# 3 Chilling True Crime Mysteries

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[0:00] Hey everyone, it's Jimmy here thanking you for listening and
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[0:17] drop new content. On a chilly December day in
[0:21] 2014, a teenager walking home in rural Beaver County,
[0:25] Pennsylvania, stumbled upon something that defied
[0:29] imagination. Lying in the woods just 30 feet
[0:33] from a quiet country Rd. was a human head, and it looked almost
[0:37] alive. The grayish white hair was
[0:40] carefully curled and styled, the skin smooth and waxy, as if the
[0:45] woman had just been prepared for a viewing at a Funeral Home.
[0:49] It was a macabre contrast, a body part meticulously preserved
[0:55] yet carelessly discarded. Local police had never seen
[1:00] anything like it, and the discovery would launch one of
[1:03] the most bizarre unsolved cases in Pennsylvania's history.
[1:09] The teenage boy who found it initially thought it might be a
[1:12] mannequin or animal, but upon getting closer, he realized the
[1:16] horror of his discovery and called the cops.
[1:19] Investigators arrived to a perplexing scene.
[1:23] The head of an older woman lay on its side atop the leaves,
[1:26] with no signs of the rest of the body nearby.
[1:30] Strangely, there was no blood, no insects, and no evidence of
[1:35] animal scavenging, nothing to indicate a typical outdoor death
[1:39] scene. It appeared the head hadn't been
[1:42] there long, perhaps only days, since fallen leaves weren't even
[1:47] covering it up. To police, this suggested the
[1:50] head was deliberately placed in that spot, rather than naturally
[1:54] deposited or dragged by animals. As investigators photographed
[1:59] the scene and collected soil and leaf samples, they noted small
[2:03] clues. The tip of the woman's nose
[2:06] appeared slightly flattened, as if it had been pressed against
[2:10] something. This hinted that the head might
[2:13] have been stored or transported in a container prior to being
[2:17] left in the woods. At the coroner's office, the
[2:22] mystery deepened. The head was in a remarkable
[2:25] state of preservation. The closer examination confirmed
[2:29] that the woman's remains had been professionally embalmed,
[2:33] like a typical corpse prepared by a Funeral Home.
[2:37] Her skin was rubbery to the touch, there was even evidence
[2:41] of makeup having been applied, and her hair was neatly
[2:44] manicured. These were all signs consistent
[2:47] with standard Mortuary care. This strongly suggested that the
[2:51] woman likely perished of natural causes and had been through post
[2:55] mortem preparations. In fact, detectives theorized
[2:59] that whoever was responsible had intercepted the body after
[3:03] death, perhaps on route from a Funeral Home to a cemetery.
[3:09] The most jarring find was discovered when the coroner
[3:11] lifted the woman's eyelids. Beneath each lid was a plastic
[3:18] eye cap, a normal mortician's tool.
[3:21] But the eyeballs themselves were missing in their place at small
[3:26] red rubber balls, the kind of cheap bouncy balls one might get
[3:30] from a toy vending machine. This gruesome detail baffled
[3:34] everyone. In standard embalming practice,
[3:37] if eyes are removed for organ donation, the sockets are gently
[3:41] filled with cotton before the caps are applied.
[3:44] No professional had ever heard of using bright red rubber balls
[3:47] to replace eyes. Investigators even tracked down
[3:51] identical bouncy balls marked made in China from local quarter
[3:55] machines, but they were so common that tracing their buyer
[3:59] proved impossible. Another crucial clue was the
[4:03] precise manner in which the woman's head was removed.
[4:07] The exterior of the neck showed jagged, rough cutting through
[4:10] the skin and throat, but internally the cut was clean and
[4:14] surgical. The entire neck portion of the
[4:17] spine had been expertly removed in one piece.
[4:21] This meant whoever severed the head knew exactly how to
[4:23] separate the head from the spine at the joints, likely to keep
[4:27] the spine intact. These observations strongly
[4:31] pointed to someone with anatomical or surgical
[4:33] knowledge. Toxicology tests on the
[4:38] preserved tissues revealed traces of lidocaine and
[4:42] atropine, drugs commonly used in emergency cardiac care.
