Speaker 1: All witnesses, suspects, and purses of interest are considered innocent
Speaker 1: until proven guilty in a court of law.
Speaker 2: Warning.
Speaker 1: This episode contains graphic crime scene detail. Please listen with discretion.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Primetime Crime. I'm your host, Kylie.
Speaker 1: Let's talk right now in true crime, and then together
Speaker 1: we're going to work on warming up.
Speaker 2: Some cold cases. Let's go.
Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to this week's episode of Prime Time Crime.
Speaker 1: It's Kylie. Yes, this episode is out a little early.
Speaker 1: I decided to release it earlier because I will be
Speaker 1: a crime con tomorrow and I wanted it to be
Speaker 1: out and ready to go.
Speaker 2: So here we are.
Speaker 1: We only have really a couple things to talk about
Speaker 1: right now in true crime. There's no updates in anything
Speaker 1: that I've been following personally, but there was a couple
Speaker 1: of new things that are kind of breaking over the
Speaker 1: last few days that I wanted to talk about.
Speaker 2: So I'm not familiar with this.
Speaker 1: Person, but there was a plot to kill so somebody
Speaker 1: named Jack Avery, who is a former member of a
Speaker 1: boy band called Why Don't We?
Speaker 2: And this story is crazy.
Speaker 1: I do want to start off by saying I don't
Speaker 1: understand how in twenty twenty six. People think they're gonna
Speaker 1: get away with a murder for higher type of plot.
Speaker 1: But yet here we are. So Gabriella who goes by
Speaker 1: Gabby Gonzalez, I guess she's a quote unquote influencer who
Speaker 1: she's twenty four, and her father, Francisco Gonzalez, who's fifty nine,
Speaker 1: are charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and
Speaker 1: solicitation of murder. According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney,
Speaker 1: SO police said that there was this bitter custody dispute
Speaker 1: between Gabby and Jack and they have a seven.
Speaker 2: Year old daughter named Lavender.
Speaker 1: Between twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, Gabby is accused
Speaker 1: of seeking the assistance of her then boyfriend Kai Corder
Speaker 1: to hire someone on the dark web to kill Jack Avery.
Speaker 1: In April of twenty twenty one, Gabby's father, Francisco allegedly
Speaker 1: sent ten thousand dollars to Cordrey as front money to
Speaker 1: use in locating, hiring, and paying someone to kill Jack
Speaker 1: Avery and Kai Cordrey also faces the same charges as
Speaker 1: the other two. So this is a three person murder
Speaker 1: for higher plot gone terribly wrong because they got caught
Speaker 1: kai Cordry had allegedly asked the hit man to send
Speaker 1: him Jack's finger with jewelry still on it as proof
Speaker 1: of death.
Speaker 2: So these people allegedly are horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how you can be so desperate to
Speaker 1: be in a situation where you would do something like this.
Speaker 1: Jack did an interview in twenty twenty five and he
Speaker 1: said that FBI agents had warned him that there was
Speaker 1: somebody that was allegedly attempting to kill him. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly how it came to be that they
Speaker 1: found out about this plot. If somebody was like undercover,
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure the circumstances surrounding that. But thankfully
Speaker 1: somebody came forward and did the right thing. And Jack
Speaker 1: now has sole custody of his daughter. So Gabby out
Speaker 1: here trying to do the most and do everything she
Speaker 1: can to get sole custody of her daughter. Now she
Speaker 1: has given it to Jack because she made a really,
Speaker 1: really bad choice. Jack has left La with his daughter,
Speaker 1: and he's basically just said that he doesn't really feel
Speaker 1: safe knowing what he knows. And Gabby allegedly posted bond,
Speaker 1: which is crazy that there was a bond, so she
Speaker 1: posted two million dollars bail and she is out now.
Speaker 1: And Jack believes that she's a flight risk, and he
Speaker 1: does and feel safe, so he left La understandable. I
Speaker 1: would probably feel the exact same way if I were him,
Speaker 1: considering there were three people plotting to kill him. Also, allegedly,
Speaker 1: he's fearful of some of Gabby's friends and family because
Speaker 1: he said some of her friends basically showed up at
Speaker 1: his house and we're pounding on the door, and there
Speaker 1: is a restraining order now in place. Gabby did have
Speaker 1: a court date earlier this month, but she has not
Speaker 1: entered a plea yet, at least that we are privy to.
