Hey everybody, long time no post. This site is a touch uglier and more annoying to use than I remember.
Whew. Anything happening with you guys? It's my birthday today, and I decided to finally update a few things instead of getting drunk on bourbon and scream-vomiting about my childhood like I had planned.
Recently, I (finally) finished the video edition of episode 5 of the podcast. The episode was delayed two times, and was supposed to come out in January of 2020. It came out in March, but because of the whole COVID situation, it was stuck at about 80% all the way until October 2020. In the meantime, I had updated several sections, found more research material, and turned this episode into another bloated nightmare is desperate, sad attempts at humor.
The video version is below, please enjoy. (UPDATE: Link fixed)
The list of sources is below. It was WAY too long to fit into the YouTube description box.
SOLVED UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
PODCAST EPISODE 5
The audio version was posted back in March,
but the video edition is finally here. Welcome to pandemic
pandemonium. The entire world has changed since my last episode was
uploaded here. This episode is not about viruses or quarantines, but
I hope it gives you something to do while you count your rolls of
toilet paper and ensure you have enough shotgun shells for the
ensuing apocalypse. (This joke was written in March before the west
coast caught on fire and all those people died.)
In this
episode we discuss the MURDER of Elmer DeBoer by Jerry Strickland
with accomplice Melissa Munday, the ROBBERY and possible mistaken
identity case in Michael Scott Martin's FINAL APPEAL, possible
satanic cult murders or coincidences with the story of Kurt McFall's
UNEXPLAINED DEATH, and FINALLY we get to talk about how mail worked
in WWII! YES! EXCITING!
It goes really sideways in story with
lots of information about Satan, so hydrate, wash your hands, and
prepare for evil to enter your body in the much belated EPISODE
FIVE!
Visit the website for the full listing of all the
sources I used to create this episode.
Website:
www.destructoblog.com
PATREON:
https://www.patreon.com/destructoblog
Special thanks to David
Joseph Moody for being my first patron!
*Unsolved Mysteries is
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in any way. Its subjects and brief clips are used for commentary,
criticism, parody and review only. This is not an episode of Unsolved
Mysteries, and this program is designed to be a fan-made companion
piece to each actual episode of the show. So support the show by
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VIDEO/AUDIO
Unsolved Mysteries,
S1E2 (Used under fair use.)
1987-88 (Edited and re-aired.)
Viewable via Amazon and now on Youtube.
WWII U.S. Navy Recruit
Film, Pearl Harbor 1942. Used under Public
Domain.
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
https://archive.org/details/NPC-3133
Sailors
Barter With Natives And Receive Mail Aboard USS Nicholas (DD-449),
CC0
Tulagi Harbor,
1943.
https://archive.org/details/NPC-1849a
PRIVATE SNAFU
Films are in the Public Domain as they were produced by WB for the US
Gov't.
Censored, Dir. Frank Tashlin. July 1944.
Booby Traps,
Dir. Bob Clampett. Jan 1944.
Fighting Tools, Dir. Bob Clampett.
Oct 1944.
U.S. Army Field Post Office CC0
U.S. Army Field
Post Office near Vierville, France during WWII. France, June 21, 1944
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqxOETv2tEs
Western Chase
with a Twist (clip from Sunset Range) CEP390 CC0 Public Domain
Clip
taken from the film. 1932.
http://www.archive.org/details/sunset_range ,
https://archive.org/details/CEP390
Häxan
Clips from the
first half used (satan clips). 1922. Public
Domain.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/haxan-witchcraft-through-the-ages-1922
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkXlXc0lA9c
Mazes
and Monsters (Film, fair use)
1982. CBS (TV Movie). Dir: Steven
Hilliard
Stern.
https://www.amazon.com/Mazes-Monsters-Tom-Hanks/dp/B06WVY91TW
Jury
Finds Radecki Guilty on 12 Counts in Drugs-for-Sex
Case
https://youtu.be/_lVYM6hhKZI
60 Minutes: Dungeons and
Dragons Special (1985)
https://vimeo.com/167583241
Larry
King - Debate On Violence In Comic Books
(1989)
https://youtu.be/dbRl2pnR3bU
CBC: Is Dungeons &
Dragons Dangerous? (Cut from final, but gives
context)
https://youtu.be/VvBvltu32Fs
Harry Potter:
Witchcraft Repackaged 700 Club Clip
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MUSIC
THREE
CHAIN LINKS, Album: PHANTOMS, Tracks: Magic Hour, Shadows, Architects
www.threechainlinks.bandcamp.com/ Used under Attribution 3.0
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
"Dark
Walk" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under
Creative Commons: Used under Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
“Sunglasses”
Loyalty Freak Music, Album: INSTRUMENTAL R&B BEATS TO SING OR RAP
ON
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Loyalty_Freak_Music
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Used under CC0 1.0 Universal License.
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PHOTOS
Assorted stills from Unsolved
Mysteries, Season 1 Episode 2.
