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Africa
🇧🇮Burundi: Former President sentenced in murder of old opponent
Burundi's top court has sentenced a former president to life in prison for the 1993 murder of another president who had defeated him in elections. In an Oct. 19 ruling, the court sentenced Pierre Buyoya and 18 others for the death of Melchior Ndadaye, who had defeated Buyoya to become the central African country's first freely elected president. More here.
🇨🇲Cameroon: International media ignoring mass killings in the nation
2019 saw the massacre of 12 children and a pregnant woman in cold blood in Ngarbur. And, on 24th October 2020, masked armed men killed at least 7 innocent school children and left many wounded in their classrooms in Kumba, in the Anglophone region of Cameroon. Both crimes remain unpunished. More here.
🇪🇬Egypt: Officials pledge to work with Italians on bringing student’s murderer to justice
Paolo Regeni, an Italian Cambridge University PhD student was studying in Cairo in 2016 when his body was found at the side of a road — showing signs of a beating and torture. More here.
🇸🇴Somalia: Country ranks as highest on CPJ’s 2020 Global Impunity Index
The index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and their killers go free. The top spot is unchanged from last year and highlights the danger journalists face when reporting in the country. More here.
🇿🇦South Africa: Table Mountain killer caught
Between 2017-18 multiple muggings, stabbings and murders plagued the popular tourist attraction of Table Mountain in Cape Town. A suspect – 33-year-old Zimbabwean, Blessing Bveni – has now been charged and could face life behind bars if found guilty. More here.
Asia
🇸🇬Singapore: What does a paranormal walk in Bukit Batok Nature Park entail?
The 20-year-old unsolved murder of jogger Linda Chua is one of the many cases that plagues the Nature Park. Now, a paranormal walk offers a hunt for connections to the other side. More here.
Europe
🏴England: The 90s in West Yorkshire keeps two unsolved murder secrets
During the 1990s in England young women were murdered up and down the country West Yorkshire in the country’s North is no different. At least two of the murders of young women remain unsolved. Look out for my in-depth look at the unsolved murders of women in England in the 1990s in upcoming newsletters. More here.
🇩🇪Germany: 3 Unsolved German mysteries include a family murder, a strange nobility death & Nazi gold
A 1922 murder of the Gruber family remains unsolved among incest, jail and abuse. More here.
Police have closed an almost 20-year-old case with no answers. 9-year-old ‘Peggy’ went missing in 2001 and her skeletal remains were found 15-years after she disappeared. More here.
North America
🇨🇦Canada: Waterloo targeted killing remains a mystery despite clues
The January 2019 targeted killing of former soldier Kurt McKechnie in Waterloo, Ontario has gone cold, despite numerous clues. Kurt, 56, died in hospital from multiple gunshot wounds on Jan. 31 after he was shot at his girlfriend’s home. CCTV footage showed the killer’s vehicle as well as four assailants running from the scene. More here.
🥇California: Four years since ‘super mom’ Sherri Papini ‘kidnapping’
Sherri Papini claimed she was abducted by two women and held for 22 days before being released back in 2016. The story caused a storm online with many doubting the claims made by Sherri and her husband. Since then, both police & the Papini family have been quiet on the matter. However, investigators are still trying to find answers More here.
🌰Connecticut: Kennedy cousin will not be retried in Martha Moxley murder
The 1974 murder of Martha Moxley has gained a lot of attention over the years, including several books and multiple podcast episodes. Not least because a prime suspect Michael Skakel was a Kennedy cousin. More here.
☀️Florida: Family raise $30,000 reward to find killer of 17-year-old girl
Inandi Wyche was gunned down in her new car whilst driving with a date on 19th March, 2020, in Jacksonville, Florida. It was 7pm and still light on the busy street, police & family are hopeful there are witnesses who saw something and the reward will help find incetivise them to talk. More here.
🗝️Pennsylvania: A 51-year-old murder is solved and suspect finally arrested
It was 1969, a time of immense change across the Western World, 23-year-old Mary Scott was living in San Diego, making her way in life and working as a go-go dancer. November 20th 1969 a co-worker found Scott raped and murdered in her apartment. The case went deadly cold for over half a century. Rosalie Sanz, Mary’s sister was given the news this week that John Jeffrey Sipos, 75, was arrested in Schnecksville, Pa for the murder through genetic genealogy. More here.
🦌Virginia: 1933 family murder still prompts questions & ghost stories
On the evening of March 31, 1933 an unknown assailant/assailants went to the farm of the wealthy Cannon family. By the next morning, four men were dead, the safe was busted, and $35,000 had disappeared. More here.
🦡 Wisconsin: Oldest case in Green Bay finally solved
Lou Archie Griffin, 65, has been arrested on suspicion of Lisa Holstead in 1986. Lisa who was 22-years-old at the time of her murder was found sexually assaulted & strangled after being dropped off by her boyfriend in the early hours. Griffin had not come up in the investigation and was apparently “not on anyone’s radar”, investigators are believed to have linked him by DNA. More here.
Oceania
🇦🇺Australia: $1M reward offered in case of girl missing for 40 years
Lisa Marie Mott, 12, was last seen about 8.30pm on Forrest Street in the town of Collie on October 30, 1980. She had just left the basketball courts and was expecting to be picked up by a family friend to go home. Her grieving mother Marion Flower, 77,is hopeful the reward may finally bring information and closure. More here.
🇳🇿New Zealand: Private Investigator unearths a cover-up in Kiwi’s death in London
Lee Sheppard disappeared five days after his wife told him she was pregnant with the couple's first child. The pair were on a working holiday in London and had planned to return to New Zealand. The case was reopened by London police after private investigator Ron McQuilter, who was hired by the family, concluded Sheppard had been crushed by a recycling machine at his workplace and suggested the company may have tried to cover it up. More here.
South America
🇦🇷Argentina: New Spanish language Netflix documentary explores death of socialite
Carmel: Who Killed Maria Marta? Available from 5th November covers the death of Argentinian socialite Maria Marta García Belsunce. Maria died in 2002 and her death was originally thought to be an accident. It was presumed she fell and hit her head on a tap in the bath, however, her autopsy revealed this was not the case — Maria had been shot in the head five times and then dumped in the bath. More here.
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