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Who killed Cindy James?  The body of 44 year old Cindy James was found outside a home in Richmond, British Columbia on June 8 th , 1989.  Her hands and feet were bound behind her and a black nylon stocking around her neck.  Over several years, she reported over 100 incidents of phone harassment, stalking, and even physical attacks by an unknown assailant.  This all started after divorcing her ex-h...

Point Pleasant, West Virginia – In 1966 and 67, the town had multiple sightings of a man estimated to be 6-7 foot tall with wings that spanned 10 feet and glowing red eyes.  The local newspaper ran the story, capitalizing on the Batman TV show, calling the creature "Mothman".  Thus, the legend of Mothman was born.  The sightings seemed to increase in frequency until December 15, 1967.  On this dat...

In a departure from our more serious episodes, we present a more humorous story. Between the years of 2012 and 2015, a neighborhood in Akron, Ohio was terrorized by what is believed to be one man that was dubbed the "Serial Pooper" and on social media as the "Poop Gangsta".  During these years, cars in this neighborhood were randomly found to have been pooped on.  Sometimes the poop was on the hoo...

When we left off, a search party had descended on the Bender's property but they were no where to be found and there was a foul odor coming from the cabin.  In part 2, we discuss the grizzly findings of the search party that day and the number of graves they were able to locate.  We also look at some of the evidence left behind to say maybe the Benders weren't who they said they were.  We finish p...

October 1870 – Several families moved to rural Labette County, KS as part of the Homestead Act.  One of those families was a German immigrant family known as the Benders.  John, Sr (Pa); Elvira (Ma); John Jr; and Kate.  As their homestead was along the Osage trail for those travelling west, they set up a small store and inn for weary travelers.  Sadly, for some of those travelers it would be their...

December 5, 1945 – Navy Lieutenant Charles Taylor, a highly decorated combat pilot and flight instructor took a group of planes out on a training run south of Florida.  The planes collectively were known as "Flight 19".  The planes were to leave Ft. Lauderdale drop bombs 56 nautical miles out in the ocean then complete a flight pattern returning to Ft. Lauderdale.  Multiple radio communications ar...

While rain in Washington state is certainly not unusual, the rain that fell over Oakville, Washington in 1994 was unusual.  It appeared to be globular blobs about the size of half a grain of rice.  The blobs were first reported by a police officer patrolling as his windshield wipers smeared the globs.  Numerous townspeople reported the blobs in their yard and on buildings.  The concerning part see...

After an unscheduled break due to an acute illness we are back in the saddle with an all new episode.  In December of 1900, the ship, Archtor, was off the coast of the Flannen Isles in Northern Scotland in treacherous waters.  The lighthouse that normally guided them safely was not lit.  After docking at their scheduled landing several days later, they notified the Northern Lighthouse Board.  A sh...

On June 10, 1912, the 6 members of the Moore family and two of their daughters' friends from the Stillinger family were brutally murdered with an axe.  Sadly, because of the interest in this crime in the small town of Villisca, Iowa; the crime scene was so contaminated with people walking through it that evidence was sparce to point to the killer or killers.  At one point, the National Guard from...

Imagine being the captain of the ship, Dei Gratia, sailing in the Atlantic Ocean in December 1872.  Your crew alerts you to a ship nearby that appears to be adrift under partial sail.  You recognize the ship, the Mary Celeste, as the captain is your friend.   Your crew boards the Mary Celeste to find most everything in place, seaworthy, and in working order but the crew, the captain, and his famil...

112 Ocean Ave in Amityville, New York.  A house made famous for causing the Lutz family to flee from it after living there 26 days.  A house made famous in books and movies.  But what is the story behind the story.  While the Lutz's experience may have been traumatic for the DeFeo family, the house was truly that of horror.  On November 13, 1974 Ronald DeFeo, Jr shot his parents and siblings as th...

In July 1954, a well-dressed man presented to an airport in Tokyo for a business meeting.  He presented a well-used passport that raised the suspicion of immigration officials.  The passport was from the country of Taured, a country that he claimed had existed for over a thousand years but when they showed him a map of the world it wasn't in the place that he pointed.  The company he was to meet w...

