Wednesday, August 19, 2026

News Stories That Make You Go, "Hmmmm"

The first finally had an answer, 50 years later. 

Boone, N.C. (1972)

02/05/1972: The mother called a relative to report three intruders in her home. When police arrived, mother, father, and son had been strangled with nylon cord “while their heads were held under water in the bathtub.” The sheriff told a reporter that “the identities of the three suspects were known.” Fifty years later, police identified four men (three already dead, the fourth already serving life for other offenses), members of the “Dixie Mafia,” who were hired to do this. The son of the surviving murderer told police of his father’s confession. They did not identify who hired them.

Category: family non-resident

Suicide: no

Cause: other

Weapon: strangle, drown[1]

The other one seems to have no final resolution. It smells of Mafia, though.

Portage, Ind. (1972)

02/07/1972: Three partners in a correspondence school, named Biederman, Tobias, and Foley, took out $40,000 life insurance policies payable to the school. They then all disappeared. A prospective buyer of an abandoned motel found Biederman and Tobias shot to death outside. Police found Foley shot to death in Biederman’s car in Gary. “Authorities said the murders looked like the work of professionals.”

Category: public

Suicide: no

Cause: unknown

Weapon: firearm[1]


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