Historical murders

[+The Rat]

I'm starting a new Cliff Knowles Mystery. It's based on an old unsolved murder mentioned in a geocache. I know the approvers don't usually allow caches discussing recent murders or grisly descriptions, but some caches have mentioned murders from long ago of a historical nature. One example is GC4BXT0. Does anybody have any other good examples? I'm especially interested in ones in or near graveyards but don't limit responses to those. I think the rules about such things were more lax in the early days, so maybe even archived caches that were active for a long period would interest me.

[+kunarion]

I found this one a few years ago, then looked up the story afterward.  Just wow.  Family members are buried nearby, and the gallows was also near the cache site.  It's one of those solved but unsolved ones.  Lingering questions.

 

 

Edited October 24, 2019 by kunarion

[+DerDiedler]

Why are you looking for such examples? 

Just in case, I'd like to remind you that there are no precedence cases in geocaching. 

Edited October 24, 2019 by DerDiedler

[+MartyBartfast]

This is one of seven in the series:

https://coord.info/GCM8NT

 

 

[+frinklabs]

Technically not a murder, but one wonders...

 

https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCHM4W_the-talented-mr-bean

[+barefootjeff]

One I've found is GC865F at the site of an unsolved 1963 double murder in Lane Cove, a riverside suburb in northern Sydney. I was eight years old at the time and can remember hearing about it on the news. A few years ago a new theory was proposed that it mightn't have been a murder at all, rather they died from toxic gases coming from the nearby swamp.

[+niraD]

I found a few of the "Haunted Ventura" series. They're about places in Ventura, CA, that are supposedly haunted by people who died in various ways: suicide, murder, execution, etc.

[+colleda]

35 minutes ago, barefootjeff said:

One I've found is GC865F at the site of an unsolved 1963 double murder in Lane Cove, a riverside suburb in northern Sydney. I was eight years old at the time and can remember hearing about it on the news. A few years ago a new theory was proposed that it mightn't have been a murder at all, rather they died from toxic gases coming from the nearby swamp.

Without even looking it up I know it was the Bogle/Chandler mystery. Many rumours at the time but the gas one seems to be a good fit.

[+fuzziebear3]

Ohhh, a new book!!!

[+The Rat]

Many good examples. Thank you everyone. Any more in California or other western states?

[+BlueMoth]

About a mile and a half past GC16 in the Molalla river corridor is a cache called Blood Lust https://coord.info/GC18VPC that takes you to the body dump site of the Molalla Forest serial killer. I was really glad I didn't do that one alone. 

[+TyroneShoelaces]

I found this interesting one on my way home from New England a couple weeks ago:

 

GC3B72

Edited October 25, 2019 by TyroneShoelaces

[+The Jester]

A quick search turned up these in Washington:

GC8DF9Y The Axeman of New Orleans - Historical Crime #1
GC8DQKP Joe The Cannibal Metheny - Historical Crimes #2
GC8DT1J The Flat Tire Murders - Historical Crimes #3
GC55G5G Everett Massacre
GC1AEZT Murder and Mayhem
 

[+msrubble]

I recently found Violent Cremation, a puzzle cache in Minnesota.

[+Voltgloss]

I'll add GC2WZZQ (in New Jersey) and GC4APVD (in Connecticut) to the list.

[+me N u]

From the south west of England - GC45H98 Kernow killers- Matthew Weeks.

 

There were another 3 caches about Kernow (Cornish) killers but these have now been archived.

[+instep_guy]

GC83B2R The last public hanging in WV

[+MartyBartfast]

A notorious British murder : https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCED7C_sweet-fanny-adams

 

[+Joe_L]

This one is in Pittsburgh (PA) :  GC4FW0C

 

[+me N u]

Here's another, this time from Saudi Arabia - GCX9TY "Cannibals "Solou" cave.

[+geodarts]

The Trailside Murders caches originally had a much more troubling name.   The Jack the Ripper series was an interesting tour of East London and the ripper crime scenes.  Murder in the Desert also comes to mind.  The Black Dahlia is the grave of a victim of an unsolved murder.   At the moment I am not too far away from a Son of Sam cache but doubt I'll make it there on this trip.  

 

Joe Hill Lives might Include two murders - counting Joe as one of the victims

 

There are several caches that focus on the Zodiac Killer but I am not sure there are any where the killings occurred.

 

I have a cache that focuses on the last political duel in California where one person died - a homicide if not a murder.

Edited October 28, 2019 by geodarts

[+M 5]

GC8C0Y9

 

Belle Starr's gravesite. A pretty neat location and the only grave there, with a nice poem carved into the stone. It is considered an unsolved murder

 

 

Edited October 30, 2019 by M 5
Added gc number

[+ecanderson]

On 10/24/2019 at 10:22 AM, The Rat said:

I'm starting a new Cliff Knowles Mystery. It's based on an old unsolved murder mentioned in a geocache. I know the approvers don't usually allow caches discussing recent murders or grisly descriptions, but some caches have mentioned murders from long ago of a historical nature. One example is GC4BXT0. Does anybody have any other good examples? I'm especially interested in ones in or near graveyards but don't limit responses to those. I think the rules about such things were more lax in the early days, so maybe even archived caches that were active for a long period would interest me.

Have found most of what's within a large radius here, and I can't think of one in the area off hand.  Will spend some time digging back through some GSAK logs looking for titles that I might have forgotten.

 

But you can bet I'll enjoy sitting down with Cliff again when the time comes.  If not for your note here a while back, I'd have never known about the series.  Since you said you had chucked Amazon as a distribution network, can you give us an idea how future volumes will be accessed?  If it's a bit too OT for this forum, a PM would be much appreciated.

[+HikingSeal]

There's this recent virtual in Salt Lake City  Joe Hill Lives!  Since Cliff has been to Utah before maybe he'll come a bit north and clear Joe's name.

 

I did recently find this virutal, Hang 'em High which was at the site of a tree used as a gallows.

 

Looking forward to reading more of Cliff's adventures.

 

 

[+STNolan]

Out in Fall River, MA you have the infamous Lizzie Borden.... GC7B6TC

[+The Jester]

While really a "murder" - just an overkill killing - there's GC11G32 Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum.