The Path Went Chilly

September 20, 1994. Oak Grove, Kentucky. 22-year old Candy Belt and 18-year old Gloria Ross are found dead at the massage parlour where they work, as they have both been shot in the head and had their throats slashed. It turns out the business was a front for a brothel and suspicion is directed towards a local police officer named Ed Carter, who is alleged to have been involved in a dispute with the massage parlour’s owner. Nineteen years later, Carter and two other suspects are charged for their roles in the murders, but since DNA evidence from the crime scene does not match any of them, they all wind up being acquitted at trial. On this week’s episode of “The Path Went Chilly”, we explore a brutal double homicide surrounded by scandal and allegations of police corruption which is often referred to as “The Kentucky Bordello Murders”.
Additional Reading:
https://unsolved.com/gallery/candy-belt-gloria-ross/
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Candy_Belt_and_Gloria_Rosshttp://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1106-a-town-under-trial
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/08/31/kentucky-soap-opera-unleashed-after-double-slaying-at-brothel/2d0b9d30-bddd-42e2-80ff-c5a5f5c6e61a/?utm_term=.8f32871c91dc
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/21/justice/kentucky-prostitute-murders-cold-case/
http://wkms.org/post/jury-acquits-3-men-1994-west-kentucky-brothel-murder-trialhttp://www.kentuckynewera.com/web/article_998c8520-7536-11e6-837f-ff6be70258b9.html
http://www.kentuckynewera.com/web/news/article_c4f5a69a-24af-11e3-a451-0019bb2963f4.html
https://www.kentuckynewera.com/ep/news/article_e71cdd80-92a4-11e7-b33e-37e40271aa58.html

September 11, 2001. Tioga County, New York. 35-year old Michele Harris finishes her evening shift at her workplace, but never returns home. The following morning, Michele’s abandoned minivan is discovered on a road next to the driveway of her family’s rural property. Suspicion turns towards Michele’s estranged husband, Cal Harris, as the couple are in the midst of a heated divorce and tiny specks of blood are soon found inside their residence. Years later, Cal is charged with Michele’s murder and found guilty, but the case would undergo four trials and two overturned convictions while the defence points the finger at alternate suspects. Cal is finally acquitted of the crime in 2016, but Michele’s body is never found. Was Cal Harris actually responsible for his wife’s disappearance, or did someone else murder Michele? This week’s episode of “The Path Went Chilly” is one of the most convoluted cases we’ve ever covered, chronicling a disappearance which just happened to take place only 200 miles from New York City on one of the most infamous dates in history.
Additional Reading:
http://charleyproject.org/case...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/4...
https://www.pressconnects.com/...
https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/24...
https://www.pressconnects.com/...
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32 year old writer Rey Rivera and his wife Allison moved to Baltimore from sunny California after his dreams of screenwriting didn't come to fruition. Rey took a job at good friend Porter Stansberry's 'Stansberry & Associates Investment Research'. It didn't take long for Rey to realize that investment advice was not his strong suit so he started work for a another subsidiary of Agora where he would be making videos. This was far more in line with Rey's creative side. Some strange events would transpire prior to Rey's wife Allison leaving on a business trip. Rey would behave strangely prior to leaving the home he shared with Allison on May 16, according to a houseguest. He wouldn't be found till over a week later when his body was discovered on May 24, 2006. His body had crashed through a roof at the Belvedere. The injuries were called into question, as well as the physics of it was possible for one to jump this great a distance. Was this suicide or something more sinister?
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Rey_Rivera
https://unsolved.com/gallery/mystery-on-the-rooftop/
“An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere” by Mikita Brottman
Rey Rivera Autopsy Report
Original Police Report
FBI Behavioural Analysis Unit Report
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fbi-says-dead-filmmaker-s-letter-not-a-suicide-note
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-rey-rivera-netflix-inaccuracies-20200805-zxmiq4ppp5euxhbcm23ksgezva-story.html
https://old.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/hj7w5c/stunned_by_rey_rivera_clue_that_no_one_seems_to/
https://ew.com/tv/unsolved-mysteries-terry-dunn-meurer-rey-rivera-update/
Promo: Zodiac Speaking
Music by @PaulRich_Actor from Cold Callers Comedy Podcast @coldcallers
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/cold-callers-comedy/id437588267
Art by @fleshwadYT
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July 10, 1958. Monterey County, California. 26-year old First Lieutenant Paul Whipkey leaves Fort Ord, the Army base where he is stationed. When he fails to return, he is declared AWOL before being declared a “deserter” 30 days later. Five weeks after he went missing, Whipkey’s abandoned car is discovered nearly 500 miles away in a remote section of Death Valley. Since Whipkey’s body cannot be found, the Army believes he suffered a mental breakdown and wandered into the desert and died. However, Whipkey’s family discovers troubling discrepancies to make them suspect the Army staged his disappearance. In 1982, Whipkey’s status is officially changed to “died in the line of duty”, but he is never found and the full truth about what happened to him is not revealed. Could Whipkey have been recruited by the CIA and sent on a secret mission? Or was his disappearance connected to a previous assignment involving atomic testing? We shall explore all the different potential scenarios as we cover a bizarre military-themed mystery on this week’s edition on “The Path Went Chilly”.
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