Anonymous Artist: I.A.M of Zwolle

Monograms that help Identify his work

The Betrayal of Christ, (c. 1485)

IAM of Zwolle is was an anonymous printmaker active between 1470 to 1495. He was a Netherlandish artist who's identified from his monogram of IA or IAM and even Zwolle where they may have been from.

The artist may not have had a colorful medium from the printmaking, but his style showed how much tonal nuance engraved pictures could contain. Prints usually use just one ink color and IAM Zwolle was able to create images with depth. The way he spaced out the lines made it seem as if the images were an actual scene. Closer the lines were caused a darker tone and the further the lines were allowed a white or lighter tone. 

It was believed that IAM Zwolle was not just a printmaker, but a painter as well from his understanding of tones in his work. Today it is unknown who this artist is or if they have other works under another name. Some suspected that it was Johan van den Minnesten a painter from Zwolle, but his works did not survive they can't compare them.

List of Their Works:

• The Adoration of the Magi 
• The Last Supper 
• The Agony in the Garden
• The Betrayal of Christ 
• The Large Crucifixion with the Horsemen 
• The Lamentation over Christ  
• Christ Blessing 
• The Virgin and Child with Cherries at the Window
• The Madonna Seated, the Christ Child Holding the Cross 
• The Virgin Standing on a Demon 
• The Virgin and Child, Turning over the Leaves of a Book
• Saint Anne, the Virgin and Child on a Throne 
• Saint Augustine with the Heart, Pierced by an Arrow 
• Saint Bernard Kneeling before the Virgin 
• Saint Christopher on Horseback 
• Saint George 
• Mass of Saint Gregory 
• Allegory of the Transience of Life 
• Battle of Two Men with the Centaur 
• The Young Man and the Devil 
• Coat of Arms with a Greyhound Supported by a Savage 
• Gothic Canopy with Windows and Doors 
• The Crucifixion
• Death'' 

SOURCES:

Arts and Culture

Metropolitan Museum

National Gallery of Art

Wikipedia

Murder of Thomas Preston Turner

On August 28, 1985, two black men in their early 20's entered the FoodTown Market on 430 Brundage Lane in Bakersfield, California. The men decided to rob the store with handguns. Thomas Turner the store manager was shot during the robbery.  He later died from his injuries.

SOURCES:
City of Bakersfield

Murder of Anna "Annie" Wiese

On Aug. 26, 1893, around 10 p.m. 20-year-old Anna "Annie" Wiese left a friends home in Vienna Township in Marshall County, Iowa. She was walking home in the moonlight when she was attacked. Someone had clubbed her around the head, stabbed her several times in the breast and back, and cut her throat ear to ear. A brutal end to a young woman.

There were a few suspects that included her former boyfriend, a would-be boyfriend that she spurned, and Emily Bennet, a neighbor, claimed that Annie was flirting with her husband and son. She was even exhumed several times, but nothing came of it.

It was believed that Emily had attacked her with either the help of her husband Cyrus or son Arthur. She was taken to trial but was acquitted. It's said that if the science was better the crime would have probably convicted Emily. 

SOURCES:
Iowa Cold Cases

Find A Grave

Murder of Michelle Bright

On Feb. 26, 1999 17-year-old Michelle Bright was dropped off by her mother to attend a friends 15th birthday party. After the party Michelle Bright was dropped off on Herbert St. In Gulgong, Australia around 12:45 a.m.on the 27th by a friend. This was the last time she was last seen alive.

Her family noticed the next day that she wasn't home. They waited for her hoping she would arrive home, but by the time she didn't show up by the 28th they called the police and reported her missing.

On March 2, 1999, he was found lying face down in the tall grass by Barney's Reef Road. This road is located between where the party was and her home. She had been sexually assaulted and either suffocated or strangled to death.

There is currently a $500,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.


SOURCES:
News Corp Australia 
The Sydney Morning Herald
NSW Government

Murder of Maureen O'Neil

At 2:30 a.m. on August 26, 1970, a family member went to the home of 29-year-old Maureen O'Neil on 729 Maryland Avenue in Syracuse, New York. they found her body inside. There isn't much information in this case.

SOURCES:
Syracuse Police

Medical Mysteries: Kodinhi, India Twins

India is known for having one of the lowest Twins rates although one village, Kodinhi, would like to say the opposite. In the village, the rates for twins are very high. For a village of around 2,000 people, there are over 200 sets of twins born here. The rate for twins is also increasing.

