Monday, September 28, 2026

Crime Con 2026




Shared with Your friends High-Profile Juries. They had one juror from the trials of Kouri Richins and Lori Vallow Daybell. You can see why they may have PTSD. The Daybell juror was most affected and got therapy. They both felt punches in the gut. The Richins jury in Utah went around the table before voting to see what affected each of them. They asked for a lot of paper evidence. It only took three hours to convict. This foreman had three notebooks. Drones followed the jurors to and from their cars parked behind wires. Richins never cried. The juror went straight to bed when she got home. The judge came in after it was over and allowed them to ask any questions they wanted. A private detective texted the juror’s husband after the case, but they did not want to talk to him. People from Detroit to Norway heard of the case. It turns out she and Richins had the same hairdresser. Some of the family members of Richins created a fake online profile on a gay dating site of the lead investigator. On Daybell, the juror first thought she was one of the attorneys; she knew no details, amazingly. That verdict took 1.5 days. The trial took six weeks. Daybell tried to get to leave when the autopsy pics were passed, but the judge denied. The juror wondered what monster could kill her own kids. Daybell doodled and laughed during the trial. She flirted with attorneys. The jury passed time with card games because they couldn’t speak about it. She spent six months in a brain fog afterwards and sought EMDR treatment. She made friends with the bailiffs and asked them what professional she should see, but they were not allowed to participate. Six sessions were paid for. I never thought about this, but can see why. She said she would have died for her kids and that Daybell was full of it and lived on another planet and loved the attention. She did go to her following Arizona trial for a few days. She still has triggers.
1) High-Profile Juries. They had one juror from the trials of Kouri Richins and Lori Vallow Daybell. You can see why they may have PTSD. The Daybell juror was most affected and got therapy. They both felt punches in the gut. The Richins jury in Utah went around the table before voting to see what affected each of them. They asked for a lot of paper evidence. It only took three hours to convict. This foreman had three notebooks. Drones followed the jurors to and from their cars parked behind wires. Richins never cried. The juror went straight to bed when she got home. The judge came in after it was over and allowed them to ask any questions they wanted. A private detective texted the juror’s husband after the case, but they did not want to talk to him. People from Detroit to Norway heard of the case. It turns out she and Richins had the same hairdresser. Some of the family members of Richins created a fake online profile on a gay dating site of the lead investigator. On Daybell, the juror first thought she was one of the attorneys; she knew no details, amazingly. That verdict took 1.5 days. The trial took six weeks. Daybell tried to get to leave when the autopsy pics were passed, but the judge denied. The juror wondered what monster could kill her own kids. Daybell doodled and laughed during the trial. She flirted with attorneys. The jury passed time with card games because they couldn’t speak about it. She spent six months in a brain fog afterwards and sought EMDR treatment. She made friends with the bailiffs and asked them what professional she should see, but they were not allowed to participate. Six sessions were paid for. I never thought about this, but can see why. She said she would have died for her kids and that Daybell was full of it and lived on another planet and loved the attention. She did go to her following Arizona trial for a few days. She still has triggers.
2) No Body Murders. Tad DiBiase was a federal homicide prosecutor in Washington, D.C. He started a book called “I Don’t See Dead People.” There have been 630 such trials since the 1830s. The conviction rate is 87 percent. 58 percent of the victims are female. 91 percent of defendants are male. 52 percent are domestic-related. Treat your missing case like a homicide. Check bank accounts. The body, of course, will give cause of death, time of death and clues to where it happened. The kidnapper/murderer is obviously miles ahead of you in the marathon. It’s like concentric rings of discovery. Some ways of disposal are water (most common), burial, dumpsters, even thrown out of planes. Burned in their own furnace, fed to pigs, boiled. Dismembering likely occurs at the site because it may be hard to get the body out unseen. Pull the drains! Go to cleaning supply stores and ask about overbuyers on tape.
3) Gabby Petito’s mom interviewed a lady trying to solve her mother’s case. She believes her husband did it, but there has been no arrest. She even made 3-D models herself. The mother had abrasions, all toes were broken and there was a brain bleed, yet death cause is undetermined.
4) Nancy Grace discussed Nancy Guthrie, but not much was new. She did not come out of the back door and probably was so ill that she passed and thwarted whatever plan the two, yes two, porch people had in mind. Grace said Petito was identified only by her sweatshirt due to decomposure and bone scattering.
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A former CIA guy taught us how to escape from duct tape—it’s cheap, easy to do and fast for someone to put on you. If your hands are tied, put them high, then with elbows out, forcibly thrust down hard. If around your chest, lean down like you are going to barf hard. If on your feet, shape into a V and do the no place like home and drop quickly. He spoke of running SDRs, surveillance detection routes, if you think you are being followed. Don’t go home. Make plenty of safe parked stops. Check behind you. His wife did this in a store until she found security. She went from lumber, to garden, to dryers. Also, always pay in cash.
K-9s have noses 300 to 500 times stronger than ours. A lady runs a company to get them to law enforcement after being kidnapped, raped and left for dead in the middle of the road and asking if dogs would go get the bad guy. They said they didn’t have the money for dogs. Some try to raise money with carwashes and bake sales, but that would take forever. They were brought to Camp Mystic and found a shoe and stuffed animal when cars were in trees. She turned her wound into something workable.
A girl was 14 when she was sexualized on a nudify app. The person who did it got one day of suspension. She was told there were no laws. Now after being an advocate, she tells perpetrators, “Your home is jail.”