Speaker 1: But I'll be sure to keep you guys updated on
Speaker 1: this one. This is a wild one, but I do
Speaker 1: hope Jack and his daughter and the rest of his
Speaker 1: family are safe because these people allegedly are a little
Speaker 1: off their rockers. So I hope he stays safe and
Speaker 1: his family stays safe, and there is justice soon in
Speaker 1: this one, because you should never ever ever think that
Speaker 1: it's okay to hire somebody involve so many people in
Speaker 1: a murder for higher plot to kill the father of
Speaker 1: your child.
Speaker 2: That is the lowest of the low.
Speaker 1: All right, moving on to another case that I'm just
Speaker 1: becoming privy to. This was posted on True Crime Societies
Speaker 1: calling for a backup Facebook page, and it is about
Speaker 1: missing woman thirty five year old Lindsay Watts, who is
Speaker 1: missing from Edna, Missouri, since May nineteenth of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Her cell phone was found in a ditch and all
Speaker 1: of her other personal belongings have been left at home.
Speaker 1: So this information is from Missing in the USA, and
Speaker 1: I'm just going to read it verbatim. Lindsay Watts, thirty five,
Speaker 1: was last seen at approximately eleven pm on Tuesday, May nineteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, at her home at five to ten
Speaker 1: North fifth Street in Adena, Missouri. She had been coming
Speaker 1: home from her shift at the Blessing Center. A family
Speaker 1: member saw her at the house that night. By morning,
Speaker 1: she was gone. She never showed up for work on
Speaker 1: Wednesday and never called, in which her family says is
Speaker 1: completely out of character. When the Knox County Sheriff responded
Speaker 1: to her home, they found her car, her car keys,
Speaker 1: her wallet, and her money still all inside. Her cell
Speaker 1: phone was later found in a nearby ditch. The sheriff
Speaker 1: has called this case very concerning and described it as
Speaker 1: an isolated incident. Neighbors have reported seeing a vehicle speeding
Speaker 1: through the area on the night that she disappeared. On Saturday,
Speaker 1: dozens of community members gathered at the Knox County Courthouse
Speaker 1: for a PRAI vigil. Lindsay's sister made an emotional plea
Speaker 1: for her safe return. Yesterday, marked exactly one week since
Speaker 1: anyone has seen or heard from Lindsay. If you have
Speaker 1: any information, no matter how small, contact the Knox County
Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office at six six's oh three nine seven twenty
Speaker 1: one eighty six, Extension one. I am going to go
Speaker 1: ahead and post her missing person's flyer on my Instagram
Speaker 1: at Facebook pages. This is a weird one. It just
Speaker 1: doesn't really make any sense to me. Neighbors say that
Speaker 1: there may have been some disturbances at the home, but
Speaker 1: that they happened a long time ago, and it does
Speaker 1: appear that she also has eighteen age daughter. Now I
Speaker 1: don't know the circumstances if her daughter lives with her
Speaker 1: or if the daughter lives elsewhere. This is from a
Speaker 1: muddyrivernews dot com article. Lindsey is described as five feet
Speaker 1: two inches tall about one hundred and twenty five pounds.
Speaker 1: Like I said, she was last seen on Tuesday around
Speaker 1: eleven PM, and she does not have her car, her keys,
Speaker 1: her wallet, or her cell phone with her. This is
Speaker 1: definitely an interesting one. It doesn't really seem like law
Speaker 1: enforcement has any idea of what exactly happened here. They
Speaker 1: don't think that there is a danger to the public.
Speaker 1: So I'll keep you guys updated as this one plays
Speaker 1: out out. And like I said, I am going to
Speaker 1: be posting her missing Persons flyer on my Instagram and
Speaker 1: Facebook pages, so go check that out. And we are
Speaker 1: going to go ahead and get into today's episode already, guys.
