Arlington Park Serial Pooper

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By August 2016  a serial pooper would leave gifts at Ft. Barnard Park playground in Arlington, Virginia at least 4 to 5 times that year. Two of which happened in August. They poop around the play equipment and sometimes cover them with t-shirts so that curious kids or adults would end up picking them up and finding their surprise.  

The serial pooper does it at night. Their poop is left around the play equipment. It's never in off-to-the-side places like bushes or by trees. 

Arlington County Police said they are stepping up patrols at the time in the park in the hopes. They were hoping in catching the serial pooper and charging them with misdemeanor urinating and defecating in public. However, no one was caught as the serial pooper. 

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Barf Blog

ABC 7 Chicago August 21, 2016

UPI August 22, 2016

Pregnancy Resource Center Arson

At about 2:30 am on June 10, 2022 someone threw several Molotov cocktails through a kitchen window at the Pregnancy Resource Center (PRC) located at 104 NW 11th Street, Gresham, Oregon. This would cause the building to catch fire. It's unknown who this person was.

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FBI

December 3, 2022 Energy Substations Shootings

On the evening of December 3, 2022, an unknown suspect or suspects fired multiple shots at two Duke Energy Substations in Moore County, North Carolina. The two substations are located around 10 miles apart in West End and Carthage. Damage from this caused a massive power outage of around 45,000 customers. 

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FBI

The Attack on Julie Cooper

Photo of Julie after the attack

Photo of Julie 7 years after the attack

Between 1:05 and 1:15 pm on 15 August 2000, 28-year-old Julie Cooper was walking back to work after taking a lunch break at home. She would be attacked on a cycle path close to Norfolk County Hall, Martineau Lane, and a local industrial estate at Europa in Norwich, England. Julie would suffer from injuries and on her face and upper body from a knife or sharp weapon and had been robbed.  Julie would survive the attack and would end up having several surgeries because of it.

The attack was not common in this area of Norwich, and there didn't seem to be any similar attacks or offences leading up to the attack. The area she was attacked may have been a busy traffic route, but at the time the path was heavily overgrown so her attacker may have done the attack in that area for that reason.

Police hope that someone will come forward with information so that this case could be solved. 

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Norfolk Constabulary

Eastern Daily Press

Who Killed Andy The Goose?

Andy with some of his fans picture credited to Jessica Korgie

In 1987 a grey goose named Andy was born without any webbed feet on a farm in Harvard, Nebraska. In 1989 Gene Fleming from the nearby town Hastings heard of the disabled Goose. Gene was a member of a local charity for disabled children and an inventor. Glen would take in Andy and his mate Polly and moved them to his farm in Hastings.

Gene would try to give Andy more mobility with a skateboard prosthesis, but it would fail. He would then fit Andy with a pair of specially adapted baby shoes, and this was successful as he taught Andy how to walk. The miraculous goose would then catch media attention and inspired many who were handicapped. 

Andy would appear in things like People magazine and The Tonight Show. He would then be given a lifetime supply of shoes, which was convenient because he would wear out his shoes at least once a month. Unfortunately, his life would be cut short. 

On October 19, 1991, Andy would be kidnapped and found later in a local park. The Flemmings had no idea that he was missing until the phone call asking "Is Andy Ok?". The people who found him in the park recognized the poor Goose's well-known shoes. His head and wings were removed.

The community would collect and raise $10,000 as a reward to help apprehend the murderer, though no one was identified.

SOURCES:
Wikipedia
Atlas Obscura
Road Side America

The Mad Pooper of Pine Creek

In Mid-July 2017 Cathy Budde's children came running into their home near the intersection of Briargate Boulevard and North Union Parkway in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They exclaimed, "There's a lady taking a poop".

Cathy not sure if they were serious went outside to see for herself. The children were right there was a woman squatting with her jogging shorts around her ankles pooping. Cathy angry confronted the lady about pooping in public and her children were able to see her private parts. The lady then jogged off with a "Yeah...sorry." Cathy believed that would be the end of it. She was so wrong about that so, wrong her children started calling her "The Mad Pooper of Pine Creek".

