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It was the Roaring 20s, Prohibition was still in effect and Hollywoodland flourished when architect Gordon Kaufman designed a lavish home for the Doheny family, which was perched above Beverly Hills. The family moved into Greystone Mansion in the fall of 1928, when it was reported as the most expensive home ever built in California.
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By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Loretta Lynn Chaisson Lewis was 28 years old when she was found dead on May 20, 2005. The scene was a canal in rural Jefferson Davis parish in Louisiana. This marked the beginning of a 4-year killing spree that police believed was the work of a "common offender". 
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An old postcard that has survived the years, turns up in a Vermont antique shop. It's a tidbit with a personal message from a person long forgotten, but in the message is a reference to a murder that has never been solved. 
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Jeffrey Dahmer was captured more than three decades ago, however mention of his name still causes a shudder.  By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
On May 16, 1980, Theresa Fillingim, 16, was reported missing to the Tampa Police Department. On April 3, 1981, several human remains were recovered from the property of Billy Mansfield. On July 20, 2022 with the help of DNA evidence one of the skeletons was confirmed as belonging to Theresa. 
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Starting in 1968, men started to show up dead floating in the Detroit River, especially in the month of June. Even after so many years they all remain unnamed.  By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
In 1799, a young woman named Gulielma "Elma" Sands was killed. Her reputation was shredded during her murder trial, however no one was ever punished for the deed. Most of those surrounding the incident, who perhaps cheated her of justice, suffered a series of misfortunes in the years that followed. 
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The house was built in 1918, a hundred years after the establishment of Uniontown, Alabama. It's derelict and crumbling now, built in the Neo-Classical Revival style with its fluted Ionic columns, it's not difficult to imagine how splendid it once looked. Even now it's seems the perfect setting for a southern gothic mystery. 
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
After six decades the murder of Irene Garza, a south Texas beauty queen was solved. It turned out her killer was a priest.  By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
It was a freezing January morning in 1937, only months before Japan occupied the Forbidden City of Peking, when Pamela Werner's savagely, mutilated body was found near the Fox Tower just outside the city's Legation Quarter where the foreign embassies were located. 
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Texarkana is a small town that straddles the state line between Texas and Arkansas, and in the spring of 1946 an unidentified assailant attacked eight people in the span of ten weeks. Five of them were killed. The news media named him the "Phantom Killer" or the "Phantom Slayer" because witnesses later described him as wearing a white mask or sack with holes cut for eyes.  By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
In 1960, Sharon Lee Gallegos, 4, was kidnapped by two persons, a man and a woman, driving an old-model green car. Despite a good description of one of the kidnappers and the vehicle, as well as reporting it right away to the police, the child's fate remained unknown for 62 years.  By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Late on the afternoon of October 7, 1949, 26-year-old, bit-part actress Jean Elizabeth Spangler left her Los Angeles home, which she shared with her 5-year-old daughter and other family members. This was the last ever seen of pretty Jean. 
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In August 1900, it was reported that a mansion known as the Page House was haunted by a white lady. For over a hundred years it was a famous inn in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. 
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
A young legend tripper and ghost hunter was found dead in an abandoned church in Italy's Asota Valley. The condition of her body points to a sinister motive for her untimely death.  By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
On September 19, 1911 Lady Frances M. Garnett-Orme was found dead in her room at the Savoy Hotel in the hill station of Mussoorie in northern India. The body was carefully laid out, as if posed after she died, and the doors were locked from the inside.  By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Two officers of the bicycle police brigade of Fresnes-sur-Marne were patrolling the road to Claye, when they came in the night upon a smoldering hayrick in a field belonging to Farmer Ernet. Under the rick about 100 feet off the main road and up a cart track, they smelled the odor of burning flesh. It was the body of a slender girl, and it was obvious by the charring of her body someone had set her on fire.  by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Mary Hoge's slashed body was found stuffed in a steamer trunk, and the suspect was none other than her stepson.  By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
On October 24, 1905 Mary Jane Caley was staying in Suite 72 at The Aberdeen Hotel; the same one she had rented several times in the past. That day she had already bought her ticket to return by train to her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Then for some unfathomable reason she shot herself in the temple. Why would a wealthy, 21-year-old woman do this?  By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
A skeleton was discovered on October 17, 1909 in a lonely spot in the woods two miles north of Islip, Long Island by rabbit hunters. There was no flesh on the bones, which gave evidence it had lain there for a long time. They were also charred from a forest fire that occurred in the area months before.  By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Arlis Perry, 19, was murdered inside Stanford Memorial Church two weeks before Halloween, 1974. Her body was posed and mutilated in what appeared to be some type of ritual murder. Decades would pass before the identity of her killer would become known, however questions still lingered. 
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The end of 1909 was fast approaching when charges were levied against the the County Hospital for the Insane at Overbrook. What started as a miscommunication spawned an investigation that revealed graft, mismanagement and a possible murder.  By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
In 1966, Louise Pietrewicz disappeared without a trace. The mystery of her whereabouts appeared to be solved, with the discovery of a woman’s remains found in a burlap sack on Long Island.  By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
It was the day after Christmas, 1929 when newspapers in North Carolina carried the disturbing news of a father who had annihilated his entire family. Sixty years would pass before the motive of this heartless act would be learned.  By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
It was Labor Day weekend and Steve Liethen owner of the Good 'N Loud Music in Dane County, Wisconsin was fixing a water leak after a boiler was removed. When he shone a light into the chimney the last thing he expected to see was a human skull. |
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