Deadly Rejection: The Murder of Troy Temar             On the early morning of July 4 th , 1999, Troy Temar was supposed to be volunteering to park cars for a fundraising event for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. This was one of many generous acts Troy volunteered for, as giving was just his nature. However, at four o’clock that morning, first responders received a call about a burning vehicle on an abandoned property. Inside the vehicle was the dead body of Troy Temar.      

The Bridge: The Murders of Abigail Williams & Liberty German (ORIGINAL POST) Gina Westfall Oct 25, 2022 9 min read On the chilly winter afternoon of February 13th, 2017, two young girls headed out for a day of adventure in their small town of Delphi, Indiana. The trail the girls headed out on connected to the Monon High Bridge. The Monon High Bridge was a railroad bridge over Deer Creek that was no longer in use and in ill repair. The bridge had no railings, rotted railroad t

Beyond Redemption: The Murder of Collen Slemmer                   The Job Corps Program began in 1964 under the United States Department of Labor with a mission to help young people between the ages of 16 and 24 improve the quality of their lives through vocational and academic training aimed at gainful employment and career pathways. Eligibility criteria for the program includes being between the ages of 16 and 24, meeting low-income criteria, background check free of specif

A resident of Hamilton County, Indiana, was walking along a rural road on April 24 th , 2020. Hamilton County is a very safe area, in the 98 th  percentile for safety in the entire country, so imagine the shock when this resident found a dead body lying in a ditch! The resident called 911. When authorities arrived, they found the male’s body, clearly deceased and decomposing, lying in the ditch with a rifle sling around his neck. It appeared that the body had been dumped as h

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