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At least one of the reviews (I’m on mobile but I’ll find it later) lists all the things she says about the area which don’t match up to the reviewer’s knowledge of it.

I haven’t read the book, but there’s an extract on Amazon you can read. She does not come across as a reliable narrator.

ETA the review;
https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/0812983564/ref=cm_cr_unknown?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=two_star&reviewerType=all_reviews&pageNumber=1#reviews-filter-bar

I happened to add this book to my reading pile when at the library, not knowing much about it other than it was about a mom who turned her son's challenges into extraordinary abilities. After reading most of it, I commend her for all her hard work, dedication, and diligence in seeking the best life for her son.

What I didn't realize when selecting the book was the author lives in the same time as the library where I checked the book out! It made the book much more interesting to me as I recognized the name of the local hospital, large church where she created her sports club, and even had a hunch which Target store her husband likely works in. I live directly north of Carmel, I work Carmel and I am a lifelong resident of Hamilton County.

We are a county of suburban sprawl at its finest. Directly north of downtown Indy, the county is filled with strip malls galore, housing addition after housing addition, constant road construction, and lots of traffic. It is the most affluent county in the state, and one of the most affluent counties in the country. Carmel in particular, is constantly busting at the seams from the overpopulation of yuppy suburbanites. She paints a picture of a farm field being right down the road from her, and yes, I am sure there is one (Indiana is a farming state in the midwest, after all)...but the bulk of Carmel and surrounding towns' farmland was replaced with strip malls and housing additions in the late 90's.

The author's description of "single lane gravel roads through real farm country" to get to the town of Kirklin, Indiana actually made me laugh out of loud (a very small town where some of my family lives, so I am very familiar with it).

I'm not sure what route she was taking to get to her dilapidated building in Kirklin! She should consider purchasing a better GPS device, because while gravel roads do exist near Kirklin (easily passable by two cars, btw), there is no reason one would be traveling on one to get there from the Carmel area. Hamilton County in particular has not had a SINGLE gravel road in well over 25 years. Yes, Kirklin is north and a bit west of most of Hamilton County, but the area between Carmel and Kirklin is not exactly uninhabited. Although her description of "blink and you'll miss it" is correct, Kirklin's main street is also US Highway 421/Michigan Road. Yes, it's a very small town and yes, it is in a rural farming area, but it is located on a major highway that runs directly there from the west side of Carmel. Hardly the rustic, unknown lost town that no one has ever heard of!

If I weren't so caught up in the oddly majestic farmland oasis description of the area, I might have enjoyed it more. Mostly it seemed like the account of a dedicated mom boasting of all she's achieved (who can blame her?!) and overcome with her own children and genius young son, in particular.

not /u/dieseljet, but the tent monitoring might fit in with the conclusions presented by Svetlana Oss in Don't Go There: The Mystery of Dyatlov Pass, which I would definitely recommend if you're at all interested in the Dyatlov incident. She lays everything out really clearly and also addresses some of the anomalies and other theories (infrasound and the radioactive clothing are the ones I remember).

Oss is a Russian investigative journalist and I definitely feel like being a native speaker and a trained investigator both serve her theory well. It's a quick read and pretty inexpensive to download even if you don't have Kindle Unlimited.

If you're interested in the Zodiac cases, I highly recommend The Most Dangerous Animal of All by Gary L. Stewart, released earlier this year. The author presents a pretty damn convincing case that his father was the Zodiac. Hand-writing experts agree.

No, sorry. It's a book that's also available as audiobook, although it's one where the author reads it himself and he isn't a voice actor so, while fascinating, it can be a bit of a chore to listen to. Dude is a dude, not really a professional writer, so it's great but a little dense and peppered with personal stories because, well, it's about his life.

Unlike "I'll be gone in the dark", which is a great book by a great writer and read by a voice actor...truly fascinating all around.

