On July 17, 1984, a deceased female was located in a deserted area near Lake Tahoe, California. Investigators were stumped as to her identity or her killer, who had horrifically murdered her by setting her alight...
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His cross walked up the draft of the EAST Salt Lake City home and rang. The doorbell
who is counting on the job in a view to go well and addressed, to impress.
Her clothes and make up were immaculate and her blonde week was styled innately after difficult life
This was her chance at a new beginning. She was
and about to blow it Missis.
cross was responding to an advertisement in the local paper for qualified and nurses reside. There
in candidate would provide round the clock, care and companionship to Alice Sullivan, notably women, suffering from Parkinson's disease. Missis,
cross, came with glowing references
thorough knowledge of medications and a war.
of experience,
Allister's, son and daughter believed her to be the right person to assist variety. Six year old mother
they weren't wrong,
after moving into a spare room in Alice, Sullivan's, Home Missus Crawley
became the best. The libyan nurse, the elderly woman, ever had
Kind, hearted and caring sheen short Alice, never went with there.
Even buying her clothing and gifts out of her own pay packet,
Despite gentle probing, MRS Crew
Never discussed her personal law for history.
Was clear that she was deeply religious as she spent her spare time locked in her bedroom rating. The book of Mormon
in a random omen of vulnerability. On Christmas day in nineteen ninety two she revealed that she had two sons, one of whom had died in a car accident. That day she put it
Spencer presents for Alice's granddaughters under the Christmas tree, explain
that she never had any daughters of her own to spoil.
Mrs Cross was a loyal companion. She never
no time off and told the Sullivan's that she considered them family still
There was something odd about the woman.
The Sullivan's couldn't shake the feeling that MRS Cross
hiding something from them.
Nearly thirty years earlier, on July, six nineteen sixty four click
Its standards and he's eighteen year old, wife Tereza stood for
seeing one another in the lounge of their cramped low set home in the car.
If city of gold city
in the corner of the room was the couples eleven months old, Son Howard playing with these toys. He was
used to the shouting matches between his parents and had learned to cape to himself when they fled up, but this time with different meaning
slide off the door Bell Rang, had go deputy sheriff, Fried amaze house two hundred feet.
On the road.
Teresa Sanders was outside cradling, Baby Howard. She t fully expire
and that her husband had come at her with an old model. Hunting raffle intending to bade her with the body end,
to managed to pry the firearm away from her husband, causing it to discharge.
Deputy May headed to the sea, his house, while Tereza remained behind clutching Howard and rocking back and forth.
she asked over and over if Clifford was going to be, ok, hoping that,
He had just grazed his hand,
and deputy May entered the sand lounge, he spotted Clifford lifeless body face up on the floor.
Surrounded by a pool of blood, a single
Let had shouted the twenty three year old left, wrist entities, chest and penance
right in his heart.
already were well aware of the domestic situation in the sand is household too
Wake solely on had appeared deputy sheriff amaze house, with bruises around her wrists and neck
cliff it had come home drunk, but
can a window and
can his anger out on his wife, who was expect
In their second child Clifford headache
used. Tereza ravine fidelity before baiting index
give her.
Teresa opted not to press charges and tensions between
Their couple escalated until then
final fight, all confrontation.
Teresa learned of her husbands, fight on route to the local police station piecing,
devastated screams were
The boy straight sought onlookers issue.
driven away
in September nineteen sixty four, this
pregnant Tereza Sanders faced trial for first the gray, murder
Her lawyer spoke of the violence she had enjoyed throughout her marriage include
being repeatedly punched kicked and burned.
With cigarettes
an acquaintance recalled the time Tereza had appeared on her doorstep needing a place to stay after escaping from her enraged, husband haven.
With its sister, didn't want to raise Tereza to end up in prison but acquitted
she could get home and take care of her children.
On the stand to razor emotional way described how she had fought, but her husband's rifle in fever herself, her son
her unborn child, a quota point
did psychologist described as an anxious, remorseful and frightened woman who posed no danger to herself or anyone else,
after nine days of proceedings, Tereza hold her hands to her mouth and visibly trembled. As the jury delivered their verdict,
they ruled that Tereza had,
did in self defence and acquitted her of Cliffs Madame De
your approach to the jury in tears and thanked them. While sharing a warm embrace with the female members,
Lloyd, told reporters outside cod
Tereza only had one thing to say: quite
all I want to do is go home and take care of my baby.
In March, nineteen sixty five terrain
I gave birth to her deceased husbands, child a girl
named Sheila Sand, not long after
she met and married eighteen year old, Robert nor the CUP,
went on to have three children in quick succession.
A girl named Susan and two boys, William.
And Robert Junior.
Tereza stayed at home to look after the five kids, while her husband took up a work with the Navy which led him,
to being a way for long periods of time.
Then, in June nineteen sixty nine Tereza foiled
the divorce.
Revealing she had once again found herself in an abusive relationship
her filings. She described
The daily threats and acts of great physical violence that Robert nor Senior had committed against her
judge granted to raised at the divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty.
she was awarded full custody of her children with the job
Citing her fitness as the sole parent as a reason for his decision,
The second time in her life to raise
found herself without a husband,
She was also pregnant again here.
August nineteen, seventy twenty-
four year old Tereza welcomes another child into the world.
The little girl resembled her mother from the minute she was born so
Teresa named after herself
Tereza, nor, though
was more commonly known as Terry
wakes after her twenty fifth birthday, Tereza married railway worker run polio.
Although wrong wasn't physically violent Teresa
ok pistol to our friends house for safe keeping after he threatened to kill her this third
marriage was also short lived.
By nineteen, seventy two Tereza went back to being a single mother.
