The Black magic murders of Ahmad Suradji:

(Images found at Ahmad Suradji (Sorcerer From Hell) Documentary )

Ahmad Suradji, also known as Nasib Kelewang, was a self-proclaimed black magic master who ritualistically killed 42 women and girls over an 11 year period.

 A cattle breeder by trade, he lived just outside of Medan in Indonesia, where many women would make the journey to his house seeking guidance and assistance in matters of health, love and finance.

Suradji would generally charge between $200-$300 for his services, with most of his female clients longing to be wealthy or attractive and some asking him to perform black magic rituals to keep their significant others from cheating. 

As a Dukun, or Shaman, they believed, just as the vast majority of the Indonesian population does, that black magic could help them. 

A revered position, many Dukuns make a living with this occupation, and although primarily healers, they are used for a variety of reasons; some are exorcists, some perform blessings on new businesses, and farm lands and on individuals, and some can see the future through spirits.

 Some Dukuns even offer a darker service of casting curses and hexes and spells for revenge.

Suradji was something of a sorcerer, and between the years of 1986 – 1997 he murdered 42 of his clients in ritual slayings that he believed would ultimately make him more powerful.

Inspired by a dream he had in 1988, in which his deceased father visited him, Suradji would lead the woman and girls out to a sugar cane plant on the outskirts of Medan, and bury them up to their waists in earth before strangling them with a cord. Once dead, he would strip the bodies of the women naked and bury them facing in the direction of his house.

As instructed by his father in the dream, he would also consume the victim’s saliva.

His objective was to kill 70 victims in this way, but he was caught at just over half way through his mission at confirmed victim number 42, after the discovery of a body, later identified as Sri Kemala Dewi, by a local man at the sugar cane plantation.

Investigators found clothing linked to over 20 women who had been reported as missing in and around the local area. All of the victims were between the ages of 11-39 years old. If Suradji was running low on clientele, it was said that he would also kill local sex workers to get closer to his goal.

Despite the official recorded body count of 42 victims, it is possible that the actual number could be almost double that.

Suradji was convicted, along with one of his three wives (all sisters) who had helped him hide the bodies.

Despite protests by Amnesty International, he was executed by firing squad in 2008.

Sources: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/indonesia/2286216/Black-Magic-Killer-executed-for-42-murders.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Suradji

http://www.dukunindonesia.com/

True scary stories to keep you awake at night:

Lazy Masquerade is a youtube channel that regularly creates and uploads videos that narrate scary true stories from around the internet sourced from places such as “Reddit: Let’s not meet” as well as from original viewer submissions and online articles. 

Each video is themed and with such titles  as:

 “Disturbing Cult stories” [ X ] 

“Disturbing REAL lonely hearts killers” [ X ] 

and “Scary stories to keep you up at night” [ X ] 

(Click the "X" to view the video's on the channel)

Although Lazy Masquerade is not the only channel of this nature, it is my personal favorite. 

If you’re interested in browsing other users with a similar style of content, be sure to check out:

 Mr. Nightmare , urmaker, bbusta and corpsehusband.

 Good luck sleeping tonight!

The man who married Jane Doe:

DOE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED.

(Thanks for the heads up Mike in Dallas)

Read the Seattle times article here! << click click

Edit: Just remembered this case and intend to go back to it with some more sources and updates etc. Stay tuned.

Lori Erica Ruff ("née": Kennedy) was a private and introverted woman.

In 2003, the tall, pretty brunette married a man named Blake Ruff after meeting him at a church bible study group in East Texas.

They eloped in Dallas, as Lori rejected the idea of a well-attended traditional wedding and the newspaper announcement that came with it.

She never warmed to her family in law and spent a lot of time alone, also working from her computer at home as a marketing consultant.

Lori was always evasive when questioned about her childhood and past, stating only that both her parents were deceased and that she had no living relatives.

Her husband didn’t push her for answers or attempt to make her open up in any way.

