In 1971, decorated Vietnam veteran Bernard Patterson walked into his hometown bank in Mars Hill, Maine, wearing a wig, dark glasses and an ankle-length coat. He left with a fortune and launched an international manhunt that would take his story from a rubber raft in northern Maine to Europe, North Africa — and even a camel.

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Resources
Ronald Chase, The Great Mars Hill Bank Robbery: The True Adventures of Maine’s Zaniest Criminal (Down East Books, 2016). Publisher page.
Ron Chase Outdoors, “The Great Mars Hill Bank Robbery.”
Anthony Brino, “The Mars Hill bank robbery that shocked Maine 45 years ago,” Bangor Daily News, 12 November 2016.
Kathryn Olmstead, “‘Oh, Bernard’: Writer rounds up adventures of Maine’s ‘zaniest criminal’,” Bangor Daily News, 30 June 2016.
Lloyd Ferriss, “Book review: Maine bank robber’s exploits make for absorbing tale,” Portland Press Herald, 10 July 2016.
Kate Irish Collins, “Book details controversial, colorful Maine bank robber: Q&A with Ron Chase,” Portland Press Herald, 15 September 2016.
“The Great Mars Hill Bank Robbery author holding book talk at CVPL,” Daily Bulldog, 23 March 2017.
Paula Brewer, “5 criminals who tainted Aroostook County history,” Bangor Daily News, 19 December 2022.

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Ralph and Joan Vollmer lived on a farm outside of a small Australian country town. When Joan’s mental health deteriaorated, her feverishly religious husband was convinced she was possessed by the Devil. During a botched exorcism, Joan died. But who was to blame?

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Resources
R v Vollmer and Ors [1996] 1 VR 95 — Victorian Court of Appeal (case cited in legal sources)
Adrian Howe & Sarah Ferber — “Delivering demons, punishing wives: False imprisonment, exorcism and other matrimonial duties in a late 20th-century manslaughter case”
Associated Press, 3 February 1993 — “Australian woman dies after 4-day exorcism”
Casefile — Case 128: Joan Vollmer (consulted only as a comparison source; this script was independently restructured and rewritten)

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If Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story left you curious about Erzsébet Báthory, revisit the accusations and disputed accounts behind “Countess Dracula” with Evidence Locker.
16th century Transylvanian Blood Countess, Erzebet Báthory, was labelled as the most prolific female serial killer in history in The Guinness World Records. It is believed that she tortured, mutilated and murdered as many as 650 young girls, then bathed in their blood to preserve her youthful beauty. Historians are divided whether she was in fact a sadistic landowner or the victim of an effective smear campaign.

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Resources
Most Evil Women in History: Countess Dracula
The Lies about Elizabeth Báthory revealed
Elizabeth Bathory – The ‘Blood Countess’
Nadasdy Muzeum
Wikipedia
Daily Motion – The Lady Killers
The disturbing true story of Elizabeth Báthory, The Blood Countess
Elizabeth Báthory – The Blood Countess
The Bloody Countess?
Inside the ruined castle of a medieval serial killer
Epilepsy: from the early civilizations to modern days

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In June 2007, the dismembered remains of 36-year-old Sanna Garoës appeared beside three roads leading out of Windhoek. Her death brought two unsolved murders from 2005 back into the headlines and gave Namibia a frightening name for a possible killer: the B1 Butcher. Then a fourth woman’s remains were found more than 400 kilometres away. Police announced her identity, only to discover that the woman they had named was alive. As investigators followed reports of DNA evidence and competing leads, a difficult question remained: which of these crimes, if any, belonged to the same person?