When her older children, wherein school Tereza would take their youngest siblings to dawn, is since spoiled them with ice cream sundays
what family outings to the drive in theater and a long road trips into the Sierra mountains.
when money wasn't Todd, Tereza showered her kids with gifts and design clothes, she
kept their home in orange, vile California, immaculate inside and out, and all
Her children were always polite and well mannered in public.
It was approaching midnight on July. Sixteen nineteen, eighty four one
Carload of people travel down into state. Eighty out of Sacramento City did
I thus sat alone in the front of the vehicle scale
the rolling California landscape beyond the windshield.
They eventually spotted a quiet, deserted spot within the Sierra Foothills known as Squaw Craig. It was perfect.
nestled between to passengers in the back seat was a young woman. She was
I am conscious and her hands and math were banned with duct tape
Since the car rolled to stop the woman was removed from the back of their car
he was laid on a blanket along with her possessions, clothing, a toothbrush perfume calories.
and several pieces of expensive jury a copy.
Of their Jules Verne novel, twenty thousand leagues under their say, and a romance novel were also placed with their, as was it.
get of infant got is one of which
was soiled.
gasoline was then poured over her body and belongings. The drawer
about told their two companions.
I'm going to run back and stop the car
you lied a match and you just drop it and run
Once the fight
to call the others raced back to the car. When the driver was waiting,
You ever tell anybody about this. They warned you
owing to be next.
At around four for the following morning, a passing motorists to notice the flames arising from Squaw Craig and contacted
local fire department a shirt,
sergeant arrived in the area and observed
a small fire from the highway thinking.
it had been caused by lightening strike. He radio dispatch saying it would likely burn itself out who could white too big?
stinguished delighted that morning, this
urgent, went on his way and go
but no further thought.
an hour later attractive,
I never was heading down highway. Eighty nine, when a woman ran from the surrounding woods to flag down his vehicle
She too had observed the minor fire at Squaw, Craig and being a local that was familiar with Bush fires. She knew something wasn't right
the occurring smoke and didn't smell like burning wood,
Truck driver retrieved, his fire extinguisher and discarded the woman to the fires, location,
was contained in the easily snuffed out
has the smoke cleared. The woman examined the remains
It looks like a mannequin. She said,
why Craig was soon swarming with police
the charred, remains in the burn. Pile didn't belong to a mannequin. It was
The body of a blonde hair blue eyed young woman wearing
brought yellow hooded sweater aged between
fourteen and seventeen? She was less than five feet tall and weighed about one hundred and fifteen pounds. She
sustained third, the great burns to ninety one percent of her body with the fire itself, causing
a death superfluous,
Your stab wounds to her back and body eggs indicated that she had been tortured.
Though what was unclear when nor how these injuries occurred,
one of a kind to antique wedding ring, was secured around her finger.
although the area where the victim had been found was an editorial dumping ground for bodies, the brutality
You have heard are horrified detectives,
they examined, missing persons, dental and fingerprint records,
were unable to ascertain her identity.
he was given. The status of the Jane DOE apply,
soda name used by authorities when the true name of a person is unknown
the local sheriff called Jaynes murder. One
The saddest and most vicious killings in recent history,
a description of the items found at the crime saying was publicly released to help identification efforts most
concerning where the infant diet is with detectives, fear,
during that Jane DOE was the mother of a young child who might be
danger. Yet
one came forward, having recognised any of her things and
tests rendering of Jane depicting smiling young woman with a chip top up front tooth. Also for
how to generate valuable late.
Eleven months past, ended detectives when no closer to formally identifying Jane, DOE or
Killer.
On June twenty four nineteen. Eighty five, the driver was once again behind the wheel. Travelling towards squawk Craig, like
Last time it was,
approaching midnight
they were joined by two accomplices.
There was one notable day, friends their latest
Damn was already deceased.
The way in a cardboard box in the trunk. It was
plan Dowd
They weren't going to start a fire like that had previously, as they didn't want the two
crime stains linked.
The driver accidently missed the turn off to squawk Craig and decided
continue onwards. Looking
For another suitable place.
they eventually came to a stop just outside the ten of Turkey on the cap,
phone Nevada State Border debts,
were accomplices emerged from the back, say and color?
data shovel age from the trunk, as they say,
digging nearby APOLLO
car happened to pull up behind them. They raised
back to the car and hid the shovels. Just as an
officer, approached carrying a flashlight. They cause. Three
occupants with certain they had just being caught red handed the
smell of day composition, emanated from the trunk and would no doubt
Ray suspicions that something was awry.
The officer ass to what they were doing. The group informed him that
Had poured over to your night, he then
good the vehicle, while shining he's flashlight I've, read speaking
directly to the driver. He ordered them to move along and get
on the highway.
Officer had failed to notice the rancid smell the shovels or the killer before them.
They returned to their patrol car.
drive off.
The new minister rattled, the trio who reformulated
Their plan D
thy headed south, where they can
across the deserted road near alike in the middle of bushy mountain land. There
report over retrain
today, shovels and wasted.
Time in digging a hall,
cardboard box was discovered the following morning and modest Craig Campground by a caretaker clearing trash in the area.
Was positioned in a clump of weeping. Willow trays by the lake.
Curiosity got the better of the caretaker who tour
the silver doctype that sealed the box when,
He opened it.
Human arm sprung out.
The body of a young woman was tightly packed inside in the fatal position. Naked aside
from a pair of underwear and white socks. She
approximately twenty years old, five foot, four inches tall,
one hundred and five to one hundred and twenty pounds with brown hair.
The level of day composition made it impossible to determine much else, including fashion
features or a cause of death, so
Poles of the victims, taste, hair and skin what compared to records on file to know
out.
There were no missing person reports that could be linked to the Victor Meda. She too,
who was formerly listed as a Jane DOE, though
rocky locals, knew her as the body in the cardboard box.
