiries into the victim’s lifestyles and backgrounds.

We will keep updating this blog or post new ones as time passes and the investigations continue, obviously if we find evidence that could lead to a conviction the information will be passed immediately to the police.

Look forward to bringing you more as we get it.

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If you’d like to discuss the case or indeed any part of our work please do get in touch.

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Unsolved Cases Louisiana | Episode 1

In this episode we cover 3 Unsolved Cases in Louisiana.

UNSOLVED MURDER: Christopher Wheeler would lose his life to gun violence on October 16, 2016 in Baton Rouge, LA, on a street that was subject to multiple murders and armed robberies at the time.

MISSING PERSONS: Wilda Mae Beniot, would be declared missing on July 23, 1992, from Creole, LA. Wilda's disappearance leaves investigators and her family stumped as she would have had left her home heavily sedated.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS: An unidentified Jane Doe would be discovered by fisherman on July 19, 1986 in the St. Tammany Parrish area. Police have attempted to find her identity a few ways but have had no luck.

Watch to learn more about all of these cases on our channel.

By the Minute News, covers unsolved cases across the nation. Help us bring awareness by subscribing to our channel!

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Who put Brian Egg's body in the Fishtank?

In mid-2018, Brian Egg, a San Francisco resident known for volunteering to clean up his neighborhood, suddenly went missing under highly suspicious circumstances. His disappearance went largely unnoticed for several weeks until his brother Devin attempted to reach him by phone in late June or early July.

Devin grew alarmed when an unfamiliar voice answered Brian's phone, claiming to be someone named Nate who said Brian would call back after walking his dog. However, Brian never returned the call, which was highly out of character for him.

Over the following weeks, Brian's neighbors began to notice strangers frequently entering and leaving his home. Despite multiple calls to police expressing concern over Brian's whereabouts and the suspicious activity at his residence, authorities failed to thoroughly investigate.

It wasn't until early August that Brian's sister officially reported him as a missing person. Even then, police conducted only minimal efforts, simply knocking on the door a few times before leaving when no one answered.

Meanwhile, Brian's neighbors witnessed what appeared to be a frantic cleanup effort happening inside the home, with soap bubbles and a strong bleach odor emanating from the residence as strangers painted portions of the exterior.

Finally, on August 14th, over two months after Brian was last seen, neighbors called 911 after observing a crime scene cleanup company at the property. This time, police arrested 52-year-old Robert McCaffrey at the scene.

Two days later, a second suspect, 39-year-old Lance Silva, was taken into custody nearby. Both men were initially charged with homicide, identity theft, elder abuse and financial crimes after it was discovered they had been using Brian's credit cards.

However, in a shocking turn of events, the San Francisco District Attorney's office eventually dropped all charges against the two men pending further investigation, citing lack of evidence.

It took a four-day search of Brian's home for police to finally make the grisly discovery - a dismembered human torso concealed inside a large fish tank hidden under the stairs. The remains were confirmed to belong to Brian Egg, whose death was officially ruled a homicide in May 2019.

Despite the arrests, the apparent cleanup effort, and recovery of Brian's body, no one has ever been convicted for his murder. The motive and complete circumstances around his death remain unclear, leaving his loved ones devastated over the lack of justice and closure in this disturbing case.

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Murder to even baffle Sherlock Holmes

The unexplained death of an Oxford University Doctor

It was Saturday 10th December 1994, and Dr Michael ‘Spike’ Meenaghan was settling down for the football results programme on TV. He stepped into his kitchen to make a cup of tea and was shot through the window.

The gunman had crept through the garden within about 10 feet of Michael’s kitchen window and fired a shot from a double-barrelled shotgun. Michael was hit in the chest and was severely wounded. He crawled to the phone and managed to dial 999 but could only groan.

The call handler at the emergency services traced the call and sent out police and an ambulance, sadly they were too late as they found Michael dead from his injuries and no sign of the perpetrator.

Dr Meenaghan worked at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, a department within Oxford University. The research programme there includes the cellular and molecular biology of pathogens, the immune response, cancer and cardiovascular disease. I will come back to this.

Glasgow-born Michael chose to live on a pretty rough housing estate and so although the shot was heard, no one came out to see what was going on and “no-one saw anything”.

When police began knocking on doors on the Blackbird Leys Estate in Oxford one witness recalled hearing what he described as the sound of “a light bulb exploding” whilst others said they thought it was “just a car backfiring”. Nobody saw anyone running away or indeed anyone carrying a gun, at least if they did they didn't tell the police.

The estate where Michael chose to live was not the best of places and had a pretty bad reputation with a period of severe unrest in 1991 when a mass of youths attacked police officers after Oxford Constabulary clamped down on car thieves and joy riders.

Michael liked it on the estate because he was of a working-class background originally and felt comfortable there. He was not a particularly house-proud man or anything he neglected the garden and had bed sheets hanging at all of the windows, except for the kitchen, in place of curtains.

Dr Meenaghan had a bit of confusing love life. He had been married and divorced, then lived with a girlfriend, Jenny who was a psychology student until the previous Easter. By all accounts, the relationship had not ended well after the police were called on more than one occasion, could this present a connection to the killing? It seems unlikely but every possible lead must be explored.

In the time leading up to his murder, Michael had been involved in a relationship with a lady named Denise and was in the process of trying to sell his house in order to move in with his new love. Jenny was married and had been expecting to meet Michael for a music gig at a local pub on the night of his murder. When he didn’t show up she drove to his home to find police officers there.

So let’s come back to Michael’s work for a moment:

So was Michael working on something or close to bringing forth a discovery that could have made a major change in science? Something that someone really didn’t want the world to know about?

It is interesting that Michael worked in a branch of medical research and another lady who was also a victim of a cruel murder, namely Janet Brown worked in a public health and primary care research unit at Oxford University. Her husband was in the pharmaceutical industry and worked in Switzerland, the couple were planning to move to live in Switzerland.

You can read about the Janet Brown murder in a well-researched blog by clicking HERE

This case was mentioned by a writer as “A murder to baffle even Morse’s mind”, it certainly is a very confusing matter but it is my opinion that this case firstly can still be solved and secondly I feel that by carefully re-examining the evidence a whole “can of worms” would be opened for sure.

I always say that I would love to hear from you but, more so than ever in this case. I am sure I have some sleuths and of coursed qualified readers and I would truly value your opinion on this one so please leave me a comment or write me an email.

This is one case that I hope the team and I can take forward to a documentary so any input would be greatly appreciated.

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Shin Ja Lee

Shin Ja Lee, a 51-year-old woman of Korean descent, was last seen on February 27, 2013, near South King Street in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is an Asian female, standing 5'5" tall and weighing approximately 140 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Lee requires daily medication for unspecified reasons.

At the time of her disappearance, she frequented downtown Honolulu.

If you have any information regarding her whereabouts, please contact Crime Stoppers Honolulu at 808-955-8300

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Lana T. Coronado

Lana T. Coronado, born on December 14, 1948, was last seen in San Francisco, California, in March 1980; the exact date is unknown. At the time of her disappearance, she was 31 years old, standing 5'6" tall, and weighing approximately 140 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes, with a distinctive scar on her right arm. Coronado may have used the alias "Lana Lou Sartoris."

Unfortunately, there are few details available regarding the circumstances of her disappearance.

The San Francisco Police Department is handling the investigation and can be reached at 415-553-0123.