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Murder on the Ohio River

  In 2002, Karen Hodella was visiting Jeffersonville, Indiana. She was a 44-year-old woman from Port Orange, Florida. She went missing in October 2002. On November 1, 2002, a 45-year-old man named William Clyde Gibson was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and receiving stolen property. In January of 2003, Gibson led police to the location where Karen Hodella’s body was buried. He had stabbed her and buried her body in the woods near the Ohio River. He later got a tattoo of a knife on his lower right arm with the date 10-10-02. When asked if that is the day he killed Karen Hodella, Gibson said yes and that it was also his birthday. Gibson was born on October 10, 1957. He was arrested multiple times throughout his life. His charges included public intoxication, public indecency, receiving stolen property, auto theft, and sexual assault. He was convicted of 10 charges in eight different cases between 1992 and 2007. The last time he was arrested was on Mar...

The Girl Scout Murders

  In 1977, about two months before a Girl Scout camping trip at Camp Scott in Mayes County, Oklahoma, there was an on-site training session for the counselors. One counselor found that someone had gone through her belongings and stolen her doughnuts. She found a handwritten note inside the doughnut box that read “We are on a mission to kill three girls in tent one.” She went to the camp director with the note. The note was played off as a prank and thrown away. On June 12, 1977, at around 7 pm, there was a thunderstorm. Eight-year-old Lori Lee Farmer, ten-year-old Doris Denise Milner, and nine-year-old Michele Heather Guse were huddled together in tent number 8 during the storm. All three girls lived outside of Tulsa in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Tent number 8 was in the camp’s Kiowa unit which was the furthest from the counselor’s tent and not fully visible due to the showers. At around 6 am on June 13, a counselor was on her way to take a shower. She found a girl’s body in a sleepin...