The unknown lady would poop in the same spot on the sidewalk at least once a week. Budde's were the main focus of her fecal matter, but other places in the neighborhood were also targets. There wasn't even reason for the lady to be pooping out in the open in the first place as there was plenty of access to public toilets close to Budde's home. She was caught doing it three times and Cathy was able to take a picture of her.

Cathy tired of the Mad Pooper contacted Colorado Springs Police Department. She even printed a paper sign at her place warning her the police are aware of her fecal adventures. This did not stop the Mad Pooper as she changed the times she was jogging and would jog around 15 times a day before defecating again. If caught the woman would face charges of indecent exposure and public defecation and could be on the sex registry for it.

The news then ran the story asking the woman to stop and other joggers to not do the same. After this, the lady stopped her ways. She has not been identified.

A man released a video claiming to be the spokesman for the jogger and gave the name "Shirley". He claimed they were struggling with reassignment surgery and a brain injury causing them to defecate like that. The video has since been deleted and is believed to have been a hoax.

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Wikipedia
Fox News
KKTV

Cline Falls Axe Attack

In 1977 19-year-old Terri Jentz who was from Western Springs, Illinois and 20-year-old Avra Goldman from Wellesley, Massachusetts were roommates and students at Yale University. They decided that summer that they were going to cycle across the U.S. via the newly opened Trans America Trail. They would end their tour in Astoria, Oregon.

On the night of June 22, they headed east from Astoria and ended up in Cline Flass State Park in Oregon. They decided to camp there for the night though the women felt uneasy as if they were being watched. The two would go to bed and would wake up at 11:30 p.m. to the sound of a vehicle. This was when the nightmare would start.

It was initially believed that the truck pulling up belonged to partying teenagers. The truck would then drive over the tent its tires pinning Terri down, this would break both her arms, one leg, her collar bone, and several ribs as well as crushing her lung. A man exited the vehicle with an axe. He would hit Avra in the head with it around 6 times.

The man then would hover over Terri looking down at her. He would slowly bring down the axe over Terri and she caught it in her hands above her heart by the blade. He then withdrew it and drove away. He left the girls to die. Terri would describe him as a fit cowboy type.

Avra was able to get to the roadside even though her leg was broken and she had wounds from the axe. A motorist heard her cries and took both women to the hospital. They would state the scene was a bloody mess. Miraculously neither woman lost their lives even though their injuries were significant.

Terri was able to remember the attack, but Avra's eyesight went bad from the wounds and she couldn't remember that night. The man who attacked them was never caught. Later Terri would go back to Oregon to search for the man who tried to kill her and this caused her to write "A Strange Piece of Paradise".

She found out that all the initial information on the case was lost. This included interviews, physical evidence, and crime scene photos. She also found that the man who was thought to have tried to kill them a child rapist and child murderer Richard Wayne "Bud" Goodman did not match the description. 

Instead, she said that another suspect who she gives them a different name in her book as Dirk Duran. He matches the description and had told people over the years that he was not involved with the ax attack. But others in the community had suspected him.

SOURCES:
Wikipedia
Statesman Journal June 27, 1977
CNN May 8, 2006
The Independent June 21, 2006

WANTED: Ortiz Court, Orangevale Rape

In December of 2003, a man broke into a residence in Orangeville where a young female was home alone. The man would attack her physically and sexually and rob the place and then would flee the residence. He was wearing a ski mask and was described as a white male around 6'2" and 175 lbs with blue eyes. It was believed that at the time he was in his 20's. 

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Sacramento County Sheriff's Department

WANTED: November 15,1984 Hughesville Rapist

On the late-night of November 15, 1984, a man would break into a home on Burnt Store Road in Hughesville, Maryland. The 68-year-old woman who lived there woke up from the noise of him ransacking the home. She went to investigate the sound and went to the front hallway and saw him coming downstairs. He forced her into her bedroom and sexually assaulted her before leaving. 

He would be described as a young black male with facial hair and was around 5'6". He would also leave a blue hat with red trim and a pair of white gloves at the scene. He also stole around $500 from her before leaving the residence. 

