I didn't take the remakes into account, except for the one with Michael.

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"No … Not even a little bit. Like, not even a tiny bit. “I was like, ‘I’m not going to do that.’ What is it going to do for my career? I’m a model, and I need to do things that are kind of different to get this acting career that I want. He was like, ‘No, Josh Hartnett did Halloween, and look what he’s doing now!’” Not only did it not do anything for me, they cut the damn death scene. So, I have beef with Halloween 8!”

I was saddened by her suicide; she may have been negligent in certain ways, but she definitely loved her children.

Even though it all started with her, she’s usually just mentioned in passing—and that’s it.

Well, there’s Judith from RZ, but I’d rather not talk about that.

At the 62nd Academy Awards, Kim Basinger, while introducing a clip from Dead Poets Society (one of the nominees for Best Picture), went off-script and criticized the Academy for failing to nominate Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing for the top award.

The Setagaya family murder is an unsolved mass murder that occurred on the night of December 30 to 31, 2000, in the Kamisoshigaya neighborhood of Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. The victims’ house stood next to Soshigaya Park. The victims were Mikio Miyazawa, 44 years old; his wife Yasuko Miyazawa, 41 years old; their daughter Niina Miyazawa, 8 years old; and their son Rei Miyazawa, 6 years old. The bodies were discovered around 10:40 a.m. on December 31 by Yasuko’s mother, Haruko, who went to the house after being unable to contact the family.

The killer entered through the second-floor bathroom window facing the park after removing the screen and climbing up via the air-conditioning unit or the fence. Footprints were found in the mud. He first strangled Rei with his bare hands in the boy’s second-floor bedroom. Mikio came upstairs and struggled with the intruder, who stabbed him in the head with a sashimi knife; part of the blade broke off and remained lodged in the skull. The attacker then turned on Yasuko and Niina, first using the broken knife and afterward a santoku knife taken from the house itself. Three of the victims died from stab wounds and Rei from asphyxiation. The crime took place roughly between 11:30 p.m. and 12:05 a.m.

After the killings the perpetrator remained inside the house for several hours, estimated at between two and ten hours. He used the family’s computer, connecting to the internet between 1:18 a.m. and 1:23 a.m. He drank four bottles of barley tea, ate melon and four ice creams from the refrigerator, used the bathroom and left feces without flushing, treated his wounds with the first-aid kit, rummaged through drawers and papers—some of which he threw into the bathtub and toilet—stole about 100,000 yen while leaving larger sums behind, and possibly rested on the sofa. At the scene he abandoned the knife, a handkerchief, a waist bag, a shirt, a jacket, a hat, gloves and two scarves.

DNA and fingerprints were recovered from multiple places in the house and match no Japanese database. The killer’s blood type is A. DNA analysis indicates a male, possibly of mixed ancestry, with maternal DNA of European origin from the Caucasus region or southern Europe near the Mediterranean and Adriatic, and paternal DNA of East Asian origin belonging to haplogroup O-M122, common among Koreans, Chinese and Japanese. His estimated height is about 1.70 m with a slim build. Age estimates initially ranged from 15 to 35 (or 15 to 40), later revised to 15–22; more recent reports suggest he was at least 30 at the time. He was probably right-handed and injured one or both hands during the attack. The feces showed he had eaten green beans and sesame seeds the previous day. The clothing and knife had been purchased in Kanagawa Prefecture. Only 130 units of the shirt were produced, and police located just twelve buyers. Sand found in the waist bag came from the Nevada desert near Edwards Air Force Base in California and from a skate park in Japan. The shoes were manufactured in South Korea and sold under the British brand Slazenger. In 2019 the scarves left at the scene were noted to resemble patterns used in communities in the Ilocos and Isabela regions of the Philippines. In 2021 new technology visually identified a person who had bought a similar knife, but the DNA did not match.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department mounted one of the largest investigations in Japanese history, involving more than 246,000 investigators and over 12,000 pieces of evidence. As of 2019 roughly 35 officers were still assigned full-time to the case. The reward for information leading to an arrest stands at 20 million yen (2021 figure). The case helped bring about the abolition of the statute of limitations for crimes punishable by the death penalty in Japan, a change enacted in 2010. The house was later demolished because of structural risk, but all internal evidence had already been preserved. To this day the perpetrator remains unidentified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setagaya_family_murder

