Missing and Murdered

True Crime and Horror

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Boys and girls of every age

Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

Come with us and you will see

This, our town of Halloween

This is Halloween

This is Halloween

Pumpkins scream in the dead of night 🎃

This is Halloween

Everybody make a scene

Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright

It's our town

Everybody scream

In this town of Halloween

I am the one hiding under your bed 🛌

Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

I am the one hiding under your stairs

Fingers like snakes 🐍 and spiders 🕷 in my hair

This is Halloween

This is Halloween

Halloween

Halloween

Halloween

Halloween

In this town

We call home

Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

In this town

Don't we love it now?

Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

'Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can 🗑

Something's waiting, no, to pounce,

And

How

You'll

Scream!

This is Halloween

Red 'n' black, and slimy green

Aren't you scared?

Well, that's just fine

Say it once, say it twice

Take a chance and roll the dice 🎲🎲

Ride with the moon in the dead of night 🌕

Everybody scream

Everybody scream

In our town of Halloween!

I am the clown with the tear-away face 🤡

Here in a flash and gone without a trace

I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"

I am the wind blowing through your hair 🌬

I am the shadow on the moon at night 🌑

Filling your dreams to the brim with fright

This is Halloween

This is Halloween

Halloween

Halloween

Halloween

Halloween

Halloween

Halloween

Tender lumplings everywhere

Life's no fun without a good scare

That's our job, but we're not mean

In our town of Halloween

In this town

Don't we love it now?

Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back 💀

And scream like a banshee

Make you

Jump

Out

Of

Your

Skin! ☠️

This is Halloween

Everybody scream

Won't ya please make way for a very special guy?

Our man Jack is King of the Pumpkin patch

Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King, now!

This is Halloween

This is Halloween

Halloween

Halloween

Halloween

Halloween

In this town we call home

Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

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[truecrimecrystals]

Victoria Ochoa vanished at the age of 27 during August 2005. The mother-of-four lived in Clarksville, Tennessee at the time of her disappearance. She was last seen alive at a BP gas station on Providence Blvd. Victoria never returned home and was subsequently reported missing on August 15th, after she missed the birthday of one of her sons. 

Over six months passed without any sign of Victoria. Then, on February 21st, 2006, human remains were found under a mattress inside an abandoned home on D Street. Those skeletal remains were later identified as that of Victoria Ochoa. Her death was labeled a homicide.

The abandoned home where Victoria's remains were found is located less than half a mile away from the BP station where she was last seen alive. Years have passed since her tragic death, and detectives are still trying to piece together the circumstances under which Victoria left the gas station, and the events that followed. No suspects or persons of interest have ever been publicly identified.

Victoria's case grew cold fairly early into the investigation. In 2016 - over a decade after her death - it was announced that a team of cold case detectives was reopening the case. As of today, the case remains opened, and a monetary reward is available in exchange for information that could help solve Victoria's murder.

If you have any information that could help solve this case, please contact Detective Michael Ulrey at 931-648-0656 ext. 5483 or Crime Stoppers at 931-645-TIPS (8477).

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Alycia Mesiti was only 14 years-old when she was murdered by her own father on August 13th, 2006.

Mark Mesiti was given custody of Alycia and her brother less than a year earlier. The children moved into Mark’s home in Ceres, California after a Santa Clara County court found their mother Roberta Allen to be an unfit mother who struggled with depression. This left Alycia and her brother in Mark’s custody, despite the fact that Mark had a long criminal record. Seven years prior to gaining custody, Mark was convicted of several charges including drunk driving and bank fraud. He also had a domestic violence charge, for which he ended up accepting a plea deal and was ordered to attend anger management classes.

On August 14th, 2006, Mark’s girlfriend Shelly Walker took a flight from Los Angeles to Northern California to visit Mark at his home in Ceres. Shelly originally planned to pick Alycia up from a relative’s house in San Jose on her way from the airport, but Mark called her and told her to come straight to Ceres instead. When Shelly questioned Alycia’s absence, Mark allegedly told her that Alycia ran away. Shelly subsequently reported her missing as a runaway to the Ceres Police Department. Investigators stated that they initially did not find any evidence of foul play, and they believed Alycia actually had runaway from home. Mark ended up being evicted from the residence in December 2006. He eventually moved to Los Angeles with Shelly.

After nearly 3 years passed without any sign of Alycia, the investigation shifted. In March 2009, investigators brought cadaver dogs to Mark’s old home in Ceres. After getting a hit, a team dug up the backyard and ended up finding remains. Those remains were later identified as that of Alycia Mesiti. After her remains were identified, investigators obtained a search warrant for the home Mark and Shelly shared in Los Angeles. There, it was discovered that Mark and Shelly were running a meth lab in the home where children were living. The two were subsequently arrested and booked on drug and child endangerment charges.

