Cannibalistic teen found eating dead man’s face had issues with mental illness

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8 year old girl found tortured and murdered

8 year old girl found tortured and murdered

Malaysia

8 year old Nurin Jazlin’s body was found by a shop owner, naked, stuffed into a gym bag in the fetal position. She had been dead for over 6 hours before she was found.

A cucumber and brinjal (eggplant) were found stuffed inside of her which caused her rectum to rupture. A bacterial infection contributed to her death but ultimately her small body just could not take any more.

Nurin had gone to a wet market near her house in Section 1, Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur to buy a hair clip on the night of August 20,  2007. A wet market is a market that sells fresh meat and produce.

Nurin’s badly tortured body was found 26 days after she went missing.

Nurin’s parents did not initially identify the body of their daughter because of the changes the torture and death had caused to her physical appearance. Because her parents did not initially identify her the authorities thought that the child might have been a foreigner because she did not appear to have a scar that all children in Malaysia typically have. The scar would have been caused by the country's mandatory vaccine to ward off tuberculosis.

That left Nurin’s parent’s to hope that their daughter was still alive however, after a DNA test was given the results confirmed that the dead child was in in fact Nurin Jazlin.

Back in 2007, the murder of Nurin was considered one of the most horrific murders in Malaysian history because the child had endured cruel and horrific acts of sexual torture. This killer wasn’t turned on so much by the the fact that Nurin was a child, it had more to do with the fact that she was helpless, she was unable to stop the torture.

The killer derived great pleasure through Nurin’s pain, if she cried or screamed, struggled, it gave this killer the pleasure he sought until she died.

On September 28th of that year federal agents descended upon a shop which they subsequently raided in Section 7, Shah Alam. They ended up arresting 4 men and 1 woman in connection with Nurin’s murder.

The woman was released immediately after questioning, but the men remained in police custody for a total of 7 days. They were eventually released because the police never had anything they could use to tie them to Nurin’s murder.

The police thought they had a break in the case on October 2nd after having arrested an Indonesian woman at a market in Nilai, Negeri Sembilan because when they confronted her she tried to swallow a SIM card she had with her. But the woman was set free and whatever was on the SIM card was lost.

The police had CCTV footage of the area where the gym bag with Nurin’s body had been found. They sent the footage to the FBI to enhance it and try to identify a suspect. They saw footage of a motorcyclist on September 16th around 1pm carrying a gym bag, presumably the same bag Nurin was found in. The rider left the bag in the exact same shop lot Nurin was found in.

What was odd however, is that investigators also saw footage from an hour later which showed a woman who seemed to be loitering around the the same lot, she was picked up by 3 men.

The enhanced footage still failed to reveal the face of the rider and his license plates.

The case has never been solved. During the 26 days she was missing, Nurin suffered insurmountable acts of sexual torture.

This is one of the most disturbing types of killers because you could be friends with an individual like this. They are charming, nice, they can hold down a job, they might be very attractive, they are intelligent. The point is, someone like this has desires so dark, they don’t normally share them with others, not even the slightest hint of those dark desires. So you would never know it.

But perhaps even more disturbing than merely being friends with an individual such as the the one who tortured and killed little Nurin is that, there is a market for this type of sexual torture against a child. A market that is also quite lucrative.

Children are taken and sought out for acts of sexual torture and some of those acts are so horrendous that the child dies which makes the video worth even more. Some in this world like that, they get off on it and so the market is a lucrative one.

More than likely, Nurin was abducted by an individual who was part of a bigger group. A group that makes video’s of children being sexually abused and tortured. Somewhere, there is a video of this little girl’s abuse and subsequent death.

It’s no wonder that investigators did not solve this case. Cases like this are at best difficult to crack, particularly if her abductor is part of a larger group.

What we do know is that this child endured some pretty severe sexual torture and someone recorded video of her torture and death.

Cristal M Clark

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The Bennett Family Murders ~ Aurora, Colorado ~ January 16, 1984

 The Bennett family was your average middle class family living the American dream.

