Crime Con 2022 Part 1

 

I watched 45 sessions of 2022 Crime Con since April 30. There were nine repeat speakers so I didn’t do those. If you’ve followed the posts, you’ve learned how to survive an active shooter, why a rape victim speaks out, the horrible crime of eight nurses murdered in the same house, the latest from John Ramsey, Dr. Cyril Wecht, the Vegas shooter, the missing orphans in Tuam, a stolen infant, profiling, manipulation and spying, exhumation, the Tylenol case and my ever favorite Dateline, etc.

JonBenet

Please sign the petition that asks the governor of Colorado to have the remaining DNA taken out of Boulder. We need a genealogical DNA test ASAP! John Ramsey just said "government moves based on public pressure." He said the killer is a "deranged, subhuman creature." He also wants child murder to be a federal offense.  It is selfish and unprofessional of the incompetent Boulder Police Department to hold on to this sample.

I was in the camp of the family did it for years. I no longer think so with their DNA cleared and their handwriting being a 5 no chance for John Ramsey and 4.5 no chance for Patsy. The Santa DNA was not a match and he was not strong. The number of his bonus, $118,000, in the ransom note would make him look dumb if he used it. The note also never mentioned JonBenet's name or used a cuss word, the Crime Con moderator said. To me, that shows distancing/someone who did know her. Perhaps someone was angry at Ramsey.

Four doctors found no prior sexual abuse on JonBenet. 

Yeah, brother Burke is weird. John said he finished college and is working as a software developer. He said they had to trick the media when they took him to school after the crime. A friend and their car was a decoy. It was called Burke Watch at school. People actually had automatic callers around their neck for if something happened. They feared for Burke.

John said whoever did it was evil and deranged and does not think the way we do. Detective Lou Smith had several hundred names in a spread sheet and thought it was a kidnap gone wrong.

Dateline

Keith Morrison recorded a Calm episode called Overnight Oats. He was asked what he liked for breakfast and said oatmeal. Josh Mankiewicz joked that if you think it's just oats, water and milk, there is a twist! He did the Dateline cast introduction and left Keith for last and pretended that was it. It was hilarious. Dateline is the longest prime time show at NBC. Dennis said he wants to know the story of the people and it can't be obvious who did it. Someone joked it's really a true-romance-gone-wrong show. Josh got one of his favorite stories from a newspaper left on an airplane seat. Andrea said as long as your spouse runs the tub for you, plans a hike together or asks you to go to the basement, the show will be around. Josh said the world would be a better place if everyone watched so they would know if they commit murder, they will be caught. They were asked how they started their careers. Josh had to pick up a suit for Sam Donaldson and was told by Sam it better be three pieces. He brought it back to him and he thanked Josh by name, which surprised him. Andrea was a Baywatch intern and later had to take a quiz to get a reporter job in Mississippi. She barely passed because she wasn't into politics. Keith's father was a minister and he interned some times, doing sermons and funerals. I didn't catch the rest. The one case Josh wishes would be solved is JFK. Me, too.

Stolen Baby

The story that tugged at my heart last year was missing DeOrr Kunz. This year, I want this woman to find her baby who was stolen at 5 days old. She doesn't even have a picture of him. He was taken by a "friend" she met in the hospital who came to her house as she was showering. From 1964 to 2021, there are 336 cases of infant abduction, that's under six months. Twelve are still believed to be out there. Donna wants to help everyone she can because "no one can help me." The profile of a baby stealer is female, 12-60, compulsive, a lifetime liar and probably lost a baby or can't have one.

He was born on 11/6/78 in Atlanta. She was 16.

An afterthought, how does the boy get in school, get a license, a possible passport, get the sacraments pretending he is Catholic, without a birth certificate. The thug may have written off for the birth certificate? Is there a record of a request? Is the Department of Vital Records in on it?

Find Daniel

I feel for Daniel's father who spoke last night. This is a very mysterious missing person case. Dad has moved from South Carolina to Arizona to find his son who was born with one hand, founded his fraternity and was a young geologist. I believe law enforcement could do more. His searching has found other bodies. Parts at the end of this story are weird--dope, the girl, ditching of clothes? FINDING ANY PART OF A MISSING PERSON IS IMPORTANT. EVERYONE NEEDS A DECENT BURIAL.

