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The Silent Victim: Jori Lirette
Emily G. Thompson • 31st August 2024
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In April of 1988, Inga Maria Hauser arrived in Northern Ireland. She stepped off the ferry at Larne Port, and was never seen alive again.
“The most beautiful woman in Alaska” was bruised and bloody when she screamed for help in the early hours of October 17, 1953. Still crying, Diane Wells explained that two men had broken into the apartment, attacked her, and then shot husband Cecil – but police were soon suspicious of her story.
In 1941, Theodore Edward Coneys fell upon hard times. He went to visit a friend who wasn't home. Instead of leave, Coneys decided to creep into his attic, and live in the cramped space.
In 2014, Gregory Hale asked his neighbor if he could help him dispose of a body. When police arrived at Hale's home, they were met by a gruesome scene.
In 2014, 3-year-old Scott McMillan was found unresponsive in the home he shared with his family. It quickly became apparent that Scott had been the victim of prolonged abuse and neglect.
In 1997, Pai Hsio-yen was abducted as she walked to Hsing Wu High School in New Taipei, Taiwan. Her abduction would completely galvanize the nation.
Throughout 1942, residents of Pascagoula, Mississippi were terrorised by a “Phantom Barber.” He would break into homes late at night but he wasn’t there to rob the home. Instead, he was there to give women and girls an unwanted, nocturnal haircut, leaving with nothing but a handful of hair.
In July of 2010, a young woman opened her mother's closet and came across a gruesome discovery: the remains of five babies.
It was 1995 when 15-year-old Elyse Pahler was lured from her home in Arroyo Grande, California. Unbeknownst to Elyse, three teenage boys believed they had made a pact with Satan.
On 13 July, 2012, two cousins vanished in Evansdale, Iowa. It would take almost six months before the bodies of Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook were found.
In August 2015, Pamela Ann Daughtry text her daughter asking for help. Her teenage son had gone into an outburst. When her daughter arrived, it was already too late.
In February of 2016, Paul Jefferies was found dead in his home. He had been the victim of a brutal and frenzied attack. Shortly after his murder, a teenage boy appeared in hospital with injuries. He claimed they were self-inflicted, but was he really telling the truth?