By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Rick_Briamonte]Rick Briamonte
All of you, who believe that the murder of the Black Dahlia, a.k.a. Elizabeth Short, is still unsolved, please raise your hand. How many of you know who shot Lincoln? And finally, how many know who killed John Kennedy?
These three unrelated, yet notorious murders have gained a following of cynics and conspiracy theorists. All right, two of them have international implications while the third, The Black Dahlia, is most known in the U.S. because it's about sensationalism at its most grand. There have been many mystery books written on the subject.
Folklore has propelled The Black Dahlia to the status of Jack the Ripper and Lizzie Borden. But here are some interesting notes about the murder. Since he hasn't been tried in court, we can't convict now and most likely will never prosecute. And now that he is dead, it may continue as more than legend but a part of history. Here are some interesting facts:
The victim had blue eyes and brunette colored hair and was from Massachusetts, not California.
Elizabeth Short wasn't just murdered, but dissected and mutilated by having her mouth cut wide on both sides by someone with detailed knowledge of anatomy
The body was discovered in a vacant lot by a woman and her daughter.
She was not murdered at the scene; her body was placed there. Police believed that the murder took place in a home on Franklin Ave. in Los Angeles.
Reporter Will Fowler and photographer Felix Paegel were the first to arrive on the scene before the police!
The secretary of Dr. George Hodel, the alleged murderer, was writing a manuscript about him when she died suddenly and the manuscript disappeared.
The killer taunted police with a series of written notes after the murder took place.
The reason the killer was never charged or indicted for the crime, even though the police had known who he was shortly after the crime took place, had more to do with blackmail and corruption as much as anything else. The physician who was in charge of the public health in Los Angeles County was Dr. George Hodel. Venereal disease was not only dangerous in the late 40's and early 50's but a taboo that few people would even talk about it. Dr. Hodel treated some members of the police department and the judiciary who contracted venereal disease. They feared he would go public with their names if he was indicted.
Shortly after the murders, and there were more than one, Dr. Hodel was involved in a sensational incest trial involving his 14 year old daughter. He was acquitted of the charges on Christmas Eve and left for the country where he remained for many years.
His daughter gave birth to a girl that was immediately given up for adoption to a black restroom attendant in Reno, Nevada. Dr. Hodel maintained a distant contact with the new parent, keeping tract of his offspring as she struggled in this dual world.
The author began writing at a young age and first published articles in sporting and finance magazines. The recent release of his first full biographical novel has created a buzz in Hollywood for the film rights. If you want to know more about this bizarre story and see photos of the alleged killer visit http://www.onedayshelldarken.com
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Monday, August 24, 2009
There Are Only 2 Unsolved Murders? Never to Fear - Hercule Poirot Is Here
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Ed_Bagley]Ed Bagley
Hercule Poirot: The Mystery of The Blue Train - 3 Stars (Good)
The Mystery of The Blue train finds Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) boarding the train for the Riviera, the Mediterranean coastal region from Marseilles in France to La Spezia in Italy, noted for its beauty and climate, and the site of many resorts.
Katherine Grey (Georgina Rylance), a young English woman who has recently inherited a fortune, is also on board the trip to Nice.
She meets Ruth Kettering (Jamie Murray), an American heiress with marital problems and the owner of a world-famous ruby. Kettering is accompanied by her husband, her lover and her maid.
Rufus Van Aldin (Elliott Gould of MASH fame) is Kettering's father. He thinks both his daughter's husband and her lover are scoundrels. Added to the cast are some of the young woman's money-grubbing distant relatives.
What happens is hardly surprising. Ruth Kettering is brutally murdered in her compartment and her ruby is stolen. Poirot, of course, sorts this mess out and finds the killer.
There are reports that Agatha Christie felt this book, which became a made-for-television movie, was not her best work. I felt The Mystery of The Blue Train was no better or worse than many of her other works, the majority of which I consider good.
Hercule Poirot: Death in the Clouds - 2 Stars (Average)
Death in the Clouds is the first film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot series that I consider an average effort.
This movie gives us a murder in the sky as a ruthless blackmailer is killed by a poison-tipped dart during a flight full of likely suspects. The victim is Madame Giselle (Jenny Downham) who has a troop of people ready to kill her.
Madame Giselle is privy to too much insider information that could embarrass or destroy the careers of her money targets.
I found this script to be over the top with simply too many suspects and too much meaningless detail. It is the only Hercule Poirot mystery that made me annoyed with the story line. The method of the killing is really hard to believe, and therefore I give this film an average rating.