The average for twins birth is every 1,000 births 1 are a set of twins for most of India. But for the village, it's 45 in every 1,000 births. The numbers may even higher than what is known. This isn't even a recent thing there are twins of all ages residing in the village. Though there have been several studies done it isn't known why the birth rates for twins are so high here.

SOURCES:
New Scientist 
Wikipedia
Trip To

August 23, 1975 Orinda, California Jane Doe

On August 23, 1975, the body of a woman was found by a hiker in Tilden Park, in Orinda, California. She was killed by a blunt force injury to the head 4 to 7 days before discovery.  It's believed that she was killed elsewhere and then her body dumped in the bushes.

She's a white female between 18 and 29 years old. She was 5'3" and 166 lbs. She had brown hair that was streaked and brown eyes. She was wearing a white Playtex underwire cut bra size 36D, a turquoise t-shirt with a silkscreen type painting on the front of clouds and sun rays behind a biplane it was made by International Key of Miami Florida which went out of business at the end of that year. The brand of the shirt was called "Outrageous Devil" and was solely sold in California and was 50,000 distributed. She was wearing a turquoise

SOURCES:
NamUs
Doe Network

Murder of Carrie Mae Crowe

On September 11, 1980, the body of 74-year-old Carrie Mae Crowe was found in her home on Oxford Lane in Redding, California. She had been stabbed around 20 times.


SOURCES:
City of Redding 
Record SearchlightShe
KQMS

Disappearance of Floradean Walker

Sometime in 1951 25-year-old Floradean Walker was last seen leaving a residence in Hext, Texas. The last date of contact is unknown, but it was thought to have happened in the Spring or Fall.  She's a white female and went by the nickname, Pat. She was 5'7" and 135 lbs. She had red/auburn hair and green eyes. She was left-handed.

SOURCES:
NamUs
National Missing Person Directory 

Disappearance of John "Johnny" Arthur Butler

On August 21, 1961, 15-year-old John "Johnny" Arthur Butler went surfing in Newport Beach, California. His surfboard was found the same day and police noted some "questionable markings" on it. It's indicated that John may have drowned.

Johnny is a white male and was 15 at the time. He was 6'1" and 159 lbs. He has brown hair and brown eyes. He had scars on his face caused by acne.

SOURCES:
NamUs
Charley Project
DoeNetwork

Murder of Tierra Newton

At 10:42 pm on the night of August 20, 2013, 26-year-old Tierra Newton was walking from a BBQ in Syracuse, New York. She was shot on the 100 block of W. Corning Avenue. She died shortly after arriving at the hospital.

SOURCES:
Syracuse Police 
Syracuse

Disappearance of Ralph Stutzman *Solved

On August 17, 1952, 46-year-old Ralph Stutzman spent the morning doing chores at his home in LaGrange, Indiana. He told his children to go to the house and then he went to take the cows to the field. He promised the children he'd be back at the house in 20 minutes, but he never arrived back.

It unknown what had had happened to Ralph. It could be possible that he left willingly, but it's believed he may have met foul play. He didn't take anything with him and didn't state to anyone he was leaving. He occasionally gambled. The night before he spent the night playing a poker game with friends. It could be possible that someone settled a score with Ralph.

Ralph was 46 at the time and a white male. He was 5'0" to 7'0" and 100 lbs to 200 lbs.

In June of 2023 geneologists found Ralph. It turned out that he had changed his name to Delbert Schrock and moved to Florida after his disappearance. 

SOURCES:

WNDU June 16, 2023
NamUs

Charley Project

Murder of Maurice and Ellen Wilkinson

On the morning of August 16, 1974 around 7:30 a.m. one of Maurice and Ellen Wilkinson's young children discovered their bodies in their home on Route 16 in Center Ossipee, New Hampshire. 48-year-old Maurice was found sitting in a chair in the living room and 39-year-old Ellen was laying in bed. They had been shot to death by a 9mm weapon. Maurice was shot once while Ellen was shot multiple times.

None of the four children were harmed and there was no evidence of a break-in.

SOURCES:
New Hampshire Department of Justice (Maurice)
New Hampshire Department of Justice (Ellen)

Nashua Telegraph 

The Portsmouth Herald

Murder of Beatrice Dain

On the night of August 15, 1952, 50-year-old Beatrice Dain went to the Regal Tavern in Syracuse, New York. She stayed until 1 a.m. the next morning. She was last seen talking to two men a short distance from the alley behind 141 James St. where her body was found. She had been beaten to death sometime the morning of August 16. It's unknown if these two men are involved in her death.