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/japan/crime-legal/setagaya-murder-search/

https://www.tokyoreporter.com/japan-news/special-reports/setagaya-family-murders-dna-is-hope-for-solving-case-25-years-later/

In the early morning hours of August 9, 1976, the bodies of a young man and woman were found by a trucker named Martin Durant on a remote dirt road (Locklair Road) between Interstate 95 and SC 341 in Sumter County, South Carolina. Both had been shot with a .357-caliber revolver: the man was shot three times in the upper chest and the woman was shot in the chest and through the neck. They carried no identification and remained known for more than 44 years as the “Sumter County Does,” or “Jock Doe” and “Jane Doe.”

The man stood about 6 ft 1 in (1.86 m), had shoulder-length brown hair, very distinctive bushy eyebrows, an olive complexion, and weighed around 150 pounds (68 kg). He was wearing faded Levi’s jeans and a red Coors/Sebring ’75 promotional T-shirt featuring Snoopy. He carried a gold Bulova Accutron wristwatch and a 14-karat gold ring set with a gray star sapphire that had the initials JPF engraved inside. He had elaborate dental work (including a rare type of root-canal treatment) and scars consistent with contact sports, suggesting he came from an affluent background. The woman was about 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) tall, weighed 100–105 pounds (45–48 kg), had reddish-brown shoulder-length hair, bluish-gray or hazel eyes, and two distinctive moles near her mouth. She wore an unbleached muslin blouse over a pink halter top, blue denim cut-off shorts, and brightly colored wedge sandals. She had three sterling-silver rings with stones that appeared to be authentic Native American or Mexican jewelry from the Southwestern United States. Neither victim was wearing underwear.

For decades authorities circulated sketches, fingerprints, dental records, and photographs nationwide. The bodies were kept on display at a local funeral home under airtight transparent lids in the hope that someone would recognize them; they were finally buried on August 14, 1977, at Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery in Oswego with simple markers reading “Male Unknown” and “Female Unknown.” In 2007 the remains were exhumed for DNA extraction, which proved the two were not related despite their physical resemblance.

In July 2019 the DNA Doe Project began working on the case using genetic genealogy. On January 19–21, 2021, it was announced that the victims had been identified as James Paul Freund (born September 16, 1946, from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, aged 29) and Pamela Mae Buckley (born December 16, 1951, from Redwood County, Minnesota, aged 24). Freund was last seen on December 25, 1975, in Lancaster; he was divorced and his family had reported him missing. Buckley, who had been Redwood Jaycees Sno-Queen and sang in the folk trio “Sunlending,” was last seen around December 1975 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she was also reported missing. No prior connection between the two is known; the prevailing theory is that they were traveling together as hitchhikers.

In 1977 Lonnie George Henry was arrested for driving while intoxicated; a .357 revolver found in his vehicle was ballistically matched to the murder weapon. However, there was insufficient evidence to charge him with the killings and he died in 1982. Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas also confessed to the crime, but his confessions were notoriously unreliable and he was never charged. After the 2021 identification the investigation was reopened and authorities mentioned at least one person of interest. The case remains officially unsolved.

https://www.kktv.com/2021/01/21/colorado-springs-woman-identified-as-one-victim-in-a-44-year-old-cold-case-out-of-south-carolina/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Pamela_Buckley_and_James_Freund

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wistv.com/2021/01/21/live-sumter-co-sheriffs-office-shares-new-findings-cold-case/%3foutputType=amp

On the evening of 5 August 1982, Father Reynaldo John Rivera, a 57-year-old Franciscan priest serving at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe, New Mexico, received a telephone call at the rectory. The man, who identified himself as Michael Carmello, said his grandfather was dying near a rest stop in Waldo and needed the last rites. Another priest answered first but declined because of poor eyesight; Rivera took the second call and agreed to go. The caller said he would be waiting in a blue pickup truck. Days later, Rivera’s body was found several miles from the rest stop, lying in a muddy field near the Waldo exit on Interstate 25. He had been shot once in the stomach and strangled with a metal cord, possibly a coat hanger. His brown 1974 Chevrolet Malibu was discovered abandoned, out of gas, at a rest stop on Interstate 40 near Grants. His last-rites kit was never recovered. The FBI produced a psychological profile and concluded the motive was revenge. A recent parolee and a former Santa Fe resident were considered suspects but ruled out.