Copyright © 2007 Ed Bagley
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Hercule Poirot: The Mystery of The Blue Train - 3 Stars (Good)
The Mystery of The Blue train finds Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) boarding the train for the Riviera, the Mediterranean coastal region from Marseilles in France to La Spezia in Italy, noted for its beauty and climate, and the site of many resorts.
Katherine Grey (Georgina Rylance), a young English woman who has recently inherited a fortune, is also on board the trip to Nice.
She meets Ruth Kettering (Jamie Murray), an American heiress with marital problems and the owner of a world-famous ruby. Kettering is accompanied by her husband, her lover and her maid.
Rufus Van Aldin (Elliott Gould of MASH fame) is Kettering's father. He thinks both his daughter's husband and her lover are scoundrels. Added to the cast are some of the young woman's money-grubbing distant relatives.
What happens is hardly surprising. Ruth Kettering is brutally murdered in her compartment and her ruby is stolen. Poirot, of course, sorts this mess out and finds the killer.
There are reports that Agatha Christie felt this book, which became a made-for-television movie, was not her best work. I felt The Mystery of The Blue Train was no better or worse than many of her other works, the majority of which I consider good.
Hercule Poirot: Death in the Clouds - 2 Stars (Average)
Death in the Clouds is the first film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot series that I consider an average effort.
This movie gives us a murder in the sky as a ruthless blackmailer is killed by a poison-tipped dart during a flight full of likely suspects. The victim is Madame Giselle (Jenny Downham) who has a troop of people ready to kill her.
Madame Giselle is privy to too much insider information that could embarrass or destroy the careers of her money targets.
I found this script to be over the top with simply too many suspects and too much meaningless detail. It is the only Hercule Poirot mystery that made me annoyed with the story line. The method of the killing is really hard to believe, and therefore I give this film an average rating.
Copyright © 2007 Ed Bagley
Ed Bagley's Blog Publishes Original Articles with Analysis and Commentary on 5 Subjects: Sports, Movie Reviews, Lessons in Life, Jobs and Careers, and Internet Marketing. My intention is to inform, educate, delight and motivate you the reader.
Read my reviews on "Ghost", "Million Dollar Baby", "Passion of the Christ" and "National Treasure". All of these movies can grab and hold your interest from start to finish.
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Zodiac Killer, An Unsolved Case
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Carlos_Cabezas_López]Carlos Cabezas López
America’s most dreaded killer remains elusive even today. It is still not known who this Zodiac Killer was. Though the police suspected it to be Arthur Leigh Allen, there was no concrete evidence to support the claim. Since he has been an enigma to the cops, little is known about his early days and what prompted him to become a serial killer. Till date the case is open and world's top investigators are foxed by the complexity of this case. Allen was the only one who came close to the killer's description. But his DNA doesn't match with any of the samples found at the site of crime. The San Francisco Police Department marked this case closed in April 2004 but has reopened it now.
The Zodiac Killers modus operandi is intriguing, as he wrote letters to media in code language about the killings, sometimes even before hand . In fact, once he even called up the police and accepted responsibility for killing two youngsters in a parking lot. The call was traced to a telephone booth near the Vallejo Police Department. In 1968, the Zodiac killings came to light with the murder of Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday on December 20, 1968 in California City. He shot them point blank on their head. A neighborhood lady Stella Borges found the bodies and alerted the police. But no leads were found. This was followed by a spate of killings which baffled the cops and made them helpless. No conclusive evidence was found in any of the killings.
In 1969, letters were received by the Vallejo Times-Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Francisco Examiner. The letters consisted of one third of a cryptogram with a total of 408 characters which he claimed contained his identity. He demanded they be printed on the front page or he would go on a rampage and kill a dozen people that weekend. Though the threatened murders did not happen, all three parts were eventually published.
The cryptogram was cracked in August 1969 by Donald and Betty Harden. Though the message was unraveled it didn't contain the killer’s identity. According to the excerpts published the letter was as follows:
I LIKE KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH FUN IT IS MORE FUN THAN KILLING WILD GAME IN THE FORREST, BECAUSE MAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANAMAL OF ALL TO KILL. SOMETHING GIVES ME THE MOST THRILLING EXPERENCE - IT IS EVEN BETTER THAN GETTING YOUR ROCKS OFF WITH A GIRL THE BEST PART OF IT IS THAT WHEN I DIE I WILL BE REBORN IN PARADICE AND ALL THE GIRLS I HAVE KILLED WILL BECOME MY SLAVES I WILL NOT GIVE YOU MY NAME BECAUSE YOU WILL TRY TO SLOI DOWN OR STOP MY COLLECTING OF SLAVES FOR MY AFTERLIFE EBEORIETEMETHHPITI.