Scott Duffey, former FBI, talked about how to interview. I liked him immediately because “Time for a Cool Change” was his background song. He prepares, engages, listens, faces them, gestures. It’s about rapport and being an extrovert. This can work with your neighbor, on a date or in a job interview. He tells them he has made bad decisions, too. He says he can play dumb or butter them up. He asks what name they want to go by and smiles because he doesn’t feel like they have seen happiness. He called it like a mini production. He said scammers are tough to talk to. He tries to befriend, develop trust and bond because they likely have not experienced love. He wants to see the crime video. He knew he wanted to be in law enforcement interviewer at 5 when he encountered his first lie by his mother who told him his father was asleep in the coffin when he touched his face when he was really dead. Prior to the FBI, Duffey spent 5.5 years in the seminary when he could not get in the Connecticut State Police and their chaplain spoke with him.
Another good day for Crime Con videos.
The parents of Kaylee Goncalves and a victim advocate I have heard before discussed ethics. They want to be treated with dignity and respect, but sometimes social media takes after them. It hurts them when their child is in the Idaho 5 for people who take up for BK. It’s the Idaho 4. Weird people get entertainment from this. The parents want to be kept abreast. Victim relatives of Jeffrey Dahmer, for instance, were not told of the documentary. It seems nothing is sacred in the Idaho crime. They don’t even have their daughter’s phone back, yet media want to file Freedom of Information acts to get a hold of what’s in it. The mom was able to at first because she shared an account. The parents are unwilling participants in this crime. There is now a law in Idaho to prevent pictures from death investigations going public. Andy Kahan investigates murderabilia and mentioned serial killer coloring books, trading cards and snow globes. Etsy had an Idaho 4 puzzle. There are recorded screams from crimes and fingernail clippings. Kahan told that seller he was giving them to a Haitian voodoo priest and the sales stopped. There is a Dahmer doll that says open me up for sheer delight to see what I ate last night. Speakeasies have themed killer cocktails and a true crime and dine will have a serial killer call in. You can have an executed killer’s last meal. Remember, there is no timeline for trauma was the message.
In a Hide and Seek podcast, the subject is a missing girl who had four children that she let get adopted, ages 10 to 13 now. She supposedly was changing her life, but had an accident with someone in the car with someone she called her boyfriend when she left her grandmother’s house. But it was her boyfriend’s car and he was at the home they shared. She has not been seen since 2018. On the night of the accident, she rang the bell of an elderly man who said she had no shoes and was bleeding. He gave her a coat, but she disappeared.
Detective Ed Nordskog, a renowned arson investigator and profiler (one of five in the world) solved 52 arson fires in Hollywood in four days. He is the first to write a book about serial arsonists, solving 60 serial cases and working on 2,100. The cases he discussed were in parked cars under apartments or underground parking garages where the criminal used a miniature fire starter log with a chemical booster on top under the front bumper while they were sleeping. There were no injuries; people jumped out of windows. Property losses were in the hundreds of millions. He dressed in black and acted like he was delivering food. His mother caused this, the detective said. She was a prostitute and gave massages. They were German nationalists from Russia and went to Canada and then here after being busted for getting fake boobs with fake money. You can’t make this up. She faked a heart attack and busted out. She then scammed. In a courthouse here with the mom, the son said the place needed to be burned up. She would pose as a new apartment manager and offer cash discounts, then flee. They got prints from a failed attempt; arsonists don’t wear gloves because they expect everything to burn. They got 700 tips by the second night. Yes, they looked for weird, suspicious people, but in Hollywood, everyone is, he said. There are 50 investigative agencies in L.A. that don’t get along. At one meeting where he thought there would be a handful of law enforcement, 200 showed up with a preacher and Congressman and councilman. A lot was staged for the media, such as for show using a K9 that cost the city a lot of money. Asking to “please turn yourself in doesn’t work.” His investigative team walked out. The detective said he kept information close to a few people because it would get sold to TMZ. Criminal dude ate 15 to 18 donuts a day; he was obsessive-compulsive. He only stopped because he ran out of materials. A Ring camera caught his vehicle and he lived across the street from a place that sold the logs and hand torches that he bought on debit. Arson is personal and the first fire was somewhere he once lived. Newspapers with arsons he committed in Germany were in his trash as were the log boxes. Royal Canadian Mounted Police and psychologists were consulted as were German law enforcement on how to interrogate him. Real firefighters from other places in disguise wanted to help solve it. He said fire chiefs do not understand arson. Crimes are solved by canvassing, Nordskog said.
Even the Paul Mauro panel didn’t have much more on Nancy Guthrie, just like Nancy Grace. He said a call was placed to an elderly care group that makes welfare checks, but they don’t work on Sunday. A business card was in the door soon after, probably stepping on blood. He said law enforcement usually stands united at a news conference, but there was an air gap where he asked about who was in charge of the DNA. The local FBI answered that the sheriff had jurisdiction. Mauro said it should have gone to Quantico, the crime lab capital of the world, instead of Florida. He talked about the pulled camera possibly still working by battery in the getaway car and maybe capturing voice or an accent. Mrs. Guthrie did not pay for the cloud. He does believe they checked people recently released from jail and those who committed similar crimes. Mauro said there are so many hanging chads. These kidnappers are either lucky or it was well planned. The video shows a male due to body language and a male’s ability to move the body. If looking down, those in that area usually do because of snakes. His stay in Arizona was from boredom to panic. They ate and slept when they could. To use the restroom, he presented NYPD patches at the sheriff’s office. I did not know there was a kidnapping in Vegas in 1994 of Steve Wynn’s daughter, Kevyn, from her home. Her dad paid the $1.45 million ransom. She was found alive, tied up in a car near the airport. One of the goofballs went to buy a Ferrari with cash. Frank Sinatra Jr. was also kidnapped. Picture.
