Patrick O’Sullivan, known as Patsy to his family, was a 35-year-old chef from Cork, Ireland, working in Killarney, County Kerry. He was last seen by his family at Easter in April 1992 and his disappearance was reported when he failed to show up for a family christening some weeks later.

His family never gave up the search, and a segment about his disappearance aired on Irish television program Crimecall, which airs re-enactments, CCTV, and public pleas for information about unsolved crimes, just last year.

UPDATE

This week it was reported that Patrick willingly disappeared and moved to England. There, he met his partner Stephen Aldridge in 1993, changed his name to Patrick Aldridge and had a non legally binding marriage with Stephen in the early 2000s. Stephen died of heart disease in 2022 and Patrick died of sepsis in 2024.

His status as a missing person was only discovered by chance after his death by Stephen’s niece and goddaughter Nikki. She had been scrolling on Facebook and recognised her uncle’s face in an article about a missing person. Nikki contacted Gardaí in Ireland and successfully found members of Patrick’s Irish family on social media.

Nikki has shared a lot of details about Patrick’s life with the Irish Examiner. He had a happy life in the UK and Nikki recalled memories of picnics, family holidays, and bonding over a shared taste in music. He had said to Nikki that he was unwelcome in Ireland and his family had issues with him being gay.

He was close to his UK family until Stephen’s death but eventually cut ties with them for reasons she doesn’t fully understand, saying in an interview with the Irish Examiner

>“I don't know why he did that, whether it was his pride, or if we reminded him too much of Stephen,"

Patrick’s Irish family were also interviewed by the Irish Examiner, and Patrick’s brother Jerry says his family were aware that Patrick was gay, but it was never acknowledged or discussed.

He says his brother suffered “physical and mental abuse” due to his sexuality, and while he doesn't know the extent of what Patrick experienced, he knows the kind of teasing and even physical abuse he experienced simply for having a gay brother when he was in school.

He shared Patrick had also been hospitalised due to mental health difficulties at some point.

Jerry shared that he is happy to hear Patrick had a good life and is relieved to know that he hadn't been harmed or died by suicide.

Patrick’s family has also learned that the woman who cared for him in his final days, a woman named Tina, did try to trace Patrick’s family after his death and even posted a public plea online, but nothing came of it as it went unnoticed by them.

Ireland for Gay People in 1992.

In 1992, it was a completely different world in Ireland for gay people. Homosexuality was still on the books as a crime and recent Irish court decisions had upheld this law. Homosexuality wasn't decriminalised until 1993.

While Patrick's family knew he was gay, I don't think him saying his family had issues with his sexuality was a lie. Feeling like a shameful secret isn't really much different than being outright rejected.

Sources 

Patrick's missing person notice, reissued 2025. (Garda website)

‘A closure for us’: Cork family learns brother missing since 1992 died in UK two years ago

Family of missing Cork man Patsy O’Sullivan discover the truth after 34 years - Interview with Nikki, Irish Examiner

The disappearance of Patsy O'Sullivan: 'He was gay...we all knew, but it was never said' - Article and podcast interview with Jerry O'Sullivan, Irish Examiner

Content warning: this post contains extremely distressing details of infanticide. Reader discretion is STRONGLY advised.

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Princeton, B.C. - On October 9, 1994 a boy at a campground near Princeton, B.C. discovered the bodies of twin newborn girls.

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Exactly 32 years later, the infants along with their parents have yet to be identified and no arrests and charges have been laid in a murder case that continues to baffle law enforcement in British Columbia.

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Background

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On October 9, 1994 around 7:30 P.M., a 16-year-old boy with his father at the Allison Lake Provincial Park located 30 kms (19 mi) north of Princeton B.C. were looking for a "hunting knife" that his father had lost. The boy began to retrace his and his father's footsteps to where said knife could have fallen. He made his way to an open pit toilet, perhaps thinking it may have slid out his dad's pocket. While inside, he lifted the lid on the toilet and looked into the underground pit with a flashlight. There, he made a horrific discovery that no one, let alone a young boy should have ever made: the decomposed remains of a newborn infant in a garbage bag sitting on top of human excrement. Immediately, they contacted law enforcement.

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After Police arrived on scene they confirmed what the boy found but also made another appalling find: there was actually more than 1 body in the garbage bag and discovered 2 newborn babies (twin Caucasian girls).

