Recent content by Melquiades

One of the articles notes that her husband died in 1983 (after having been in a coma since 1973) so anything along those lines can be ruled out. If I had to guess, this is probably the same sort of crime/mentality as those teenagers who intentionally ran over the road biker in Nevada a year or...

Doesn’t really feel like a first crime or an only crime.

8 large scars on his forearms. Self-harm?

Interesting that one description reads ‘covered in soil’ (weird) and the other reads ‘heavily soiled’ (less weird). I suspect that the UID probably shat themselves as part of the ‘not feeling well’ that lead to their death and this is why the clothes were immediately thrown out and that...

This sheet thing looks like a massive red herring. It seems unlikely he'd have a sheet that big, the sheet doesn't look like it's been sitting exposed in a rainforest for 50+ years, and even if it was from Cooper it basically tells us absolutely nothing.

Yeah, I think people don't really understand suicide very well and expect it to be some sort of organized event like in a novel. And that just isn't how it often is - you're dealing with people in a mental health crisis and they act erratically and don't necessarily leave a note or even...

For every one of these suspicious suitcases or bags in a dumpster that managed to get checked out, you wonder how many get missed. Thankfully this one was seen.

Yeah, occasionally you see removed fingertips with organized crime but when it's a female victim it's usually a dead tell that the husband (or someone very close to the victim) was responsible.

This is a very strange case. Obviously there are cases of missing people with transient lifestyles turning up far from where it was expected but I can't recall seeing a similar case to this where a married, employed mother turns up on the opposite side of the country with no explanation. I'm...

Hmm, I've only been through Wyoming once but remember the treed bits more than the open bits obviously! I'd perceived it as being in an area that was difficult to access but if the cops were able to drive their cars to the body that obviously does change some things.

I don't really follow the bolded and don't see how anything can be gleaned about the cause of death from the quality of the estimation of size/weight of decomposed/skeletonized remains. Plus, like I said previously, I don't even think the estimate was terribly bad. Stripping naked and making...

I don't think there's really much in the height/weight and time of death. Skeletonized/decomposed remains are notoriously difficult to size and age and the upper limit given for the Doe (5'5 150) isn't far off (5'7 170). And those estimates were almost certainly understated - the lower estimate...

This one is pretty close to home for me as I'm from Vancouver Island, about the same age, and currently live in the Comox Valley. The family has just put up new billboards asking for help. There are obviously two possible scenarios : 1) she was abducted while hitchhiking and murdered by an...

Absolutely bizarre that Zizzamia has neither been matched or ruled out given that this seems so obvious, they have DNA, and investigators were apparently aware of the potential match *9 years ago*. Feels like someone has dropped the ball somewhere here. Even with the issues locating the body...

Disturbing but also fairly well-written in terms of the genre and you can see that he's a pretty well-educated, clever sort of guy. Fascinating serial killer type. His sort of background - adopted by wealthy parents, schooled abroad in Switzerland, worked as a professor and art dealer - is the...