Most other images taken from Google
maps, or are composite images made in photoshop.
Message me if you
see a mistake or would like an image credited or
sourced.
Suit of armor photo originally by morguefile user lauramusikanski
STRICKLAND-196117.jpg (from Google
Images)
https://mdocweb.state.mi.us/otis2/otis2profile.aspx?mdocNumber=196117
https://www.bailbondshq.com/michigan/midoc-inmate-STRICKLAND/196117
Photo
of Mary
DeBoer
DailyTribune_DeBoer329200_20140717
https://cache.legacy.net/legacy/images/cobrands/dailytribune/photos/DailyTribune_DeBoer329200_20140717.jpg
V-Mail
Images, combined and
edited
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/mail-call-v-mail
Chevrolet_Camaro_Z28_(10065927676)
Dennis
Elzinga / CC BY
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)
1971_Camaro_SS
cars
cars cars Florida / CC BY
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)
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scrolling down this far. Your hair looks nice.
ARTICLES/DOCUMENTS
STORY 1
Jerry Wayne Strickland
MDOC
STATUS
https://mdocweb.state.mi.us/otis2/otis2profile.aspx?mdocNumber=196117
Strickland Convicted in May 1987
Robbery-Slaying
Author's name omitted. AP News. 24 Aug
1988.
https://apnews.com/4fae4198d91c47880c055699f2860dfc
Obituary of Mary Alice DeBoer
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/mary-deboer-obituary?pid=171750954
"Teen
linked to murder left home at 15"
by Georgea Kovanis, Detroit
Free Press. 15 May 1987.
Accessed via
Newspapers.com 26 Nov 2019
"'Unsolved
Mysteries' leads to arrest of murder suspects"
The Times
(Streator, Illinois) From UPI. 8 Feb 1988.
Accessed via
Newspapers.com 26 Nov 2019
"TV show
helps nab suspects"
Scrantonian
Tribune (Scranton, Pennsylvania) From UPI. 7 Feb 1988.
Accessed via
Newspapers.com 26 Nov 2019
"Teen returns from youth home"
The Star-Democrat (Easton, Maryland) From AP. 1 Jun 1989.
Accessed via Newspapers.com 26 Nov 2019
"West Virginia parolee is charged in slaying of oil company courier"
Brian Flanigan and Georgea Kovanis. Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI). 14 May 1987.
Accessed via Newspapers.com 26 Nov 2019
"FUGITIVES FACE SLAYING CHARGES \ COUPLE IDENTIFIED IN TV SHOW LEFT \ STATE TO 'MAKE A BETTER LIFE"
Georgea Kovanis. Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI). 8 Feb 1987.
Accessed
via blog Sitcomsonline.com via user post. Unable to locate
original.
"TIPS BRING
ARRESTS IN 2 OF 3 MICHIGAN CASES SHOWN"
Deborah Kaplan.
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI). 8 Feb 1988.
Accessed via blog Sitcomsonline.com via user post. Unable to locate original.
"A"
SECTION, THE ORLANDO SENTINEL
Compiled by Bob Kelly from wire reports. Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI). 8 Feb 1988.
Accessed via blog Sitcomsonline.com via user post. Unable to locate original.
"FUGITIVE COUPLE HAD PREPARED TO MOVE ON"
Georgea Kovanis. Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI). 8 Feb 1988.
Accessed via blog Sitcomsonline.com via user post. Unable to locate original.
"SUSPECTS IN
SLAYING WON'T FIGHT EXTRADITION"
Georgea Kovanis. Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI). 10 Feb 1988.
Accessed via blog Sitcomsonline.com via user post. Unable to locate original.
"MOSES LAKE COUPLE WON'T FIGHT EXTRADITION"
The Seattle Times. AP by
Knight-RidderNewspapers.
Detroit Free Press
(Detroit, MI). 10 Feb 1988.
Accessed via blog Sitcomsonline.com via user post. Unable to locate original.
"RUNAWAY WAS GOOD
STUDENT \ LIFE OF TEENAGE SLAYING SUSPECT \ SURPRISES HIGH SCHOOL
OFFICIALS"
Georgea Kovanis. Detroit Free
Press (Detroit, MI). 15 Feb 1988.
Accessed via blog Sitcomsonling.com via user post. Unable to locate original.
"OAKLAND COURT TOLD OF
ALLEGED ABUCTION PLOT"
Georgea Kovanis. Detroit
Free Press (Detroit, MI). 24 Feb 1988.
Accessed
via blog Sitcomsonling.com via user post. Unable to locate
original.
"MURDER CASE DEAL COULD DROP CHARGES
AGAINST GIRL"
Jim Finkelstein. Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI). 29 Mar 1988.
Accessed
via blog Sitcomsonling.com via user post. Unable to locate
original.
"AGREEMENT WOULD CUT CHARGES \ IN
SLAYING OF OIL FIRM COURIER"
Jim Finkelstein. Detroit
Free Press (Detroit, MI). 30 Mar 1988.
