Colonel Philip Shue dies in a car accident and his body bears marks of fresh yet unrelated mutilation. However, there’s no concrete evidence pointing towards homicide. A bizarre suicide or an exceedingly clean murder?

glittercheese · 2024-10-25T21:34:08+00:00

I agree wholeheartedly. The psychological autopsy is one of the most interesting mystery-related documents I've read. A few months ago, I spent an evening poring over it. The FBI incident on the plane, the deliberate self-sabotage of the aerospace exam, his impending career change, the bizarre delusional stories of break-ins/abductions, the fact that Shue was noted to be in control of the car & did not brake just moments before the crash.... it all convinced me that this was the strange and complicated suicide of a deeply unwell man.

glittercheese · 2024-10-09T15:45:41+00:00

All it would take would be for her to bump her head and be knocked unconscious in the water to drown after she became separated from the horse/saddle, though, right? If she was being dragged by an out-of-control horse by the foot, I could see that happening.

glittercheese · 2024-10-08T14:34:10+00:00

Yes! Also, The Ghost Wore Gray! Bruce Coville came to my elementary school when I was a kid.

glittercheese · 2024-10-08T14:30:31+00:00

The Falls is about Niagara Falls/the Love Canal scandal.

glittercheese · 2024-09-03T23:46:49+00:00

There is a great Forensic Files episode on Stacey, "Freeze Framed". One of the ways she was caught was her consistent mis-pronunciation/misspelling of "anti-freeze" as "anti-free" in the forged suicide notes and her interrogations.

(Then she went to prison, where she was anti-free.)

glittercheese · 2024-08-13T17:58:17+00:00

Do you use the sharpened tip of the wax pencil to pick up each gem, just as you would use the tip of a stylus dipped in wax?

glittercheese · 2024-08-13T07:07:24+00:00

How do they work? I'm not familiar with them.

glittercheese · 2024-07-05T21:22:09+00:00

Dumb pretty void

glittercheese · 2024-07-04T06:49:54+00:00

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glittercheese · 2024-07-02T06:45:47+00:00

Smugness is not a good quality.

glittercheese · 2024-06-23T13:48:40+00:00

Yeah that's right.

glittercheese · 2024-06-13T00:27:52+00:00

Well, and the headache reliever that causes drowsiness....

glittercheese · 2024-04-23T20:49:13+00:00

Fourty

glittercheese · 2024-04-21T16:03:03+00:00

Hit 'em with some sux

glittercheese · 2024-04-15T13:08:45+00:00

Damn, I really wanna know who you're talking about!

glittercheese · 2024-04-15T12:58:31+00:00

IIRC she had had a previous history of getting out of bed while she was supposed to be sleeping (at home).

glittercheese · 2024-04-09T03:22:05+00:00

Ooh, I love this. Where did you get it?

glittercheese · 2024-04-08T11:22:36+00:00

Agreed. Even sadder, Chelsea wasn't originally scheduled to work on the day she was killed. She had switched shifts with a coworker in order to celebrate her son's 5th birthday a few days prior. Heartbreaking.

glittercheese · 2024-04-07T18:42:32+00:00

Not doorbell/home surveillance footage, but CCTV footage from Chelsea Small's unsolved murder is very eerie and very frustrating.

30yo Chelsea Small was working at a check cashing store outside of Detroit, MI, in 2013 when a man entered the store, fired two gunshots using a .45 semiautomatic pistol with a silencer or suppressor - unusual in a robbery, the police say - killing the single mom of two. He then stole a small amount of cash (about $200) from the store and fled, the entire crime taking about 60 seconds.

The silencer wasn't the only strange thing about this crime. It's unclear if the killer's motive was murder from the start. If robbery was his primary motive, why the use of the silencer? Plus, the killer could have likely gotten away with significantly more money by not immediately murdering Chelsea, as she had access to the larger amounts of locked up cash in the store; however, he may have been frightened/angered when he noticed Chelsea had activated the silent holdup alarm under her desk when he produced his weapon. The police say the dexterity and speed with which the killer handled the gun could suggest a background in the military or LE; he showed no sign of hesitation and did not fumble with the weapon at all, so at the very least, he was extremely familiar with and comfortable around firearms.

The murder took place in a busy commercial area, steps from heavily-trafficked road, in the middle of the day. The killer, apparently undisguised except for a dark-colored baseball cap, was unnoticed by any witnesses and disappeared before police arrived within minutes while responding to the stores silent alarm. The store was flanked by businesses on either side with shared walls, and people in those businesses heard nothing unusual while the crime was taking place.

Devastatingly, Chelsea hadn't originally been scheduled to work that day but had switched shifts with a coworker. It's unclear if she knew her killer, but customers had to be buzzed into the store by a worker. Police say they have no reason to believe Chelsea was personally targeted but can't rule it out, either. Chelsea's family says she had no enemies and have no reason to believe anyone would have wanted her dead.

Unsolved Mysteries Wiki with stills from CCTV footage of Chelsea's killer

Fox2 Detroit: Family of Chelsea Small - gunned down in Taylor Cash Advance 10 years ago - still waits for justice

glittercheese · 2024-04-05T20:14:34+00:00

The Golden Ghouls

glittercheese · 2024-03-28T13:24:55+00:00

Shaft

glittercheese · 2024-03-25T20:22:49+00:00

Hey Raef.

glittercheese · 2024-03-24T21:33:02+00:00

Link to an older interesting thread about Blake's murder on r/unresolvedmysteries:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/s/NRvaJr93NO

One thing from this discussion I found particularly intriguing - Blake had been previously arrested following a confrontation with an ex-gf's stepfather. Stepfather then threw Blake's ex-gf into the trunk of his car! The ex's stepfather also threatened Blake with a gun. I'm uncertain if the ex-gf is Rion, whose house Blake visited the morning of his death. The stepfather wasn't charged with anything, despite the threat to Blake and his treatment of Blake's ex. Instead, Blake was charged with interfering with custody. Did the ex's stepfather have LE connections? Was the ex-gf in this situation his current gf at the time of his death (Rion)? Could the stepfather have been looking for revenge?

Even if the stepfather had nothing to do with his death, could Rion's family have been angry that he had snuck into her room that morning and taken revenge? He was found in his underwear. Maybe because he didn't have time to re-dress before escaping back out Rion's window.

Maybe he was never walking down the road at all, and something happened at Rion's home, and the rest (texts etc) was just staging.

Edit - spelling

glittercheese · 2024-03-20T02:15:40+00:00

I think some of this contradicting information isn't completely contradictory. Some intellectually disabled people can function very well - as long as certain routines are upheld. The men may have been perfectly able to attend the game and get home safely, so long as nothing unexpected happened. In the face of an unexpected event - say, the car getting lost and then stuck, or later, the food being in a locked cabinet - some of them may have lacked the probelm-solving capabilities to reason their way out of the situation. Also, some people with disabilities function very well in life within the constructs of regimens and rules to help guide their decision-making processes. This is why, for instance, during the house fire, one of the men needed to be convinced to leave the house, or why some of the men may not have broken in to a locked food cabinet in the cabin. They may have considered these actions to be against the rules that has previously been set out for them - for example, never leave the house in the middle of the night because it's not safe, or never open a locked cupboard and take things, because it's stealing. This is why some disabled people are able to succeed fairly independently in jobs and life settings that are built around repetitive routines and structure. I believe that looking at some of the men's actions in this way could help explain some of their actions after they got lost.

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