They tried for a baby, but Lori miscarried several times, before finally giving birth to a daughter in 2008.

She was very protective of her child, and never allowed anyone to babysit.

She spent time with her daughter, dressing up and frequenting tea shops as she always liked to do.

Problems arose in their relationship, causing Blake to move out of the marital home in 2010.

He moved back to his family home and ordered a divorce.

Lori began to have a meltdown; she lost weight and received counseling at a nearby church, where she would ramble and repeat to the pastor on the subject of her flaws and problems and questioned what was wrong with her and why her marriage had deteriorated.

She would fidget and repeat herself and stare at her open palms and the back of her long hands.

In 2010 Blake’s father discovered the body of Lori in Blake’s car, a black Tahoe, outside of their family home.

She had committed suicide with a shotgun to the head.

She had two letters on her person; one for Blake and one for her daughter with a note that it be opened on her 18^th birthday.

According to the report, the letters were nothing but pages of incoherent rambling.

During a search of the Ruff’s marital home, which was in very poor condition inside, scattered with paper scrawling’s of conscious commentary from the hand of Lori, the police found a safe box at the bottom of her closet.

Blake noted that when they were living together Lori was adamant that he never open the box and that it was personal. As usual, Blake didn’t question it or push her as to why, he simply accepted it.

An officer jammed the box open and was shocked by the contents.

Inside were various documents.

One of which was a certificate in which Lori had legally changed her name, from Becky Sue Turner, To Lori Erica Kennedy.

The only problem was, that Becky Sue turner had died many years ago in Fife, of asphyxiation in a house fire. She was only two years old.

Some digging revealed an article on the tragedy.

 

Becky Sue Turners birth and death certificates were also in the box.

Lori had apparently taken over the identity of Becky Sue only a month or two after the death.

She had ordered a copy of the birth certificate and knew that since Becky sue had died in a state that she wasn’t born in, it would be less likely that she would get caught taking over her identity.

  

From there she got an I.D Card for the state of Idaho stating that she was 18 years old and went on to legally change her name to Lori Erica Kennedy and obtained a social security card.

She got a GED and a degree in business from the University of Texas.

There was a letter of reference signed by a man named Roger Steinbeck, who claimed that Lori had worked for him “since high school until 1988”. However the letter was vague and had no mention of any specific date and what Lori’s actual role or duties were.

The letter was written on hotel stationary from “The oriental hotel” in Bangkok, Thailand.

The hotel is an actual establishment (Now the mandolin Oriental hotel) and one of the first five star hotels built in the city. It was host to many celebrities back in the day, such as Audrey Hepburn, John Steinbeck, Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson.

Officers contacted Roger Steinbeck, but were met with a dead end and reported that he didn’t exist.

It is not known if Lori ever traveled over sea’s, however she didn’t have a passport under the name Lori Erica Kennedy until 1990, and no stamps for Thailand were found in it.  

Amongst the documents were two other sheets of paper; one with notes, scrawled phone numbers and names, and one with dates and the letters D and M, leading people to believe she had possibly been working out dates to indicate ages of her new identities parents.

When her finger prints and face were ran through data bases nothing showed up.

In fact, finding out anything about Lori pre 1988 was impossible.

The only other information that investigators were able to find out through talking to an old acquaintance was that she had previously worked as a dancer in a gentleman’s club. The autopsy revealed that she had breast implants, but had gotten them as Lori and not her previous identity.

Some people speculate that Lori was running from a tragic past, or was in a witness protection program, but nobody knows the truth.

Lori Erica Kennedy took her secret to the grave.

(sources and images: seattletimes, dailynews, websluethes, reddit, doenetwork)

The Tourist from hell

(Image: Wikipedia)

John Martin Scripps, dubbed by the media as “The tourist from hell”, was an English-born spree killer executed in Singapore for his crimes in 1996.

