Speaker 1: On Wiki Travel. The Pacific Northwest is best known for
Speaker 1: its beautiful coastline, green interior, rainy weather, and spectacular mountains.
Speaker 1: But because of all this, it's also the perfect place
Speaker 1: to go missing. My name's Carmita and I grew up
Speaker 1: in the Pacific Northwest and Portland, Oregon. I host a
Speaker 1: podcast called Missing in the PNW. My podcast is different
Speaker 1: from others you may have heard because I focus specifically
Speaker 1: on two things. The first is that all of the
Speaker 1: missing person cases that I cover are strictly from the
Speaker 1: Pacific Northwest and Oregon and Washington. I know the title
Speaker 1: of my podcast shouldn't given that one away.
Speaker 2: The second thing is that my podcast focuses strictly on
Speaker 2: missing persons from marginalized communities such as the black, Hispanic,
Speaker 2: Native American Indigenous people and the LGBTQ plus communities.
Speaker 3: You know, the ones that get absolutely no media attention.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I'm not an investigative journalist or a reporter. I'm actually
Speaker 3: a widowed mom of three who loves true crime and
Speaker 3: has a passion for social justice. So join me in
Speaker 3: helping to spread the word on these missing person cases
Speaker 3: and help you the voice for the ones that are
Speaker 3: now voiceless. You can find Missing in the PNW on
Speaker 3: all of the major streaming apps, as well.
Speaker 4: As on socials at Missing in the PNW podcast. If
Speaker 4: you have a case you want me to cover, please
Speaker 4: email me at Missing in the PNW at gmail dot
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Speaker 4: hope to talk to you soon, and remember, have fun,
Speaker 4: but be safe.
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Speaker 6: Hey, they're my warriors. It's me CJ. I hope everyone
Speaker 6: is well. I'm doing okay. I was just listening to
Speaker 6: some country music while researching this case. A friend wanted
Speaker 6: me to check out Ashley McBride. She's great. She's a
Speaker 6: singer songwriter who's spent in a four year relationship with
Speaker 6: a woman. Although I don't think she's too publicly open
Speaker 6: about it other than on her Facebook page, she has
Speaker 6: definitely been credited with being openly an LGBTQ supporter, which
Speaker 6: I love. So if you like country music, give her
Speaker 6: a go. Other than that, not too much going on
Speaker 6: here on the coast of Oregon. I did get news
Speaker 6: that the kids are going to be in California for
Speaker 6: a month this summer, so I'll be flying solo for
Speaker 6: a bit, and that's okay with me. They're taking their
Speaker 6: big dog, so it'll be just me, Jack, the cats,
Speaker 6: the snake and its feeder mice. But I won't have
Speaker 6: piles of dishes to have to wash every day, and
Speaker 6: that's gonna be so nice. They've invited me to drive
Speaker 6: down and stay with them for a bit, but honestly,
Speaker 6: I don't really want to take that dribe twice this year.
Speaker 6: I hate driving so much, and I'm already going the
Speaker 6: end of this month for the wedding that I'm going to,
Speaker 6: So there's that. Oh and I would like to take
Speaker 6: a moment and shout out my latest patron over on Patreon,
Speaker 6: a huge welcome to Elliott. Elliott will be riding a
Speaker 6: gorgeous bluish silver unicorn we call MWS Elliot. You're a
Speaker 6: rock star. I have a missing but not forgotten LGBTQ
Speaker 6: person that I'd like to tell you about. On January tenth,
Speaker 6: twenty twenty three, in Richmond, Virginia, a fifty three year
Speaker 6: old black trans woman named Lovely Brooks who goes by Angie,
Speaker 6: went missing. She was last seen on the one thousand
Speaker 6: block of Barlin Avenue in Richmond. Angie was living with
Speaker 6: and caring for her father, who was the last to
Speaker 6: see her when she left their home that morning. Angie
Speaker 6: had her purse and cell phone with her, but most
Speaker 6: of all her other belongings they were left in the house,
Speaker 6: including her phone charger, which Angie rarely went anywhere without.
