Strange & Unexplained

#85 Who Killed Leah?

Leah Hickman was studying journalism at Marshall University when she went missing in December of 2007. She hoped to one day be a TV news reporter, she wanted to tell stories.

But unfortunately, Leah’s own story was cut short, and she never got to live that dream. We're here to talk about that tragically brief but seemingly happy life, of 21-year-old Leah Hickman.

 

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Sources:

https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/father-still-fights-justice-murder-leah-hickman-12-years-after-n1102031

​​ https://www.wsaz.com/2021/12/15/death-investigation-leah-hickman-still-active-14-years-later/

https://original.newsbreak.com/@crimeneversleeps-1590148/2400890975730-leah-hickman-murder-who-put-her-in-the-crawl-space

https://www.herald-dispatch.com/leah-hickman-timeline/article_a405fc76-f63f-5aed-be37-722ad6d21dea.html

https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/strangled-body-of-missing-student-hidden-in-apartment-crawl-space-e032a06cff71

https://www.facebook.com/datelinenbc/posts/marshall-university-student-leah-hickman-vanished-on-december-14-2007-a-week-lat/10157695948841420/

Strange Shorts: Episode 66

Twin spends 20 years in prison in place of his brother, a police station in Alabama goes a little overboard, the UK needs sperm, and teenager accidentally stabs grandmother 60 times!

 

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Sources:

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-man-who-spent-nearly-20-years-in-prison-for-murder-released-after-twin-brother-confesses-to-crime

https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/brookside-police-patrolled-social-media-threatening-towns-critics.html?utm_source=reddit.com

https://www.wlwt.com/article/sex-acts-in-city-parks-cincinnati/38904570

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/urgent-call-sperm-donors-birmingham-22830088

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdaj4/korea-stabbing-grandmother?utm_source=reddit.com

#84 Mystery At The Mill

On the morning of June 21, 2004, forty-three-year-old Jim Donnelly pulled into work and parked his car. He gets out with a muffin he had just purchased at the gas station and heads inside. Jim signs in to work, gets changed into his work uniform, walks to his office and sets the muffin on his desk…and is never seen again. It has been 18 years since Jim disappeared and we still have no clue what happened to him, let's see if we can unravel… the mystery at the mill!

 

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Sources:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1049-a-moment-in-crime-49194262/episode/mystery-at-the-mill-the-vanishing-91618651/?keyid%5B0%5D=A%20Moment%20In%20Crime&keyid%5B1%5D=Mystery%20at%20the%20mill%3A%20The%20vanishing%20of%20scientist%20Jim%20Donnelly&sc=podcast_widget

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/mystery-at-the-mill-the-strange-and-unsolved-disappearance-of-scientist-jim-donnelly/

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/10/jim-donnelley-could-the-missing-auckland-father-have-been-dissolved-in-an-acid-vat.html

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/10/jim-donnelley-could-the-missing-auckland-father-have-been-dissolved-in-an-acid-vat.html

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mystery-at-the-mill-the-strange-and-unsolved-disappearance-of-scientist-jim-donnelly/LU2YNA44NGTMRAIMHH3UD7JDUU/

https://newzealandmissing.wordpress.com/jim-donnelly/

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/10/missing-jim-the-day-an-auckland-father-disappeared-without-a-trace.html

https://youtu.be/8vbudqhJokc

#83 The Lumbee Tribe & The Battle of Hayes Pond

Tucked away in a beautiful southeastern part of North Carolina resides the largest Native American Tribe east of the Mississippi, the strong-willed, and resilient original southerners, the Lumbee tribe. During the racially charged era of Jim Crow, the Tribe was confronted by a hate group seeking to scare them, and run them off their land, but they grossly underestimated them.

