Sources:

In 1954, a woman was murdered and left out for two college students to stumble upon while hiking a week later. Her investigation was minimal before she was buried without a name. Decades later, a woman hears a plea to find her name and takes it as a personal mission. She puts together a case, gets the right people involved, and even with all the help and work it takes over 50 years for Silvia to get Jane Doe's name. Still, she persevered and found Jane Doe333 was in fact, Dorothy Howard.

Web of Death: Boulder Jane Doe

https://www.truecrimeedition.com/post/dorothy-howard

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna33622226

https://thecinemaholic.com/dorothy-gay-howard-murder-is-harvey-glatman-dead-or-alive/

https://www.denverpost.com/2009/11/14/after-55-years-boulder-jane-does-story-finally-coming-together/

https://tucson.com/news/local/crime/article_d72ebcc9-7ae8-5e74-938a-2f25b0cb3209.html

https://www.colorado.edu/coloradan/2010/09/01/sleuthing-jane-doe

This month I talk about another four cases on the CBC list of MMIW cases. Expanding upon the information available. Getting their stories heard again. This month is for Brandy Vittrekwa, Brenda Campbell, Brittany Bearspaw, and Brooklynn Moose.

Sources:

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/brandy-vittrekwa

https://yukon-news.com/2018/05/14/brandy-vittrekwas-killer-to-move-to-b-c-upon-release-from-custody/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sentencing-brandy-vittrekwa-1.3621446

https://www.ipl.org/essay/Research-Paper-On-Brandy-Trekwa-028E3F16EA230FCE

https://www.whitehorsestar.com/News/crown-family-had-opposed-open-custody

https://www.thecanadianlibrary.ca/post/story-of-brandy-vittrekwa

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/brandy-vittrekwa-apos-killer-applies-140000853.html

https://www.aptnnews.ca/uncategorized/gwichin-tribal-council-calls-for-review-over-lenient-sentence-in-killing-of-17-year-old/

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/brenda-jeannette-campbell

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/rooming-house-fire-murder-1.4194634

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/brittany-bearspaw

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/brooklyn-moose

https://storiesoftheunsolved.com/2021/02/16/the-death-of-brooklyn-moose/

http://thecanadianlibrary.ca/post/story-of-brooklyn-moose

Ellen Greenburg had her whole life in front of her. Engaged and preparing the wedding of her dreams. She worked as a first grade teacher, a source of stress due to her large class sizes. She was seeing a psychiatrist and seemed to find some medication that eased her anxiety.

But on January 26th 2011, a 911 call comes in. Her fiancée came home from a workout to her dead on the kitchen floor. He reports she stabbed herself on fell on a knife. The M.E. immediately labeled it as a suicide and went on with their day. But back at the morgue autopsy would show 20 stab wounds, over 10 bruises in various stages of healing. Indicative of abuse and murder.

Her death certificate was changed from suicide to homicide for two weeks. Then it was inexplicably changed back to suicide, where it remains today.

Sources:

Death in Apartment 603: What happened to Ellen Greenburg

https://www.lambmcerlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/inquirer.com-It-was-very-very-weird-A-civil-suit-reveals-new-details-in-the-case-of-Ellen-Greenberg.pdf

https://abcnews.com/US/ellen-greenbergs-family-celebrates-prospect-federal-investigation-death/story?id=129238479

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/us/ellen-greenberg-death-philadelphia-cec

One womans call for help, leads to the identification of a serial killer on Long Island. Shannan Gilbert called saying a man was going to kill her. But police didn't go out and investigate immediately, simply following up later then claiming it wasn't a missing person when they couldn't find her. Her mother knew better, she pushed until people finally went out to look for Shannan. Finding instead four others. The push for Shannan led to a second search and six more bodies, the third to Shannan herself. In the quest for Shannan a serial killer was unearthed and we are still waiting for justice. Trial is expected for the potential serial killer, Rex Heuerman after labor day 2026. Maybe then answers will be had.

Sources:

Gone Girls. The Long Island Serial Killer

Truth and Lies:The Hunted. The Gilgo Beach Murders

Architect of Death.The Long Island Serial Killer

https://abcnews.com/US/gilgo-beach-suspect-rex-heuermann-stand-trial-shortly/story?id=129176737

https://abcnews.com/US/gilgo-beach-suspect-rex-heuermann-stand-trial-shortly/story?id=129176737

Wakefield Prison is located in the UK and home to some of the worst of the worst offenders. Names like Robert Maudsley who required his own cell to be built within the prison after killing multiple inmates. But he isn't alone. Originally Wakefield started out in the late 1500's a jail and holding site. After expansion and multiple escapes, an entirely new prison was built, keeping the same name. Now Wakefield is a maximum security location. Those within are over 61% child/women rapes. For that there is always a potential of violence from inmates with other sentences. In 2025 alone, two inmates with child cases were killed by others.