Speaker 1: It is that time of year. It is crime Con
Speaker 1: time once again, and this year crime Con is in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. We're bringing it back to the same place
Speaker 1: it was in twenty twenty two, and in honor of
Speaker 1: crime Con, I am doing a Las Vegas Unsolved mashup
Speaker 1: episode where I go over several cases that don't necessarily
Speaker 1: have enough information in detail for one episode, and I
Speaker 1: am mashing them all up together into one episode in
Speaker 1: order to highlight some of the lesser known cases that
Speaker 1: might not get a lot of attention, and these cases
Speaker 1: are significantly older.
Speaker 2: These are cases that happened in.
Speaker 1: The sixties and seventies, So we're going to throw it back.
Speaker 1: And honestly, these are my favorite type of episodes to
Speaker 1: do because I do get to highlight some cases that
Speaker 1: might not be very familiar to people. And again, I
Speaker 1: really like doing an episode that's focused on the city
Speaker 1: that crime con is going to be in because again,
Speaker 1: it changes it up. So, like I said, today, I'm
Speaker 1: bringing you several cases that remain unsolved, and like I said,
Speaker 1: these are decades old cases. Today I'm going to be
Speaker 1: bringing you the unsolved cases of Ralph Howard, Alsup, Senior
Speaker 1: Anna Sylvia just Alphonse Bass, Joseph O'Hare, Samuel Lemmel, and
Speaker 1: Evelyn Grace Shank. Now, interestingly enough, there is some overlap
Speaker 1: in three of these cases where the potential suspect could possibly,
Speaker 1: potentially maybe be the same person. Usually it's rare to
Speaker 1: get overlap like this, but when I first started researching
Speaker 1: these six cases, I realize very quickly there is overlap
Speaker 1: and it ties into Las Vegas history and mob affiliations
Speaker 1: and all of that. So, because they all were kind
Speaker 1: of around the same timeframe. There is some overlap, and
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about that. But still, despite their
Speaker 1: being possible overlap and somebody that might have been involved
Speaker 1: in three of them, they all still remain unsolved and
Speaker 1: no arrests have ever been made in any of these cases.
Speaker 1: So that is why I'm covering them, and I think
Speaker 1: it's important to talk about them and just spread the
Speaker 1: word that yes, there are still cases from the sixties
Speaker 1: that are still unsolved, and the best way to spread
Speaker 1: awareness and spread the message about these cases is to
Speaker 1: talk about them.
Speaker 2: So that is exactly what we're doing.
Speaker 1: We are going to start with the death of Ralph
Speaker 1: Howard Alsop Senior in nineteen sixty six. On January nineteenth
Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty six, around eleven h eight pm, the
Speaker 1: Clark County Sheriff's Office received a call from Ralph Alsop Junior,
Speaker 1: who stated that his father had been shot near his
Speaker 1: home at two three five three East Warm Springs Road.
Speaker 1: Ralph was located in the front yard of his home
Speaker 1: inside of a fenced in area. Now the area where
Speaker 1: Ralph lived back in nineteen sixty six is now a
Speaker 1: gas station. In present day, Ralph was still alive and
Speaker 1: was transported to the hospital, but died a short time later.
Speaker 1: An autopsy conducted on January twentieth of nineteen sixty six
Speaker 1: revealed that Ralph had been shot with a shotgun. The
Speaker 1: autopsy documented twenty one entrance wounds. So this was obviously
Speaker 1: a personal attack and it was overkill. There's really no
Speaker 1: need to shoot somebody twenty one times. That is unnecessary.
Speaker 1: And also it's crazy that he was still alive after
Speaker 1: being shot twenty one times.
Speaker 2: That is insane. There was a follow up search that.
Speaker 1: Was conducted and they found a twelve gage bolt action
Speaker 1: clip bed shotgun that was located by the Boulder Canyon
Speaker 1: Branch railroad tracks.
Speaker 2: So two men, one named.
Speaker 1: Tom Hanley we are going to be talking about Tom
Speaker 1: Hanley a lot in this episode, and another man named
Speaker 1: Carl Black, were charged with arranging the murder of Ralph,
Speaker 1: but on March thirtieth of nineteen seventy, the district attorney
Speaker 1: filed a motion to dismiss the charges because two out
Speaker 1: of the four witnesses in Ralph's case had been killed themselves.
