Going West: True Crime

On July 13, 2023, a 59-year-old Long Island architect was arrested in connection to three of the Gilgo Beach Murders. With the release of an indictment document today, a slew of evidence has become available, including cell phone activity and DNA connections. This is the update to episode 313 of Going West on the Gilgo Beach Murders, also known, as the Long Island Serial Killings.

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/14/us/rex-heuermann-gilgo-beach-court-document.html

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In January of 2002, a 20-year-old man was working a surveying job in a Georgia forest when he vanished without a trace. When his co-workers realized he was no longer standing in the line, they began their search for him, only to find one of his boots hanging from a barbed wire fence, with his work tools, his work pants, and twelve cents laying in the grass next to it. So where did he go, and what happened to him? This is the story of Christopher Thompkins.

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CASE SOURCES

1. The Crime Wire: https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/The-Mysterious-Disappearance-of-Christopher-Thompkins

2. WTVM: https://www.wtvm.com/2023/07/19/20-years-later-family-officials-continue-search-answers-disappearance-harris-co-man/

3. Ledger-Enquirer: https://www.newspapers.com/image/860192725/?terms=christopher%20thompkins&match=1

4. US Bureau of Labor Statistics: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/surveyors.htm#:~:text=Boundary%20or%20land%20surveyors%20determine,proper%20depths%20for%20building%20foundations.

5. Exit 9: https://web.archive.org/web/20201111232151/http://exit9.news/2019/03/14/christopher-thompkins-part-ii-following-the-clues/

6. The End of Summer: https://the-end-of-summer.blogspot.com/2015/01/missing.html

7. Ledger-Enquirer: https://www.newspapers.com/image/860307726/?terms=christopher%20thompkins&match=18.

9. Ledger-Enquirer: https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article28986784.html

10. WRBL: https://www.wrbl.com/news/vigil-for-man-missing-since-2002/

11. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/ovx5x7/anyone_familiar_with_this_case_the_bizarre/

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In November of 2017, a 24-year-old Nebraska woman matched with another woman on Tinder, and the pair hit it off. But after a second date, she disappeared without a trace. Massive searches took place, but it wasn’t until a friend of the missing woman catfished a suspect on Tinder for information that the details started to come to light. Between witchcraft sex cults, a spree of crimes that weaved through multiple states, and an unlikely relationship, this case truly is as bizarre as it is tragic. This is the story of Sydney Loofe.

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In August of 2018, a 19-year-old woman went missing from her home in Arizona. As police began digging deeper into her case, it became more and more clear that she had been met with foul play. When her body was found on a remote stretch of desert weeks later, their suspicions were confirmed. But was her boyfriend behind it? Or is it possible there was another mystery man involved? This is the story of Kiera Bergman.

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CASE SOURCES

1. AZ Family: https://www.azfamily.com/2022/09/22/verdict-reached-trial-man-accused-murdering-ex-girlfriend-kiera-bergman/

2. Our Black Girls: https://ourblackgirls.com/2018/08/21/missing-19yo-kiera-bergman-hasnt-been-heard-from-for-3-weeks-after-fight-with-bf-findkiera/

3. AZ Central: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/glendale/2019/05/03/case-against-jon-christopher-clark-charged-2018-murder-girlfriend-kiera-bergman-could-dismissed/1090906001/

4. ABC 15: https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/kiera-bergman-friends-family-mourn-death-of-teen

5. Still a Mystery: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12610736/

6. YourTango: https://www.yourtango.com/2018316857/how-did-kiera-bergman-die-details-body-found-missing-arizona-teen

7. AZ Central: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2018/09/12/bergmans-boyfriend-suspicious-data-revealed/1280129002/

8. Impact: https://www.palomar.edu/impactmagazine/2019/06/06/from-anguish-to-advocate/

9. Refinery 29: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/04/9644416/kiera-bergman-ex-boyfriend-murder-charge-dropped

10. AZ Central: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2018/08/24/ex-boyfriend-missing-19-year-old-released-jail/1086896002/

11. ABC 15: https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/not-guilty-verdict-for-ex-boyfriend-in-the-murder-of-19-year-old-kiera-bergman#:~:text=In%20September%202018%2C%20Clark%20was,or%20at%20the%20crime%20scene.

12. CBS: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kiera-bergman-missing-phoenix-arizona-boyfriend-jon-christopher-clark-charged-identity-theft-forgery-2018-08-18/

13. Justice for Kiera Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bringKIERAhomee

14. ABC 10: https://www.10news.com/news/friends-and-family-celebrate-the-life-of-kiera-bergman

15. AZ Family: https://www.10news.com/news/friends-and-family-celebrate-the-life-of-kiera-bergman

16. ABC Family: https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/not-guilty-verdict-for-ex-boyfriend-in-the-murder-of-19-year-old-kiera-bergman

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In 2002, a 24-year-old pregnant woman vanished after a normal day in her home of San Francisco just days before her due date. When her body washed up in the Bay months later, her family desperately searched for any trace of her son, as well as answers regarding who murdered their beloved sister and daughter. This is the story of Evelyn Hernandez, as well as Alex and Fernando Hernandez.

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CASE SOURCES

https://msphanlearns.medium.com/the-racist-history-of-the-academy-at-mcateer-and-ruth-asawa-school-of-the-arts-79024f9ac426

https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=131949&page=1

https://charleyproject.org/case/alexis-geraldo-hernandez

https://www.maryhallbergmedia.com/post/unsolved-the-strange-case-of-evelyn-and-alex-hernandez

https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a5143/a-tale-of-two-killings/

https://people.com/archive/the-other-laci-peterson-who-killed-evelyn-hernandez-vol-60-no-1/

https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=Evelyn+Hernandez&s_place=San+Francisco%2C+CA&dr_year=2002-2002

https://medium.com/the-crime-logs/torso-in-the-bay-6138839d1f31

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