Disappearance of Thora Afton Chamberlain

On November 2, 1945, 14-year-old Thora Afton Chamberlain was last seen outside her High School in Campbell California. School was over and she was planning to go to the football game after school. In 20 days she would have been celebrating her 15th birthday.

Her classmates saw her speaking for several minutes to a man in a vehicle. One of the witnesses said he was dressed like an ex-serviceman and was looking for a babysitter for his sister's children. She got into the vehicle with him presumably to take the babysitting job. She was never seen again.


Thomas Henry McGonigle was immediately a suspect in Thora's disappearance. He had an arrest record dating back to his teens including assault and intent to commit rape. When he found that they suspected him he fled to his fathers home in Illinois. On December 6, 1945, he returned to Sanfransico, California by bus. He tried to attempt suicide on the bus by taking sleeping pills. He tried to overdose but recovered after treatment at the hospital.

Several classmates and witnesses Identified him as the man she left with. It was found he was wearing stolen Navy-issue clothes and military medals and was not an ex-serviceman. He said he had found the clothing in a footlocker he'd stolen. The footlocker was later found in his garage.

He claimed responsibility for Thora's abduction and murder. He had various different statements about how Thora was killed. He claimed he had stabbed her, strangled her, fell out of his car, shot her, and that her death was accidental and he didn't kill her.

It's more likely he shot her in his car. He'd claimed her shot her accidentally and because she bled on the padding and upholstery he tore it out. He told the FBI where he had buried it and they found it and it was stained with blood.

There was also a bullet hole in the door of his car. He'd claimed to have removed it and buried it under a tree in his yard. The FBI found it and determined it had been fired from his .32-caliber Colt Revolver.

Not only did he give different statements on how he killed her he did the same with how he disposed of her. He'd said he had thrown her body off the 350 ft cliff known as the Devil's Slide. It overlooks Half Moon Bay on the San Mateo County coast. two pairs of red and blue socks were found wedged in two different crevices part way down the cliff face that belonged to her.

At the time he had been working at a construction site and got permission from his boss to fill a ditch with concrete blocks. Inside the ditch were Thora's shoes, schoolbooks, papers, binder, and cowbell. He told them he buried her clothes in his yard, but they turned up nothing.

More than likely she rejected his sexual advances and she was killed. He tossed her body off Devil's Slide and possibly her body was carried out to sea.

Mcgonigle confessed to another murder as he was on death row for Thora's. He didn't get charged due to begin on death row. At one point he claimed to have killed 11 people, but they couldn't be verified.

Before his execution from the gas chamber in 1948, he retracted his statement. He claimed to have been innocent of all involvement in Thora's disappearance.

Thora is a white female and was 14-year-old at the time of her disappearance. She was 5'2" and around 120 lbs. She had brown hair and blue eyes. She was wearing Garbarand coat, white blouse, red skirt, blue sweater, and two pairs of socks one being red and one being blue, and tan shoes.

SOURCES:
The Charley Project
NamUs

May 18, 1980 Immokalee, Florida Rodriguez Doe

On May 18, 1980 an unidentified male was robbed and murdered behind Moody's apartments near the old food stamp office in Immokalee, Florida. His murderers were apprehended and sentenced in this case. It's believed that the man was an illegal immigrant from Mexico who may have went by Rodriguez. He may have a wife and child in Mexico.

 He is a white or Hispanic male around 21 to 35 years old. He was 5'6" and 130 lbs. He had shoulder length thick black hair and a black mustache and brown eyes. He was wearing a button down shirt, tan trousers, white under short, blue socks and brown dress shoes.

SOURCES:
NamUs

February 28, 1981 Sioux Falls, South Dakota Baby Andrew Doe *Solved*

57-year-old Theresa Bentaas has been charged in this case. She was the baby's mother. She admitted she hid the pregnancy from friends and family. She had the baby alone in her apartment and abandoned the baby there. She is currently married and had other children with the father of baby Andrew. The father is not going to be charged with anything due to not knowing about the baby.

On Feb. 28, 1981, around 3:10 p.m. a newborn boy was found in a ditch about the 3/4 mile south of 26th St. and Sycamore Dr. The baby was covered with a white bed sheet with maroon flowers, a Maroon wool blanket, and a red plaid shirt.

