u/mvincen95

https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/04/20/man-found-guilty-killing-wife-after-being-bailed-out-by-nonprofit/

https://youtu.be/DoAkUup6Qak?is=2sVVYxbicmUne\_x3

This Jane Doe was speculated to be a victim of the I-5 Strangler, Roger Kibbe. All the info I have on her comes from a single newspaper article. There is no NAMUS case. I could not find a single other newspaper article that mentions her. I know it’s a long shot but does anybody have any further ideas about where to look?

Here is the full newspaper article. There is another Doe mentioned. She was later identified as Robbin Simpson.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sacramento-bee-suspect-charged-with/114801738/

This article ran October 13, 1969. I found it in the LA Times, but I suspect it may have ran other places as well. I’ve never heard these details in regard to this case. Any clue where this is coming from?

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-paul-stine-blond/202853996/

The crime spree of Willie Steelman and Douglas Gretzler is a confusing tale, defined by senseless violence in the name of committing petty robberies and stealing vehicles. The case culminated on November 6-7, 1973, when they planned to rob a grocery store owner named Walter Parkin near Lodi, California. The night devolved as more hostages became involved in their plot, which only netted the pair about $3000-$4000. A houseguest of the Parkins returned home that night and fell asleep in the home, not realizing that there were nine bodies in the other bedrooms. The deviant duo was caught just two days later. Both were sentenced to death, one died by lethal injection, and one of cirrhosis at only 41 while on death row.

The victims were grocer Walter Parkins and his wife Joanne, their two children Lisa and Bobby, the kid’s babysitter siblings Debbie and Richard Jr Earl, Debbie’s boyfriend Mark Lang, and Richard Sr and Wanda Earl.

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/11/mass-murder-forever-etched-consciousness/

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

Shortly after 5:20 p.m. on January 24, 1986, nine-year-old Beth Ringheim arrived at her father's home at 7168 Brighton Drive in Dublin, California. Dropped off by her mother, the young girl approached the single-story tract home situated on a quiet street directly across from Dublin High School. While the front door was usually kept unlocked for her, Beth noticed on this occasion that it was propped open. She waved to her mother to signal she was heading inside. She opened the door to a horrible scene.

Inside the living room, both 41-year-old Harve Perry Ringheim and his 29-year-old wife, Keiko N. Ringheim, lay brutally murdered. Harve, a popular veterinarian at Diablo View Veterinary Hospital in Pleasant Hill, was found with his hands tied behind his back and had been stabbed repeatedly in the head, face, neck, and heart. Keiko, whose body was found nearby, had been gagged with tape and strangled. She was found with her hands tied behind her back with duct tape and her head still submerged in a bucket of water when police arrived at 5:24 p.m., indicating to investigators that she had been brutally tortured prior to her death.

Retracing the events leading up to the murders, investigators noted the couple had just returned from a ski trip the day before they died. Harve was seen at a car wash the morning of the murders. Sergeant Clifton Swetnam initially placed the time of the killings between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (a window detectives later narrowed to between 10:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.), theorizing that more than one killer entered the meticulously clean home without any signs of forced entry. Although neighbors reported hearing what sounded like gunshots, police found no evidence that firearms had been used.

The chilling scene fueled multiple theories regarding a motive. Some neighbors suspected the assailants were torturing Keiko to extract information or items from Harve, with one unidentified neighbor stating, "I think they were looking for something and threatening him through her." Conversely, police investigators believed Keiko may have been the primary target, suggesting the intruders subdued her first and then took Harve by surprise when he returned home from taking his car to be washed. The perpetrators were described by police as "cool" and efficient; while a few drawers had been pulled open, the home was not ransacked and no items of value appeared to have been stolen. The killers vanished with the murder weapon, inexplicably leaving the victims' wallet and purse resting on a nearby couch, empty of cash.
The tragedy cut short a marriage that would have celebrated its first anniversary that March. Keiko had originally come to the United States from Japan in the mid-1970s as an exchange student. She was sponsored by Harve and his third wife, Suzanne, and even lived with the family before that marriage ended and she eventually married Harve. Harve himself was remembered by his daughter as a quiet man who enjoyed snow skiing and soccer, constantly "cracking jokes and laughing."

