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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By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories 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. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In 1998, a priest was brutally murdered in a little, rural town in Wisconsin. His throat was slit, and despite the advances in DNA identification and the public’s mistaken belief in the CSI effect, the crime remains unsolved till this day. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Lemuel Smith was born into the least likely of bedeviled households on July 23, 1941. He was part of a strictly religious black family living in Amsterdam, New York. His father was a minister, and both of his parents lived in the household. There were no known reasons why Lemuel would have such a compulsion to kill, which according to him started as early as when he was twelve years old when he nearly smothered a nine-year-old girl to death. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories The place was Sandtown Road, once known as the Sand Town Trail, near the West End in Atlanta where a man's skeleton was found. It was a swampy area, some distance from the road in a dense area of cane growth. Most noted that it was an "admirable spot for a murder." By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories It was a spring day in 1903 when the body of Bertha "Glory" Whalen was found in a thicket. Her family had last seen her when she left for school. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories On Halloween, 1900, Sanitary Chief George Walker made a startling discovery while conducting a house to house inspection. He came upon the skeleton of a woman. It was in the rear of a vacant house at 817 Constant Street, Tampa. This neighborhood was known as the Scrub. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories What was left was just a skeleton found in a pine stand at a place called the Devil's Elbow. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In March 2017, Franklin county officials found a grisly scene when they arrived at a house on U.S. Highway 64, in Raleigh, North Carolina. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories It was Halloween, 1958, when off a dirt road on Skinner Ridge south of Grand Canyon National Park, the skeletal remains of a young girl were found. Her body was nude and it was estimated she had been there nine to fourteen months. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories It was after 1912 that the first houses were built overlooking Benedict Canyon in Beverly Hills. A spacious, Bavarian-style house was constructed at 9820 Easton Drive in 1930 for Paul Bern, an MGM executive. Why grisly death was to become a familiar visitor there remains a mystery. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories When Freda Lesser was murdered in 1919, there was a comparison made to the killing of Freda Ward in 1897, not only because of their name, but because they were slaughtered over love.
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In the winter of 1892, a gruesome murder was committed in public by a young woman, a graduate of the Higbee School for Young Ladies, where butchery was not on their curriculum. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Niagara Falls has been a favorite destination for honeymooners for decades. Like a magnet, it also draws daredevils and those wishing to release themselves from this mortal coil. |
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