Speaker 1: We're going to get into it. So because the dismissal
Speaker 1: originated from the prosecution the case against Tom and Carl
Speaker 1: could not be refiled. So essentially, allegedly they set up
Speaker 1: the murder of Ralph and they never could be charged
Speaker 1: for being involved with that again because of the DA
Speaker 1: filing emotion to dismiss the charges. So Tom Hanley and
Speaker 1: Ralph were associates, They ran in the same circles. And
Speaker 1: a common theme that you're going to see throughout these
Speaker 1: cases that I'm going to tell you about is a
Speaker 1: lot of the people that were associated with Tom Hanley
Speaker 1: also ended up dead in tragic, horrific ways.
Speaker 2: And we're going to get into who.
Speaker 1: Tom was and his background a little bit, because it's
Speaker 1: going to make a lot more sense when you realize
Speaker 1: what kind of man Tom Hanley was, what he was
Speaker 1: involved with, and this guy very much got away with
Speaker 1: murder time and time and time again. So we are
Speaker 1: going to get into the next case, which is the
Speaker 1: death of Anna Sylvia Just She was known as Sylvia
Speaker 1: and she was only twenty eight years old when her
Speaker 1: life was stolen estimated between nineteen sixty seven and nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty eight. Records indicated that Sylvia left her home in Calgary,
Speaker 1: Canada by bus in nineteen sixty six, and was later
Speaker 1: reported missing after her family lost contact with her. Now,
Speaker 1: the circumstances surrounding her leaving Canada are very much unknown.
Speaker 1: There is no documented reason that she left Canada and
Speaker 1: how she ended up in Las Vegas. On March third
Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty eight, hikers discovered clothing, a purse, and
Speaker 1: either a birth certificate and or passport. I saw both
Speaker 1: reported in different articles, so I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was both items or one or the other. And also
Speaker 1: found were different blood stained items and they we buried
Speaker 1: in a desert area that was located one mile north
Speaker 1: of the Henderson Dump. Authorities were contacted and they suspected
Speaker 1: foul play and discovered that the items that were found
Speaker 1: were those of a woman named Anna Sylvia Just And
Speaker 1: Following the discovery of these items, a man named Alfonse
Speaker 1: Bass came forward with information. He stated that he had
Speaker 1: driven a car that was occupied by a man named
Speaker 1: you guessed it, Tom Hanley. Also in the car were
Speaker 1: men named Michael, Alexander Marathon and Robert Adaberry. Alfonse stated
Speaker 1: that the group of men had picked up Sylvia in
Speaker 1: north Las Vegas and then drove to an area located
Speaker 1: near Sunrise mountain. Tom Hanley told Sylvia to exit the
Speaker 1: vehicle along with two of the other men, and then
Speaker 1: they together walked into the dust. Sylvia never returned. Alphonse
Speaker 1: stated that he believed she was killed at the direction
Speaker 1: of Tom Hanley because there was allegedly an argument where
Speaker 1: Sylvia had asked Tom for a loan, asked him for
Speaker 1: some money, and he got angry, and that kind of
Speaker 1: led to her allegedly having her life taken at the
Speaker 1: order of Tom Hanley. So Alphonse was a big help
Speaker 1: to investigators. He tried to guide them to the area,
Speaker 1: but they were unable to locate any remains at that
Speaker 1: point in time. On March thirty first of nineteen sixty nine,
Speaker 1: Alphonse Bass was murdered. We are going to get into
Speaker 1: that shortly, but if you see a pattern here, everybody
Speaker 1: that comes into contact with Tom Hanley ends up dead.
Speaker 1: So on September seventh, of nineteen seventy human remains were
Speaker 1: found in a shallow grave four miles west of Henderson, Nevada.
Speaker 1: The remains included a skull with a depressed fracture. The
Speaker 1: cause of death was noted to be blunt force trauma,
Speaker 1: and the manner of death was ruled a homicide. Now
Speaker 1: these remains were considered a Jane Doe, they remained unidentified,
Speaker 1: although they did know that they belonged to a female.
Speaker 1: In twenty ten, the Clark County Coroner's Office submitted the
Speaker 1: remains for DNA testing and they were able to come
Speaker 1: up with the DNA profile and it was entered into NamUs.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, Sylvia's missing person's case was reopened
Speaker 1: and case files were reviewed and they were able to
Speaker 1: identify Sylvia's ninety five year old sister and they were
Speaker 1: able to retrieve her DNA and compare it to the
Speaker 1: Jane Doe found in nineteen seventy. Sylvia was positively identified.
