Murder of William Corsey

39 year old William Corsey was a retired Navy Veteran. In 1983 his childhood friend gave him a job at Polk Chevron Station in Dade City, Florida. He had been only working there for around 10 months. On January 29, 1984 he was working the 4 p.m. to midnight shift. He was working on his own and was supposed to close the store by himself at midnight.

Around 12:30 a.m. a couple of motorists called the Sheriff's office to report the station being open without an attendee. William's body was found in the concession room. He had been shot an undisclosed amount of times by a large caliber weapon. It's believed that robbery may have been motive for the murder as the police did find an empty cash box.

There is a $3,000 reward for the arrest for a suspect.

SOURCES:
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24056990/murder_of_william_corsey/
https://web.fdle.state.fl.us/unsolvedcases/public/caseDetails.jsf
https://pascosheriff.com/news/cold-case-thursday-william-corsey/

Murder of April Dawn Lacy

April Dawn Lacy was born on July 2, 1982 and her life wasn't easy. Both her parents were addicts. He father was absent in most of her life and her mother was a prostitute. This was the life that April was used to though. They would, shoplift, dumpster dive and knew which agencies gave out food and clothes. By the time April was 14 the welfare people had taken away her little brother, and she was living with her mother.

April was also living with her mother in a motel in Oklahoma City,  . The hotel was a known hot spot for prostitution and some believe that April's mother may have pimped her out. Her mother denies the allegations.

On October 3, 1996 her mother claims that her and April had fought. April had a history of running away. Her mother figured that was what she had done, because when she came back home her daughter was gone. It took 3 months before she was officially reported missing.

On October 8, 1996 a rancher in Decatur, Texas was checking on his cattle. When he saw a flock of buzzards where he kept his cattle he had thought that one of his cows had died. The birds had lead him to the brush and he found the body of a young girl.

She was nude laying face down tangled among the brush. She died brutally. She was sexually assaulted and strangled to death. It was believed the killer drove down Interstate 35 looking for a place to dump her body. They must have found the dirt road and must have parked by the cattle gate which was unlocked due to the farmer allowing people to hunt on his land.. They dragged her body to the spot she was found.

For two years she was unidentified. She went by the Brush girl up until she was identified in 1998. Her parents were initially in denial and unfortunately it had turned out to be April. The reason for the doubt was because it was believed that April had died several days before she was last seen. It was believed she was dead to a week up to 3 weeks. April had only been missing for 5 days when she was found.

Unfortantly even though detectives found her identity they couldn't find her murderer.

SOURCES:
https://unidentified.wikia.com/wiki/April_Lacy
https://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Prostitutes-grim-lives-end-violently-on-highway-1562282.php
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23713491/murder_of_april_lacy/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23713366/murder_of_april_lacy/

September 19, 1975 Iredell, North Carolina John Doe

On September 19, 1975 something was on fire on a rural road leading to Midway Family Campground and 500 feet away from highway 64 and Interstate 40 east of Statesville, North Carolina. It was a blanket and inside was the body of a man. most his body was burned, but his face was not. He had died from multiple stabs to the face and was shot twice.

He was an African American male around 25 to 40 years old. He was around 5'11" and 150 lbs. He had black hair and a full beard and brown eyes. Possibly had a 1 inch to 1 1/2 inch scar on lower lower right quadrant. He was also uncircumcised. He was wearing Seafarer blue denim trousers and it was the type issued by the navy, belt with a metal buckle, a white t-shirt, and blue Pro-Keds tennis shoe on left foot.

The remains were cremated and put out to sea. Due to this the only way of identification is Dental and chest and abdominal radio graphs. His footprints are also available.

SOURCES:
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1924umnc.html
https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/998

October 17, 1994 New Castle, Delaware John Doe

 

On October 17, 1994 a man was walking down the west bound lanes of Basin Road in New Castle, Delaware when he found a pink sheet. Wrapped inside was that of a man. It is unknown what the cause of death is, but it's possibly a homicide due to the way the body was found. A witnessed claimed to see a van parked on the shoulder near where the man was found. The driver was a white male.

