Monday, August 11, 2025

The Poison Dress

 

A poison dress is a dress or robe that has in some way been poisoned, and is a common motif in legends and folktales of various cultures, including ancient Greece, Mughal India, and the United States.

Greek mythology

The poison dress motif is similar to the Shirt of Flame. In Greek mythology, when Jason left the sorceress Medea to marry Glauce, King Creon's daughter, Medea took her revenge by sending Glauce a poison dress and a golden coronet, also dipped in poison. This resulted in the death of the princess and, subsequently, the king, when he tried to save her.

The Shirt of Nessus is smeared with the poisoned blood of the centaur Nessus, which was given to Hercules by Hercules' wife, Deianira. Deianira had been tricked by Nessus and made to believe that the blood would ensure Hercules's faithfulness. According to Sophocles' tragedy The Women of Trachis, Hercules began to perspire when he put on the shirt, which soon clung to his flesh, corroding it. He eventually threw himself onto a pyre on Mount Oeta in extreme agony and burned to death.

Indian folklore

Aurangzeb (r. 1658–1707), considered by his subjects a fakir or wizard, was credited with using poison khalats to eliminate some of his perceived enemies.

Numerous tales of poison khalats (robes of honor) have been recorded in historical, folkloric, and medical texts of British Indianists. Gifts of clothing were common in major life-cycle rituals in pre-industrial India, and these stories revolve around fears of betrayal, inspired by the ancient custom of giving khalats to friends and enemies as demonstrations of a social relationship or a political alliance.

In 1870, Norman Chevers, M.D., a Surgeon-Major to the Bengal Medical Service, authored Manual of Medical Jurisprudence for India, describing unusual crimes involving poisons native to India. The book included three cases of poison khalat death, attributing the cause of one of the deaths to lethal vesicants impregnating the fabric of the robe and entering the victim's sweat pores.

American urban legends

The theme of the poison dress appears in several American urban legends, which were recorded in folklore collections and journal articles in the 1940s and 1950s.

Stith Thompson, an American folklorist, noted the classical prototype in these stories, "Shirt of Nessus", and assigned Motif D1402.5, "Magic shirt burns wearer up". Jan Harold Brunvand provides a summary of one of the stories:

The girl wears a new formal gown to dance. Several times during the evening, she feels faint, has an escort take her outside for fresh air. Finally, she becomes ill, dies in the restroom. Investigation reveals that the dress has been the cause of her death. It had been used as the funeral dress for a young girl; it had been removed from the corpse before burial and returned to the store. The formaldehyde that the dress has absorbed from the corpse enters the pores of the dancing girl.

Folklorist Ernest Baughman speculated that the story might have been used as adverse publicity to discredit a well-known store, since several variants of the story specifically mention the name of the store at which the dress was supposedly purchased. The legend continued to be told long after its initial popularity, with "embalming fluid" sometimes replacing the formaldehyde mentioned in the earlier version. This urban legend was dramatized in the episode "'Til Death Do We Part" from the crime-scene drama CSI: NY and in the second story ("Two Sisters") of the sixth episode of the third season of the television anthology series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.

Also contributing to the poison-dress theme is the prevalence of smallpox-contaminated blankets, which were given to Native Americans. Well-documented examples include the tainted blankets gifted to Indians at Fort Pitt in 1763.

Arabia

The poet Imru' al-Qais is said to have died after being gifted a poisoned robe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_dress

The Spider Bite

 


The Spider Bite or The Red Spot is a modern urban legend that emerged in England during the 1970s.

The legend features a young woman from a frigid, northern location (England, New York City, etc.), who is on vacation abroad in a warm southern location (Mexico, etc.). While sunbathing on the beach, she is bitten on the cheek by a spider. The bite swells into a large boil, and she rushes home to seek medical treatment. She finds a doctor to lance the boil, causing hundreds of tiny spiders to emerge. She is driven insane by the shock.

History

The legend of The Spider Bite emerged as a modern legend in Europe in the late 1970s, but it echoes earlier manifestations of the bosom-serpent story type, where all types of creatures enter the body and sometimes reproduce there. Modern folklorists adopted the term bosom-serpent from Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1843 short story, "Egotism, or, the Bosom Serpent". The term is now used to generalize other legends in which living creatures enter the human body. In bosom-serpent type legends, the creatures usually have to be removed surgically, but sometimes they depart on their own, or even burst from the skin.

Interpretations

This urban legend provides a social commentary about the perception of the people who consider southern locales to be less clean and more dangerous than their home turf. Spiders are loathed by many people, but venomous, hairy, or especially large spiders make frequent appearances in legends. Spiders in urban legends have often taken cover in a variety of items ranging from cactus plants and food, to hairdos and within the human body, so it is natural to have a fear of invasion. Bengt af Klintberg's work in urban legends elaborates and explains that, as a consequence of the absence of spiders in the modern urban environment, they have now assumed mythical proportions in our narrative tradition. Analysts have also suggested that bosom-serpent legends may represent pregnancy fears or fantasies.

Variations

In other versions, a young girl is asleep while a spider crawls across her face and rests on her cheek for a few moments. The next morning, she asks her mother about the red spot on her cheek, and the mother responds, "It looks like a spider bite. It will go away, just don't scratch it." As time passes, the spot grows into a small boil. She confronts her mother again and complains that it is getting larger and that it's sore. The mother replies, "That happens sometimes, it's coming to a head." More days pass, and the girl complains that it hurts and is unsightly. Finally, concerned that it might be infected, the mother agrees to take her to a doctor, but he is not available until the next day. In order to soothe herself that evening, the girl takes a bath. As she soaks, the boil bursts and releases a swarm of baby spiders into the water from the eggs that the mother had laid.

In telling the story, some versions are set in one's own country instead of being abroad (e.g., a Midwestern woman who is bitten in California). Usually, when the story is told to others, the location of the incident is quite specific.

In popular culture

In the 2005 horror film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, the character Heather Thompson meets a gruesome fate following a spider bite. Mistaking the bite for a simple pimple, she pops it, unleashing a swarm of spiders that crawl out from the wound. Overcome with terror, Heather frantically tries to rid herself of the arachnids by peeling at her skin. In her panic, she crashes into a mirror, shattering the glass. The shards embed into her face. Desperate and delirious, Heather continues to tear at her skin, eventually peeling off her face before succumbing to her injuries.