Here's the book on Amazon. Basically, zodiac was a dude who abandoned this guy soon after birth, and his search to find his parents leads him to this discovery. There are way, way too many coincidences, including solves of the unsolved cyphers.

The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062313177/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_oE33BbVR046EY

For the Dyatlov Pass, I thought this book did a pretty good job going through all the possibilities of what could have happened. The last one mentioned is what I think happened. It involves wind and the shape of the top of the mountain.

He's a police chief and author. He's best known for this book:

Foreign Faction

He also enjoyed spending time alone in the morgues of the hospitals he did charity appearances in.

Source : In Plain Sight https://www.amazon.com/Plain-Sight-Life-Jimmy-Savile/dp/1782067469

i can do, thank you, this is the link to it, i'm called Steph Young (https://www.amazon.com/investigation-Horrifying-Smiley-Killers-Serial-ebook/dp/B01G0SWK0I) & altho the title says "The Smiley Face Killers," it is a serious investigation into many of these cases and possible suspects. Thank you.
edited link

Check out Michelle McNamara's book I'll Be Gone in the Dark. It's an amazing read: https://www.amazon.com/Ill-Be-Gone-Dark-Obsessive/dp/0062319787

Well, one thing, it can be hard to open a door when partially submerged if the windows are closed. You have to wait until the car is submerged. Most cars nowadays have electric windows and locks which can go out. They sell a tool you can use to break windows, though. Something like this

He was shot behind his ear by Frank Sheeran, then cremated. Frank Sheeran was a mobster, a teamster and a close friend of Hoffa. His loyality was to the mafia. According to the book https://www.amazon.com/Heard-You-Paint-Houses-Updated/dp/1586422383

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sheeran

Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0375760989/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_Hhdfvb1PCVHAW

I cannot overstate how much I loved this book, and if maritime mysteries are your thing, stop reading this comment and find a copy!

Looking forward. Followed this case for a long time. Heard researcher Steph Young on youtube, then i read her book on a lot of connected "drowning" cases & it chilled me to my core. There are SO many & she made a lot of real disturbing connections. Seriously man this is creepier than many people realize https://www.amazon.com/investigation-Horrifying-Smiley-Killers-Serial-ebook/dp/B01G0SWK0IJenkins's is one of the ONLY ones they made a homicide. Is his connected to the others? idk but they should give his Mom justice and keep at it. I always wondered was his connected to Jacob Wetterling

Thanks, lots of interesting points! (I think I've read most of your comments in this thread now.) And your book looks interesting as well!

Seems like the theory that they were murdered is somehow often quickly dismissed when discussing this case, in favour of either natural phenomena or stuff like yeti and aliens. I've seen some pretty convincing sounding theories on this subreddit for how some kind of panic + confusion and hypothermia could explain a lot of it, and it seems like Donnie Eichar's book also takes this approach, proposing that infrasound due to wind and mountains caused the initial panic. But considering the details of their injuries and the autopsy reports as you've described them here, your theory seems more and more convincing!

Have you read the book by the Russian journalist Svetlana Oss (Don't Go There: The Mystery of Dyatlov Pass)? I haven't read it, but based on reviews and descriptions she seems to come to the same conclusion as you, that they were murdered. Her main suspect seems to be the Mansi people though. Apparently the mountain where they were heading, Otorten, has some kind of religious importance to the Mansi, and the name means "Don't go there" in their language.

By the way, the original reports you linked to. Do you know where they originate from and how they ended up on that google site? They seem believable, and even the wikipedia article links to them at one point, but I guess it would be nice to have some extra confirmation that they are the real deal. (Or maybe I'm being overly suspicious?)

You should read Oblivion. It presents an interesting theory.
https://www.amazon.com/Oblivion-Mystery-Point-Cadet-Richard/dp/1574882244

It's from Kat Winter's (who posts on reddit, /u/winters_vw), Case Files of the East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer it might be new information. She'll definitely know more about accents and if any others were used (hence why I tagged her).

