Judgy Crime Girls

08/21/2024

So we just got a message...A first time mom and dedicated pediatric nurse, Mamta Kafle Bhatt, has been missing from Falls Church, VA for at least 20 days under suspicious circumstances. Today was her only child's first birthday. Her close ("JUDGY" in the best way 🧐) friend has been the main driving force to get word out, has started search parties, is passing out flyers, and is trying to get a billboard! Please share this post for her, this sweet baby needs her mom back home!!!!

Here is the page she started. It has all the information the public knows so far!

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563893469372

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-find-mamta-kafle-bhatt?attribution_id=sl:90a7ddfd-8b92-4a07-9e8d-9d2d912c66ad&utm_campaign=man_ss_icons&utm_content=amp1v1&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

08/20/2024

Ope 😳😂🤣

08/20/2024

08/18/2024

I’m about to start this. Has anyone watched it yet?

08/18/2024

Rembering Kim Wall this month 🖤

Kim was born in 1987 and grew up in a close-knit community in the small town of Trelleborg in southern Sweden, just across the strait.

“Kim was inventive and persistent as a child,” said her mother, Ingrid Wall. “For Kim there were no boundaries.” Ingrid explained that both she and her husband are journalists in Sweden, and said Kim went on reporting trips with them when she was young. Ingrid remembered how Kim, while still an adolescent, wrote an article for a local newspaper, saying: “I want to know how the world works.”

That curiosity and hunger for experience took her to from Sweden to several countries including Sri Lanka, China, Uganda, Haiti and the United States.

Kim disappeared after meeting Peter Madson, a submarine builder, for an interview and a trip on his homemade submarine on Aug. 10. Her torso was later found on a beach near Copenhagen. Madsen has been charged with manslaughter, which in Danish law is the equivalent of murder.

08/12/2024

This is the best news I’ve read in a while!
We’ve talked about the unsolved murders of Julie and Lollie back in June 2022 and I’m so happy to see it was finally solved after almost 30 years!!!

On Sunday May 19, 1996, Julianne “Julie” Williams and Laura “Lollie” Winans embarked on a backpacking trip in Shenandoah National Park with their golden retriever, Taj. Julie, 24, and Lollie, 26, pitched their tent off one of Shenandoah National Park’s horse trails. They chose a peaceful spot next to a mountain stream. . Less than two weeks later, they were reported missing. On June 1st, 1996 the two women were found brutally murdered at their campsite.

A year later, police arrested Darrell Rice for attempting to abduct another woman – a bicyclist -- near Skyline Drive.
Five years after that, a grand jury indicted Rice in the murders of Williams and Winans.
In 2004, federal prosecutors were forced to drop the murder charges against Rice, after hair and DNA evidence found at the scene didn’t match his.

Two years ago, a new team of investigators conducted a methodical review of the case, agents in Richmond reassessed hundreds of leads and interviews. They spent hours to identify and prioritize evidence from the crime scene to retest and submitted the items to an accredited private lab.
Recently, the private lab successfully pulled DNA from several items of evidence and, with assistance from the Virginia State Police, the profile was submitted to the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). There was a positive match to Walter Leo Jackson Sr.
Jackson was a convicted serial ra**st, originally from the Cleveland, Ohio area.

Jackson, who went by the name “Leo,” died in prison in March 2018 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. 😠 Jackson had a lengthy criminal history, including kidnapping, rapes, and assaults. A residential painter by trade, he was an avid hiker and was known to visit Shenandoah National Park.

If you have not heard of Julie and Lollie’s story you can listen to it here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/judgy-crime-girls/id1556751482?i=1000563908285 or on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/2SXjO4CRmNtBeisYSsVeH0?si=2jwi7qEpQKGhQlBOKIPodA

08/10/2024

I just watched the new Unsolved Mysteries and episode 4 about Sigrid Stevenson had me up until 3am reading about her 🥺😔

08/09/2024

In a significant breakthrough, cold case investigators have apprehended a suspected serial killer responsible for the brutal murders of three women in Ventura County nearly five decades ago. Warren Luther Alexander, 73, was recently extradited from North Carolina, where he awaits prosecution for an unsolved murder from 1992. Alexander is now being held without bail in Ventura County Jail, as authorities believe there may be additional victims both locally and in other states.

