Strange & Unexplained

#21 The Death Of A Star

Ryan Singleton was a boy from Atlanta GA that dreamed of growing up and becoming a star. He dreamed of moving to Hollywood and making it big in his passions of acting, writing and filmmaking. He also had a passion for fashion and broke onto the scene as a model. Around 21 years old Ryan moved to Los Angeles California and almost instantly hit the jackpot.

Ryan started getting modeling gigs left and right, he was being invited to exclusive events, hanging out with stars, and living out everything he ever dreamed. Then all of a sudden things took an unexpected turn and within the next year Ryan would meet a sudden and horrific death. Alone, in the middle of the desert, and with most of his internal organs missing.

Strange circumstances and weird behavior preceded Ryan's death and now makes many question if there were more nefarious actions that lead to Ryan's demise.

 

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Sources: 

https://youtu.be/zXLl26ORX_c

https://youtu.be/GCLGSfpiJFc

https://www.scribd.com/document/349353000/Ryan-Singleton-autopsy-report

https://www.projectq.us/atlanta/atlanta_mother_aches_answers_in_gay_son_death#:~:text=Singleton%20(top%20photo)%20and%20Brewster,New%20York%20City%20in%202012.

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-now/georgia-model-vanishes-body-found-with-organs-missing/67-442693022

#20 The Silence Is Deafening

On Dec. 16, 2009 Essence magazine published an article highlighting the details of 8 missing black women whose cases have received little to no media coverage.

It was titled ‘Have You Seen Her: When Black Women Go Missing The Silence Can Be Defaning’ 

The purpose was to show how little media cares to cover missing black women cases, it draws attention to a major flaw in the system.

 

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Sources:

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=48284

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2013/12/18/human-remains-found-in-rowlett-identified-as-missing-woman/ published DEc.18,2013

http://charleyproject.org/case/shirley-marie-geanes

https://starlocalmedia.com/rowlettlakeshoretimes/news/missing-person-s-remains-identified/article_1aa442b2-6836-11e3-aa31-0019bb2963f4.html

http://www.blackandmissinginc.com/cdad/index.cfm?MissingInfoID=34&fbclid=IwAR05diQLYvOpbCcUqab1IxJm7sks_0t-57hFu-nY2c5bpwpTLgFm62BqkQk

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObsBDVzWgoQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFD8r7pP-uE&pbjreload=101

#19 Double Life/Triple Murder

Gerald Mike Bullinger was a man of many faces. He was a pilot, an avid outdoorsman, a family man, even a stand-in father.  He was also prince charming to more than one.

 

Bullinger thought he had it all figured out how to have his cake and eat it too, but when the two sides of his life come crashing together unbeknownst to him he takes on a new face...murderer.

 

PATREON

 

Sources:

https://go.discovery.com/tv-shows/in-pursuit-with-john-walsh/full-episodes/deadly-double-life

https://www.facebook.com/nadja.medley

https://youtu.be/qzmgwqvo8cQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dEwtVED6Ms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NWoChhs99o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L_vENw57Rk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ylboTBItBs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGwTSuEhds0

#18 "Amerithrax" The Anthrax Attacks of 2001

In September of 2001 America experienced a series of calculated attacks meant to devastate and scare the American people. Nineteen Islamic extremists, associated with a group known as Al Qaeda, hijacked 4 planes and carried out suicide attacks, killing nearly 3000 people that day. A week later a second wave of attacks had started but this time the murder weapon was a deadly infectious disease...inhalation anthrax, we were facing a new threat, one that had been biologically engineered.

In just a few short months 5 people would be dead and 17 others would have their lives changed forever.

What was even scarier is, that as the investigation continued, all signs pointed to this attack being executed by one of our own.