As these charges were pending in Los Angeles, investigators in Ceres began working with Stanislaus County prosecutors on Alycia’s case. An autopsy concluded that Alycia died of acute drug intoxication. The report states, “the body showed the presence of opiates, morphine, amphetamine, methamphetamine, benzodiazepines, diazepam, methadone, and anti-depressants.” Investigators believed that Mark provided his daughter with these drugs for a horrifying reason: to prevent her from resisting his sexual abuse. There was proof that Mark had been sexually abusing Alycia, as a numerous amount of pornographic images of Alycia and other minor children were found on his computer. Investigators also uncovered videos of Mark molesting his daughter while she was unconscious. Mark was convicted on the drug and child endangerment charges in 2011. After that, investigators had been sent back to Stanislaus County where he was charged with Alycia’s murder. He was also charged with sexually abusing Alycia and two other minor girls.

Mark’s trial began in October 2017. However, just a few days in, Mark decided to plead guilty. It is unclear what led him to change his plea, but just a few weeks later he tried to take the guilty plea back. The judge denied this, and Mark was eventually sentenced to life behind bars. He remains in prison today.

[leovincible]

No Distance will help you. I’ll find you.

Kelling on a road trip.

[corpsecavalier]

The game and movie have given me something I haven't quite felt in a long while: pure wonder and inspiration, plain and simple.

This is a love letter to the work of art that is Iron Lung.

Fineliners + brush pens on paper, scanned and edited on clip studio paint.

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[truecrimecrystals]

Pictured above: The Short Family, circa 2002.

The Shorts were known as an ‘nice, average family’. Michael (50) and his wife Mary (36) owned a mobile home moving business and were raising their daughter Jennifer (9) in Bassett, Virginia. The trio was described as a private, but happy family. According to acquaintances, the Short family tended to be on the quieter side, and they were not known to cause drama. Due to all of this, community was incredibly shocked when Michael and Mary were found shot to death at their home on the evening of August 15th, 2002. The police were called that evening after a co-worker who drove by the Short’s home spotted Michael laying in a pool of his blood inside their enclosed carport. One police arrived on the scene, they found Mary shot to death in the couple’s bedroom. Their daughter, Jennifer, was nowhere to be found. An Amber Alert was issued, and a search for the young girl quickly ensued.

All of the searches by professional search teams unfortunately came up empty. Then, over a month later, on September 26th, 2002,  a gruesome discovery was made. A man’s dogs found human remains in a creek in Rockingham County, North Carolina. The remains were located approximately 35 miles away from the Short’s home in Virginia. The remains were sent to the lab for forensic testing and were later confirmed to be that of Jennifer Short. She had also been shot in the head. It was clear at this point that the Short family had been executed—but so many questions remain, such as: who would want the Short family dead? Why was Jennifer taken to a different location? Was she held captive for a period of time before she was killed? Perhaps the most haunting question, though, is the motive. Why did someone kill this entire family?

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[gothish]

meet me at the cemetery gates

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Intruder

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[haectemporasunt]

This ad was part of a road safety campaign in 1967.

[leovincible]

Unnatural Habitat night encounter.

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[truecrimecrystals]

Derrick Tenorio was only 21 years-old when he vanished on August 5th, 2011. Derrick is a member of the Navajo Nation tribe, and he lived in Steamboat, Arizona prior to his disappearance. He was last seen between 11pm and 12am on the day he disappeared, walking towards the Steamboat Hill area to visit his girlfriend. Derrick never arrived, and has never been seen or heard from again.

Derrick left behind two toddler children, and his girlfriend was pregnant with another child at the time he disappeared as well. His family members do not believe that he is voluntarily missing. In fact, three months after Derrick’s disappearance, his sibling Mercedes Tenorio wrote a letter to the Navajo Times that stated that Derrick was badly beaten by people he trusted on the night he vanished. The individuals who allegedly beat Derrick have not been publicly identified and it is unclear if the incident is related to Derrick’s disappearance.

Mercedes also stated that gang violence is on the rise in the Navajo Nation, however Derrick’s family members said that he was not affiliated with any gang members at the time of his disappearance. There have been very few leads in Derrick’s case, but his family members remain hopeful that they will one day have answers about what happened to him. If you have any information that could lead to his whereabouts, please contact the Navajo Nation Police Department at 928-871-6111.