Speaker 6: She was known to go and stay for a day
Speaker 6: or two with friends, but she would always tell her
Speaker 6: family before doing this. Angie also didn't own a vehicle,
Speaker 6: and she relied sometimes on her niece to take her places.
Speaker 6: On this particular day, it appeared Angie left the house
Speaker 6: on foot. Angie is very close to her sister, Pam,
Speaker 6: and Pam's daughter, who in twenty twenty three was seventeen
Speaker 6: years old, and she also would stay with Angie and
Speaker 6: Angie's dad in the home, and that's another reason why
Speaker 6: it was easy for Angie to ask her knees for rides.
Speaker 6: When Angie didn't return home that evening, it was the
Speaker 6: seventeen year old who was worried sick about her. She
Speaker 6: called her mom when she couldn't get a hold of
Speaker 6: Angie on her phone. Her mom, Pam, is the one
Speaker 6: that reported Angie missing. Other than her regular deposits of
Speaker 6: a disability check that she received, and I'm thinking it's
Speaker 6: like a direct deposit thing, her bank account has gone untouched.
Speaker 6: While authorities have checked her cell phone pinging in the usage,
Speaker 6: they've not given any definitive answers as to what might
Speaker 6: be on there. And that's because mostly the case is
Speaker 6: still open and they want to hold things close to
Speaker 6: their vest. However, law enforcement does believe thou play is
Speaker 6: involved in this case. They also have a couple of
Speaker 6: people of interest that they've been looking into. Angie stands
Speaker 6: six feet tall. She's about a hundred and forty pounds.
Speaker 6: She has long, dark brown black hair and with sometimes
Speaker 6: some red highlights. She has brown eyes. She has a
Speaker 6: small heart tattoo on her chest and pierced ears. Should
Speaker 6: you have any information on this case, please call Detective
Speaker 6: Clarence Key of the Richmond Police Department and you can
Speaker 6: reach him at area code eight O four six four
Speaker 6: six six seven six four. With that all said, let's
Speaker 6: get into our main case. And hey, it's the first
Speaker 6: episode of season twenty. And if you're still with me
Speaker 6: from the very first season, I love you. You're a rock
Speaker 6: star too. You know, sometimes we come across a really
Speaker 6: old cold case that might appear hopeless to ever solve,
Speaker 6: and we filled deeply for the victim that never appears
Speaker 6: to be able to get the justice that they deserve. This,
Speaker 6: sadly is one of those cases. Fortunately, there is still
Speaker 6: someone who hasn't all but given up on the closure
Speaker 6: to this case. His name is Clark Williams and he's
Speaker 6: a cold case investigator and volunteer criminologists. Clark was instrumental
Speaker 6: in helping to solve the cold case of Billy Newton
Speaker 6: in southern California. Maybe you remember I covered Billy's case
Speaker 6: in season eleven, episode eleven, The Gay Black Dahlia. Now
Speaker 6: Clark is offering up his services to investigate a crime
Speaker 6: that happened back in nineteen eighty three. At the end
Speaker 6: of presenting this case, I'll give you information on how
Speaker 6: to contact Clark, just in case you might have information,
Speaker 6: or if you frequent Walker's Point Bars and Third Ward
Speaker 6: Gay bars in Wisconsin, or even if maybe you knew
Speaker 6: the victim. Clark is hoping to speak with you, and
Speaker 6: believe it or not, several have reached out to me
Speaker 6: before about being friends with other victims of cases that
Speaker 6: I've covered, So hopefully this episode will reach some listeners
Speaker 6: who might have knowledge of this victim. Now, let me
Speaker 6: tell you a bit about Eric Hanson. He was born
Speaker 6: December twenty third, nineteen sixty four and Saint Francis, Wisconsin.
Speaker 6: This would make him a capricorn. Eric was a cute kid. However,
Speaker 6: growing up he was what was considered a troubled youth.