Speaker 1: And with this, of course, I'm sure sure her family
Speaker 1: those that were left were utterly devastated, but also probably
Speaker 1: so glad to have answers as to what happened, because
Speaker 1: in their minds, Sylvia was still missing. They had no
Speaker 1: idea what had happened to her, and at least now
Speaker 1: they're able to give her a final resting space and
Speaker 1: have a little bit of finality to what actually happened
Speaker 1: to Sylvia. Unfortunately, due to the timing, it took to
Speaker 1: finally identify Sylvia. No charges were ever filed in her case,
Speaker 1: although it is alleged that Tom Hanley is the one
Speaker 1: who ordered her murder. By this point in time, tom
Speaker 1: Hanley was long gone, so her murder remains unsolved. No
Speaker 1: charges were ever filed, but at least they were able
Speaker 1: to identify these remains and give her family some type
Speaker 1: of answers. All right, so now we're going to get
Speaker 1: into Alphonse Bass. He was thirty six years old. So
Speaker 1: March thirtieth, nineteen sixty nine, around nine to forty pm,
Speaker 1: Clark County deputies were flagged down by a motorist and
Speaker 1: this motorist reported a house fire that was located at
Speaker 1: thirty seven eighty six East Lake Mead Boulevard. They located
Speaker 1: a male victim who was later identified as Alfonse Bass,
Speaker 1: and he had been badly burned. He was transported to
Speaker 1: a local hospital where he died the following morning from
Speaker 1: burn injuries and smoke inhalation. A neighbor reported seeing a
Speaker 1: green Ford Mustang leaving the area right before the fire started.
Speaker 1: It was determined that the fire was intentionally set, and
Speaker 1: none other than Tom Hanley was identified as a suspect,
Speaker 1: so Alfonse was scheduled to testify against Tom in the
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six murder of Ralph Alsop, and he also
Speaker 1: provided statements implicating Tom in the murders of a man
Speaker 1: named Marvin Shoemate and Sylvia just There were some other
Speaker 1: men who were also charged in conspiracy in the murder
Speaker 1: of Alfonse, and they were a man named Albert Dreyer
Speaker 1: who was an attorney and he was acting on behalf
Speaker 1: of Tom Hanley, and another man named Leroy Marsh now
Speaker 1: Tom's wife later wrote a book claiming that Tom's son,
Speaker 1: who was named Andrew Granby, is the one that drugged
Speaker 1: Alphonse and set the fire that took his life. Tom
Speaker 1: Hanley is a true was a true terror to the
Speaker 1: city of Las Vegas. So who is this Tom Hanley
Speaker 1: and how did he get away with all that he
Speaker 1: got away with? So he was a key figure in
Speaker 1: several Las Vegas labor unions during the nineteen forties. He
Speaker 1: had a tempted to unionize casino dealers. He served as
Speaker 1: the head of the American Federation of Casinos and Gaming
Speaker 1: Employees and the Gaming and Office Employee Union. He was
Speaker 1: associated with the Binyon family and the Midwest Mob. He
Speaker 1: did plead guilty to the nineteen seventy seven murder of
Speaker 1: labor leader Al Bramlett, and even testified in a racketeering
Speaker 1: trial for the government two weeks before his death.
Speaker 2: And he was also.
Speaker 1: Under the witness protection program. This heinous man allegedly that
Speaker 1: did all this bad stuff allegedly was in witness protection
Speaker 1: at the time of his death. He ended up contracting
Speaker 1: hepatitis at some point in time, and that is essentially
Speaker 1: what led to his death. But he did die of
Speaker 1: natural causes in nineteen seventy nine at the age of
Speaker 1: sixty three. He and his son reportedly carried out contract
Speaker 1: killings for the mob, casino owners, and union boss. He
Speaker 1: was tied to a lot of deaths, like I said,
Speaker 1: but the charges never stuck. I'm going to link an
Speaker 1: article below that goes into more detail about Tom and
Speaker 1: his son. But these two men were menaces to Las
Speaker 1: Vegas and society. And if you google Thomas Hanley, he
Speaker 1: has featured prominently at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: There are many many articles about all that he did.