The three victims, Kimberly Carol Fritz, Velvet Ann Sanchez, and Lorraine Ann Rodriguez, were all strangled to death in 1977. Fritz, an 18-year-old, was found deceased in a Port Hueneme motel on May 29, while Sanchez, 31, was discovered in an Oxnard motel on September 9 of the same year. Rodriguez, 21, was found dumped on Laguna Road in the Oxnard Plain area in late December. Detectives have long been haunted by these unsolved cases, and the recent breakthrough has provided a glimmer of hope for justice.

All three victims were commercial s*x workers, and the manner in which their bodies were arranged bore eerie similarities. The coroner at the time noted that the killer seemed to have an intent to degrade the victims, although specific details were not disclosed. The investigation also explores potential connections between these 1977 killings and the murder of Cassandra Lee Miller in October 1975.

The breakthrough in the case came in 2023 when the county’s cold case unit uploaded evidence to a national DNA database used by law enforcement agencies. A clear DNA match emerged, linking Alexander to the murders. The suspect had previously been charged in North Carolina for the 1992 murder of Nona Cobb, who was also strangled and dumped along Interstate 77. Collaboration with the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program and the Highway Serial Killings initiative is underway to identify further patterns and potentially solve additional crimes.

Warren Luther Alexander, originally from Diamondhead, Mississippi, had lived in Oxnard during the late 1950s and ’60s. He attended school in Oxnard and later worked as an electrician with the U.S. Marine Corps. Alexander returned to Oxnard in the 1970s and worked as a long-haul cross-country truck driver until the 1990s.

08/07/2024

“Surprise!! I’m still alive!”

-Noela Rukundo at her own funeral, when she confronted her then husband, Balenga Kalala, who ordered her murder.

In January 2015, Australian Noela Rukundo was abducted at gunpoint by three men outside a hotel in her native Burundi, where she was visiting to attend her stepmom’s funeral. The men blindfolded her and took her to an abandoned warehouse, where they told her that her husband Balenga Kalala, had hired them to kill her.
She didn’t believe them, so they called Kalala on speakerphone and told him they had Noela. He responded with two words: “kill her.” Noela fainted.

When she came to, the kidnappers told her they were not going to kill her, because, after all, they do not kill women.
Instead they planned to keep Kalala’s money and tell him she was dead.
They released Noela on the side of the road and gave her a memory card filled with recorded conversations between the hitmen and Kalala and Western Union receipts for the money he paid them.

Three days later, she was back in Australia, ready to confront her husband.
Back at the house she shared with her husband and three small children in Melbourne, Kalala held a funeral for Noela.
He had told the community that his wife had died in a very tragic accident in Burundi.
Just as the last mourners were leaving, Noela rolled up in a car. When she got out of the car, he asked “Is it a ghost?”
She touched him to show him that she was, indeed, alive.

Though he initially apologized to Noela, he later denied he had taken a hit out on his wife.
Noela eventually got him to confess during a recorded phone call. He said he ordered the murder because he thought she was cheating on him, an allegation Noela denied.

Balenga Kalala was charged with incitement to murder and received 9 years in prison.

08/06/2024

What’s that one case you know just too well?

08/05/2024

On this day, August 5, 1962, movie actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her home in Los Angeles. She was discovered lying n**e on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression, were littered around the room. After a brief investigation, Los Angeles police concluded that her death was “caused by a self-administered overdose of sedative drugs and that the mode of death is probable suicide.”
Many believe she was murdered!
Here’s a great article about her life and death https://www.shutterbulky.com/marilyn-monroe-death/

08/04/2024

“Lizzie Borden took an axe" — or did she?

On this day in history, August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother are murdered in Massachusetts.

What’s arguably a sensationalized tale that’s been depicted in film, television and even song remains a mystery 132 years later. Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the double homicides 10 months after they were committed.

The murders took place in the small town of Fall River in eastern Massachusetts on Second Street reportedly between 9 a.m. and 11:10 a.m.

Lizzie Borden’s mom died when she was a child. Her wealthy businessman father later remarried; his new wife's name was Abby Borden.

