To Slip One's Wind
Murder, Unidentified, and some weird cases that happened before 1960.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
INFANTICIDE: November 22, 1957, Dublin Virginia Baby John Does
On November 22, 1957, the bodies of two infant boys were found in a box recently buried in an unmarked grave near a cemetery in Dublin, Virginia. It is not stated how the boys had died or when they died. It's possible that the two were twins.
The baby John Does were both African American Infants. The boys were 18 inches long and one was 5 lbs and the other was 4 lbs.
SOURCES:
NamUs Boy 1
NamUs Boy 2
Monday, November 18, 2024
Murder of Old Aquito and Squaw
There is little information in this case. On November 18, 1686, a man named Jonathan Neponet would be executed at the Gallows in Boston, Massachusetts. He was executed for the murders of a Native American couple known as Old Aquito and Squaw.
SOURCES:
Legal Executions in New England Page 56
Thursday, November 14, 2024
November, 15, 1924 Yuma, Arizona John Doe
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Murder of Jesa "Toni" Rose Corazza
A jury would find a verdict of murder against some person or persons unknown was returned.
Thursday, November 7, 2024
UNIDENTIFIED: November 8, 1981, Danville, Virginia John Doe
November 8, 1981, the skeletal remains were found scattered in an old dumpsite near Danville, Virginia. It's believed that he had died likely in 1959.
John Doe was a Black male and was between 40 to 60 years old. He was 5'2" to 5'7". He was wearing a large dark-colored cotton T-shirt.SOURCES:
Saturday, November 2, 2024
UNIDENTIFIED: November 3, 1924 Youngwood, Pennsylvania John Doe
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
UNIDENTIFIED: October 30, 2019 Concord, New Hampshire Jane Doe
In 2019 a woman came to the the New Hampshire State Police and handed over a human cranium. She told them that her husband had found the partial skull in the 1930s in a pond in Concord. It was found that the skull belonged to a teenage girl between 15 and 18 years old. Bomb Pulse Testing on the skull showed that she did die before 1942.