SOURCES:
Democrat and Chronical
Syracuse Police 

Disappearance of Julie Elizabeth Soracco

It's unclear when Julie Elizabeth Soracco disappeared it was sometime between 1977 and 1978. She was 15/16 years old at the time was attending El Dorado High School. To the families knowledge, she was lived in Sacramento, California and moved to Placerville, California to live with her grandfather. She was then placed in foster care and lived with a couple called Aldea. She may have disappeared while walking from her foster home to her grandfathers. 

It's not known if a missing person report was done at the time, and she was reported or rereported missing in July of 2019. After she disappeared she was rarely talked about among family members.  Julie left some items at her Grandfathers. Including her student ID and her wallet. Inside her wallet was the photo of an unknown girl.

Julie is a white female and was between 15 and 16-years-old. She's 5'2" to 5'4" and 120 lbs to 130 lbs. She has brown hair and brown eyes. Both of her ears are pierced. 

SOURCES:
Charley Project
Where Abouts Still Unknown
NamUs

August 14, 1971 DeKoven, Kentucky John Doe

On August 14, 1971, the body of a man was found floating in the Ohio River in DeKoven, Kentucky. He was a white male under 50 years of age. He was 5'10" and 145 lbs. He had brown long hair, possibly to his shoulders and possibly brown eyes. He was wearing jeans.

SOURCES:
NamUs

Disappearance of Sandy Davidson

On April 23, 1976, 3-year-old Sandy Davidson was playing in the garden of his grandmother's house in the Boutreehill area of Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. He was playing along with the family dog and his 2-year-old sister.

The dog escaped the garden and the two followed it out of the garden. Donna returned on her own. She told them that "Sandy was away with a bad man."

 There was an intensive search by the police and members of the community. Some witnesses stated they saw Sandy leaving with a strange man in a car.

Sandy is a white male and 3 years old at the time. He has blue eyes and blonde hair.

SOURCES:
Missing People
The Scottish Sun
Scotland Police 

Disappearance of Rosemary Buck

20-year-old Rosemary Buck Who also went by Mary was last seen in Syracuse, New York on August 11, 1973. She was seen around noon hitchhiking at the corner of Sixth North St. and Wolf St near her home on the 1100 block of Wolf St. She was seen possibly getting on the back of a motorcycle. She left behind her 2-year-old son who's grandparents later adopted him.

She was known to frequent the Yellow Balloon Bar on Thompson Rd. near Erie Blvd. east. She was also known to travel to attend rock concerts and had told friends at the time that she was going to visit a man in Boston, Massachusetts.

Also at the time, Rosemary was having problems in her life. She was having mental problems and was struggling with alcohol. At the time her husband was in jail for breaking and entering and was worried the state would take her son away. She was planning on finishing her education and start nurse training.

It was initially believed that she had run away, but now it's believed she met foul play. Her social security number hasn't been used since her disappearance. 

Rosemary is a white female and was 20-years-old at the time. She's 5'2" and 110 lbs. She has blonde hair and hazel eyes. Her two front teeth overlap slightly, she has a scar on her abdomen and a birthmark on her right leg.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Charley Project

The Yde Girl Mummy

Images of her and the 1992 reconstruction of her face. 

On May 12, 1897, a man working in the Stifveen peat bog near Yde, Netherlands a well-preserved mummy of a teenaged girl. They referred to the girl as Het Meisje van Yde in Dutch.Which it meant the girl from Yde.

Yde Girls body wasn't turned over to authorities till two weeks after she was found. Due to the conditions that a bog has, it allows bodies inside of it to mummify. Her body went through some deterioration and decomposing due to mishandling. People also came to see the body and took hair and teeth from the body.

The mummy had Carbon-14 dating done on her. It was found she had died between 54 BC and 128 AD. She had died around 16 years old.  It was found she had scoliosis of the spine and stood at 137 cm and was short for her age. Her hair was nicely preserved as it was long and reddish-blonde hair. It's possible one side of her head was shaved, but sometimes this shaved feature is seen in bog bodies and it's possible that that side of her head was in oxygen a bit longer.  She was wearing a woolen cape and around her neck was a braided woolen band. The braided band was wrapped around her neck three times.

She had a stab wound to her collar bone, but it is unknown if this was what killed her. It's believed the stabbing happened when she unconscious as there were no defensive wounds.