Terror in Vegas

A Vegas police sergeant who worked the Mandalay Bay sniper case just gave a scoop.  The dude had two rooms with a layout of guns. He broke both hotel windows. Because he did that a draft closed the door between them and he got locked out of the other room. Also, David Copperfield almost got killed that night. A car was trying to get through a closed off area and they tried to stop it. Just when he was about to shoot, the driver rolled down her window and he saw Copperfield in the back seat. The young cops didn't know who he was. The sergeant explained he made the Statue of Liberty disappear and he almost disappeared that night. The speaker is of the mind to not mention the killer. He said we should glorify the victims and medical teams and heroes. 869 people were injured, 422 were shot, 60 perished. Thirteen hospitals took the wounded. The gunshot sounds hitting the microphones made it even sound worse. The ones who escaped ended up at other venues and the airport where private planes were. They consumed the Pappy Van Winkle in one and the owner was not mad. In these venues, police dealt with victims who had brain matter on them and others who were drunk and wanted to go after the killer. He told the story of a couple, the guy a cop, whose girlfriend put his skull back on him and asked some cowboys to carry him out while she had been shot in the chest. He had a 1 percent chance of living and he made it!

The shooter wanted to blow up the gas tanks at the airport, but the good news was there was no oxygen in them. They were drained for evidence. The crime scene was 17.5 acres and there was 20,000 hours of video. Shooter had Google searches of summer concerts.

A story in People after the event featured a shot woman who ran into a cab that had three strangers in it. She was taken to the hospital and they have a bond to this day. They were at her bedside when she woke up. She has searched for the driver with no success. She's had 15 surgeries and gave up on getting pregnant after receiving fertility treatment beforehand. She still has a bullet lodged near her pelvis.

No Body, No Crime

Not so, said Matt Murphy, a wonderful prosecutor. He said in the past 120 years, 141 bodies are unidentified in Riverside County, Calif. His boss won 67 cases in a row.  What a beast! He said in no body cases, the jury sees the reflection of the victim's soul in the eyes of those who loved them. I loved that quote.

He spoke of a case where the whispers of a husband and wife at jail said no bodies, no clue.

"A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging."--Casino quote

Tuam

There was a mother and baby Home in Tuam, Ireland, under the care of a nursing order of sisters where 796 children died between 1925 and 1961. These human remains were found in a septic tank in 1971 when a boy fell into a pit. Unwed mothers were sent here and stayed and worked a year after the birth, done without a doctor or pain medicine, to serve somewhat as a penance. There are death certificates, but no burial records, with a cemetery almost adjacent. They were two days to two months old. Apparently it was an illegal adoption agency and some of them in the U.S. are talking about it after finding records from their parents who kept archives of making a contribution there. Excavation is supposed to occur.

Spying

Luke Bencie, a former CIA spy, has been to 141 of 195 countries. He has been mobbed, drugged, blackmailed, bribed and shot at. He said to always assume you are under surveillance. France did this on planes. They learn the balcony test. Every room is a snapshot. Grand Central Station may present a person in a coat on a hot day or someone tying his shoe that looks out of place. He uses the CARVER method. Criticality (single points of failure), Accessibility, Recoverability, Vulnerability (susceptibility and exposure), Effect (repercussion and scope and magnitude), Recognizability. These are racked and stacked in priority. Think Nataktomi Plaza. Pre-empting is better than responding. People spy for money, ideology, coercion or ego (MICE). They are motivated by reciprocity, authority, social proof, commitment, liking and scarcity. Needs, wants, wounds (passed over for something), access and money may be the things they desire. Elicitatation is most important; he taught it. He mentioned SCREAMPIGS. Smile, compliment, referral, exhibit, ask opinions, poll, gifts (a drink), schedule (try to get a followup). Tricks of the trade are let the subject be the star, let them take the lead, quote a fact, lightly disagree, use flattery sparingly, gossip to lighten the mood, share confidences and alcohol. Remember, “just” is a lie word. I’m “just” here to… He once put Cheerios under his chair pad to see if anyone sat at his desk.

SO HOW WOULD YOU GET ON ANY BALCONY TO PASS THAT TEST?

Tylenol

I haven’t had a Tylenol since 1982. Maybe never did before that either. Kind of an aspirin girl and even that is rare. Blessed. Candice DeLong, the FBI agent who worked the case in Chicago where Tylenol was laced with potassium cyanide and seven people died, spoke. No suspect has been charged or convicted of the poisonings. New York City resident James William Lewis was convicted of extortion for sending a letter (with a fingerprint on it) to Tylenol's manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson, that took responsibility for the deaths and demanded $1 million to stop them, but evidence tying Lewis to the actual poisoning never emerged. He wanted to communicate by ads in the Chicago Tribune and they included a bank number, which led to Steve McCahey, who was actually set up because the wife of Lewis once worked for McCahey’s travel agency which went bankrupt and she was shorted $50 until he resolved it. A Kansas FBI agent recalled Lewis was once arrested there and moved to Chicago. The case led them to New York City in search of Lewis and the FBI staked out every library because that is where he would be reading the Chicago Tribune. His description caught one agent’s attention. Now, this is some good police work. Mary, 12, of Elk Grove Village, Ill., was the first Tylenol death. She took Tylenol for flu symptoms and her death was thought to be an undiagnosed heart or brain disorder. Adam Janus of Arlington Heights died in a hospital later that day after ingesting Tylenol; his brother and sister-in-law also died after taking Tylenol from the same bottle, of course not knowing. Two paramedics who responded to these two calls happened to know each other and were discussing their day. Within a few days, three more were in the morgue and none of these seven had connections. Warnings were then issued through the media.

