The following story is full of family, overcoming odds, success, fame and fortune and the love of a father and son, it is also a tale of tragedy, cover-ups, lies, myths and possible injustice. However at the end of the day we are taking a look at two things; the murder of a man and the ties that murder may have to one of the most reported on events of the 1990’s. Our story begins in 1936 in rural North Carolina. James Raymond Jordan was born in Wallace NC on July 31 1936. He met his future wife Deloris in High school, he joined the United States Air Force and eventually they had 5 children and ended up in Wilmington NC. James was known to be a gifted athlete a talent that his children also had and he spent much of his time sharing this love and honing of that talent with his children who apparently had the same gift of athleticism. Specifically in baseball and basketball. James held his relationships in high regard, while keeping a close relationship with his children he also kept close with his friends and co-workers. Even after he moved to Charlotte NC after his children moved out of the family home after they graduated school. On July 22 1993 James was attending the funeral of a former co-worker in Wilmington NC. Later that evening shortly after midnight he began the long drive from Wilmington back to Charlotte taking NC HWY 74. Just before 2A.M. on July 23rd James decided to pull over off HWY 74 in Lumberton NC about 800 yards West of I-95 in the parking Lot of what at the time was a Quality Inn Motel. Earlier That precious day in Lumberton two friends teenagers Daniel Green and Larry Demery who despite two and other friends were attending a party at Greens Godmothers place at a Trailer park in Lumberton. At 1:30 a.m. either both Daniel or Larry or just one of them, this will be discussed later, departed the location of the gathering and for some reason that remains debated made their way to the Quality Inn parking lot that James Jordan had pulled over at to rest according to court documents. Sometime between 2 a.m. and daybreak on the 23rd and altercation occurred between James Jordan and someone at the Quality Inn parking lot. This incident ended in 56 year old James Jordan, husband and father of 5 being shot once in the chest by a .38 caliber handgun and killed. We are not going to say who was there or who pulled the trigger of the handgun because that fact is still up to debate for the sake of the investigative review we are conducting here.
1987, Florida rapist Tommie Lee Andrews became the first person in the U.S. to be convicted as a result of DNA evidence. In 1995 despite mountains of circumstantial and physical evidence O.J. Simpson was found not guilty in the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The clear DNA evidence failed to convict him of the murders. It has been reported many times that the juvenile age of DNA evidence and the prosecutions failure to have experts explain it lead to the disregard of the scientific proof of Simpson's proximity to the crime and choosing “if the glove doesn’t fit you must acquit” defense. It seems in today’s world you cannot even consider a guilty verdict without the presence of DNA evidence. The recent DNA based arrest of California’s Golden State Killer after 40 years at large is a testament to how far DNA technology has come in just a short 32 years since it first was used to secure its first conviction. Today we are going to go through a case that has been credited partially with leading the way for the DNA technology that leads to the Golden State Killer’s arrest. When someone goes missing it is assumed that someone somewhere is going to report it to the police, the media, and whoever will listen and give them a chance at locating the loved one that has gone missing. We see the tragic stories of missing almost everywhere we look. When a person disappears it just seems like the names and story of that person will be made public and law enforcement knowledge. So when a woman and 3 children went missing sometime in the early 1980s. The only reason we know of their absence from the world is the discovery of their corpses. Despite widespread news media and police efforts to identify them, nobody comes forward or can help in the identification of the four undeserving victims of obvious violent ends we must stop and consider, what the hell is happening? What happened following the 1985 discovery of a barrel with the remains of a woman and child lead to a 30-year epic that still is leaving many unanswered questions that may never be answered. Allenstown, New Hampshire is in Merrimack County in the southeast portion of the state. Its current population is about 4,322. As it is now it was in the 1980s a very close-knit community where everyone knows everyone else. Bear Brook State Park cuts through the heart of the Allenstown mapped area. The State Park is about 10,000 acres in size and is the largest developed state park in the state of New Hampshire. Summer 1985: local youth Jesse Morgan and friends kick over a barrel in the woods near Bear Brook State Park. He said it “smelled like rotten milk”
Most Americans can recall back to school being in classes that talked about the Salem Witch Trials. The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused, 19 of whom were found guilty and executed by hanging. This event was made historically cemented into our culture by the sheer size of those involved and by the popularity of playwright Arthur Millers 1953 award-winning play “The Crucible” Arthur Miller’s play was a metaphor for the “Witch Hunt” for communists during the Red Scare however it made the events of the 1600s in the American Colonies common knowledge. We are not going to spend today’s episode investigating the Red Scare, or even diving into the modern equivalent of the Witch Trials by comparing the 1600’s witch Hunts to the Satanic Panic of the ’70s and ’80s We are going to tell the story of a single outlier of the Salem Wit...