There are 5,000 to 6,000 cults worldwide. A mother spoke of her missing daughter and granddaughter, 2, and others from St. Louis three years ago. She was supposedly in the Cosmic Cult. They have subscribers on social media. She moved out, telling her mother she was on a spiritual journey. She gave her mother T-shirts for Christmas, unusual. One with a candle and one with a crystal. She worked remotely, but hadn’t logged in in a week. The other two missing who moved in with her did psychic readings and classes. The man may have been the No. 2 guy in the cult who has to prove his allegiance. The house was not in disarray. They had moon water with coins in it above their house number. An audience member said people in the South do this to keep flies and bees away. The man was called Eye Am. The missing woman wrote Eye Am this, that and the other on the mirror. Like Eye Am meditating. Separation is a natural component of coercive behavior (leaving your old life behind), said the presenter, adding that cults don’t want dumb people. Most victims are recovered. There are either abductions by family, stranger or endangered runaway.
Joseph Scott Morgan spoke with the Othram owner about a body in the freezer for a year that got identified while moderately decomposed, giving his older siblings an answer after 40 years. He said eyes deceive in identifications sometimes because they want to leave the room. Othram says molars are the best spot to obtain DNA, as well as the petrous bones in the skull. This guy had no teeth, so Morgan sent Othram two of the petrous bones. Some skeletons are kept in boxes, and that is not good, said Morgan who travels a lot. There are 15,000 unidentified remains and that is underestimated. Not all states report bodies, Morgan said. Shame on Louisiana for being one of those. This is non-partisan! Picture. They briefly mentioned Septic Tank Sam, who was happened upon and identified after being in a septic tank for 44 years through genetic DNA.
Dr. Casey Jordan discussed female serial killers. Members of the audience could go on and on listing male killers. Females kill for material gain. They usually use poison. Men kill for power, thrill, hedonistic reasons and from being transient. One thought his blood was turning to dust and he needed to replenish it, which he did by putting pets in a blender to make puppy shakes, thinking he was a vampire, obviously mentally ill. Women could be “angels of death.” Vulnerable people are subjects—children, elderly, homeless and the infirm. Some kill to please a partner. Andrea Yates is a mass murderer because she drowned all her kids at the same time in an outburst.
The Ohio dentist murder of that handsome couple. Her ex who was arrested was at the house on Dec. 6 while they were at an Ohio-Indiana football game, it was discovered. She left the game to go back to the hotel, saying it had to do with her ex. They had been divorced for 10 years and had no kids. She was married to the dentist for seven. There is still question as to how he got in. There are numerous cameras all up and down the street and in back of the houses. The ex, a vascular surgeon, was named in a lawsuit six months before he did this and they couldn’t find him to serve him.
On Aug. 6, be sure to watch the Discovery Channel for a documentary on the three dudes who escaped Alcatraz in 1962. They were presumed drowned, but a nephew of two says otherwise. They had a homemade raft inflated with a concertina and wet suits, practiced acclimating to cold water with wet towels every night and learned about tide tables. The brothers had cells next to each other. The band played while they drilled the walls and they had dummy heads in their beds when they were down the way. Nephew said they were flown to South America. There is a heavily sourced book about this. The uncles married and had kids, but the kids have not been contacted. They supposedly lived to 2011 and 2016 and it is said that they sent flowers to their mom every Mother’s Day and attended her funeral dressed as unusual women in heavy makeup. It’s a small prison of 250. Whitey Bolger was there. The U.S. Marshal Service has three warrants out, but the nephew is asking President Trump to close this case and have their items returned. The third brother served time in an Alabama prison and died there. There is a museum there in Columbia.
Josh Mankiewicz spoke about how he never thought a crime show would work. He said, “Clearly, do not ask me for ideas.” When asked what he would change, he said he would have worked for Dateline sooner.
Didn't get much of out of 20/20 presentation. Recapped shows. Did not know Erin Moriarty was a twin.
Scott Peterson’s attorney has new evidence. Gag. This case was 24 years ago in December, one of the most famous in the U.S. There will be a show on A&E on July 16-17. People say they saw Laci after the time of death. There is no DNA on the boat. Mark Geragos sleeps fine, but what keeps him up is thinking Scott is innocent. When he thought about taking the case, he thought if he won he would be deemed a loser and if he lost a loser. Bomb threats went to his house; his website crashed. He represented Michael Jackson prior. A man or monster sign in a van circled the courthouse. He divided potential jurors into three bins at his hotel: crazies, follow up with, lying way into the panel. A J.D./M.D was foreman. They were not sequestered except for in deliberation. One juror felt threatened by another juror. Geragos is saying there is no direct evidence or it was hidden and leads were not pursued. He called it a demeanor case with junk science. I’m wondering how you reverse a case when you used what you had at the time.
They want Alex Murdaugh to wear a suit, it was just said on the news. I listened to his housekeeper. She was in the Navy. She and her husband got to decide between Texas and South Carolina at some point. She was a translator for Alex’s clients and a good friend to Maggie, taking care of the house. Toward the time of the murders, she said Alex was sleeping in more, ran late for work and was not focused. The property had a hangar, gas pumps, skinning shed and barn. Blanca said she turned off the radio the day of the murders because she did not want to remember that. She got the house ready for Maggie’s parents. She found it unusual that pots were missing off the stove and Maggie’s pajamas were in the middle of the doorway--flat--like someone placed them there. She said a rookie came to the house. She said Paul would stop on the side of the road to help someone or give the shirt off of his back. In Alex’s truck she noticed a towel from the laundry room, which she called her office. She said she felt like part of the family and sat in on the funeral arrangements with Maggie’s mother. She said Maggie had a sorority girl laugh. Blanca has been to therapy, wants the media to give Buster a break though they do not keep in touch. She wrote Alex a letter, saying she felt betrayed and angry. She has written a New York Times bestseller.
The Yogurt Shop evidence was not that great due to firemen putting out the fire. Matt Murphy talked about compassionate release in California at age 50. The wrongly accused who confessed got a $35 million settlement. This was called a uniquely disturbing caseStalking is emotional terrorism. This was a panel who has been there. One wanted to impregnate her 6-year-old daughter. 13.5 million are stalked every year in the U.S. 86 percent of women murdered were stalked first. It should not be minimized. Someone called it a non-crime crime because little can be done until something happens. One who got caught was a nurse in memory care. Those people are not going to remember what that guy did.