Killer had gotten lucky.
this same medical examiner, who conducted this autopsy, also carried out the one on their Jane DOE found burnt alive at Squaw Craig almost a year prior, the different
there is between the two crime Sainz insured, the examiner failed to determine a connection. John
like the investigation into the first Jane DOE case, the lady
inevitably never doubly white Coat
Four months later, on October, fourteen nineteen, eighty five gale
Smith arrived at a rest. Stop, but just outside of the city of Fort Worth in Texas.
The twenty year old had been given a rod there by her step brother, but that's as far as he could take her.
Gale had a three hundred and forty miles journey ahead of her to visit her mother in the city of Amarillo.
as she was short on funds guy,
we chose to do what she had done many times in the past. He talk to her
Destination she proof
excepting rods from long distance truck is issued.
come to trust them. The most gales,
step, rather watched from his car as gale approached a male troika with the red hair and blue eyes after a bit,
if conversation she hoped in
the passenger say of these cherry red tractor trailer
gay or failed to arrive at her mothers and was promptly reported missing. But her fate had
ready, Bang, sealed.
The morning after gale had left the fort worth rest stop her body
Found poorly concealed in a thicket of Bush land me the Canadian River about
Fourteen miles from my her
And were banned by doctype and she
Had been taped tightly into the fatal position.
She had been hit over the head with a blunt object right and
And strangled to death with a man's necktie.
Although gale step rather hadn't written down the license plate of the truck that Gale had hitched her final Roddy in he did room
All the make of the vehicle, as well as a description of its driver. Most importantly here
Hold two words: emblazoned on the drivers: side door, Juliet Scott.
do Scott was a tracking fan based in Oklahoma,
Company examined their records and provide
the name of the only employer who had been in the fort worth area. At the time, a Gale Smith had gotten a ride.
Forty two year out. Benjamin boil better known as Herbert. Had a violent criminal history.
six years earlier in nineteen. Seventy nine he tried to
doktor woman. By forcing her into his car boy, you guilty for attempted, kidnap and
sentenced to five years privation at the time
I'm a Gale Smith's murder. He was on the run from a ripe that he had committed in Colorado Boil
who introduced himself has missed a Whipple two women. He was attracted to had said
he would allowed load earlier that morning and was headed to a town sixty miles north of Houston, detective
sped down highway. Fifty nine and caught up the boy was truck.
Boil admitted to giving Gale Smith a ride, but said
He had dropped her off at a truck stop in which a fool's two hundred and
Fifty miles short of her destination yet
case against her, but Boil was sealed almost immediately he's try
contained some of gales possessions and,
Blood and hair were found in the vehicles Cab Carpet father,
from the trucks interior matched to those found on gales remains finally boils finger,
France were lifted from the doctype used to restrain gale with the role
let's self, discuss
In his truck.
In early November, nineteen, eighty five heard the boy
was indicted for the aggravated sexual assault and capital murder of Gale Smith. Give
he's criminal history and transient job data
gives re examined, other unsolved, and that is to say whether they could be linked to boil one
pace that drew their attention involved, a young woman known only is Jane DOE found
The buried in a cardboard box, a modest Craig campground.
Her murder bore striking similarities to that of Gale Smith
Both women were found off a highway and new water. There,
band with silver doctype placed in the.
your position and what,
SK in a state of undress.
by delving into her but boils trouble logbook receipts and maps
was discovered that he had been in the truck area at the time of Jane Doze murder,.
Additionally, a far
fiber on James Body, match the blanket from boys have seen Oklahoma.
there was also a rope fibers found that the crime saying that match the length of rope in boils truck.
Herbert Boil only faced trial for Gale Smith's murder in court. He
depicted as main and on lockable, with perverted
sexual urges he's
I've been expressed their concerns that boil would harm them if he should be found not guilty. His daughter told the cod.
I'm very scared of the man right now and I,
vain for some time.
After deliberating for twenty minutes the jury
He found the boy all guilty of the ripe kidnapping.
And murder of Gale Smith
he was sentenced to death.
Although the body in the cardboard box case never went to trial due to a lack of evidence,
thirties safely, assumed that her, but Boil was responsible for her murder, also
they were wrong.
nearly twenty years earlier, on July, six, nineteen sixty four,
ten year old Tereza Sanders watch. Does her husband, Clifford moved around their house packing a suitcase.
an exceedingly jealous woman, Tereza Constant,
The accused Clifford of having an affair and had taken
to controlling many facets of he's alive.
She had imposed strict curfew on him, drive him to and from work and hand
all of their finances.
Cliff it was afforded just fifty cents for lunch,
so he wouldn't be able to make other women had expensive restaurants.
It all became too much Clifford
stay in hotels for days. At a time with
He suitcase Pact Clifford headed
For the door then took one last look at ease pregnant wife, and there are eleven months old Son Howard minutes later
Sir Razor arrived at Deputy Sheriff Fred amaze house down the road she claimed that
cliff. It had attempted debate her with a rifle wall
She confessed to shooting hymn sheet,
And it was an accident stating I did
Not think it would do that much damage, I didn't
that all gone would hurt him that bad.
To racist, said she had wrestled with a weapon from her husband, causing it to
discharge the rifle
which was kept in the couples. Bedroom was a the loaded, however.
safety was also always on this
and the user had to click the safety off caught the hammer, TAT came and pull that
rigour to fire off a shot
it was an elaborate maneuver and Teresa.
Story did an account for it.
Nor did it account for how cumbersome the rifle was in length and shape
you towards along barrel. There had to be some distance between the shooter and their target to ensure a hit. The fan,
no bullet that had penetrated Clifford Chest passed through his wrist first meaning
hey, had attempted to shoot himself with these hand prior to being shot at the,
implied that the gun was aimed at him before it was fired. With many
aspects of her story, not adding up
Teresa Sanders was tried for her husband's. Madame Clifford sit.