Lewis apparently drilled holes in a bread board with a cake knife in committing the crime. The tainted capsules were found to have been manufactured at two different locations – Pennsylvania and Texas – suggesting that they were tampered with after the product had been placed on store shelves for sale. A nationwide recall of Tylenol products was issued; an estimated 31 million bottles were in circulation, with a retail value of over $100 million. Fifty FBI agents and 50 state police worked 5,000 leads. The crime was considered the same as placing a bomb and walking away. A profile indicated poison would be used by women under age 75--broad. Numerous psychics called in saying the person who did it was by a fence or water. Lewis was sentenced to 10 years in prison. During the trial, attorneys claimed that he intended only to focus the attention of the authorities on his wife's former employer.  He thought he was righting a wrong.

In 2011, the FBI requested DNA samples from "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski in connection to the Tylenol murders. Kaczynski denied having ever possessed potassium cyanide. The first four Unabomber crimes happened in Chicago and its suburbs from 1978 to 1980, and Kaczynski's parents had a suburban Chicago home in Lombard, Illinois, in 1982, where he stayed occasionally. DeLong also got to work on that case. They called him Unabeast, she said.

From my research: While at the time of the scare the company's market share collapsed from 35 percent to 8 percent, it rebounded in less than a year, a move credited to the company's prompt and aggressive reaction. In November, it reintroduced capsules in a new, triple-sealed package, coupled with heavy price promotions and within several years, Tylenol had regained the highest market share for the over-the-counter analgesic in the US. The 1982 incident inspired the pharmaceutical, food and consumer product industries to develop tamper-resistant packaging. Product tampering was made a federal crime.  The incident prompted the pharmaceutical industry to move away from capsules, which were easy to contaminate as a foreign substance could be placed inside without obvious signs of tampering. This led to the eventual replacement of the capsule with the solid “caplet.”

DeLong also got to work on a kidnapping case where the little boy turned around as he was being passed off to his parents and said, “Thanks for saving me, agent Candy.”

Rape Victim Advocacy

I listened to Kimberly Corban speak with Steve Wilkos. She was raped while in college. She asked the audience to pair up and tell your last sexual experience, then said STOP. That's what a rape victim has to do...on the stand. Her testimony was three hours...in front of her attacker. But she did it to get him convicted and speaks about it so others can learn to show compassion for victims. She said if someone shares such a story with you, believe her. She said initially her mother had to be next to her in the shower because she was scared to close her eyes while rinsing her hair.

Killer Relationships

Red Flags in a relationship: He is leading a funeral service for Kobe Bryant in the gym hall and he is not a funeral director. If you complain about him to law enforcement, he tells people you are a whistleblower. You are sleeping with a knife under your pillow. People lie, but patterns don't. Don't fall for someone saying he will treat you differently than the ex.  #SisDontSettle is the book of the speaker who gave this talk. Also, make sure your Alexa works to call 911.

Profiling

I listened to Crime Con’s Killer Psyche and got to create a profile of a killer. Come to find out, it was for a horrific crime in Chicago in 1966, killing eight nurses, ages 18-22, in one house over five hours. A neighbor woke up in the middle of the night to a woman on a ledge, yelling, “They’re all dead.” One was naked on the couch with a ligature. Four more had their hands bound in a bedroom. He put a gun (stolen) on them and made them tie their own sheets. Three more, the same in another bedroom. Some were Filipino. Some were stabbed. Only one was raped. One’s face was covered. This can mean caring. Seasoned police walked out vomiting as did a crime reporter. The one on the ledge hid under a bed for two hours; he must have lost count and forgotten her. She got his description: white male, 6-feet tall, blonde hair, potmarked face, talked Southern and had a tat that said Born To Raise Hell. He liked to tell people at a bar he was in Vietnam, but he wasn’t. We were tasked with profiling the gender, age, employment, education, dress, whether loner, leader or follower, where he lived—own or rent or drift, sexual history/marriage, and motive. I believed he was a slob, not a neat freak. Yet he was organized because he brought his own weapon. Someone guessed that he was a butcher. Turns out he dropped out of school at 15, married at 16 for a year, and had a child. His father died when he was young and his mother remarried to get help raising five kids. The stepdad was abusive. It led to dude hating his mother, which led to hating women. He started drinking and doing drugs. They discussed the Madonna-Whore complex, the tendency of some men to categorize women as either pious and valuable or as overly sexual, easy to bed and “worthless whores.” He got arrested 41 times in Dallas for burglary and forgery and came back to Chicago when he thought he might be caught again. He sofa hopped between sisters. Eventually at a fleabag hotel, he cut his arm in a suicide attempt. A wise surgical resident at Cook County Hospital had been reading the newspaper and saw about the tat and description and gave him a sedative. So, he was a drifter. He got eight consecutive life sentences of 100 years. Other profile questions are: did he cooperate or deny? Have a dog? Which kind shows something, whether Chihuahua or Doberman or Rottweiler. Does he have a vehicle? I said no. Is he shy or good or braggadocios? Is he slow or smart?

