Christopher Thompkins // 372
01/12/24 • 37 min
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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
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.
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/
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
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.
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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CASE SOURCES
1. Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89253267/lynnette-louise-keller
3. Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89252919/kaylene-nichole-keller
4. Lynnette and Kaylene's Obituary: https://obits.oregonlive.com/us/obituaries/oregon/name/lynnettee-keller-obituary?id=25580861
5. Living Snoqualmie: https://prod.livingsnoqualmie.com/police-release-peter-keller-case-findings-family-honors-lost-daughter-with-scholorship/
6. CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2012/07/13/justice/washington-suspect-video-diary/index.html
7. CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/28/justice/washington-bunker-suspect/index.html
8. Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/north-bend-murder-suspect-found-dead-in-bunker/
9. Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/peter-keller-killer-of-wife-daughter-said-i-can-always-shoot-myself/
10. Snoqualmie Valley Record: https://www.valleyrecord.com/news/new-promise-from-lives-cut-short-scholarship-honors-murder-victims-lynnettee-and-kaylene-keller-photo-gallery/
12. CBS: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/authorities-bunker-of-wash-fugitive-surrounded/
13. Seattle Pi: https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/camp-keller-man-who-killed-family-tried-to-3702751.php
14. Albany Democrat-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/565915008/?terms=%22peter%20keller%22&match=1
15. King 5: https://www.king5.com/article/news/peter-keller-now-suspect-in-murders-of-his-wife-daughter/281-330835107
16. Living Snoqualmie: https://prod.livingsnoqualmie.com/police-still-waiting-out-murder-suspect-surrounding-fortified-bunker-near-rattlesnake-ridge/#google_vignette
17. Psych Central: https://psychcentral.com/news/2013/08/14/characteristics-of-4-types-of-family-murderers#2
18. Lynn's Scrapbooking Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM4vzrI_NgI
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Margaret Kilcoyne // 373
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Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qlw8O9kJQMw96nq_dM28ncVc8C2ajBTWGb8xjbU-oao/edit
1. The Kilcoyne Disappearance: https://garyholmes76.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/kilcoyne-story.pdf
2. Hartford Courant: https://www.newspapers.com/image/368562463/?terms=margaret%20kilcoyne&match=1
3. New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/06/nyregion/follow-up-on-the-news-missing-person.html
4. Nantucket Current: https://nantucketcurrent.com/people/nantucket-s-greatest-unsolved-mystery-the-disappearance-of-dr-margaret-kilcoyne
5. Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/margaret-mary-kilcoyne
6. MyHeritage: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40000-442230870/margaret-m-kilcoyne-in-geni-world-family-tree
9. Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199785767/leo-kilcoyne
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