 

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Sources

David Willman, Author of The Mirage Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyy0xMTW70c&t=1431s 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG95QvnReNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS-FzmPzqvQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuZi52lZVuw

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/anthrax-files/ aired Oct. 11,2011

https://www.propublica.org/article/new-evidence-disputes-case-against-bruce-e-ivins

https://www.propublica.org/article/did-ivins-give-the-fbi-a-fake-sample-of-his-own-anthrax

https://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/detect/antdetect_case5.html

https://www.cdc.gov/anthrax/basics/symptoms.html

 

#17 The Man That Ran Off The Belvedere

On the evening of May 16, 2006 Rey Rivera was sitting in his office at his desk working from home. His cell rang and a short conversation ensued and we are left wondering who is on the other line. “Oh shit” Rey says then he grabs his keys, runs down the stairs and out the front door of his Baltimore home...thats the last time he was seen alive.

 

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Sources:

Netflix: Unsolved Mysteries-Ep1-Mystery On The Rooftop

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnsolvedMysteries/comments/hjqmc1/i_wrote_out_rey_riveras_suicide_note_as/  Transcribed note

https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a33261034/rey-rivera-theory-note-the-game/

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/world/2005/12/29/Evangelical-media-star-Thom-Hickling-dies-in-Zambia-crash/stories/200512290490  Connected?

https://nerdist.com/article/unsolved-mysteries-creator-rey-rivera-update/

https://www.belvedereandcoevents.com/

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2007-08-10-0708100274-story.html

An Unexplained Death (2018) written by Mikita Brottman

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/suicide-or-murder-evidence-reviewed/7054411#

https://transformason.org/papers/masonic_rings.html

#16 The Murder of Amber Tuccaro

On August 18, 2010 Amber Tuccaro, her 14- month old son (Jacob) and a female friend left their hometown of Fort McMurray and flew to Edmonton, Alberta in Canada. The girls were looking to have a fun weekend in the city.  Amber asked her friend to look after young Jacob while she reportedly hitchhiked into town to get some food for them.

She got into a vehicle with an unknown man, and that was the last time Amber was seen alive.

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Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eNPG-lztFE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwqZcfJN6gs

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/amber-alyssa-tuccaro

https://thehueandcry.com/amber-tuccaro/ 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=amber+tuccaro phone call audio

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=amber+tuccaro apology

http://patcarsonsexoffender.blogspot.com/ blog about Pat Carson

https://www.reddit.com/r/Edmonton/comments/852g7k/pat_carson_aka_bill_obrian_is_still_luring_young/

https://horse-canada.com/classifieds/show-ad/?id=98771

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMQjcNXdJl4 Voice comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXlJuCJVbAk Discovery of Ambers Body

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Tears 

https://www.thestar.com/edmonton/2019/09/05/amber-tuccaros-family-wants-to-exhume-remains-for-dna-testing.html  Family wants to exhume 

https://storiesoftheunsolved.com/2020/02/17/the-murder-of-amber-tuccaro/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/corrie-ottenbreit-s-remains-tied-to-rural-property-near-leduc-1.3171184

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq2B9D5Frac

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#15 Alonzo Brooks With No Ride Home

In front of the house are acres of cleared farm fields and behind the house is a creek that runs down and makes a swift turn right behind the house and heading away from the house. The creek has thick woods on each bank. The guys look up and down the long driveway, then cross over the road to look along the tree line on the other side. Here they found the boots and hat belonging to Alonzo.....a man rode up on a four wheeler coming from the direction of the house and told them they had to leave.

They knew then, that something was really wrong.

 

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Sources:

Netflix: Unsolved Mysteries- No Ride Home

Submit tips online at tips.fbi.gov or at unsolved.com

https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/family-continues-seek-answers-fbi-us-attorney-announce-100-000-n1231617

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU4Ph80jSFM

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/alonzo-brooks

#14 What's Up With Bardstown?

     There is something strange going on in the “Most Beautiful Small Town in America” with a population of around 13,000, Bardstown Kentucky has an unusual amount of unsolved murders...and bourbon, but that's ok.

 

So what is going on in Bardstown? Is there a serial killer on the loose? Is there a gang problem no one wants to talk about? Drug ties and cartels? Crooked cops? Corrupt politicians? 