Following the suicide of his father, Scripps began to have difficulties in school and eventually dropped out at the age of 15 and went on to work various jobs in order to raise funds for traveling.

He went on to murder three tourists while traveling between Thailand and Singapore in the mid 90’s.

He murdered a man by the name of Gerard Lowe in Singapore, as well as a woman named Shelia Demude and her son Darin in Thailand.

Scripps had a history of previous arrests on his record, rewarded to him as a result of the various burglaries he committed along with one count of indecent assault in the 70’s.

He was eventually imprisoned for three years in the 80’s while traveling in Mexico with a woman he had married, on account of similar crimes.

 Only months before completing his sentence, he escaped only to burgle again and was sentenced to another three years, causing upset in his marriage.

His wife finally divorced him and remarried. However Scripps harassed her new husband upon his release.

Having done his time in prison and been released, Scripps officially changed his name to John Martin by deed poll.

He began running heroin for a syndicate between Asia and Europe in the late 80’s and was apprehended at Heathrow airport, where the arresting officers found he was carrying a key on him. 

It was discovered that they key opened a deposit box in a bank in Singapore, and contained one million dollars’ worth of heroin. Scripps was once again put behind bars where he was sentenced to seven years. He escaped again, was caught, and true to form, escaped once more.

Scripps found himself locked up at Albany on the Isle of Wight where he learned the butchering skills that he would later use to dismember his victims.

After transferring to another prison, he escaped for the last time. His mother, having sold all of his possessions, handed over the money in order for Scripps to travel overseas to evade being arrested again. He applied for another passport, using the documents of another inmate named Simon James Davis, and ended up in Mexico again as John Martin, where he reported his passport missing to the British Embassy and got a replacement. 

From there travelled to Singapore via San Francisco. The date was March 8^th, 1995.

Despite the official report that Scripps murdered three people, it is speculated that murdered many more in the USA and Mexico.

His technique would be to act like a tourist, strike up conversations with other white tourists in airports or aboard planes, and follow them to their accommodation. He would stay in the same hotels and get himself into their rooms under on pretext or another and shock them with an electroshock weapon, before hitting them over the heads and dismembering in hotel bathrooms, using the butchering skills he had picked up in prison.

The motive was most likely money, as withdrawals for large sums of money on the victims credit cards were made after their murders.

Scripps murdered a South African man named Gerard Lowe in a hotel room they were sharing in Singapore. Posing as a tourist at the airport and using an assumed name, Scripps suggested they share a hotel room and Lowe agreed. They rented room 1511 at the River view hotel.

Later, Scripps went to the reception desk and asked the receptionist to erase Lowe’s name, claiming that he had kicked him out as he found out Lowe was a homosexual.

Two days later the dismembered limbs of Gerard Lowe washed up at Clifford Pier, including his thighs and torso. His head and arms, however, were never located.

A couple of days later, on the 15^th, Scripps took a flight to Thailand, where he made the acquaintance of mother and son Sheila and Darin Damude. The three were seated in the same row and again checked in the same hotel, Nilly’s Marina Inn, overlooking Patpong beach. They check into rooms on the same floor, opposite each other, with Scripps in room 48 and the Damudes in 43.

The Damudes were never seen alive again following their breakfast the next morning.

Scripps informed the hotel that they had checked out already, and that he wanted to transfer to room 43 where he would pick up the bill.

(Image: murderpedia) 

He took a flight back to Singapore on the 19^th, the very same day the skulls of the mother and son were discovered. Other body parts were discovered over the following day’s most likely belonging to Sheila, but the remains of Darin were never recovered.

Many victims linked to Scripps remained unconfirmed. He is thought to have murdered people in London and Mexico as well as in the United States. Large withdrawals from the banks of the victims in Scripps name were made after their deaths and disappearances heavily indicating his responsibility.

Upon arrest the tourist from hell managed to smash a glass panel in the police interview room and attempted to take his life with a shard of the broken glass in fear of the death penalty. 