Bruce Bennett ~ 27 ~ Found Murdered January 16, 1984

Debra Bennett ~ 26 ~ Found Murdered, Sexually Assaulted January 16, 1984

Melissa Bennett ~7 ~ Found Murdered, Sexually Assaulted January 16, 1984

Vanessa Bennett ~ 3 ~ Found Alive, Jaw Crushed, Severly Beaten About the Face

Bruce worked at the family-owned furniture store and was also taking classes to become an air traffic controller. The family overall lead a very quiet and peaceful life. Just your average everyday normal family. Not one part of this family's life would indicate such a violent predator was going to kill them. Seemingly, nothing they did showed investigators any reason someone would want to kill them.

The night of the crime:

Bruce Bennett tried to climb the staircase several times in an attempt to ward off the perpetrator and save his young family. The killer pummeled and sexually assaulted his 26-year-old wife, Debra, and 7-year-old daughter, Melissa. He also shattered the face of Bruce Bennett’s 3-year-old daughter, Vanessa.

Even though Vanessa’s jaw was crushed, sending jagged bones into her windpipe, she survived after her grandmother, Constance Bennett, checked on the family later that morning when they didn’t show up to work at a family-owned furniture store.

Bruce had been attacked with a knife and hit in the head several times with a hammer or blunt object.

The family was discovered by Constance Bennett who has since raised little Vanessa.

The Attack happened between midnight and 6 a.m. on Jan. 16, 1984. The police after searching the home believe that the intruder brought his own weapon, a hammer or some other type of blunt object yet, he took a knife from the kitchen which is what he used to slash and cut Bruce with. The perpetrator left with both weapons.

“It was a blitz attack for no reason,” said Marvin Brandt, who investigated the case as a homicide detective between 1984 and when he retired from the Aurora Police Department in 2002.

Investigators have been quoted as saying this was a random crime, vicious and random. No other motive like robbery could be found as the only items missing were the knife used to cut Bruce and Debra's purse, yet the contents of the purse were strewn in the front yard.

There was no sign of forced entry into the home, some articles you come across say that the killer entered through an unlocked garage door.  

After investigating, the police found similarities between the attack at the Bennett home and nearby random attacks that happened days earlier along the Highline Canal and Alameda Avenue corridor.

~ Jan. 4, 1984, a man snuck into an Aurora home and used a hammer to beat James and Kimberly Haubenschild. James Haubenschild suffered a fractured skull, and his wife had a concussion. Both survived.

~The very same day, a man using a hammer attacked flight attendant Donna Dixon in the garage of her Aurora home, leaving her in a coma. Dixon survived.

~Then on Jan. 10, 1984, someone used a hammer to strike 50-year-old Patricia Louise Smith several times in the head in her Lakewood home thus killing her sometime between 3pm and 5pm. She was also sexually assaulted and the intruder left a small hammer near her body.

In June 2002, former Arapahoe County Colorado, District Attorney Jim Peters obtained a John Doe arrest warrant in the Bennett killings based on the DNA. He then proceeded to charge John Doe with 18 counts, including three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of sexual assault, first-degree assault and two counts of sexual assault on a child and burglary.

DNA at both the Bennett crime Scene and the Smith crime scene were matched to the same killer in 2010. The prints taken from the Bennett crime scene were fuzzy and not usable, the concrete floor they took that had a footprint would be unusable at this point.

The investigators looked at everything from construction workers in the area's around the attacks because at the time a lot of construction was happening, they looked at the fact that the attacks happened around the holiday's so maybe that was a trigger for this killer, even looked at the possibility that the killer was in some sort of drug fueled rage. They also looked across state lines looking for similar or like crimes and to date, they have not one suspect.

Here's what we see:

This killer is indiscriminate in terms of who he kills, attacks or rapes. The rapes are secondary crimes.  This man’s only motive was to inflict as much pain as possible and kill his victims. The rapes were opportunities and only that. He either got turned on by the prospect of killing or used the rapes as a way to cover up the true motive which was to murder.