A girl did not know she was missing since age 3. She is now 48. Her mother pretended she had a job in a different state and took her with a rich guy twice her age who had money. She now has two names and an identity crisis. Her birthday is six months from what she thought. The mom told her the records were burned in a fire. The person was finally caught in a Crime Stoppers tip by facial recognition. In investigating herself, she kept a binder and is now reading it backwards. She has now met her real dad and his 13 siblings. She always wanted a big family. They really didn’t want the mom to get jail time, just to show compassion. She did not apologize. The dad got a new heart one year and his daughter the next. The dad’s family auctioned a dollhouse to raise funds for his search. Eventually the person who got the house gave it back when the whole story was revealed.
A rape victim now advocates. The dude had a son and a wife. It happened in Arizona and she moved to California. When he was caught, he was living on 41st Street and she was on 40th unbeknownst. Some who give the rape kits are not trained and some have inherent training. She decided to testify when she realized she was going to have a daughter. Her legs felt stuck in cement walking to the stand. His family was at the trial. She was hoping to not humanize him, but they were on her side. His sister became a detective. Some states take DNA for every felony arrest and some don’t. That led to catching hers. She said some states take draped mug shots now to show no bias—clothing, tats, jewelry. She said people can speak from the wound or the scar. She is in front of it now. She said the goddess of the healing process, Aceso, helped her.
Cognitive control is ongoing domination through intimidation, isolation, regulation and deprivation of liberty. Control in politics like Kim Jung-Un wants you to focus on him. A person’s patriotism should never be undervalued. You don’t want this weaponized through fear, division, loyalty, tests and false promises. Employee exploitation. Ambition should never be abused. Shifting people’s trust away from independent thinking and onto company or the person at the top. Love can be weaponized as are things sacred to others. This kind of control is not loyalty. It’s forced compliance. Like undue influence for will signing under the guise of protection. Social influence manipulation--they push the vulnerable into compliance. The Bite model is behavior, information (filtering what people see, hear, question and trust), thought (coercive groups train people to replace independent thought with approved thought) and emotional (fear, guilt, shame and loyalty are used to keep people compliant and afraid to question or leave). He does this talk all for Ian Wing, 3 months old, who died after 29 rib fractures, two broken arms and being squeezed to death like ferrets in the household were.
I really should have taken CJ101. Crime Con videos are done!
Camp Swamp Road 9/9/23 about Stand Your Ground. Her audio reporting was a Pulitzer finalist. Scott Spivey was shot in the back at a high rate of speed, 115. The street was family-owned land since the Civil War. 29 shots were fired between the two. The shooter is free, but the victim’s sister has his phone recordings and cover ups for the civil case. The officer told the shooter to act like a victim. The police said they had the right people coming. Not self defense. 28 pieces of music were created for the podcast. His body was hauled in a tow truck due to rain? The coroner is supposed to transport the body. Passenger granted immunity. It was two miles from North Carolina where laws are different.
Matt Murphy: You don’t get any more guilty than Scott Peterson. And the Menendez brothers killed for money. Jail phones deserve a medal. You leave your cell in the car at a parole hearing. Shoelaces are taken away in jail. He talked about Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog. The series is built around the idea that both Ralph and Sam are just doing their jobs. Most of the cartoons begin at the beginning of the workday, in which they both arrive at a sheep-grazing meadow, exchange pleasant chitchat and punch into the same time clock. Work having officially begun, Ralph repeatedly tries very hard to abduct the helpless sheep and invariably fails, either through his own ineptitude or the minimal efforts of Sam (he is frequently seen sleeping), who always brutally punishes Ralph for the attempt. At the end-of-the-day, Ralph and Sam punch out their time cards, again chat amiably, and leave, presumably only to come back the next day and do it all again.
Why and how gives you the who. A worker can get the layout of your house. If you are single, leave male stuff around, Distance and lighting come into play in IDs.
Where were you on the 5th? John Kenda worked on 387 cases and solved 356 for 92 percent. Always look at the mantel. Is there a dust mark? Is something missing? He has five recurring nightmares and is sleep divorced. He has seen death by every means except nuclear and some where you don’t know the sex. He gave bad news himself and had all types of reactions: assault, silence, laughter and tears. The first thing to do at the scene is stop the circus. Find out who is not there that’s supposed to be. Who didn’t show up at work that day? Go detect! He pictures people covered in touch buttons. Guilty people must lie because innocent ones don’t. He gets the story and asks them to repeat it and it is different if they did it. His wife had a threatening caller who knew the carpet color and called 911. She heard rattling at the window of a bedroom. She went out the front door and said: Come out or I’ll shoot you while in a peignoir. It was the cop sent to investigate who should have notified her he was checking the windows. Joe pulled up and told her what she had on and he never saw it again.
Behavior Panel. We have social needs-- smart and safe needs. You must resonate in the interview with the right need. There is overkill—necrophilia and cannibalism. Some serial killers learn from childhood to be shocking and unpredictable to stay safe. Some care what people think. Being crazy is your own protection if you are not in a group.
There was no John Ramsey this year. Random: you could wear double-sided duct tape on your shoes to catch hair of an intruder. Spit on the ground. By 18, an average American child has witnessed roughly 40,000 simulated murders on TV and media.
And a little JFK now that CC is over. Lee Oswald would have had to be driven to get to where Officer Tippet was in the time frame that was given. One man’s research is different from the FBI’s. Tippet had a pregnant mistress. Did they look into that? Empty casings don’t match up with some in his body. There were supposedly four shots.