Sources:

Jonathon Levi & Emma French, 2024. Inside Wakefield Prison: Life behind bars in the Monster mansion

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/wakefield-prison

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c231lm8p092o

https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/69689709-cfcf-3daa-ba58-c08f4f4e10b9

https://ppo.gov.uk/establishment/hmp-wakefield/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/24/lostprophets-singer-ian-watkins-died-from-stab-wound-to-the-neck-inquest-told

https://news.sky.com/story/prisoner-serving-life-for-murdering-toddler-found-dead-in-his-cell-13464559

Top of the new month, means we are back to discussing current MMIW cases. This time we talk about numerous women. Many of them have the same thing in common, their case files are bare bones. There is little to no information on their cases, but there is suspicious circumstances in all of them. From falling 30 stories to disappearing while hitchhiking in an attempt to get her children back from the state. The RCMP continues to throw the term, high risk lifestyle out, making it feel like an excuse rather than simply investigating.

Sources:

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/bella-marie-laboucan-mclean

https://itstartswithus-mmiw.com/this-is-bellas-story/

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/bernadette-lynda-ahenakew

https://www.justicefornativepeople.com/2016/09/bernadette-ahenakew-murdered-in-alberta.html

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/bernadine-quewezance

https://someonesawsomething.ca/2026/01/14/the-unsolved-murder-of-bernadine-leanne-quewezance/

https://crimeimmemorial.com/2025/09/29/bernadine-quewezance/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/family-of-saskatoon-woman-struggle-with-news-of-death-1.1156157

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/bernice-evelyn-bottle

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/betsy-rosa-owens

https://storiesoftheunsolved.com/2022/02/12/the-disappearance-of-betsy-owens/

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/bonnie-lynn-jack

https://primetimecrime.com/Recent/Murder/murder_Edmonton_Serial.htm

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/bonnie-lynn-jack-remembered-at-service-1.628841

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/bonnie-marie-joseph

https://coldcasepg.ca/?p=134

https://missingpeople.ca/cold-case-missing-woman-in-vanderhoof-british-columbia-bonnie-marie-joseph-32-last-seen-september-8-2007/

The Amber alert system is a nationwide alert system to immediately broadcast information on vulnerable children, children who have been abducted and are in danger. But how did this system fall into place. Well it came after Amber Hagerman, a nine year old abducted by a stranger. The first media information about her case aired two hours after the incident. Likely allowing the kidnapper turned killer to make it to the location he held her without being detected.

The delay was noticed. Many people got involved and created a plan to immediately get information out. At the time through the use of the radio. Since it's start in Arlington Texas, it has grown. Being taken on nationally and signed on by former president George Bush. Now information is disseminated through phones, TV's, and radios to ensure blanket coverage.

Yet for all that, we still have no answers for who stole and killed Amber.

Sources:

Amber: The Girl Behind the Alert

https://www.eastchicago.com/235/Amber-Alert

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/a-key-figure-in-amber-hagerman-case-urges-vigilance-to-protect-children/3967202/

http://missingkids.org/blog/2021/still-searching-for-ambers-killer

https://people.com/what-happened-to-amber-hagerman-11883708

Quisi Bryan was born in Massachusetts and spent his youth on the East Coast. Still, he started in youth corrections before graduating to adult corrections when he moved into the Midwest. It was in Ohio that many crimes continued, but didn't come to light until he was already behind bars. In 2000, he shot a police officer in the face, ending both their lives. After receiving his death sentence, it came out that he had been the perpetrator of numerous rapes and assaults. As of this time, his current death sentence has been delayed on multiple occasions. The latest one as a result of not being able to get the medication necessary to safely end a life per DOC protocol.

Sources:

Quisi Bryan-Via Letters and messages

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/execution-date-pushed-back-for-man-convicted-of-killing-cleveland-police-officer-wayne-leon

https://www.cleveland19.com/2025/06/20/execution-delayed-man-who-killed-cleveland-police-officer/

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-9372/108342/20190717140040636_17528181_1.PDF

https://grokipedia.com/page/Quisi_Bryan

https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Files/Briefing-Room/News-Releases/Criminal-Justice/BryanStay

https://www.hudson.oh.us/1270/Violent-Fugitive-Task-Force