Despite occurring in a quiet suburb across from a bustling high school, the killers slipped away almost unseen. Beth recalled spotting someone crossing the street as she fled the house in a panic, but acknowledged it could have been anybody. In 2011, DNA tests of evidence from the scene developed two male profiles. They haven’t matched any known offenders in law enforcement databases. Investigators stated in a 2026 SFGate article that they may pursue genetic genealogy in the case. Even 40 years later the victims family members are still desperately waiting for a conclusion to this case.

Rest in peace Harve and Keiko, you and your families deserve justice.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ringheim-bay-area-cold-case-22242844.php

Tom was a well-loved biker with a successful career and a long-term girlfriend, Barbara. He enjoyed his Harley but rode with other professionals and didn’t have ties to anything illicit. He and Barbara had only moved to Southern California from the East Coast three years prior.

When Tom’s girlfriend, Barbara, returned home after he failed to pick her up from work in their shared truck, she found the apartment unlocked, looking as if Tom had just stepped out for a minute. His truck and Harley were still there. Tom had missed grabbing lunch with her as well, but she’d tried not to worry too quickly. Now she knew something wasn’t right. Six days later, an envelope appeared in the apartment’s mailbox.

Police have withheld parts of the two-page typewritten letter, but much has been released. The letter contains various typos and strange formatting. The letter's postmark location has never been released. In addition to his license, the envelope contained Tom’s credit cards, an earring, a nipple ring, and the registration to his Harley.

"I'm suffering a great deal of guilt right now about what I have done and feel it is necessary to write about it for my sake nd yours. You don't know me and hopefully you never will but I am the one who killed Tom Roche. I cannot and willnot go to jail. I could never handle it.

I almost lost my mind. Never again.

I loved being in Vietnam, in fact those were the happiest days of my life. I felt such a rush when ever I had a confirmed kill that it was hard to switch it off when I came back to the 'tates. For 18 long years I have held this in check despite the nightmares and fantasies about killing. This Jefferey Dahemer thing really got to me and I wondered if I could still do it.

I met Tom at a strip joint in The Valley and got to talking. I figured L.A. would be the best place for what I had in mind. I did not want just a random thing cause you can get caught that way so I set up a plan. He fell for it and we arranged to meet on Friday the 13th... I must assure you that it was neat and quick. I do not think he suffered at all."

An eyewitness had seen Tom speaking with a white male and looking into the bed of a pickup truck on the morning he disappeared. Tom’s apartment was directly next to I-5, the interstate that runs throughout the West Coast. No apparent crime scene was found anywhere at the apartment complex. It appears the 6-foot-2, 210-pound man was somehow compelled to leave with his killer.

On January 11, 1992, Tom’s remains were found 500 miles north of Burbank in rural Placer County, off a logging road northeast of Sacramento. His clothes, boots, and glasses were found along with the remains. Police said Tom was shot to death; some sources state the skull had a bullet hole in it.

Unfortunately, since the remains were identified, there have been practically no updates in Tom’s case. Rest in peace Tom.

On November 8, 2002, in Stamford, Connecticut, a 911 call was placed “I think a guy has attacked my neighbor. I saw a guy go into her apartment. He was in there and he attacked her. I heard yelling. I heard yelling.” The call abruptly hung up.

Inside the waterfront condo lay the body of 32-year-old Anna Lisa Raymundo. She had been stabbed in a furious attack, before being beaten with a dumbbell. The main suspect was her boyfriend, a coworker of Anna Lisa’s at Purdue Pharma named Nelson Sessler. That night when he came home to find his condo surrounded by police, rather than so much as asking what was happening, he went into a boat shed and fell asleep. He was later found to have a rock solid alibi. The case went cold, as police couldn’t figure out who could want to murder the well loved Anna Lisa.

On March 23, 2003, Sheila Davalloo and her husband Paul Christos marriage was on the rocks. Despite this Davalloo convinced her husband to play a game in their New York condo. He agreed to be blindfolded and handcuffed to a chair, and was to guess what item his wife was touching him with. This was all a ruse, and Davalloo stabbed her husband repeatedly. The scene became confused quickly, Davalloo tried to pass off the incident as an accident. Paul convinced his wife to drive him to the hospital, but when they were in their vehicle Davalloo stabbed him again. He was able to attract the attention of some bystanders, at which time Sheila fled. She was arrested for attempted murder.