In the 2019 horror film Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, the character Ruth is subject to a spider bite and hospitalized (then sent to a mental hospital). In this version, her cheek swells from a red spot and turns to a large boil, then releases the spiders after she tries to investigate the spot. This transformation is relatively fast over a day, with the spiders clawing their way out of her cheek during the evening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spider_Bite

Murder of Mike Williams

 


Jerry Michael "Mike" Williams (October 16, 1969 – December 16, 2000) was an American murder victim. Williams was initially presumed to have drowned on a 2000 hunting trip to Lake Seminole, a large reservoir straddling the Georgia-Florida state line; his mother always suspected he had been the victim of foul play, possibly at another location. His body was found in October 2017 near Tallahassee, and Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) officials confirmed he was a victim of homicide.

After Williams' boat was found abandoned on the lake, the initial theory was that he had fallen out of it after a collision while duck hunting. However, a lengthy and exhaustive search of the lake bed in the area failed to find his body: at that time, it was the only known occasion when no remains or body had been discovered after a drowning death in the lake. It was eventually concluded that his body had been eaten by alligators. After waders and a jacket containing Williams's hunting license were found in the lake six months later, he was declared legally dead, following a court petition by his widow, Denise. She went on to marry Brian Winchester, a mutual friend who had helped her take out a large life insurance policy on Williams shortly before his disappearance.

Some investigators felt aspects of the case were not consistent with the alligator theory. After three years of pressure from Williams's mother, Cheryl, the case was reopened in 2004 by the FDLE. By then, officers had learned that alligators do not eat during the winter months, and as such, it was suspected that foul play might have occurred. However, no new evidence came of this, as the potential crime scene had not been secured during the search for Williams.

Cheryl Williams wrote letters daily to the governor, asking him to have the state reopen the investigation. Two later investigations were likewise unable to uncover any significant new information, alienating many of the law enforcement officials she had previously persuaded to reopen it. The Investigation Discovery channel series Disappeared devoted an episode to the case in 2012. In 2016, Winchester was arrested on charges stemming from an incident where he allegedly kidnapped Denise, the missing man's widow, who was now divorcing him; he was sentenced to 20 years in prison on the day before the FDLE announced that Williams's body had been found. In May 2018, Denise Williams was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and accessory. She was found guilty that December, after Winchester testified to shooting Michael at Denise's behest when their original plan to stage a boating accident failed, and was sentenced to life in prison in January 2019. In 2020, a Florida appellate court overturned her murder conviction but upheld her murder conspiracy conviction, for which she will serve 30 years.

Background

Jerry Michael Williams was known as Michael or Mike. He grew up in Bradfordville (north of Tallahassee), the son of a Greyhound bus driver and a day care provider who raised him and his older brother Nick in a double-wide trailer. Instead of building a house, the parents saved their money so both boys, who helped by working nights at supermarkets, could attend North Florida Christian High School. There, Mike excelled, serving as student council president, playing football, and being active in the Key Club. At the age of 15, he began duck hunting as a hobby, and also came to know fellow student Denise Merrell.

After North Florida Christian, he attended Florida State University, where he majored in political science and urban planning. Before graduation, he was hired by Ketcham Appraisal Group as a property appraiser. He distinguished himself as "the hardest-working man I ever saw", according to the company's owner. After he married Merrell in 1994, he would often go home for dinner and return to work after she (and later, his daughter as well) went to bed, and he sometimes went into work after going duck hunting in the morning. According to his mother, Mike was making US$200,000 annually by the time of his disappearance. He and Denise had bought a home in a small upscale subdivision on the east side of the city.

In 1999, Williams's only child, a daughter, was born. His coworkers said he was as devoted to her as he was to his work. The following year, his father died. Midway through the year, the couple bought a $1 million life insurance policy on him through Brian Winchester, a childhood acquaintance of Merrell who had also become best friends with her husband. Later that year, Williams told his mother, whom he had been consoling, that he would have liked to have $50,000 to take the next year off.

Two days before his disappearance, Mike and Denise told his mother, as well as his brother Nick, that they were planning to have another child soon. In 2001, she said, they were planning to go on a cruise in Hawaii that spring; later in the year, he expected to travel to Jamaica for work as well.

Disappearance

According to Denise Williams, on the morning of December 16, 2000, a Saturday, her husband awoke early, leaving the house on Centennial Oaks Circle well before dawn, boat in tow, to go duck hunting at Lake Seminole. The lake is a large reservoir approximately 50 mi (80 km) west-northwest of Tallahassee, located in the southwest corner of Georgia along its border with Florida, where three other streams merge to form the Apalachicola River. The couple had plans to celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary that night in Apalachicola.

At noon, Denise called her father to tell him that Mike had not returned; Brian Winchester's (Mike's best friend) father drove with Winchester to the areas of the lake where they knew Mike Williams frequently went duck hunting. They found his 1994 Ford Bronco near a remote boat launch in Jackson County, on the Florida side. After investigators with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FFWCC) were called, a search began, but it soon had to be called off after a storm blew in.

Search

The initial search investigation was handled by the FFWCC. Since it had been reported to them as a missing hunter, the agency handled the case that way, focusing on search and rescue or recovery. "We didn't have a whole lot to go on except there was an empty boat and the guy didn't show up," one of the agency's officers recalled later, after his retirement. "There was nothing there that we had from the scene that suggested foul play at all." Deputies with the Jackson County Sheriff's Office were present, but primarily worked in a support capacity.

Searchers focused on the 10 acres (4.0 ha) of the lake surrounding the cove where Williams's truck was parked. His boat was soon found roughly 225 feet (69 m) from the ramp by a helicopter pilot, who initially assumed it was a boat being used in the search. After retrieving the boat, investigators found Williams's shotgun, still in its case, but no sign of Williams himself.

The cove is locally believed to have been an orchard before the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers and Spring Creek were dammed to create the lake. It took its name, Stump Field, from the many remaining stumps that protruded above and below the water level, requiring careful handling of any powerboat in the area. Searchers thus assumed that Williams had hit a stump with his boat, fallen out, sunk into waters 8–12 feet (2.4–3.7 m) deep when his waders filled, and then drowned when he was unable to extricate himself.