Saturday, January 3, 2026

Crime Con 2025

 My heart aches for John Ramsey. I want to give him a huge hug. He spoke and met with authorities up there while in Denver. Stupid Boulder still won't release the DNA. He said they can afford to issue a picogram (one trillionth of a gram) to some place like Othram. Back in the day, it took a dime size. He offered to raise a million dollars to pay for the test and was still told no. To me this indicates it's an inside job in the police or DA office. His attorney of 28 years was with him. A new team is on the case, but the Colorado Investigative Bureau is not known for speed.

An FBI profiler said the murderer is either angry or jealous of Ramsey or it was a kidnapping gone wrong. A retired detective said someone wanted ransom, is male, sadistic and psychopathic. Whoever is "pure, demonic, evil." Ramsey said he didn't know anyone in his company or in his life who approached that kind of evil. He believes there is a 70 percent chance of solving with DNA examination. But Boulder says they need to keep some for the future defense attorney. Ramsey said that is an obsolete reason because of new technology. He has never ever gone back to the Boulder house. Just can't.

One thousand children are murdered every year. There are 18,000 police jurisdictions. The chief is on an island. The Boulder one didn't want help. Ramsey was worried that Moscow, Idaho, could be a Boulder, but that chief used the FBI and state police. Boulder was just plain negligent.

He said he met Elizabeth Smart's father and asked how he could go on when she was missing for months Jon Benet was missing for six hours. Smart had a gut feeling she was alive.

Ramsey said leads were a nuisance to Boulder police. He said leads on a phone today are primitive.  His attorney believes there is DNA on the garrote. There were splinters on Jon Benet and in Jon Benet. They are both more hopeful than they have ever been on finding the killer. The moderator who is a friend and author said she knows many things, like two cops in a meeting saying they knew it was the parents. It kind of stuck on them. Until it didn't. They were not given a subpoena for the grand jury though they volunteered. They would have had to be shown all statements made about them. Was that why--something made up/fake news? If I was a grand juror, I'd be outraged, it was said. Ramsey said they have nothing to hide. They are innocent. The police even wanted to withhold Jon Benet's body, but she did manage to get released for her funeral. The media didn't seem to report anything favorable toward the Ramseys.

There is a petition for Colorado to adopt a version of the federal Homicide Victims' Families' Rights Act so loved ones can request a review using today's investigative tools. The last petition to the governor for a cold case review and new eyes got 55,000 signatures when Ramsey was hoping for 500. The Ramsey family has been slandered and mistreated for 29 years. IT IS TIME FOR JUSTICE. As Ramsey said, there has been “monstrous untruth of them.”

Aurora

Two Aurora retired police officers go around the world talking about what went wrong and right at the theater shooting. The killer had the guns legally and 3,000 rounds of ammo. Twelve were killed (one as young as 6). Police officers took 27 victims to hospitals themselves. The loser scouted sites and picked the theater for the maximum kill rate. It was a midnight movie with 350 people in theater 9. 1,100 people were in the entire building. Remember when you see a movie and spot someone on the front row seat near an exit, it could be suspicious. Leave. He put a clip on the door. He had satin sheets on his bed, so the policeman said you know he is weird.

911 couldn't hear the address because of all the shots. The first call alone had 37 rounds. They now train to know those sounds. Some moviegoers thought it was part of theatrics. The next call was from a 16-year-old employee who knew the address. 126 Aurora officers were sent and they needed more from Denver. Aurora is usually used for backup. The first arrival was in 2 minutes and 42 seconds, considered quick. Lanes were down from 6 to 2 due to construction. One off-duty officer had a key to the building from having worked there.

Complicating the matter was they didn't know if the one guy acted alone. He was spotted because he didn't have a police-type gas mask and he placed his gun on top of his car. Police don't do that. He wanted to live--even carried tourniquets. They train that if there is 1, there is 2. If there are 2, there are 3, and so on.

The movie kept playing because employees ran out. It was dark, there was gas; there was death all around.

Police don't go out and hurt people; they save lives. One made four separate trips to the hospital with six critically ill. In 49 minutes, all were evacuated out of the theater. One hospital was on diversion, but still managed to care for every patient. 76 rounds were fired inside. A lady in an adjoining theater took a shot to the face.

All with surviving type wounds lived. One even had organs falling out. There were 70 non-fatal injuries. 20 taken by ambulance, 12 by private vehicle and one who walked.

A photo showed the lines of bullets. You can see he aimed at those escaping. He had target practice sheets in his dumpster.

People with badges and stethoscopes are heroes.