Speaker 1: I am really just brushing the surface.
Speaker 2: Here on Tom Hanley.
Speaker 1: But this man did a lot of really bad things,
Speaker 1: and he never really had to pay for them, unfortunately.
Speaker 1: He just kind of always skirted under the radar and
Speaker 1: very much seemed to me like the kind of person
Speaker 1: that got other people to do his dirty work for
Speaker 1: him and was able to get away with it time
Speaker 1: and time again. If you are interested in more info
Speaker 1: about Tom Hanley, please read the couple of articles going
Speaker 1: to link below, because this was such a rabbit hole
Speaker 1: for me. When I realized that these cases had overlap
Speaker 1: and connection, I just about lost it because typically that
Speaker 1: doesn't happen when I'm looking at these older cases. Typically
Speaker 1: there's no overlap, but this one, there was so many
Speaker 1: cases that overlapped. And then when I started googling Tom Hanley,
Speaker 1: I realized that this was way bigger than these three
Speaker 1: unsolved quote unquote cases, So be sure to check that
Speaker 1: article out. So next up is the unsolved case of
Speaker 1: Joseph O'Hare. Joseph was sixty seven years old on the
Speaker 1: morning of February eighth of nineteen sixty nine. Joseph had
Speaker 1: gone outside to retrieve his newspaper outside of his home
Speaker 1: that was located at one eight one six welled in
Speaker 1: place when he was shot in the head by an
Speaker 1: unknown assailant. Joseph was conscious when he was transported to
Speaker 1: the hospital and stated that he was slow rugged when
Speaker 1: he went to get the paper. Robbery was ruled out
Speaker 1: as a motive because he was found with two thousand
Speaker 1: dollars in his pocket and he had several pieces of
Speaker 1: expensive jewelry on at the time of the attack. In
Speaker 1: the day prior to the attack on Joseph, there was
Speaker 1: a white camper with a blue stripe seen on Joseph Street,
Speaker 1: and it was also seen leaving the scene after the shooting.
Speaker 1: All include a photo of that on Instagram and Facebook
Speaker 1: on the post associated with this episode. Joseph was employed
Speaker 1: as a dealer at the Hotel Fremont that was located
Speaker 1: in downtown Las Vegas. Different people that were interviewed stated
Speaker 1: that he was also a bookie, which could have put
Speaker 1: him at risk, and others stated that he could have
Speaker 1: been targeted by the boyfriend or husband of the woman
Speaker 1: that he had been seeing socially. Joseph passed away on
Speaker 1: February twenty second of nineteen sixty nine from his injuries.
Speaker 1: There were different persons of interest, However, no arrest or
Speaker 1: charges were ever made. His case remains unsolved to this day.
Speaker 1: And really, what you see in a lot of these cases,
Speaker 1: it was back in the sixties in Las Vegas. Most
Speaker 1: people that lived there worked in casinos, or maybe they
Speaker 1: had some other involvement in being a bookie, or they
Speaker 1: were very prevalent.
Speaker 2: In working in the downtown area.