Accessed via
blog Sitcomsonling.com via user post. Unable to locate original.
"LOVER SAYS STRICKLAND CONFESSED TO MURDER"
Georgea Kovanis. Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI). 17 Aug 1988.
Accessed via
blog Sitcomsonling.com via user post. Unable to locate original.
"MAN
CONVICTED IN MURDER OF OIL FIRM COURIER"
Jim Finkelstein.
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI). 23 Aug 1988.
Accessed via
blog Sitcomsonling.com via user post. Unable to locate original.
"WOMAN HOPES TO MARRY JAILED MICHIGAN MURDERER"
Jeanne May. AP and Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI). 17 Apr 1988.
Accessed via
blog Sitcomsonling.com via user post. Unable to locate original.
STORY 2
Martin v. State, 623 S.W.2d 391 (1981)
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Panel No. 2. November 4, 1981.
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2449233/martin-v-state/?q=mic...
"DALLAS COUNTY CASE TO BE FEATURED ON TV PROGRAM"
The
Dallas Morning News Company. (Metro Report, p18) 3 Nov 1987.
https://archives.dallasnews.com/uncategorized/IO_4b302d53-1a33-4306-827a-ad8cfe65be87/
Michael Scott Martin,
Plaintiff-appellant..
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- 796 F.2d 813 (5th Cir. 1986) Aug. 13, 1986
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/796/813/252127/
"Court Proceedings"
Tyler Morning Telegraph
(Tyler, Texas) (p43). 6 Nov 1981.
Accessed via Newspapers.com 25
November 2019.
STORY 3
"Clarion doctor sentenced to over one decade in prison for cash and sex for scrips scheme"
Katie Weidenboerner. The Courier Express. 2 Jun 2016. Accessed 15 Mar 2020.
"Some U.S. youngsters are tuning to devil-worship in the '80s"
Dennis Oliver. Associated Press. Pub in Honolulu Star-Bulletin (Honolulu, HI). 12 Nov 1987.
Accessed via Newspapers.com 26 November 2019.
"More young people move to embrace devil worship cults"
Dennis Oliver. The Daily Review. Pub in The Petaluma Argus-Courier (Petaluma, CA) 28 Nov 1987.
Accessed via Newspapers.com 26 November 2019.
"More young people move to embrace devil worship cults" (truncated reprint)
Dennis Oliver. The Daily Review. Pub in The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA) 28 Nov 1987.
Accessed via Newspapers.com 26 November 2019.
"Growing Concern - Experts say more youths involved with occult"
Hayward. AP. Pub in Tulare Advance-Register (Tulare, CA) 5 Dec 1987.
Accessed via Newspapers.com 26 November 2019.
Kurt Thomas McFall Memorial Page
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64756310/kurt-thomas-mcfall
(Info can be added by anyone. Images are stills of the same episode of Unsolved Mysteries)
"The Witch Who Switched Back" (A pun on the original headlines "The Witch Who Switched")
Traci Hukill. Images by Christopher Gardner. Metroactive (Metro), Boulevards New Media. 4 Nov 1998.
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.29.98/pryor-9843.html
"My
Youthful Friendship with Death"
Tim Knight. Slope of Hope.
Mar 2013. Accessed on 26 Nov
2019.
https://slopeofhope.com/2013/03/my-youthful-friendship-with-death.html
"NBC offers more sensational 'Mysteries'"
Nancy Morris. The Shreveport Journal (Shreveport, Louisiana). 2 Feb 1988.
Accessed via Newspapers.com 26 November 2019.
"Brilliant Computer Student Dies from Gun Wound"
William Robbins. The New York Times. 18 Aug 1980.
"The Pulling Report"
Compiled by Michal A. Stackpole. 1990.
Accessed on the Escapist as an archive.
http://www.theescapist.com/archive-pullingreport.htm
In Pursuit of Satan
Robert D. Hicks. Prometheus Books. 1 May 1991. Accessed via Kindle Edition in Mar 2020.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003XYE6Q4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Wikipedia articles were reviewed for James Dallas Eggbert III, Rona Jaffe and Mazes and Monsters, mostly used to find primary sources.
STORY 4
“Calling all ex-GIs who sailed on Caleb Strong”
Les Winick. Chicago
Tribune. 7 Sep 1986. Accessed 15 Mar
2020.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-09-07-860307003
“V-Mail Service...”
The Bedford Daily-Times Mail. 28 Aug 1942.
Accessed via
Newspapers.com on 26 Nov 2019.
“Post office sends man his youth”
Cynthia Taggart. The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington). 30 Aug 1986.
Accessed via Newspapers.com on 26 Nov 2019.
The art of Cards and Letters, Mail Call,V-Mail (Exhibit)
Smithsonian. National
Postal Museum. Online article/exhibit. Date not
given.
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibits/past/the-art-of-cards-and-letters/m
Wikipedia articles about
V-Mail and the military mail service were used, primarily to discover
dates and more primary
sources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=V-mail&oldid=927282209
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