Speaker 6: He was the child of divorce, He occasionally ran away,
Speaker 6: he was emotionally flawed, and he didn't have very many friends.
Speaker 6: In high school, he was alienated by his fellow classmates
Speaker 6: and he became a dropout. The final time Eric left home,
Speaker 6: he told his mother he was moving to Indiana, although
Speaker 6: it appears Eric never even left Wisconsin. His last known
Speaker 6: whereabouts was living with a fifty year old gay man
Speaker 6: in or near Milwaukee. At the age of eighteen. Eric
Speaker 6: was pretty well known in the Milwaukee LGBTQ community. He
Speaker 6: was a sex worker, most likely because it was for survival.
Speaker 6: Some reports say that Eric was last seen outside an
Speaker 6: adult bookstore. The bookstore was called Paradise Books in Milwaukee's
Speaker 6: historic Third Ward. Another report says a witness saw him
Speaker 6: around three am in the morning standing at a bus
Speaker 6: stop in Milwaukee. These sightings, whichever was most correct, were
Speaker 6: on September twenty seventh, nineteen eighty three. On October fourth,
Speaker 6: nineteen eighty three, a hiker was out and about on
Speaker 6: a trail in Petrifying Springs County Park in summers. This
Speaker 6: is located in Kenosha County. The hiker came upon a
Speaker 6: black plastic trash bag. Inside the bag was a human Torso.
Speaker 6: I don't know, you guys. I have to give it
Speaker 6: up to the people who actually find trash bags lying
Speaker 6: around a hiking trail and they have the nerve to
Speaker 6: look inside it. I personally have seen abandoned suitcases on
Speaker 6: my hiking trails of my local park woods and I
Speaker 6: refuse to look inside, which is probably bad of me
Speaker 6: to admit. However, in my defense, I think I might
Speaker 6: faint if I found a body or body parts in
Speaker 6: one of those suitcases or a plastic trash bag. I
Speaker 6: was curious how the medical examiner was able to identify
Speaker 6: the found torso. How they were able to figure out
Speaker 6: it was Eric. It would seem Eric had a concave chest,
Speaker 6: which was a congenital deformity. When they compared the torso
Speaker 6: to Eric's medical records, they were able to positively identify
Speaker 6: the torso as belonging to Eric. But they were only
Speaker 6: able to facilitate the identification after Eric's mother reported a
Speaker 6: missing and that was on October sixth of nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 6: Before that, the torso was listed as a John Doe,
Speaker 6: belonging to a male victim between the ages of sixteen
Speaker 6: and thirty six years old. Initially, the police investigated Eric's
Speaker 6: case as a gay bashing gone horribly wrong, but further
Speaker 6: into the investigation, detectives began looking into the possibility that
Speaker 6: Eric might have been murdered and dismembered by a serial killer. First,
Speaker 6: they looked into Jeffrey Dahmer. After all, he was known
Speaker 6: as the Milwaukee Monster and he operated in the area
Speaker 6: between nineteen six seventy eight and nineteen ninety one. Dahmer
Speaker 6: was a known cannibal who liked to dismember his victims.
Speaker 6: They looked at a killer named Joachim Dressler, who murdered
Speaker 6: in the Raccene, Wisconsin area, but he didn't activate his
Speaker 6: murder until nineteen ninety. I might cover Joachim on a
Speaker 6: future episode, because even though it seems he only had
Speaker 6: one victim, he was still very brutal about his killing. Finally,
Speaker 6: they looked at serial killer Larry Isler. I covered Larry
Speaker 6: season twelve, episode six, and actually Eyler looked and still
Speaker 6: may look like a good candidate to be the one
Speaker 6: who murdered Eric. When I covered Larry Eler, I might
Speaker 6: have even mentioned Eric as one of his victims, but
Speaker 6: I would have identified him as a sixteen year old,
Speaker 6: which I'm finding wasn't the case. Eric was actually eighteen
Speaker 6: years old, and there were an awful lot of erroneous
Speaker 6: resources about it Eric that reported him as sixteen. Now.