Had Williams drowned, his body would have been expected to eventually float to the surface, making it easier to discover. Investigators assured the Williams family that his body would surface, like other drowning victims, within three to seven days, or perhaps slightly longer due to the cold front that had moved in after the first night's storm. Nobody was found, however.

Ten days into the search, a camouflage-patterned hunting hat was found, but it could not be connected to Williams. Efforts continued until the search was called off in early February. It has since been suggested that the search might have been continued had Denise Williams indicated an interest in such. At that time, the case was still considered open. "Nothing in investigative or search and rescue efforts has produced any definitive evidence of a boating accident or a fatality as of this date," read the final report, issued in late February 2001.

Subsequent developments

If Williams had drowned after accidentally falling out of his boat, his body would be the only one of 80 known deaths in the lake never to have been found. The head of a private search firm that supplemented official efforts near the end of the search offered a possible explanation. "With the wildlife around, I would guess that the alligators have dismembered and have stored the remains in a location that we would not be able to find," he wrote in a report. Early searchers had reported seeing many of them, and some of the officials were willing to accept the possibility. "Everyone knows the lake is full of alligators," said the FFWCC's David Arnette. "You look for other answers: 'Why hasn't the body appeared?'"

It was suggested that Williams's body could have been caught in the lake's dense underwater hydrilla beds.

It was suggested that perhaps Williams's body had become entangled in the beds of dense hydrilla beneath the lake surface, and then found by the alligators later, with turtles and catfish finishing what they had left behind. Denise Williams, who had avoided media attention during the search for her husband, accepted that her husband had died. She arranged for a memorial service for Mike to be held the day after the search ended.

In June, an angler in the Stump Field area discovered a pair of waders floating in the lake, and divers called to search the area then recovered from the lake bottom a lightweight hunting jacket and a flashlight: in one of the jacket pockets, there was a hunting license with Williams's name and signature. However, there were no teeth marks or any other damage on the waders; none of the recovered items showed signs of having been in the water for anything like the period Williams had been missing, and there was no DNA evidence found to link the clothing to him. Nevertheless, a week later, a Leon County judge granted Denise Williams's petition to have Mike declared legally dead based on those recovered items and an assumption that alligators and other water life had consumed the body in its entirety.

The court decision allowed Denise Williams to immediately proceed with claims on her husband's life insurance policies, from which she received $1.5 million. Five years later, she married Brian Winchester, who had sold Mike some of the policies a few months before he disappeared. The couple went on to live in the same house where Denise and Mike had lived prior. Denise and Brian have mostly declined to discuss the case publicly.

Later investigations

The private search team that surmised the alligator theory had been hired near the end of the original search by Williams's mother, Cheryl. After it ended, and after her son was declared legally dead (proceedings she said in 2008 she would have contested had she been aware of them), she was still not convinced that he had drowned in the lake, but her attempts to bring about a further investigation were unsuccessful. She has stated that she received threats to discourage her. For the next several years, she investigated on her own when not operating a day care at her home. She ran advertisements in local newspapers and put up billboards seeking information. All the subsequent investigations of the case have resulted from her efforts.

She believed her son might still be alive. "I get criticized a lot for not admitting that Mike's dead," she told the Tallahassee Democrat in 2007. "All I know is I can't stop looking for him until I find him." Her efforts had severely strained her relationship with her former daughter-in-law.

2004

In 2004, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) agreed to reopen the case after lobbying by Cheryl Williams and a friend. It does not normally have jurisdiction in missing-persons cases and cannot get involved in investigations purely based on a citizen's request, although it can offer assistance to local agencies, as it did in this case. In retrospect, many officers agreed with her that the circumstances surrounding Michael Williams' apparent drowning four years before were unusual, and were strongly at odds with that conclusion:

The boat launch where his Bronco was found, which he would presumably have used to put his boat in the lake, was an undeveloped patch of mud. Yet nearby were finished concrete launches that he was known to have used in the past.

The storm the night after he was reported missing had westerly winds that should have blown the abandoned, unmoored boat across the lake to the Georgia side.

When the boat was recovered, its engine was off, yet the gas tank was full. According to a representative of the manufacturer, if the engine had been running when Williams allegedly fell out of the boat, as investigators had theorized, it should have stayed on, with the boat running in circles until its fuel was exhausted. "Something sounds fishy on that deal," the representative said when the situation was described to him.

Investigators also learned that Williams didn't usually hunt alone. "Some things looked unusual right off the bat," said the FFWCC's Arnette, who had initially thought the situation was a typical case involving a missing hunter and a possible boating accident. "Then after a couple three days and after the weeks went on, those first things looked even more out of place."

Alligator theory debunked

Doubts that Williams had drowned became much more serious when investigators learned that alligators do not generally feed during the winter months due to the colder temperatures. During the search period, daytime temperatures averaged around 55 °F (13 °C), with overnight lows below freezing. Some nights got as cold as 19 °F (−7 °C); a fire was built in a 55-gallon drum on the shore for searchers to stay warm. The water, already at 58 °F (14 °C) the day of Williams's disappearance, dropped to 46 °F (8 °C), and the lake iced out to as much as 20 feet (6.1 m) from shore.

In those conditions, "it [i]s highly unlikely an alligator would have been active," said Matt Aresco, a local herpetologist authority had consulted. "All they are doing is maintaining their body temperature ... Fifty-eight degrees is too cold for an alligator to be interested in food at all."

As Ronnie Austin—another investigator then with the state's attorney's office—put it, even if an alligator had "defied all known gator behavior" and eaten Williams's body, it would likely have left something behind. Williams was 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) and 170 pounds (77 kg). Aresco considers any theory that attributes the missing body to alligators and any other aquatic animals a "stretch ... It would be very, very unusual to have the complete disappearance of a full-grown man."

The waders, discovered almost six months after Williams's disappearance, further undermined the alligator theory. While the diver who retrieved them reported that they were in an area of disturbed weeds with alligator excrement nearby, consistent with the original belief that Williams had drowned while wearing them, he allowed it was "anyone's guess" as to whether they had been later planted in that spot. "These waders, we don't know where they came from," Austin said.

