#1.
Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum
At around 9pm on the night of December 29, 1980, Betty Cash was driving on State Road
1485 in Dayton, Texas with her friend, Vickie Landrum, and Vickie's seven-year-old grandson,
Colby.
They were driving home from dinner when they witnessed a bright light ahead of them.
As they got closer to it, a strange and loud sound emitted from it.
Betty stopped the car because the light was too bright for her to see the road.
She got out of the car to get a better look at the mysterious object.
She described it as a diamond-shaped object with four points.
It was rounded at the top and bottom.
The bottom part also had flames shooting out of it.
An intense amount of heat came from the object.
Betty went back to the car and found the door handle to be extremely hot to the touch.
Once inside, they watched as the object flew away.
Just seconds later, several military helicopters flew overhead.
At around 1am the next morning, Colby woke up Vickie and told her that he was feeling
sick.
She discovered that he had a fever and had thrown up all over his bed.
After treating him, she went back to sleep.
Later that morning, she awoke to find that she was sick as well.
Strangely, they both appeared to suffer from sunburn as well.
When Vickie went to Betty's house to check on her, she found that her temperature was
dangerously high and she had large welts on her face and hands.
Over the next four days, Betty's condition became more serious.
She went to the hospital and was later treated for acute radiation poisoning.
During the next six weeks, she lost at least half of her hair and some skin on her face.
Doctors were certain that she had been exposed to dangerous doses of radiation.
After she was release, she continued to suffer from headaches and loss of appetite.
Vickie and Colby also continued to suffer from complications, although they were not
as seriously affected.
John Schuessler of the Mutual UFO Network was brought in to investigate the bizarre
incident.
He went with Betty and Vickie to the area where they encountered the UFO.
A large circular mark was left on the road, apparently by the UFO.
According to witnesses, unmarked trucks later appeared and dug up the road where the mark
was located.
New asphalt was then put down by the unknown individuals.
After interviewing people nearby, John found at least ten that had seen the object.
At least eight had also seen the helicopters.
One was Sgt.
L.L. Walker.
He and his wife were driving near the scene and had seen the helicopters flying overhead.
At the time, they figured that a plane had crashed nearby.
Convinced that the military was involved, Betty and Vickie sent a letter to Senators
John Tower and Lloyd Benson.
They wrote back stating that Bergstrom Air Force Base had been notified of the incident.
They also agreed to help with anything regarding the incident.
On August 21, 1981, Betty, Vickie, and Colby arrived at Bergstrom, hoping for assistance
in their medical expenses.
In one of the rooms, they noticed a map pinpointing the area of the sighting.
Betty and Vickie were interviewed for over two hours, with a military stenographer taking
notes.
The military denied that they were involved in the incident.
Four weeks later, their claim for medical damages against the military was denied.
In 1982, Betty and Vickie filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government.
However, it was denied by a federal judge for lack of evidence.
To date, they continue to suffer from illnesses as a result of the incident.
They hope that someone will come forward to tell what happened to them and what they encountered
that night.
Sadly, Betty passed away on December 29, 1998, coincidentally eighteen years to the day after
the sighting occurred.
She was hospitalized at least once every year of that time.
Vickie passed away in 2007.
Colby is still hoping that there will be answers to the incident.
#2.
Alamo Treasure
Originally known as the Mission San Antonio de Valero, the Alamo is a former Roman Catholic
mission and fortress compound and the site of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836.
Built by the Spanish Franciscan priest, Antonio de Olivares, and Payaya Indians, the compound
originally consisted of a sanctuary and surrounding buildings, was built for the education of
area Native Americans after their conversion to Christianity.
In 1793, the mission was secularized and then abandoned.
Ten years later, it became a fortress housing a Spanish Army unit, the Second Flying Company
of San Carlos de Parras The Alamo is now a museum in the Alamo Plaza District of downtown
San Antonio, Texas.
Professional fortune hunter and historical researcher Frank Buschbacher believes that
a fortune in gold remains hidden at the Alamo.
According to legend, a treasure remains buried in the shadow of the Alamo's old mission,
a secret which dates back to 1836, the year of the famous battle.
It's believed that men led by Colonel Jim Bowie led a group of rugged frontiersmen across
southern Texas to the Alamo.
By some accounts, they were loaded down with a fortune in silver and gold called the "San
Saba Treasure," said to be worth millions of dollars.
The treasure was intended to finance the Texas revolution for independence from Mexico, but
two months later, Bowie and 188 other men with Davy Crockett made a courageous stand
at the Alamo against 6,000 well-trained Mexican troops.
Not one of the defenders survived to tell the tale, but the legend of the treasure lived
on.
Along with a team of archaeologists and researchers, Frank excavated the street in front of the
Alamo.
He first heard about the mysterious treasure at the Alamo during a trip to Mexico, where
was introduced to Maria Gomez, a respected museum curator who also had a reputation as
a psychic.
Bushbacker had never heard of any treasure surrounding the Battle of the Alamo, but she
went on to describe the treasure as gold coins, silver and religious artifacts.
Some of the treasure had been removed by Mexican soldiers, but that most of it still remained
hidden at the Alamo.
Maria would later draw him a map placing the treasure at the bottom of an old well.
Even though Maria said she had never been to the Alamo, she had indicated the spot where
a well was dug just before the siege.
At the time, the chapel was located in the rear of the fort.
The well was in the plaza surrounded by twelve-foot tall stone walls.
It was within these walls that the Texans held out for a full thirteen days.
Frank believes that in a final desperate act, Jim Bowie ordered that the treasure be hidden
at the bottom of the well, but no one survived to retrieve it.
Gail Loving-Barnes of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas doesn't believe in the treasure:
"The people of the Alamo, I don't think they were guarding a treasure.
When your life is on the line, like it was in the Battle with Juno Santiana, I don't
think you're thinking about silver or gold bullion.
I think you're thinking about your life.
And I don't think you would be polluting your water well because you don't know how long
your siege is going to be."
Despite the controversy, Frank was determined to prove his point.
He obtained permission to survey the area with ground penetrating radar, yielding some
intriguing results.
To their trained eyes, the radar display showed several irregularities beneath the surface.
The largest was believed to be the site of the well and in the exact location where Maria
Gomez predicted the treasure would
be found.
Frank believes that this treasure is located beneath the road in front of the chapel, but
to many native Texans, his theory doesn't hold up.
Project Director Thomas Guderjanhe of the Archaeology Department at St. Mary's University
agreed to oversee the project in case anything that turned up had any historical value.
It took Frank three and a half years to acquire the necessary permits and financing to excavate
the site.
A 15 x 15 foot area was excavated above the well.
A work crew needed to first remove three feet of flagstone and roadbed to reach the top
of the filled-in well.
Four feet beneath the surface of the courtyard, the team began to find fragments of Native
American pottery, the bones of butchered animals, and primitive cooking utensils.
Each relic had to be carefully unearthed and properly catalogued.
The items are a valuable treasure in themselves, rare artifacts that help piece together a
history of the Alamo from the 1750's right up to the final battle nearly a century later.
One of the finds that most excited Guderjan was some ammunition used in canons called
grapeshot.
In the end, they found no sign of the treasure.
Yet some remain convinced that the gold and silver still exists somewhere deep beneath
the Alamo.
#3.
Calder Field Serial Murders
On October 10, 1983, 23 year old cocktail waitress Heidi Fye mysteriously vanished while
walking from the home of her parents to a convenience store.
On April 4, 1984, Heidi's remains were located in Calder Field near League City, Texas, by
a woman walking her dog.
The medical examiner determined that she had broken ribs and beaten with a club, and probably
died from blunt force trauma to the head.
On February 2, 1986, four boys riding bikes smelled a foul odor and located the skeletal
remains of an unidentified female and called the police.
She was dubbed "Jane Doe" and it was determined that she had died six weeks to six months
before being found, and was shot in the back, possibly from a .22 caliber weapon.
She was described as 25 years old, 5'5 to 5'8, 140 to 160 pounds, and had reddish brown
hair and distinct gap in her teeth.
She was located in Calder Field just 50 yards from where Heide Fye was found.
Then, while police were searching for more clues in the case, they came upon another
body just twenty yards away from the Jane Doe.
The other body was identified as 16-year old Laura Miller, who had vanished on September
1, 1984, from the same convenience store where Heidi had vanished from.
Five years after the second and third bodies were found, a fourth body was located.
On September 8, 1991, the body of "Janet Doe", an unidentified woman, was discovered in Calder
Field, just one hundred yards from where the other victims were located.
The young woman had died one to four months before she was found, was about 31 years old,
was 5 feet to 5 feet 3 inches, 100 to 130 pounds, had long brown hair, low quality dentures,
and was beaten with a club and possibly strangled with a cord.
Although many investigators believe that the cases are connected, there are some differences
in the death.