The attempt was failed and he later recovered in hospital. 

The investigators found the passports of the victims in Scripps possession, each one with a passport photograph of him affixed to it. They also recovered the stolen credit cards along with a haul of weapons including the electroshock device, a hammer, a can of mace and knives.

Found evidence.

Scripps denied the murders during his trial. He claimed to have killed Lowe in self-defense while fighting off the homosexual advances and that a friend helped him dispose of the body.

 He went to say that he could not name this friend for fear of the safety of his family back in England.

He claimed never to have met the Damudes and that the same friend whom could not be named, had in fact murdered them and then given the credit cards, passports and weapons to Scripps.

He was sentenced to death by hanging.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martin_Scripps
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_437_2005-01-17.html
http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/scripps-john-martin.htm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/singapore-executes-briton-for-murder-1305611.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/mass-killer-learned-butcher-prison-article-1.2073031
http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/scripps-john-martin-photos.htm

The family that walks on all fours:

(GIF from "The family that walks on all fours" A BBC2 documentary)

“The family that walks on all fours” is a documentary made by the BBC following a Kurdish family who walk on palms of their hands and feet due to a non-progressive congenital cerebellar ataxia. 

 Due to this, members of the Ulas family are not bipedal, and instead walk with quadruped gait. 

The documentary provides interviews and explores different ideas and theories behind the causes of their walk.

Channeling Aliens With Reverend Robert Short:

Robert L. Short, also known as Reverend Robert Short, was a Texas based American Christian minister and Author.

Reverend Short was also featured on Louis Theroux’s TV series “Weird weekends”, wherein armed with his own style of charming and faux naive interviewing techniques, Theroux would travel to different states and stay with individuals he found strange or interesting and document their time together.

Short was featured on the UFO episode, where he demonstrated his ability to contact and channel an Alien named Korton.

(To watch the full episode click here [X])

There is another video shot after the original episode, where Theroux hosted a Christmas party with the idea of bringing his guests together, hoping that despite their differences, they could get a long and have a good time.

 He invites favorites from previous episodes of the series, including Mountain man Mike, a man who lives isolation, shielded from the modern world and a Porn star named JJ.

Above is a clip from the gathering, where the Reverend decides to gift the other guests by getting in contact with Korton.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Short
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Theroux%27s_Weird_Weekends

Derren brown / Halloween warm-up:

(Image: Channel4)

Derren Brown is a British mentalist, illusionist and mind control extraordinaire.

Showcasing and appearing to display abilities that allow him to hypnotize people, endure pain and extreme conditions, see the future and talk to the dead, he is mostly known for his impressive mind reading and mind control skills and has been blowing the minds of his live audiences since his college days.

Often presenting his shows to appear psychic, spooky or paranormal in nature, Brown is actually a skeptic, who often showcases to his audience how all that is needed to appear to be a medium, clairvoyant or psychic is a good set of skills, such as those he possesses.

An amazing example of which, can be seen in his recorded live show “Infamous”, wherein he invites onto the stage audience members who would consider visiting a medium  in order to contact a deceased loved one.

He then shows them how easily he can do so, by telling detailed stories and giving information that neither he nor anybody other than the audience member could know, without any psychic ability what so ever.

Derren easily lists off the names; exact ages at times of passing, pet names and stories from the lives of the audience members departed loved ones, much to their shock and disbelief.

He assures them that he has no supernatural abilities what so ever, and that anyone who says they do, are cruel scam artists and charlatans.

If like me, you feel it’s never too early to start warming up for Halloween, why not try watching some of the following videos:

(Image: Channel4)

In one of his TV series “Trick or Treat”, Derren hypnotizes a woman to believe that she has died in a car accident, and is wandering as a spirit who none of the paramedics, who are all actors, can see.

The premise of the show was to either “trick” the shows applicants months after they had applied, or “treat” them. Treats would be pleasurable experiences and tricks would be horror experiences.

Part 1.