Investigators' suspicions were further raised by the waders' condition—undamaged, without any tooth marks, and lacking any of the residues that would be expected to accumulate on an object submerged in the lake for as long as the waders had supposedly been. Arnette filtered the water in them after they were recovered and did not find any human remains. The hunting jacket and flashlight were likewise in much better condition than expected, with the latter even working when turned on.

Apart from the condition of the waders was the question of why Williams would have been wearing them when he supposedly fell out of the boat. According to a friend who hunted with him frequently, including one week before his disappearance, Williams took safety very seriously, keeping his guns at work, away from his daughter, among other precautions. On the water, he never put his waders on until he had reached the point where he planned to get out and start hunting, following a common safety procedure to avoid the type of accident from which he was later believed to have died. "As much as he preached that to me," the friend said, "why would he be wearing his waders while driving the boat?"

Lack of evidence

"My gut feeling is Mike did not die in Lake Seminole", Austin said in 2006, after leaving the state's attorney's office for the FDLE. He added that that belief was shared by all the investigators at that point. "I would say this is a suspicious missing person."

However, the new investigation was made extremely difficult by the deficiencies of the original search, when criminal activity had not been considered. "They did not protect the crime scene at all," recalled a Williams family friend with law enforcement experience, who had tended the drum fire during the search. "They botched it." By the time investigators began to realize that they should have asked some more questions, the opportunity was gone. Williams's Bronco and the boat had been returned to his family and friends, the footsteps of the many volunteers and searchers all over the lakeshore had made it impossible to collect any evidence from that area, and the items later recovered from the lake had not been retained.

Without any of that evidence or Williams's body, police couldn't make a case. "[We're] at a brick wall ... pounding our heads against it," said Austin. Derrick Wester, an investigator with the Jackson County sheriff's office, agreed that they were "trying to make up for" not having considered the possibility that things might not have been what they seemed in 2000. His office kept the case open and had some persons of interest, although he did not identify them.

2007

The FDLE closed its case, convinced that the alligator theory was wrong, but without any leads or evidence that could allow it to further investigate. By 2006, its cold case investigators were no longer returning Cheryl Williams's phone calls. She continued to do what she could to publicize the case, taking out ads in the Tallahassee Democrat.

A possible new lead emerged in October 2007, when Michael Williams's older brother found a photograph and the serial number of a .22-caliber Ruger pistol that had once belonged to their father. Michael had inherited it after his father's death, and after Michael was declared legally dead, it was the only one of his firearms that Denise Williams had not returned to her former in-laws. After Jackson County sheriff's investigator, Wester, asked the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) to look for it, agents visited Denise and Brian Winchester, now married, in their house (the same one she had lived in with Michael), to interview them.

Several days later, their attorney delivered the gun to the FDLE. It was sent to a state forensics laboratory for DNA testing: the results have not been reported. On the anniversary of Williams's disappearance that year, the Winchesters made one of their few public statements on the case: "For seven years we have prayed and hoped to find out with certainty what happened to Mike," Brian said in an email to the Democrat, and "Nobody wants Mike found more than we do." Rumors were circulating in Tallahassee that a grand jury had been hearing evidence and would soon hand down indictments.

2008

In 2008, the Florida Department of Financial Services' Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF), in conjunction with FDLE, began investigating the case from that angle. Normally, under Florida law, the statute of limitations on that crime is five years, meaning it would have expired in 2005. But it can be extended by three years under certain circumstances.

"The circumstances surrounding this case raise many serious and troubling questions," said DIF's lead attorney, Mark Schlein. Perry, the FFWCC officer who had been heavily involved in the original search, added at the time that if he or any other person investigating had known that there was a large life insurance policy on Williams and who the beneficiary was, that search might have been handled differently. It was noted that Denise Williams's court petition to have her husband declared legally dead mentioned only the Kansas City Life Insurance Company policies Winchester had sold him, omitting policies through other companies that Michael Williams had obtained through other sources.

However, Brian Jones, an expert in insurance law at Florida State University, told the Democrat that any fraud case would have to rest on more than just those facts already known to have aroused investigative interest. "The mere fact that they can't locate the body isn't necessarily something the insurance industry would care about," he said. But if Michael Williams was to be proven dead and the beneficiary were to have shown to have been involved, or if he was still alive (as his mother and many residents of Jackson County believed possible), then an insurance company would strongly consider pursuing a case.

By the eighth anniversary of Williams's disappearance, however, the DIF had closed the case. "Our job was extremely difficult, and we were simply unable to develop enough evidence to proceed with the investigation," Schlein said. He added that if new information were received, the investigation could be reopened. "We have suspicions, but what we need is evidence."

Another possible lead that year proved fruitless as well. Carrie Cox, a self-described psychic and certified forensic psychological profiler from Kentucky, reviewing the case, had identified a possible location of Williams's body. She gave investigators the coordinates of a location in Wakulla County near another boat launch. Cadaver dogs were brought to the area and sniffed it out, but found nothing. Cox nevertheless concluded that "we are moving in the right direction... I think something is there." FDLE officials said in 2011 that Cox had not found anything requiring further investigation.

Cheryl Williams's lobbying efforts

Despite the failure of a third investigation to discern the fate of her son, Cheryl Williams persisted. Her efforts led to the Investigation Discovery cable channel, in late 2011, doing a segment on Michael's disappearance and the later investigations. "We don't know what the smoking gun is, but we hope someone will find it," she said.

By then, she had become disillusioned with the FDLE, believing that it was either incompetent or uninterested in resolving the case. In particular, she came to believe the investigation was hampered by the involvement of agent Mike Philips, a friend of both her son and his then-wife. Philips had told her early on in the search that Michael had probably been eaten by alligators, so she had assumed he had been involved in the investigation at that point. He said later he never was and was merely trying to comfort her; FDLE said his involvement was limited to asking his superiors if the agency could help with the search; it did not see a need to formally investigate his role.

Starting on New Year's Day in 2012, Cheryl began writing one letter a day to Governor Rick Scott, asking him to either have another agency besides FDLE investigate or appoint a special prosecutor to do so. After she had written over 200 letters without even an acknowledgment that they had been received, she began inquiring personally as to why. It turned out that the governor's office had forwarded them, unopened, to FDLE's headquarters, where they were placed in the case file. She was outraged. "They could not have hurt me more if they had punched me in the face."