This killer strikes with such violence that it is difficult to understand, see or know of a possible motive. While everyone is looking for a motive it was always looking right back at investigators. This killers only motive was to kill. It's nothing more or less than that. He didn't hate his victims and quite frankly he didn't know any of them personally, he just wanted to kill. That is what drove him into such an uncontrollable frenzy so fast and that is precisely what stopped the attacks so fast. He fed the need.

We often times want answers that fit into a box and I am sorry to say in this case we will not get them.

He picked all of his victims for a reason, something about them attracted him to them, they all had one common denominator that drew him to those specific individuals. It could be the store they all shopped in, the road that they all traveled daily to and from work, school, library they attended etc. The victims may not have ever known one another but the killer found them somehow, it was not random although it appears that way. Murders at this level are not just random. There’s no such thing as coincidence. Coincidence is just an illusion that we all tell ourselves myself included, when we are unable to explain how something actually came to be. Killing on this level requires some level of planning on the part of the perpetrator.

The fact that the murders took place between Highline Canal and the Alameda Corridor is curious, in fact, I am drawn to this fact about the case more so than any other fact. By far, easier prey lay in wait just north which would be Colfax Ave and at the time might not have hit the news like the murder of the Bennett family did had the crime occurred in a neighborhood more near Colfax.

Investigators believed the killer's attacks escalated from just beating someone with a hammer to actually murdering them. I don’t believe that. The killer was practicing, he was unsure of himself and he was unsure of the weapon he would eventually use.  

You see it in the last known crime that the killer committed. He knew he was going to kill the family, Father, Mother and Children, so he clearly wasn’t afraid to go after a man and thought he would be able to easily kill a man. HE had to get knife in addition to the hammer just to ward off Bruce who was trying to protect his family.  

I also believe this is the killer's first stint at killing humans he most likely as with most serial killers did in fact kill animals earlier in life.

This killer is more the type that would self medicate more than likely be a heavy drinker as opposed to taking medication.  He is more introverted when he is sober and an extrovert when he isn’t. But he isn’t going to talk about this crime to just a friend or bar mate. He may have been in the system at some point but it is difficult to determine whether it would have been on felony charges or misdemeanor. 

Currently all 50 states have to collect DNA for certain types of Felony crimes and submit it to CODIS. The Military also submits DNA for specific types of crimes committed by it's members. But some states were slow to add DNA to CODIS and the Damn ACLU had to butt it's nose into it and doesn't like how some states collect DNA beyond certain felony charges or convictions.  

The killer also may have completely changed his MO from victim type to weapon used, to less grisly murdering, became better at leaving no DNA behind... Because he committed the murders in Colorado during his learning phase if you will it is difficult to determine what he went on to be if anything.

He could have found other ways to feed the need...

Which is why a more beneficial profile from the onset is more important in fact, it's critical. Never profile someone using the box as your guide. This is a harsh, cold fact profilers must learn if they are to more accurately profile.

He thought about murder for a long time, he daydreamed about it and more than likely attempted several times prior to these specific attacks to commit murder but for whatever reason didn’t go through with it or was unable to because his victim fought him off, fear of being seen or heard etc. It’s also safe to assume that up until the Bennett murders his weapon of choice was a blunt object, after those murders he quite possibly changed the weapon of choice if he had that overwhelming urge to kill again.

What we do know is that he likes the level of violence a blunt object signifies. It’s bloody, painful for the victim and brutal. He finds his release from the level of pain he inflicts on the victim, the level of violence he is able to achieve. A typical way one would see this is that he likes control, that is wrong. It is deeper than that.

He likes that violent way of killing so going from a hammer to a gun would be a jump for this killer and simply would not be the first choice for him.  

These crimes in Colorado are this killers first stages at killing a human. That is very clear.