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Charles County Sheriff's Office

The March 6, 2008 Bombing of the United States Armed Forces Recruiting Station

On the morning of March 6, 2008, a bomb would explode in front of the United States Armed Forces Recruiting Station on Times Square in New York City, New York. A lone suspect riding a blue Ross bicycle went west on 37th street, took a right heading north on Sixth Ave. and made a left heading west on 47th street and Seventh Ave. They would get off the bike near the Recruiting Station on 43rd and Seventh Street. They'd place the bomb in front of and lit the fuse before fleeing. The bike was later recovered in a dumpster near Madison Ave and 38th Street. 

The Device was built using ammunition can similar to those found on battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was filled halfway with black powder and detonated using a time fuse. No one was wounded, but if people were in close proximity it would have caused significant injury or death.

The suspect seemed to have been working alone, but that does not mean they didn't have help. They may have had a lookout or surveillance team of as many as 5 people in Times Square when the device was placed. The suspect was wearing a grey sweatshirt and pants of unknown color.

This bombing may be connected to two other unsolved bombings in New York City. One of them happening at the British Consulate in May of 2005 and other at the Mexican Consulate in October of 2007. The devices were delivered by an unknown individual on a bicycle and detonated between 3 am and 4 am. 

SOURCES:

FBI

May 4, 2017 Cincinnati Hate Crime

  

On the morning of May 4, 2017, a maroon and tan 2006 Ford Explorer was parked in an apartment building parking lot located on Gracely Drive in the Sayler Park neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Around 4:20 a.m. the vehicle was badly damaged and vandalized.

A person wearing a light-colored hooded sweatshirt, and jeans or dark sweatpants are seen doing this. They would break several windows, slash tires, and scratch and spray paint racist ideology on it. Swastikas were scratched into the paint and the words including “Go home,” “Musslim [sic] terrorist,” “Trump America,” and other phrases and symbols. The vehicle belonged to a person of Middle Eastern descent at the time.

A reward up to $3,000 is offered to tips that lead to the arrest and conviction in this case.

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FBI

WANTED: I-80 Rapist

The I-80 rapist has three confirmed cases of sexual assaults this does not mean there aren't more that was committed, but these 3 have been connected by DNA. The first one occurred on September 9, 2013, at 4:20 a.m. as the victim was walking near I-80 and Madison Ave. in Sacramento, California. The second attack would happen on December 10, 2013, at 9:15 p.m. and this victim was also walking in the same area as the first. The third attack happened on January 8, 2014, around 4:30 a.m. The victim was walking near Greenback Lane and Auburn Blvd. when she accepted a ride from a man. He would take her to the I-80 and Maddison Ave. area to assault her.

He was described as a black male between 20 and 40-years-old He has a shaved or short afro style haircut. He was clean-shaven with a large build and wore rectangular eyeglasses. He was driving a red-colored box style 4-door vehicle.  

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Wikipedia

Sacramento County Sheriff's Office

Wheaton Bandit

Between Jan. 14, 2002 and December 8, 2006, an unidentified man between 25 and 35-years-old would come to be known as the Wheaton Bandit. He commits 16 known bank robberies in the Wheaton, Illinois area including the towns of Carol Stream, Winifield, Glen Ellyn, Naperville, and Geneva. He would end up getting more than $100,000.

He would come into the banks wearing a hood or ski mask, but different clothing each robbery. When he walked in he would be holding his gun placing his finger along with the gun instead of the trigger. The outlines of his jacket suggested he was wearing a bulletproof jacket. The way he held his gun and the possibility of him wearing a bulletproof vest suggests he may have been a police officer or had military training.

There were two possible sightings of the man. In December 2004 a man came into the MidAmerica Bank in Glen Ellyn without conducting a transaction. Two weeks later the same bank was robbed, and this man became a possible suspect. Images of him in the bank were released. Then on the November 29, 2006 robbery a witness stated they saw a man in the parking lot of the Fith Third Bank in Winfield an hour before the robbery. This witness helped with a composite sketch of the suspicious person.

