Crime of the Truest Kind

01/07/2025

From the Murray family:
SAVE THE DATE: February 9, 2025 marks 21 long years since Maura disappeared.. To honor her, we will hold the 21st year vigil at the Mountain Lakes Lodge in Woodsville NH. Supporters are welcome.
For those who cannot attend in person, we ask you to light a candle at 7:30 pm in Maura's honor and share pictures/videos with the community with hashtag

What: 21st Year Vigil for Maura Murray
When: Feb 9, 2025 5:30 pm EST
Who: Everyone
Where: Mountain Lakes Lodge, Woodsville NH located at the intersection of Valley Road & Lodge Lane & virtual
Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks. As always, thank you for the love and support 💙

01/06/2025

We want missing to be found. The reality is that people are located and details about their disappearance aren’t made public. Often times we don’t know any more than they were located and they are safe. Their privacy is important. This is what advocacy looks like.

01/05/2025

☀️Happy New Year! On Crime of the Truest Kind, I talk about things that happen here, in Massachusetts and New England, and the impact these stories have on those closest. I always talk about taking good care of these stories. They are not ours. We borrow them (my last TikTok was all about it).

I want to tell the stories of these people who lived and breathed and loved. I always want the account of the family, if they are open to talking. Not everyone is, and that’s okay.

In the months ahead, I also want to connect with relevant doctors, experts, informed, trained professionals in the fields directly related to crime and trauma.

No, we really are not “detectives” in that true crimey tshirt trope, but we can be helpful and not harmful.

This year, I will become a certified victim advocate, attend conferences, host live shows (next: 1/25 in Lowell), collaborate with others in this space, and build Massachusetts Missing and Murdered Persons Advocacy Coalition.

I found this pic from the other day, modeling some new gifts.

01/04/2025

I’ve walked by this chicken joint a hundred times. Each time and every time, it’s teeming with BU students.
They’ll find someplace new. Obviously, this is a disturbing
headline. WTH is causing this stink?

(Get decent pizza at T. Anthony’s til 2am)

Raising Cane's on Commonwealth Avenue in Allston is closed until further notice until they figure out and remove the source of a foul odor inside the restaurant for the past couple weeks, that forced a visit from Boston Inspectional Services.

01/01/2025

Keep Safe, NOLA friends. Waking up to news of carnage on the streets of New Orleans where at least 10 people were killed and 35 others hurt when a driver plowed into a crowd at Bourbon and Canal Streets in the early morning of New Year's Day. That driver, who was also shooting from the truck, was reportedly killed by police on scene.

At least 10 people are dead and 35 others hurt after a car plowed into a crowd at Bourbon and Iberville Streets in New Orleans.

01/01/2025

Here’s to new leads and solved cases.
Make 2025 the year.

12/31/2024

We need to talk about this. As the second anniversary approaches of this “Unfathomable Act,” Patrick Clancy talks about his wife Lindsay’s dark spiral and what led up to the deaths of their three small children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan, that day in January 2023 in their Duxbury home.

We don’t talk nearly enough about postpartum health. Women are to be happy about everything, at all times, and delighted about motherhood at every moment. And what happens to the fathers?

Patrick Clancy’s wife killed their children during a postpartum mental-health crisis. Prosecutors describe a clear-headed scheme, but Clancy says, “I wasn’t married to a monster—I was married to someone who got sick.”

12/31/2024

Bruce Crowley is missing. He was last seen in Provincetown on Cape Cod on December 30, 2022. No new information is available about his case.
Do you know Bruce? Did you see him during that visit to P-Town? Do you have information about his whereabouts?

Please contact Massachusetts State Police at 508-398-2323 or
Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office at 508-362-8113

12/29/2024

🚨MISSING from Springfield, Vermont: Paul Bailey, age 32, was last seen Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 78 Valley St in Springfield.
Springfield is on the Connecticut River, bordering New Hampshire.

📞 If you have any information, please contact the Springfield Police Department at 802-885-2113

🌐 Missing People In America’s Paul Bailey Database Entry:
https://www.missingpeopleinamerica.org/missing/Paul-Bailey

Only people with official Missing Person Reports with police departments are posted, you can view their database entry to view the source of the information, as well as find useful tools to help find the missing. Every missing person in our database is checked daily for updates.



Established in 2018, all missing people are sourced, you can view the official source link for Paul Bailey in their database entry above.

12/28/2024

Ten years have passed. On December 28, 2014, the remains of two women were found, almost on top of each other, in a wooded area near the Brockton VFW at 251 North Quincy Street in Brockton.

Ashley Mylett, 20, of Holbrook, who’d been missing for several weeks, was found dismembered. She was last seen by her mother, Nicole Slavin, about four weeks prior to being found.

With Ashley's body were the badly decomposed remains of 50-year-old Linda Schufeldt of Quincy. Linda was a U.S. Navy veteran and mother of five children. She disappeared in July of 2014.

A composite sketch was released of a person of interest wanted in connection with their cases.

