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On 11 July 1996, the half-naked body of Canadian Blair Adams (31), was found in a parking lot in Knoxville, Tennessee; scattered around his body was German, Canadian, and U.S. The deaths were at first ruled as suicide, but it was later said to be a murder which has yet to be solved. Jan Krogh Jensen (37), a Danish member of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, was shot and killed on 16 July 1996, in Mjøndalen, Norway. 4,000. Authorities believe he knew no one in Tennessee, and investigators retracing his steps found the way he arrived made as little sense as the way he died.
Richard Flynn, the owner and a longtime friend of Molloy’s, confessed the killing to the garda but, at trial, the judge granted the defense a directed verdict of not guilty after merely four hours, believing the medical evidence insufficient to support a manslaughter charge. A coroner’s jury later found that Molloy died of head injuries, which led to calls to reopen the case. In subsequent years, it emerged that the investigation had been perfunctory, leaving much evidence unexamined and witness uninterviewed; a 2011 review of the surviving medical evidence found it highly likely that Molloy had survived his injuries for several hours, which raised the question of why emergency services were not called until after he was dead.
His body was found floating in the swimming pool at his Los Angeles apartment complex on 12 August 1984; the coroner’s office found that he had been strangled. While his wife was suspected, she was never charged, and no one else has been. After an anonymous caller to the house of Grégory Villemin (4), of Lépanges-sur-Vologne, France, told his family on 16 October 1984, he had taken the boy, who had been playing unsupervised in front of the house, a search found Grégory’s body, bound and gagged, in the Vologne River 7 km (4.3 mi) away, where he had apparently been drowned (although the autopsy suggested the drowning had occurred in a different body of water).
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Local rumor at the time connected the killings to a supposed Satanic cult the two had been involved in and were trying to get out of, but no arrests were ever made. In 2017, a drug arrest led police to identify a local person of interest. Her burnt and dismembered body was found a week later. The original statement by Kenyan officials was that she had been eaten by lions and struck by lightning, but this was later revised to say she was murdered. Julie Ward was murdered in Kenya on 6 September 1988, while on safari in the Maasai Mara game reserve.
Five days later, fifty-eight-year-old Ruth Potdevin, of Ridgewood, N.J., was found murdered in her room at the Dorset Hotel located at 30 West 54th Street, near Fifth Avenue, just two blocks away from the Bryant. Both women bore similar wounds on her skull and a similar ritualistic procedure was performed with a shorn piece of her hair and scalp. Credit cards had been taken from Ruth’s wallet, and just one day following the murder, a man and woman were seen using one of the credit cards in a camera store in Times Square. Ruth’s husband found her body in the hotel room after she failed to return after going to the room to change clothes for a luncheon.