Part 2.

In another “Trick” episode, a boy playing a zombie arcade game in a local pub is hypnotized and taken to an abandoned building, where Brown’s team have created a real life simulator of a zombie apocalypse, complete with zombie actors who chase him throughout the building.

The boy is given a prop gun and has to fight his way out.

Endlessly brilliant, chilling and entertaining, Derren brown has an extensive back catalogue of recorded live shows and TV series. From putting his life in his own hands with a game of Russian roulette to training a group of old age pensioners to become London’s best art thieves.  From convincing an innocent man to turn himself over to the police as a murderer to conducting séances and talking to the dead.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derren_Brown
http://derrenbrown.co.uk/

The Frankston Serial Killer:

(Image: Wikipedia)

Paul Denyer was born in Campbell town, New South Wales Australia in 1972.

He suffered a head injury as a child, which often prompted an on running family in-joke whenever he said or did anything clumsy.

Upon relocating to Victoria in ’81, Denyer had trouble settling in as the new kid.  He put on weight and developed self-esteem issues and eventually went on to murder 3 young women in Melbourne during a month and a half spree.

When questioned by the authorities about why he did it, he stated that he just generally hated women.

While incarcerated, having been convicted to serve three life sentences at HM prison, Barwon, Paul began dressing in women’s clothing and requesting the right to wear cosmetics.

He also requested gender reassignment surgery, however was rejected by specialists.

(Image: heraldsun.com.au)

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Denyer

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/serial-killer-paul-denyer-defies-prison-order-to-stop-dressing-as-woman/story-fnat7jnn-1226615249474

The Ripper Crew:

(Warning for content) 

The “Chicago rippers” or as they are more commonly known, “The ripper crew”, were a self-proclaimed Satanic group, which included a member named Robin Geght, who was a previous employee of clown killer John Wayne Gacy. 

Along with two brothers, Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis and their associate Edward Spreitzer, the Ripper crew allegedly cruised around in their van, preying on unsuspecting woman who were often, but not always, working as prostitutes. 

They hunted these women in order to sacrifice them in a ritual that would involve cutting off, masturbating on and consuming their breasts, while reading verses from Anton Levay’s Satanic bible out loud. They were also said to have raped the wound, and were thought to have murdered 18+ victims. The group was eventually caught, when a victim, Beverly Washington, managed to survive an attack. 

Although raped and having had her breast severed, as with the other victims, she managed to hold on and was found alive by some rail road tracks. She gave a description of both the men and their vehicle, leading to their conviction. 

They confessed, and despite Geght claiming his innocence, he got 120 years. Thomas Kokoraleis was sentenced to life, having confessed to his crimes, and is due to be released from the Illinois River Correctional Center where he is currently incarcerated on September 30th, 2017. 

His brother Andrew was executed. 

He was last inmate to be executed in the state Illinois.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripper_Crew
http://www.viralnova.com/ripper-crew/
http://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/gecht-robin.htm

Cabaret de L’Enfer:

The Café (or Cabaret) de L’Enfer was a Hell themed, 19th century Café in Paris.

Supposedly upon approaching the doors, which were double and wooden with a gaping devils mouth baring its fangs looming from above, a doorsman clad in a Satan costume would bellow: “Enter and be damned!”

Once inside patrons would sit at small black tables, under a low, arched ceiling with plaster cast demons reaching down at them, their faces screaming and snarling.

The wait staff and bar tenders would be dressed in apt attire and would serve drinks with dangerous and devilish names.

sources: http://www.coolstuffinparis.com/cafe_de_lenfer_paris.php

http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/06/15/paris-the-ghostly-nightclubs-of-the-belle-epoque/

http://www.leftways.com/2014/07/cafe-de-lenfer-hell-club-19th-century-paris/

Anthropodermic bibliopegy:

BOUND IN HUMAN FLESH

If you’ve ever seen Sam Rami’s 1980’s cult horror classic “Evil dead 2”, you may remember the Necronomicon, aka. “The book of the dead”; bound in human skin and inked in human blood.

