The Long Island Serial Killer is among one of the many mysteries of the year 2011, and it's probably safe to say that the case will remain this way for a long time. Authorities in New York just can't seem to figure out what's going on and argue among themselves on whether or not there is a single murderer or more than one. What's more, they claim that Shannan Gilbert died accidentally and wasn't a victim of this alleged predator. Perhaps that's why the woman's family wants the FBI to take over the search for homicide cases of this caliber.
The disappearance (and now death) of Shannan Gilbert is what paved the way to discovering the burial ground belonging to the so-called Long Island Serial Killer. So why is it so easy for law enforcement in New York to rule her death an accident? It's been over a year, so how could they have even determined a real cause so quickly?
To make matter worse, there may be another serial killer on the loose, and this time the hunting grounds are in Detroit. Dubbed the "Backpage Killer," this alleged perp is picking off women who advertise sexual services on the site Backpage.com.
The West Memphis Three: Free at last!
This is one notorious case, and possibly far too powerful to be deemed simply a mystery of 2011. In fact, it will most likely be remembered throughout history for many, many years to come. The West Memphis Three were finally freed this year, even though Damien Echols was on death row, by using a special plea agreement to bargain their freedom. It may not have been a pretty win, but it was a win, nonetheless. Forensic evidence cleared these three gentlemen who are most likely completely innocent of any wrongdoing.
The year 2012 begins tomorrow, and although these cases are mysterious now, they will remain so until they're either solved or simply out of the spotlight forever. That probably won't happen anytime soon, as many mysteries go. Here's to hoping the Long Island Serial Killer is apprehended, and the West Memphis Three can shed the notorious nickname and live their lives as individuals in a new world of freedom.
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Hopefully the killer(s) will be arrested in this case before more victims turn up. Or maybe (s)he has moved on to Detroit. Both Ted Bundy and the DC snipper changed locations. Maybe this unsub has as well.
AND THE UGLY SAD TRUTH IS THAT 2011 HAS BEEN ONE OF THE WORST YEARS FOR THE TERRORISM OF ABDUCTIONS OF MANY GIRLS IN USA, THAT IS THE REAL TERRORISM BEING DONE AGAINST AMERICAN FAMILIES, BY A MAFIA CARTEL LINKED TO THE OLIGARCHIC RULING ELITES THAT ARE ALSO INTO DRUG SMUGGLING, ABDUCTION OF YOUNG WOMEN FOR SEX SLAVERY AND PROSTITUTION !!
AND THE PEOPLE THAT ARE RULING THE USA RIGHT NOW DO NOT CARE ABOUT THAT TERRORISM, BECAUSE I THINK THAT THE MAJORITY OF YOUNG WOMEN BEING ABDUCTED ARE ABDUCTED NOT BY LOCAL CRIMINALS, BUT BY AN ORGANIZED MAFIA CARTEL, THAT STEALS BEAUTIFUL YOUNG FEMALES FROM THEIR FAMILIES TO BE SOLD AS SEX SLAVES IN THE ILLEGAL BLACK MARKETS !!
AND OUR RULERS AND LEADERS ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. ONLY A REVOLUTION CAN SAVE US, WE NEED TO OVERTHROW THE CORRUPT LEADERS THAT ARE RULING THIS COUNTRY AND REPLACE THEM WITH A SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT FOR POOR AMERICANS, NOT A GOVERNMENT FOR JENNIFER LOPEZ, BRAD PITT, DONALD TRUMP, AND CELEBRITIES LIKE THE GOVERNMENT WE HAVE NOW. WHICH IS A PRO-DONALD TRUMP, PRO-CELEBRITY, PRO-ISRAEL, PRO-GOLDMAN SACHS, PRO-BANK OF AMERICA, PRO-RUPERT MURDOCH OLIGARCHIC ZIONIST GOVERNMENT.
THANKS AND HAPPY REVOLUTIONARY 2012 FOR EVERYBODY HERE !!!
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So I think that as long as many cities in America and many states remain as ghost towns, without social events, without love in between members of the society, without collective activites and without meetings between the general population that live in those kinds of cities. And where only concentrate in their own family matters and do not care to strike conversations, affection and love toward single unmarried males. Crimes of serial killers and dangerous rapists will continue !!!
People in USA and even the US government has this mentality that they are entitled to hate and bomb the whole world, and that the whole world doesn't have any right to hate back USA and to attack America. Humans, are just like animals like dogs, if you treate a dog in a good way that dog will love you. But if you treat animals and dogs in a mean abusive way they will become dangerous !!
How crazy, stupid, anti-scientific and irrational many people in America are. You know what many families in America do? that they spend their whole life only caring and worrying about food, their yards, the walls of their houses and boring dead things like that and at the same time neglecting, hating and rejecting their own street neighbors. And then a rejected hated neighbor kills their sons and then they worry about crime and serial killers and out of desperation they vote for pro-cop politicians like New Gingritch and Bush, what a stupid society.
The underlying roots of crimes in USA are the concentration of wealth in a few, the lack of love in most cities of USA, where people hate each other and do not love each other. Where people think that by being angry against their own neighbors, they will get a Napoleon Bonaparte status in the dog eat dog world of the hateful American Society. It is the excess of hatred in America that leads to many crimes. If you want crimes to go down you have to love people. Only love socializing, social skills, and social contact between the members of a city and society can lower crime rates. When single males spend so much time alone, and at the same time are hated by the city in which they live they are very vulnerable to kill people as a form of rebellion and vengeance !!
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Many people believe the WM3 were guilty as charged and they were the ones that committed the crime. They were found guilty by a unanimous jury the first time. They plead guilty instead of waiting for a trial the second time.
Misskelley confessed three separate times, once with his lawyer present. Misskelley also told two other people about the crime before he was arrested. Baldwin told someone else he committed the crimes. Echols was seen in muddy clothes near the crime scene. Echols is reported to have either told or bragged about the crime to four people before he was arrested.
Echols also had a history of psychiatric treatment. His reported actions included brutally killing a dog, starting fires at his school, threatening to kill his teachers and parents and stating he liked to drink blood. http://wm3truth.com
I'm sure you want to believe the boys did it, but they didn't.. ;) This was just a case of the good ole south punishing those who are different and not the actual criminals.
It is not surprising no DNA from the three that plead guilty recently was found. The crime scene was underwater and the bodies were there many hours after the murders were committed. This destroyed most of the evidence.
I hope that readers will look at both sides of the story and draw their own conclusions. http://wm3truth.com
Echols had pretty long hair... and well, the average person loses around 100 hairs a day... there would've been at least one from the beyond simple contact had they been responsible.