Showing posts with label Philadelphia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philadelphia. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

MISSING BENITA RODRIGUEZ IN 'HOUSE OF HORRORS'

EVIL
MISSING
THE MYSTERY surrounding the Philadelphia house of horrors deepened yesterday when a missing Florida teen was found with the group. 
Benita Rodriguez, 15, disappeared from her West Palm Beach home in July, but according to authorities, she was not kept in the squalid basement, but with the three suspects in the case. 
In the extraordinary twist on the story, it emerged she had become friends with one of the suspects sons, Gregory Thomas, when the group lived until earlier this month.    

Monday, September 19, 2011

MYSTERY OF DISMEMBERED JANE DOE 1995 ENDURES

SHE IS dead and maybe lost to the ages. For 16 years, the woman known as "Jane Doe 1995" or for some, U-853071055, has been unidentified and crying out for justice. The dead woman became the public's conscience in the suburbs of Philadelphia July 11, 1995. State troopers were called first. The discovery was sickening: female body parts stuffed inside a suitcase. It was her upper body, a torson wrapped in a sheet then put inside a plastic quilt bag, bound with wire and placed in a green garbage bag.
Chester County DA at the time, Anthony Sarcione, remains troubled by the case: “I remember that case very well. It haunts me regularly…It was a grisly discovery once we opened the suitcase. These things are forever embedded in my mind. That case was one of the most haunting cases I dealt with as DA. I

Friday, August 19, 2011

SIMONE GREBE 1977 MURDER 'AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY'

SHE WAS HOT. Stunning, cool, Simone Grebe was every man's dream in the dying days of flower power. In the fall of 1977, she arrived in the Philly suburb of Morrisville in a Ford Fairlane. No one quite knew how to take her. She was edgy, played chess and told stories. She was divorced. Lost a baby. battled cancer. Then, not six months after she arrived she was found murdered, stabbed to death in her apartment. It was February 1978.
But no one really knew the victim and theories on her murder flourished like weeds. She hung out with bikers, did drugs, was a rich girl. And now, all these years later cops still don't know the whos or whys of Simone Grebe's murder. One retired cop was blunt: "It was an exercise in futility--what can I say?"