It’s said that Abby Borden went upstairs to make a bed in a room where Lizzie Borden’s uncle, John Morse, was staying for a few days. At some point during the morning hours, Abby Borden was attacked with an ax-like weapon.

Andrew Borden returned home early from errands that day and was murdered on the couch after his wife was murdered.

There appear to be several theories about the crime, who committed it and how; but once police launched the investigation, Lizzie Borden became a prime suspect.

She was arrested for the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden on Aug. 11, 1892.

Lizzie claimed she was in the barn at the time of the murders and entered the house to find her stepmother and her father dead in pools of blood. There was no hard evidence against Lizzie and there was no physical evidence linking her to the crime nor were there any witnesses. The police were unable to find any evidence of blood on her clothing.

The fact that no blood was found on Lizzie along with her well-bred Christian demeanor convinced the all-male jury that she was incapable of such a bloody double murder and they acquitted her. The jurors could not believe that a ‘lady’ could murder her parents.

Lizzie inherited much of her father’s substantial wealth and she purchased a large house. She was to live until 1927. Lizzie was never to get over the suspicion that she had murdered her parents. This meant that she was ostracised by her local community and she was something of a recluse.

The authorities never sought to look for anyone else for the double murder.

What do you think? Did Lizzie kill her father and stepmother or was it someone else?

08/03/2024

This is so sad. These boys have been missing for 37 years 👀😳

07/17/2024

One of the fake heads used as a decoy during the 1962 escape of 3 prisoners from Alcatraz. Made with soap, toilet paper, toothpaste, and concrete dust. They escaped at night!

07/17/2024

If the shoe fits 🫣

06/21/2024

Has anyone watched this yet? If so, tell me…must watch or skip?

06/05/2024

Yesterday marked 14 years since Kyron Horman disappeared from Skyline School in Portland, Oregon.

On June 4, 2010, 7-year-old Kyron was last seen attending the Skyline School science fair.

What began as a missing persons case eventually expanded into one of the largest investigations in Oregon history and to this day there have been no signs of Kyron and no arrests made in the case.

Kyron has brown hair, blue eyes and a v-shaped birthmark on his forehead. The case and investigation remain open and active.

This year, MSCO has launched a new website ( https://search.app/2pfqLqniHtJgdUu28) where the public can find information on the case and send tips.

You can also call the MCSO TipLine at 503-988-0560, email [email protected] or contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children TipLine at 1-800-THE-LOST or provide an online tip at the organization’s CyberTipLine.

06/05/2024

Police are still searching Herb Baumeister’s property and as of 2 days ago they have found over 10,000 pieces of human remains 😭
If you’re not super familiar with Herb Baumeister, you can listen to one of our earlier episodes here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/judgy-crime-girls/id1556751482?i=1000516420868
https://search.app/qKFT5Vh8JgpZkig98

Herb Baumeister dumped the mutilated remains of at least 12 gay teens and young men on his $1 million property outside Indianapolis.

06/03/2024

I just finished this 3 part documentary and it made me so sad. 😔 Especially the part where Melanie and Pricylla have a “heart to heart” and Pricylla says “everyday I think about wanting to die and you want me to be to be on time. Which would you rather have.” (I don’t remember the exact words, but it was something along the lines)
Have you watched it yet?

06/02/2024

Tabitha Tuders went missing in Nashville 21 years ago at the age of 13. Her case was featured Friday at CrimeCon.

Watching their daughter grow up through age progression. Tabith Tuders went missing in Nashville 21 years ago at the age of 13.

06/01/2024

Why hasn’t anyone told me about this show on Hulu? 🤨
I’m on episode 6 and it’s so good, but I’m shocked how so many people knew about what happened to Reena and no one went straight to the police. Reena’s story is so heartbreaking 😭
Have you watched it yet?

05/22/2024

My Mama always said:

05/21/2024

Can’t say I’m upset about this 🤷🏻‍♀️

Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who brought female victims to his pig farm during a crime spree near Vancouver in the 1990s and early 2000s, was assaulted in prison and has been hospitalized in life-threatening condition, authorities said Tuesday.

Pickton was speared in the head with a broken broom-like handle at Quebec’s Port-Cartier Institution on Sunday, a source said. Read more.