He was abandoned alive. He was born healthy and near full-term. He was alive at least two hours after being born and died from exposure. He still had his umbilical cord attached. He had been dead for a day and 1/2 when he was found.

A woman from the community named him Andrew. She offered to pay for his funeral and fifty people attended it.

He was a Caucasian newborn. He had brown hair.

SOURCES:
NamUs
Doe Network
KSFY
Keloland Media Group

October 27, 1985 Parker County, Texas John Doe *Identified* William "Billy" Arthur Fiegener

In December of 2019 this doe was Identified as 22-year-old Billy Fiegener. His case is considered solved. 

Billy was originally from Brooklyn, New York, but was sent to California to straighten out. This was when he met Forest Ethington and he convinces Billy to join him in Lake Dallas, Texas. This was where the pair would do several robberies. Billy was sent to court after being caught in a solo robbery attempt. He was using a car belonging to Forest's daughter at the time. This had infuriated Forest enough to kill him. He also feared Billy would talk about the other robberies the two had performed. 

It's believed that Forest had killed Billy.

After Billy's death Forest organized a crew of robbers and robbed a coin shop in Pantego, Texas. One of his crew had killed the shop's owner. Forest and his partner was caught when they tried to sell the stolen coins. 

He served 5 years in prison before appealing the case in 1991. He was arrested in 2010 for aggravated sexual assault of a child and died in prison in October of 2019. 

A man and his son discovered scattered skeletal remains on a ranch south of Highway 51 about 3 miles outside of Springtown, Texas. It's believed he may have been a victim of a homicide and was killed in 1984 or very early 1985. He was found with a coin from 1984.

Billy was described as was a white male and was between 14 and 21 years old. A DNA Phenotype test was done by Parabon NanoLabs. It's possible he was light-skinned, had brown hair and possibly had brown or hazel eyes. His height and weight are unknown.  

He was wearing a Union Bay brand jacket, a Raphael brand gray cotton small jacket, a Gimmick brand dark grey cotton-blend jacket, Guess brand blue jeans with leather trim size 29x32 and Jockey brand underwear size 32-34

SOURCES:

Doe Network

Unidentified Wiki

Mineral Wells Index

John Wayne Gacy's Unidentified Victims

John Wayne Gacy is a serial killer that hunted in Illinois near his Norwood Park Township home. He was best known as the "Killer Clown" as he was. His known victims were between the ages of 14 and 21 years old. Gacy conned the boys into his home promising job opportunities or promising runaways and prostitutes money in exchange for sex.  The boys may have been picked up from bus stations. He would trick the boys into a handcuff trick and once they were handcuff he would sexually assault and murder them.  6 of these boys have been murdered. All six were found on Gacy's property. The based time of death is estimated by how identified victims were buried near, on top or underneath them. All of them died between 1972 and 1978.

Body 28

Body 28 may possibly be Gacy's second victim based on where Gacy claimed to burry his second victim. He was a white male between the ages of 14 and 18 years old. He was around 5'9", and had brown hair. He has a probably healed fracture of his upper right arm. He was wearing blue jeans, shirt, underwear and socks, which were deteriorated. Was wearing a plain silver ring on left hand.  Estimated probable time of death is between January 3, 1972 to July 31, 1975.

SOURCES:

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/954umil.html

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/11006

 Body 5 possible name Greg

It is possible that Body 5's real name or nickname may have been Greg. He was found with a key fob with the name Greg on it. He was a white male between the ages of 22 to 32. He was around 5'9" and had brown hair. He was wearing a light colored long sleeve shirt or jacket, dark colored trousers, and a leather belt with a buckle. The estimated possible time for this doe is between January 20 1976 to March 15, 1977.


SOURCES:
http://unidentified.wikia.com/wiki/Body_5
https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/10994
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/958umil.html

Body 26

Body 26 was a white male between 23 and 30 years old. He was around 5'4" and had  dark brown to black hair. His two upper front teeth were missing and he wore partial dentures. No clothes found on body. Estimated probable death is between June 13, 1976 to August 6, 1976.

SOURCES:
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/956umil.html
https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/11004
http://unidentified.wikia.com/wiki/Body_26

Body 21

Body 21 was a white male between 15 and 24 years old. He was around 5'10" and had light brown hair. Body 21 didn't have an estimated probable death. 