Almost two years later, on 20 July 1984, Father John Patrick Kerrigan, a 58-year-old diocesan priest newly assigned to Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Ronan, Montana, left a bakery in downtown Ronan and was never seen again. He failed to appear for the 6:30 a.m. Mass the next day. On 29 July, bloodied articles of clothing and a blood-stained coat hanger were found along Montana Highway 35 on the shores of Flathead Lake near Polson. The following day his vehicle—also a brown Chevrolet Malibu—was located several miles away; in the trunk were his wallet containing $1,200, a blood-stained shovel, and a pillowcase. Kerrigan’s remains have never been recovered.

New Mexico authorities noted similarities: both men were about 58, both drove brown Malibus, the vehicles were driven away from the crime scenes, and coat hangers appeared in both cases. Kerrigan had spent nearly a year at the Congregation of the Servants of the Paraclete in Jemez Springs, New Mexico, in 1983 (a retreat for clergy with personal difficulties, substance abuse, or sexual misconduct). No evidence was found that the two men ever knew each other. In 1988 the cases were featured together on Unsolved Mysteries. In 2015 Kerrigan appeared on the Diocese of Helena’s list of clergy implicated in the sexual abuse of minors. In 2020 an author who obtained the lead detective’s notes suggested Kerrigan may have staged his own death. In 2022 Lieutenant Gilbert Ulibarri, who had earlier felt a connection, stated he no longer believes the crimes are related. Rivera’s case remains open with the New Mexico State Police cold-case unit.

https://flatheadbeacon.com/2021/03/23/the-vanishing-of-a-priest/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_Franciscan_priest_murders

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/4-investigates-the-mysterious-murder-of-father-reynaldo-rivera/

On Friday, 1 March 1974, 37-year-old Kay O’Connor was brutally murdered in the kitchen of her home on Wickham Road, Colchester, Essex. The crime shocked the town at the time and, more than 50 years later, remains unsolved.

Kay worked as a shorthand typist and lived with her husband, Tony O’Connor, on Wickham Road. Her mother lived just two doors away. That day she was off work. In the morning she went shopping on nearby Butt Road, then called in on her mother, and afterwards went to the post office to collect her mother’s pension. She returned home at around 2:30 p.m.

Between approximately 2:30 p.m. and 4:10 p.m. someone entered the house from the rear: the killer approached via a back alley, smashed the glass of the back door and got inside. It is unknown whether he was already waiting inside or broke in after Kay arrived. In the kitchen Kay was beaten and strangled. Some of her clothing was removed and she was stabbed twice. Her body was found next to a bloodied kitchen knife. Nothing was stolen from the house and the police never established a clear motive. Neighbours heard a disturbance, went to check, and discovered the body. The killer had already fled.

The initial investigation was extensive: more than 2,000 statements were taken and 339 people were questioned. Her husband Tony, who was working in London that day, was initially treated as a suspect but quickly cleared. The 1974 inquest found that Kay had been strangled, her clothes removed, and then stabbed.

The case went cold for decades. In 2004–2005 there were fresh appeals and a partial reinvestigation, including talk of re-examining forensic evidence, but no major public breakthroughs followed. In 2018 a woman, then aged 73 and a former ward sister at Turner Village Hospital, came forward for the first time. She said that a few weeks after the murder one of her colleagues, charge nurse Patrick Marran (then in his fifties), had privately confessed to her in her office that he was the killer. According to the woman, Marran looked gaunt, cried, and told her: “It was me who did that.” There had been workplace gossip that the police had questioned him. She did not report it at the time because she feared losing her job and not being believed. Only decades later, driven by guilt, did she speak out. Police confirmed that Marran had since died, so there was no possibility of prosecution. Detective Inspector Stuart Truss of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate said the case had recently been reviewed and there were no further active lines of inquiry, although the force continues to assess the forensic evidence with modern techniques.