 

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Sources:

https://www.lumbeetribe.com/

https://3aa0349e-a4c3-4857-8f0a-2e7e416fac87.filesusr.com/ugd/1b5843_e7523da8764840f68c885c83958ffb7f.pdf

https://youtu.be/x4JV23zlDaE 38:00

The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle (UNC Press, 2018)-Malinda Manor Lowery

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/opinion/confederate-monuments-indians-original-southerners.html

https://youtu.be/-woWrAEOssQ

https://www.ncpedia.org/history/20th-Century/lumbee-face-klan

https://books.google.com/books?id=5VUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PP1&focus=viewport#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.uncp.edu/resources/museum-southeast-american-indian/museum-exhibits/battle-hayes-pond-routing-kkk

https://www.southerncultures.org/article/carolina-indians-went-warpath-media-klan-lumbees-north-carolina/

https://www.uncp.edu/about/history

https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/2161658

​​https://youtu.be/ZH-V3CVYzqk

https://www.history.com/topics/reconstruction/ku-klux-klan

#82 Justice For Jelani

As a child, Jelani Day was witness to a specific human behavior that helped shape him as a person. Jelani’s childhood friend Paul struggled with a speech impediment that opened him up to bullying from other children. Even as a kid Jelani knew treating Paul like the other children was wrong. He became good friends with Paul and stood up for him when other kids would try to tease him. This, in turn, helped shape Jelani’s future. He would become someone others could look to for support, he was selfless and wanted to help in any way he could….so where was the help when he needed it?

 

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Sources/GoFundMe:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/find-jelani-day?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&__FB_PRIVATE_TRACKING__=%7B%22loggedout_browser_id%22%3A%22cd5eefda60d6c91ce6c002bd5b28229449739836%22%7D&fbclid=IwAR0ZZ4mI6XwuEv14GFpI8AFSI6lES4iPWQJR0wSiQcbjSoBQZ9NqxZ-ABGQ

https://www.facebook.com/cityblmPD/photos/a.718020354877913/4709547809058461/

https://youtu.be/RdR0iDcRpIQ

https://youtu.be/FG-QEzf3fQ8

https://pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/timeline-of-missing-illinois-state-student-jelani-day/article_19709271-00b9-5f02-906f-ac3b7582d393.html

https://youtu.be/ciRniW99Zdk

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1049377275/jelani-days-death-is-ruled-a-drowning-the-coroner-says

https://youtu.be/byonE_dxs8M

https://youtu.be/oKWMi4z4Jj4

https://abc7chicago.com/jelani-day-update-phone-found-missing/11229214/

https://youtu.be/32gRi24it64

https://youtu.be/Cd_Ww5gtMfM

https://youtu.be/QQjwwxzwAEg

Strange Shorts: Episode 62

2022's strangeness is falling into our laps already, from fish to drones bound for the prison yards, and some criminals making a slick getaway!

 

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Sources:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fish-fell-sky-east-texas-rcna10565

https://www.wral.com/man-steals-frito-lay-truck-from-carlie-c-s-store-in-dunn-leads-troopers-chase/20056984/

https://www.whio.com/news/trending/drone-carrying-marijuana-crashes-into-ohio-house/YV67B247TFDHPCQVD445QFJJCM/

https://www.scoopnashville.com/2021/12/drunk-soldier-arrested-after-pooping-pants-at-bna-while-transporting-9-assault-rifles-donovan-paywa/

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/police-look-for-leads-in-christmas-butter-heist-in-trenton-ont-1.5722455

#81 Julius Jones

Julius Jones was sitting on death row for the shooting death of 45 year old Paul Howell in Edmund, Oklahoma, but has maintained his innocence and claims he was framed for the murder. At the time of his execution he garnered supporters at an astonishing rate. And clemency was granted at the last minute.  But were these people supporting an innocent man or a violent criminal?

