Return to Snakeland

01/07/2024

39 Years Today. RIP.

17/06/2024

It was the first bar i went to when i got my fake id. It always smelled like p**s and beer and rock and roll. i'm at a loss.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Old Pink, a popular bar on Allen Street in Buffalo, has suffered significant damage in a fire early Monday morning. The fire was first reported around 5:45 a.m. Monday wi…

13/03/2024

Happy Birthday Velvet Underground and Nico! One thing people forget about the VU's piano driven songs (like this and White Light/White Heat) is that they fu***ng SWING. Walk it home!

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03/02/2024

Brother Wayne Kramer, Brother Wayne Kramer. I once ended a friendship by snatching a super-rare copy of High Time out of the guy's hands at a record show and ran to the front to buy it. Obviously I never talked to the guy again, but I still own that copy of High Time to this day. Totally worth it. So fu***ng sad.

MC5 - Miss X

15/01/2024

I don't know why I wasted my time going to film school when I coulda just watched the accepted best movie ever: Rock n Roll High School. Can't believe it took me this long.

Rock 'n' Roll High School is a 1979 musical comedy film produced by Roger Corman, directed by Allan Arkush, and featuring The Ramones.The film starred P. J. ...

09/12/2023

Will Shatter - December 9 1987 - RIP

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08/12/2023

Always overshadowed by Mr. Lennon, but Richie Dagger died today too.

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06/12/2023

We discussed the 1984 murder of this poor young lady in our Return to Snakeland podcast due to the case similarities and same suspects interviewed around the 1985 murder of Kathy Herold. Now, nearly 40 years later Crime Stoppers WNY is offering a cash reward for any information leading to an arrest or indictment of the killer or killers of Michelle Kasperek. Please, if you have been sitting on something important for the past 40 years, now is the time to be brave.

25/10/2023

NOW! The Return to Snakeland instagram webcomic Collection 1 is on sale at Gutter Pop Comics brick and mortar and now online!! at the web address below. Thanks for staying interested!

Return to Snakeland is the first volume of collected Instagram comic strips. Evil radiates in a wholesome village from an abandoned grain silos nicknamed "Snakeland." Loosely based on the events in Kenmore, NY in 1985, a group of teenagers experience punk rock, murder, su***de, aliens and demons.

23/09/2023

I doubt any of us are crying any tears over the death of Altemio Sanchez, but if you are interested in the potential connection between Sanchez and the murder of Kathy Herold in 1985 please check out Episode 3 of the Return to Snakeland podcast. Not the most fun of our podcast episodes, but possibly the most essential.

Teaser Trailer Episode One In which we learn what Snakeland was and how it relates to murder, teenage su***de and Satanism in Kenmore, NY, 1985. Episode Two In which we discuss the murder of Kathy …

03/08/2023

Hey! Just got our zines/digital downloads from our brother band Snakeland and it is great! Of course the music is solid (kind of post-hardcore with more melodic vocals) but the zine is a real piece of work - featuring one of Aaron O'Brian 's greatest works (see below). And let's just say that Declan and the boys know how to make fellas feel appreciated! Give em a spin - they got rekkids too!

28/06/2023

TL; DR: Please go to https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/ny-katherine-herold-15-tonawanda-1-july-1985.312370/ and if you are able to help in any way, please do.

This weekend is the 38th anniversary of the murder of Kathy Herold, a 15 year-old girl who attended Kenmore West Senior High School. She was strangled to death with a single ligature by an unknown number of assailants in 1985 on the borderline between Kenmore, NY and the Town of Tonawanda, NY.

Anyone who knows myself or Aaron O’Brian knows that we have been pursuing this Return to Snakeland project (graphic novel, podcast, and webcomic) for several years now, and that the mystery of Kathy Herold’s murder has been the primary engine that it has run upon, fictionalized or factually based depending upon the specific work. I don’t believe that Aaron was ever naïve enough to believe that our work could generate enough interest to help identify Kathy’s murderer or murderers, but I certainly was. One of the things I did separate from the Snakeland work was to tag onto the Websleuths website and post whatever factually-based information we had available. I had recently read a book called We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper that utilized Websleuths to solve a decades-old murder and it seemed like a good idea to do the same with Kathy’s murder. Obviously it did not help substantially or you would have heard about it by now. The web address for Kathy’s post is listed above – please read, post if you can, and if you have any valid information or knowledge of the murderer or murderers and have been holding back now is the time to honor Kathy with the truth.