The investigators and the CBI were safe to guess that it might have been a construction worker that had been working in the area. One thing that hasn’t been said would be that during the winter in Colorado construction slows and sometimes between Jan-March it slows to a crawl, a lot of guys get laid off or work inconsistently during the week. They do value daylight hours and work them whenever they can during the winter months. During the winter in Colorado it’s difficult to find a construction crew working well into the night. They are more likely to begin work before sunup rather than stay much after sundown.

Here are the days of the week the alleged killer struck each victim (s)

January 4th 1984 was on a Wednesday

January 10th 1984 was on a Tuesday

January 16th 1984 was on a Monday

If it were me, I would explore other possibilities in terms of profiling my suspect here, explore past just some guy who was currently working construction in the area or druggies who killed in a drug fueled rage.  Did you know that one of the most popular places to rob are construction sites? Thieves like to hit them for the tools the guys leave at the sites overnight.

I would re-profile the killer, re-examine the details of each victim’s daily life, re-examine the suspect pool, re-examine the crime scenes without any emotion whatsoever. See them as the killer did, see the victims as the killer did at that moment. Determine the level of organization/disorganization of each crime scene. Expand the list of suspects because on this case it was always bigger than investigators thought it was and the killer was always the least obvious or least likely to stand out.  

Look at the area, the artery that the crimes were committed along. For some reason the killer had to or wanted to be near this artery more so than the major arteries through and around Denver at that time. Whatever the case, this person was in and around this area for at least the first part of January and most likely stayed in the area during that time.

I would tear everything down and start over with the evidence, the crime scene and so on.

This guy is not going to be easy to find because he can easily change his MO and would change it if need be. He also isn’t killing with this level of violence often enough to track. Taking a good long hard look at the evidence again and compare it to someone who was in and/or around that artery in Denver at the time would help to narrow the suspect list or in this case open it up. I would not limit the list to any type of profession or lack of any type of profession until suspects can be eliminated.  Figuring out anyone who was laid off or working less hours on a construction site back then, if the list doesn’t exist right now may be difficult at best. If the list does exist it’s worth a look at as well as look at reports of crimes at the local job sites involving missing tools. It would also be a really good idea to look at troubled or violent teens in the area. This killer was not over 25 at the time of the murders.  

Quite frankly if the suspect wasn’t on the original list, spoken to or even noticed in this case it may come down to just DNA unless police have enough evidence and suspect info they can rework the case from scratch.

Often times a profiler will come up with a profile that fits into a box, the box was made from materials that were provided by profiles obtained from past criminals who committed similar crimes, which is a really great place to start. Add some text book, some psychological profiling and presto, they have a profile. Sometimes it works, sometimes it’s sort of right, sometimes not even close. Profiling like that is a great place to start, yet it can also mean that it’s a great place to leave a crime long enough that it goes cold. The suspect list shrinks or worse, the profile was so off an accurate suspect list from the get go is of no help and never will be.

Sometimes to get a more clear picture of the criminal, one must see him or her as a human being, see him or her as they truly are, feel what they feel, know what they know, feel the wants, needs and desires of that person. Most importantly take the need to judge them and all of your own emotions and personal beliefs out of the picture. Don't profile by LOOKING AT the behavior in an attempt to find clues to his or her psychology in an effort to aid in capturing a criminal. If you are just simply looking at it, you miss the most critical and important clues. 

Cristal

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The Disappearance of Tara Calico

The Disappearance of Tara Calico:

On September 20, 1988, Belen, New Mexico Calico left her home at about 9:30 in the morning to go on her customary bike ride. She told her mother, Patty Doel, to come and get her if she was not home by noon. Doel went searching for her daughter along her usual bike route, but could not find her and contacted the police. Pieces of her Sony Walkman and a cassette tape were discovered along the route and Doel believed that Calico might have dropped them in an attempt to mark her trail. Several people saw Calico riding her bicycle, which has never been found. No one witnessed her presumed abduction, although several witnesses observed a 1953 or 1954 Ford pickup following her. It is not known if this vehicle was connected to her disappearance. All efforts to locate the pickup have failed.