 

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Sources:

https://abc.com/shows/2020/episode-guide/2020-07/14-the-last-defense-julius-jones-a-special-edition-of-2020

https://innocenceproject.org/julius-jones-death-row-oklahoma-what-to-know/

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29318748/why-blake-griffin-russell-westbrook-other-nba-stars-fought-save-julius-jones

https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/OKAG/2020/07/06/file_attachments/1489505/Julius%20Jones%20Document%20July%202020.pdfA.G of OK Evidence of Guilt

https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-executions-oklahoma-05c84265d553c784eb862321aed2acb8

https://www.justiceforpaulhowell.com/ Howell families website

https://youtu.be/lbi-9ymoxGQ Howell family interview

https://www.ttsblaw.com/criminal-defense/how-oklahoma-criminal-law-differs-from-other-states/#:~:text=Oklahoma%20is%20known%20as%20one,sentenced%20to%20life%20in%20prison.

https://eji.org/news/two-exonerated-and-released-from-oklahoma-death-row/

https://theintercept.com/2017/04/26/innocent-people-have-been-sentenced-to-death-in-oklahoma-commission-concludes/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/they-sentenced-me-die-prison-n459511

https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/three-strikes-law.htm

https://youtu.be/RgiQ-um22sw

https://youtu.be/J1lXfQBeShY

https://youtu.be/7Q3KFKy1Po0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#80 Fox Hollow Farms

Nestled in the serene suburban town that is Carmel Indiana, sits an estate that was home to an alleged serial killer. The infamous Herb Baumeister used the 18 acre property as a personal dumping ground, and of course, it is believed to be haunted.

But is it the ghost of past victims reaching out to be identified or is it the killer himself…orrr bullshit? Either way, no judgement here…ok maybe a little, I’ll try to keep it to a minimum…

 

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Sources:

The Haunting of Fox Hollow Farms Documentary

​​https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2075337/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv1FYbqLuGw or stream on tubi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3quprQlOXI  22:08 audio

#79 Missing Maya Millette

On January 7, 2021 Maya Millete made a phone call to her attorney that very possibly led to her death. That evening was the last time anyone ever saw her alive, and by October there would be an arrest made, but still to this day we don't know where Maya is, or if the arrest was even warranted…But let's start with what we do know…

 

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Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TNNndkp6pY&t=82s Cant Help Falling in Love cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoWugO7SXKc You were Ment for me cover

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-find-maya-millete?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

https://youtu.be/ttnDKamcMCo

https://youtu.be/u-b9kJAqbFQ audio from neighborhood camera caught the bangs and odd screams 0:33-0:54 then 1:28, 1:54

https://youtu.be/26Hx23imYUU

https://www.courttv.com/title/2-13-21-the-unsolved-casefile-where-is-maya-millete/

https://www.helpfindmaya.com/about/

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/investigations/san-diego-chula-vista-maya-larry-missing-forensic-interview-of-3-millete-children-already-complete/509-426a78ce-226e-4fcb-9dc1-1658834b1ef0#:~:text=The%20body%20of%20Maya%20Millete,an%20emergency%2C%20temporary%20guardianship%20order.

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/timeline-the-disappearance-of-chula-vista-mom-may-maya-millete/2515453/

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/larry-millete-accused-of-killing-wife-due-back-in-court-for-bail-review/2779395/

https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/i-think-he-would-hurt-the-kids-da-says-maya-millete-warned-friends/

https://youtu.be/y12VkYYPb3Y

https://conandaily.com/2021/10/19/larry-millete-biography-13-things-about-maya-milletes-husband/

 

 

Strange Shorts: Episode 58

Welcome to our monthly freebie! Michael and Andy come together again to bring you all the deets on the strange happenings around the world!

We talk Oxford School shooting, a rectal exam turns explosive, how some exhibits are more real than they appear, proof your cat is not the only psycho, and our robot nemesis, Ai-Da returns....

 

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Sources:

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/oxford-school-shooting-michigan-12-04-21/index.html

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/bomb-squad-called-gloucestershire-royal-6298076

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/02/europe/sword-ninja-france-police-shot-intl/index.html

https://boingboing.net/2021/11/27/man-who-poses-with-plastic-crocodile-learns-the-hard-way-that-its-alive.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/cat-psychopath-study-science-test-b1964701.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/26/robot-artist-to-perform-ai-generated-poetry-in-response-to-dante