SOURCES:

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/962umil.html

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/11000

Body 13

Body 13 is a white male between 18 and 22 years old. He was around 6'1" and had dark brown almost black hair. One of his front teeth is displaced behind the other. He may have been suffering from a toothache at the time. Probable estimated death is between August 6, 1976 to October 5, 1976

SOURCES:

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/10999

http://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMU/1322532

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/955umil.html

Body 10

Body 10 belonged to a white male between the ages of 17 and 21 years old. He was 5'7" to 5'9" and his weight, hair and eye color are undetermined. He had a healed left clavicle fracture. He's at least seen a dentist as he does have a few fillings. He had two reddish colored socks and Jockey underwear. The estimated probable time of death is March 15, 1977 to July 5, 1977. 

SOURCES: 

http://unidentified.wikia.com/wiki/Body_10?li_source=LI&li_medium=wikia-footer-wiki-rec

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/10998

http://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMU/1184583

John Wayne Gacy the "Killer Clown"

John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. He was a Chicago area construction worker and was even a clown performer for kids parties called "Pogo the Clown".He was well liked by people in the community and most never would had suspected he was the reason boys were going missing in the Cook County, Illinois. No one expected him to be the monster he became.

Gacy was born to a blue collar family in Chicago, Illinois. Growing up Gacy had a troubled childhood. His father was a drunk who would beat the family with a razor strap if he believed they were misbehaving. Gacy also had issues coming to terms with his bi-sexuality.

Gacy was also isolated at school because of his congenital heart disease. He couldn't play with the other kids like he wanted. Even though Gacy was tested to be highly intelligent he had dropped out of high school.

After her dropped out of high school he moved to Las Vegas and became a janitor for a mortuary for a while before moving back to Chicago. When he returned he went to business school. After graduation his first job included management trainee for a Nunn Bush Shoe Company where within a year he excelled and managed a clothing store in Springfield, Illinois.

In 1966 He married his 1st wife and began to work for his father in law in Iowa. He began a family with his then wife. In 1968 Gacy was convicted of sodomizing a male employee. His wife filed for divorce. Upon hearing this he told his wife that her and the children were dead to him.

 He was sentenced 10 years in prison, but only spent 18 months . He was paroled in 1970 and moved back to Chicago to become a contractor and started his own construction business. In February of  1971 he was charged in the attempted rape of a young man. The young man didn't show up to court and the charges were dropped. In middle of the 1970's two more men accused him of rape.

By 1975 Gacy was married to his second wife. He had told her that he was bi-sexual and was going to stop having sex with her. She'd find homosexual magazines, and he'd bring home boys to his garage. In 1976 she took her two daughters and divorced Gacy. The two never had children together.

On December 11, 1978 15 year old Robert Piest had disappeared. He'd told his mother he was going to visit Gacy for some job opportunities. When he didn't return home. On December 21 police searched Gacy's home in Norwood Park Township, Illinois.

Gacy knowing that soon they will discover his secret admitted he killed 33 boys. He tried to claim that he had multiple personalities and one of the other personalities did it.

He sat on death row for 12 of the 21 life sentences.

He claimed to have dumped his last 5 bodies in the Des Plains River as he was running out of space in the crawlspace.

Gacy died on May 10, 1994 from lethal injection.

The Murders:

Gacy was considered "charming" and would tell boys that he had job opportunities or would pick up young prostitutes or runaways with the promise of money in exchange for sex. He would often pick up the boys from bus stations. His known victims ages range from 14 to 21 years old. Out of the 33 victims 6 still remain unidentified by July of 2018.

 Once he got the boys in his home he would trick the boys into trying a handcuff trick in which he would subdue the boys, sexually assault, torture, and murder them. At least 5 of the boys worked at Gacy's business.  A few made it out alive, but 33 didn't.

Gacy's first murder happened in 1972 where he'd stabbed to death teenager Tim McCoy. His next murder happened two years later in 1974 he killed an unidentified victim. Even though he stabbed his first victim, he chose to strangle the rest. By 1976 Gacy was already connected to two boys who he claimed to have runaway. The family's suspected Gacy of hurting them, but there was no evidence of it.