But books of this nature are not strictly limited to the fictional horror world as you can find examples of them throughout history.

 Dated back to the 17^th century, anthropodermic bibliopegy, as it is called, wasn’t as uncommon as one may think. There is many a book on the subject of anatomy bound in the skins of post-dissection cadavers, who donated their flesh willingly as stated in their last wills and testaments.

 Mostly famously “The Narrative of the Life of James Allen”, an autobiographical work by outlaw and highwayman, James Allen, was a death bed confession and life story, written during his incarceration.

Due to Allen’s illiteracy, the book was transcribed by a warden and published in 1837 by a company named Harrington and Co. 

The original copy was bound in Allen’s own skin, and at his request, presented to one of his previous robbery victims to commend his bravery.

William Burke, of the infamous Burke and Hare murder team were known for their midnight prowling of the streets of Edinburgh, where they would drug and murder their victims, in order to turn their bodies over to a local anatomist for profit. Post execution, Burke’s skin was used to fashion a pocket book, which is currently displayed in Edinburgh museum.

 Another example is English Bristol native and convicted murderer John Horwood, whose court proceedings were bound in his skin after he was hanged in 1821 having murdered his girlfriend after seeing her with another boy. He threw a stone at the couple, which made contact with the head of his then girlfriend, Eliza Balsom, hitting her in the temple, causing a fracture to her skull. 

She died some days later and Horwood was convicted and hanged.

His skeleton was donated to the University of Bristol, where it stood with the noose still around the neck until 2011, when his skeletal remains were eventually laid to rest alongside his father.

(above Left: An anatomy book, bound in skin)

A more opportunistic and grisly example of human flesh bound books, and other various articles, took place during the French Revolution.

As not to waste the vast amount of human surplus left behind by the guillotine executions, the skins of the executed were sold as leather and used to bind books as well as used in the manufacture of leather waist coats and shoes.

From the skins of the convicted, to the flesh donated by admirers, and even erotic texts bound in the skin of women’s breasts, there are many existing examples of anthropodermic bibliopegy still around today.

Sources: Evil Dead (Sam Rami) 
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27903742
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropodermic_bibliopegy
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/2/2/the-skinny-on-harvards-rare-book/
http://etseq.law.harvard.edu/2014/04/852-rare-old-books-new-technologies-and-the-human-skin-book-at-hls/
http://hlrecord.org/2005/11/books-bound-in-human-skin-lampshade-myth/

Kevin Barrera:

(Image: Google earth)

Kevin Barrera was 14 years old at the time of his murder in 2009.

He was killed by gunshot next to a rail road track in Richmond.

Unfortunately, that is all that is known in regards to the case, which six years later, is still unsolved.

 The story was highlighted by news stations and websites when the discovery of a Google satellite image displaying the image of Barrera’s body was captured on Google maps.

If you have any information of the case PLEASE report to: 

1701 Regatta Blvd, Richmond, CA 94804, United States 

Phone:+1 510-233-1214

sources: http://richmondconfidential.org/2013/11/25/family-of-homicide-victim-still-wait-for-answers/

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24550488/captured-google-maps-4-year-old-murder-haunts

The butcher baker:

Robert Hansen, dubbed by the media as “The butcher baker” was an American born serial killer active been the periods of ’71 – ’83. 

Appearing to be an ordinary man, a bakery owner with a wife and children, nobody would ever suspect how grisly the nature of his secret life would be.

 He had turned to hunting in his youth as a form of escape from a domineering father and childhood bullying, but no one would imagine that he would start hunting humans as game instead.

 He kidnapped women, bundled them onto his two-seat monoplane and flew them out to the Alaskan wilderness, where he would hunt them down using a .223-caliber Ruger Mini-14 rifle 

Hansen confessed to the murder of 17 women when he was convicted in 1984. However it is suspected to have been many more over the 12 years he was active. 

