Murder of Kathleen Heisey

Kathleen with her children

In 1998 50-year-old Kathleen Heisey was an elementary principal in McFarland, California. Which was 30 minutes away from her home in Bakersfield.  Late in the afternoon on June 29, 1998, Kathleen spent some time at Lynn Runyan's home who was her friend and coworker. She left her friends home around 7 p.m. and headed home.

The next day Heisey didn't show up to a school meeting let alone to the campus. She was reliable and this was odd. On Wednesday people began to worry and Lynn went to check up on her. She first noticed the two days' worth of newspapers outside. What she found inside was a horrifying and bloody sight.

Kathleen wasn't just stabbed, she was hacked and slashed over 50 times making the scene a brutal bloody sight. She was also dragged around the house believed to have started in the living room and dragged to the bedroom. This was where the killer inserted two guns into her body.

There was no robbery or forced entry. The back door was found open though. The knife used wasn't found and it seems that the murderer had brought it to the scene themselves. It's believed she knew her murder and that it was personal. It's also been noted that the murderer was strong.

The murder is not what Kathleen will be remembered for though. Her passion for children and her kind heart is what people will remember her for. In McFarland school, a whole wall has been dedicated to her.

There are few suspects in the case.

One suspect, Lloyd Wakelee, that her son believes was responsible was a coworker who Kathleen was going to leave a bad evaluation on. He went ballistic and She was worried about what he would do in retaliation. He makes a good suspect as he's got a violent short temper and a passion for knives.

Another suspect was Kathleen's married boyfriend, Bob Taylor, who she had a four-year relationship with. In a letter, it was found the Kathleen was going to end the relationship.

But there was no evidence to connect any suspects. It's been noted that the police may have botched the case. Neighbors and others weren't even interviewed till days after Kathleen was found. Which could have allowed time for people to forget or morph their memories of Kathleen's last day.

SOURCES:
http://www.kget.com/kathleen-heisey/special-report
http://www.kget.com/kathleen-heisey/timm-heisey-interview
http://www.bakersfield.com/archives/brutal-murder-of-school-principal-still-unsolved-a-decade-later/article_3a887e01-a540-524c-8b1e-ff7ae892832f.html
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39399898/murder_of_kathleen_heisey/

Disappearance of Jahi Marques Turner

In 2002 2 year old Jahi Marques Turner was living with his stepfather, Tieray Jones, in military housing on Beech Street in San Diego, California. at the time his mother, Tameka Jones, had left and was placed on the U.S.S. Rushmore. A day before her departure she had brought Jahi from her mother's in Maryland where he was staying. His father also resided in Maryland, but was not part of Jahi's life.

On April 25, 2002 Tieray and Jahi went to Balboa Park on Beech Street. Tieray at one point left safe enough to leave Jahi near the sandbox to get a soda at the vending machine. When Tieray came back Jahi was gone. He stated a woman and two children were nearby, and had possibly witnessed what happened.

Tieray claimed to have searched the park for 15 to 20 minutes before calling the police and 2:30 pm.

The woman Tieray saw was later identified. She then gave the police undisclosed information about the case. It isn't known if she had witnessed anything or not at the park. Police later located people who were at the park that day and no one could confirm that Jahi was even there. His fingerprints weren't even found at the scene. And Tieray was seen walking alone at the complex around 12 pm even though he claimed that he was inside with Jahi at the time.

It was found that Tieray at the time he was claiming to have nap time, having lunch, and walking the inthe park with Jahi he was calling people asking for money. He had also tried to contact Tameka by phone an hour before Jahi was reported missing for an "emergency". For thirty minutes he was talking to an ex-girlfriend and six minutes later he was calling 911.

The last confirmed sighting of Jahi was on the 22 by a neighbor. Tameka had breifly talked to him on the night of the 23rd around 11 p.m. Though he only made a few noises and said "bye" to his mother. Tieray said that they were watching movies and that the previous night Jahi wet the bed and fell off the bed and hit his head on a dresser. He claimed it was a small bump and was "no big deal".

Jahi at two years old and age progressed to 15 years old

On the morning of the 24th Tieray was witnessed carrying one or more large trash bags to the dumpster in which he denied.

Tameka and Tieray were writing diarys of their daily lifes so that the other can read it. In Tieray's diary he made a note that on the 23rd that Jahi was acting weird. That Jahi wasn't walking or talking and stared at Tieray when asked to go get his cup. The injury on his head had gone down. Then for the next two days the diary entries never mentioned the injury again or Jahi's unusual behavior. Just about potty training, going to the park and bathing him.

One of Jahi's Onsies and blanket was found in apartment and had blood on them. A pair of Jahi's pj's were found in Tieray's trunk and also had blood them. It was also found that some of Tameka's and Jahi's clothes were mixed together and found in a dumpster. When asked about the clothes Tameka said there was no reason for her sons clothes to be in the car and there was no discussion with Tieray about throwing out clothes.

