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123: Cryptic: Chuck Morgan Apr 16, 2020

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A man goes missing, and three days later comes back home, knocking on the door in the middle of the night. He can't talk, and says he was kidnapped. Then, just a few months later, he goes missing again, only to be found dead. It's ruled a suicide, but no fingerprints were found on the gun used to kill him. What happened to Chuck Morgan?
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Music by:
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"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Charles_Morgan
https://medium.com/true-crime-by-cat-leigh/man-goes-missing-twice-his-body-is-then-found-in-the-desert-bd959260e5b
https://unsolved.com/gallery/chuck-morgan/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/unsolved-murder-cases/6
https://www.truecrimezone.com/mysterious-deaths/charles-chuck-morgan/
https://tucson.com/news/local/crime/cold-case-strange-evidence-found-in-on-near-man-s/article_e84a1034-c078-5a43-81a1-e602f52eda02.html

122: Cryptic: The Somerton Man, aka Tamam Shud Apr 07, 2020

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A man is found dead on the beach dressed nicely in a suit. The best guess is that he was killed with some sort of untraceable poison. One of the few clues was a rolled up piece of paper found in a makeshift pocket that said "Tamam Shud", which means "It Is Ended". His case has baffled Australians for decades.
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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
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Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-body-on-somerton-beach-50795611/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-01/will-the-mystery-of-the-somerton-man-ever-be-solved/10420794
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7573831/Notorious-murder-mystery-one-step-closer-solved-Somerton-Man-exhumed.html
https://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/wiki/index.php/List_of_facts_on_the_Taman_Shud_Case_that_are_often_misreported
https://www.enotes.com/topics/rubaiyat-omar-khayyam
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/dec/29/poem-week-edward-fitzgerald
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/is-british-seamans-identity-card-clue-to-solving-63-year-old-beach-body-mystery/news-story/b0f696e3e2a3d82a88cb5d1788f17f25

121: Cryptic: Georgette Bauerdorf Mar 31, 2020

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The murder of Georgette Bauerdorf is believed by many to be somehow linked to the murder of the Black Dahlia. Georgette was a 20 year old heiress living in L.A. when she was murdered in her own apartment, with a bandage shoved down her throat and placed face down in her tub.
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Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
http://www.georgettebauerdorf.com/
https://www.unsolvedcasebook.com/georgette-bauerdorf/
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19441013&id=5uU-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=E00MAAAAIBAJ&pg=6514,4156220
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19441013&id=xZExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yU4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=7017,6546525
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19441016&id=6ZMtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gp0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4814,1555142

120: Cryptic: American Dyatlov Pass, aka The Yuba City Five Mar 23, 2020

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Five men attend a basketball game together, only to never be seen again. Later, their car is found abandoned two and a half hours away from where they should have been. Even later, four out of the five men are found dead, when they should have been able to survive. What happened?
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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Yuba-City-Five-s-fate-still-haunts-more-than-40-13939352.php
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article226544615.html
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/532063/bizarre-hell-disappearance-yuba-county-five
https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/2017/12/7/mathias-group-from-yuba-city
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuba_County_Five
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/3509dmca.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/07/06/5-boys-who-never-come-back/f8b30b11-baeb-4351-89f3-26456a76a4fb/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180217142025/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/164905145/

119: Cryptic: Isidor Fink, Locked Room Mystery Mar 19, 2020

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It sounds like something out of a crime novel, and often times, stores such as these are. But the murder of Isador Fink was very real. His neighbor heard screams and called the police, but no one could get inside. After sending a small boy through a tiny window, they finally got in. There was no murder weapon which meant it wasn't a suicide, no other fingerprints, no money taken, and several locks locked from the inside. Who could have committed a seemingly impossible crime?
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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
https://www.historicmysteries.com/isidor-fink/
https://journal.com.ph/editorial/mysteries/perfect-murder-impossible-death-isidor-fink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-room_mystery
https://the-line-up.com/isidor-fink
https://www.nytimes.com/paidpost/facebookwatch/limetown-fink.html
“The Warden Speaks” - The Times (San Mateo California) - Dec 3, 1938
Cover photo is the address as it looks today.

118: Cryptic: The Eilean Mor Lighthouse Mar 17, 2020

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A boat arrives to the Eilean Mor island to swap shifts with the lighthouse keepers. When the relief crew arrived, the current keepers couldn't be found anywhere. The scene in the lighthouse struck them as odd, but nothing led to anything that explained what happened to the three men.
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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.
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Sources:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70180/115-year-old-mystery-flannan-lighthouses-missing-keepers
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Eilean-Mor-Lighthouse-Mystery/
https://www.sundaypost.com/news/scottish-news/has-mystery-of-flannan-isles-finally-been-solved/
https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/behind-the-scenes/blog/flannan-isle-mystery
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/vanishing-happened-flannan-isles-lighthouse-real-mystery-behind/
Book – The Lighthouse The mystery of the Eilean Mor Lighthouse Keepers by Keith McCloskey