After Gacy's wife divorced him in 1976 he called them the "cruising years" as he was able to bring the boys home without worrying. That he was free to hunt for victims and this was when a majority of victims were killed.

SOURCES:
https://www.biography.com/people/john-wayne-gacy-10367544
http://murderpedia.org/male.G/g1/gacy-john-wayne.htm
https://www.historicmysteries.com/john-wayne-gacy/
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/24/john-wayne-gacy-victim-reconstructions-released-by-authorities.html
https://www.thoughtco.com/john-wayne-gacy-the-killer-clown-973164
http://crimemagazine.com/boy-killer-john-wayne-gacy

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/

Murder of Miranda Fenner *Solved*

39-year-old Zachary David O'Neil admitted to the killing of Miranda Fenner. He plead guilty murdering her on July 23, 2019. He was also charged with the rape and attempted murder of a 39-year-old Billings woman on September 5, 1998. He has a history of violent crimes against women. He stated that at first, he didn't care about the murder, but after seeing his stepbrother's murder get the justice he felt guilty and ashamed for what he had done to Miranda.

The post has been changed to go along with what he had said happened that night.

On Nov. 15, 1998, 18-year-old Miranda Fenner was working at the video store in her home town of Laurel, Montana.  Zachary was sent to the video store for his mother. He noted that it was just a typical visit. He tried to be sneaky and rented some porn videos, but when he got back home his mother made him return them.

On the way back he made a plan. He was going to rob the place. He waited for customers to leave before going ahead on his plans. He killed her to avoid getting caught for the robbery. He took the knife with him and said that when he went hunting with his father near Jordan he ditched the knife.

Around 8:20 pm Miranda was seen by a passerby in the doorway of The Movie Store. 911 was soon called, but unfortunately, she died at the hospital two hours later.

Miranda had been attacked in the video store. She had her throat slashed and had been stabbed numerous times. After the attack, she was able to drag herself to the door. With how brutal the attack as it was believed that the murderer was also covered in blood.

SOURCES:
http://billingsgazette.com/news/crime/image_b5fcea60-f2b6-11de-bdf2-001cc4c03286.html
http://billingsgazette.com/news/crime/fenner-murder-case-getting-new-attention/article_ef63c8ac-cbed-5ddf-8316-b628466399b9.html
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20401138/miranda_fenner_murder/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20401108/miranda_fenner_murder/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20401087/miranda_fenner_murder/

https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/crime-and-courts/man-admits-killing-miranda-fenner-in/article_766e84fc-46c5-5f47-890c-78fe3e53b7d9.html
https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/crime-and-courts/poster-about-miranda-fenner-s-murder-made-killer-cry-before/article_27a30dae-6035-5021-a7a4-623737bc77ab.html#1

Three Unidentified Jane Doe Suspected Victims of Maury Troy Davis

These Three Jane Does are believed to be victims of serial killer Maury Troy Davis. He raped, tortured and killed his victims. Davis had never identified the three women as he hung him self in a St. Louis jail after he was charged with two other murders.c He was being investigated for 10 murders. He claimed to have murdered 17, but some believe he may have murdered at least 20. He had video taped at least one of the murders. He hunted in Missouri and Illinois border near the St. Louis area. It is possible the following victims may be from Missouri. His victims have all been sex workers so far, so it's possible the following victims may also be sex workers. 

 Jan. 11, 2002 Mascoutah, Illinois Jane Doe.

Illinois Department of Transportation employees were working along the I64 along post 22 when they found remains. It was an African American female between the ages of 20 and 30 years old. She had been dead for months. 

The skeleton was partially dressed in a Jason Mathews black velour jump suit with full legs. She also had two rings with her. One was a thin gold band and the second had a clear blue central gem piece with multiple small clear green ones surrounding it.