At one point Tameka and Tieray looked for help in a retired social worker for the search of Jahi. At the same time Jahi's father hired a private investigator who also found Tieray's story suspicious.

It is no secret Tieray is suspected in Jahi's disappearance. It's also been noted that he is suspected in the another murder from 2000, and he was arrested in 2005 for the assault and attempted murder (no one was harmed in incident) of another person.

2018 Tieray was taken to trial and claimed he would never hurt Jahi because he loved him. That he was only guilty of lying about the amount of time he left Jahi alone. There wasn't enough evidence and the judge dismissed the case. A Jury was unable to reach an acquittal and was dead locked 10 to 2 and a mistrial was declared.

It is believed that Jahi is not alive.

Jahi is a light skinned African American and was 2 years old at the time of his disappearance. he was 2'4" and 30 lbs. He has black hair and brown eyes. he was ambidextrous, has eczema and scar over his left knee. He was wearing a long sleeve navy blue shirt with Pooh and Tiger on it, blue nylon cargo shorts with orange draw string, and grey 8 1/2 or 9 Air Jordans.

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SOURCES:

http://charleyproject.org/case/jahi-marques-turner

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/4559dmca.html

https://api.missingkids.org/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewChildDetail&orgPrefix=NCMC&caseNum=934331

Murder of Jodine "Jodi" Serrin

SOLVED

In November of 2018 DNA was matched to a man. David Marbito was 38 at the time of the crime. His DNA wasn't in the database. It wasn't stated how a connection was made, but Morabito had his DNA previously gathered  at a traffic stop prior to his 2011 suicide. He had matched the suspect to another case. The sample was never processed due to his suicide shortly after. 

CASE

Jodine "Jodi" Serrin was a lively kind woman. She grew up in Ohio and made her way to California with her parents. She had many hobbies one of which was flower arranging. Which she had acquired a certificate for floral design. She loved horseback riding, crafts, ice skating, biking, and long walks on the beach. She helped volunteer for her church and Humane Society. 

She was mentally handicapped and needed help from family and friends regularly. She was able to live on her own, but if she needed rides she'd asked family and friends. She was typically good with keeping in contact with people. 

On February 14, 2007, 39-year-old Jodi wasn't answering her parent's phone calls. She was close with them and would typically answer. By 10 p.m. her parents decided to head over to her Condo in San Diego, California.

The door was locked from the inside. They had to break the deadbolt in order to get in. Her parents thought that they were walking in on a private moment when they looked in her bedroom. They saw a man (Who we know as a Morbito now) engaged in sexual contact with Jodi. Her father demanded that the man put on his pants and leave. They waited in another room for the pair. When they went to check up on them and the man was gone and Jodi was dead. He more than likely went out the front door undetected as it was out of view from the parents.

 DNA has been used to make a profile of the killer and predict what he may look like. There haven't been any images of Morbito posted.

SOURCES:
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/multimedia/San-Diegos-Unsolved-Cold-Cases-200510441.html
https://jodineserrin.net/
https://morbidology.com/the-unsolved-valentine-murder-of-jodine-serrin/
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Jodine-Serrin-Carlsbad-Cold-Case-Murder-Suspect-David-Mabrito-500416982.html
https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2018/11/13/carlsbad-murder-mystery-solved-dna-reveals-2007-killer-as-suicide-victim/

Disappearance of Micheal John Dudley

On April 3, 1978 20 year old Micheal John Dudley was at work in Dunedin, New Zealand as a T.V. repairman for "Bell T.V. After work he and some colleagues decided to go drinking. Eventually Micheal decided to head home in the work van. Both he and the van went missing.

Micheal  is a white male and was 20 years old at the time. He had brown wavy, shoulder length hair at the time and his eye color is unknown. He was described as having a medium build.

SOURCES:
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases-int/5258dmnz.html
http://www.police.govt.nz/missing-persons/listings/michael-john-dudley

Disappearance of Crystal L. Kipper

 

On Feb. 24 1997 18 year old Crystal Kipper  went to St. Joseph, Mo so that she could hang out with a friend. The two had went ice skating and enjoyed their day. After she had dropped off her friend around 2 a.m. then she headed home to Kansas City.  Her friend noted that when the low fuel light was lit Crystal claimed her car had good gas mileage and could return to Kansas City without filling up.

Crystal had promised to call the friend when she got back home. To let them know she was alright Unfortunately she would never make that call.

Around 2:20 a.m. Crystals car ran out of fuel leaving her stranded on the Southbound shoulder of I-29 at St. Rt 371. A truck driver observed what he believed to be Crystal look distraught flagging down traffic. He noted that another vehicle pulled up behind her.