While Fye and Janet Doe were beaten to death, Miller and Jane Doe were shot to death.
However, there are obviously more similarities than differences; Fye and Miller were last
seen at the same store, all four bodies were found within less than one hundred yards of
each other, and the bodies were arranged in the same way.
Eventually, a fifth body was located at the site.
However, the murders remain unsolved.
In March 2014, Clyde Edwin Hedrick, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 1984 beating
death of Ellen Rae Beason.
Hedrick has since been linked to the murders of Fye, Miller and the three unidentified
women.
Prosecutors had planned to present evidence of Hedrick linking him to the murders of Fye
and Miller, but the link was never made.
Miller's father had long suspected Hedrick murdered his daughter.
#4.
Darlie Routier
Darlie Routier slept on the sofa in her family room while her two sons, Devon and Damon,
slept on the floor near her on June 6th, 1996.
Her husband Darin and her other son Drake were asleep upstairs when she woke to find
a person right above her.
She screamed for her husband, and the assailant fled the house and dropped his knife on the
way out.
Darin immediately noticed Devon and Daman were badly stabbed, so he began CPR on them
as Darlie stood by.
By time paramedics arrived, Devon was dead; Damon died en route to the hospital.
Darlie was also treated for cuts that included an almost-fatal gash on her throat near a
major artery.
The police wasted no time in their investigation as to who stabbed the two boys to death.
They had evidence stacked against Darlie since everything pointed to her as the assailant.
Numerous violent break-ins in the area occurred around the same time but were considered unrelated
to the boys' murders as the court proved.
Several things worked against her at trial, which included the fact that she stated it
was too dark to see the swift assailant and therefore, couldn't give a composite sketch
of what the killer might have looked like.
Police were surprised and suspicious when she claimed she slept through the attack of
not only her sons, but also of herself.
A videotape of her behavior while she was on medication was used against her.
Undisturbed dust on a slashed window and a blood trail that never left the house suggested
to cops that there was never and entry into the house, but they also mentioned that it
was possible to enter the house through the window and not have the dust moved.
Police came up with a motive for why she killed her sons: a life insurance policy, which was
only for $5,000 per child or $10,000 total.
Soon, police were back to square one when evidence that proved Darlie's innocence surmounted.
A piece of Darlie's hair turned out to actually be from one of the police officers and foreign
fingerprints found in the house were never identified.
There was a single sock found outside the house that had the boys' blood on it, but
not Darlie's blood.
It was also entirely possible that evidence was contaminated in the crime scene collection
process.
Darlie's family and friends continued to rally in her defense throughout her trial and even
after she was convicted of the murder of her son Damon.
One juror on her case changed his opinion of her after he looked back at photos of her
injuries; he was then convinced that he accidentally convicted an innocent woman while the real
killer remained anonymous and on the loose.
She now sits on death row in prison; many of her supporters still have a hard time accepting
her as the murderer of her sons.
Unless significant new evidence is discovered that persuades the police or prosecution's
evidence, it is very likely she might be executed for the murders of her two sons.
Routier was sentenced to death row on February 1st, 1997 where she waits to die by means
of lethal injection.
As of January 17, 2015, almost twenty years after the death of her sons, Routier remains
on death row at the Mountain View Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in
Gatesville, Texas.
In an update to her case, Darlie and her attorneys have conceded that she is the only possible
killer, as noted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on May 21, 2003.
A request for retesting forestic evidence was granted on June 18, 2008.
During the Summer 2014 a judge ordered for more forensic testing again.
#5.
Ed Baker
Ed Baker was a wealthy Texas millionaire who had made his fortune in oil.
He founded Vanguard Groups International, one of the fastest growing businesses in the
United States, alongside his second wife, Mary Walker.
According to her, people tended to trust him and were willing to invest in his company.
He started promoting oil well exploration in 1980.
After the business prospered, he developed a sort of mid-life crisis.
In March 1984, he divorced Mary after ten years of marriage, spent his time gambling,
got two face-lifts, and bought an expensive new Jaguar.
In September 1984, he remarried again, only to divorce her eleven months to a Karen Wallbridge,
and two months later remarry again, this time to Sandra Hoff, one of his employees.
Soon, the business started crumbling and Ed started spending investor's money to support
his extravagant tastes.
His attorney, Ward Busey, warned him he could face jail time.
By October 1985, Vanguard's investigators were demanding money from Ed.
However, the company was on the edge of bankruptcy.
He allegedly arranged a cash bailout with a suspicious source.