I didn't hear an accent in any of the calls though, you're right about that.

With regards to the dog, there's some speculation that he "borrowed" the dog (a woman reported that someone had apparently been taking her dog out at night without her permission) or that it was a local dog that came over to investigate what EAR/ONS was up to, and so thus wasn't actually his dog.

Recommend “I heard you paint houses”

https://www.amazon.com/Heard-You-Paint-Houses-Irishman/dp/1586422383

Serial killer/hit man for Jimmy Hoffa.

Can't believe I've only just seen this post. This (and the whole Taman Shud thing) are the two mysteries I keep coming back to.

I have no real insight into who it might have been or why, owing to being something of an idiot, but I would recommend the book Oblivion which goes into huge detail about the FBI files, the dead ends, and the search. Its pretty engrossing.

You might think you're kidding, but...

The Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity, and the UFO Abductee

https://www.amazon.com/Ill-Be-Gone-Dark-Obsessive/dp/0062319787

or check out this podcast series
http://casefilepodcast.com/case-53-east-area-rapist-1976-part-1/

Here is the mobile version of your link

I mean, personally I think the supposed phenomena of memory screening is BS, but alien experiencers have this covered: https://www.amazon.com/Messengers-Owls-Synchronicity-UFO-Abductee/dp/0967799570

Get this book!

https://www.amazon.com/Franklin-Cover-up-Satanism-Murder-Nebraska/dp/0963215809/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525034392&sr=8-1&keywords=Franklin+coverup&dpID=51oVWsOw8BL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch

That is insane, but you were absolutely right to listen to your fear and act on it. If you haven’t read The Gift Of Fear I highly recommend it. Your situation sounds like one he would cover. So scary

1. Tell people where you're going.
   
   
2. Keep the GPS on your phone turned on.
   
   
3. Know how to break your car window and get out of your seat belt, so if you drive into a body of water, you can get out.
   
   If step 3 fails, at least you have steps 1 and 2 working in your favor.

yeah I think that too, they're about 100 miles away from eachother, connected by a railroad track, and committed around the same time in a similar fashion, james badal has a book called "hells wasteland the pennsylvania torso murders" where he too believes they were from the same person https://www.amazon.com/Hells-Wasteland-Pennsylvania-Torso-Murders/dp/1606351532

[This book] (https://www.amazon.com/Exquisite-Corpse-Surrealism-Dahlia-Murder/dp/B000WZTZOU0) purposes that hypothesis. Basically, the author argues that their are several similarities between how she was found and themes within the surrealist movement.

Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England by James Ruddick.

Wealthy, beautiful woman is accused of murdering her blackguard of a husband. The story is full of poison, abortions, and genteel deviousness.

Actually, it’d make a great Masterpiece Theatre feature, similar to last year’s Dark Angel, about Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton, but with lovelier sets and costumes.

Have you ever heard of the book Exquisite Corpse? I don't know anything about it except that it somehow links the murder to the surrealist art movement. It's on my list to eventually read.

I will dig out a Kindle link, but a few years ago I read an excellent book about Savile by someone who had really done their research and dug out details of something which is very rarely discussed - where Savile came from. It sometimes seems as though he suddenly appeared on TV with no previous existence.

In fact, he worked in clubs and dance halls, both for Mecca and freelance, and was everything including manager and "enforcer".

He certainly did a lot of shady things, and he sounded alarmingly akin to the Krays.

After reading all this I had no doubt that he could have committed a murder ...

Edit: it is In Plain Sight by Dan Davies.

> The murder of Jonbenet Ramsey would also bother me but at least they could prove it wasn't the family.

Err...read Foreign Faction and then tell me if you think it wasn't the family. The family is the first people I suspect in that case.

For the last, Death at the Priory provides a very convincing case for Florence with the assistance of Mrs. Cox. To me, the only real question is whether the poisoning was intended to kill him, or only incapacitate him so he would not continue to try and rape her after her miscarriage. I lean toward the latter.