This would be the last time anyone would  see Crystal.

Her vehicle was found by her mother the next day with the battery low, no fuel, and the hazard lights on. There was no sign of Crystal or where she would had gone. It wasn't until later in 1997 that anyone had a clue what happened to her.

John E. Williams who lived in Kansas City at the time was being investigated for a crime. He was being investigated about the kidnapping and sexual assault of a young woman when items of Crystals were found inside his home. Her I.D., Paycheck stubs, and clothes were found. DNA confirmed the clothes were hers and the condition of the clothes determined she had been killed.

Williams admitted he killed Crystal by hitting her with his car. His windshield was busted and fixed the day after her disappearance. It's believed though she was not killed by being hit by his car that the windshield was busted during a struggle with Crystal.

Williams refused to say where her body was. He led them to Platte City area, but she was not found and he refused to divulge anymore information. In 1999 Williams committed suicide leaving no note behind let alone let anyone know specifically where Crystals body was.

Crystal was a white female and was 18 at the time of her disappearance. She was 5'5" and 125 lbs. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She has a scar on her right cheek.

SOURCES:
https://namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/248
http://charleyproject.org/case/crystal-l-kipper

https://www.kshb.com/news/crime/castros-suicide-similar-to-end-of-1997-kansas-city-kidnapping-case

Dissapearance of Charles Christopher Francis

A Photo of Charles and an age progressed one to 40 years old. 

On April 9, 1979 7 year old Charles Christopher Francis went with his father,Dennis, to work. At the time Charles's parents were fighting for custody over him. His mother had legal custody, but he mostly lived with his father. Three weeks before they traveled all the way from Colorado to California.

Dennis delivered water tanks to businesses and  people's homes. Dennis didn't want to get in trouble for bringing Charles along, so he dropped him off on the corner of Chesnut Ave. in Santa Ana, California. Charles was supposed to walk to the 300 block of south Lyon and wait to be picked up.

When his father arrived 10 minutes later Charles was nowhere to be seen. After a 30 minute search the police were called. It isn't suspected the family had anything to do with Charles disappearance and it's believed foul play is involved.

At the time of his disappearance Charles was 7 years old. He's a white male with brown hair and blue eyes. He was 45 lbs and 3 ft tall. He was noted to have a scar on his forehead. He was wearing a blue Levi army jacked with army patches on the pockets and arms.

It is suspected that Charles fell into the hands of convicted child killer James Crummel. Crummel had a history of molesting young boys going all the way back to the 60's. He is also suspected of the disappearance of 9 year old Jack Philips disappearance.

 In August of 1967 Crummel was Crummel kidnapped, molested and almost beat to death a 14 year old Wisconsin boy. Earlier that same year in February he had murdered an Arizona boy, he was convicted of it in 1983, but it was overturned in 1987.

In 1979 Crummel had taken 13 year old neighbor boy, James "Jamey" Trotter. Jamey was considered missing until 1990 when Crummel pretended to "discover" Jamey's skull. It wasn't identified as Jamey's till 1996. Crummel asked for a deal to not get a death row conviction if he would admit to Jack Philips murder. He was denied.In 2004 he was convicted and placed on death row for the murder. In June of 2012 Crummel took his own life leaving behind questions of where the bodies of Jack and possibly Charles were.



SOURCES:
http://charleyproject.org/case/charles-christopher-francis
http://abc7.com/archive/8684369/
https://namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/4370
http://missingchildren.wikia.com/wiki/Charles_Christopher_Francis

March 05, 2003 Norfolk, Virginia John Doe

On March 05, 2003, in Norfolk, Virginia a young man was found floating in the Elizabeth River. The area he was found near was Harbor Park Stadium. It was estimated he had died about a week before. His cause of death is not listed.

He was a male between 14 and 25 years old. His race is undetermined, but he is believed to be Asian with some Caucasian, but being Hispanic has not been ruled out. He was 5'6" to 5'8" and around 135 lbs. He had black hair and it was noted he had no facial hair.

He was found fully clothed. He was wearing a black shirt with blue jeans, a brown belt with a belt buckle depicting a horse, blue plaid boxers, black socks, and Brahama brown work boots.

SOURCES:
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2486umva.html
https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/2560
http://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMU/1200754

Disappearance of James "Junior" Clark

Sometime in 1962 24-year-old James "Junior" Clark disappeared. He was last seen in St. Louis, MO by his family. His family remembered that he seemed distraught over his aunt's disapproval of the girl he was dating.

Junior was 24 at the time he disappeared. He's an African American male. He has brown eyes and black hair that was cut in a crew cut at the time of his disappearance. He was 5'8"-5'11" and 150-200 lbs. He was slue footed, which means his feet pointed outwards.

SOURCES:
https://namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/43167/details