To this day the murder of Kay O’Connor remains officially unsolved. It is still unknown whether Patrick Marran was genuinely responsible or whether the confession was false. Anyone with information can contact the Essex Police cold-case team on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/16859204.my-44-year-secret-holds-key-tragic-kays-death/

https://crimeimmemorial.com/2024/01/24/kay-oconnor/

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/5434415.colchester-police-reopen-murder-case/

The unsolved murder of Julie Pacey took place on 26 September 1994 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, and remains one of the most intriguing cold cases in the United Kingdom. Julie, born in 1955/1956, was 38 years old and a mother of two. Married for 18 years to Andrew Pacey, her childhood sweetheart since the age of eight, they lived in a luxury bungalow at 30 Longcliffe Road in the peaceful Manthorpe area. Julie worked part-time at the local St Peter's Day Nursery on St Catherine's Road, right opposite the town's police headquarters. She was described by family, neighbours, and the press as a "vivacious blonde," a "perfect mum," extremely attractive, popular, kind, caring, considerate, and completely devoted to her family. Andrew worked for a long-established plumbing business in the town. The couple had a 14-year-old daughter, Helen, and an 11-year-old son, Matthew. The family saw themselves as ordinary and unremarkable, as Andrew later stated on Crimewatch.

Several suspicious incidents preceded the murder. On Friday, 23 September 1994, around 3:30 pm, a local girl who regularly went to the Pacey home after school to wait for her mother saw a strange man wearing blue overalls enter the driveway. The man, described as chubby, around 35 years old, with a big round and notably red/ruddy face, rough hands, and brown workman's boots, walked back out when the girl approached. Julie, upon letting the girl in, confirmed that the man had knocked on the door, entered the house, and asked for directions to Eskdale Road. This witness later helped police create a detailed artist's impression of the individual, who became known as the "Overalls Man."

On the day of the murder, Monday 26 September, Julie left home for work around 10 am. She returned in the family Audi around 2:45 pm. About half an hour later, she left again to go shopping and was seen driving along Highcliffe Road near her home. At that time, the same man in blue overalls was seen walking along the road; he stepped out in front of her car, nearly causing an accident. After Julie passed, he suddenly turned and ran in the direction her car had gone. Multiple witnesses also reported sightings of a dark BMW 5-series in the area in the days before, including one parked next to the Pacey family's Audi in their driveway. The family always insisted Julie did not drive or have access to such a car, but the accounts came from people who knew her well.

The murder occurred between approximately 3:20 pm and 4:15 pm. Around 4:15 pm, daughter Helen arrived home from school and discovered her mother dead in the first-floor bathroom. Julie had been sexually assaulted and strangled with a cord/ligature. She was fully clothed, though some items of clothing were disarranged. There were no signs of forced entry and little evidence of a prolonged struggle (her beautifully manicured nails were unbroken). Police theorised the attacker may have entered easily because Julie left her keys in the lock upon returning home. Only one item was reported missing from the house: a French Luc Desroches watch that she had recently bought on holiday for the equivalent of about £10. The watch has never been recovered and is believed to have been taken by the killer.

The "Overalls Man" was sighted by numerous witnesses around the estate and in Grantham between 22 and 27 September. On the morning after the murder, at around 9 am, he was seen kicking at the grass as if searching for something. Later, he entered a shop in the town centre still wearing the blue overalls and behaving in a highly suspicious manner. He had asked various people for directions to different locations (including a distant industrial site) but never asked them to repeat the instructions. Police distributed the artist's impression to every house on the estate and, exactly one week after the murder, stopped more than 500 people walking or driving along Longcliffe Road for information.

The case received major publicity with an appeal on the BBC programme Crimewatch in November 1994. In 2001, investigators examined possible links (without a definitive conclusion) to the murder of 21-year-old Sharon Harper four months earlier in the same town — Harper was also strangled and beaten. This was part of the wider national Operation Enigma into unsolved murders of women in the UK during the 1990s.

In 2015, the case returned to Crimewatch with a second appeal, 21 years after the original. Scientists had successfully created a full DNA profile of the perpetrator using the advanced DNA-17 technique — described as a landmark forensic breakthrough. The DNA matched no one on the UK National DNA Database. Police publicly appealed for names of potential suspects to compare against the profile and directly asked the "Overalls Man" to come forward so he could be eliminated via DNA. Interestingly, the actor who had played the killer in the original 1994 reconstruction (Steve Watson) was briefly investigated after the re-appeal because confused viewers called in to name him as the real perpetrator. Police took his DNA, which fully cleared him.

