Recent content by Melquiades

I posted back in 2023 that I expected this case to be solved in a year or two via familial DNA and sounds like that’s on track to be the case. Fascinated to see what happens because this is one of the strangest cases there is.

If this was in North America it would already be solved but the UK/Europe they don’t have the same laws regarding forensic genealogy so they’re still stuck where Canada/US were back in 2010 where they need the suspect to be arrested for a different crime in order for their DNA to be in the...

What a strange, sad case. So close and yet so far from a resolution. And how jarring is the juxtaposition of the obit photo of the kind-looking, well-groomed old lady with the newspaper articles about her as a teenage delinquent? I bet she had some stories to tell that never ended up being told.

I suspect the dog will turn out to be a red herring who was just unluckily in their crate for innocent/normal reasons when a whole bunch of other weird stuff happened, and then starved.

The proximity of Christopher Wilder is interesting but Wilder almost exclusively attacked girls in their teens or early 20s. I don’t think a 37 y/o mother of 4 fits his victim profile very well. The 2nd husband has to be the runaway leader in the Prime Suspect Sweepstakes here.

This seems to be Richmond Virginia, not Richmond BC (as the thread title is suggesting). I’m in BC and clicked on this thinking it was local-ish but the drawly dude in the video with US flags behind him would suggest otherwise. Guessing the hope is that someone recognizes the 1970s/80s era...

This plate seems like it should be absurdly easy to track down if the information is even remotely close to correct.

The central problem here is that there are so many possibilities for what happened to cause the trip from London to Cambridge. 1. The victim just spur of the moment decided to head to her property there for the weekend for something to do. 2. The victim was contacted by her husband (or some...

It doesn't make any sense no matter who the murderer is. In general, there are really only two reasons to order new plates for a specific vehicle : 1) the 99.9% reason, which is that the original plates on the car had been lost/destroyed. 2) the 0.1% more nefarious reason, which is to make...

I'm in Canada and this seems weird to me, too. But UK plates I don't believe are 'government issue' and government-created in the same way as NA, and trusty Wikipedia says that providing identification to obtain a new plate was only put into law in 2008 (!!!) and shops only had to obtain a...

This is an utterly baffling case with so much unexplained behaviour by the victim and so many incredibly confusing clues. The car ending back up in West London in the area of the victim's home/work feels very significant. If she picked up a north-bound hitchhiker and the hitchhiker attacked...

Allen ticks a lot of the general boxes : - lived in the right place (Vallejo) - loved ciphers - owned guns - built bombs - loved the Mikado - owned a Zodiac watch with the killer's logo Like, there can't be more than a few guys in Northern California who fit that group of specifics. The...

Yeah, this would be my understanding as well. I don’t like speculating without full information but it *feels* like they took tissue samples, buried the head, and then were surprised to find the tissue samples were no good and now nobody really wants to deal with the cost/embarrassment of...

I had the same reaction on seeing the pictures higher in the thread and debating whether or not to post about it and then got to your post … and yeah, you don’t want to make wrong assumptions but looks very FAS-ish.

I’m sure they verified cell phone pings to confirm where he was during that phone call, too. The husband is just not a suspect, and for good reason.