Speaker 6: Larry Eyler was active between nineteen eighty two and nineteen
Speaker 6: eighty four. He operated in four states, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois,
Speaker 6: and Kentucky. Larry admitted to murdering and disposing of twenty
Speaker 6: one victims, to which most all of the bodies have
Speaker 6: been located. He only dismembered one of his victims, his
Speaker 6: last one, and he disposed of the remains in garbage bags.
Speaker 6: To my knowledge, it is, however, entirely possible that Larry
Speaker 6: killed more than twenty one victims, and it's possible he
Speaker 6: dismembered more than one. But to be honest, it might
Speaker 6: not have been a serial killer at all that took
Speaker 6: Eric's life, although Eric, being who he was, was vulnerable.
Speaker 6: Even though there isn't a ton of information about Eric,
Speaker 6: it's important to put this case out there es actually
Speaker 6: if someone has some information regarding it. So if you
Speaker 6: might have known Eric or frequented gay bars in Milwaukee,
Speaker 6: or you have any information about what happened to him
Speaker 6: at all, please contact Clark Williams. His email is Clark
Speaker 6: Williams at hotmail dot com, or you can text him
Speaker 6: at area code four oh eight eight two nine three
Speaker 6: seven five. Clark promises confidentiality. These cases involving such young
Speaker 6: victims make me very sad, especially if the young victim
Speaker 6: doesn't seem like they had a very good life to
Speaker 6: begin with. Rest in power, Eric, and I hope the
Speaker 6: rest of you will be found someday. Our true crime
Speaker 6: Quickie is from the British Columbia area of Canada in
Speaker 6: twenty fourteen. Demetrio's Cara Halios, which sounds like a great
Speaker 6: the great Greek name to me. Also went by Jimmy
Speaker 6: and his drag name of Cocoa. Yes, Jimmy was a
Speaker 6: drag queen in Canada. He was born in Montreal, Quebec,
Speaker 6: and he later moved to Saskatchewan in nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 6: Then he later moved to Alberta. He was a cook
Speaker 6: at Woody's Video Bar in Buddy's Nightclub. Those who knew
Speaker 6: Jimmy said he was kind, funny, had a great laugh,
Speaker 6: and was a good hearted man who loved to help people.
Speaker 6: Jimmy had a passion for cooking and he loved to
Speaker 6: try out new recipes. He loved his family and his
Speaker 6: friends immensely. Jimmy was a super friendly guy. He made
Speaker 6: others feel very welcomed around him. He met and was
Speaker 6: acquainted with a man named Richard Joseph Lecart who went
Speaker 6: by Joe. Joe was a drifter, but he would often
Speaker 6: stop in at the establishments that Jimmy worked at. Joe
Speaker 6: went there to play billiards or to see karaoke. Joe
Speaker 6: also frequented the same nightclubs and bars where Jimmy went
Speaker 6: to socialize, so their paths crossed, and it sounds like
Speaker 6: quite often. On March eighth, twenty fourteen, Jimmy didn't show
Speaker 6: up for work. His employer and work friends were worried
Speaker 6: about him because it just wasn't like Jimmy to miss
Speaker 6: his shift. So a few of them went to check
Speaker 6: on Jimmy at his home in Oliver and I don't
Speaker 6: believe it was too far away from his workplaces. Once
Speaker 6: at Jimmy's home, the friends gained entrance and they found
Speaker 6: Jimmy dead. They've described the scene as gory, but no
Speaker 6: details of how Jimmy died was ever released. In Canada,
Speaker 6: while guns were highly regulated in twenty fourteen, they weren't
Speaker 6: illegal until twenty twenty. But because of the regulations about guns,
Speaker 6: I kind of believed that Jimmy might have been stabbed
Speaker 6: to death, particularly since the friends described the scene as cory.
Speaker 6: Police and even LGBTQ advocates stated that there was nothing
Speaker 6: that led them to believe Jimmy's murder was a hate crime.