To this day, the exact motive remains unclear, although there was a clear sexual element. Investigators believe it was a premeditated attack on Julie, who had no known enemies and led an ordinary family life. The "Overalls Man" remains the prime suspect and, if still alive, would be in his mid-to-late 60s today. The family, particularly the daughter who found the body, continues to live with the trauma of an unresolved case. Lincolnshire Police continue to appeal for information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Julie_Pacey

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11857097/Crimewatch-actor-now-DNA-tested-in-unsolved-Grantham-murder-case-21-years-later.html

On March 23, 1988, 26-year-old Deborah "Debbie" Ann Linsley from Bromley, Kent, was brutally murdered inside a crowded commuter train in one of the UK’s most disturbing and still unsolved cases.

Debbie worked as a hotel manager in Edinburgh and had returned to London to attend a hotel management course. She was staying with her parents and was excited to be a bridesmaid at her brother Gordon’s wedding two weeks later. That Wednesday afternoon, her brother drove her to Petts Wood station. She boarded the 14:16 train to London Victoria — a journey that normally took about 34 minutes with several stops.

The train was an old-style 4EPB unit with a mix of carriages: some with central corridors and others featuring isolated compartments that seated six people each, with no internal access between them and doors opening directly to the outside. Debbie entered one of these closed compartments (possibly because smoking was allowed there) in the second carriage. There were around 70 passengers on the train.

At some point during the journey — especially during the short six-minute stretch between Brixton and Victoria — Debbie was savagely attacked. She was stabbed 11 times in the face, neck, and abdomen, with at least five wounds to the area around her heart. One of those wounds was fatal. She fought back fiercely: she had defensive wounds on her hands and managed to injure her attacker, whose blood was later found at the scene. When the train pulled into Platform 2 at Victoria station at 14:50, a British Rail porter discovered the blood-soaked compartment and Debbie’s body.

What makes this case so shocking is that, despite the crowded train and the violent nature of the attack (a French au pair in a nearby compartment heard screams and sounds of a struggle shortly after leaving Brixton), almost no one noticed anything unusual. The au pair thought it might be a fight or a sexual assault and didn’t pull the emergency cord — something she was later criticized for during the inquest. No one saw the killer enter or leave the compartment.

The murder weapon was never found, but it is believed to have been a heavy-bladed knife between 13 and 19 cm long. Police considered the possibility of a sexual assault but found no evidence of it. Detective Superintendent Guy Mills described the crime as “savage and brutal” and suggested the attacker was likely a repeat violent offender due to the ferocity of the assault.

The initial investigation collected over 1,200 witness statements and questioned hundreds of people. Persons of interest included a short, stocky man seen jumping from the train, a “scruffy man with dirty blond hair” who got off at Penge East, and another man who was staring at women boarding at Orpington. The case was featured on the BBC’s Crimewatch UK.

Years later, advances in DNA technology allowed the case to be reopened in 2002. The killer’s blood from the scene was used to create a full DNA profile, but it has never matched anyone in the national database. In 2013, police offered a £20,000 reward and launched fresh appeals. Debbie’s parents (her mother has since passed away) made several emotional public appeals over the years.

The murder had an immediate impact: British Rail sped up the removal of isolated compartment carriages and painted red bands on them so passengers could identify and avoid them. Guards were instructed to patrol more actively.

More than 36 years later, Debbie Linsley’s killer remains free. The DNA profile exists, but there is still no match. Many speculate the perpetrator may have been a serial offender or someone who acted on sudden impulse when given the opportunity. The fact that Debbie injured her attacker suggests he likely went home bloodied and wounded — something family or friends might have noticed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Deborah_Linsley

https://morbidology.com/the-railway-ripper-the-unsolved-murder-of-deborah-linsley/

https://www.channel4.com/news/dna-breakthrough-may-help-crack-train-murder-cold-case

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/brutal-murder-woman-26-south-23659459.amp