Two more robberies happened on December 1st and December 7th before the sketch was released of the suspicious man. After the composite sketch was released on December 11th there were no more known robberies by the Wheaton Bandit.

By 2011 the statute of limitations has run out on all 16 cases because there is a 5-year statute on the bank robbery charge. The case isn't going to be looked into further as no arrest or conviction could be done for the robberies.

List of Robberies:
Jan. 14, 2002- West Suburban Bank on 295 West Loop in Wheaton
Jan. 3, 2003- West Suburban Bank on 221 South West Street in Wheaton
Jan. 11, 2003- West Suburban Bank on 295 West Loop in Wheaton
Feb. 12, 2003- West Suburban Bank on 879 Geneva in Carol Stream
Mar. 4, 2003- West Suburban Bank on 221 South West Loop in Wheaton
May 10, 2003- LaSalle Bank on 225 West Front in Wheaton
Aug. 28, 2003- Harris Bank on 4 Blanchard Circle in Wheaton
Jan 22. 2004- Health Care Credit Union on 27W460 Chicago Ave in Winfield
July 22, 2004- Oak Brook Bank on 487 Pennsylvania in Glen Ellyn
Jan. 14, 2005- MidAmerica Bank on 674 Rosevelt Road in Glen Ellyn
Nov. 28, 2005- Harris Bank on 507South Washington in Naperville
Jan. 31, 2006- Glen Ellyn Bank & Trust on 462 North Park in Glen Ellyn
Nov. 29, 2006- Fith Third Bank on 1 North 111 County Farm Rd. in Winfield
Dec. 1, 2006- Charter One on 421 Hamilton Street in Geneva
Dec 7, 2006- Glen Ellyn Bank & Trust in 462 North Park

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Wikipedia

Medium

CBS Chicago December 8, 2011

Chicago Tribune

Books That Were Stolen From the Carter County Clerk's Office

On Jan. 23, 1992 someone came into the Carter County courthouse in Ardmore, Oklahoma. They removed two valuable Indian Roll Books from the Carter County clerks office without permission. The two books kept records of thousands of names of the five civilized tribes who were on record in 1902. This included the percentage of Indian blood, Name, Roll Number, Census Card Number, and Age. These books were older than statehood and cannot be replaced. The books were described as being the size of average paper about 3 inches thick with red covers. 

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Carter County Sheriff

Theft of the Weeping Woman

Weeping Woman by Pablo Picasso 

After Pablo Picasso painted Guernica he painted the Weeping Woman on October 18, 1937. The model for these works was his mistress Dora Maar. In 1985 the painting was purchased for $1.6  million by the National Gallery of Victoria in Victoria, Australia. This made it the most expensive painting purchased by a public Australian Art Gallery.

On August 2, 1986, thieves obtained access to the art gallery and unscrewed the painting from the wall mount and stole it. The screwdriver used was special and would not have been a common screwdriver the public would have. They initially thought that the painting was being cleaned and was at the Australian Capital Territory. It wasn't till the 4th they found it was stolen.

They searched the building top to bottom. The frame that the painting was originally was in was found. It was easier to transport a rolled painting than it was for it in the frame. The painting may have been stolen by A.C.T. or Australia Cultural Terrorists. A letter was sent form A.C.T. They gave two orders in order to get the painting back.

"1. The Minister must announce a commitment to increasing the funding of the arts by 10% in real terms over the next three years and must agree to appoint an independent committee to enquire into the mechanics of the funding of the arts with a view to releasing money from its administration and making it available to artists.
2. The Minister must announce a new annual prize for painting open to artists under thirty years of age. Five prizes of $5000 are to be awarded. A fund is to be established to ensure that the real value of the prizes is maintained each year. The prize is to be called The Picasso Ransom."

It's easy to say the requests weren't filled and a $50,000 reward was put out on information for the painting. 

Surprisingly enough an anonymous tip from a woman came in that lead to the recovery of the undamaged painting. The tip led officials to locker 277 at Spencer Street Station on 19 August 1986. Press was there and when they opened the locker they found the painting wrapped in a brown paper.

SOURCES:
Wikipedia
The Sydney Morning Herald