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Resources
The Namibian, On the trail of the B1 butcher, 21 June 2007
The Namibian, B1 butcher case throws spotlight on missing women, June 2007
The Namibian, Head and legs found, 12 July 2007
The Namibian, B1 Butcher victim identified, 16 July 2007
The Namibian, Solidarity for slain Sanna, 20 July 2007
The Namibian, The B1 road a lifeline and a curse, 27 July 2007
The Namibian, A long farewell, 31 August 2007
The Namibian, Police mum on B1 Butcher case, 2007
The Namibian, Butcher victim alive, 17 October 2007
The Namibian, Body parts case to High Court, 2008
The Namibian, B1 Butcher DNA evidence in spotlight, 29 April 2008
The Namibian, Otjomuise rape case thrown out, 10 February 2010
The Namibian, Orina jailed for 40 years, 23 May 2011

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In October 1849, one of America's greatest writers was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, wearing someone else's clothes and unable to explain how he had ended up there. Four days later, Edgar Allan Poe was dead. He was just 40 years old.
No death certificate survives, no autopsy was performed, and the medical records have long since disappeared. Over the past 175 years, countless theories have emerged, ranging from alcohol poisoning and disease to political election fraud, robbery and even murder.

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Resources
Web
The Edgar Allan Poe Society
Encyclopedia Virginia
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
Poe Museum
Articles
Here at last he is happy – The Death and Burial of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance
University of Maryland – 175 Years Later, Mystery Still Shrouds Poe’s Death
Murder or Madness: What Really Killed Edgar Allen Poe?

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In the small Italian village of Alleghe, high in the Dolomite Mountains, a series of deaths haunted the community for decades. What began in 1933 with the suspicious death of a young hotel waitress was followed by another unexplained death, then the brutal 1946 double murder of village baker Luigi Del Monego and his wife, Luigia.

At the centre of the mystery stood the Hotel Centrale, a powerful local family, and a silence that seemed almost impossible to break. When journalist Sergio Saviane tried to expose the truth, he was sued for defamation and sent to prison. Years later, a patient Carabinieri investigator finally cracked the case open.

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Documentary
Mysteries of Alleghe -- Part 1
Mysteries of Alleghe -- Part 2
Mysteries of Alleghe - Part 3
Web
Wikipedia
Articles
I delitti di Alleghe
I delitti di Alleghe: la catena di omicidi che 90 anni fa macchiò il paesino delle Dolomiti
The mysteries of Alleghe
The dark side of Alleghe

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In 1984, a mysterious criminal group calling itself "The Monster with 21 Faces" launched an unprecedented campaign of extortion against Japan's largest food manufacturers. Beginning with the kidnapping of a confectionery company president, the group taunted police and the media with mocking letters, threatened to poison popular sweets with cyanide, and spread fear throughout the country.
Despite one of the largest investigations in Japanese history, involving thousands of detectives, the elusive criminals repeatedly outsmarted authorities. Their brazen campaign caused millions in losses, shattered public confidence and remains officially unsolved more than four decades later.

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Wikipedia
Wikipedia – Glico Morinaga Case
Articles
How ‘The Monster With 21 Faces’ Terrorized Japan During The Harrowing Glico Morinaga Incident
Kidnapping, Extortion, and Cyanide-laced Candy: The Strange Case of the Monster With 21 Faces
Monster with 21 Faces
The Monster with 21 Faces: The Unsolved Crime That Terrified Japan and Broke Its Spirit

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As investigators searched beneath John Wayne Gacy's home, they uncovered a crime scene unlike anything they had encountered before. Hidden within the crawlspace were the remains of dozens of young men and boys, exposing years of murder concealed behind the façade of an ordinary suburban life.

With the evidence mounting, Gacy confessed to a staggering number of killings before standing trial in one of the most infamous criminal cases in American history. Yet for many victims, identification would take decades, and questions still linger today.

#TrueCrime #JohnWayneGacy #SerialKiller #Chicago #ColdCase #EvidenceLocker

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Documentaries
Conversations With a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
Web
The Gacy Project
Articles
What Was John Wayne Gacy’s Trial Like?
Killer Clown in Court: The Trial of John Wayne Gacy

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