Just The Tip-sters

Herschel Chandler, Jenny Sue Iles and The BTK monster all had updates this week. 

Its hard to imagine a high school junior kills a woman who is on a hike while camping with her boyfriend. Bryan Bennett was 16 years old when he killed so very brutally, Cathy Sposito, a 23 year old college student. Thumb Butte Trail in Yavapai County, AZ would never be the same. And Bennett did not stop there. He was linked posthumously through DNA to 3 other brutal sexual assaults. The Yavapai Sheriff's Office does not think his monsterous acts ended there. If you were assaulted by Bryan Bennett or know someone who may have been please contact the Yavapai Sheriff's Office at 928-771-3260

May of 1984 in a small town in Indiana at a prestigous college in Southern Indiana a night security guard was beaten to death in the Business Adminstration building around 4:30 AM. Was it just an interrupted robbery? Herschel's story deservers more than this open ending and his legacy is more than an unsolved homicide. If you have any information on Herschel's case, if you attended Hanover College  at the time, if you know anyone who did or heard anything you think might be too small to matter, it is not. Please call or email Michael Nossett, General Counsel for Eric Holcomb the present governer of Indiana: 317-232-4567 or email [email protected]

Mickey Thompson met his soul mate in High School and that was it for him. Trudy was the definition of a partner to Mickey. He was the dare devil/race car entreprenuer and she was right beside him as he created an empire. He owned many patents on safety features he and his team had invented for all kinds of vehicles. He was tough but fair but if you proved yourself and got into the inner sanctum you were in forever. Until business partner Michael Goodwin violated every trust you could put into another person. This is Mickey and Trudy's story. 

When 7 year old Jenny Sue lles walked down her street to a friends house and never returned the city of Covington, Kentucky was turned upside down trying to locate her. Ten days later she was discovered on the second story of an abandoned house by someone collection alluminum. A suspect was arrested, indicted and convicted but that was overturned a short two years later. Jenny's case should not remained unsolved. If you know anything about this 1989 abduction, rape and murder of a 7 year old girl please contact the Covington PD 859-292-2222 Co-Host Joshua Bevan Editing Wizardry- Matthew Kelly/Geekscape Bullshittery- Melissa Morgan

Linda Peterson struggled like we all do. A difficult upbringing led her to quelling her pain with substance abuse. But she pulled herself out of that life for her grandchildren who lit up her world. She not only kept clean she would volunteer to help others going through the same struggles. She would even go to rehab when she was clean as a refresher in case she felt like she might falter. Someone with this will to live and help others should not have disappeared over $400 dollars. More than one person knows Linda's whereabouts. If you know ANYTHING at all about where Linda might be or those involved with her disappearance: The Baker County Major Crime Team has offered a $2,500 reward, and Crime Stoppers of Oregon added the same amount for a total of $5,000, for information that leads to an arrest in connection with Linda Peterson's disappearance. Anyone with information can contact the Baker City Police Department at 541-524-2014.

If you, your parents or grandparents ever saw a soft-voiced, gentle man with the strangest afro ever teaching the world how to paint 'Happy Little Trees,' on the PBS show "The Joy of Painting," you know Bob Ross. The OG unintended inventor of AMSR (auto sensory meridian response) with his voice like a 'Liquid Tranquilizer,' he was a fascinating man for sure. But I can tell you with utmost certainty he was not a serial killer who painted areas where he had buried his victims. Between the TV show, teaching many painting workshops (with lots of witnesses) and a full platter of romantic entanglements he would not have had the time. There IS a crime element to his much too short and remarkable life, though. You can hear part of his story here in this episode. 

In 2011 Amy Pitzen took her 6 year old son out of kindergarten saying there was a family emergency. She left town with Timmothy and took him to his favorite zoo, an amusement park and finally a resort hotel. She left notes saying Timmothy was with people who loved him and his father and the rest of his family would never find him. She then ended her own life in the hotel bathtub. Timmothy has not been seen or heard from again even though someone claimed to be him in 2019. Where is Timmothy Pitzen? 

Carrie Gaskins daughter comes home from school to the worst scene imaginable: her 30 year old mother has been murdered in their home. There was no sign of a forced entry and detectives think she absolutely knew who killed her. If you have any information on this 1992 homicide from Clermont County, Ohio please call the investigations department of the Clermont County Sheriff's Dept at (513) 732-7545

I tend to think of mass shootings as something more current but what is largely considered America's first mass shooting was in 1949 even before University of Texas. There was such clear, complete and unvarnished coverage of this terrible event. One journalist won the Pulitzer Prize for News Reporting on this case. Howard Unruh took 13 lives and yet he lived 60 more years after the terror he brought to Camden, New Jersey. There are some heros in the story. Try to remember that. 

When one person in a troubled relationship disappears and the story told by the remaining partner sounds a bit implausible you hopoe SOMEONE knows more and feels comfortable letting it out by now. Help Gail's sons, Joey and Brian know what happened to their mother. If you know anything about this case please call the Pasco County Sheriff's Office at 727-847-5878m or the Crime Stoppers Number at 800-873 TIPS. 

What happens when you are a highly esteemed NYT Magazine writer who is caught up in a self-made scandal and a family annihilator is living in Mexico under your name? True Story: Memoir, Murder, Mea Culpea is Mike Finkel's story woven into Christian Longo's nightmarish violence. Finkel's book came out in 2005 and a movie made from the book came out in 2015. Its a fascinating story and you can hear it on this weeks episode. 

You live 87 years being the best person you canbe. You have a long and enduring marriage, you build a home with 3 daughters. After losing your husband of many decades you move to a retirement village where the employees are vetted and are part of the team to protect and help care for you. Or are they? Barbara Howe did not go down easily and according to her killer she "talked" to him after she died. Daniel French was convicted of her homicide and requested a lobotomy to erase what he did and Barbara's visits from his mind. Listen to Barbara's story. 

When a young woman goes missing and no one seems to be connected enough to report this and then a torso ends up in a river in Spokane Washington she is named Millie Doe in a heartbreaking but beautiful event. Hear how it takes over 4 decades to get enough information to give Ruth her name back. But who killed her? The Spokane PD has a very strong suspect but they can use more information. If you lived in Spokane, knew Ruth or her second husband (Trampus) David Lee Vaughn AKA David Vaughn, AKA David Lee, went to Rogers High School in the late 70's or early 80's, or have any information even if you think its small and inconsequential, PLEASE contact Sgt. Zac Storment, Spokane PD at their Crime Check Number-(509)-456-2233.

No one should be missing and their family not have answers. No one should be murdered after a sexual assault and saying it would be reported. Who exactly killed Stephanie Quezada? There are two really good suspects. Some additional info is needed. If you know anything ANYTHING at all about the Stephanie Quezada murder or any of the people mentioned in the podcast PLEASE contact the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500