Other Images:

Sources:

https://identifyus.org/en/cases/11788

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/327ufil.html

March 11, 2002 Madison County, Illinois Jane Doe

IDOT workers found the skeletal body around 2 p.m. on March 11, 2002  Illinois near Sliver Creek  overpass in Collinsville, Illinois. She had died within the last 4-6 months. She was a black female between the ages of 24 and 30 years old. She was 5'3" and 105 lbs. She was wearing a size medium pair of rhinestoned, grey colored Second Skins shorts and a red and white men's XL Tommy Hilfiger Flannel button down. She was wearing a mens Gold Nugget ring with two glass stones, and she was wearing one bracelet is a metal hoop, approximately 3 inches in diameter, smooth on one side with a channel on the other side. A ring of black onyx beads on elastic string fits into the channel bracelet. The second bracelet is a combination of three separate bracelets, the second bracelet has numerous plastic beads that were yellow, green, black, mauve, and brown strung with thin elastic string that could be stretched. The three separate bracelets were gathered by a single, oval shaped metallic ring with a small hole at one end that appeared to be for the purpose of hanging a charm.




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SOURCES:

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/334ufil.html
http://www.isp.state.il.us/crime/unsolveddetails.cfm?ID=16
https://identifyus.org/en/cases/12204

March 28, 2002 Monroe County Jane Doe

On March 28, 2002 IDOT workers found the remains of a woman while cleaning trash along the highway. She was located in a creek bed On Route 3 near Gall Rd. in Columbia, Illinois. She'd been estimated to have been dead 6 to 12 months. 

She was a black female between the ages of 33 and 50 years old. She was round 5'1" and 105 lbs. She had black hair. She had a healed fracture in her head from a childhood injury. Possibly had a scar across her forehead because of it. She was wearing an XL green shirt with an orange M and the word Mavericks on it, It has two buttons on the top similar to a softbal jersey. She was also found with size 3 khaki shorts from the brand Chazzz Credentials.

The police tried to search for sport teams with the nickname and logo found on the shirt. The source wasn't found, but a coach from the Mavericks softball team that existed in St. Louis County years before. He stated it looked similar to what was worn by the team. He stated that the team was for girls in their early teens and none of them wore an XL.

Other Images:

SOURCES:
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/302ufil.html
https://identifyus.org/cases/12166

One-Eyed Jack Doe

There are many reasons on why someone murders. Sometimes it’s for money, out of passion, or jealousy. The reason that Jesse Burt Bishop murdered One-Eyed Jack was because he thought that he was being annoying.

This John Doe had acquired the nickname One-Eyed Jack due to him missing his left eye. He also wore an eyepatch, but there was a a large white marble with orange coloration found with him. It’s believed that was used as a fake eye. The murderer was not sure, but believed that the victim's name may had either been Jack or John.

One Eyed Jack was picked up by Boise Idaho by Bishop who was heading to Alaska. The hitchhiker told Bishop that he was heading to Pendleton, Oregon. Once Bishop mentioned that he was heading to Alaska Jack asked his he could go along and the two headed together there. While going through Canada the victim got on his nerves. Bishop killed his victim soon after coming into Alaska and left his body in the woods along the roadway.

Bishop stated the victim had an Oregon driver’s license. He was a white male was around 32 years old and approximately 6 ft and 165 lbs. The victim had long dark hair and wore a headband. He was missing his left eye and wore an eyepatch a large marble was found in his pants and it had an orange coloring to it. The victim is more than likely from the Northwest area of the U.S.

Bishop thought the victim had been hurt during a logging accident from a choker cable in Oregon. Bishop also stated that he thought the victim worked for a Lincoln car dealership washing cars in either Colorado or Utah. At one point the victim said that he had been married.

Bishop didn’t know if any of the information he had was accurate as he claimed that the victim lied to him quite a bit.

Anthropologist provided that the Bishop was accurate about describing the man. He was white male between 25 to 35 years-old with brown medium curly hair and was approximately 5'11.

It is possible that One-Eyed Jack did not settle in one place. With the information that Bishop gave with him being in Oregon, Idaho, possibly in Colorado and or Utah and then making a split second decision to go to Alaska with a complete stranger it could be possible that he did not settle in one place. He possibly lived a nomadic life. He was initially heading Oregon and if his license was from Oregon and he acquired his injury from Oregon then it’s possible that he might be originally from there or spent a significant amount of time there.

Jesse Burt Bishop died in the 2000’s before his victim had found his name.

Dental and Fingerprints are available.

More Images:

SOURCES:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1057173430980088&set=a.175241472506626.36979.100000623241744&type=1&theaterhttp://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2843umak.html

https://identifyus.org/cases/12375