117: Cryptic: The Murder in Room 1046 Mar 04, 2020

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A man is found in his hotel room naked, bound, and stabbed, yet barely still alive. Everything was taken, including the toiletries provided by the hotel. After telling the police that no one did this to him, he dies. Authorities quickly learn that he's not who he said he was, but the circumstances around his death don't add up. To add to the confusion, a series of anonymous phone calls and letters are received, which provided more questions than answers.
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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.
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Sources:
“The Mystery Sealed in Room 1046” - The San Francisco Examiner - Jan 3, 1943
https://allthatsinteresting.com/room-1046-murder-roland-t-owen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Artemus_Ogletree
https://www.historicmysteries.com/roland-t-owen-murder-room-1046/
https://www.al.com/news/erry-2018/09/56ecbe55ac9479/the-mystery-of-what-was-in-the.html
https://www.britannica.com/science/sulfuric-acid
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1938/01/08/the-homicide-squad-in-action
https://kchistory.org/blog/mystery-room-1046-pt-2-love-forever-louise
https://web.archive.org/web/20120321030654/https://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/mystery-room-1046-pt-1-roland-t-owen

116: Cryptic: Richard Lancelyn Green Feb 26, 2020

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NEW SERIES TIME! In the first episode of our Cryptic series, we have a story so perplexing, Sherlock Holmes himself couldn't have cracked it. Or, could he? Was it actually set up to BE a Sherlock Holmes Story?
Richard Lancelyn Green was the fan of all Sherlock and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fans. He was working on writing the most extensive biography on the author, when he was found dead in his home. Initially, it was ruled a suicide, but the closer they looked... it may not have been elementary, my dear Watson.
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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
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Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/12/13/mysterious-circumstances
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1478814/Case-of-the-Sherlock-Holmes-fanatic-who-killed-himself-but-made-it-look-like-murder.html
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/may/23/books.booksnews
http://www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk/news/death.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lancelyn_Green

115: A Woman Scorned: Judith and Alvin Neelley, Part 2 Feb 18, 2020

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We're back with the rest of the story of Judith and Alvin Neelley. When we left off last week, the two had just been arrested for check forgery and Janice Chatman was still missing. We pick up with the interrogation, then move into the legal dealings, and also debate our own thoughts and feelings on this brutal case.
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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.
Transition Music by:
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Scarytino.com
Sources:
"Early Graves: A True Story of Murder and Passion" by Thomas H. Cook
"Would Kill to Flee Alvin Neelley's Wrath, First Wife Testifies" by Bob Dunnavant - The Tennessean - March 15, 1983
"Didn't Dare Cross Mate, Neelley Said" by Bob Dunnavant - The Tennessean - March 17, 1983
"Attorney: Judith Neelley Wants Divorce" by United Press International - The Tennessean - April 5, 1983
"Decision to Spare Killers Life Enrages Victim's Family" - Pensacola News Journal - January 27, 1999
"Retrial Sought for Killer Judy Neelley" by Gayle White - The Atlanta Constitution - September 8, 1987
"Killer a danger, ex spouse says" - The Montgomery Adviser - February 22, 1999
"9 Killings in Georgia, Alabama are linked" by Chuck Bell - the Atlanta Constitution - October 22, 1982
"Agent says Mrs. Neelley liked to kill" - The Montgomery Adviser - March 13, 1983
https://www.al.com/news/2018/05/judith_ann_neelleys_parole_hea.html
https://www.rocketcitynow.com/local-news/victim-of-judith-ann-neelley-shares-his-story-ahead-of-parole-hearing/

114: A Woman Scorned: Judith and Alvin Neelley, Part 1 Feb 10, 2020

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Okay y'all, you've likely heard this story before... by us. But we're revisiting it because we've learned so much more about it since two and a half years ago. We're bringing a more raw and in-depth version of the murders of Lisa Ann Millican and Janice Kay Chatman, at the hands of Judith and Alvin Neelley. Judith and Alvin are an unconventional couple who married when Judith was a teenager and Alvin was in his late 20s. They went on to commit a series of crimes including armed robbery and check forgery, that eventually escalated to murder.
To access earlier episodes of Corpus Delicti and to help support the show, please visit patreon.com/corpusdelicti
Our merch store can be found at corpusdelicti.threadless.com
Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.
Transition Music by:
Nick Scarantino
Scarytino.com
Sources:
"Early Graves - A true story of murder and passion" by Thomas H. Cook, 1990
"Rutherford's Neelley - from Cheerleader to Crime" by Bob Dunnavant, The Tennessean - March 16, 1983
https://murderpedia.org/female.N/n/neelley-judith.htm
https://the-line-up.com/teen-bride-turned-serial-killer-judith-neelley-case
https://www.al.com/news/2018/05/judith_ann_neelleys_parole_hea.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_and_Judith_Neelley

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