Speaker 1: Vegas was a lot different back then than it obviously
Speaker 1: is now, and a lot of these people ran in
Speaker 1: the same circles, and there was a lot of bad
Speaker 1: people that lived in Vegas back then. And what we
Speaker 1: saw with Tom Hanley is he would eliminate people that
Speaker 1: got in his way or he was mad at for
Speaker 1: one reason or another. So in the murder of Joseph,
Speaker 1: it very well could have been somebody that was upset
Speaker 1: with him for something he did at work or something
Speaker 1: he did in his booky job, or like other people
Speaker 1: had suspected, it could have been the husband or boyfriend
Speaker 1: of the woman that he had been kind of seeing socially,
Speaker 1: so could have been a jealousy thing for sure. But
Speaker 1: despite that, no evidence ever came forward that led law
Speaker 1: enforcement to ever be able to charge anybody in connection
Speaker 1: with Joseph's death. Okay, next up is the case of
Speaker 1: Sam Ernest Lamel, who was sixty six years old at
Speaker 1: the time of his death. On October twenty fourth of
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six, at around ten fifty pm, Las Vegas
Speaker 1: Police Department found a male lying on the sidewalk in
Speaker 1: front of four sixteen South Casino Center Boulevard. This man
Speaker 1: was bleeding profusely and it appeared that his pockets had
Speaker 1: been turned inside out, indicating that robbery could have been
Speaker 1: a motive. The victim was transported to Southern Nevada Memorial
Speaker 1: Hospital and unfortunately, his injuries were too severe and he
Speaker 1: passed away on October twenty fifth, a day later at
Speaker 1: twelve twenty five am. Unfortunately, he never regained consciousness. There
Speaker 1: was an autopsy performed and it was identified that the
Speaker 1: victim had in fact suffered a skull fracture, and the
Speaker 1: victim was identified as Sam Ernest Lamel, and he ended
Speaker 1: up being identified with his driver's license that was from
Speaker 1: the state of California. Sam had lived on First Street
Speaker 1: and was frequently known to go to Mint Casino that
Speaker 1: was located on Fremont Street. There isn't much known about
Speaker 1: the investigation into his death or any suspects, but as
Speaker 1: of current twenty twenty six, his case remains unsolved, but
Speaker 1: I do think there's an entirely huge possibility here that
Speaker 1: robbery was the motive. Maybe somebody saw him at the casino,
Speaker 1: maybe he won some actial amount of money. He was followed,
Speaker 1: a robbery attempt was made, Sam likely probably fought back,
Speaker 1: and that's probably what led to the attack and his
Speaker 1: subsequent death. So unfortunately, there are no suspects that have
Speaker 1: been publicly named. His case remains unsolved, and given the
Speaker 1: fact that it happened in nineteen sixty six, the perpetrator
Speaker 1: likely is no longer living. I guess could be living,
Speaker 1: but at this point would be extremely elderly and time
Speaker 1: is running out. So these cases are of the utmost
Speaker 1: importance because they are so old and the people that
Speaker 1: know something about these cases are aging as well. So
Speaker 1: that is why time is of the essence, and it's
Speaker 1: so important to share these stories because you never know
Speaker 1: what's going to spark something in somebody's brain.
Speaker 2: Okay, last case we.
Speaker 1: Are going to get into is that of forty five
Speaker 1: year old woman Evelyn Grace Shank. She went by the
Speaker 1: name Grace, So that is what I'm going to be
Speaker 1: calling her so. Grace was a night clerk at the
Speaker 1: Travel Lodge motel that was located at two eight three
Speaker 1: zero South Fifth Street in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was
Speaker 1: allegedly kidnapped on February fourth of nineteen fifty nine between
Speaker 1: eleven PM and eleven forty pm. The worker that showed
Speaker 1: up to relieve Grace discovered that the switchboard end desk
Speaker 1: area was unoccupied and Grace was nowhere to be found.
Speaker 1: So this man went ahead and called police and reported
Speaker 1: her messing. Once investigators arrived, it was discovered that approximately
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy four dollars had been taken, and
Speaker 1: there was an all points bulletin that was broadcast, and
Speaker 1: they went ahead and set up roadblocks in Henderson, A,
Speaker 1: Boulder City, and in Las Vegas in an attempt to
Speaker 1: find Grace. They figured if they were able to get
Speaker 1: on this quickly, they might be able to safely recover
Speaker 1: Grace and find out who took her. Unfortunately, three days later,
Speaker 1: on February seventh of nineteen fifty nine, the body of
Speaker 1: Evelyn and Grace Shank was discovered near Mountain Springs in
Speaker 1: a flood drainage area by people that were riding on horseback.