[4:47] This finding supports the theory that the Jane Doe died of a
[4:51] heart attack or heart failure and that medics attempted to
[4:54] resuscitate her. In other words, this was more
[4:58] evidence that her death itself was likely natural and occurred
[5:03] under medical care rather than by violence.
[5:07] With these intriguing clues in hand, investigators face the
[5:11] formidable task of identifying the woman.
[5:14] This wasn't simply a missing person based Jane Doe case.
[5:18] In fact, it was likely that no missing person report or any
[5:22] criminal report existed for her at all.
[5:26] If, as suspected, she died of natural causes and her body was
[5:31] intended for normal burial or donation, her family probably
[5:36] believed she was laid to rest. They may have no idea that her
[5:40] head was separated and her identity lost.
[5:43] This made the usual avenues of identification, such as
[5:47] fingerprint databases and missing persons lists,
[5:51] essentially useless. Detectives tried to extract DNA
[5:55] from the remains, but the embalming process had
[5:58] unfortunately destroyed most viable genetic material.
[6:03] Even with help from some of the country's top forensic labs,
[6:07] what little DNA they obtained did not match any profiles in
[6:10] national databases. In hopes of jogging someone's
[6:15] memory, police turned to forensic art.
[6:19] Just a week after the discovery, a sketch of the Jane Doe's face
[6:22] was released to the public in a press conference.
[6:26] These images, showing an older Caucasian woman with a kind face
[6:30] and curly, short Gray hair, generated hundreds of tips over
[6:33] the years. In fact, police say they've
[6:36] investigated close to 200 leads or tips from the public,
[6:40] following up on any mention of a missing elderly woman or any
[6:44] scenario that might fit. At present, numerous women have
[6:48] been ruled out as the Beaver County Jane Doe.
[6:52] As the case stalled, investigators began focusing on
[6:56] a troubling theory that could explain how an embalmed head
[7:00] ended up in the woods. The evidence pointed toward the
[7:03] shadowy world of the body trade. This is a largely unregulated
[7:08] industry in which cadavers or body parts are bought and sold
[7:11] for medical research, training or even to collectors.
[7:16] Unlike organ transplantation, which is tightly regulated and
[7:20] illegal to profit from, the trade of non transplant body
[7:24] parts isn't Federally overseen companies known as body brokers
[7:29] often acquire bodies and then dismember and distribute parts
[7:33] to universities, private labs or training programs.
[7:39] Some bodies are obtained by offering the family to pay for
[7:41] all funeral costs, and these services deliberately target the
[7:45] poor and destitute. In this case, several clues
[7:50] lined up with that body broker scenario.
[7:53] First, the precise removal of the cervical spine suggested a
[7:57] motive to separate valuable parts.
[8:00] A head with the spine attached might be less useful to a buyer
[8:04] than a cleanly severed head and an intact spinal column sold
[8:08] separately. The cuts on Jane Doe's neck were
[8:11] so skillful that experts believe they were made to maximize the
[8:15] profitability of both the head and the spine as separate
[8:19] specimens. This isn't something a casual
[8:22] perpetrator would do, but according to the authorities,
[8:26] it's consistent with practices in the body brokerage business.
[8:30] Additionally, investigators considered attempting a little
[8:34] sting operation, purchasing a human head themselves for
[8:38] comparison. While the police ultimately
[8:42] decided against it, investigative journalists at
[8:45] Reuters picked up the idea. In 2017, Reuters reporters were
[8:50] able to buy 2 human heads from a body broker in Tennessee for
[8:54] about $300 each. When an anatomist compared those
[8:59] purchased heads to the Jane Doe's case, the similarities in
[9:03] the cut locations and the absence of cervical vertebrae
[9:06] were striking. It reinforced the theory that
[9:10] the Beaver County Jane Doe's head had once passed through the
[9:13] hands of a body broker or similar enterprise.