Deborah Ann Wolfe, often referred to as "Debbie," was born on June 19th, 1957. She was a 28-year-old nurse and residing four miles on the outskirts of Fayetteville, NC. Debbie lived alone in a wooded area 4 miles from the Fayetteville City off the Cumberland County HWY 401 With her 2 dogs Morgan & Mason. This is called the Wolfe Family Cabin in multiple sources so I assume she was either the owner of the family was the owner or long-time occupants of the property and Cabin in this rural and isolated location. Debbie, as she was called by those who knew her, was a nurse, she worked at the Fayetteville Veterans Administration Hospital located off Ramsey Street in Fayetteville. The VA Hospital in Fayetteville is the regions busiest in the cause from Fayetteville’s colocation with Ft Bragg and the population of the area is almost all veteran or tied to veterans somehow. Cumberland County is reported to have over 30,000 residents most of those are Fayetteville and Ft Bragg connected. Be...
Since the beginning of time, and once human beings became self-aware of their mortality they have become intrigued with what happens after we die. Although science has no proof that we transfer our conscience beyond the end of our physical lives religion and spirituality have worldwide offered an answer. Most religions or spiritual beliefs suggest that our souls carry on to either another plane of existence or are reincarnated in some way. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary every so often a situation or event occurs that baffle even the most convincing skeptics or scientific reasoning. Today we are going to cover one of the most argued examples of, what very well may be, proof of reincarnation that has ever occurred. We are discussing the 4 or should we be bold and say “2” lives of the Pollock twins. This story takes place in England. John Pollock was born in Bristol in 1920. He was raised as a member of the Church of England but converted to Catholicism. John’s wife, ...
This week’s case file is TC-0105-P1: Satan of Northport, The Case of Ricky Kasso In the 1970’s a growing social sickness began to spread. Although many things attributed to this widespread phenomenon For many sociologists they attribute this in part to a media release of books such as Satan Seller by Mike Warnke and Michelle Remembers by Lawrence Pazder they both sold claims that Satanic Cults and that a secret and growing Satanic threat to the Christian values was creeping into the American dream and was a real danger to the culture and security of the world. In 1992 Mike Warnke was exposed as a fraud and his tales and years of preaching were finally made known, Also in the early 1990s the tale of satanic ritual abuse in Michelle remembers that was claimed to be real was proven to be full of inaccuracies and fabrications however these books efforts and the threat it fictionally created, along with other growing issues in society and later fabrications of the truth made by religio...
This week’s case file is TC-0105-P1: Satan of Northport, The Case of Ricky Kasso We are joined by the author of "The Acid King" Jesse Pollack. In the 1970’s a growing social sickness began to spread. Although many things attributed to this widespread phenomena For many sociologists they attribute this in part to a media release of books such as Satan Seller by Mike Warnke and Michelle Remembers by Lawrence Pazder they both sold claims that Satanic Cults and that a secret and growing Satanic threat to the Christian values was creeping into the American dream and was a real danger to the culture and security of the world. In 1992 Mike Warnke was exposed as a fraud and his tales and years of preaching were finally made known, Also in the early 1990s the tale of satanic ritual abuse in Michelle remembers that was claimed to be real was proven to be full of inaccuracies and fabrications however these books efforts and the threat it fictionally created, along with other growing issues i...
This week’s case file is TC-0104: The Connecticut River Valley Killer. 1998, a federal law was passed by the United States Congress, titled: Protection of Children from Sexual Predator Act of 1998 (Title 18, United States Code, Chapter 51, and Section 1111). This law includes a definition of serial killings: Serial Murder is: a series of three or more killings, not less than one of which was committed within the United States, having common characteristics such as to suggest the reasonable possibility that the crimes were committed by the same actor or actors. The FBI openly considers this definition to be limited in its application, this is discussed in detail in The FBI’s publication on the topic titled Serial Murder: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives for Investigators. This publication was put together by the Behavioral Analysis Unit, the unit made famous for its criminal profilers like John Douglas and its members made popular in films like Silence of The Lambs and TV shows like...
Who kidnaped and murdered Adam Walsh? July 27, 1981, Reve Walsh and her 6-year-old son Adam were at the Sears Department store at the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood Florida. Adam begged his mother to let him play the Atari 2600 that was on kiosk display that they passed near the toy aisles. Reve, noting a group of other kids at the game taking turns playing the game...