We tried other avenues over the course of the last several years: met with a Town of Tonawanda Police Detective for several hours, left feeling like I had given away much more than he had given me, including the fact that Kathy was pregnant at the time of her murder. I filed a FOIL request with the Town of Tonawanda which was rejected, I filed a FOIA request with the FBI (who have an existing file on Kathy’s murder) which was rejected, and I filed an appeal with the Kenmore, NY FOIL Appeals Officer which was also rejected. The reason stated for the rejections in all three cases: Public Officer’s Law sect. 87.2(e)(i), “an open investigation with probative leads”. After 38 years. An open investigation with probative leads. 38 years.

We interviewed any number of Kathy’s “best friends” and “boyfriends” and we only found one individual who provided us with any real information and she was so afraid of reprisal by the murderers or individuals who were part of the “inner circle” around them that we had to give her two separate pseudonyms. After 38 years. And still nothing: rumors, additional Persons of Interest added with every new story, bizarre motives, stories of Satanism, revenge, the vested interests of other criminals. Frankly, it got pretty depressing, and with so little progress we slowly moved into more fantastical work (aliens, demons) with the Instagram webcomic. As we are on summer break from the webcomic it seemed like a good time to officially re-introduce the Websleuths posting and hope that someone with more personal experience to offer might finally suggest a redemptive ending to the story of Kathy Herold.

Thanks for reading all the way to the end. Have a good summer.

20/06/2023

Its Summer Vacation from Snakeland, but we'll let you know before we return! In the meantime, feel free to catch up at instagram.com/returntosnakeland/

14/06/2023

Instagram Wednesday Webcomic! instagram.com/returntosnakeland.com

06/06/2023

Webcomic Wednesday! instagram.com/returntosnakeland/

30/05/2023

Iron Maiden's Two Minutes to Midnight was, oddly enough, written by these two men. No it wasn't. Don't be dumb. More totally false heavy metal trivia to come on Webcomic Wednesday instagram.com/returntosnakeland/

23/05/2023

TOMORROW Webcomic Wednesday: the beginning of the summer cliffhanger at instagram.com/returntosnakeland/

16/05/2023

SPRING BREAK! Come on back for the next Wednesday Webcomic the following week

09/05/2023

TOTALLY BADASS! Tomorrow - Wednesday Webcomic: instagram.com/returntosnakeland/

02/05/2023

If you keep your eyes open you see it all over the place: Destroyer 1985. Wednesday Webcomic - instagram.com/returntosnakeland/

25/04/2023

I will never understand how Four-Way Windowpane made its way to Kenmore, NY but then I will never understand how actual hashish did either. Tomorrow - Wednesday Webcomic! instagram.com/returntosnakeland

18/04/2023

Crispin Glover leads a generation forward that numbers less than a dozen. Tomorrow - Wednesday Webcomic! instagram.com/returntosnakeland

11/04/2023

Gender-fluid metalheads? Its a new dawn, its a new day - Tomorrow Wednesday Webcomic - instagram.com/returntosnakeland/

04/04/2023

Tomorrow - Webcomic Wednesday! instagram.com/returntosnakeland

28/03/2023

The Mystery Girl: worshipped for her secrets, murdered for her power, sexualized in death. All in all a s**t role to play. Enough! Tomorrow: Webcomic Wednesday - instagram.com/returntosnakeland/

21/03/2023

Sad girl lays her head on the railroad tracks. Not exactly the most efficient methods but one of the most dramatic. Tomorrow Wednesday Webcomic - instagram.com/returntosnakeland/

14/03/2023

We followed them around the Elmwood Strip, or were they following us? They kept breaking into laughter - were they laughing at us or were they just nervous too? We'd never know, we never talked to them anyway. Wednesday Webcomic tomorrow! instagram.com/returntosnakeland/

07/03/2023

1985: night swimming. Swimming at night. (Photographer unknown) Tomorrow it is again Webcomic Wednesday. Come see. instagram.com/returntosnakeland/

28/02/2023

Wednesday Webcomic. Tomorrow! instagram.com/returntosnakeland/ Big Smashies would be filed in the record rack between Big Black and Big Star, as it should be.

21/02/2023

Buzz or howl under the influence of summer heat! Those garages were like little tin hot boxes. The garage band fight continues tomorrow - Webcomic Wednesday! instagram.com/returntosnakeland