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Initially, RCMP Cpl. Russ Pederson stated that the "infants were dead prior to being placed in a garbage bag and thrown into men's toilet." However, as more information was eventually released by Police a grim picture about the twins' death began to emerge.

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First from an article a week later in The Province newspaper, it was revealed from the preliminary autopsy results that there was no "apparent signs of trauma, injury or disease," and had they "received proper medical attention at birth," they would have survived.

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Weeks later, in a November 25, 1994 article from reporter Pete McMartin with The Vancouver Sun, the autopsy results confirmed another disturbing fact: the twin newborns "had been alive when they were dropped into the pit," thus confirming this was a premeditated act.

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Though the exact date of their deaths wouldn't have been known at that time, B.C. death records which can be accessed 20 years after has their passing recorded as October 8, 1994 (Registration Number: 1994-09-023551 for BABY GIRL UNKNOWN B, and 1994-09-023552 for BABY GIRL UNKNOWN A).

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Investigation

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Police wasted no time in searching for clues about the identities of the twin girls and the whereabouts of their mother. Investigators working the case at the time may have also cautiously held back labeling her anything such as a suspect at that point because details surrounding her circumstance would not have been known. Cpl. Russ Pederson appealed directly to her, stating:

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>"Police are concerned about the health and well-being of the mother involved and request that she contact the RCMP or her family doctor."

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Police also asked the public if they had seen a vehicle of interest in the area, "a mid-size, dark colored station wagon" towing a boat trailer as they believed they (the station wagon's occupants) may "have seen something." However, the owners were located quickly and ruled out as to having anything related to the case.

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The next vehicle Police were looking for was "an older-model white car with boxes and a blue tarp in the back seat." A couple associated to this car were described as follows:

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• Male, white, blonde, "about 20," 5'7" (173 cm) tall and 140 lbs. (64 kgs).

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• Female, white, blond, "between 18 and 20," and 5'3" (162 cm) tall. She was also wearing a "light-colored smock shirt."

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Near the end of November 1994, Police followed up on over "100 [other] leads" but admitted the lead they could not track down was this couple and their white car.

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What made this particular lead important was the additional details Police now gave to the public: the car had round tail lights, the male was the driver, and was wearing "blue jeans and a white T-shirt with a cigarette package rolled up in the sleeve." They added that the female was the passenger and that her hair was parted in the middle. However, the most revealing details was that she was "very pregnant," and on October 4, 1994 (which would've been 5 days before the bodies were discovered) both were seen using a "roadside payphone" in Aspen Grove, B.C., a settlement located approximately 20 minutes north of the Allison Lake Provincial Park on Highway 5A. The couple were also seen arguing before heading south on the highway.

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As investigators also checked with hospitals and clinics throughout B.C. and coming up empty handed, another possibility now existed: the mother of the twins may not have received care within the province and that she may have come from either another province or even another country such as the U.S.

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A Town Left Reeling, Comes Together

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Residents in Princeton, B.C. could not just let the victims be in the hands of the coroner or the RCMP; they decided to give the newborn babies the decency they deserved with a memorial that would be held in their town.

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Local funeral parlor owner Fred Netherton donated a casket and "the use of a chapel."

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A service was held for the twins on November 24, 1994 where "40 townspeople" attended. The entire Princeton RCMP were also in attendance.

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Pastor Bob Stewart, who gave the sermon, closed it out with this message to the mother:

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>"And as a community, we say to you, 'Mom, if you ever have to, if you feel you have to, you have a place to view your children in their proper rest. And know that they were loved. That they are loved.'"

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The town council also donated the gravesite at Princeton Cemetery where the twins were interred. A granite headstone was later added after money was raised to pay for it. On it, they were known as Princeton's Twin Angels with the epitaph reading: "Always remembered."

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2017 Update

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23 years later in 2017, the RCMP gave an update on the cold case. It was still open and active, adding that they had still not been able to identify the girls or their parents to date.

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Information from multiple news articles also varied. While some made mention of the couple, it was unclear if police were ever able to identify them, or what their current status was viewed as by investigators (i.e. were they still considered persons of interest, or suspects?)

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Cpl. Dan Moskaluk also said Police were still unsure about the mother, stating:

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>“It’s never been fully determined if the mother was a victim herself or if she was involved.”

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The media also referred to the twin girls as The Princeton Angels, as opposed to Princeton's Twin Angels.

