1.
The Cline Falls State Park Axeman In July of 1977 two Yale undergrads, Terri
Jentz and Avra Goldman, decided to spend their summer biking the new TransAmerica Trail.
On July 22, they stopped at Cline Falls State Park in a remote area of Oregon to camp for
the night.
Shortly after falling asleep a truck drove over a hill into their campsite and ran over
their tent with the women inside.
Injured, Jentz figured that it had been an accident and expected the driver to help but
they were shocked to see a man in a cowboy hat emerge from the truck with an axe.
He used his weapon to attack Jentz and Goldman before climbing back into his truck and driving
away, leaving them to die.
Both women were seriously wounded but still alive.
Jentz managed to stumble to a nearby road and flag down a teenage couple driving through
the park, and lead them back to the campsite.
As they were attempting to help Avra Goldman, who had sustained a serious head wound, they
saw the lights of another vehicle approaching them.
It came to a brief stop before turning around and driving away.
They suspected the pickup truck driver had returned to finish the job, but he fled the
scene after seeing other people there.
Jentz and Goldman were rushed to the hospital and both survived despite suffering various
injuries.
The investigation eventually uncovered a suspect named Dick Damm who was a known violent offender
in the community.In 1995, while being detained for another crime, Damm was questioned about
the Cline Falls State Park attack and given two polygraph tests.
He showed signs of deception, but the results were inconclusive since he had illegal drugs
in his system.
Unfortunately there is no physical evidence tying him to the crime and he remains free.
37 years later no one has ever been officially charged with the attack.
2.Theresa Ann Bier On June 1, 1987, Fresno native Theresa Ann
Bier, then 16 years old, traveled into the rugged Sierra Nevada Mountains of California
with then 43 year-old Russell Welch.
It was well known at the time that Welch was an avid Bigfoot enthusiast, in fact a self-proclaimed
expert on the creature, and the two allegedly had embarked out into the wilderness on a
quest to find the legendary beast in the vicinity of Shuteye Peak.
Welch claimed to have had contact with bigfoot in the past and wanted to share his experiences
with the teenaged Theresa.
What happened after the pair arrived at shuteye peak is not known.
All that is known is that Russell Welch returned to Fresno without Theresa Ann Bier.
A few days passed and after and the girl made no effort to contact her family, he was considered
a person of interest in her possible disappearance.
He initially claimed that Theresa ran away from him on June 1, but then he changed his story.
Welch eventually stated that Theresa had been forcibly taken by Bigfoot.
A search of the area where the two had camped was immediately ordered but failed to turn
up anything.
Despite the continued efforts of dedicated searchers, no sign of Theresa Ann Bier was
found.
Welch was charged with child stealing.
In September 1987, only three days before he was supposed to go to trial, authorities
dropped the charge.
They had offered to recommend a one-year sentence if Welch signed a waiver allowing them to
go forward with murder charges if Theresa's body were located, but Welch refused.
The prosecution decided to drop the case to avoid double jeopardy, which forbids a suspect
from being charged twice for the same crime, meaning his release would allow authorities
to later charge him with the more serious charge of murder in the event of a discovery
of the body.
However, Absolutely no sign of Theresa Ann Bier has been found in the nearly 25 years
and case remains unsolved.
3.
Julianne Williams And Laura Winans In May of 1996, 24-year-old Julianne Williams
and her girlfriend and partner 26-year-old Laura Winans went on a camping trip along
the Appalachian Trail at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.
Winans also brought along her pet golden retriever named taj.
Nearly two weeks later, after neither of the women's families had heard from them, the
authorities were notified.
When park rangers launched a search on June 1, they came upon a campsite and discovered
that Williams and Winans had been brutally murdered.
The killer had stripped the women of their clothes, bound and gagged them, and slit their
throats.
Winans's golden retriever was also found wandering around the area, unharmed.
Given the women's sexual orientation and the brutal and calculated nature of the murders,
authorities wondered if they were victims of a hate crime.
An incarcerated man named David Darrell Rice became a suspect in the case.He was known
for expressing his hatred toward women and homosexuals and had been arrested in 1997
after an attempted abduction of a female bicyclist in the Shenandoah park.
He eventually served a 10-year sentence for the abduction attempt.
Investigators continued to investigate him in the double homicide, and in April 2002,
Rice was indicted on capital murder charges in the Shenandoah park killings, with authorities
claiming he targeted Williams and Winans out of a hatred for women and homosexuals.
However, two years later, the charges against Rice were dropped once it was determined that
DNA and hair samples from the crime scene did not match him.
Additional testing revealed that the hair found was visually similar under a microscope
to that of known serial killer Richard M. Evonitz.
In June 2002, Evonitz was about to be arrested for an unrelated crime but he ended up killing
himself as police closed in on him.
Forensic evidence eventually linked Evonitz to the unsolved murders of three teenage girls
from the mid-1990s.
Since these crimes also occurred in Virginia around the same time Williams and Winans were
murdered, Evonitz is considered a suspect but thus far nothing else has connected him to
the crime.