[9:19] Throughout the investigation, authorities kept an open mind to
[9:22] alternatives. One theory was an old fashioned
[9:25] grave robbery. Perhaps someone dug up a
[9:28] recently buried woman and took her head.
[9:32] This idea faded as no reports of tampered graves or missing heads
[9:36] came in from any cemetery in the region, plus the forensic
[9:40] evidence of the precise cuts pointed away from a hasty grave
[9:44] desecration and towards something more systematic.
[9:49] Perhaps the darkest theory of all is that this was a much more
[9:53] direct foul play scenario. Under this theory, the
[9:57] perpetrator was a medical professional, likely a surgeon,
[10:01] who would have known how to dose her with medication to make it
[10:04] look accidental. Under this theory, the
[10:08] perpetrator then embalmed her head to confuse investigators.
[10:12] While not impossible, it's a far less likely scenario than the
[10:16] body trade explanation based on what is known.
[10:21] Investigators also looked at the scenario of a stolen cadaver
[10:24] from a medical institution. There have been cases of
[10:28] cadavers being improperly disposed of or even stolen, but
[10:32] again, the way Jane Doe's head was prepared didn't quite fit a
[10:37] typical medical school cadaver. No medical schools reported a
[10:42] head lost, and the evidence of make up having been applied to
[10:45] the embalmed head strongly suggested against this.
[10:50] One perplexing aspect is why the head was left where it was.
[10:54] If someone was trying to hide evidence of illicit body
[10:57] dealing, dumping a head in a field where a passerby could
[11:01] find it seems counterintuitive. This has LED some to speculate
[11:06] that maybe the perpetrator wanted it to be found, though
[11:09] the reasoning for this can only be speculated.
[11:14] Looking at the evidence, I think the most logical explanation is
[11:17] that the Beaver County Jane Doe came from the body broker
[11:20] industry. Her head was embalmed, her hair
[11:24] was styled, and everything was surgically done, not sloppy or
[11:28] violent. Those details point to someone
[11:32] trained in anatomy or Mortuary work, not a random perpetrator.
[11:37] The missing cervical spine suggests her body was
[11:40] deliberately separated for resale, which lines up with how
[11:44] body brokers handle specimens for medical or educational
[11:47] purposes. It's a largely unregulated trade
[11:51] where cadavers can move through several hands with virtually no
[11:54] oversight. In my view, this case was the
[11:58] sad byproduct of a broken system that treats the remains of the
[12:02] poor and destitute like inventory.
[12:07] Nearly eleven years have passed since that December day, and the
[12:11] Beaver County Jane Doe remains unidentified and her case
[12:14] unsolved. Somewhere out there, there's a
[12:17] family who buried a relative around 2014, never imagining
[12:22] that her head would end up miles away in an evidence locker.
[12:26] Thankfully, despite the fact that foul play likely wasn't a
[12:29] factor, the authorities are still actively investigating
[12:32] this case. It was a routine Sunday morning
[12:38] at a Bellingham, WA pulp mill until a worker peered into an
[12:42] industrial chimney and made a ghastly find.
[12:45] On September 20th, 1987, around 5:00 in the morning, Georgia
[12:50] Pacific Mill employee Roy Harris checked a seldom used boiler
[12:55] chimney after an alarm signaled a possible leak.
[12:58] Looking through an open lid at the top of the steel stack,
[13:02] Harris saw human remains. About 17 feet down.
[13:07] On a grid of pipes lay a partially skeletal body severely
[13:11] burned by the boilers heat. Harris alerted plant supervisors
[13:15] and the police. Based on the condition of the
[13:17] remains, officials believe the body had been in the chimney for
[13:21] at least several days, perhaps even weeks, before its
[13:25] discovery. It was clear this was no
[13:28] ordinary incident as this man had died in an almost
[13:32] inaccessible spot. The victim was determined to be
[13:37] an adult male in his 30s, standing about 5 foot 10 and
[13:41] likely weighing around £150. In life, he was believed to be
[13:45] of white, Hispanic or possibly of Native American heritage.