Tat did saying corps that she wanted to raise it to acquitted, so she could look after her slain brothers, children. However,
She also added
I believe with all my heart that Tereza Sand is planned to kill my brother shape,
cold a time whence a pointed out, a bullet hole in the floor of her home, while pre
Oddly admitting that she had tried to shoot Clifford but missed,
on another occasion to raise
Said that she would kill cliff it before any other woman could have him.
The jury overlooked. This information instead
viewing the petite pretty and have
he pregnant Tereza. As some
who wouldn't hurt a fly
detailed in the book, whatever mother says by Winslow clocks. In days
the being acquitted of her husbands, murder to raise,
I visited the office of the prosecuting district attorney. She
Had one request, the raw
for that had been used to kill Clifford.
she wanted a back
neither of tourism next to husbands, Robert nor
senior or Orono Napoleon met with fair play,
Both marriages ended after two raises. Controlling nature became too much to bear fruit.
as her second thousand nineteen. Seventy two,
became somewhat of a religious fanatic, obsessive
play pouring over the Bible. While constantly quieting scripture to her children, they quickly grew to be
afraid of their mother.
ranging from three to ten years old Tereza physically diesel
and two children harshly over the smallest of incidents cheapest.
leave to any slight has an intentional act of defiance like when they,
Accidently spilled crumbs of food. The abyss
says delighted as the children got Oda day.
Ellie, beatings or whippings were common action,
Extreme punishments, Tereza
her children to take a bath. Sir
bruises, wouldn't be noticed at school.
although she abused all her children,
two raises daughters, Susan.
Sheila and Terry, who bore the brunt of
their mothers fury Chet.
Harris met Tereza in August nineteen, seventy six after crossing paths with her in a bar
Chet was an edit off, but the Sacramento Union newspaper at
Fifty nine years old he was done,
to raise his age
He was also and base five times
for say with the two package
smoking habit, and in it
action to pornography and alcohol still
caught to raises. I ended
pay married within three days of their first encounter.
Chet made no attempt to hide the fact that he didn't like to raise raises children
They didn't like him much either. Theo
exception, was Susan nor to raises,
the eldest
extremely intelligent and voracious radar. Ten year,
old Susan formed a special bond with Chad who engage
stirring conversations about politics and mythology,
of beatings had made Susan reserved and frightened, but with Chad,
she found out, she could confide in there
business angered Tereza, who was.
That come with bitter jealousy whenever Chet showered Susan with attention
resentment towards her husband, continue to fester as time went by one
Other Tereza most was chats fascination with the witchcraft and they are called while
These practices were against her own religious beliefs
Tereza drew issue with how church interest in them had rubbed off on her daughter, Susan
than three months into their marriage, Tereza filed
the divorce.
The departure of Chet Harris in November nineteen. Seventy six did little to ease the tensions escalating Inter raises household by this point. Survey
petrified her children. She slept
Miss Day came home even a minute after curfew. If they talked back, they were hit.
The plank of wood Tereza called the Board of education. She
even ordered her children to punish one another with the young.
The boys made to hold down the girls so that
eldest son Howard could beat them.
Teresa herself became a recluse and refused to let anyone but her children into their house. She gained white
barely bathed, though it changed her clothes in the
Brief moments where she was thinking clearly show
We try to make amends for her behaviour by trading her children to trips and trades.
But these moments were rare.
despite having ended their marriage to raise his mind, often wondered back to Chet Harris who she now believed was a demon assent to her by another one of her former husbands Robert, nor
senior who she claimed
also practice to witchcraft she,
ran about him to her children.
while the Oda kids largely ignored her day. Youngest siblings were terrified by her delusions and listened intently.
Tereza, never Godiva, Susan's connection to chat and when
He found out that they were making up behind her back. Teresa was furious.
She pulled Susan out of school, so she could keep an eye on her at all times
I've at home with her mother, became especially hard, but Susan when Tereza started, accusing her of being a witch
Fifteen years old Susan tried running away, but was quickly detain
and temporarily place dinner receiving home. She begged
not to be sent back home.
Getting her life there to a concentration camp.
after a number of meetings with Tereza, in which
she was given the all clear as a competent parent Susan was returned
to her custody.
Teresa reassured councillors that her daughters stories were all lies and she would be safe when
I got home
the razor instructed all of her children to punch Susan in the stomach. If they do
and do it hard enough. They had done
On chair again,.
from then on the region.
Kept Susan handcuffed to her bed
not worried. She would
Nick out to perform witchcraft on her. If she wasn't restrained.
Susan was also kept sedated with medications. Her mother had stolen during her time as a hospice worker used earlier.
During meals, she was tired
who had chair and often left to their fate hours at a time the constant abuse
took its tall on Susan
again, mumbling nonsensical statements that,
cemented her mothers belief that she was
which, for that
Damon had entered her body.
among the many raisins Teresa had grown to resent Susan, was her slim figure.
And teenage youthfulness one day Sheikh
used the demon of taking fat off of Susan's body and putting it on her own. In turn, she began
Boss, fading Susan, to make her gain wide Tereza
the spoon into Susan's closed mouth with such force at chips, her front up a tooth
Some time in nineteen eighty one fifteen years
Susan, was walking down the whole way when Tereza cornered her
He screamed into her daughters, stomach, asking
the demon why she had put on more white, sir,
that Susan was making her fat and ugly on purpose. Surveys
ordered her son Robert to restrain he's out system,
He did ass, he was told and pushed Susan into the bathroom when
They were suddenly interrupted by the e splitting crack of a gunshot
using clutched the left side of her chest and fell back
its into the bathtub
the gun wielding Tereza snapped out of her murderous rage and rushed to her injured, Dada sheep.