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Aftermath

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Exactly 32 years have now passed since the remains of two precious and innocent newborn twin babies were found murdered. Not only were they taken before they even had a chance to experience anything, they were discarded like nothing into a waste pit, making their untimely demise even more difficult to understand.

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9 years after the last update from the RCMP has only left us with many, many questions: Have the couple last seen in the Aspen Grove area since been identified? Do police still have a belief that the biological parents of the twins may have been from a different province or country? Was the mother involved? Or was she a victim of homicide too?

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What are your thoughts? In this day and age of genetic genealogy, will it just be a matter of time before the twins and their parents are identified, and charges laid?

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If you have any information in The Princeton Angels' case, please call contact the Princeton RCMP at 250-295-6511. If you wish to remain anonymous, please contact CRIMESTOPPERS at 1-800-222-TIPS.

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A.I. Transparency: No Large Language Models (LLMs) was used in this post.

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This post is dedicated to the memory of The Princeton Angels, found slain on this day 32 years ago.

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This post is also dedicated to the residents of Princeton, B.C. for setting the example of how a community comes together, to all the investigators who have tirelessly worked this case (and continue to do so) and to anyone else, directly or indirectly that has been affected by this senseless tragedy.

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Sources:

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The Province, 11 October 1994, Tue

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The Vancouver Sun, 12 October 1994, Wed

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The Province, 16 October 1994, Sun

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/23-years-later-rcmp-renew-calls-for-information-on-homicide-of-newborn-twins-1.4342219

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https://thenorthernview.com/2017/10/05/princeton-police-revisit-grisly-murder-of-twin-baby-girls/

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https://www.pentictonherald.ca/news/article_cbc7274c-aa1a-11e7-920d-d361a9d4a6fb.html

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https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2017/10/05/rcmp-1994-murder-newborn-twins-princeton/

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https://globalnews.ca/video/3787976/princeton-police-appeal-for-tips-in-unsolved-murder-of-twin-babies

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https://globalnews.ca/news/3787687/23-years-later-murder-of-twin-babies-near-princeton-remains-a-mystery/

Dr. Jacobo Grinberg Zylberbaum, a Mexican neuro and consciousness researcher, disappeared in Mexico City on December 8, 1994. He was never found.

For over 20 years, he studied consciousness, meditation, and the work of traditional healers. His "syntergic theory" suggested that the brain interacts with a field of information that shapes our experience of reality. Some say that shortly before vanishing, he claimed to have cracked the code of reality.

There is no confirmed explanation for what happened to him. Was it a crime, a deliberate disappearance, or something stranger?

Or Did he discover something he wasn't supposed to? Appearantly someone didn't want his research to go further

What do you think happened? And if you've read his work, do you think he was onto something?

Source:

https://theamericanscholar.org/the-grinberg-affair/

On March 24, 1991, four-year-old Michael Dunahee disappeared from the playground at Blanshard Elementary School in Victoria, British Columbia.

Michael was at the school with his family while his mother was participating in a women's touch-football game. At approximately 12:30 p.m., Michael went to the playground near the school. Only a few minutes later, his father went to check on him and discovered that Michael was gone.

An extensive search was launched almost immediately, involving police, volunteers and members of the public. Despite an enormous investigation and thousands of tips and reported sightings over the years, Michael has never been found.

The circumstances of his disappearance remain unclear. There has never been a confirmed sighting of Michael after he disappeared, and no one has ever been charged in connection with his disappearance.

The case remains one of Canada's most prominent unsolved missing-child cases, and Michael's disappearance continues to be investigated.

There must be unseen film footage (family films etc) from March 24th 1991 on the day Michael Dunahee disappeared.

Hi, I hope I'm not bothering anyone and I hope this is the right place to suggest/ask something. Has there ever been an effort to get the word out for people in the Victoria area or who lived there during the time of the abduction, to see if anyone has any old family videos from the exact day, and or the days after. I have a feeling that there are more than one person that may incidentally have film footage from the March 24th 1991 date, and that (albeit a hail Mary) there could be a sighting of him on the footage etc. I really think getting a huge effort together to try and gather footage and start watching maybe even try and utilize AI also etc etc. Thank you for your time.

https://missingkids.ca/en/missing-children-database/21?utm\_source=chatgpt.com

https://globalnews.ca/news/9577457/michael-dunahee-search-32-years/?utm\_source=chatgpt.com

https://youtu.be/Kr4p6upaypo?si=3NN6PStr3YVEdpMb

In the spring of 1977, 39-year-old Charles “Chuck” Morgan appeared to be a successful family man living in Tucson, Arizona. He was married to his wife, Ruth, had four daughters, and was president of his own escrow company.