The Polaroid:

On June 15, 1989, a Polaroid photo of an unidentified young woman and a boy, both gagged and seemingly bound, was found in the parking lot of a convenience store in Port St. Joe, Florida. It was theorized that the woman in the photo was Calico and that the boy was Michael Henley, also of New Mexico, who had disappeared in April 1988. According to investigators, the picture had to have been taken after May 1989 because the particular film used in the photograph was not available until then. Despite much conjecture, the identification of the boy in the photograph as Henley seems unlikely because his remains were discovered in 1990 in the Zuni Mountains, about 7 miles from his family's campsite where he had disappeared, and 75 miles from where Calico disappeared. Police believe that Henley wandered off and died of exposure. The woman who found that photo said that it was found in the parking space of where a white windowless Toyota cargo van driven by a man with a mustache believed to be in his 30s was parking when she arrived at the store; however, the man was never caught nor brought to interrogation.

Calico's mother believed the woman in the photo was indeed her daughter due in part to what appeared to be a scar on the woman's leg, similar to one Calico had received in a car accident. In addition, a paperback copy of V.C. Andrews' My Sweet Audrina, said to be one of Calico's favorite books, can be seen lying next to the woman. Scotland Yard analysed the photo and concluded that the woman was Calico, but a second analysis by the Los Alamos National Laboratory disagreed. An FBI analysis of the photo was inconclusive.

The Psychic:

Twenty years after the Polaroid photo from the Port St. Joe parking lot was found and shared by the media, pictures of a boy not confirmed to be the one in the photo were sent to the Port St. Joe police chief, David Barnes. He received two letters, postmarked June 10 and Aug. 10, 2009, from Albuquerque, N.M. One letter contained a photo, printed on copy paper, of a young boy with sandy brown hair. Someone had drawn a black band in ink on the photo, over the boy's mouth, as if it were covered in tape as in the 1989 picture. The second letter contained an original image of the boy. On Aug. 12, The Star newspaper in Port St. Joe received a third letter, also postmarked in Albuquerque on Aug. 10 and depicting the same image, of a boy with black marker drawn over his mouth. None of the letters contained a return address or a note indicating the child's identity, making the officials there believe it may have something to do with the disappearance of Tara Calico. The letters were sent the same time a self-proclaimed psychic woman called about her, saying she have met a runaway in California with whom she worked in a strip club; this girl was eventually murdered. The caller said she had dreams suggesting the runaway may have been Calico and that she may be buried in California (searches led to nothing). The photos were given to the FBI for further investigation in hope of finding fingerprints or possible DNA evidence.

Sheriff Rivera:

Twenty years after her disappearance, Rene Rivera, sheriff of Valencia County, claimed that he knew what had happened to Calico. According to Rivera, boys who knew her drove up behind her in a truck and some form of car accident followed. Calico later died and those responsible covered up the crime. Rivera states he knows the names of those involved, but that, without a body, he cannot make a case. He has not released whatever evidence has led him to this conclusion. No arrests have been made and the case remains open. Calico's stepfather, John Doel, has disputed these claims, saying that the sheriff should not have made these comments if he was not willing to arrest anyone and that strong circumstantial evidence should be enough for a conviction.

Findings:

Let's start with the Polaroid. I really do understand why it would be that Tara's mother believed the young girl in this photo was her daughter. If I were her mother, I would as well. I would believe it and see it simply because it's both what I want to see and believe. It's a way that we as human beings hold on to hope.

The fact is the young girl in this picture is not Tara Calico. Most likely this picture was some sort of joke and it has nothing what so ever to do with Tara Calico.

Clearly both individuals in this picture do not look despite what some choose to see, terrified. The boy has a similar look on his face as my son did as a young boy when I was making him clean up after himself. It's a forced look of being hurt or upset.

The young girl looks annoyed more than anything.