Her finger into the bleeding hallway Susan's chest and felt the bullet
Lodged in her back just below
Her left shoulder blade in an
characteristic moment of tenderness, she said
I'm so sorry
stunned, Susan replied, I forgive you
You know. I love you
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Susan, nor was left in the bathtub for a month
the bullet, reminding her back. The wound,
itself healed and she made a miraculous recovery. They need
the experience didn't prompt. Any change in Tereza who was
We are convinced that Susan was possessed by a demon. She
moved her family to an apartment in North Sacramento, where
Susan's ordeal continued.
from her early teens Susan, had been forced by her mother to engage in sex work to support the family and all of her earnings were taken by Tereza the moment she returned time, despite
Susan found herself enjoying the work as it enabled her to leave the house her brow,
those didn't share. The same concerns terror.
He's still afforded them more freedom than their female siblings.
Allowing them to deal cannabis and take on small jobs. Still
They were also forced to hand over their pay to their mother.
When Susan was home, she was handcuffed,
so the dining table and forced to sleep on a blanket on the floor with now
lab had taught her White plummeted Teresa.
kicker ass. She walked past.
Then in July nineteen, eighty four to raise
a grasped, a pair of scissors, lucky dot and threw them into Susan's back. The blades
he is Susan skin, but she
was so emotionally detached at this point that she didn't even flinch.
Although Tereza said Susan provoked the insight,
And led to a compassionate shift in her behaviour.
Susan noticed the change and sore
as an opportunity.
Hours later, mother
daughter was sitting together on a sofa in the lounge
Tereza had been drinking alcohol on smoking cannabis and was in the best mood she had been in four weeks. Susan plucked up there
courage and asked for a one way ticket to Alaska to start a new life explaining
That Tereza would never see or hear from her again.
Susan waited nervously as her mother considered the proposition she
then said the word Susan had been longing to here. Yes
she would let her go to Alaska on
condition
Teresa retrieved, a bottle of anti psychotic medication, she had pocketed from her all job and gay
a handful of capitals to Susan who washed
Them down with a quart of whisky, sir,
and then life face down on a blanket in the dining room and passed out.
in a few minutes to raise
checked. She was unconscious before commence.
The operation.
The only way she would allow Susan's alive was if the bullet
lodged in her back was removed that
There would be no evidence of her abusive Susan ever decided to speak of it.
Susan's younger Brother Robert, who was fifteen,
at the time performed.
the surgery under two raises orders.
He cut into the skin and master will just under Susan's left shoulder belied with an exact our north and spotted the bullet.
Sticking his fingers deep into the wound, Robert Pre
It out and was
Prize by the lack of blood.
He's a mother stated. It was because the demon had possessed Susan's body and made her on dead.
Susan woke from the procedure at daylight off, and it was immediately clear. Something was very wrong.
She alternated between gradually murmuring and
Screaming in pain to re
Upon too full of antibiotics and pain killers, but soon
Susan was overcome with favor
He began hallucinating and spoke of watching her life as a movie before her eyes.
when Susan's eyes, yellowed from joint is and the skin on her back turned black terrain
claimed it was the devil revealing itself and refused to take.
to a hospital.
She made Susan, where infant daughters, when she could no longer go to the bathroom Sheeler, Inter
He kept a vigil, let their tilings sisters side as she deteriorated on the floor. Every
I'm Susan went still and silent. Terry Jim
lay shook her awake to make sure she was still alive soon.
and would babble at her incoherently in response.
Then, one day, the race
told her other children. We ve got to go
rid of Susan she's gone
to die on us when
going to have to kill her.
on July sixteen nineteen, eighty four she collect.
All the photographs she had of Susan and burnt them in their backyard. Then she
waited for nightfall.
as midnight approached to raise
drive down into state eighty with sons, William and Robert, who were forced
Who accompany her
I sat in the back say with the
conscious and banned Susan sandwiched between them. Inside
The trunk of the car was Susan's belongings, including close
jewelry and box. The dough
is she had been wearing what Baghdad as well up
reaching the secluded squawk Craig area Tereza stopped their car,
And had William and Robert retrieved Susan, the
were horrified but didn't
dare decide they their mother
light Susan on a blanket with her possessions. Sixty
you're out William zipped up her who did sweat are concerned,
that he's older sister might get cold.
Tereza then ordered Robert to get a tank of gasoline from the trunk of the car poured over Susan, and
Her allied.
The trio drive home in silence until a bird
smacked into the wind showed.
Tereza screamed in fraud turn
to William and Robert and said.
That bird was the sacrifice. God things
we did a good thing.
Upon returning home to raise
ordered her eldest daughter, Sheila, to scrub the floor where Susan had spent her final days.
like her youngest sister Sheila had endured a heavily controlled alive at the hands of her mother S.
From running the odd errand she was kept at the
my home and less forced into
tax work to line her mothers pockets with
losing gone.
Sheila was terrified that she would become her mothers next target.
Wouldn't be long before her fears were realized.
In the winter of nineteen, eighty four
contain you're out. Sheila Sanders was riding her back to pick up a pack of cigarettes for her mother when she was hit by a car off
Recovering from her minor injuries. Sheila
filled a noticeable shift within her family.
Tereza had told her other children that Sheila had died and a demon
taken over her body, suddenly
Sheila found herself cowering from an increasing in.
When Tereza was convinced, she had poured a sexually transmitted disease from Sheila after the pair shared the same toilet, Sate she punished her daughter,
By hand covering her to the dining table.
History was repeating itself, though, in
out of Susan being forced FED it.