Brian Winchester's kidnapping of Denise

In 2012, Denise and Brian Winchester separated, reportedly due to his sex addiction; she filed for divorce in 2015. Brian opposed it initially and had to be ordered to comply. As part of that order, he was to provide an appraisal of the couple's house, due early in August 2016.

Denise told Leon County Sheriff's Office investigators that, on August 5, the day when the appraisal had to be filed with the court, she left her home to drive to her job at Florida State University. While she was talking on her phone to her sister, she saw someone climb over the back seat of her car. It turned out to be Brian.

He took her phone away and began yelling directions at her. She did not comply until he showed her a gun. She said later that he claimed this was necessary since she was not taking his calls and was blocking his text messages. Instead of going where he wanted her to, she pulled into a CVS drugstore parking lot, close to the door.

Brian told her that he was planning to kill himself with the gun. He did not want the divorce and felt he had nothing to live for if it went through. He assured her he did not want to kill her. She was able to calm him down and took him back to where he had parked his truck at a nearby park. Before he went to it, he took a tan sheet, a different-colored plastic sheet, a spray bottle of bleach, and a tool from Denise's car.

After she left, Brian pulled up to her and apologized for his actions. Despite her promise to him not to tell the police about the incident, she drove straight to them afterwards. According to a friend of Winchester's later interviewed by police, he had been increasingly concerned that, as a result of the divorce, Denise would tell the police what she knew about "this guy who died 10 or 12 or 15 years ago". She had not answered his many phone calls, so he came up with his plan to wait in her car and hold her at gunpoint.

Brian was arrested and charged with kidnapping, domestic assault, and armed burglary, with two of the charges being felonies. Denise requested protection orders, saying she feared for her life and her daughter's. After a hearing the next week, at which she said she could neither eat nor sleep since the incident, the court decided to hold Brian without bond.

Cheryl Williams expressed hope that this development could lead to the resolution of her son's disappearance. "[Brian]'s not going to let Denise run around alone with all that money," she told the New York Daily News. "I'm praying he doesn't commit suicide; I'm praying he'll tell us what happened." She added that she is alone among her family in holding out hope that her son is still alive.

At his trial, Winchester's attorney told the court that he was suicidal that day, due to not only the divorce but also his mother's recent terminal cancer diagnosis and the decision by his teenage son from his first marriage to move in with his mother, and argued for the 10-year mandatory minimum. Prosecutors countered that Winchester's actions that day indicated he planned a murder-suicide that was only averted by Denise's quick thinking, and asked the court for the 45-year maximum. In December 2017, Winchester was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison for the kidnapping, with credit for 502 days served, to be followed by 15 years' probation. He is now imprisoned in the Wakulla Correctional Institution.

Discovery of the body

No mention was made of the Williams case at Brian Winchester's sentencing, although State Attorney Jack Campbell told the media that he hoped the case against Winchester would help authorities solve that disappearance. Later, it was reported that he had reached an agreement with prosecutors before the sentencing that they would neither seek a life sentence on the kidnapping charge nor introduce certain evidence at the hearing. What that agreement required of Winchester, if anything, beyond his guilty plea has not been disclosed.

The next day, at a news conference, Mark Perez, the FDLE's special agent in charge, announced to assembled reporters that Williams's body had been found and it had been determined he was the victim of a homicide. However, they declined to release any details of how he had been killed, who might be a suspect or person of interest, or where the body had been found, saying they were withholding that information since only the perpetrators would be expected to know it.

Subsequently, the FDLE revealed they had found Mike Williams's remains at the end of dead-end Gardner Road in northern Leon County, five miles (8.0 km) from where he grew up; they were confirmed as his following a match to his mother's DNA. No other details were provided.

After Denise Williams was arrested, the FDLE disclosed that they had received information on where the body was in early October 2017. County public works employees brought in backhoes for what they were told was a training exercise. After five 16-hour days of digging 9-foot-deep (2.7 m) holes in the mud at that corner of the lake, all the while holding back the lake waters by dams and pumps amid the constant presence of eels and water moccasins, the FDLE was ready to hire a private contractor to finish the job.

On October 18, the team of search dogs and officers finally found Mike Williams's remains in the piles of dirt stacked on plywood sheets. An FDLE source told the Tallahassee Democrat that 98% of his bones were recovered, all very well preserved, as was some of the clothing he had been wearing, such as winter gloves and booties. Two DNA tests matched the remains to his mother's sample.

Arrest and subsequent trial of Denise Williams

On May 8, 2018, Denise Williams was arrested at Florida State University as she left work to celebrate her daughter's 19th birthday, minutes after a grand jury had indicted her on charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and accessory after the fact. Prosecutors continued to keep details of the crime to themselves, saying they would share them in court when the time came. They did say that they would seek to have her denied bail.

Denise's attorney declined to comment at that time, saying he had not had time to review the case. Denise's estranged husband, Winchester, was serving his sentence at Wakulla Correctional Institution near Tallahassee; his attorney said his client would take the stand at trial if legally compelled to do so. However, the attorney did not think Winchester would be charged in the case as well.

Two FDLE officers went to Cheryl Williams's house immediately following the indictment to inform her. She did not speak to the media about how she reacted to the news.

The three-page indictment was released two days later. It revealed that prosecutors believed Denise allegedly began conspiring with Winchester in March 2000, nine months before her first husband disappeared. Winchester is alleged to have killed Michael with a gun. The accessory charge suggested that sometime between August 2014 and the day Winchester was sentenced, Denise had allegedly helped Winchester avoid prosecution or arrest for the crime.

Ethan Way, Denise's lawyer, said his client was innocent of all the charges. "[She] had absolutely nothing to do with Mike Williams's disappearance and had absolutely nothing to do with any of the crimes that Brian Winchester committed." He found it convenient that the indictment came after Winchester had been imprisoned for several months. On Denise's behalf, Way entered a plea of not guilty.

Trial

In late June 2018, Denise Williams was ordered held without bond, with a trial date set for September 24. Audio of Brian Winchester's interview with the FDLE was played in court. In it, Brian confessed to pulling the trigger but claims the killing was Denise's idea. Her defense argued that the tape should not have been admitted as evidence since Winchester was not charged with anything despite his admission; the prosecution said it simply asked him to tell the truth about what happened. She went on trial in December.