There have been plenty of good suspects, but they were ruled out through various means. At the time, many suspects were ruled out due to secretor statuses. Now, law enforcement has been going back looking for those ruled out in that manner to re-check them, since it was faulty back then. That may or may not be a huge deciding factor in this case. Sadly, Sacramento tossed a lot of the evidence they had -- even a list of possible suspects -- when the statute of limitations expired for the sexual assault crimes. This was done long before EAR was connected to ONS. It was still premature, though, considering the wide array of officials believing he was behind the Maggiore killings in Rancho Cordova in 1978. Nevertheless, things are looking up for this case. There are certain POIs being looked at heavily; some have been phoned in by the public, sleuths, and others.

If you have any more questions regarding the case, I'd be glad to help answer them if I can. You can also check out my friend's website, http://www.coldcase-earons.com/

She also has a book in the case, which is the most accurate, up-to-date book on the market right now. https://www.amazon.com/Files-Rapist-Golden-State-Killer/dp/0999458108/

In 2013, Kristine Barnett’s memoir, “The Spark: A Mother’s Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autism” was published by Random House. NPR book critic Maureen Corrigan wrote in The Washington Post that the book was “compulsive reading,” adding, “Barnett not only fights heroically on Jake’s behalf, she also beats down every other obstacle that life hurls at her and her family.”

Meanwhile, not long after his 15th birthday, Jacob began taking classes at the prestigious Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. His parents told the Star that they moved the whole family to Canada in the summer of 2013 so that he could follow his passion, putting their Indiana home on the market.

Around that same time, the Barnetts’ adopted daughter told police, her parents rented her an apartment in downtown Lafayette, Ind., near the home of Purdue University. She knew no one there. Michael Barnett later told detectives that he and his then-wife paid the rent on the apartment but didn’t provide the girl with any other financial support.

What happened next is unclear, though an anonymous law enforcement source told WLFI that the girl’s neighbors “took her under their wing.” Court documents obtained by WISH-TV show that she was evicted for not paying rent in May 2014, less than a year after her adoptive parents left her alone in the apartment. Since she left no forwarding address, court officers weren’t able to figure out where she had gone, or follow up with her for the money she owed.

That same year, the Barnetts filed for divorce, according to the station. Though Jake still lives in Canada, where he is pursuing a PhD in quantum gravity at the Perimeter Institute, both Michael and Kristine have moved back to Indianapolis.

In September 2014, the Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Office tracked down their adoptive daughter at the behest of a school principal who had raised concerns, WLFI reported. Based on the medical records cited in the affidavit, she would have been 12 or 13 at the time. Legally, however, she was well into her mid-20s. Authorities haven’t said what came of the meeting, and another five years would pass before the Barnetts were charged with neglect.

What happened in the intervening years, too, is a mystery. The police affidavit states that the girl left Lafayette and Tippecanoe County in February 2016. Additional court filings unearthed by WISH-TV show that 15 days after that, another couple petitioned to become her guardians. The Barnetts filed an objection. In January 2018, the station reported, the new couple changed their mind about the adoption, for reasons that weren’t specified. The Barnetts’ petition was subsequently dismissed.

Though charges were filed Wednesday, neither of the Barnetts has been booked or arraigned. Court records don’t indicate if either has an attorney. And authorities have hinted that there could be even more strange details to come.

“This is going to end up on a TV show,” an anonymous law enforcement official told WLFI on Thursday.

I have several cases of interest:


Beverly Potts It's always bothered me that she could disappear in such a short distance and no one see or hear anything unusual.


The Pennsylvania Torso Murders In his book, James Jessen Badal explores murders that may or may not be related to the Cleveland Torso Murders. The Pennsylvania murders haven't had as much attention as their more famous counterparts in Ohio and I would love to hear an in-depth podcast on this case.