Sheila
as detailed in the book. Whatever mother says, Sheila once confided in her mother that she was depressed.
Tereza retrieved her gun and handed it to her daughter remarking. If you
so depressed
kill yourself.
With a shaking hand, Sheila place to them
our old to her temple and squeezed
the trigger.
There was a gentle click.
the gun. Wasn't loaded.
On a hot day, in June nineteen, eighty five shield
snapped
after being slapped by her mother for refusing to wait. She
tolerated by kicking Tereza in the leg. A few.
Various Tereza screened that her she was broken then fell quiet.
Later that not sure
code on her sons, William and Robert
These are ordered them to restrain Sheila and locked in the linen closet struggle
with all her might show
was no match for her burly brothers once
Fact, inside the to buy for foot space she play
to be led out too,
stuffed Taos against the door to muffle. Her daughters cries and it turned out the television.
the neighbors didn't hear a thing.
Days later, Tereza made a rare treat out to the store.
and were at work, leaving
fourteen year old, Terry alone in the house, with the improved
And Sheila
king her chance to help her sister, Terry
opened the linen closet door, causing Sheila to fall out onto her side with her
restrained behind her back and wearing nothing but underpants and socks
Sheila was drenched in sweat and pleaded for a drink.
Forbidden by her mother to give Sheila Food or Water Terry
Retrieved a b and held the liquid to her sisters, lips.
Then she heard the sound of a car door slammed
other was home against,
was protests. Terry pushed her back
into the stifling hot closet and shut the door
While the decision to do so would haunt Terry for life, she understood
that was a Thou shut, the door or one
up in the closet, with Sheila.
Terry later heard hallucinating Sheila sigh.
There is a light above me, I think it's a hall
I'm gonna climb towards it.
A series of thumps followed, then
breathing white, quiet.
Teresa ignored her toward his body in the closet for three days, then
on June twenty four nineteen, eighty five. She was compelled to act
when the smell of day composition began to permeate through the apartment
you dont, some rubber, gloves, sat on her bed and carefully picked off every.
Here. She could see on a set of pink pillow cases.
She then lined the inside of a cardboard box with the pillar cases
for ordering William and Robert to retrieve Sheila's body.
Sheila was placed into the cardboard box which
Then loaded into the trunk of tourism car for this
second time in their life Rob
and William what tasked with helping dispose of one of their sisters. Bodies, Terry, was forced,
To stay behind and clean up as she
scrubbed away at the dark fail liquids that had saved into the closet floor
Terry's mind raised as that,
last remaining daughter,
would she bade the next to die that now,
Teresa watched as William and Robert Duggar Gray, FISH Sheila outside the town of Turkey.
All of a sudden, a police
crews are pulled up behind them.
William was certain they had been cod and
relieved to think that they're, not man would finally be over by
Pure chance, neither
officer picked up on what was going on
soon laughed.
Two raises the lock continued when Sheila's body was found a thought
It is incorrectly linked. Termer dots are her that boil the killer,
Of Gale Smith, at this point
but Sheila and Susan had been named, Jane doze as there
isolated life insured and no one could identify. There remains as
hours, Tereza was concerned. She
Gotten away with everything.
just after three, I am on September twenty nine nineteen. Eighty six c
staying year out Terry nor emptied three cans of woloda fluid throughout her families. North Sacramento apartment checking
once more that her escape path was clear.
She laid a match with
shaking hands. She
slowly lowered it to the floor. The
I too call much quicker than Terry anticipated.
Leaped out a window justice flying
began climbing the walls while
running from the same text,
he passed several fire engines on their way to tackle the inferno she
rage, the hotel room,
where her mother was waiting.
The fire had been too raises idea. She
Grown paranoid over a lasting staying in the linen closet, fearing
would a link to Sheila's murder.
She had convinced Terry to start the blaze promising
only remaining daughter that she could move out if she went through with it
we accepted the offer.
As her son said since left her of their own accord, Tereza relocated to SALT Lake City knew TAT way.
She underwent a complete mercosur.
She became a mormon and kept herself well presented with expensive clothes and make up she.
so caught her long, dark, hair and begin.
Sporting, a blonde wig.
with the remainder of her children, hey that literally whole metaphorically dead to her. It was time
but Tereza system
a new life,
Susan, nor and Sheila Sanders were the only two of tourism six children to be murdered, yet the Roma
in four Howard
William Robert and Terry, would struck
from the abuses they had endured at her hands for the rest of their lives: eldest
I would was the first time
I've heard and did so before the murders took place. One day
How would read a newspaper article about the Jane DOE found burned to death at squawk? Craig?
certain it was his sister Susan, he asked
mother, where she was
Tereza said Susan had run away and claim
Sheila had to.
Although Hell with didn't believe her, he fee
She would kill him as well, so he
press the matter.
over the years, how it
Struggled to hold their work for the addiction
had several running with the law and he's marriage ended in divorce.
At seventeen William, nor was the next to me, they're leaving
between the murders of Susan and Sheila.
He was summoned back home to help with disposing of Sheila's body.
did so out of fear of his mother.
Drugs and alcohol dulled the recurring nightmares William experienced enough to
Opium, maintain a marriage and job. Despite his troubles,
He was a friendly into amiable man working hard to get his life on track in the book.
Can mother's day by Dennis Macdougall, William Rep
elected on his family saying
I never wanted to see any of them again
When I left hall was lock on out. I was out
And I was staying out.
Robert nor remained living with these mother. Until her move to salt Lake City, where HALO
after soon after long
Keys brothers, he saw
pray from his childhood memories through the use of drugs and alcohol after
string of arrest, he was jailed
the burglary and took the opportune
it is to earn his high school equivalency diploma to expand his employment problem.