Marcia Clark

Marcia Clark's first time at Crime Con. To discuss her book "Trial by Ambush" about the Barbara Graham trial. This was made into a movie called "I Want to Live" with Susan Hayward, who won best actress. The crime took place in 1953 and is very complicated to me. She had been poor and neglected. Her mom kept throwing her out and she made money by being a dice girl and shill. The victim was believed to have some of her son-in-law's money, but it was not found. She was living in the former home. She did have money and jewelry in her purse. She and her husband had been vaudeville skaters and champs. The verdict took two days for all on trial and they got the death penalty. It only took two or three years for them to die. She had a 5-year-old son. At the time of her death, her hair and clothing were being described. The defense attorney said she only testified to flaunt herself and seduce the male jurors. Her attorney objected, but it was overruled. Marcia looks a little shiny and her hair is a mess! She is working on another book.

Matt Murphy

Matt Murphy, my favorite presenter, talked about a Marine who was a serial killer and the defense blamed it on fetal alcohol syndrome.  He learned the subject matter from their writings and found ways to contradict them. For instance, one said we don't use the words mental retardation. He has video of him doing so. The Marine really had a normal life. These took place in California and Chicago. The women were stabbed or shot. One in a trunk tried to send mental signals to family. She did escape and amazingly a car was driving by in the desert to help her. The trial lasted six months and their families came from faraway places.

The capture: A rookie cop sees a sex worker in an argument and the dude has a firearm. He made the arrest when it matched up with some of the cases. He retrieved the gun one day before it was to be destroyed. One of the victim's roommates IDs was found with the Marine.

His first two convictions were commuted. But Matt says there are no free murders and got him to California for the others.

THE BEST LINES WERE THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY. "THE TRUTH AND BULL SHIT."

Matt hates what they did with BK; he wanted it to go to trial.

He said one takeaway is we learned what a philtrum is. Fetal alcohol victims have a smooth one, low birth weight and can't extend their fingers. He had a photo where the Marine could extend.

He said so-called expert witnesses do it for the money, are stupid or because they are against the death penalty. For instance, they even had his report card. One said he made Fs. But F meant fair.

Matt said serial killers perfect their technique as they go. He went from binding with twine to leather to handcuffs.

Marine hung himself in jail. He told Matt his PowerPoint was good before going to jail.

Joseph Scott Morgan

New Orleanian Joseph Scott Morgan talked about post-mortem interval assessment. There are seven cardinal signs of death.  Lack of respiration (does breath fog a mirror?), lack of pulse or heartbeat, fixed pupils, unresponsive to painful stimuli, cold skin, rigor or livor mortis (blue/purplish—I was livid comes from this), overt decomposition (odor, skin marbling or slippage, bloating). In the first hour of death, the body loses two degrees, then one degree up until the 12th.

The death investigator is an advocate for them—the voiceless. He was nervous for his first media interview. He was a professor so the reporter told him to just teach him.

He told a story of a fellow on his team that saw a hand of a supposed deceased move. Turns out it was the time of AIDS and the first responders didn’t want to deal with the blood from the slit wrists. The wrists were stitched, the person got blood and survived.

His exams are done on the scene—may be a road (could have been driven over) or open field: blood, onlookers, weather, maggots. Rain, humidity and barometric pressure affect the body temp.

He talked about the catacombs in Paris. They are multiple stories of stacked human remains due to overflowing cemeteries.

Luigi Mangione

That creep Luigi Mangione’s began with a virtual timeline. He had a fake ID at a hotel, paid cash at a Starbucks before the murder and discarded the cup (evidence), rode an e-bike in Central Park, ditched it, caught a cab where he is on video and then is spotted at the McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. He printed the gun, we know, and the silencer, did not know. He thought about the murder since August per his journals. He was in San Francisco thinking about killing someone from an architectural firm that builds healthcare facilities. He read about the Unabomber. He switched plans and followed Brian Thompson the night before he shot him. I would call this terrorism because it intimidates the population, people in similar jobs. Dude was class president and valedictorian and from a wealthy family. His cousin is in the Maryland legislature. He most certainly could have taken a different route to expose his issues. Some think United Health Care PAC gives to politicians so they would not be interested in laws that would hurt United Health Care.  I looked up Louisiana’s and it is pictured. Some think he is telegenic and could have been a spokesman for something of substance. I think he looks disgusting. His likeness was used to model a shirt on Shein. He thought he was representing people who don’t have a voice. I tell you everybody has a voice. Thompson’s family is still scared to come out. Dude thought some of the company’s policyholders were being murdered when denied, which could be true, but we don’t live vigilante style. Idiots are contributing to GiveSendGo even though dude’s family is wealthy. I will never ever use that site. GoFundMe does not accept such legal fundraisers. Ending: If you were dude, how would you explain your stupid rationale to Brian Thompson’s family?

And while I'm at it, why do South Carolina legislators choose judges? Not popular vote. This would seem to the father of Logan to not be well served because many of the legislators are attorneys who will represent someone before said judges and not get a fair trial. They would likely be thankful to legislators who put them in. Makes no sense to me.