The state's star witness was Brian Winchester, who testified at length about how he and Denise had never really ended their high school relationship, even after they both married others. Kathy Thomas, Winchester's first wife, told the jury that she had suspected the two of having an affair in the late 1990s, when they frequently double-dated with Mike and Denise. Brian said in his confession, a tape of which was played for the jury, that the affair had started in 1997 and just "snowballed".

After discreetly rekindling the relationship, the two began to consider killing Mike so they could marry, as Denise's family frowned on divorce for religious reasons. Denise suggested staging a boating accident on the Gulf of Mexico where they could throw both Mike and Kathy Thomas overboard, but Winchester did not want to kill his children's mother. After rejecting plans for a murder at Mike's office meant to look like a robbery, Winchester hit on the idea of an apparent hunting accident after he saved Mike from quicksand when the two were hunting in Arkansas.

On the day Mike disappeared, Winchester said, he had enticed him to Lake Seminole. Out on the water, he had gotten Mike to put the waders on, then pushed him out of the boat, thinking he would be unable to resurface and thus would drown. But instead, he managed to get to a tree stump, so Winchester fired a single shotgun blast to the face. Since Mike's death could no longer be passed off as a boating accident, Winchester buried the body where it was later found, then cleaned out his truck and went to a family Christmas party, where he learned that a search was underway. He and Denise took it slow after Mike's "accident", both to let the insurance money earn further interest and to allay any suspicion. The kidnapping that had led to his present imprisonment, he explained, was his reaction to fear that Denise would reveal the truth about what had happened to her first husband now that she and Brian were divorcing.

Prosecutors also played a taped phone conversation in which Kathy Thomas, who was working with police at the time, had told Denise she knew the truth about the crime. Each time she brought it up, Denise attempted to change the subject, but at one point asked, "What do you know?" Assistant state attorney Jon Fuchs said this evasiveness, as well as Denise's dispassionate response when Winchester told her how he had killed Mike, demonstrated how cold-bloodedly she helped plan the crime that happened on her behalf.

Way argued in response that there was no physical evidence linking Denise to the crime and that it had been entirely Winchester's idea; he expressed incredulity that Winchester was not on trial despite having admitted to committing the crime himself. After four days of testimony, the jury took eight hours to convict Denise of all the charges. Way said his client would appeal the conviction.

In February 2019, Denise was sentenced to life in prison. She did not speak or offer any argument on her own behalf. The only person to address the court besides the lawyers was Cheryl Williams, who said that justice had finally been served, and that Denise had taken not only her son but also her granddaughter from her.

Five months later, Mike and Denise's daughter Anslee was awarded all assets of her late father's estate and insurance monies due to Denise, after her mother signed them over to her to avoid prosecution on three counts of insurance fraud. As part of the deal, Anslee may not use any of the money on her mother's legal fees; if she did, she would owe the state a US$150,000 penalty. Denise is now imprisoned at the Florida Women's Reception Center.

Appeals

In January 2020, Denise Williams appealed her conviction and life sentence. Her attorney argued before the Florida First District Court of Appeal that there was no evidence she was involved in the commission of the murder. In November 2020, the murder conviction was overturned, but the conspiracy to commit murder conviction was upheld, including the 30-year sentence that accompanied it.

In April 2021, Florida's Attorney General appealed the reversal of Denise's murder conviction to the state's Supreme Court. It cited conflicting precedent and state constitutional provisions.  The court declined to hear the appeal.

In the media

In the early 2000s, Cheryl Williams had posted flyers, put up signs, and run newspaper ads soliciting information about the case. One of the ads drew the attention of Jennifer Portman, a reporter at the Tallahassee Democrat. In 2006, after the closure of the first FDLE investigation, she wrote a lengthy story about the case. She followed the story through Denise's conviction, making a point of keeping the poster for the case on her cubicle wall.

In 2011, the case made it into two other media formats. Carrie Cox, the psychic and profiler who had identified a possible burial site at which no body was found, published Alligator Alibi, a lengthy book with documents from the investigation, Cheryl Williams's notes, and her commentary. She supported it with an eponymous Facebook page, where she regularly publishes whatever updates she can and news about other, similar cases.

Near the end of that year, the Investigation Discovery cable channel series Disappeared devoted an episode to the case. Cheryl Williams promoted it heavily in the days before it aired. Portman, who was interviewed, said she could always tell when it got rerun due to the increase in email she got, many of which asked questions she had tried in vain to get authorities to answer. After one such re-airing in 2015, she expressed the hope that "one day ... instead of a question, there will be an answer".

The Crime Junkie podcast featured the case in an episode that was released in early 2019.

On November 13, 2020, True Crime Network featured the case in season 1, episode 11, of Meet, Marry, Murder.

In August 2021, the seventh season premiere of the A&E Network series Cold Case Files featured the case.

NBC's Dateline featured the case as episode 21 of season 27, which first aired on April 9, 2022. The episode was rerun in 2025.

In August 2023, it was the subject of Wondery's 4th season of its podcast series Over My Dead Body.

In October 2024, the case was the subject of the German podcast Plot House's first episode, called "Alibi von einem Alligator", which translates from German to "Alibi from an alligator".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Mike_Williams

Murder of Ella Bennett

 


On February 4, 2007, Paris Lee Bennett, a 13-year-old American, murdered his 4-year-old sister, Ella Bennett, in Abilene, Texas. Paris stabbed Ella 17 times.

The motive for the murder was Paris's resentment towards his mother, Charity Bennett, as he believed the best way to emotionally damage her was to take away one of her children.

Paris pleaded guilty in juvenile court to capital murder and was given the maximum sentence of 40 years in prison, with the possibility of parole after 20 years. Following the murder, Paris was evaluated and met criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder traits consistent with what is sometimes called sociopathy.

The murder has gained extensive attention due to its circumstances, as well as the ages of both the perpetrator and the victim.

Background

Charity Bennett, the mother of Paris and Ella Bennett, is the daughter of Kyla Claar Bennett. Kyla Bennett was charged with conspiring to murder her husband and Charity's father, James Robert Bennett Jr. She was controversially found not guilty, and Charity believes her mother was guilty. Kyla later joked in a documentary about "manipulat[ing]" the jury. During her childhood, Charity intentionally became addicted to drugs in an attempt to gain attention from her mother, but Kyla never showed any interest.

