SHARP FAMILY MURDERS OR KEDDIE MURDERS

The Keddie Murder is an unsolved murder case that took place in Keddie,California,in cabin no.28,during the late evening of april 11, 1981 and/or early in the morning of the 12th.Glenna Sharp(36) and her five children had been renting the cabin since November 1980.On the night of April 11,1981,Sue was home with her daughter Tina(12),her two youngest boys and a young friend of the boys,Justin,who was staying with them that night.Her oldest son, John(15),and his friend Dana Winget(17),had spent the day in nearby Quincy and were also going to stay the night at cabin 28.John and Dana were last seen hitchhiking from Quincy to Keddie.The crime may already have been in progress when they arrived at the cabin.At approximately 8 am on the morning of April 12,the eldest daughter Sheila Sharp upon returning from the sleepover next door,discovered the bodies of Glenna,John and Dana in the living room.All three victims had been bound medical tape and electrical appliances wire.Later,Tina Sharp was determined to be missing from the cabin.Each of the victims had been bludgeoned with a claw hammer and stabbed with an inexpensive steak knife.The case grew cold but in 1984 the cranium portion of Tina Sharp's skull was recovered near camp eighteen,a geodesic distance of roughly 29 miles from Keddie.The murders remain unsolved to this days.

The Sharp family

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MURDER OF THE GRIMES SISTERS

Barbara and patricia grimes were teenage sisters who disappeared from the Brighton Park,Chicago on December 28,1956 and were found dead on January 22,1957.On December 28,1956,sisters Barbara(15) and Patricia(13) went to the brighton theatre to see the Elvis Presley movie.The theatre was one and a half miles from their home.Patricia's friend Dorothy weinert reported sitting with both sisters during the first showing of the movie.Other friends subsequently saw them at 9.15 p.m.,standing  in the popcorn line of the theatre.They seemed in good spirits and no-one noticed anything unusual.The second show was over by 11:45 p.m.,and they were expected home around 11:45 p.m.,and they were expected home around 11:45 p.m.When there was still no sign of them by midnight,their mother Loretta sent their older brother and sister to wait by the nearest bus stop for their arrival.After three buses has gone  by no sign of them,the siblings returned.At 2:15 a.m.,their mother reported Barbara and Patricia as missing.On January 14,the parents of patricia grimes' classmate Sandra Tollstan received two phone calls around midnight.During the first call,nobody at the other end spoke.Picking up the second call 15 minutes later,Sandra's mother heard a frightened and depressed voice asking "Is that you,Sandra?Is Sandra there?"Before she bring her daughter to the phone,the caller had hung up.The mother was convinced that the caller's voice belong to Patricia grimes.On January 22,1957,a construction worker found the nude bodies of the Grimes sisters in a snowbank behind a guard rail off German church road .It was thought that they had most likely been dumped from a passing car.There were no obvious fatal wounds on either girl's body.Both corpses had various bruises and rodent bites,including three puncture wounds in Barbara's chest that may have come from an ice pick.It was later revealed that Barbara had at least likely had sexual intercourse around the time of her death,but no evidence of forcible molestation was found.Their murderer is still unknown.

     
                                        THE GRIMES SISTERS

ENRIQUETA MARTI THE SPANISH WITCH

As a young woman Enriqueta Marti moved from her hometown of Sant Feliu de Llobregat to Barcelona where she worked as a maid servant and nanny,but soon she turned into prostitution.In 1895 she married a painter called Joan Pujalo,but the marriage failed.In spite marriage, she continued to visit locales of prostitution and people of doubtful virtue.Enriqueta was leading a double life.During the day she dressed in rags and begged at houses of charity,convents and parishes in the destitute parts of town where she selected children who looked the most abandoned.Taking the children by the hand,she made them pass as her children.later,she prostituted and murdered them.By night she dressed in luxurious clothes,hats,and wigs,and attended the El Liceu,the Casino de La Arrabassada and other sophisticated places.In this places she offered her services as procurer of children.She was prostituting children but she she was also practicing as a witch doctor.The ingredients she used as her remedies were made from the remains of the children that she was killing,who ranged from infants up to children of 9 years,from these children she used everything that she could use;blood,fat,hair,and bones(that normally she turned into powder).For this reason, she did not have any problems to dump her victims.Enriqueta offered salves,ointments,filters,and potions,especially to treat  tuberculosis,which was highly feared at the time and all kinds of diseases that did not have a cure in traditional medicine.Wealthy people were paying large sums of money for these remedies.She had stolen a baby from her sister-in-law whom,whom she had assisted in child birth,making her believe that the child had died at birth in order to keep her.

