Murder Call

Weep, Weep no more … [1] The Black Dahlia Mystery Murder.   The murder of Elizabeth Short shocked the nation, the police, the system of justice. The circumstances of the murder and the motives are till nowadays unknown. Elizabeth Short grew up in Medford, Boston, Massachusetts. Her father, Cleo Short, lost all his money in 1926, during the great depression he was believed he committed suicide (rumors appeared to be fake, he was found in California). Elizabeth Short’s relationship with her father whom she found in California was rough, filled with rows and argumentation. She escaped to Santa Barbara couple of times, in her early youth she moderately drank alcohol, not to excess, though. She changed works like one changes gloves, she has never had a steady job. It is still a great mystery how she earned for a living, what was checked and acknowledged, she has never been a prostitute.  She was found dead in one of the borou...

His mysterious death was supposed to be silent and left behind, in contrary, it caused mayhem and upheavals shortly after it occurred. His noble background opened him the gate to British Parliament, He was very-well educated, he attended to Westminster School, graduated Christ Church, Oxford. In September 1666 he received a knighthood. Despite of being Protestant he had a significant number of his Catholic counterparts, including the Duke of York, the future king James II. Unfortunately not every alley he made was a good one, he was pronounced a member of so-called ‘Peyton Gang’ which was closely associated with Green Ribbon Club. The Club’s members wanted to force the king Charles II to turn to Catholicism and abandon Protestantism. Efforts were futile. The plot was simple, meant to shake off the kingdom and set up the republic, what could be simpler?  - Failure, perhaps. Richard Cromwell unsuccessfully prepared the details. He was crushed by the gove...

Suffolk , England , 31 st of May 1902. Rose Harsent was murdered. She was a servant girl. Her murder happened at midnight during the stormy and violent night, it was painful and long-lasting demise, Rosie has been stabbed to death. Surprisingly to everyone, she was six-month pregnant. The suicide was presumed at first, however, shortly after the idea was dismissed. It was believed that the affair with local Methodist Preacher William Gardinger and the relationship inconsistencies led to the murder.  The motive must have been – pregnancy, obviously. The Preacher had already had wife and six children, the family lived just across the street by the house Rosie has been murdered. His trial was restarted twice, eventually, the allegations were sustained, and the court cases acquitted.  Gardinger was let free without chargers, he died in 1941, his closest friends believed it was not him, but, his jealous wife who murdered Rose.

The mysterious murders were always on an agenda, I will go a couple centuries back and recall everyone the character of Mary Rogers. She was born in 1820, she was found dead in 1841. Her disappearance and death was a shock to a nation. For a local community it was a hit. Shortly after she became a quite an inspirational figure, the most of all for Edgar Allan Poe who wrote a detective story entitled “The Mystery of Marie Roget”. Mary was born in Connecticut, she was regarded as a very beautiful lady (with no exception) everyone shared that notion. Her life was a very happy life till the death of her father, his tragic death on the steamboat brought Mary lots of pain and tears. She went to New York where she was hired in a tobacco shop. She was so pretty, that the owner of the shop gave her a rise of the salary just because “the clientele sat all day long exchanging teasing glances” with this beauty. She was admired by well-known celebrities at that time, namely, Washing...

Nothing shocks as much as murder, unsolved cases pile up everyday, unknown murderer, unknown motive, dead end investigation, the case becomes unknown. This one hopefully will not be the same. Grief and sorrow are behind the tears. The reasons of a murder are various, the one submitted here are not to be publicized, the body of a young nurse was sent as a parcel, the victim’s name and the credit cards were used to ship her body 400km away from Osaka to Shanghai. No one would probably ever found her missing if it had not been for the smell of the demise’s body locked in the storage locker at the airport and tracing of the credit cards all along the way. The reasons why this young woman got killed are proceeding into the investigation, the traces of people closely connected with her are thoroughly checked. What is know is the message she left on her FB page, explaining she is going to travel to Osaka to visit her friend she has not seen for 10 years. The body was...