Ex upon he's relates, however,
His new found freedom didn't last long.
twenty two year old Robert was sentenced to a further fifteen years in prison for the second degree, murder of a bartender shot dead during a robbery.
He narrowly avoided a murder conviction and the death penalty by cutting
Deal with the prosecution to testify against these cal accused.
Tereza kept her word with the youngest daughter, Terry after
she had started the fire that consumed today, North Sacramento apartment Terry, was finally
free to leave, live harangue life
experiences from then on woods mirrored those of her siblings, adding
her turmoil was the discovery that she was unlikely to conceive the children she desperately wanted. Due to the severe baiting she suffered throughout her youth
Terry had also enjoyed a childhood sexual abuse
in nineteen ninety three, her eldest,
Brother Howard admitted to authorities that he had a molested Terry when she was six and he was thirteen Howard
face to no repercussions for these actions
over the years. Terry
finding friends about her childhood
colluding the murders of her sisters view
Lived her and those that do,
encourage her to speak to police who Walter
they dismissed. Her story has far fetched
One occasion the sheriff took an interest in Terry's allegations and interviewed her a detective
voice then assigned to investigate whether any unsolved homicides could be linked to Tereza. Nor taken
who did there were none
Terry was once again brushed off.
more than once carriage
to end her pain by taking her own life.
Then one not hurry outlook changed.
in the last week of October nineteen. Ninety three twins,
three year old, Terry, nor sat on a sofa, blinking back tease. She
Just had an argument with her husband who accused
of lying once again about her sisters, murders
he's tension was drawn to the television screen before her, whereas suited man spoke solemnly towards the camera.
was John Walsh. The whole
Of America's most wanted, this
These reported on unsolved crime so wanted fugitives, while Request
view to offer their tapes and insights via a free phone number, Terry,
he watched intently and me
The decision she grabbed
telephone and die
This shows Tipp line.
A woman on the other line- listen tis. Terry re visited the story of her sisters, motives to her disappointment
Terry was told there was nothing that show could do for her
exhausted by the lack of help and support from all lands. Terry broke down sobbing
Unlike others, the woman who answered the cold didn't dismiss Terry entirely.
She suggested that Terry Contact, the county authorities where the murders took place.
Sergeant John Fitzgerald, had the Plaza canny Sheriff Sub Station in Tahoe City took Terry's coal.
while detailing Susan's murder, Terry,
for instance, the intake wedding ring her sister had been wearing. When said, a lot at squawk Craig sought
Fitzgerald interest was already paid, but the ring
mention really drew his attention should,
Dealing with emotion, Terry, explore
In tat, no one believed her story about her mother.
Not even her husband, so
Don't Fitzgerald responded.
Young lady. If it's
a consolation to you. You can
Tell your husband to this.
I found a seventeen year old female burning need squawk, Craig. On July seventeen nineteen eighty four
the late she was your sister.
ten days after Terry's call sergeant John Fitzgerald arrived on the doorstep of a modest, too low, said home in EAST Salt Lake City.
An old lady named MRS Cross answer the door
Was the living care offer the homes owner unknown,
a woman named Alice Sullivan sergeant
gerald looked at the photograph in his hands of Tereza. Nor then I did the haggard and pale woman standing before him.
She invited them inside
search for Tereza, nor had not been an easy one?
gone by many surnames throughout her alive Missis
Cross was initially reluctant to admit to anything.
But eventually revealed that she was going by her maiden name,
Our actual name was
Tereza nor.
Tereza remained calm when showing the warrant for her arrest.
The then contacted Alice's Sun and informed him tat. She was being arrested.
knowing his mother's nurse is nothing but a kind hearted and generous individual. He was
stunned at the news and asked why.
Teresa said she didn't know.
When it came time to take Tereza nor into custody sergeant,
Its Gerald found her trying to escape via array door of the house
feel lucky sacrificial land being led to the slaughter she told in.
Investigators soon arrived at two raises former North Sacramento apartment luck.
For them. The arson Terry committed these prior didn't do as much damage has Tereza had hoped,
inside offices.
Across the small closet in the whole way so
in Fitzgerald. Stomach churned a code.
To tarry Sheila had been locked inside their close it, but the door
Front of him didn't have a lock sorry,
Fitzgerald began to worry.
Terry lied to him.
He found her to clarify
State detailed in the book, whatever mother says Terry explained,
The smaller closet, just outside the bathroom
closer had been spotted by investigators, but they had
Mr. Does the one used to imprison Sheila is there
Couldn't imagine anyone being kept inside such a small space,
mining found in the closet came back positive for human blood, mainly
All police had arrived at William Noise Workplace in Sacramento and placed him under arrest Robert
who was already in prison, was
say charged in relation to his sisters, murders.
Ass, a candy sheriff told the Sacramento Bay Newspaper that the case was one of them,
It's and unbelievably sad family situations. Anyone could ever imagine
why someone would do something. This vicious is beyond comprehension and
when, at your own mother and brothers, it's over
unbelievable.
As the horror of what Tereza nor had done to her own children came to light
who knew her has Tereza Cross, were left in shock.
They couldn't Mary up the two personalities of the one woman destitute,
Dick and jealous murderer verses.
compassionate and gentle nurses, aid.
some believe that detectives had made a mistake and arrested the wrong person. Others thought
was taking the full for her sons, actions.
Even those who suspected something was odd about the family, never imagined. The truth was far more heinous.
a former neighbours told the Sacramento Bay on you.
Staple people were did
but I didn't, know how we'd it's just wild. It scares me
and it makes me leary of making friends.
Teresa, nor was charged with two counts of murder to account
conspiracy to commit murder and too
Special circumstances: charges
double murder and murder by torture. When Spain
King of two sons prosecutes
John. I Mara made an extraordinary play for mercy haste
That all of tourism children had been subjected to a family situation that not even,
Stephen king could imagine
and agree that their role in the murders was made. A guided by the abuse date suffered at the hands of their mother.
