Murder of Mary Louise Ford

On September 30, 1967, 18-year-old Mary Louise Ford sister and brother-in-law dropped her off at the Parkway Grill in Dawson Springs, Kentucky. the 18-year-old mother was hoping to get a job here. Mary had a cup of coffee, but no one noticed when she left or if she had left with someone.

On October 7, 1967, Mary's body was found floating in a stripper pit east of Hall Road in the Richland area of Hopkins County. Mary only had her tennis shoes, t-shirt, bra and wristwatch on when she was found her other items of clothing were found at the bottom of the strip pit.

Mary was the mother of a 3-year-old. Her husband, Elmer, was released from Eddyville State Penitentiary a month after her death. He was in prison for the last two years.

SOURCES:
Kentucky State Police 
The Messenger

Disappearance of Kim Louise Mallon

On September 30, 1973 13-year-old Kim Louise Mallon disappeared from UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Los Angeles, California. On Webslueths someone claiming to be Kim's sister stated that the reason the Kim was in the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital due to trying to commit suicide. Kim was molested by her father and they were going to charge him for it, but her and her stepmother Rosemary decided to drop the charges. Soon after she tried to commit suicide. 

She was then checked out of the hospital by her father Bill Mallon and he claimed to have dropped her off at a curb.

Kim is a white female and 13 at the time. She may go by the name Rhonda Kay Mallon or use the last name, Lytton. She was 5'3" and 125lbs at the time. She has brown hair and blue eyes. Kim had scars on both wrists.  She was wearing a blue pullover knit blouse, white corduroy bellbottoms, multicolored oxfords, and a turquoise pendant necklace.

SOURCES:
Webslueths
NamUs
Charley Project

Who Are The Occupants of the "Tomb of the Athlete"

In the Casse Rosse area west of the center of Rome a miraculous discovery happened. Most Ancient burials are typically destroyed by time, people, and mother nature.  During construction in the area, by an earthmover working to extend an aqueduct about 6 ft underground. What was found was a tomb with four people inside was revealed. The tomb itself was untouched and what was buried there stayed there.

The four people were a man in his 30's, a man in his 50's, a man between 35 and 45 and a woman of undetermined age. The man in his 30's and the man in his 50's was laid out on counters, and the woman and They had died sometime in the 4th century.

It also unearthed jugs, dishes, a bronze coin (dating between 335 and 312), two strigils, and dishes of chicken, rabbit and other animals like lamb or goat. Likely left in the tomb as offerings to feed them in the afterlife.

The strigils were what helped termed the tomb "Tomb of the Athlete". Strigils were used during bathing to wipe off oil and to wipe the sweat off of bodies of athletes. The strigils were used in ancient Greece and Rome as a symbol for athletes. But the men in the tomb were over the athletic age and were probably not athletes at the time of their death.


SOURCES:
Ancient Origins 
Realm Of History
Smithsonian Magazine  
The Local
The New York Times

September 28, 1975 Town of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin John Doe

On September 28, 1975, two boaters found the torso of a man floating in Okauchee Lake in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The body was recovered by the Town Oconomowoc Police. The torso was the only thing found of the deceased. All is known is that the torso belonged to an adult male. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Waukesha Daily Freeman

Murders of Charles Henry Morris and Esther Jones Morris

On the night of September 28, 1879, around 8:30 p.m. Esther and Charles Morris were going to bed in their home in Decatur, Michigan

A woman who worked for the Morris's, Jennie Bull, was sleeping upstairs and knew nothing until the next morning. A more recent article from 1987 stated Jennie heard Charles arguing with a man, it scared her, but she didn't hear anything else. Older articles that came out at the time contradict this and state that even though Jennie's room was directly above where Esther was murdered she heard nothing.

The next morning Jennie woke up to find the couple dead. Shortly after sunrise when she told a farmhand as soon as he arrived about their deaths. Another article states it was the handyman who first found Charles when he came over.

Charles was laying on the front porch he had died from a shot to the neck and one to the chest. Esther was laying in a closet and was shot three to four times she was shot in the arm and chest. At her time of death, she was pregnant.

It's believed that it had happened around 9 p.m. the night before. A young man who lived near them saw a man on a horse wearing a funny hat between 9:30 and 10 pm.

Someone must have knocked on the back door and it brought Charles to wake up and answer. This was where he was shot to death. Esther was in the sitting in the sitting room as evidence of a bullet in the wall. She ran and tried to hide in her bedroom closet where she was found dead. Charles's revolver was found on the ground it was believed that she dropped it in the panic of hiding from the killer.

Robbery wasn't a motive of the murder as nothing was stolen except for a horse the killer road off with. The horse was found a few days later in South Bend, Indiana. The horse seemed to be in a jaded and exhausted. It was bearing an unrecognizable branding on the left rear flank.

The family believed that Charles knew the murderer as he didn't answer the door with his gun.

There were suspicions on a handyman that was previously fired by them. He never confessed to it and he had to leave the town because of the accusations. The police tried to beat a confession out of him, but he never did. There were no witnesses to the crimes. So it was never known who really committed the crime. This crime will never be solved.

SOURCES:
Wikipedia
Detroit Free Press
St. Joseph Herald
The True Northerner
The Herald-Palladium

Murder of Gregory Alfred Goodson

16-year-old Gregory Goodson was last seen on Tuesday, September 27, 2005. His parents reported him missing from Charlotte, North Carolina. On September 29, 2005, ATV riders on a wooded path in Mecklenburg County off near W.T. Harris Boulevard and Sugar Creek Road. He had been shot. On October 4th his book bag was found on Bud Henderson Road in Huntersville which was miles from where he worked, lived and went to school.

At the time Gregory worked and went to school in walking distance from his home.

SOURCES:
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
Find a Grave
WBTV