The last 18 characters couldn’t be unraveled.
The killings continued and flummoxed everyone in Bay Area. The Zodiac Killer also dutifully reported every crime to the police. Though fresh evidence could be collected, they could never be matched with anybody. Letters continued to come to media and so did the killings. There were around 49 murders linked to zodiac killer out of which 15 were occult killings in Northern California.
Theories abound in Zodiac Killers case but no conclusive evidence was ever found. Many films were inspired by this and Hollywood had a fascination for making movies and TV serials on zodiac killer. The killer always signed his notes with " = 12, SFPD = 0".
Though police investigated over 2,500 potential suspects, the case is still unsolved. This is one of the greatest unsolved serial killer mysteries of all times in American crime history.
By: Carlos Cabezas López
original article published at http://www.casoabierto.com/Cronica-Negra/Cronica-Negra-Internacional/Zodiak-killer-englishversion.html
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America’s most dreaded killer remains elusive even today. It is still not known who this Zodiac Killer was. Though the police suspected it to be Arthur Leigh Allen, there was no concrete evidence to support the claim. Since he has been an enigma to the cops, little is known about his early days and what prompted him to become a serial killer. Till date the case is open and world's top investigators are foxed by the complexity of this case. Allen was the only one who came close to the killer's description. But his DNA doesn't match with any of the samples found at the site of crime. The San Francisco Police Department marked this case closed in April 2004 but has reopened it now.
The Zodiac Killers modus operandi is intriguing, as he wrote letters to media in code language about the killings, sometimes even before hand . In fact, once he even called up the police and accepted responsibility for killing two youngsters in a parking lot. The call was traced to a telephone booth near the Vallejo Police Department. In 1968, the Zodiac killings came to light with the murder of Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday on December 20, 1968 in California City. He shot them point blank on their head. A neighborhood lady Stella Borges found the bodies and alerted the police. But no leads were found. This was followed by a spate of killings which baffled the cops and made them helpless. No conclusive evidence was found in any of the killings.
In 1969, letters were received by the Vallejo Times-Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Francisco Examiner. The letters consisted of one third of a cryptogram with a total of 408 characters which he claimed contained his identity. He demanded they be printed on the front page or he would go on a rampage and kill a dozen people that weekend. Though the threatened murders did not happen, all three parts were eventually published.
The cryptogram was cracked in August 1969 by Donald and Betty Harden. Though the message was unraveled it didn't contain the killer’s identity. According to the excerpts published the letter was as follows:
I LIKE KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH FUN IT IS MORE FUN THAN KILLING WILD GAME IN THE FORREST, BECAUSE MAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANAMAL OF ALL TO KILL. SOMETHING GIVES ME THE MOST THRILLING EXPERENCE - IT IS EVEN BETTER THAN GETTING YOUR ROCKS OFF WITH A GIRL THE BEST PART OF IT IS THAT WHEN I DIE I WILL BE REBORN IN PARADICE AND ALL THE GIRLS I HAVE KILLED WILL BECOME MY SLAVES I WILL NOT GIVE YOU MY NAME BECAUSE YOU WILL TRY TO SLOI DOWN OR STOP MY COLLECTING OF SLAVES FOR MY AFTERLIFE EBEORIETEMETHHPITI.
The last 18 characters couldn’t be unraveled.
The killings continued and flummoxed everyone in Bay Area. The Zodiac Killer also dutifully reported every crime to the police. Though fresh evidence could be collected, they could never be matched with anybody. Letters continued to come to media and so did the killings. There were around 49 murders linked to zodiac killer out of which 15 were occult killings in Northern California.
Theories abound in Zodiac Killers case but no conclusive evidence was ever found. Many films were inspired by this and Hollywood had a fascination for making movies and TV serials on zodiac killer. The killer always signed his notes with " = 12, SFPD = 0".
Though police investigated over 2,500 potential suspects, the case is still unsolved. This is one of the greatest unsolved serial killer mysteries of all times in American crime history.
By: Carlos Cabezas López
original article published at http://www.casoabierto.com/Cronica-Negra/Cronica-Negra-Internacional/Zodiak-killer-englishversion.html
The author is the editor of the digital Journal Caso Abierto. You can can read more articles like this on Caso Abierto at http://www.casoabierto.com
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To Die For - The Most Mysterious Unsolved Cases of All Time
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Otto_Kreistler]Otto Kreistler
Of all the things that befall us in life, nothing quite equals the monumental impact that love and death have on the way we go about our daily lives and the way we view reality. Lives are made and unmade, political situations are fueled and break, and in general the very fabric of reality is changed forever because of these two phenomena.