He was arrested following the escape of one of his victims, a then 17 year old girl by the name of Cindy Paulson. She got into Hansen’s car after being offered $200 to perform oral sex, but instead found herself with a gun to her head. She was taken to a house of his, chained by the neck, raped, tortured and abused for hours until her kidnapper drove them both to the airport in an attempt to load her onto his monoplane.

 Paulson decided to make an escape and managed to flag down a truck driver before Hansen got to her. Robert Hansen was sentenced to life imprisonment, plus 461 years. He died in prison August 21st 2014.

sources: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/serial-killer-sick-revenge-alaskan-frontier-article-1.1922167 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hansen
http://criminalminds.wikia.com/wiki/Robert_Hansen

The Muswell Hill murderer:

(Image: Wikipedia)

Dennis Nilsen, aka the “Muswell Hill Murderer” was a British serial killer and necrophiliac, active between the years of ’78-’83.

He would lure his victims to his flat and proceed to drown or strangle them, before cleaning and dressing the corpses and living with them until he would eventually cut them up and flush them down his apartment toilet, or alternatively burn them on bonfires.  

He was responsible for the death of twelve young men in and around London and was dubbed “The British Jeffery Dahmer” by the media.

He received a life sentence in ’83, and was incarcerated at the Yorkshire based HMP Full Sutton maximum security prison, and resides there until this day.

sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Nilsen

The Flattop John Doe:

(Images: Doe Network) 

"Dear Lib, I should write in case my situation doesn't improve. This may be the end of my journey.”

 In September 2004 two Elk hunters found the skeletal remains of an unknown man, at the Flat Tops, White River National Forest, Garfield County, Colorado. Dubbed the “Flat top John Doe”, the unidentified man was a white, Caucasian male, around 5”11- 6”1 and estimated between the ages of 35 – 65.

 He had extensive dental work, including crowns, bridge work and a gold capped tooth and also suffered from severe degeneration of the spine and neck. The man had no broken bones and cause of death was recorded as natural / unknown.

Amongst his personal effects at the scene was a journal.

Although damaged over the estimated five years he had gone undiscovered, some of the writing was legible and said as follows:

 "I should write in case my situation here doesn't improve. This may be the end of my journey."

 "Would like for you to claim the body . . . services or memoreal. Cremation."

"Third choice take them up in a glider (I promise not to get sick on you,"

Other pages were less legible and only a few words per sentence could be read.

 The unknown man appeared to be requesting the recipient of the note “Lib” to contact another female in the event of his death.

"ar on the . . . would you call her...d have it sent...you because I . . . want it to . . . where." "be . . . er . . . my . . . s are going."

Other items found on and around the man's person include: -deteriorated pieces of his sleeping bag and backpack.

-Various items of attire including a green rain poncho, blue woolen socks with duct-tape around the toes (possibly to protect from blisters while hiking), a black belt, and underwear.

-An empty bottle of Tylenol pills -A pack of razors, foam ear plugs, a brush, tweezers, finger nail clippers.

 -Six $ Bills, one $1 bill, one $5 bill and one $1 bill, all dated 1999.
-Various camping accessories including a butane gas stove with two gas canisters, two canteens, a dome tent, two drinking cups, a water filter kit, a tent repair kit, an aluminum cooking pot, two National geographic maps wrapped in plastic with the journey route to the discovery site of the skeletal remains marked on them.

-Sun glasses, reading glasses, binoculars and a magnifying glass.
-A 4 in 1 game set including battleships.
-A pack of coloured lighters and twenty packs of camel cigarettes

-A green spiral note book with a heart incorporating three symbols inside, two of which appear to be an X and a cat drawn on the cover. 

The man has not been identified to this day. 

Who was he? 

What happened to him? 

And who is Lib?

The Doe network page for The Flat top Doe

sources: http://doenetwork.org/cases/789umco.html