A.W. Naves
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Writer. Author. Alabamian.
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West Virginia Nursing Assistant Appoints Herself Angel of Death for Eight U.S. Military Veterans
It isn’t uncommon for elderly veterans admitted to a Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital to expire of natural causes, but when a string of men admitted to a VA medical center in Clarksburg, West Virginia, died under odd circumstances, alarm bells began to ring. Despite being in their eighties and nineties, the men were all considered in good enough condition that they were on the verge of being released from the hospital’s care.
By A.W. Naves2 years ago in Criminal
48 Years Later — The Gitchie Manitou State Preserve Murders
On November 17, 1973, a group of five teenagers from Sioux Falls, South Dakota were attacked at Gitchie Manitou State Preserve in Lyon County, Iowa. The four male teens were murdered, and the remaining female teen was kidnapped and raped.
By A.W. Naves2 years ago in Criminal
Held Captive, Drugged, and Trafficked for Sex After Accepting a Freelance Modeling Gig
Frida Farrell was only twenty-one years old when she moved from Sweden to London to train as an actress. She’d not been present in the UK for very long before she found herself in a dreadful predicament.
By A.W. Naves2 years ago in Criminal
Suffocated in a Suitcase — The Horrible Death of Valerie Reyes
Javier Enrique Da Silva Rojas and Valerie Reyes were in a relationship that lasted a mere three months and ended in April 2018. Valerie told friends and family that Da Silva Rojas was just more invested in the relationship than she was and it caused tension between them.
By A.W. Naves2 years ago in Criminal
Vehicle of Missing Student and Partial Remains Found in Creek After 45 Years
On January 27, 1976, Kyle Clinkscales completed his shift at the Moose Club, a bar in LaGrange, Georgia. He went out to his car, intent on making the 35-mile drive from his job in his hometown to Auburn University in Alabama. He never arrived at his destination.
By A.W. Naves2 years ago in Criminal
A Case of Mistaken Identity Leads to 32 Months in Hell for a Homeless Man
Joshua Spriestersbach, now 50 years old, was in a long line waiting for food when he dozed off outside a Honolulu shelter in May 2017. When he was awakened by a police officer, he thought he was being arrested for violating a city ban on sitting or lying on public sidewalks.
By A.W. Naves2 years ago in Criminal
Suzanne Morphew Presumed Dead — Husband Will Stand Trial for Her Murder
Earlier this year, I wrote a story about Colorado mother Suzanne Morphew who went missing while out for a bike ride on Mother’s Day 2020. Since then, it has become all but certain that she was never out for a bike ride and instead, was killed in her own home. Her husband, 53-year-old Barry Morphew, has been charged with murder, tampering with a human body, possession of a dangerous weapon, and attempting to influence a public servant.
By A.W. Naves2 years ago in Criminal
A Trip to Ireland’s Most Haunted Castle
Leap Castle is said to be the most haunted castle in Ireland. It has a long history of conflict and a number of reports from people who claim they had paranormal encounters while visiting there. When I visited several years ago, I went as part of a paranormal research group. I made a point of not looking up the particulars of the castle’s history because I wanted to see if what I saw and heard matched up with what has been previously reported by others without any predispositions.
By A.W. Naves2 years ago in Wander
The Unsolved Murder of Bonny Lee Bakley
Bonny Lee Bakley was fatally shot while sitting in a parked car outside a Los Angeles restaurant in May 2001. While an unsolved murder alone would be enough to garner interest in her case, the fact that she was married to Robert Blake, best known as a child actor in The Little Rascals and for his later crime drama, Baretta, was enough to create even more interest in the case. She was Blake’s second wife and he was her tenth husband. It was his car she happened to be sitting in when she was murdered.
By A.W. Naves2 years ago in Criminal
The Unsolved Murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers
Mary Cecilia Rogers was known as a great beauty. She worked in a New York tobacco store where she turned the heads of many prominent men. When her body was found in the Hudson River on July 28, 1841, it was assumed that she had been the victim of gang violence. However, a witness claimed that she had been dumped there after a failed abortion attempt. A note written by her boyfriend before his suicide suggests that he might have been involved in her demise. After all of these years, her death continues to be unexplained.
By A.W. Naves2 years ago in FYI
The Unsolved Murder of Venus Xtravaganza
On a cold Christmas Day in 1988, the body of a young transgender woman was found strangled and stuffed under a bed in New York's Duchess Hotel. A medical examiner would later determine that her body had been there for about four days before being discovered. There are few details of her case available beyond this due to its continued active status.
By A.W. Naves2 years ago in Criminal