Her name and story are lost to history. It's not sure why she had died or why her body was left in a Peat Bog. Some speculate that she was murdered or sacrificed. Others think that maybe the woolen band around her neck is evidence that she killed herself. It's not sure what really happened to the girl.

SOURCES:
Mummipedia
Awesome Stories
Atlas Obscura
Wikipedia

Murder of Debra Horn

On Jan. 29, 1969 11-year-old Debra Horn stayed home from school because she was complaining of a bump on her head. She had gotten it when she fell on the ice. When her parents returned home for lunch they found her gone. They reported her missing to the Allenstown, New Hampshire police.  

There were searches for the young girl performed in the area. But it was proved to be fruitless. There was human blood found on a road near her home. It's unknown if the blood had anything to do with Debra. I didn't find any recent articles mentioning it. 

On August 10, 1969, a few boys from Massachusetts decided to check out an abandoned car in Sandown. The car had been abandoned for four years by this time. They lifted the truck and found Debra's badly decomposed body. 

Her body was too decomposed to know the cause of death or if she had been sexually assaulted. She had a head wound to the back of her head. It couldn't be determined if the injury was caused by her fall on the ice or not.

 There were no clothes found on her remains and none were found in the area. Her earing and ring were found in the trunk. She was wearing a light gold jumper, white turtle neck, and gold knee length socks.

SOURCES:
New Hampshire Department of Justice
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32162090/murder_of_debra_horn/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32162338/murder_of_debrah_horn/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32162046/murder_of_debra_horn/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32162069/murder_of_debra_horn/

Murder of David Billings

On August 8, 1996, 42-year-old David Gilbert was stabbed in a busy park on the south side of Billings, Montana. People didn't take notice or help until David's dog began to bark. There were witnesses, but many were hesitant to talk. The area David's body was found was littered with alcohol bottles and cans which it was illegal at the time to drink in the park without a license. It isn't stated if they thought the victim was drinking at the park or if he was just murdered in that area.

There was a Native American Man seen leaving the area in a large white four-door vehicle.

SOURCES:
City of Billings
Billings Gazette

Disappearance of Georgia Margurite Allen

23-year-old Georgia Margurite Allen was last seen on August 6, 1972, during the early hours outside of the Holiday Inn in Lake Jackson, Texas. She lived in the apartments behind them and worked at the hotel. At the time she was divorcing her husband due to family violence. He had threatened to kill her if she left, and it's suspected he may have had something to do with her disappearance.

Georgia is a white female and was 23 at the time. She's 5'3" to 5'5" and 80 to 90 lbs. She has strawberry blonde hair and green eyes.

SOURCES:
NamUs
Charley Project

August 5, 1983 Sweetwater, Tennessee Jane Doe

On August 5, 1983 the body of a woman was found wrapped in a bedspread and curtains tied with twine similar to those used for bailing and farming. Two hunters found her at Ore Quarry in Sweetwater, Tennessee. It was estimated that she had died possibly in 1983 to 1982.

She's a white or Hispanic female between 20 and 30 years old. She was 5'1" to 5'7". She had long curly medium brown colored hair. She was wearing a white t-shirt with a green teddy bear design, a white and pink flowered cotton pullover shirt with a lace appliqued front with a row of pearl type buttons halfway down the front of the shirt and a white size 36B Playtex Cross Your Heart bra.

SOURCES:
NamUs

Who Turned in Anne Frank and The Others

Anne Frank told her story through her diary of her life during WWII as a young Jewish girl. It opened a lot of people's eyes and helped people understand what it was like for the Jews at this time. Her diary is available worldwide and is used as a way to help teach how WWII was for the Jews at the time.

By August 4, 1944 police in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam raided a warehouse. Anne Frank and 7 other Jews who were hiding in an annex behind a bookcase were found and arrested along with their 2 helpers.

It was believed by those involved that someone had betrayed the group. That some one called the SD and let them know where they were hiding. There was no evidence that this had happened.

Anne's father Otto and believed it to be, a worker at the warehouse, who wasn't in on the deal. He claimed he wasn't the one to betray the group.

SD officer Silberbauer who was involved with the arrest only mentioned "a Dutchman" as the caller. But his statements were inconsistent as he later stated he didn't know if a phone call was even made. He was asked about this around 20 years after the fact. so his memory may have been hazy for this specific arrest or merged with a memory of another. The human memory is a fickle thing.

In another story, is Julius Dettmann an SD officer stated that it was a woman who made the call. Dettmann died two weeks after liberation in his cell. Silberbauer stated Dettmann never told him who had made a call or if it was a woman. Someone had told Otto Anne's father that Dettmann told them it was a woman.