And it is arguably death that is the stronger of the two in spite of what a lot of hopeless romantics would say. It is perhaps the finality of death that gives it its tremendous emotional and anthropological significance. When someone dies, it is truly the end. That is why everything from cosmetic surgery to horror films are so numerous in our society. These are our ways of sublimating this fascination with the terminal nature or our attempts to parody or delay its inevitability.
Another manifestation of our intense fascination with death and dying would be our glorification or remembrance of unsolved murders. It is one thing that can very easily strip any modicum of normality and stability that you perceive your life to have and makes you reflect on the mystery and swiftness of death. Another thing that gives color to these cases would be the victims. They could either be heroes of their societies or someone who could have been our mothers, fathers, sons or daughters. Either way, the aura of these murders has been amplified so much that they shall be remembered forever:
Oscar Romero: One of the most tragic deaths of this century would definitely have to be that of Oscar Romero. This priest from San Salvador, el Salvador was one of the strongest lobbyists against human rights violations. He was gunned down while saying mass on April 24, 1980 by an as of yet unidentified assailant. Many say the murderers came from Salvadorian death squads trained by the United States but now we may never know for sure.
The Black Dahlia: Edgar Allan Poe would agree with you if you said there was something strangely romantic about the death of a dark and beautiful woman. And the Black Dahlia, aka Elizabeth Short was definitely that. Her beauty, mystique and brutal death were the primary reasons why she remains popular to this day,. Many movie adaptations, books and investigations have been done on this case but it is unlikely that her killer will ever be brought to justice.
Andrew and Abby Borden: One of the grisliest murders ever committed was supposedly done by this couple's underage daughter. Although she was pronounced innocent due to lack of evidence the legend of Lizzie Borden is so powerful that it inspires songs, novels and pop culture to this day.
These are just a few of the many examples of unsolved murders that have puzzled investigators and ordinary folk like us to this day. If you want more examples of these high profile cases, which include the top one unsolved murder case of all time, just visit: http://crunkish.com/top-ten-unsolved-murders
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Of all the things that befall us in life, nothing quite equals the monumental impact that love and death have on the way we go about our daily lives and the way we view reality. Lives are made and unmade, political situations are fueled and break, and in general the very fabric of reality is changed forever because of these two phenomena.
And it is arguably death that is the stronger of the two in spite of what a lot of hopeless romantics would say. It is perhaps the finality of death that gives it its tremendous emotional and anthropological significance. When someone dies, it is truly the end. That is why everything from cosmetic surgery to horror films are so numerous in our society. These are our ways of sublimating this fascination with the terminal nature or our attempts to parody or delay its inevitability.
Another manifestation of our intense fascination with death and dying would be our glorification or remembrance of unsolved murders. It is one thing that can very easily strip any modicum of normality and stability that you perceive your life to have and makes you reflect on the mystery and swiftness of death. Another thing that gives color to these cases would be the victims. They could either be heroes of their societies or someone who could have been our mothers, fathers, sons or daughters. Either way, the aura of these murders has been amplified so much that they shall be remembered forever:
Oscar Romero: One of the most tragic deaths of this century would definitely have to be that of Oscar Romero. This priest from San Salvador, el Salvador was one of the strongest lobbyists against human rights violations. He was gunned down while saying mass on April 24, 1980 by an as of yet unidentified assailant. Many say the murderers came from Salvadorian death squads trained by the United States but now we may never know for sure.
The Black Dahlia: Edgar Allan Poe would agree with you if you said there was something strangely romantic about the death of a dark and beautiful woman. And the Black Dahlia, aka Elizabeth Short was definitely that. Her beauty, mystique and brutal death were the primary reasons why she remains popular to this day,. Many movie adaptations, books and investigations have been done on this case but it is unlikely that her killer will ever be brought to justice.
Andrew and Abby Borden: One of the grisliest murders ever committed was supposedly done by this couple's underage daughter. Although she was pronounced innocent due to lack of evidence the legend of Lizzie Borden is so powerful that it inspires songs, novels and pop culture to this day.
These are just a few of the many examples of unsolved murders that have puzzled investigators and ordinary folk like us to this day. If you want more examples of these high profile cases, which include the top one unsolved murder case of all time, just visit: http://crunkish.com/top-ten-unsolved-murders
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