Josh

I never pass up the opportunity to listen to Josh Mankiewicz’s session. He just renewed his contract. He turned 70, has been in the business 50 years and with Dateline, 30. He said love triangles are Dateline’s favorite part of geometry.  What’s different about Dateline journalism is there is no rush. They can interview someone two to three hours, plus talk beforehand. Mankie is happy he played a part in getting focus on minority crime stories. For example, there was a guy from Ghana who smoked dope long before it was legal in some places and a Russian guy was in the story. This episode came at a time when there were fewer story ideas and got high rankings. It was originally thought that minorities, people with access and those who were breaking the law and became a victim were a tough sell. Turns out that compelling and well told stories are all that is needed. All of the cast has different styles. Dateline wants them to sound like them and act like themselves. They asked for applause for those who listen live, stream or do the podcast. I was shocked that live did not win; I do not miss it. There have been 3,000 episodes and Mank has his favorites. He got asked about Keith and says he always posts he is going over to Keith’s to watch on Friday night. He’ll act like it is a long journey, with a camel, sea plane or canoe. He’ll also mention Boggle; he just thinks Keith is the Boggle type. He also made caricatures of the cast during the Olympics. He said back in the day, the news wanted people to cry; it would always be shown. Now, they like to give the interviewees a moment to leave the room or get a tissue. It’s hard to be in front of strangers with lights and cameras and makeup. Collecting themselves is more valuable than crying, he said. He was asked the most chilling killer and it was the guy who killed the people on the yacht. He said a memorable time was almost getting a beatdown in a Montana prison. Someone asked why are criminals so stupid. Mankie recalled someone buying a burner phone with a gift card registered to him. Dumb ones make it so much easier to solve.

Peter Van Sant

Peter Van Sant is so tall. He spoke of a Washington case about a dog trainer, heiress and body guard. A lady’s ex stalked her and she later got involved with her bodyguard who killed him. She was six feet tall and he was 5’6.” From far off, people thought she had a child. The panel believed she groomed the new boyfriend to kill. She wanted ex gone gone, not just to have papers of restraining orders.  There was even reverse stalking where new bf put drugs under ex’s vehicle. The body has never been found and there is talk that a hole was pre-dug. Murderer even returned some bolt cutters to Lowe’s but is on video at Walmart buying tarp and shin guards to protect from the dog trainer’s animals at 4 a.m. There is a freemichieloakes website. Why can’t the courts just handle everything without the public? Karen Read, Luigi. Stalking is horrific. Last Friday’s Dateline was a guy who wanted his wife gone and blamed an ex-boyfriend as the stalker, but got caught and last night’s “48 Hours” was the man in an affair with someone’s wife being the stalker of her husband and killing him.

Leo Schofield

Leo Schofield is convicted of murdering his wife of 18 in Florida in 1987 after six months of marriage. Someone else has confessed. He was a serial killer. She didn't come home from work and was found by her father-in-law with 26 stab wounds in a drainage ditch. She lost a half gallon of blood. The trailer neighbor lied about things and no blood was found in their home. The killer's brand of cigarettes was found at the site. There were other fingerprints on the car. Leo remarried a social worker in prison. Leo forgave the killer.

The Delphi Murders

These families have been around since my first time. This small town of 1,000 got 70,000 tips. They said information was their main weapon. In Indiana, jurors can ask questions. The prosecutor didn't want them to go to the scene. They could have been tampered with and the bridge was risky. I noticed he had an error on his slide. It was a trail where he put trial. Ugh.

These are family members of Libby and Abby. They said there will be generational trauma. I never thought about this. Their grandkids will one day see crime scene photos. They have a hard time with graduations of their classmates, and now weddings.

They said people will never know who they were before the murders. They said they wouldn't want the job of a judge week after week.

There is an annual Operation Christmas Child for Abby.

There is a Hulu episode out about this case. The defense attorneys were recording themselves. The dad of one of the victims said he has worked 40 years and never recorded himself at his job and found that odd.

There was a sketch of the suspect where he worked in CVS. They hinted to look behind you in the store and try to remember something about a person to practice helping with a sketch if you ever need to. I am going to do this.

Daybell Vallow

Colby Ryan, son of Lori Daybell Vallow, thinks his mom is a monster. She sent him a message through moderator Nate Eaton that said Matthew 25 today. He is very upset that his brother was found in a bag and his sister was just remnants. Lori told him she wanted to be cremated. Nate's reporting on the missing of DeOrr Kunz is still my favorite Crime Con story. He has really gotten some stories in Idado of all places. This and the Idaho 4.

Fatal Attraction

I'd Kill To Be You. It is about those obsessed with another's life so much that they want to take it. You enjoy someone's demise. This girl had an acquaintance who had a boyfriend and child. She had psuedocyesis, which is a phantom pregnancy (even had extended stomach) and went with her mother to the hospital. Later she killed and burned down her acquaintance's house. She took her baby and went to live with her mother for six years. Now, the mother knew she wasn't pregnant and knew her friend was killed, but never reported the situation. Mom was eventually charged with felony child concealment. She got three years of probation. This talk mentioned why people are obsessed with true crime. It's about helping solve, seeing the technology and learning to protect yourself. Like after a recent episode, I really watch where I park and probably always should have. And I'll never get in a boat without someone knowing.

Missing Babies

There are 342 missing babies, 0 to 6 months from 1964-2024. Either from home, a health-care facility or parking lot or something. The profile of a taker is may appear pregnant. They usually live in the same community and study the environment. A family told their story from 40 years ago. Someone acted like a social worker and asked the mom to go knock on the door of a place and she drove off. She was canvassing military housing. Some do get solved such as when one young man thought he just didn't feel right growing up. He started researching.

They said there is an uptick in Hispanic caseloads of missing people and think it could be someone acting as ICE to take them.

Manners of Death

There are five manners of death and 1,000s of causes. Manners are natural, accidental, suicidal, homicide and undetermined. This pathology assistant speaker showed some famous autopsy photos. Lisa Marie Presley had a small bowel issue. She once had gastric bypass and had had plastic surgery two months before and was on opioids because of that. So much is revealed in an autopsy. Princess Diana was worked on at the scene; that's how they do it in Paris. She was talking on the scene. She might have made it at a hospital if arriving faster like we do in the USA.