4.David Gonzales In July of 2004, 9-year-old David Gonzales
was camping with his family at Big Bear Lake campsite in Northern California's San Bernadino
National Forest.
At 8 a.m., David Gonzales asked his mother if he could have the car keys.
There was a box of cookies in the car, and he wanted a treat.
The mother gave him the keys and watched as he made his way towards the car, which was
only 50 yards away.
She turned her back for a second, and when she looked around again, Gonzales was gone.
When a cursory search of the area turned up no sign of the boy, the authorities were contacted.
His mother reported that she heard no sound at all when her back was turned, though she
did see a beige truck speeding out of the campground around the time that her son went
missing.
Since there were no signs of abduction, authorities did not pursue that lead.
The cookies that Gonzales went to get were still in his family's locked van, so he never
made it to the car.
An intensive, 9-day search of the area failed to find any trace of the boy, no blood or
no scraps of clothing or any other signs of struggle.
The only clue that was turned up was some witnesses who claimed to have seen the boy
walking along a road near the campsite not long after he disappeared.
Almost a year later, hikers stumbled upon the boy's remains about a mile from his family's
campsite, in an area that had been already been well searched.
The remains showed no obvious signs of trauma or injury, yet despite this the prevailing
theory was that he had been attacked and dragged off by a mountain lion.
This seems to be a rather odd conclusion considering that the mother had been right there when
David had gone missing yet had heard no scream or sound of struggle, and there had been no
blood or any evidence that such a violent attack had taken place.
Others have said that the boy may have wandered off and been injured or died of exposure to
the elements.
Authorities are not entirely sure of what happened and the case remains unsolved.
5.Rosario Gayete, Francisco Valeriano and Pilar Ruiz
On January 19, 1989, a farmer in the small town of Macastre, Spain went into his shed
and found the corpse of a teenage girl lying in his bed.
The door of the shed had been forced.
He entered through the back door, whose door was ajar, and found a girl, dressed in
a pair of jeans lying on the bed.
She seemed to be asleep, but when he tried to wake her up, he realized that she was dead.
He immediately notified the police.
The girl was identified as 15-year-old Rosario Gayete, who had left her home five
days earlier to go on a camping trip with her boyfriend Francisco Valeriano
and her friend Pilar Ruiz. The three teens were from Valencia, and
had a history of doing drugs and getting into trouble.
Nobody had seen them since the day they went camping.
According to Rosario's autopsy, she had died from cardiac arrest, probably triggered
by a drug overdose of something.
The authorities speculated that Rosario and her friends stayed in the shed to escape the
cold weather.
While resting in the shed, Rosario took an untraceable drug and overdosed.
Francisco and Pilar then ran out of the cabin, either looking for help or fleeing the scene.
The Civil Guard, Spain's national police force, launched a search looking for them.
In the vicinity of the shed, researchers found the tracks of at least four individuals,
There were also traces of horses, sheep and other animals
as well as the tracks of several vehicles.
On January 27, a woman found an amputated foot in a waste container in Valencia.
The police suspected it belonged to one of the missing Macastre teens.
On April 8 , some farmers, looking for asparagus, found the body of Francisco Valeriano
among some bushes. By its position, it was deduced that fransico had fled from the shed, to collapse
a few meters away.
The body was about 400 meters from the shed, hidden among some bushes, in an advanced
state of decomposition.
His autopsy was inconclusive, but it is believed he might have died from the same untraceable drug Rosario
took.
Finally on May 24, a group of children playing near the Forata reservoir located next to
the river Magro, in a ditch near Turis found the supposed corpse of Pilar.
She was missing her right hand, and left foot, both of which had been removed with a chainsaw.
Her face was disfigured, and, even though the police insisted it was the missing girl,
Pilar, 15, the family disagreed.
They pointed out that the body had a scar which Pilar didn't have.
Eerily, her hand was later found at a bus stop miles away from the body.
Then in 1999, the case took another strange turn when some skeletal remains were found
in Macastre that matched Pilar's sister's DNA.
Regardless of this find, the discovery in May 1989 shifted the focus of the case into a
murder investigation.
This murder investigation suggested that the first two victims, Francisco and Rosario,
may have been intentionally poisoned.
A few days before Rosario's body was found, witnesses reported seeing her and her friends
at a local bar in Macastre.
Macastre, interestingly, is an hour away from where the teens planned to camp.
It seems that somebody must have given them a ride.
This person might have taken them to the bar, and then led them to the shed where Rosario
was found.
Whether voluntarily or by force, Francisco and Rosario died after ingesting something
lethal or poisonous.
Pilar presumably tried to escape, but was killed and dismembered.
According to the teens' autopsies, all three of them died between January 16-17, 1989.
There have been no leads or suspects.
Some have suggested a connection to the Alcasser Murders, an incident in 1992 in which three
teenage girls were brutally raped and murdered near Valencia.
While their murderers were officially caught, one of the men escaped and is still on the
run.
However, there is no evidence to connect the 2 cases and case remains unsolved.
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