He was a Hispanic male between 25 and 35 years old. He was 5'5" and 138 lbs. He has brown eyes. He has black hair that was wavy and well groomed, and had a widows peak. He was clean shaven and trimmed mustache.  He was well groomed. His armpits and pubic hair was shaved. His hands were manicured and he did have sign of periodontal disease around the first molar and calculus present between teeth.

He was wearing a medium (made in Panama) grey, tan, and long sleeve button up shirt, medium long khaki's, black shorts under the khakis that were rolled at the waist, brown belt buckle, medium fruit of the loom t-shirt, and no shoes. He had a folding type brown wallet with no I.D., but with 15 one dollar bills and one nickle.

SOURCES:
http://unidentified.wikia.com/wiki/New_Castle_County_John_Doe_(1994)
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1398umde.html
https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/6632/details (Postmortem picture)

Disappearance of Henrietta Geck Cruz Avila

Photo on right is age progression of her to 75 years old. 

In the spring of 1960 17 year old Henrietta Geck Cruz Avila met 24 year old Merle Avila. A month later they married and three months after that she decided to leave. The two had been living in Santa Ana, California together.

Merle stated that one day she had packed up all her stuff and had left him. She did not get in contact with her family though so by August 10, 1960 first her father reported her missing. Merle had claimed to have  spotted Henrietta on a bench in Long Beach, California on August 20. On the 27th her mother got a collect call by someone who identified themselves as Henrietta, but they had hung up. Later that day her parents got a telegram from "Henrietta" saying she had found a job and wouldn't return to her husband. It confirmed to have been a woman who called, but she had given a false address.

In 1961 a week before Christmas mysteriously Henrietta's underclothing and belt was found on the trunk of her fathers car. There was no sign of her and there was no more attempts of her trying to contact her parents. It's possible that foul play may be involved in this case.

Henrietta is a Hispanic female and was 17 years old at the time of her disappearance. She was 5" and 100 lbs. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She has a measles scar between her eyebrows. She would have had a gold chain and wedding bands with her.

SOURCES:
http://charleyproject.org/case/henrietta-geck-cruz-avila
https://oag.ca.gov/missing/person/henrietta-geck-cruz-avila
https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/34024

Disappearance of Phyllis Marie Corbin

In 1963 16 year old Phyllis Marie Corbin was placed at the House of Good Shepard in St. Louis, Missouri. It was a shelter for juveniles located on 3800 block of Gravois Ave. in St. Louis. Sometime in November of 1963 Phyllis and another unnamed girl decided to runaway. They both headed to New Orleans, Louisiana. The two got a ride to the Greyhound bus station to get to New Orleans.

It's reported that the other girl returned three weeks later by herself, but that is unconfirmed. The home supposedly reported the girls missing, but the family hasn't been able to confirm.

Phyllis is a white female and was 16 years old at the time of her disappearance. She had reddish brown hair, and blue eyes. She was around 5'5" and 5'8" and 100-155 lbs.

SOURCES:
http://charleyproject.org/case/phyllis-marie-corbin
https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/50556/details

Disapearance of Andrea Mona Altiery

23-year-old Andrea Mona Altiery was an exotic dancer in Alaska. She went by the names Enchantment, and Fish. On December 2, 1981, she left Boniface Mall in a checker cab around 11 p.m. in Anchorage to meet with someone for a photoshoot. It was the last time anyone had seen her.

She's a white female and was 23 at the time of her disappearance. She is 5'4" to 5'6" and around 15 to 125 lbs. She had medium to long straight brown hair. She was last wearing a leather jacket, a red sweater, blue jeans, cowboy boots, may have been carrying a small flowery makeup bag and a black zipper purse.

Her custom made salmon necklace was found in the home of  Robert Hansen. He was a serial killer who prowled in Alaska. He admitted to killing up to 17 people, but it is believed that he may have killed more as a map in the home that marked 12 of the found victims had more than 17 marks. Most of the women he killed were either prostitutes or exotic dancers.

SOURCES:
https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/28954/details
http://charleyproject.org/case/andrea-mona-altiery