Murder Sisters

This week we cover the brutal and senseless murder of Joseph J. Pamula, Jr., 70 of Woonsocket, RI. Joseph died at the hands of his twin daughters, Jennifer and Danielle, 38, who were living with him at the time of his death. 

https://people.com/crime/twin-sisters-accused-killing-father-garden-shears/

https://turnto10.com/news/local/joseph-pamula-woonsocket-rhode-island-cato-street-killing-daughters-sisters-donati...

Our latest episode covers the unsolved murder of 6 week old Alexis Alfred Brolin III and the unsolved disappearance of his mother, Joey Lynn Offutt, 33. Both were last seen alive at their home in Sykesville, PA on July 3, 2007. 

https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/Declared-Dead-The-Disappearance-of-Joey-Lynn-Offutt

https://www.facebook.com/HelpFindJoeyLynnOffutt/ 

http://www.findjoey.org/ 

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Today we are covering the disappearance of 12 year old Sherry Lynn Marler. Sherry went missing from Greenville, Alabama on June 6, 1984 while walking to a gas station to purchase a soda. 

https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/sherry-lynn-marler-simply-vanished-from-a-small-alabama-town-6ba280f6ed23

https://oddstops.com/location.php?id=311 

https://uncovered.com/cases/sherry-marler 

https://charleypr...

Episode 54 covers the death of 18 year old Tiffany Valiante, who died after being struck by a train on July 12, 2015 in Mays Landing, New Jersey. Although her death was ruled a suicide, a lot of unanswered questions remain.

Petition to help reopen Tiffany’s case: https://www.change.org/p/reopen-2015-tiffany-valiante-death-investigation?redirect=false

https://www.the-sun.com/news/6622708/teen-hit-by-train-suicide-...

on September 16, 1968, 21 year old Carol Jenkins had set out on her first day of work as a door to door encyclopedia salesperson. She was working in the town of Martinsville, Indiana, which was known to be a sunset town. She never made it home alive.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/01/07/who-killed-carol-jenkins

https://aaregistry.org/story/the-murder-of-carol-m-jenkins-occurs/

https://www.pbs....

Our latest episode covers the 2006 disappearance of OSU medical student Brian Shaffer. After a night out with friends, Brian seemingly vanished from a local bar called the Ugly Tuna Saloona. What makes this case especially strange is that Brian was not captured on surveillance footage leaving the bar.

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/missing-persons/brian-shaffer

https://uncovered.com/cases/brian-shaffer

Blanca Arellano, 51, traveled 3,000 miles to be with Juan Pablo Jesus Villafuerte, 37, after the two met through an online gaming community. A few months after making the big move, Blanca would become the victim of human organ trafficking.  #JusticiaParaBlanca

https://www.the-sun.com/news/6770173/who-was-blanca-arellano-and-what-happened-to-her/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/blanca-arellano-becomes-victim-of-orga...

This case covers the disappearance and presumed murder of 29-year-old Sheryl Sheppard, who was reported missing on January 4th, 1998, only days after she was proposed to live on TV at a New Year’s Eve celebration by her boyfriend Michael Lavoie. 

https://www.change.org/p/help-find-sheryl-sheppard 

https://www.ranker.com/list/sheryl-sheppard-michael-lavoie-facts/stefanie-hammond 

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/8608...

 24 year old  Daniel Robinson Jr. abruptly left a job site in the Buckeye, Arizona dessert on June 23, 2021. His Jeep was later found crashed 3 miles from the job site, but Daniel has still not been found.  The events surrounding his disappearance indicate Daniel may have been going through difficult times. His family, and especially his Dad, haven't stopped searching for their son and brother.

https://conandaily.com/...

On September 20, 1988, 19 year old Tara Calico left her home in Belen, New Mexico at 9:30 AM for a 34 mile bike ride and was never seen or heard from again. Will her case ever be solved?

https://uncovered.com/cases/tara-calico/timeline

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/tara-leigh-calico

https://allthatsinteresting.com/tara-calico

https://crochetbug.medium.com/the-case-of-tara-leigh-calico-71f...

A night out with friends ended tragically for 20 year old Jaleayah Davis on November 19, 2011. Was this an accident or is there more to Jaleayah's death than police are disclosing?

https://www.change.org/p/michael-f-bennet-justice-for-jaleayah-davis

https://www.facebook.com/justiceforjaleayah/

https://www.mariettatimes.com/news/local-news/2013/03/jaleayah-davis-i-77-death-is-ruled-accidental/ 

In 2008, 24 year old software engineer, Arpana Jinaga was brutally murdered after hosting a party on Halloween night with fellow residents of the Valley View Apartments in Redmond Washington. A man by the name of Emanuel Fair was arrested in connection with her murder, but he has since been found not guilty of the crime. Will her murder ever be solved? 

https://unresolved.me/arpana-jinaga 

https://medium.com/the-m...

On February 24, 1978 five young men from Yuba County, CA disappeared on their way home from Chico, CA, where they had watched their favorite basketball team, UC Davis, play against Chico State. Four of the men were later found deceased high in the snowy mountains of Plumas National Forest, leaving so many unanswered questions. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/07/06/5-boys-who-never-come-back/f8b30b11-...

We are back with a new episode that covers the disappearance and presumed murder of Molly Dattilo, a 23 year old college student and avid runner who disappeared from Indianapolis, Indiana on July 6, 2004.


https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/the-unsolved-disappearance-of-molly-dattilo-5335f48454cf

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-search-for-molly-dattilo/id1463186617?i=1000476130774

https://un...

This episode covers the unsolved disappearance of April Beth Pitzer who went missing from the Mojave Desert town of Newberry Springs, CA on June 28th 2004 under suspicious circumstances. In the years prior to her disappearance, April had worked as a police informant and was responsible for putting away over 30 individuals tied to a meth ring in her home state of Arkansas. Could her disappearance somehow be connected to her work as ...

This episode is an update to the Brittanee Drexel case that we covered in episode 12. 

https://www.syracuse.com/state/2022/05/brittanee-drexel-killer-confessed-police-say-was-pulled-over-day-after-upstate-ny-teen-disappeared.html 

https://wpde.com/news/local/brittanee-drexel-investigation-disappearance-murder-remains-found-raymond-moody-santee-river-old-town-avenue-georgetown-county-myrtle-beach 

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Our latest episode covers the 1922 unsolved murders of Andreas Gruber (63) his wife Cäzilia Gruber (72), their widowed daughter Viktoria Gabriel (35), Viktoria's children, Cäzilia (7) and Josef (2); and their maid, Maria Baumgartner (44), which took place of their Hinterkaifeck Farm in Germany.

https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/the-unsolved-murders-at-the-hinterkaifeck-farm-c1025e584c81

https://www.ranker.c...

We are going to be covering the disappearance of Brandon Swanson who went missing in the early morning hours of May 14th, 2008, in Marshall, Minnesota after he crashed his car into a ditch while driving home from an end of semester college party. 

http://immelman.net/brandon-swanson 

https://medium.com/the-shadow/vanished-in-the-dark-where-is-brandon-swanson-d5d99bfde9a7 

https://www.grunge.com/640372/the...

We have another listener suggestion, this time from Cory. The case that we are covering in this episode is HH Holmes, who was a serial killer and con artist who was active in the Chicago area in the late 1800's. 

https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-h-h-holmes

https://www.britannica.com/biography/H-H-Holmes 

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/hh-holmes 

 https://www.biography.com/n...