At her trial it came out that Davalloo, who worked at Purdue Pharma, was having an affair with a coworker, Nelson Sessler. When the connection to Sessler came out investigators focused in on Davalloo as a suspect in Anna Lisa’s murder. Davalloo was convicted of the attempted murder of her husband, which with her 25 year sentence gave Connecticut investigators the time they needed to investigate further.

They wouldn’t charge Sheila Davalloo for the murder until 2007, and her trial would not begin until 2012. At her trial Sheila represented herself. Although the well educated biochemist fared better than most who represent themselves, jurors had many weeks to listen to Sheila speak in court, which convinced them that she was the woman who called 911 to report the attack on Anna Lisa. It also didn’t help that Sheila’s blood was found in Anna Lisa’s bathroom, where investigators posited the killer had cleaned up after the vicious knife attack. Davalloo was convicted, and sentenced to 50 years for Anna Lisa’s murder, which she will serve after she completes her previous sentence in New York. It is all but guaranteed that Davalloo will die in prison for her crimes. Rest in peace Anna Lisa.

https://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/davalloo-sheila.htm

https://youtu.be/RVvNC\_Wkdis?is=1rQ55ms0tTa3O\_Bv

Witnesses described the shooter as a dark-skinned woman between 35 and 50 years old, wearing inconspicuous dark clothing and sporting dyed blonde hair pulled back (which some speculated was a wig).

Most of the victims of sexual assaults on these bus routes were assembly plant workers on the night shift.

Her email has never been fully released but excerpts have:

"I myself and other women have suffered in silence but we can't stay quiet anymore," the email said. "We were victims of sexual violence by the drivers on the night shift on the routes to the maquilas," a reference to the border assembly plants that employ many residents in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. "I am the instrument of vengeance for several women."

While the connection to this email has never been proven, police took it seriously and it became the leading theory in the case. The case remains unsolved.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/vigilante-known-diana-hunter-behind-bus-driver-slayings-mexico-flna8c11062104

People are now plastering his neighborhood in the Chicago area with flyers warning about his behavior. His girlfriend found multiple videos on his phone of his vile activities.

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-kitten-killer-wicker-park-man-who-tortured-kittens-released-from-custody.amp

Hill was a beloved member of his community. He was the starting quarterback for his high school.

Forhenkam had been mugged nearby before the shooting. He could not have mistaken Hill for his mugger, as the mugger was white. He had a previous criminal history, including an arson attack.

https://www.fox9.com/news/deshaun-hill-murder-cody-fohrenkam-sentenced-28-years-prison-march-2026.amp

https://youtu.be/0vvhkwf4X2g?is=RKZUi\_HZ9d3pKdlz

It is difficult to find good sourcing to show what the outcome of the case was, but all sources I did find suggest that Amelia’s husband Joshua Ramsawmy was sentenced to life without parole, and because of Bissoon’s cooperation against her husband she received only three years in prison, and has already been released. Next week will mark eight years since this crime occurred.

To clarify the first picture shows Bissoon and her husband Ramsawmy, and the second is of the victims Cynthia and Sean.

https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2018/07/28/2-charged-in-july-18-slayings-of-mother--son

https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/new-details-released-in-double-murder.amp

On Sunday, June 23, 1991, 7-year-old Jennifer Patterson vanished from the Holly Hills Mobile Home Park on Bragg Boulevard in Spring Lake, North Carolina. She lived with her parents, Jinger (spelled various ways across articles) and Alan, who, despite being divorced, were still living together at the time. According to her mother, Jennifer left her home at around 1:15 p.m. to play with two boys who lived four houses away. She was last seen wearing a white one-piece swimsuit adorned with orange, yellow, pink, and turquoise squares and squiggles. She was barefoot.

Around 200 volunteers, including many stationed at nearby Fort Bragg, searched the area around the mobile home park, but after three days, the search was called off with nothing relevant found. One eyewitness supposedly saw Jennifer at a nearby convenience store talking to a man described as “shirtless, scruffy, and wearing stained blue jeans.” Police could not verify the sighting.

The investigation eventually circled back to the Pattersons themselves. According to The Charley Project, Alan was supposed to take a paternity test as part of ongoing marital and custody issues, which could have caused him to owe substantial child support for Jennifer. This test could not be performed with Jennifer missing. Each parent took a polygraph test, which Alan later told reporters he supposedly “did poorly on.” Police continued to pressure Alan to reveal more, and eventually, he did. Two months after Jennifer’s disappearance and following a third polygraph test, Alan apparently told investigators that Jennifer was alive and being cared for, but he wouldn’t say where she was. He offered information in exchange for an agreement that he wouldn’t be prosecuted, which police agreed to. Alan said he did not want Jennifer living with her mother.