Active Shooters

An FBI agent who ran the first active shooter program gave fact and fiction on shooters. Male is fact. Age 18-25 is fiction. Average age is 35. Forty-four percent are working, so not necessarily jobless. Loner is fiction. Most do interact. At Aurora, 18 were placed in a police vehicle and survived. Protocol for not waiting for an ambulance changed after that movie theater shooting. While many shootings may seem to take place in Colorado (Columbine, Boulder), they occur in every state. She said 70 percent of the shootings end in five minutes.  35 percent in two minutes. If the business is closed to the public, the shooter is already inside. They will take place where there is pedestrian traffic.  The cadence is run, hide, fight. Defend yourself if you can. Most don’t really snap, they planned and prepared it. They likely suffered personal losses. Thirty to 40 percent intend to commit suicide. They give away things. Look for this. They are not people already getting mental health care.

In the weekend church shooting, churchgoers detained the gunman by using an extension cord to hogtie him and confiscate the weapons. True heroes.

Dr. Cyril Wecht

Dr. Cyril Wecht, now 91, said to make sure your library has purchased the 27 volumes of the Warren Commission. He spent $75 on his. It should be alongside Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He called the Warren Commission Report “cockamamie bullshit.” He wants to know the evidentiary burden if you believe it.

I did not know Adlai Stevenson was spat upon in Dallas two weeks before Kennedy was shot nor that some Dallas school kids applauded when they learned he was assassinated.

One particular bullet was central to the case against Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone assassin of President Kennedy. This bullet, which was referred to in the Warren Report as Commission Exhibit 399, is supposed to have entered Kennedy’s upper back, passed through his upper back and lower neck, come out of his throat just below the Adam’s apple, entered Gov. John Connally’s back close to his right armpit, passed through his body, smashing several inches of one rib, come out of the right side of his chest, passed through his right wrist, breaking the radius bone, embedded itself in his left thigh, and finally, while Connally was on a stretcher in Parkland Hospital, the bullet worked its way out of his thigh and fell onto the stretcher, where it was discovered by a hospital employee. Bullets move in a straight line, not do the hokey pokey (my words). When a bullet strikes bone, it gets deformed. His words. Bullets of the same type as CE 399 were fired into the wrist bones of ten human cadavers. All ten bullets were severely deformed, unlike CE 399. One bullet was fired into a goat’s rib and was flattened substantially more than CE 399.  Studies must include the angle, range, sequence, trajectory and weight of the bullet.

(The W.C. bullet pictured on my Facebook should not be pristine!)

I do not know as much about the RFK assassination. Wecht said RFK was shot from one to 1.5 inches away from his head. Sirhan’s gun spent eight bullets, yet there were 13 shots. Was there a second shooter? Mrs. Sirhan wanted Wecht as his attorney; he said was tempted because he is a lawyer also, but he is not a trial lawyer.

On Mary Jo Kopechne— body in a pond in a car--no autopsy was done. Her mother later regretted there was no exhumation. She didn’t want it to found out that she might not be a virgin or was pregnant.

Wecht was involved in the Elvis Presley, Waco and O.J. Simpson cases. He has done 21,000 autopsies and supervised 42,000.

Gabby Petito

Haven’t heard the name Gabby Petito since loser’s body was found. There was a power of control wheel mentioned in the domestic abuse session of Crime Con. Her parents amended their lawsuit against the Laundries that will be precedent setting. There is no tattletale law, but weren’t they aiding and abetting or do they have the right to remain silent? 

Gabby first told the Utah police she had an injury from her backpack. They have a lot of discretion. One of them did not want to arrest her because he didn't want her to have a criminal charge on her record. One of the panelists said trauma changes your brain. Domestic violence victims practice fight, flight or fawn to placate their survival. Sometimes they stay because they want to help that person. Sometimes they want to gain equality with them.

J.J. Vallow Grandparents

The Woodcocks, grandparents of J.J. Vallow, equals crushing story. His birth name was Canaan. They are from Lake Charles. Chad is up for the death penalty. They hope Lori is, too.  They said she has always played the system. They have 16 grandkids and some greats. And for Lori texting Kay that her brother died is insane. Texted. Chad and Lori are nothing but freaks.