The Ax Murders of Saxtown. This case fascinates me because it's in my home state of Illinois and because there's just something creepy about a whole family including an infant being slaughtered by an ax-wielding maniac.

> I guess I would have expected an enemy to move on him in the 70s if it was going to happen.

adjusts tinfoil hat Colby was investigating the so-called Franklin coverup when he died. The coverup involved an alleged child prostitution ring in Nebraska in which numerous witnesses were intimidated and the lead investigator, Gary Caradori, died mysteriously. If you know nothing about the case, I recommend John DeCamp's excellent book on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/The-Franklin-Cover-up-Satanism-Nebraska/dp/0963215809. DeCamp is a reputable lawyer and former senator, and he makes a disturbingly believable case that some really dark shit goes on in Nebraska.

IIRC the book's titled Why Johnny Can't Tell Right From Wrong by William Kirkpatrick (which I just saw downthread you spotted, sorry!) and everything I can find about it suggests it's a general "kids these days" conservative piece about the need for education reform, not actually about what to do when one of your children is doing bad things. (The name is a riff on Rudolf Flesch's Why Johnny Can't Read, a book advocating educational reform of a different kind.) To quote from its Amazon description:

>A hard-hitting and controversial book, WHY JOHNNY CAN'T TELL RIGHT FROM WRONG will not only open eyes but change minds. America today suffers from unprecedented rates of teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, suicide, and violence. Most of the programs intended to deal with these problems have failed because, according to William Kilpatrick, schools and parents have abandoned the moral teaching they once provided.

In general the books listed (including one by the guy from Focus On The Family!) suggest more that the family was politically/socially conservative, which is consistent with their religious stance to me, rather than being serious self-help books for disturbed children. It doesn't mean Burke (or JonBenet) couldn't have been disturbed or acting out, but I don't think the books are all they were made out to be. The feces seem like a more likely sign of some kind of disturbance to me.

I have a searing hatred for Kolar for this. Please go look at the actual descriptions of the books. Their titles sound alarming because Kolar misleadingly suggests they're linked to Burke's behavior. In reality, they are completely standard Christian books about raising godly children in a secular world. There is absolutely no reason at all to believe they reflect any violent or alarming behavior on Burke's part if you do anything more than read the titles. Kolar is a shitty investigator or a deliberate liar, as far as I'm concerned.

edit: A long time ago, I wrote out a long comment about each book Kolar lists, but I can't find it. But just off the top of my head, here is one example:

Kolar says "Well, the Ramseys had a book called Why Johnny Can't Tell Right From Wrong." Sounds suspicious, right? Well, here's the book blurb from Amazon:

>A hard-hitting and controversial book, WHY JOHNNY CAN'T TELL RIGHT FROM WRONG will not only open eyes but change minds. America today suffers from unprecedented rates of teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, suicide, and violence. Most of the programs intended to deal with these problems have failed because, according to William Kilpatrick, schools and parents have abandoned the moral teaching they once provided. In WHY JOHNNY CAN'T TELL RIGHT FROM WRONG, Kilpatrick shows how we can correct this problem by providing our youngsters with the stories, models, and inspirations they need in order to lead good lives. He also encourages parents to read to their children and provides an annotated guide to more than 120 books for children and young adults.

The table of contents lists: The Crisis in Moral Education, Drug Education, Sex Education, How Not to Teach Morality, Moral Illiteracy, Vision and Virtue, Music and Morality, and so on. Does that sound like a book about turning your budding-psychopath of a child around? Or does it sound like bog-standard Christian "What do I do about the increasing secularity of American society?" stuff that was prevalent during the '90s? Keep in mind that we know the Ramseys were practicing Christians. It would not be even remotely weird for them to have this kind of book.

Similar arguments can be made about every book Kolar lists. He either did not so much as crack these books open, or he deliberately lied about their contents in order to fit with his theory about Burke. This part of his argument is so egregiously misleading that nothing else he says should be taken at face value, as far as I'm concerned.