Alan quickly backtracked on his statements and, through a lawyer, told investigators that he would not be able to help find Jennifer. He supposedly said that his statements had been hypothetical. Police were left without enough evidence to move forward regarding Alan’s potential involvement. Alan and Jinger soon moved, separately, from the area. According to a now unavailable article referenced on Websleuths, there was a renewed investigation in 2011 that Alan participated in. Nothing seemingly came of the renewed efforts.

The mobile home park where Jennifer lived no longer exists today. Sadly, there have been few updates in Jennifer’s case in decades. If she is alive, I hope Jennifer has lived a good life, but if she is not, I hope that her case will see justice one day.

Loader reportedly told Walpole to “stay in the kitchen making scones.” Walpole had consumed between 23 and 35 drinks and cocaine that night.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/australian-woman-sets-friend-on-fire-after-he-asked-her-to-stay-in-the-kitchen-8470340/amp/1

https://people.com/misogynistic-remark-doused-gasoline-light-fire-convicted-11740573

Cayce Lynn McDaniel vanished from her home in Milan, Tennessee, in the early morning hours of August 16, 1996. The 14-year-old had attended a back to school party at the Double Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church earlier that evening. A chaperone drove her home and dropped her off at approximately 12:30 a.m., watching to ensure she made it safely inside the house. Her mother, Cindy, arrived home between 1:30 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. to find the house completely unsecured and her daughter missing.

The scene inside the home indicated Cayce was getting ready for bed before she was interrupted. The back door was left slightly open, and the television in her bedroom was still turned on. The clothes she wore to the church party were laid out, suggesting she had already changed into her pajamas. A snack of cookies and milk was left untouched on the floor. There were no signs of a struggle. Her favorite new shoes were also left behind in her room, leading investigators to believe she left the house barefoot.

Because Cayce frequently spent the night at the homes of her friends, her mother did not immediately contact the police. She instead chose to call around and search the area with a family friend. Law enforcement was notified about ten hours later. The case was initially slowed down by the tendency of police at the time to classify missing teenagers as runaways. The untouched snack, the open door, and the lack of footwear pointed away from a voluntary departure. The lack of a struggle led police to believe Cayce voluntarily opened the door for someone she knew. As the investigation continued, police released multiple sketches to the public. One sketch featured a man who was supposedly seen with Cayce at a Walmart and a fair. Another sketch was produced by a psychic. National attention was eventually brought to the investigation when the case was featured on the television show Americas Most Wanted.

The case went unsolved for over two decades. Suspicion eventually focused on a man named Finis Ewin Hill, whom Cayce knew as Uncle Pete. On the night of the disappearance, Cindy and her boyfriend attended a party where Hill was also present. According to Cindy, Hill made unwanted sexual advances toward her. When she threatened to tell her boyfriend, Hill became angry and left the party shortly before Cindy did. Cindy harbored strong suspicions about Hill shortly after her daughter vanished. Investigators believe an angry Hill drove to the house seeking revenge, found Cayce home alone, and gained entry because the teenager trusted him. His wife initially provided an alibi for his whereabouts that night, but it was later proven false. Hill also had a documented history of violence, having previously tried to abduct a woman from a car wash in Jackson, Tennessee, in 2001. Hill was arrested shortly after getting out of prison for that crime, when in 2018 he was caught in a federal sting traveling across state lines to meet a fictional minor for sex. The McDaniel family endured another tragedy while waiting for answers when Cayce's father, Ronnie, died in a house fire in 2003.

In October 2019, Hill was indicted for first degree murder and rape in connection with the disappearance. The case did not go to trial. District Attorney General Frederick Agee announced a plea agreement in August 2022. Hill entered an Alford plea and accepted a 15 year prison sentence. This type of plea allowed him to avoid a trial without formally admitting guilt. Prosecutors stated that Hill shared some details about the crime in exchange for the plea deal. They noted that his information left no doubt of his guilt. He also supposedly provided information on where Cayce was buried. Law enforcement has released very little public information about Hill’s statements.