Speaker 1: Grace's cause of death was homicide via a gunshot wound
Speaker 1: to the head. They were able to determine the murder
Speaker 1: weapon was likely a thirty two WCF Revolver, and at
Speaker 1: the time of her death, Grace had been wearing a
Speaker 1: fourteen care yellow gold ring with two white pearls that
Speaker 1: was a size eight, along with a yellow gold snake
Speaker 1: band wristwatch, and these items were taken from Grace and
Speaker 1: have never been recovered. So obviously the person that took
Speaker 1: Grace robbery was obviously the motive, wrong place, wrong time
Speaker 1: for Grace, and they also took advantage of the fact
Speaker 1: that she had on for the time, pretty expensive jewelry
Speaker 1: and also took that Investigators do believe that Grace was
Speaker 1: kidnapped in order to prevent her from reporting the robbery,
Speaker 1: which to me just seems so dumb to go through
Speaker 1: the hassle of kidnapping somebody and taking a life over
Speaker 1: a one hundred and seventy four dollars, which I know
Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty nine was a lot more money than
Speaker 1: it is today, but I personally just don't think that
Speaker 1: there's any amount of money that is worth taking a
Speaker 1: life over. So I was able to track down a
Speaker 1: photo of the Econo Lodge as it looked back in
Speaker 1: the sixties. So Grace's kidnapping and murder happened in nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty nine, so it looked very similar, I'm sure, in
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty nine as it did in the photo from
Speaker 1: the sixties.
Speaker 2: And there's also a picture of what it looks like now.
Speaker 2: It is still.
Speaker 1: Standing and I'm going to be posting that on my
Speaker 1: Instagram and Facebook pages. Unfortunately, in Grace's case, there is
Speaker 1: no active leads, there is no suspects, and it.
Speaker 2: Remains a very cold case.
Speaker 1: Now. There are also is photos of the jewelry that
Speaker 1: she was wearing, the ring especially there's a photo of
Speaker 1: the ring, and I think it's important if you were
Speaker 1: around in Las Vegas back in the day in nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty nine, and maybe you found a ring at a
Speaker 1: pawnshop that looked very similar to the one that Grace had,
Speaker 1: that could be something that could be a potential clue.
Speaker 2: If you were gifted a.
Speaker 1: Ring by somebody that you knew that looked very similar
Speaker 1: to the one that Grace wore, or same thing with
Speaker 1: the wristwatch, that could be a potential clue that could
Speaker 1: blow this investigation wide open. I know it was a
Speaker 1: long time ago, nineteen fifty nine was a long time ago,
Speaker 1: but it is never too late to get answers to
Speaker 1: some of these cases that have been cold for such
Speaker 1: a long time. So I'm going to be posting all
Speaker 1: of the associated pictures with this episode on my Instagram
Speaker 1: and Facebook carousels. And I'm actually going to be releasing
Speaker 1: this episode a day early because I will be a
Speaker 1: crime con on Thursday, and I.
Speaker 2: Release my episode's Thursday.
Speaker 1: But I always get so involved in the crime con
Speaker 1: of it all that I forget to publish the episode.
Speaker 1: So I'm bringing you this episode one day early on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: I probably post it even a little earlier in the
Speaker 1: day on Wednesday, so that way it is up and
Speaker 1: I can post all the photos that are associated with it.
Speaker 1: I can do my little right now in true crime,
Speaker 1: and we have a little Las Vegas Unsolved episode. If
Speaker 1: you are headed en route to crime Con, you can
Speaker 1: listen to it on your way to crime Con. I
Speaker 1: am so looking forward to the weekend and getting to
Speaker 1: meet some of you guys in person. I think it's
Speaker 1: so cool that I have people that listen to me
Speaker 1: weekly that I'm going to be able to meet at
Speaker 1: Crime Con. I also get to meet so many of
Speaker 1: my podcasting friends that I have not met before, and
Speaker 1: then reunite with those that I have met before, and
Speaker 1: get to go see some of my favorite podcasters. And
Speaker 1: it's just going to be a really great weekend and
Speaker 1: I can't wait to learn and soak it all in
Speaker 1: and come back and report all of the experiences and
Speaker 1: things that I learned on the weekend.
Speaker 2: So I hope you guys have a.
Speaker 1: Great rest of your week, a good weekend, and I
Speaker 1: will see you next week. We will have a guest
Speaker 1: episode next week from my friend Holly over at Crime
Speaker 1: With Holly, I am going to be doing a right
Speaker 1: now in true Crime at the beginning of.
Speaker 2: That episode, and I will also be.
Speaker 1: Recording my Crime Con twenty twenty six recap once I
Speaker 1: get home, so stay tuned for that as well. And
Speaker 1: I will see you guys next time. Have a good one,
Speaker 1: stay safe, and I'll see you then. Bye.