Murder

Shortly before the murder, Charity had relapsed into drug addiction. This was believed to be Paris's breaking point, making him decide to murder Ella. However, Paris displayed warning signs of violence before the murder and has since admitted to feeling homicidal tendencies since he was a young child.

On February 4, 2007, Charity hired a babysitter, as she had to work late at her job at the restaurant Buffalo Wild Wings, as it was the night of the 2007 Super Bowl. Around 10:00 PM, Paris was able to manipulate the babysitter and convince her to leave the house. Later that night, sometime before 11:30 PM, Paris entered Ella's room, sexually assaulted her, and stabbed her 17 times. Following the murder, he called a school friend for about six minutes before deciding to call 9-1-1 at 11:42 PM. On the call, Paris appeared to fake insanity, telling the dispatcher that he thought Ella was an inflamed pumpkin-headed demon and stabbed her. Once the dispatcher instructed Paris to perform CPR, he instead pretended he was by counting on the dispatcher as he paced around the room. Paris was later arrested sometime before 12:30 AM.

Legal proceedings

Following his arrest, Paris was charged with the capital murder of Ella. Paris was not charged as an adult, since the minimum age a juvenile can be tried as an adult in Texas is 14. He was instead charged in juvenile court and pleaded guilty to capital murder. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison with the possibility of parole after 20 years, which is the maximum sentence for a defendant convicted of capital murder in a juvenile court in Texas. When he was 19, Paris was transferred to an adult prison. During proceedings, further assessment using standardized measures documented significant psychopathic traits. He has said he has had homicidal ideation since he was a child. Paris will first be eligible for parole in February 2027. If he is never granted parole, he will be released in February 2047.

Aftermath

Charity initially maintained contact with Paris after the murder, which Paris said astounded him. Charity has been told that she and her new son are at risk once Paris is released, which she accepts. She has acknowledged that she will most likely need to move to a new location once Paris is released. Experts have said that it is unlikely that Paris could ever be rehabilitated. In 2021, Charity stated that she had ceased all communication with Paris after learning he was involved with a woman who was on bond two hours away from where she lived for planning a mass shooting. She stated, "I finally accepted it is okay to love him as my son, but dislike the man he has become."

In 2017, a documentary titled The Family I Had been released about the case; it focused on Charity's life of being the daughter of a murder suspect (Kyla), and the mother of both a murderer (Paris) and a murder victim (Ella).

Paris Bennett made headlines in 2019 when he gave an interview to broadcaster Piers Morgan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ella_Bennett

Murder of Dylan Groves

 


On June 12, 2019, the body of four-month-old Dylan Groves was found in a 30-foot-deep well in Otway, Ohio. His parents, Daniel and Jessica Groves, were arrested two days prior on June 10, 2019, after failing to make in-person contact with Scioto County Children's Services for two months, resulting in a missing person's report being filed for Dylan.

Dylan was found in a container consisting of two plastic milk crates chained together open end to open end, and secured with a chain, padlocks, and zip ties. The milk crates contained multiple large stones, a metal anchor, and Dylan's decomposed body, which was wrapped in two blankets and multiple layers of plastic and secured with duct tape. Dylan had multiple fractures to his arm, legs, skull, and ribs, which occurred at different periods, evident from their stages of healing. He also had methamphetamine and amphetamine in his system. His cause of death was listed as “homicidal violence of undetermined etiology.”

Daniel and Jessica Groves were charged with his murder, as well as kidnapping, interference with custody, abuse of a corpse, among other charges. Both of them were convicted and sentenced on January 10, 2020, which would have been Dylan's first birthday.

In August 2021, Ohio State Senator Terry Johnson introduced Senate Bill 216, also known as Dylan's Law, which, if passed, would have required the parents of children addicted to drugs to go through extensive training and milestones before they can be reunited with their children. The bill died while in committee.

Background

Jessica and Daniel Groves, of Otway, Ohio, before January 10, 2019, had one child, Daniel Groves Jr. Dylan James Groves was born on January 10, 2019. The Groves arrived at the Southern Ohio Medical Center in Portsmouth, Ohio, early that morning. Jessica was dilated 9½ out of 10 centimeters. Hospital staff noticed Jessica was under the influence, but she refused to answer their questions. Staff in the maternity ward administered no pain medications to Jessica because she was under the influence as well, and there were no records of prenatal care for Dylan. He was delivered within 30 minutes and was promptly placed on oxygen, as he was born prematurely. Neither Daniel nor Jessica accompanied him there.

Dylan and Jessica both tested positive for drugs, and Dylan began exhibiting symptoms of neonatal withdrawal syndrome 12 hours after his birth. His umbilical cord was tested shortly before his birth, and tested positive for various drugs, including methamphetamine, amphetamine, fentanyl, and morphine, among other drugs.

Scioto County Children's Services intended to award custody of Dylan to his father, Daniel, as they believed Daniel was employed with Rural King, a farm supply store, and would be able to provide clean drug tests. They intended to release Dylan to Daniel under the pretense that Jessica would not live in the same home and had to attend drug treatment. The hospital would not agree to release Dylan to the Groves under those pretenses, and instead, Dylan was placed with a foster mother, Andrea Tackett, on January 16. Dylan was still exhibiting symptoms of drug withdrawal, such as twitching and tremors, and wanted to be held at all times.

Dylan remained with Tackett for ten days before he was placed back into the custody of Daniel under the previously discussed pretenses. Jessica was assessed by a local drug treatment facility, where she received treatment for three weeks. Dylan regularly saw a pediatrician for less than one month. The Groves eventually began avoiding contact with Children's Services, who tried reaching out to them between February 4 and February 25, including visiting their eldest son at his school. Children's Services made successful contact with them again on the 25th.

After February 25, the Groves avoided contact with Children's Services. Caseworker Patricia Craft made contact with the family at their home on March 28, which was the last documented sighting of Dylan alive. After that visit, the Groves would not make in-person contact with Children's Services again. Children's Services attempted to make in-person contact several times throughout the following months to no avail. Children's Services eventually placed their oldest son, Daniel Junior, into their custody, placing him with an aunt and uncle.

