Media Connection In the early 1990s a bizarre, but brilliant television show was released  called Twin Peaks. The “whodunit” show centers on the small town murder of Laura Palmer, and the secrets that surface in the wake of her death. Turns out, the fictional story of Laura Palmer’s murder is based on a real life […]

Backstory Benny Evangelist was a known carpenter, faith healer, and most intriguingly a cult leader and author of a self-published religious text, The Oldest History of the World: Discovery by Occult Science. When he was 19 years old, Benny Evangelista immigrated to the United States in 1904 and changed his name to Benny Evangelist. Just […]

Prior to Murder “When I get you alone, I will cut you up into bits so no one will ever find you,” said a mans voice on the phone. This wasn’t the first time Dorothy Jane Scott received a call like this from an unidentified caller- someones voice who she call recall but couldn’t quite […]

Disappearances On March 22, 1977 in Tuscan Arizona, 39 year old prominent escrow agent, Charles “Chuck” Morgan left for work like he normally would, but didn’t return for three days. When he finally returned, he bust through the front door with handcuffs hanging from each wrist and one on his ankle. He explained to bewildered […]

First day, January 2nd On January 2, 1935 a man checked into The Hotel President in Kansas City, and was assigned room 1046. According to the hotel documents, his name was Ronald T. Owen and he was visiting from Los Angeles. He was described as having brown hair, a cauliflower ear, and a horizontal scar […]

Discovery In New Brunswick, New Jersey on September 16, 1922, a teenage couple was out on a morning stroll when they came across the bodies of a man and woman lying side by side underneath a crab apple tree. A single bullet had ended the mans life, while the woman had been shot 3 times […]

Discovery On June 23rd, 1965, after receiving a phone call for a welfare check on Fred and Edwina Rogers, two police officers from Houston were sent to the Rogers’ house. After knocking multiple times and not receiving an answer, the police officers entered the house by kicking in the door. Upon entering the house, the […]

Nicknamed “the Black Dahlia,” Elizabeth Short was the victim of a brutal murder in Los Angeles in 1947. To this day her killer has never been found. Who was Elizabeth Short? Elizabeth Short was born in 1924 in Boston, Massachusetts. At a young age she set her sights on being an actress and by the […]

In a Philadelphian cemetery, sits a headstone labeled “America’s Unknown Child.” The surrounding land is covered with stuffed animals, as a remembrance of the unidentified young boy who was tragically murdered. Discovery In 1957, a muskrat hunter set out to check his traps near a park just north of Philadelphia. While searching through the brush, […]

With all of the popular mass media surrounding the Zodiac Killer, many of you have probably already heard of him but for those who may not, I will give a brief description. Who was the Zodiac Killer? Linked to five murders in Northern California from the year 1968 to 1969 and might have been responsible […]