The people betrayed that day believed that it may have been William Van Maaren. He was a worker at the warehouse and wasn't in on the deal. The people in hiding shared their suspicion of him even though they never got to meet him. Otto later filed a complaint with the political police, but it was dismissed as there was no evidence he had done it and he claimed to not have had anything to do with it.

Tony Ahlers is another suspect in the betrayal. He is a Dutch national socialist and Otto did not get along. He knew Otto was against the German war chanced and pressured and extracted money from him. There was no evidence though that he had known they were hiding in the Annex.

A female suspect of the betrayal was Lena Hartog. Her husband Lamont worked for the warehouse and had told her that he had helped hide people in there. She knew there were people hiding there, but it isn't known if she was told before or after the fact of the raid.

Another female suspect was Ans van Dijk who was a Jewish woman forced to help the SD turn in other Jews.

There is still no idea of who turned in them and it is still being investigated today.


SOURCES:
History

Anne Frank

Murder of Reverend George C. Haddock

In 1882 a law was passed in Iowa called the "Clark Law" making Liquor illegal. The frontier city of Sioux did not take kindly to the law as they ignored it. It also turned the town from being rough straight to a lawless frontier. The town had over 75 saloons, several breweries, and gambling houses.

Many were against the law, but some were for it especially after two murders had happened in drinking establishments. There were some who wanted changes to where Sioux City would follow the law. One of these people was 56-year-old Reverend George C. Haddock.

On August 3, 1886, the Reverend was going about noting the things about liquor. That morning he was seen noting the unloading of beer from one of the brewery wagons. Fred Lerch was standing in front of his business further up the street and screamed at the Reverend that he would cut his d-d head off if he came near there.

Shortly after 10 p.m., a shot was heard on 3rd and Waters street. Reverend George Haddock had been shot and killed. The person shot him from 25 feet away. It was no secret in why he was murdered he even told someone he expected death. He was more than likely killed for his fight against liquor.

John Arensdorf was a suspect that went to trial twice. First with a hung jury and second with a not guilty. Despite there having been witnesses that night that saw John kill the Reverend. It was said that John had gone to a bar after the trial with the jurors.

Although technically unsolved it's believed that John did have something to do with

Soon after the Reverend's death liquor was completely banned from Sioux City and the businesses were moved to South Sioux City in Nebraska. But five years later Clark Law was repealed allowing liquor to be legal again.

SOURCES:
Iowa Cold Cases 

Sioux City Journal 

Sioux City History

August 3, 1980 Arlington, Washington

On August 3, 1980 a landowner in Arlington, Washington near Stanwood Bryant Road at Pilchuck Creek found a body partially buried in a shallow grave. The victim had died from a gunshot wound to the head. It's believed he had been dead for months to over a year.

The man is either white or Hispanic and was between 18 and 50 years old. He's 5'3" to 5'11" and around 140 lbs. He had dark brown hair.

SOURCES:
NamUs
Doe Network
Snohomish County Washington

Disappearance of Robert Leon Desmond

On August 1, 1964, 10-year-old Rober Leon Desmond was last seen in Kennebunk, Maine. At the time he was living with his mother and stepfather. There is little information about this case, but it is believed foul play is involved.

Shortly after his disappearance his mother and stepfather moved out of their home on Hovey Street. The floor was cemented over in 1968 and in 1976 it was dug up to look for his body. Only a pair of glasses and some animal bones were found.

Robert is a white male and was 10 years old at the time but would have turned 11 on the 21st. He was 4'3" and 70 lbs. He has black hair and brown eyes.

SOURCES:
NamUs
Charley Project

Disappearance of Edna Anne Kaminski

Sometime in August of 1944 23-year-old Edna Anne Kaminski was last seen by her family in Maspeth, New York. She left behind her husband and 20-month-old daughter. She's a white female and was 23 at the time. She's 5'6" to 5'8" and 130 lbs. She has brown hair and brown eyes.

SOURCES:
NamUs
National Missing Person Directory

Murder of Patricia Sue Early

On August 1, 1979, 17-year-old Patricia Sue Early was reported missing to the Aurora, Illinois. Unforntantly she would never come back home alive again. On November 8, 1980, her body was found in a field in Naperville Township, Illinois. Her cause of death couldn't be determined due to the state of her body.

SOURCES:
DuPage County Sheriff 
Mja Inc. Investigations