Speaker 6: A suspect was named in Jimmy's death the following year.
Speaker 6: It was Joe, but by now Joe was in the
Speaker 6: wind and the Royal Canadian Mounted police, they weren't able
Speaker 6: to locate them. Six years later, in February of twenty twenty,
Speaker 6: right when the COVID lockdowns had started vigorously throughout the world,
Speaker 6: an abundance of calls from vehicle drivers began to flood
Speaker 6: the Maple Ridge Police in Vancouver. The drivers were complaining
Speaker 6: as they went under the Golden Ears Bridge. Some crazy
Speaker 6: man was throwing rocks and other items at them as
Speaker 6: they drove by. When the officers were the stone throwing man,
Speaker 6: he ran into the oncoming traffic. An officer ran across
Speaker 6: three lanes to tackle the man and drag him to safety.
Speaker 6: Guess who the man was. Yep, the man was Joe,
Speaker 6: and he was arrested for mischief. Upon his booking at
Speaker 6: the police department, the police realized they had a murder
Speaker 6: suspect on their hands. They transported Joe back to Edmonton,
Speaker 6: where the crime had taken place. Joe was charged with
Speaker 6: the second degree murder of Jimmy now Here's a kicker.
Speaker 6: It's been a little over six years since Joe was arrested,
Speaker 6: but there is no public record of a completed trial
Speaker 6: or a final sentencing for him. It would seem that
Speaker 6: there have been some heavy delays in his case. Maybe
Speaker 6: some of them are for mental competency, and if he
Speaker 6: was found incompetent for trial, that would explain a lot
Speaker 6: of the delay. Otherwise, I just can't see why it
Speaker 6: would have taken this long to get them to trial.
Speaker 6: It's been twelve years since Jimmy was murdered, and sometimes
Speaker 6: justice is just so damn slow. If someone is a
Speaker 6: good and kind hearted person, I just don't understand how
Speaker 6: another person can take their life. It truly boggles my mind.
Speaker 6: I feel Jimmy's murder must have been a crime of
Speaker 6: opportunity of some sorts for Joe, rest in power, Jimmy Okay,
Speaker 6: looking for some good news in sunshine. This week, the
Speaker 6: seventy nine Tony Award nominations are showcasing queer excellence, with
Speaker 6: at least two of the nominees being part of the
Speaker 6: LGBTQ community. Both actors Luke Evans and Stephanie Schu are
Speaker 6: openly out and they're being honored for their outstanding work.
Speaker 6: Bravo guys. Colorado is advancing new legislation to combat conversion therapy.
Speaker 6: You know what's funny is I'll see an article about
Speaker 6: conversion therapy, and I'll think, holy shit, how can that
Speaker 6: still be going on anywhere? Maybe in a third world,
Speaker 6: a press country, but here in the US, in this
Speaker 6: day and age, Hello Cavemn. It just makes no sense.
Speaker 6: And lastly, supermodel Alex Cansoni was named the first transgender
Speaker 6: woman to serve on the met Gala host committee. Right on, Alex,
Speaker 6: So that means it must be time for some jokes.
Speaker 6: What do you call lesbian whose fingernails are way too long? Single?
Speaker 6: How many asexuals does it take to screw in a
Speaker 6: light bulb? None? They'd rather sit in the dark than
Speaker 6: screw anything. If you're gay and born under the sign Aquarius,
Speaker 6: wouldn't you really be an Aquarius? What's the difference between
Speaker 6: a straight woman and a bisexual woman? Exactly? Four alcoholic drinks?
Speaker 6: Why is a rainbow so sassy because it has all
Speaker 6: the shades? What do you call a group of gay cows?
Speaker 6: A moment? And my last one? What is a bisexual's
Speaker 6: favorite movie? The Fast and the Curious?
Speaker 5: I'll be here all week.
Speaker 6: I love you guys, You matter so much. Remember it's
Speaker 6: not a crime to be gay or to live your truth,
Speaker 6: unless you're a murderer.