Cascadia Crime & Cryptids

The gruesome murder of Mary Ellen Stackhouse rocked her San Jose, CA neighborhood in 1963, and her attacker should have been in some kind of custody years prior to ever meeting her. 

Sources

• Practice to Deceive, Ann Rule
• https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-mary-ellen-st/36091999/?locale=en-US
• https://www.seattlepi.com/local/sound/article/ONE-WOMAN-TWO-STORIE...

A twenty-minute window holds the answer we still don't have: who killed Sandra Albiani?

Sources

• https://humboldtgov.org/2772/Unsolved-Cases
  
• https://kymkemp.com/2022/06/09/unguarded-a-security-guards-murder-remains-unsolved-on-the-twenty-fifth-anniversary-of-her-death/
  
• https://www.northcoastjournal.com/052799/news0527.html
  
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/627826270/?m...

The last in Caro's Tahoe miniseries (but not the last of Tahoe content!) takes us to the Cal-Neva Hotel, a property that has changed hands many times, been host to celebrities, mobsters, politicians, and more over the years, and most recently, inspired a 2018 film featuring some folks you might be familiar with!  

Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe are the most famous of the folk said to occasionally haunt the Cal-Neva and other Lake...

Who killed beautiful, joyful art student Euarchol Wanchipan?  Her case has been cold since 2017.

If you have any information, please call the VIIMCU information line at 250-380-6211, or if you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222- TIPS. 

Sources

• https://www.earthsoption.com/obituaries/Euarchol-WANICHPAN?obId=22723963
  

What happened to Ruthie Fawn Kindness?

If you have any information about this case, please contact the Auburn Police Department at 253-931-3080.

Sources

• https://wsp.wa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Kindness_Ruthie-1.pdf
  
• https://charleyproject.org/case/ruthie-fawn-kindness
  
• https://www.facebook.com/rkindness1
  
• https://www.facebook.com/wheres.ruthie
  

Kind of a cryptid + Indigenous legend story time for this one - the Washoe legend of the great bird of Lake Tahoe, The Ong. 

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washoe_people
• https://issuu.com/communityinkinc/docs/northwoodstahoe_novdec_finalproof2/s/27883
• https://nevadamagazine.com/issue/november-december-2019/11677/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong_(Washoe_folklore)
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We wouldn't even have this case to present if Utah's justice system hadn't victim-blamed and fucked up so badly - twice.  Rest in peace Gladys Hensley, Janice Dickinson, Geraldine Toohey, and Caysie Sorensen.  

Sources

• https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/crime/2022/02/03/eugene-oregon-police-solve-cold-case-murders-identify-serial-killer-1980/6639734001/
  
• https://www.eugene-or.gov/CivicAlerts...

Continuing the Tahoe miniseries, we tell the tales of the water babies/pawapicts of Lake Tahoe and Pyramid Lake.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washoe_people
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Babies
• https://www.native-languages.org/water-babies.htm
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Great-Basin-Indian/Social-organization
• https://www.heraldextra.com/...

What happened to Cynthia Martinez? 

Cynthia is described on her NamUs page as 4’8" - 5’4" and 120-140 lbs. Another flier states she is 5’1" and 135 lbs. She has brown hair and brown eyes, and has pierced ears. Again, she was last seen wearing black lace up booties, fake eyelashes, and a black flowered romper. She has several tattoos listed below:

• “Trus...

Is there a giant serpent living in the depths of Lake Tahoe?  

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoe_Tessie
• https://www.latimes.com/style/la-os-tessie3may03-story.html
• https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/dark-shapes-in-the-lake-tahoe-tessie-legend-remains-alive-for-visitors/
• https://www.moonshineink.com/tahoe-news/tahoe-myths-tessie-and-the-man-eating-lake-bird...

Sara brings us the truly chaotic case of Gary Krueger and his alarming laundry list of crimes.  

Sources

• https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/family-lives-in-fear-a-year-after-attempted-home-invasion/
  
• ​​https://unsolved.com/gallery/mike-emert/
  
• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/very-bad-men-realtor-vietnam-vet-video_n_2022102
  
• https://unresolved.me/mike-emert
  

Sara brings us the incredible survival story of Autumn Veatch - not a story that spawns from a crime, but an inspiring story of a young woman who simply did not give up. 

Getting Out Alive by Tara Ellis (book on Autumn's story)

Sources

• https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/appreciate-the-little-things-says-teen-survivor-of-plane-crash/
  
• https://www.ajc.com/news/photos-teen-autumn-vea...

Content warning: this episode contains graphic descriptions of abuse against a child that resulted in that child's death - please use caution when listening. 

If you know anything about the disappearance of Hannah Kobayashi, please contact Crimestoppers or the LAPD. 

Update on the Arely Proctor murder trial: An article from The Independent clarifies that Judge Hanley Chew has indeed ruled that Claudia Hernandez, Rene "Aaron" Herna...

Sara brings us the disturbingly detail-barren missing case of Latoya Salazar in Yakima, WA.  

Case ends at 5min 30sec, chatter about Up and Vanished: The Midnight Sun and other Alaska missing persons cases makes up the rest of the episode length.  

Sources

• https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/topics/the_vanished/the-vanished-list-of-those-missing-murdered-on-and-near-yakama-reservation/article_d637a8ec-1ed5-5523-83...

Happy Halloween!  Caro covers a unique house cleansing in Bethany, OR from 2018, originally written about in the Portland Mercury by Santi Elijah Holley.  

Sources

• https://www.portlandmercury.com/religion/2018/02/21/19690964/an-excellent-day-for-an-exorcism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Catholic_Church
• https://www.google.com/search?q=requirements+for+roman+catholic+exorcism&oq=requirements+for+roman+catholic+ex&gs_lcrp=E...

Sara tells us the history + haunted happenings of Portland's White Eagle Saloon + Hotel.

Sources

• https://portlandghosts.com/white-eagle-saloon/
  
• https://www.mcmenamins.com/white-eagle-saloon-hotel
  
• https://eliotneighborhood.org/2010/01/08/the-white-eagle-saloon/
  
• https://offbeatoregon.com/1703c.white-eagle-shanghai-spot-435.html
  
• https://www.onlyinyourstat...

Caro covers a broad-daylight kidnapping in San Jose, CA in April 2022 that made national headlines.

Sources

• https://abc7news.com/brandon-cuellar-san-jose-baby-kidnapping-sentencing-yesenia-ramirez-roman-portillo/12982535/
• https://abc7news.com/baby-kidnapped-san-jose-3-month-old-brandon-cuellar-sj-sjpd/11790453/
• https://abc7news.com/brandon-cuellar-found-baby-kidnapped-san-jose-mom-arrests-in-sj-kidnapping/11799211/
• https:/...

What happens when no one seems to realize someone is missing?  In the case of Arnel Narvaiz, his family may have been left without answers if a search for another missing person hadn't discovered Arnel.  What happened to Arnel Narvaiz?

Sources

• https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/car-with-remains-inside-discovered-in-sacramento-county-possibly-linked-to-1994-missing-persons-case/
  
• https://fox40...