The Silent Victim: Jori Lirette
Emily G. Thompson • 31st August 2024
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It was Halloween of 2014 when residents of a Long Island community witnessed a man dragging a beheaded body into the street. By first appearances, it was nothing more than a macabre Halloween prank. On closer inspection, however, it was more than just a prank.
It was Valentine's Day of 2013 when police in Peoria, Illinois, received a report of a burglary. The investigators would quickly zone in on a suspect, but a very unlikely one.
In 2014, police in New Stanton, Pennsylvania, received a 911 call from 14-year-old Jacob Remaley. He claimed his father had shot and killed his mother and his brother, but was he really telling the truth...?
In May of 2018, a body was found by a creek in Wyalusing Township, Pennsylvania. News outlets would conduct an interview with a man who lived nearby. He seemed surprised by the grim discovery but did he know more?
In 1982, 13-year-old Carrie Ann Jopek vanished after getting suspended from school in Cudahy, Wisconsin. It would take 33 years before the case was cracked.
In May of 2020, police in Layton, Utah, received a 911 call from a man who informed them that he had just murdered a person inside his residence.
In 1991, a hunter in Jake's Lake in Warner, Oklahoma, witnessed a woman give birth down by the lake and then watched as the man she was with beat the baby to death. The case would gradually go cold before a massive development in 2009.
In 1998, the body of a man was found in a ditch in Galena Park, Texas. He was identified as Buddy Musso, a mentally disabled man, who had moved to Texas in the hopes to marry a woman.
Mason Cuttler was just 3-years-old when he was drowned by his aunt's boyfriend to "make room" for his new baby.
In November of 2013, 10-year-old Siphamandla Madikane was found brutally murdered in a bush in the Ramaphosa informal settlement in South Africa. Despite a plethora of evidence at the crime scene, the killer has never been caught.
In August of 2015, Loren Bunner posted scenic photographs of his ex-girlfriend, Jolee Callan, on a hike. Moments later, he shot her twice in the head and threw her body from the cliff.
In 2017, Melinda Pleskovic was found stabbed and shot to death in her home. By first appearances, it was a robbery gone wrong. However. investigators would find blood in her son-in-law's car.