By the beginning of summer, he was dead in the Arizona desert.

What happened in the months between is difficult to separate from the plot of a conspiracy thriller: an unexplained three day disappearance, plastic handcuffs, a claim that someone had drugged his throat, possible organized-crime connections, secret testimony, a mystery woman calling herself “Green Eyes,” a tooth wrapped in a handkerchief, and a $2 bill covered in apparent codes.

Some parts of Morgan’s story come from his wife and later witnesses and cannot be independently verified. But many of the strangest details found after his death were documented by investigators and contemporary newspapers.

The first disappearance

On March 22, 1977, Morgan left home to take two of his daughters to school.

Then he disappeared.

Three days later, at around 2 a.m. Ruth Morgan heard their dog barking and a noise at the back door.

Chuck was standing outside.

According to Ruth, he was missing a shoe. Plastic restraints were still attached to his hands, and another was around one ankle.

More disturbing was the fact that he would not speak.

Ruth later recalled that when she asked whether he could write, Morgan nodded. She brought him a pen and paper.

What he wrote was bizarre.

Morgan claimed he had been kidnapped. He said his captors had painted the inside of his throat with some kind of hallucinogenic drug and that the substance could damage his nervous system, drive him insane, or kill him.

When Ruth wanted to contact a doctor or police, he refused.

According to her, Chuck believed involving anyone else could amount to a death sentence for the entire family.

For roughly the next week, Ruth cared for him at home.

During that period Morgan wrote another strange message: “They took my Treasury identification.”

Ruth said this was the first time she had heard her husband suggest he had any connection to the federal government. Morgan later told her he had supposedly been working with the Treasury Department for several years.

Whether Morgan really had a Treasury role has never been conclusively established. But there was one element of his claims that was not simply paranoia or family lore: his business had placed him close to serious financial investigations.

Morgan had performed escrow work associated with organized-crime figures, and contemporary reporting later established that he had recently testified in a secret state investigation into illegal financial activity on both sides of the Arizona-Mexico border. He had also told other people that he was working undercover for the Treasury Department.

His behavior changed rapidly and whatever happened during those three missing days, Morgan apparently came away convinced that his life was in danger.

He began wearing a bulletproof vest.

He carried weapons.

His belt buckle concealed a knife.

His Mercury Cougar was modified so that it could be unlocked through the fender from outside the vehicle.

He also became particularly protective of his daughters, reportedly insisting on driving them himself.

Then, roughly two and a half months after the first disappearance, Morgan vanished again.

This time he did not return.

Nine days into his disappearance, Ruth received a telephone call from a woman she did not recognize.

The woman addressed her familiarly as “Ruthie.”

According to Ruth, the caller told her:

“Chuck is all right. Ecclesiastes 12, 1 through 8.”

Then she hung up.

Ecclesiastes 12 is an unusually ominous passage to invoke while speaking to the wife of a missing man. It deals with approaching death, the failing of the body, and the eventual return of the body to dust.

Two days later, on June 18, 1977, Charles Morgan was found dead approximately 40 miles west of Tucson, near his Mercury Cougar. He had been missing for eleven days.

Morgan had suffered a single close-range gunshot wound to the back of his head.

The weapon was his own .357 Magnum revolver and was lying nearby.

Morgan had gone into the desert dressed like a man expecting someone else to shoot him.

He was wearing his bulletproof vest.

He still had a holster and the belt buckle containing the concealed knife.

According to the Arizona Daily Star, investigators found no fingerprints on the revolver beside him.

The contents of Morgan’s car were just as strange.

Investigators found weapons, ammunition and CB-radio equipment.

Then they found one of Morgan’s teeth.

It had apparently been removed from his mouth and carefully wrapped inside a handkerchief.

Why the tooth had been removed, when it happened, or why Morgan kept it wrapped in his vehicle has never been satisfactorily explained.

Investigators also reportedly found a piece of paper containing directions to the area where Morgan died. The directions were written in Morgan’s own handwriting.