Rest in peace Cayce.

The papers made some interesting connections between this Jane Doe and various other grisly murders in Northern California in the 1990s. Most notably the case was tied to the 1994 murder of Sharalyn Murphy as both were similarly dismembered. Murphy’s body was dumped in Calaveras County, with no clothes, jewelry, head, or hands. With each victim the head was not located. The papers tried to link each victim to serial killer Cary Stayner, but there didn’t seem to be much to make of the theory.

This case could also potentially be related to the 1992 murder of Veronica Martinez, whose decapitated body was found in El Dorado County. That case was speculated to be linked to the 1991 kidnapping-murder of Cindy Wanner, which was recently solved.

This Sutter County Jane Doe is said to be white, between 24 and 32, about 5’6 and 115 pounds, with a hysterectomy scar on her abdomen. There is no listing of her on Namus. It appears that Sutter County does not have any Does listed.

The year 1956 was a busy one for detectives in Delaware. The state had seen only five murders the previous year, but that number ballooned to seventeen that fateful year. Only one of those cases would go unsolved, however: the murder of 22-year-old mother Alberta Cousins. Alberta, who was two weeks away from giving birth to her second child, had been reading in Valley Garden Park in Wilmington when she was shot through the heart by a phantom sniper. This August will mark six decades that this case has remained unsolved.

Alberta had married her childhood sweetheart, Lauren, after the two grew up together in Mercer, Pennsylvania. They had moved just that May after Lauren was hired as a research chemist in Delaware. Their son, Douglas, was staying with Alberta's parents in Pittsburgh until after the new baby was born. Early on the afternoon of August 23, Alberta left her home at the Monroe Park apartments to visit the park, which was a regular habit for the young mother.

She had been reading in a sunny spot in the grass near the parking lot when she was apparently startled by a shot fired at her. Detectives believe she had gathered her book and shoes and started running toward her car when she was struck through the heart by a .22-caliber bullet. She fell dead near the road, gunned down in the middle of the day in an active park.

Some park visitors later recalled hearing "several" shots that afternoon, but no one saw the shooting itself. Some had even seen Alberta’s body over the next few hours—as early as 2:20 p.m.—but thought she was simply asleep. It seems the shooting happened quickly after Alberta arrived, likely within thirty minutes. A park police sergeant found her just before 6:00 p.m. while patrolling the park before it closed. Her husband returned home from work to find her missing and asked a neighbor to drive him to the park to see if she had car trouble or the like, only to discover that the police had just arrived.

The police worked quickly to search the park. According to one article, the shot was apparently fired from a wooded area about 135 feet from her body. It is unclear whether detectives found shell casings, but it does not appear they did. The next day, divers searched for the weapon but came up empty.

Newspapers quickly jumped on the salacious story, going as far as to print photos of Alberta’s body at the crime scene. Few details can be discerned from them today, but she appeared to have been running, and her belongings were scattered about. The papers continued to follow the story for years, though there was little new information to report.

The police seemed to have worked tirelessly to solve the case. They ruled out those close to her—including her husband—tested countless .22-caliber weapons in the area, and interviewed dozens of suspects in the following years. Many articles show detectives investigating various similar perpetrators from multiple states. Reports repeatedly suggested police couldn’t rule out the possibility that the shooting was accidental and that Alberta had been mistaken for an animal by a hunter; however, this seemed to be a tactic to coax the shooter into coming forward. The circumstances strongly suggest this was a calculated attack, and on a woman who was visibly pregnant.

Alberta’s husband was understandably crippled by the loss and took their young son, Douglas, back to Pittsburgh to live. An article from the 1980s notes that Douglas had no memory of his mother and didn’t learn the details of her death until he was twenty-five. His father had remarried when Douglas was three. Douglas reflected that his entire life would have been different if it weren’t for that fateful bullet, but he also stated that he is at peace with it. He believes a deranged individual committed the crime. I cannot find Douglas online today, it appears his father Lauren passed away in 2024.

Sadly, this is a case that was almost impossible to solve then, and it almost certainly is now. When reviewing cold cases, it is often the story of the phantom shooter that leaves the police with the least to go on. Rest in peace, Alberta Cousins; you and your family deserve justice.

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This write-up was sourced through archival newspaper research, as there is essentially no mention of this case elsewhere on the internet. I strive to bring attention to unknown cold cases.