The scar Tara's mother saw could simply be a blemish in the film or a bruise. When I enlarge the photo it does not appear to be a scar at all. It really does look like a blemish in the film itself.

The VC Andrews book? Well here is a sad truth and I can't believe even I admit to reading them, back in the 80's you'd be really hard pressed to find any young girl who didn't read every single one of them and have one as her favorite book ever. If only our parents knew what those books were about...The book in and of itself is not even a coincidence because it was something just about every girl back in that time frame had as part of her book collection.

The witness who found the picture strikes me as pretty darn odd. First, who the hell remembers in vivid detail the car we parked next to, then remember it's occupant when we are running into the store?

Here's why I do not buy her story, she had a really vivid description of a white windowless Toyota cargo van, with a man in his 30's with a mustache. Despite the police setting up roadblocks and checkpoints they never found this vehicle or it's occupant. What'd he do drive it into the ocean?

None of that means the witness lied. I believe wholeheartedly that she did in fact find that photo, but not in the way she reported it to police.

We as human beings have this creative way of seeing something the way we want to if we have trouble with processing what it is that we are really looking at or hearing. So what that means is that while yes the woman did in fact find the photo, her brain was struggling to comprehend not only what she was seeing but how it got to that location at that point in time. Part of her story is based off the deep seeded belief she had about windowless cargo vans and the men who drive them. I don't believe she found that photo the exact way she reported it. She found it and wanted to be helpful, the rest of her story sort of falls off of a cliff after that.

Last but not least, the girl in the photo is younger than Tara is in some of Tara's last photo's. It's simply not possible that these are the same two individuals.

The psychic:

I don't feel the need to address what this person said as it has not one shred of credibility.

Sheriff Rivera:

I like this part of this case the most because Sheriff Rivera was actually on to something. While I don't agree with how he presented it he actually provided the most accurate account of what did in fact happen to Tara Calico. .

It was widely reported that Sheriff Rivera had some sort of informant that disclosed to him about some boys driving up behind Tara and hitting her with the truck they were driving. The only problem with this is that he didn't have an informant at all.

I believe Sheriff Rivera came up with the informant part of his story so that it would give it more credibility because after all he wasn't going to name anyone...he admitted to the media that he had known for years who killed her, he had enough evidence to get arrest warrants but never did because he had no body? Really?

Despite the fact that I find parts of his story ridiculous he is correct in part of what he says.

She was killed by individuals that were local, in fact she knew her killers. The manner in which she died however was not some sort of car accident, she was beaten to death. Whether or not someone thought she was going to die and then beat her as he panicked, I don't know. What I do know is that if you were to put the pictures of the suspects in front of me from that era I could point out the responsible individual. I believe the individual also sustained some sort of injury to his hand through the course of Tara's murder. Note it's not "individuals" that were responsible for her death, although I do believe more than one individual helped cover it up.

It is also well known that Sheriff Rivera was not well liked in fact many in his very own community believe him to be untrustworthy. The fact remains however, he was one of the only people who claimed to have known what happened to Tara Calico who happened to be pretty darn close to right.

Closing:

It's never to late to open up and say something about this case, it's also never to late for Sheriff Rivera to actually provide real information in an effort to substantiate his claims. I can substantiate mine because I am an empath and see it for what it is and how it happened (not to be confused with someone who is a psychic). At this point as of today Tara has been missing for 27 years and 6 days isn't it time the truth were finally told so she could be heard?

Cristal M Clark

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Sources:

Wikipedia of course then:

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Links:

• Case File 257DFNM, The Doe Network
• Tara Leigh Calico, The Charley Project
• Vanished: The Tara Calico Story, documentary by a friend of Calico (Vanished: The Tara Calico Story at the Internet Movie Database)
• Gutierrez Krueger, Joline (June 8, 2006). "Patty Doel waited for Tara until the day she died". Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, New Mexico). Archived from the originalon March 7, 2008. Retrieved 12 September 2014.