Idaho

Stacy Chapin, mother of Ethan from the Idaho 4, was on stage with the Othram lady.  Othram was contacted to do the DNA that turned out to be BK after saying they could do a profile in 48 hours or less. The evidence was escorted from the airport to them. Officials walked the lab and saw the chain of custody and left it there. Their team does not know the case due to confirmation bias. They all agreed to work over Thanksgiving. BK's DNA was narrowed to Pennsylvania and Italian heritage.  If perpetrators knew the greatness of Othram, they may think twice about committing a crime. Some have been solved after 47 years. They solved five yesterday! SOLVING A CRIME IS A CHOICE, SAID THE OTHRAM LADY. Do you hear that, Boulder? She said she has spoken with John Ramsey, but is not allowed to discuss cases until law enforcement does.  CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) is free, but not as extensive. CODIS still confirms Othram's findings. Chapin said an Idaho police officer called them every night. She said she walked off a lot of her grief. Even her dog was tired. One day she and her husband decided their other two triplets didn't deserve to have parents that were derailed. Othram said if they had only solved this case, it would be enough. Those two ladies really connected. She hopes universities will implement their software and funding and grants will be obtained.

Colorado DA

DA in Colorado spoke about Columbine, Aurora and Kobe Bryant (Colo. does not use the word rape). He said the theater shooting was the largest, most logistically challenging, most media scrutinized prosecution in Colorado. On Columbine, he said his mother would have never let him disassemble clocks to make bombs. Colorado uses judicial districts, not counties for DAs. It's the only state with term limits for them. Praise the Lord. He showed the mini theater that was built for the Aurora trial, which lasted from January to August. There was one victim who people thought would be President one day. He said the trial is still on YouTube except for jury selection. He said the newspaper never liked him and he couldn't get an endorsement even if unopposed. He was funny. His team did keep track of social media comments and used some of the questions people were posting. Post to help your prosecutors, he said.

Cults

Cults are counterfeits of faith. They exploit religion and make it feel like devotion. Polygamy is legal in half of the world.

Boston Marathon

It was quite the serious police work.  It took 101 hours and 25 minutes to solve. The presenter showed a lot of sights and sounds. The carjacked victim could not speak English, so that didn’t help much.  The one in the boat rolled over his brother in the car. I don’t ever speak their names. The hurt police officer was taken to the hospital with an emergency brake on the ambulance the whole way, driven by a police officer, and it was not to a Level 1 trauma center and his life was still saved. Boston was actually shut down/shelter in place. Lots of jurisdictions were involved, all Type A. We know about the boat scene, but I didn’t realize there was a ladder near the boat and the man in the home had gone outside to smoke and let his dog out. I don’t know how the loser survived with all the bullets fired. The street was full of cop cars, only cop cars. It was almost impossible to move on the road, as Boston and surrounding city streets are narrow. I was never more frightened to drive than in Boston. This part was new to me: the exhaustion, hunger and thirst of the police during the search. The presenter said the dispatcher had an accent like Cliff Clavin on steroids. That was true! You hear the boat owner tell him, “I’m absolutely not going to the boat.” But so many cops did! A robot first removed the tarp.

27,000 were in the marathon and once the bomb went off, there was no cell service. They still to this day don’t know why. It was refreshing to see crowds yelling good job and clapping for the police. The dead brother’s issue may have been he was a boxer and was mad he didn’t get in a national tournament due to lack of citizenship. The capture was on Patriots’ Day, a big deal in Boston.

Susan Smith

What I didn't know about Susan Smith  is the community handled it well when she blamed a black man for carjacking her. If a black man had stolen the kids, she was the victim. If she gave them away, she would be a bad mother. Most carjackers don't kill kids. Apparently she liked a co-worker who didn't like kids and she wanted to start fresh with him. He called it shaking the Etch A Sketch. She also had sex with his father. She wore his Auburn sweatshirt in initial appearances. She and her husband were estranged. Her stepfather abused her at 16. He was a huge Republican Party leader.  The sheriff was her godfather. She is up for parole every two years and has had sex with prison guards. She enjoyed media attention, but they dressed her frumpy for court. Court workers had new hairdos and wardrobes. She did not get the death penalty; only one or two women in S.C. had at that point. Her husband and mother wrote books. The prosecutor advised David Smith not to look like he was trying to make money off of the deaths of the two boys. But the defense had a copy the first day of trial. He donated the money to children's charities. There was a bomb threat during the trial. When the test video of it taking six minutes for the kids to drown was shown, Susan was playing tic tac toe. They thought Detroit might provide a car, but they wanted media rights, so they got one undercover. The prosecutor said when choosing whether TV coverage should be allowed, he would look like he had something to hide if not allowed, and would appear to be a glory hound if it was. He said having a sketch artist makes good Christmas gifts.

Herb Baumeister

Herb Baumeister, a suspected killer of 13 gay men near Indianapolis allegedly killed himself in Canada. Their scattered remains totaling 9,800 are on a shelf at a university. Handcuffs are on some of the bones. It is the largest amount of fragments since 9/11. He was a business man with a double life as a serial killer. His son found a skull at their Fox Hollow home and the dad said it belonged to his doctor dad as an educational item. He apparently lured these men from bars to his swimming pool and strangled them with a hose. The mother of one of the victims kept her landline because that is the only number he knew. The government there would not fund DNA searches and put it on the families. The sheriff is not giving up.

Lineups

A panel featuring favorite Matt Murphy showed that police lineups are very difficult. We are more capable of recognizing our own race.  They showed how three people differed on stage in the race, height, weight and age. This leads to false convictions, which I am really beginning to wonder about. In one lineup, people were so sure of the guy, but he was at work making sales and they got his fingerprint on credit card papers to prove so. Some people are super recognizers. They never forget a face.