On August 20, 1966, Manoel Pereira da Cruz and Miguel Jose Viana were found deceased on Vintem Hill outside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  The men were found wearing formal suits, waterproof rain coats, and with crudely cut lead masks covering their eyes (like sunglasses).  Beside their bodies were an empty water bottle, a packet containing two wet towels, and a notebook.  The notebook had various no...

5 young men from Yuba City, affectionately known as "The boys" by their family, went to a basketball game in Chico, California on February 24, 1978.  This was the last anyone would ever see them again.  Their vehicle was found on a mountain road in Plumas National Park, some 70 miles from Chico and not on the road home to Yuba City.  Sadly, 3 of the 5 guys bodies were located in the forest.  The 4...

What exactly happened to Mary Reeser on the morning of July 2, 1951 in her St. Petersburg, FL apartment?  The chair she was sitting in and most of her body was reduced to ash and cinders yet the rest of the apartment was virtually untouched by the flames that had to reach temperatures of 1300 degrees.  Some things in the apartment were melted and there was soot and smoke damage on the walls above...

In the 1980s, 117 Cambodian refugees in the United States woke up startled and screaming out in their sleep and then died.  Though this phenomenon has many names in Southeast Asia, in the US it is known as Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS).   In this episode, we focus on this condition in this refugee population after being driven from their homes from genocide.  We examine the c...

** Trigger Warning - In this episode, we discuss incestous relationships and graphic descriptions of murders of children.  ** On March 31, 1922, The Gruber family was killed on their farm in Bavarian Germany.  The farm was called Hinterkaifeck.  Those murdered include Andreas and his wife Cazilla, their widowed daughter Viktoria and her small children Cazilla and Josef and also their maid Maria wh...

**Trigger Warning - In this episode, we discuss cannibalism and sexual fetishes/perversions.  Listener discretion is advised ** In June 1981, in France, Issei Sagawa fulfills his desire that he's held for 32 years, the desire to consume human flesh.  In doing so, he murders fellow student Renee Hartevelt.  Through a series of legal loopholes transcending several countries, this man remains free to...

In December 1948 on Somerton Beach, Austrailia, an unidentified man was found dead on a beach.  He had no identification and tags were removed from his clothing.  In his fob pocket, was a torn page of a book (rare 12th century Persian poetry) with the words "Tamam Shud" on it.  Translated it means "It is finished" or "It is done".  A code was written in the back of the book, that has still not bee...

On January 27, 1959 eight well trained hikers started an expedition in the Ural mountains in Russia.  After not returning back to civilization when expected, search and rescue teams located their badly damaged tent on February 25, 1959 and then located the bodies of four of the hikers in various stages of undress and odd injuries several hundred meters from the tent.  Over the next few months, the...

On February 19, 1994, Gloria Ramirez presented to a ER in Riverside, California for heart palpitations and had late stages of cervical cancer.  Upon drawing her blood, multiple healthcare workers became ill, passed out, or had effects after being exposed to her blood.  Ultimately, the hospital evacuated the ER and 23 members of the healthcare team became ill and several were admitted to the hospit...

Grigori Rasputin was born in 1869 in Siberia.  During his life, he became known as a healer and then a religious zealot travelling all over Russia performing his work.  His legend grew as large as the tales of his wild sexual escapades.  Once he became the healer and advisor for the tsar and imperial family many people plotted against Rasputin.  Was he a healer or lucky?  Did he participate in wei...

If Grigori Rasputin's life made his famous or infamous, his death would cement him as a legend.  Rasputin was known as the healer that would not die.  This replay episode from JSP is part 2 and focuses more on the circumstances surrounding his death.   On December 30, 1916, other members of the royal family conspired to murder Rasputin.  Legend says that he was poisoned, shot, beaten, left for dea...

In the summer of 1996, Canadian Blair Adams quit his job, closed his bank accounts, and tried desperately to get into the United States for fear that someone was trying to kill him.  After several failed attempts, he finally succeed in getting into the United States where he embarked on a head scratching journey.  He travelled from Vancouver to Seattle by car, then Seattle to DC by plane, and then...

Welcome to Will Continue to Monitor, the podcast that focuses on mysteries, condrums, and oddities in the world and tries to provide explanation through speculation.  Your hosts for this voyage through the macabre are Ben and Tom.  Both are board certified nurse practitioners.  Along with they share a wide variety of experience including emergency room, intensive care unit, trauma director, stroke...