Eldest Son Howard told the Fresno Bay are one
people to understand that it's not my brother's, followed they,
children at the time and to shape.
total control over them shape,
crazy but shame
the adult as
at play, deal
nor a great to testify against his mother in return for a reduced charge of being an accessory after the fact.
He was sentenced to three years to be so
two concurrently with his sentence for the fatal armed robbery. This
serious charges against William, nor were also dropped with these attacks.
stating that he's client was raised
in a cage and tortured by the Zoo K Bar.
William, were saved. A three year suspended sentence was placed on five,
Privation and all
to continue therapy. He had been receiving the post, traumatic stress disorder here,
said he bore no animosity towards his mother and when asked what he believed should be her sentence, William
replied what
the court decides is fine.
three mental health professionals examined Tereza, nor to establish whether she was competent to stand trial wallet
couldn't be ascertained what exact mental health issues Tereza faced when she murdered Susan and Sheila
Her remaining children agreed that she suffered from paranoia and delusions.
I remembered an episode when he was fourteen where terrain
Disappeared for four days straight upon
return she spoke of having
and some pennies
he had throwing them away, but then they turned back up at them.
tell where she was staying.
She said that, no matter what she did with the pennies they kept re appearing.
Howard, lighter remarked.
I didn't understand it at the time, but looking
Back on it, I mean
basically they were paranoid. Delusions.
The children learn to anticipate these episodes as that
often occurred after Tereza had consumed a lot of alcohol.
When drunk she was also known to have explosive angry outbursts, prompting
Children to hide from her when they saw a drinking her hand,
reports suggest that having her another die in her arms from a heart attack when she was twelve might have trick.
Two raises the lifelong mental health problems. Yet
Sadistic and violent behaviour seemed to running her family
half brother had a history of cruelty to animals. Violence
Sod burglary,
and armed robbery. This before
Libya, culminated in a double homicide, so brutal that knife mark
things were left in the wooden floor underneath the two victims.
the professionals examining Tereza, raged different conclusions.
she believed she was faking mental illness
while the other felt she was suffering from multiple personality disorder. The report proves
for the judge slanted towards the majority opinion he read.
when Tereza was asked about the two daughters she's accused of murdering hurry
Action betrayed a preposterous and transparent attempt to feign men.
He'll illness.
as a result, Tereza was ruled competent to stand trial, the prison,
adding judge said any day,
bending capable of such a performance would also
be able to work with their attorney in preparing a rational defence by
her attempt to my, I believe,
Tereza has rather clearly revealed that she understands precisely what is going on.
When she found out that her son was going to testify against her Teresa,
changed her play
and asked by the judge if she was plating guilty, because she was in fact a guilty
Teresa hesitated and then replied
I believe it would be found guilty.
In return for tourism, co operation, the process
commission requested she be spared the death penalty
a more than likely sentence should the case go to trial
tuning voice, then shouted no in the courtroom.
Was Robert nor Seigneur, the Father
Susan, Robert, William and Terry
yelled to his ex wife.
The pew burn in Hell for what you did to my kids outside
Robert saying you told a report off for the Sacramento Bay that Tereza should fry hiding
My daughter is in her grave and we'll be there.
forever.
should she be allowed to live out the rest of her life.
Teresa was sentenced in October. Ninety ninety five, a victim impact.
statement written by her son rub it nor Junior was read out to the courtroom. It read in part.
My mother cruelly and calculating lay tortured her victims, both physically and mentally, over the course of the years killing
in every way possible over
and over again,
We have all been sentenced to life without parallel re living, our own private, not mass in the early hours imprisoned,
in our memories.
Two attorney made an impassioned plea for concurrent sentences
yeah argued that Shea quote
Never had a fair chance in life.
She was raising. These kids is best she could when she was still a child herself. The price
secured a snap to back, saying
Two raises crimes were unspeakable ended
tiled, the profound affect her actions had on her surviving children quote
she's, saddled them with so much emotional baggage. Diane
they're going to come out of this hall.
In summing up
presiding judge, described to raised his actions as callousness beyond belief,.
He sentenced her the two consecutive for life sentences
raise our shocking her seat as her outcome was revealed in it.
The parallel. When twenty nineteen failed, her
this will be reviewed again in twenty twenty four one.
Tereza will be in her light. Seventies.
following the revelation that her mothers Kara was a killer Alice
Sullivan's daughter began clearing out this spare room, the woman she knew, as MRS Cross had occupied.
She came across a number of carefully wrapped presents. Tereza was planning on handing out at Christmas,
The detailed in whatever mother says she said.
it was so sad. I took them
to the basement, close to tease, I still
I do not believe that a good person like Tereza could be
sponsible for the crimes she's accused of.
In hindsight, it's possible to raise his children would have been spared their horrific ordeal had she,
convicted for the shooting murder of her first husband, Clifford Sand is in nineteen sixty four.
Prosecutor at the trial district attorney. Donald outdoorsman was certain: hey, had a solid case against Tereza and was stunned
She was acquainted Heath
The jury would be fooled by the young, pregnant and seemingly innocent woman before them and played with them too.
and her guilty. So she could
go on to harm anyone else. He told them.
not. Every murderer looks like the witch and snow white
would be Asia if they did,
following the positive identification of this squawk Craig
too modest Craig can't ground to Jane. Does their unmarked graves were updated. The
burst now faces the name Susan, nor with any
age of a bull candidates, a tree paying homepage
Two Susan's love of reading the second
Carries the name Sheila Sanders alongside a blossoming flower, but
loved system is written.
Above the message
may you now find peace.
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