Bizarre Cases of the missing and murdered

Just watched a Dateline on the West Mesa Bone Collector. Still unsolved. What's super creepy is all the rumors that floated around that turned out to be spot on.

 
https://lawandcrime.com/child-abuse...-2-year-old-to-unconsciousness-filming-abuse/

A judge in Nebraska sentenced a man to serve a maximum of 52 years in prison after he filmed himself using a scarf to hang his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter by the neck until she lost consciousness multiple times.

Douglas County District Judge Duane Dougherty on Tuesday sentenced David John Coleman, 38, to serve between 42 and 52 years behind bars after the convicted sex offender and nine-time felon pleaded guilty to two counts of child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury. Coleman had initially been charged with first-degree attempted murder before agreeing to a plea deal with prosecutors that included dropping the murder charge.

The World-Herald previously reported that Coleman’s girlfriend was scrolling through Coleman’s phone on Dec. 17 when she came to a video that had been filmed three days earlier. She told police that she immediately recognized the setting of the video as her personal storage unit located at 129th Street and West Maple Road. Nothing could prepare her for the horrific scene that would unfold when she played the video.

Per a sworn affidavit from Omaha Police Det. Alexis Boults that was obtained by the World-Herald, the footage showed Coleman “hanging her two year old daughter with a pink scarf, by her neck, from a shelving unit, causing her to become strangled” and “losing the ability to breathe and losing consciousness.”

“The suspect could [then] be seen grabbing [the child] roughly by the chest and lifting her with the ligature still tied to her neck to release pressure just enough to allow her to breathe, gasp, cry and gurgle, before dropping her in a hanging position, again, only to restart the previous cycle.”

The toddler’s mother called the police who conducted a search of Coleman’s phone and found another video, filmed just 30 minutes prior to the first, showing Coleman “wrapping the same pink scarf around the victim’s neck multiple times, while she was seated in the car seat.”
“The victim can be seen on video turning red and blue in the face,” the affidavit said. “The victim appeared to try crying but was unable to because the ligature was pulled so tightly by the suspect to stop her from breathing, speaking or crying.”
 



Legit thought this was staged (looked too cinematically framed to me) until someone in the comments section posted the actual news story:


https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/tv/wife-rochdale-man-who-fought-17004838


“If there was 100, as long as my wife is upstairs, there was no-one going to get through me.”


After being forced into the garden, one of the men threatened to kill Asif before going back inside wielding what is believed to be a screwdriver.

But quick-thinking Asif ran to the kitchen, grabbed two knives and chased them outside for a second time.
 
I was thinking about finding this thread for this case.
US lawyer arranged his murder so son would receive life insurance, say police

A prominent South Carolina lawyer who found the bodies of his wife and son three months ago tried to arrange his own death earlier this month so his surviving son would get a $10m life insurance payment, but the planned fatal shot only grazed his head, state police said.

The shooter, Curtis Edward Smith, was charged with assisted suicide, insurance fraud and several other counts related to the 4 September shooting of Alex Murdaugh on a lonely highway in Hampton county, the state law enforcement division said in a statement.

Murdaugh was not charged on Tuesday night, but agents said more charges were expected.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-assisted-suicide-charges-curtis-edward-smith

For those of you who haven't seen this before, Alex Murdaugh is descended from a family of attorneys who have been prominent in South Carolina. He was visiting his father who was dying and passed away a few days after Alex's wife and son were killed.

There is another death involved too as the Murdaugh's housekeeper died in what was described as a fall at the Murdaugh residence in 2018.

“The decedent’s death was not reported to the coroner at the time, nor was an autopsy performed,” Topper wrote. “On the death certificate, the manner of death was ruled ‘natural,’ which is inconsistent with injuries sustained in a trip-and-fall accident.”

The Post and Courier reported that the SLED probe was announced hours after Satterfield’s sons filed a lawsuit against Murdaugh over the handling of their mother’s estate. The lawsuit alleges that the Satterfield family has never seen a dime of a $505,000 wrongful death settlement negotiated in her death.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending...-suicide-cops-say/JDKH76JD2FHYRPHC4NSE774MII/

It seems that the law firm he worked for discovered that he had been taking money from client accounts. Murdaugh claims he has a drug problem and used the money for drugs. Did his housekeeper find out he was using drugs and he had to silence her. Did the guy kill or arrange the murder of his wife and son to collect life insurance?

It gets more bizarre by the day.
 


-Girl and boyfriend go on cross country trip to Grand Tetons.
-Girl disappears and is not heard from for weeks; boyfriend shows up alone in her van in his home state, Florida.
-Boyfriend refuses to say anything. Hires lawyer.
-Girl still missing...
 
The Summer Wells case and the Delphi murders are recent and unsolved. Both interesting with lots of opinions to go around...
 
I was thinking about finding this thread for this case.
US lawyer arranged his murder so son would receive life insurance, say police



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-assisted-suicide-charges-curtis-edward-smith

For those of you who haven't seen this before, Alex Murdaugh is descended from a family of attorneys who have been prominent in South Carolina. He was visiting his father who was dying and passed away a few days after Alex's wife and son were killed.

There is another death involved too as the Murdaugh's housekeeper died in what was described as a fall at the Murdaugh residence in 2018.





https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending...-suicide-cops-say/JDKH76JD2FHYRPHC4NSE774MII/

It seems that the law firm he worked for discovered that he had been taking money from client accounts. Murdaugh claims he has a drug problem and used the money for drugs. Did his housekeeper find out he was using drugs and he had to silence her. Did the guy kill or arrange the murder of his wife and son to collect life insurance?

It gets more bizarre by the day.
He was the one that originally found the bodies.
 


-Girl and boyfriend go on cross country trip to Grand Tetons.
-Girl disappears and is not heard from for weeks; boyfriend shows up alone in her van in his home state, Florida.
-Boyfriend refuses to say anything. Hires lawyer.
-Girl still missing...


Was gonna mention this one last night.
Boyfriend knows something and is refusing to speak
Today they cops released some body cam footage from when the couple was pulled over at one time on the trip.

Either she walked off and he drove off, couldn't find her...or he killed her.
 
Was gonna mention this one last night.
Boyfriend knows something and is refusing to speak
Today they cops released some body cam footage from when the couple was pulled over at one time on the trip.

Either she walked off and he drove off, couldn't find her...or he killed her.

If she walked off and disappeared he would have no reason not to help the family try to find her. He is acting sus AF.

She's probably dead.
 
If she walked off and disappeared he would have no reason not to help the family try to find her. He is acting sus AF.



She's probably dead.

Yeah I agree. Just trying to think of all things that could make sense
 
Not sure if this has been posted yet, if it has my apologies...



I also timestamp'd a story and recording I found very creepy and disturbing...
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/etc/uns...les-of-the-missing-and-murdered/#.Vd81fvZViko

Five tales of bizarre cases of people who have gone missing, murdered or both. From serial killers to hippies who vanished in a supernatural glow, the stories vary from tragic to mesmerizing

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This was a great doc about the Barclay case.
 
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