[13:51] The enclosed chimneys extreme heat had charred the remains,
[13:54] hindering many forensic analysis.
[13:57] Examiner's noted the man's dental work was high quality
[14:01] with multiple fillings and evidence of a root canal.
[14:05] Such dental care suggested he likely came from at least a
[14:08] middle class background. The medical examiner found
[14:13] multiple broken bones consistent with a fall into the stack.
[14:17] The official cause of death was listed as exposure by
[14:20] hypothermia, suggesting the man likely died from cold before the
[14:25] boilers heat scorched his body. Given the destruction of most
[14:29] forensic evidence, the manner of his death couldn't be
[14:32] identified. Disturbingly, scratch marks on
[14:36] the Chimneys interior walls indicated a desperate but
[14:39] unsuccessful attempt to claw upward toward the opening.
[14:43] This suggested that if he jumped into the stack willingly, he
[14:46] later had a change of heart. Notably, the man had no
[14:51] identification or personal items with him.
[14:54] The only object found was a charred fragment of a
[14:56] Continental Airlines ticket. Unfortunately, it was too
[15:00] fragmentary to trace, revealing only a few digits and no names.
[15:05] This hinted the man might have recently flown to the area, but
[15:09] the lead ultimately went nowhere.
[15:12] In the end, the scene provided intriguing clues and deep in the
[15:16] mystery of who this man was and how he ended up there.
[15:22] A baffling aspect of the case was how the man entered the
[15:25] chimney at all. The boiler stack was hard to
[15:28] reach, tucked deep within the steam plant and rarely
[15:32] inspected. To access its top, one would
[15:35] have to navigate through the plant and climb onto the roof,
[15:39] then somehow get into the opening of the stack.
[15:43] A metal hatch at the base of the stack was found rusted shut and
[15:46] had to be pried open by police, so entry from below was
[15:50] virtually impossible. Investigators concluded the
[15:54] unknown man must have entered from the top of the chimney.
[15:57] The spot was so isolated that the odds of anyone stumbling
[16:00] upon it were nearly 0. The unusual, hard to reach
[16:04] location of the body immediately fueled speculation about what
[16:08] kind of incident had actually occurred.
[16:13] With little evidence to go on, several theories have been
[16:16] proposed about how this man met his fate.
[16:19] A leading theory is that the John Doe was a thrill seeker who
[16:23] snuck into the mill after hours and accidentally fell into the
[16:27] chimney. Years later, a tipster reported
[16:30] that in 1987 a group of young urban explorers used to
[16:35] illicitly climb the mills structures.
[16:38] On one outing, a new member of that group, reportedly from New
[16:42] York, vanished without a trace right around the same time this
[16:47] John Doe would have died. He may have slipped into the
[16:51] open chimney and become trapped. This scenario aligns with much
[16:55] of the evidence, even the plane ticket, suggesting he traveled
[16:59] to Washington. But without a confirmed
[17:01] identity, it remains conjecture the bizarre location LED some to
[17:08] consider foul play. Perhaps the man was slain or
[17:12] incapacitated elsewhere and someone hid his body in the
[17:15] chimney to conceal a crime. Investigators did consider this
[17:19] possibility. However, there was no direct
[17:23] evidence of a crime beyond a trespassing incident.
[17:27] Investigators view it as a theoretical but remote
[17:29] possibility. Another possibility is that the
[17:34] man's entrapment was intentional, but by his own
[17:37] hand. He might have been trying to
[17:39] hide or enter the plant on his own and gotten hopelessly stuck.
[17:45] It's hard to imagine someone choosing this grim hiding place
[17:48] to end it all, but it hasn't been ruled out.
[17:52] However, people who are experiencing crises generally
[17:56] aren't thinking rationally in the 1st place.
[17:59] The signs that he tried to climb out indicate that if he jumped
[18:03] in intentionally, he later thought better of it.
[18:06] Unfortunately, if this was the case, it was too late for him.
[18:12] Almost 40 years later, this case remains one of Washington's most
[18:16] baffling John Doe mysteries. Hey everyone, it's Jimmy here.