Child Services filed a missing person's report for Dylan on April 30 and continued to make unsuccessful attempts at contacting the family. Deputies from the Scioto County Sheriff's Office also attempted to make contact. On one occasion, on May 20, Captain John Murphy observed the Groves on a four-wheeler near their home and attempted to stop them, but they took off into the woods. A search warrant was secured for their home on June 10. Jessica Groves was promptly arrested and brought down to the Scioto County Sheriff's Office. Daniel was arrested after an hours-long standoff involving a robot. He was also transported to the sheriff's department.

Recovery of Dylan's body

Jessica and Daniel were interviewed by Scioto County Detective Jodi Conkel on June 11. They both initially told Detective Conkel that Children's Services had already taken Dylan along with their eldest son, Daniel Junior. Daniel was reported as being dopesick during his interview, and was rolling around on the floor, but admitted to Detective Conkel that Dylan was deceased, recounting how he found Dylan in his crib dead. He took Detective Conkel to where he initially said Dylan's body was, and nothing was found. The following day, Detective Conkel placed Daniel and Jessica in an interrogation room together, where the two began whispering to each other. Daniel says to Jessica: “If they find his body and if they find out where he had a broken arm and shit, we're fucked. It doesn't matter.”

After removing Jessica and confronting Daniel, Detective Conkel convinced Daniel to take them to the correct spot where Dylan was placed. Daniel leads Detective Conkel and sheriff's deputies to a well in the middle of a field near their home. Members of the Otway Volunteer Fire Department assisted in recovering Dylan's body, which was pulled from the well after four hours. Dylan's body was contained within two plastic milk crates, which were held together by their open ends, and secured with a chain woven in through their handles, along with three padlocks, 12 zip ties, and eight wire ties. Inside the two milk crates were 18 large rocks, and what was described by the medical examiner who performed the autopsy as an “iron anchor-type device.” Dylan's body was wrapped in two blankets, numerous layers of plastic, and duct tape. He was wearing a onesie, socks, and a diaper when he recovered.

Dylan suffered two skull fractures that didn't occur at the same time, as they were in different stages of healing, two fractures of his left radius and ulna, a fracture of his left tibia, and healing fractures to his ribs, which also occurred at different points in time. He had bruises on his chest and left leg, as well as decomposition changes on his abdomen. His organs were all decomposed. When examined, his brain was a pink color, as opposed to a tan color, which indicated the presence of blood, possibly bleeding of the brain.

Dylan's cause of death was listed as “homicidal violence of undetermined etiology” by medical examiner Dr. Susan Brown, who performed the autopsy. She stated during the Groves’ trial that while all of the injuries he sustained indicated he died of homicide, and despite him suffering obvious and significant blunt-force trauma, the specific cause of death could not be determined, as his body was too gravely decomposed to do so, but she believed the fractures showed three different instances of trauma based on their signs of healing.

A vigil was held for Dylan on June 13. In October, Lorra Fuller, the executive director of Scioto County Children's Services at the time, was placed on administrative leave.

Trial

Daniel and Jessica Groves were charged with 11 felonies: aggravated murder, murder, kidnapping, endangering children, tampering with evidence, gross abuse of a corpse, and four counts of felonious assault. They pleaded not guilty to all of them, and the judge revoked their bond.

At their trial, which began on January 7, 2020, Jessica and Daniel's defense attorneys conceded that Jessica was the principal perpetrator in their son's death, and that Daniel had nothing to do with the death of Dylan apart from helping Jessica hide his body.

Among the witnesses at their trial were maternity nurses, pediatricians, Andrea Bowling – Dylan's foster mother- and law enforcement officials, including Detective Conkel. Caseworker Patricia Craft, who was assigned to the Groves’ case, testified about numerous occasions she attempted to make contact with the Groves. She testified that while Dylan was missing after the Groves’ last visit, she suggested putting out an amber alert for him, but was denied by supervisors, who said that “if an amber alert went out, it would give a bad representation for the agency because they lost a child.”

Daniel and Jessica's eldest son, Daniel Groves Junior, also testified. He stated that there were moments where his father would have him provide urine, which the prosecution argued was the reason he passed his drug tests. He also testified that he saw his brother Dylan with bruising and swelling to his head, and didn't see him in the following weeks.

On the fourth and final day of their trial, both Jessica and Daniel took the stand. Jessica took the stand first and was questioned first by her attorney. She admitted to causing the death of Dylan, stating Daniel had nothing to do with the death of Dylan. She was cross-examined by prosecutors, and when asked how she killed her son, she gave no direct answer, instead stating it was an accident, and she had dropped him.

Daniel took the stand next, and during his direct examination, he testified that he didn't know Jessica was using drugs until just before Dylan's birth. He testified that on March 28, shortly after the caseworker left their home, he found Dylan dead in his crib. He stated he fell back into drug use after their eldest son was taken by Children's Services. During cross-examination, prosecutors referenced statements he gave to investigators about seeing his wife strike Dylan in the head four times and grab him aggressively by the ribs. Daniel claimed during his cross-examination that he thought that was a dream.

During closing arguments, the prosecution argued that Daniel should be found guilty of the same crimes as Jessica for not seeking help after seeing her strike and grab Dylan.

After two hours of deliberation, the jury found Jessica guilty on all counts, and Daniel guilty on every count except for aggravated murder. Judge Mark Kuhn sentenced Jessica to life without parole on the aggravated murder charge, plus an additional 32 years for the other charges. Daniel was sentenced to a total of 47 years to life. Both of them are currently being held at separate prisons in the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections.

Aftermath

Dylan's death would not be the only death of a child involving Scioto County Children's Services. In July 2020, Richard and Sonya Greene were charged with the murder of their 5-year-old granddaughter, Annabelle Greene. Annabelle and her two brothers, ages 7 and 3, were placed in Richard and Sonya's custody by Children's Services. Both grandparents pleaded guilty and were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In September 2021, two Scioto County Children's Services caseworkers, Lisa Thomas, who was involved in both the cases of Dylan Groves and Annabelle Greene, and Renee Ginn, who was involved in the case of Annabelle Greene, were indicted on charges of child endangerment.

In August 2021, Ohio State Senator Terry Johnson introduced Ohio Senate Bill 216, also known as Dylan's Law, a bill aimed at protecting children born exposed to illegal drugs. The bill required parents of children born in such conditions to have to attend courses on treating drug-addicted children, as well as rehabilitation programs, before reunification. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Dylan_Groves