It has been two weeks since 22-year-old Heather Hodges vanished from Franklin County, VA and officials are asking the public to help in the search for her. Tips are needed because it appears that detectives are stumped on this strange case. Would it be at all possible that this case is related to the disappearance of 23-year-old Kelli Bordeaux of the Fort Bragg area? These two disappearances occurred within just days of one another with a difference of just three hours between them. Perhaps that is why criminal profilers want detectives to expand their search area for Bordeaux!
As for the disappearance of Heather Hodges, the petite blonde woman was last seen by her 39-year-old boyfriend around the 9th of April. He claims to have only seen her for a few minutes before leaving. When he returned, she was gone. There aren't many reports of this case in the media headlines, which is upsetting because this is either a cut-and-dry case of foul play caused by a loved one, or a predator is in the area. Both scenarios wouldn't be surprising in the least.
Crime analyst and profiler Chelsea Hoffman can be found on The Huffington Post, Chelsea Hoffman: Case to Case and many other outlets. Follow @TheRealChelseaH on Twitter or click here to contact Chelsea directly.
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People should wake up from their Matrix and realize that crime, evil, robberies, abductions rapes, murders have been going on since the ancient Romans and ancient greeks. But many people in this country live in a sort of mystical world that doesn't exist.
Chelsea: by the way, I am reading a book written by Edgar Allan Poe, it is a book composed of detective criminal stories. I think you would like to check it out. And by the way John Cusack has a new movie about the main stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Here is a link on Amazon where you could get one of his books:
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Stories-Poems-Edgar-Allan/dp/0385074077 And here is a short review about Edgar Allan Poe's writtings:
The horror of being; the darkest depths of man's soul; the deepest fears brought about by darkness: it's all here. This is the work of the original genius of terror. And the most terrifying thing about Poe's stories and poems is that the threat doesn't come from a monster, or a devil, or a murderer: it comes from inside yourself, from your mind and your heart. There's no escaping them. Poe is not, of course a "terror" writer. He's just a writer, and one of the best there has been. His work can not be confined to a "genre". His tales touch horror, but there are some analytical, metaphysical, futurists, and tales of love (strange love, but love).
As correctly pointed out by other reviewers, Poe practically invented the mystery tale in which the detective is an amateur who solves the problem through reason and deduction alone ("The crimes of the Rue Morgue"). A wonderful cryptic and deductive tale is "The golden bug". "The cask of Amontillado" is a masterpiece of cruel vengeance. "The pit and the pendulum" is pure terror, like "The black cat".
The poems have even more variety. You know what the famous ones are: The Raven, The bells, Annabel Lee. Here, the most remarkable characteristics are music and rhythm. "Quoth the raven: nevermore!", and the ringing of the bells, the bells, bells, bells, etc. My personal favorite is Annabel Lee, but there are many other, less known, which are just excellent.
Poe was a troubled man, addicted to drugs and alcohol, who died in a miserable way (some thugs made him drink to use him in an electoral fraud; he died from drunkness on the streets of Baltimore). But his intellect and sensibility (hypersensibility) made him a true genius, a profound connoiseur of the human soul, up and down. His writing is superb and he will remain as a master of literature for centuries to come. In case you have never approached his work, do so now. Choose your favorite couch; wait until everybody is asleep, get yourself a good drink, and travel to the bottom of your own soul.