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[18:34] The term golden years is meant to evoke a sense of peace, a
[18:38] well earned reward of quiet comfort after a long life.
[18:42] It's a time for front porches, familiar neighbors, relaxing
[18:47] with family and the safety of home.
[18:50] But between 1990 and 1996, in the historic West End of
[18:55] Richmond, VA, that promise was shattered.
[19:00] For at least 13 elderly women, their golden years became a
[19:03] season of unimaginable terror, their homes transformed from
[19:08] sanctuaries into mortuaries. This is the story of the Golden
[19:13] Years slayings and a horror which began on July 1st, 1990
[19:18] when 89 year old Mabel Venable was found cut down inside her
[19:22] house. It was a brutal, shocking crime
[19:26] that served as a dark omen of the six year nightmare to come.
[19:32] Following the slaying of Mabel Venable, a chilling and specific
[19:35] pattern began to emerge. Over the next two years, five
[19:40] more elderly women were eliminated in their homes, each
[19:44] attack bearing the same terrifying signature.
[19:48] The victims were all black women ranging in age from 61 to 85,
[19:53] who lived by themselves. The list of the dead grew
[19:56] steadily. 80 year old Eva Jones and 61 year old Mary Coffee in
[20:01] October 19, 9061, year old Robinette Mickelberry in May 19,
[20:06] 9185, year old Pearl Gash in December 1991 and finally 81
[20:14] year old Martha Bolden. In May 1992, the method in each
[20:20] of these first six attacks was consistent and brutal.
[20:23] The women were stabbed. This consistent modus operandi
[20:27] suggested a single predator was at work, a perpetrator with a
[20:31] clear and horrifying preference for a specific type of victim.
[20:36] The community was paralyzed by a unique kind of fear that can
[20:40] only be evoked from violating the home.
[20:44] Then, as suddenly as the attacks had begun, they stopped.
[20:49] For two years, an uneasy silence settled over Richmond's West
[20:53] End. Residents wondered if the
[20:56] predator had died, been imprisoned for another crime, or
[21:00] simply moved on. But the monster hadn't vanished.
[21:05] It was merely dormant. And when it re emerged, it would
[21:09] be terrifyingly different. On August 16th, 1994, the uneasy
[21:16] piece was broken with the slaying of 59 year old Phyllis
[21:20] Harris. The terror was back, but the
[21:23] perpetrator's signature had completely changed.
[21:27] The new victims, beginning with Harris, were all white women.
[21:32] Even more jarring was the change in method.
[21:35] He now preferred strangulation. After the slaying of 82 year old
[21:40] Inez J Childress in September 1994, the attacker once again
[21:46] went dormant for a time. Unfortunately, he would be back
[21:50] in 1996 to unleash a final terrifying onslaught. 5 women
[21:55] were slain in just four months. Lucille Boyd, 75 in January.
[22:00] Gertrude Gardner, 77 in February.
[22:04] Mamie Harris Verlander, 84, in March.
[22:08] Then, in the most brazen set of attacks, there was Elizabeth
[22:11] Seibert, 69, and Jane Foster, 55, on consecutive days in
[22:18] April. The rapid succession of attacks
[22:21] sent a fresh wave of panic through the city.
[22:26] As the body count rose, Richmond transformed into a city under
[22:30] siege. The slayings provoked widespread
[22:33] outrage not just because of their brutality, but because of
[22:38] the victims profound vulnerability.
[22:41] Fear became a tangible part of daily life, especially for
[22:44] elderly women. Sales of weapons, door locks and
[22:48] guard dogs surged as residents took security into their own
[22:53] hands, no longer trusting that they were safe in their own
[22:57] homes. In some neighborhoods, citizens
[23:01] patrols were formed with police assistance, a clear sign that
[23:05] public faith in the authority's ability to protect them was
[23:09] eroding. In 2004, years after the last
[23:14] attack, a suspect finally emerged.