ENRIQUETA MARTI 

ENRIQUETA MARTI'S VICTIMS 

ANGELITA RESCUED (WHOM ENRIQUETA HAD 

STOLEN FROM HER SISTER-IN-LAW)

JEAN SPANGLER

Jean Elizabeth Spangler was an American dancer,model,and bit part actress in Hollywood films and in early television.On October 7,1949,spangler left her home in los angeles around 5 p.m.,leaving her daughter with her sister-in-law and telling her she is going to meet her former husband to talk about his child support payment that he had due a week before,then on to work on a movie set.The last person to see her was a clerk in a store near her home,who said she appeared to be waiting for someone.she has not been seen again.Spangler had been through a long custody battle with her former husband and won custody of her daughter christine in 1948.Benner's wife Lynn Lasky stated that she was with her at the time of her disappearance.Benner and Lasky  had been married only one month before spangler's disappearance.Two days later on October 9 her purse was found.There was no money in her purse,her sister-in-law stated that she had no money with her so the police ruled out robbery as motive.There was an unfinished note in the purse addressed to a 'Kirk',which read-"Can't wait any longer,going to see Dr.Scott.It will work best this way while mom is away,....." The note ended with a coma as if it had not been finished.Neither Kirk nor Dr.Scott could be located,and neither Spangler's family nor her friends knew anyone by this name.Police searched Kirk and Dr.Scott but there was no doctor in Los Angeles by this name.Spangler's mother told police that someone named Kirk had picked up Jean at her house twice,but he stayed in his car and did not come in.Spangler had once been involved with a person she called him scotty,who had beaten her,threatening to kill her if she broke the relationship off.but he lawyer said that she had not seen him since 1945.Friends of Spangler told the police that she was three months pregnant when she disappeared and that she had talked about having an abortion,which was illegal at that time.She is still listed as a missing person,and the Los Angeles police have not closed the case.

JEAN SPANGLER 

JEAN SPANGLER AND HER

DAUGHTER 

     

KASPER HAUSER

On May 26,1828 a boy appeared in the streets of Nuremberg,Germany.He carried a letter with him which was addressed to a captain of 6th cavalry regiment.The boy was given into his custody,as an infant,on the 7th October 1812,and that he had never let him'Take a single step out of my house.'Now the boy would like to be a cavalryman,thus the captain would take him in or hang him.Hauser claimed that he had,for as long as he could think back,spent his life always totally alone in a darkened 1.5 metre cell(little more than the size of a one person bed in area)with only a straw bed to sleep on and a horse carved out of wood for a toy.Hauser claimed that the first human being he ever had contact with had been a mysterious man who had been a mysterious man who had visited him not long before his release,always taking great care not to reveal his face to him.According to contemporary rumours-probably current as early as 1829-Kasper Hauser was the hereditary prince of Barden that was born on September 29,1812 and had died within a month.It was claimed that this prince had been switched with the dying baby,and receiving a stab wound to the chest which was possible self-inflicted .He claimed he had been stabbed by the man who had kept him as an infant.In 2002,the university of Munster analyzed hair and body cells from locks of hair and items of clothing that were alleged to belong to Kasper Hauser.The DNA samples were compared to a DNA segment of Astrid Von Medinger,a descendant in the female line of Stephanie De Beauharnais ,who would have been Kasper Hauser's mother if indeed he had been the hereditary prince of Barden.The sequences were not identical but the deviation observed is not larger enough to exclude a relationship,as it could be cause by mutation.

KASPER HAUSER 

 

BOY IN THE BOX

The 'Boy in the box' is a name given to an unidentified murder victim,approximately 4 to 6 years old,whose naked,battered body was found in a cardboard box in Philadelphia,on February 25,1957.The boy's body,wrapped in a plaid blanket,was inside a cardboard box that once contained a baby's bassinet from J.C.Penney.The body was first found by a young man checking his muskrat traps.Fearing that the police could confiscate his traps,he did not report the matter.A few days later,a college student spotted a rabbit running into the underbrush.Knowing there were animal traps in the area,he stopped his car to investigate and discovered the body.He was too reluctant to have any contact with the police,but did report his find the following day.The case attracted massive media attention in Philadelphia.The case remained unsolved to this days,and the boy's identity is still unknown.

ORIGINAL POSTER WITH WHICH

POLICE TRIED TO IDENTIFY THE BODY OF

THE YOUNG BOY

BOY IN THE BOX

    

ROBERT THE HAUNTED DOLL

Robert the doll was once owned by author Robert Eugene Otto.The doll is said to be possessed by evil spirits,and has a terrifying reputation.Eugene was given the doll in 1906 by a Bahamian servant who was skilled in voodoo and black magic and was displeased with the family.Soon afterward,it became so clear that there was something eerie about the doll.Eugene's parents often heard him talking to the doll and that the doll spoke back.Although at first they assumed that Eugene was simply answering himself in a changed voice,they came to have later realized that the doll was actually speaking.Neighbors claimed to have seen the doll moving from window to window when the family was out.Sometimes the doll would emit a terrifying giggle,and the Otto family caught glimpse of it running from room to room.In addition,guests claimed to have seen Robert's expression change before their eyes and he often blinked.When Eugene died in 1974,the doll was left in the attic until the house was bought again.Now a ten year old girl became new owner of the doll.It was not long before the girl became screaming out in the night,claiming that Robert moved about the room and even attempted to attack her on multiple occasions.The doll is annually rotated to the old post office and custom house in October.Strange activity in the museum supposedly increases during such time.

ROBERT THE HAUNTED DOLL