 

Or just a lot of strange coincidences? No one can even say for sure if the murders are all connected...(I can...totally sure.)- Michael

 

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Sources:

https://www.whas11.com/article/news/crime/unsolved/car-caught-on-surveillance-at-netherland-home/417-7b7bfab9-850a-4376-907e-7c881eb619ec#:~:text=Kathy%20and%20Samantha%20Netherland%20were,Their%20killer%20was%20never%20found.&text=BARDSTOWN%2C%20Ky.,murdered%20in%20their%20own%20home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=088kr-EvaFM local news series [Unsolved]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzKlfEcQ4iE&list=PL7yRqtDfF-XMevfOhfvG4Tr5AmACcMeAy  Oxygen channel series

https://police-museum.org/line-of-duty/21th-century/police-officer-jason-s-ellis-bardstown-ky-police-department/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0taWNRNx34&list=PLRVbJOthsXMOI6gcDTOlU737a35I2F-K7

https://www.yourtango.com/2019323801/who-are-kathy-and-samantha-netherland-new-details-unresolved-murder-mother-and-daughter

https://www.oxygen.com/the-disappearance-of-crystal-rogers/crime-time/netherland-murders-gang-initiation-inmate

https://www.crimeonline.com/2019/09/02/bardstown-mystery-four-dead-one-missing-in-the-most-beautiful-small-town-in-america/ 

https://www.wave3.com/2019/08/19/bardstown-fd-open-arson-investigation-after-home-built-by-brooks-houck-burns-down/

 

 

#13 The Strange Deaths Following The Ferguson Protests

August 9, 2014 Michael Brown Jr. an 18 year unarmed black man was shot to death by a white officer, Darren Wilson in Ferguson Missouri.

On Nov. 24 the St. Louis County Prosecutors decided not to indict officer Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown, that night the city broke into chaos.

That night tragedy struck the community again, through the only man killed on the night of the Ferguson riots,  20 year old DeAndre Joshua. 

Then again in September of 2016 a prominent activist named Darren Seals was found under similar circumstances...

Were they related, and who committed these murders? 

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Sources:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/ferguson-death-mystery-black-lives-matter-michael-brown-809407/amp/ 

http://nation19.com/the-mystery-killings-of-darren-seals-deandre-joshua-and-shawn-gray/ 

https://www.phillytrib.com/news/across_america/puzzling-number-of-men-tied-to-ferguson-protests-have-died/article_73a8fcaa-a69a-5667-b460-6afa596ee970.html 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/15/us/parkland-shooting-officer-reinstated/index.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/us/another-killing-in-ferguson-leaves-a-family-grappling-with-the-unknown.html

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/ferguson/a-tale-of-2-ferguson-deaths-1-well-known-1-anonymous/63-211122561

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxVUstvv-RU

http://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/ferguson-activist-darren-seals-dies-at-29/article_2174f1d8-747f-11e6-990f-33cd70d152a7.html 

http://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/top-ferguson-activist-darren-seals-found-dead-in-burning-car-police-say/article_12371f3c-753f-11e6-9c8b-2b02493140fc.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-ferguson-activist-deaths-black-lives-matter-20190317-story.html 

 

#12 Making A Murderer (Wife Edition)

Making a Murderer….but with a woman.

 

Beyond a reasonable doubt… that's what jurors are told when looking at a case, not to decide the defendant is guilty unless it is proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

 

So how does a jury convict a woman for 27 years with no physical evidence proving she committed the crime? No witnesses? No motives? 

 

How do they know beyond a reasonable doubt that she is guilty? Because the police built a case before they even started an investigation.

 

From the moment detectives arrived at the home of Jamie(Jim) and Sandra Melgar they knew who had killed Jim… Sandra.

 

 

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Resources:

https://youtu.be/ft2JMpQ3NmM full length interview 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/amateur-sleuths-case-woman-prison-stabbing-bludgeoning-husband/story?id=59477363

https://www.khou.com/article/news/investigations/missing-pieces/sandra-melgar-appeal-denied-murder/285-17509c26-0b35-4c26-8c8f-83ceea90c283

https://abc.com/shows/2020/episode-guide/2018-11/30-til-death-do-us-part

https://www.facebook.com/FreeSandyMelgar/