[23:17] But he was far from the criminal mastermind some might have
[23:20] imagined. Leslie Burchard was a 51 year
[23:24] old homeless man with a long and documented history of severe
[23:28] mental illness, including a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
[23:33] Burchard was already in prison serving a life sentence for
[23:36] confessing to the slaying of three homeless men in 1996.
[23:41] Then in 1999, he contacted authorities and confessed to
[23:46] four of the Golden Years attacks.
[23:49] He admitted to having taken the lives of the last four victims,
[23:53] Lucille Boyd, Mamie Verlander, Elizabeth Seibert and Jane
[23:59] Foster. His confession was stunningly
[24:03] detailed. He provided information about
[24:06] the crime scenes that was supposedly known only to
[24:08] investigators, making his claims seem highly credible.
[24:13] For a Police Department under immense pressure, it was the
[24:16] breakthrough they desperately needed.
[24:19] However, the confession was built on a foundation of sand.
[24:23] Burchart was a man known to suffer from hallucinations and
[24:26] hear voices. Some believe that he may have
[24:29] been purposely or inadvertently fed information during the
[24:32] confession process. Others suspect that he may have
[24:36] talked to someone in prison who actually committed the
[24:39] disturbing acts. Compounding the doubt, shortly
[24:43] before he died in prison from natural causes in 2002, he
[24:48] recanted his confession entirely and proclaimed his innocence.
[24:53] Due to the lack of any physical evidence connecting him to the
[24:56] crimes, Birchart was never formally tried, though he
[25:00] remains the prime and only significant suspect.
[25:05] With Leslie Birchart dead and no forensic evidence to provide
[25:08] clarity, the Golden Year's slayings remain a puzzle with
[25:11] several competing solutions. The first theory is that a
[25:15] single serial perpetrator was responsible for all 13 deaths.
[25:21] This would require a psychological explanation for
[25:23] the dramatic shift in both method and victim race, a change
[25:27] that is highly unusual for serial predators.
[25:32] A second, more plausible theory suggests that Richmond was
[25:35] plagued by at least two separate monsters whose crimes were
[25:39] mistakenly linked by police. This is the theory that I
[25:43] strongly prefer because personally, I'm not seeing the
[25:47] strong connection to the two sets of attacks that the cops
[25:50] see. Under this scenario, one
[25:53] predator slew 6 elderly black women between 1990 and 1992 and
[25:58] then disappeared. Two years later, a different
[26:02] attacker, perhaps Burchardt, began strangling elderly white
[26:07] women in the same geographic area.
[26:10] The only common thread was the age of the victims and the fact
[26:13] they lived alone, which may have led to a critical case of
[26:17] confirmation bias by investigators. 1/3 theory
[26:23] suggests that the entire investigation was essentially
[26:26] botched, and we can't really know what is true or what isn't.
[26:30] This theory stems from 2013 claims of a retired detective
[26:34] named Ron Reed who worked on the case.
[26:38] Reed alleged that his supervisors forced him to
[26:40] suppress parts of Burchard's testimony, fearing that more
[26:44] negative publicity would destroy the department's reputation.
[26:48] The Police Department officially denied this, but did state that
[26:53] the other deaths Burchard allegedly confessed to were
[26:56] determined to have been from natural causes.
[27:00] For instance, Reed had tossed in the name of a woman who was
[27:04] known to have died of natural causes in 1996 while in a
[27:08] nursing home under round the clock care.
[27:12] Burchard readily provided details about how he slew the
[27:15] woman in her home. This allegation, if true, paints
[27:19] a picture of an investigation where controlling the public
[27:22] narrative may have taken precedence over uncovering the
[27:26] full truth. Decades later, the dust has
[27:31] never settled in Richmond. The Golden Years Predator case
[27:35] remains officially unsolved. Leslie Birchardt, the only
[27:39] person ever named as a suspect, will never face justice
[27:43] regardless, and it's unclear to what extent the cops continue to
[27:47] investigate the case. Whether this was 1 perpetrator
[27:50] or multiple perpetrators, the final injustice is the silence
[27:55] that continues to surround their deaths decades later.

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