Please help solve these brutal crimes and catch the person responsible.
More information is needed. Please share what you know, call 855-MA-SOLVE

https://www.boston25news.com/news/new-england-s-unsolved-using-genealogy-to-unlock-series-of-murders-rapes-in-brockton/875698742

12/27/2024

Rest peacefully now, you didn’t get to in life. Dorothy Moxley, 92, was devoted to finding her daughter’s m-rderer and keeping the investigation active. Martha Moxley was just 15 when she was beaten to death on Oct 30, 1975, with a golf club. Her badly injured body was found the next day under a tree on her family’s home in Greenwich, CT, across the street from the Skakel family. Also a teenager at the time, Michael Skakel, 15, and cousin of the Kennedy family, was a suspect. He would eventually be arrested and charged. In an emotional roller coaster, 2002 a jury found Skakel guilty of the murder. He served 11 years in prison. But in a series of court reversals, he won his freedom in 2013, was ordered back to prison and won another appeal in 2018.

Crushing news came for her family on Oct 30, 2020, the 45th anniversary of Martha’s m-rder, when the state of Connecticut announced it would not retry Skakel for Martha’s murder.

https://apnews.com/article/dorothy-moxley-obituary-martha-kennedy-cousin-skakel-c03a89f7b6f83fed39566c16fccc34af #

Dorthy Moxley, the mother who fought for decades to bring her teenage daughter’s killer to justice in a roller-coaster Connecticut murder case, has died. She was 92.

12/27/2024

Please keep safe out there. Missing woman, Owen Kasozi, 30, of Danvers, was recovered in Wenham Lake. Last seen walking her dog, Bokka, at the Nature Preserve in Beverly around 3:00pm on Dec 24. Owen was found in the frozen lake on Christmas. Bokka was located & is ok.

Owen Kasozi, 30, of Danvers, was found dead in Wenham Lake in Beverly on Christmas Day.

12/27/2024

DNA helps bring loved ones home.

We now have DNA confirmation that the remains found in February 2022 were that of Brandon Lawson. This was Navigating Advocacy Hosts Whitney and Melissa’s first time working with families and assisted in the search that led to these remains being found.

His family’s tireless advocacy has been crucial in pushing for answers and helping to guide the search efforts. This breakthrough is a testament to the power of perseverance and community support.

Brandon and his family have impacted our lives more than we could ever express in words. Our thoughts are with the Lawson family as they navigate the next chapter of Brandon's story.

💙

Help Find Brandon Lawson

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas are words we say.
May you have a feeling of calm today.

12/21/2024

Kathy Shank helped catch a killer with a box of tip sheets. That led to the arrest and conviction of Richard Allen. He was sentenced Friday to 130 years for the brutal killings of 13-year-old Abby Williams & 14-year-old Libby German in Delphi, IN in 2017. My hope is the families can wake up feeling some sense of justice.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2024/12/20/richard-allen-delphi-murders-sentencing-kathy-shank-found-tip-while-volunteering/77103949007/ #

Richard Allen received the maximum sentence Friday in the Delphi murders of Abby Williams and Libby German. Officials said that's because of Kathy Shank.

12/17/2024

Valerie Mack was once a little girl with hopes and dreams. By 24, she had gotten into s3x work. It’s not a life anyone would easily choose. Drugs play a major role in that story.

Family members last saw her in the spring or summer of 2000 near Port Republic, New Jersey. Valerie, who also used the name Melissa Taylor, was never reported missing. Her partial remains were first found in 2000.

Now, the accused Gilgo Beach killer (sometimes referred to as Long Island Serial Killer, or LISK), has been charged in her case. Valerie is the 7th victim linked to Rex Heuermann, the Manhattan architect from Massapequa Park, LI, who was arrested in July 2023 (among items found in his home were news articles about the murders).

The women disappeared and were located by accident. Authorities were searching for Shannan Gilbert, 23, who disappeared on May 1, 2010, after going to the home of a man in the gated community of Oak Beach she connected with on Craigslist. No one is certain what happened but she ran from that house in fear for her life.

Shannan’s skeletal remains were discovered in the overgrown brush on December 13, 2011, near the Oak Beach gated community where she was last seen. The suspect has not been charged in Shannan’s case as LE has considered hers a death by misadventure, despite findings by a renowned pathologist saying otherwise.

The seven women who have been connected to LISK:

Megan Waterman, 22
Melissa Barthelemy, 24
Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25
Amber Lynn Costello, 27
Jessica Taylor, 20
Sandra Costilla, 28
Valerie Mack, 24

Prosecutors said they linked Heuermann to Valerie Mack's death in part through a mitochondrial DNA analysis of a female hair found on her body. It matched the profiles of Heuermann's wife and daughter, the bail application said. At the time of Mack's murder, Heuermann's daughter would have been between 3 and 4 years old.

https://6abc.com/post/gilgo-beach-murders-prosecutors-announce-significant-development-investigation-accused-serial-killer-heuermann/15666740/ #