A pair of sunglasses found at the scene reportedly did not belong to him.

And then they discovered the item that has come to define the case.

Pinned or clipped inside Morgan’s underwear was a $2 bill covered in writing.

This was not simply a dollar bill with a random scribble or two.

On one side were seven Spanish names beginning with the letters A through G.

“Ecclesiastes 12” was written on the bill.

The numbers corresponding to verses 1 through 8 were apparently indicated with arrows connected to portions of the bill’s serial number.

That was the exact chapter of the Bible the mysterious woman had mentioned to Ruth only two days before Morgan’s body was discovered.

The reverse side had figures depicted in the Declaration of Independence scene were numbered, and a rough map had been drawn across the bill. The map appeared to correspond to an area south of Tucson toward the Mexican border.

Nobody has convincingly demonstrated what Morgan was trying to communicate.

But hiding the bill inside his clothing strongly suggests that, if Morgan placed it there himself, he wanted it to stay with him and eventually be discovered.

“Green Eyes”

Two days after Morgan’s body was found, another call reportedly came in-- this time to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.

The caller identified herself only as “Green Eyes.”

According to the account later featured by Unsolved Mysteries, she claimed she was the same woman who had telephoned Ruth and quoted Ecclesiastes.

She also claimed she had recently met Morgan at a motel.

Her story, if true, offers one possible explanation for why Morgan had been hiding.

“Green Eyes” claimed Morgan showed her a briefcase containing thousands of dollars. She said he believed a contract had been placed on his life and intended to use the money to buy his way out of it.

There is no independent way to know how much of her account was true.

But investigators had legitimate reasons to examine the possibility that Morgan had become entangled with dangerous people.

His escrow work had brought him into contact with organized-crime interests, and he had given secret testimony in a state investigation shortly before his death. Those connections were reported in Arizona newspapers independently of the later television retellings.

Murder or suicide?

The Pima County Sheriff’s investigation ultimately concluded that there was no evidence of foul play and treated Morgan’s death as a suicide.

It is possible to construct a suicide theory.

Morgan may have been under enormous psychological pressure. His first disappearance could have been staged or could have involved events very different from what he told his wife. The mysterious clues may have been created by Morgan himself.

But that interpretation raises its own questions.

If Morgan intended to kill himself, why did he travel into the desert wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying multiple means of protecting himself?

Why were there no fingerprints on the revolver found beside him?

Why was his tooth wrapped inside a handkerchief?

What was the purpose of the directions to the scene?

Who owned the sunglasses?

And, most importantly, what was the purpose of the $2 bill hidden beneath his clothing?

And the obvious detail of a bullet wound to the back of the head being deemed a suicide just does not jive with me.

The alternative is that Morgan really was frightened because someone intended to kill him.

In that scenario, the $2 bill becomes particularly interesting. It could have been something he prepared in advance-- a crude dead-man’s message containing names, locations or information that would make sense only to whoever knew the key.

There is also the unanswered question of the first disappearance.

If Ruth’s description was accurate, Morgan returned home physically restrained and so frightened that he refused medical treatment or police involvement. Even if his explanation about a hallucinogen was false or confused, something appears to have convinced him that he and his family were in immediate danger.

One final strange detail

After Morgan died, Ruth said two men arrived at her home claiming to be FBI agents.

According to her, they briefly displayed identification and asked to search the house. She allowed them inside, and they searched extensively without explaining exactly what they were looking for.

Ruth did not record their names.

Journalist Don Devereux later attempted to obtain information about Morgan from the FBI and claimed he encountered difficulty establishing what records the agency had concerning him.

Because this portion of the story relies heavily on Ruth and Devereux’s accounts, I would not treat it as proof of a government conspiracy.

But nearly fifty years later, there is no single explanation that comfortably accounts for everything.

Maybe Chuck Morgan was involved in financial crimes and knew too much.

Maybe he secretly cooperated with investigators and was discovered.

Maybe he was suffering from paranoia and created an elaborate narrative around his own death.

Or maybe the strangest clues-- the restraints, the vest, the tooth, the unidentified sunglasses and especially the coded $2 bill--were exactly what they appeared to be:

pieces of a warning Morgan never lived long enough to explain.

Source:

Arizona Daily Star — Charles Morgan

https://tucson.com/charles-morgan/article\_9b6ad508-b528-11e7-8290-979928329998.html