He asked his private investigator, Bob Gale, to run a background check on the source from
which he had borrowed money.
The money source seemed to have Mafia connections.
Ed seemed unable to reverse his downward spiral.
At around 7:30 pm on November 6, he showed up at Mary's home in a state of emotional
disarray.
He alluded to the fact that someone was after him.
He claimed that he had been receiving death threat letters at work.
He also claimed that he had received two phone calls at his unlisted home phone number, with
the caller stating "This is your day to die".
She urged him to contact the police, but he claimed that they would not be able to help
him.
He then left and went to his home.
Ed sent Sandra to Austin as a precaution and holed himself up in his home, speaking to
her by phone an hour after midnight.
He told her that he had received another life threatening phone call.
Two days later, on November 8, Ed's jaguar was found burning twenty miles outside Houston
with a charred body inside.
It was so disfigured, no one could tell it who it was.
Forensic analysis confirmed, with near certainty, that it was Ed Baker.
A burnt .32 caliber revolver was found on the floor of the car.
There was an indentation in the firing pin, which indicated that one shot had been fired.
The other five shell casings had exploded from the heat.
Three one-gallon gas cans were found in and around the car.
Just a few hundred feet from the car, investigators were surprised to find a second body.
A young man in his early twenties had been handcuffed and beaten to death.
However, it was later determined that the man had been killed in a drug deal, unrelated
to Ed's death.
That same day, a letter arrived at the office of Ed's attorney, Ward Busey.
It said "Dear Ward, If you are reading this letter, it means that I am dead.
I've had some threats on my life, you've been a good friend to me, take care of Sandy and
the kids."
Enclosed was another letter that Ed wanted Ward to send to Sandra and his children.
Sandra believes that he was the victim of a Mafia hit.
A eyewitness did report seeing an unidentified pickup truck fleeing the scene of the fire.
However, the police believe that his death was a suicide.
They learned that shortly before his death, Ed had called his life insurance agents.
He specifically asked if his policies would pay in the event of a suicide.
One, valued at $5,000, would not.
Investigators believe that Ed had shot himself in his vehicle and had an accomplice set fire
to the car in order to make it look like a homicide.
Sandra however, refused to believe that Ed's death was a suicide.
She hired an independent private investigator; he believes that someone was hired to kill
Ed.
Ward Busey disagrees; he believes that, based on the letter he received, Ed planned on killing
himself.
He believes that he committed suicide so that he would not have to go to jail.
An arson investigator, however, does not believe that he would have been able to set fire to
the car and himself and still be able to commit suicide.
Investigators Bob Gale had reasons to believe the man in the car was not Ed, but someone
else and that Ed had faked his death to disappear.
He believes that he fled to an unknown location, possibly the Caribbean, to live on funds embezzled
from his investors.
So far, no one has answers as to what happened that night.
In order to bail out his company, Ed allegedly borrowed money from a suspicious source that
may have had Mafia connections.
It is possible that this source or the Mafia was responsible for Ed's death.
An eyewitness reported seeing a blue Chevy pickup truck with chrome rails and mag wheels,
speeding away from the field where Ed's truck was found burning.
The truck and its occupants have never been identified.
The case has remained unsolved.
#6.
Harold Bennett
In 1967, Dr. Larry Dossey was a young intern at a hospital in Texas when he was assigned
a new patient, "Harold Bennett", who was very ill and weak.
Larry did several different tests, but could not find out why he was sick.
A baffled Larry called in another intern, Dr. William Hensley, and asked Harold if anything
unusual had happened to him.
Harold asked him if he believed in voodoo, which brought William back to his grandmother's
ranch in 1945, where he met a woman named Mary who claimed to be a voodoo queen, and
he actually witnessed her powers at work after a young woman was assaulted by one of the
workers.
When the constable came to arrest the man, William's grandmother refused to let that
happen in a had the man sent to the back of the ranch, and Mary put a death hex on the
man, and he died soon afterwards.
Harold soon told William that he had refused to pay a fortune teller, and she cursed him
with a death hex.
Larry was unsure what to do and did not believe in voodoo, but William knew that they needed
to do a voodoo ceremony to save Harold.
William knew they needed fire, a body part, and that they need to convince Harold that
they were surperior and that they could overcome the hex.
That night, the doctors lit a drug on fire, took a lock of hair, and began the incantation.
Harold was then released of the hex by the doctors, and by the next morning, he seemed
to be completely recovered, and the doctors were amazed.
The doctors believe that Harold's belief in the hex and voodoo helped save his life.
#7.
