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🗓️ 25 July 2018
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0:00.0 | Strange and scary mysteries of the month, July 2018. |
0:10.4 | Strange and scary mysteries of the month is a compilation of the weird disturbing and downright baffling stories currently happening in our world |
0:17.4 | from UFOs to serial killers ancient sites mysterious creatures and even ghosts these are the strange and Mysterious Creatures of the Month for July 2018. |
0:27.0 | Number five, the Case of Wellesch. |
0:44.0 | On March 26, 1986, 12-year-old Michaela-Welch took her siblings to Puget Park in Tacoma, Washington at around 10 a.m. About an hour later, she left them there to go home and make sandwiches for lunch, and after that |
0:49.8 | headed back to the park. Once there, she placed their lunch on a park table and went |
0:54.8 | looking for her siblings. By 115 the brothers and sisters had found the brown |
0:59.5 | paper bag lunches waiting for them but their older sister was nowhere to be found. |
1:05.1 | Two hours later, when there was still no sign of Michaela, police were notified and they began searching |
1:10.1 | for the girl. |
1:11.4 | By nightfall, they found her body in a makeshift fire pit close to the park. |
1:16.4 | Michaela had been raped and killed from a cut around her throat. |
1:20.7 | Despite the police work during the initial investigation, the case went cold for more than 30 years, until this year when authorities announced they've arrested a suspect in connection with the slang. |
1:32.0 | Although DNA evidence was obtained from the case, the 2006 initial search using that profile came up empty. |
1:40.0 | Police tried again recently, this time using it in combination with a genealogy search, |
1:45.5 | and managed to narrow down a family tree that identified two brothers that could possibly hold the killer's DNA. |
1:52.0 | Both brothers had lived in Tacoma during 1986, |
1:56.0 | and police obtained abandoned DNA from them |
1:58.0 | to see which one it belonged to. |
2:00.0 | It turned out to match 66 year old Gary Hartmans. |
2:05.0 | They had placed Hartman under surveillance and during one of these |
2:07.6 | stakeouts they grabbed a discarded napkin he used to wipe his mouth. |
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