Jordan Children
Mollie Jordan was a nurse who lived with her five grandchildren, Demetra, Bernard, Ericka,
Jamaal, and Ketrick and her great-granddaughter Jasmas, in a home in Dallas, Texas.
By 3:30pm on September 28, 1988, all of the children were home from school, so Mollie
left to work her night shift at a local hospital.
She planned to return at 7 am the next morning.
She also carried a beeper so the children could reach her at any time.
At around 3 am on September 29, Ketrick awoke to the sound of his brother Bernard talking
to someone.
He went to the living room and saw his brother talking to unidentified men.
The men were asking Bernard about money.
When Ketrick came into the room, Bernard sent him back to bed.
A few minutes later, the house was set fire by the two unknown men, who were believed
to be drug dealers that Bernard had been getting his drugs from.
He had placed furniture in front of the front door and the hallway to the bedrooms in order
to keep the men from reaching his siblings.
However, this left the children trapped in the burning home.
When the fire started, the children broke the windows in order to escape, but the release
handle on the burglar bars jammed.
The firefighters were unable to get into the house through the doors because of how the
furniture was placed.
The burglar bars also prevented an easy entrance for the firefighters.
By the time they entered the home ten minutes later, Bernard, Ericka, Jamaal, and Jasmas
were all dead, but Ketrick and Demetra were found barely alive.
Tragically, Demetra passed away later at the hospital.
Mollie left the hospital when a relative told her that the children were dead.
She came home to find the place in flames and almost all of her grandchildren dead.
Ketrick told authorities what had happened that night.
It is believed that the drug dealers had set the fire in an attempt to get Bernard outside.
It is also believed that they entered through a window on the front of the house that was
not equipped with burglar bars.
Now, police are looking for those responsible for the arson fire and the murders.
In the years since the fire, Ketrick has undergone several operations, including the amputation
of both legs.
Prosthetic legs have allowed him to walk again.
After the fire, hundreds of people from the community donated money to the Jordan family.
Since then, Ketrick and Mollie have moved to a new home in a better section of Dallas.
They still hope that the arson and murders can be solved.
A man nicknamed "Curly" was identified as a suspect in the murders.
He had supplied drugs to Bernard in the past.
He was a black male who was 5 feet 10 inches, and weighed 160 pounds.
He allegedly bragged about setting the fire.
However, he has never been positively identified or located.
Investigators believe that at least two men were involved in the arson.
In 2001, investigators received a break in the case when a new witness came forward.
The witness had been arrested on unrelated charges when he admitted to investigators
that he had helped dispose of gasoline-soaked clothes and other evidence on the night of
the 1988 fire.
The witness, who was fifteen at the time of the fire, claimed that he was a lookout for
Jamaican drug dealers in South Oak Cliff.
He gave street names for three suspects: "Freddy Krueger", "Curly Diamond", and "Silky".
As a result of this information, investigators re-interviewed several witnesses, who began
to name possible suspects.
Other suspects were nicknamed "Lupe", "Coolie", and "Soldier".
One witness claimed that Freddy Krueger and Lupe had beat him and forced him to take them
to the Jordan home just a few days before the fire.
The witness also heard that Bernard had "ripped them off".
Another witness claimed that on the night of the fire, the two drug dealers were talking
about getting revenge on "B.J." which was Bernard's nickname.
Shortly after the fire, the witness saw the two again.
He claimed that they were laughing and joking about the sounds of people burning to death.
Yet another witness, a former girlfriend of Lupe, asked him if he had set the fire, and
he said that he did.
He also said that it was done to settle a debt.
The drug dealer know as "Curly" and "Freddy Krueger" was eventually identified as Curly
Diamond.
He was also known as Milton Lee Hunter Jr., David Broadbelt and David Wilson.
Investigators learned that he was killed in a New York subway shoot out in 1992, which
ironically remains unsolved.
According to investigators, he was the "mastermind" behind the arson fire.
The drug dealer known as "Lupe" was identified by several witnesses as Vincent Lamont Thomas;
he had been questioned initially but was let go.
In 2001, he was arrested and charged with capital murder in the case.
Unfortunately, prosecutors felt that they did not have enough evidence to bring him
to trial, and the charges were dropped in August of 2005.
However, the prosecutors noted that he can be arrested again if new evidence surfaces.
Investigators identified "Silky" and learned that he had also died in an unrelated shooting.
They also identified "Coolie" and "Soldier" but have been unable to locate them.
The police now consider the case closed, but unresolved.
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