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From chilling final messages to hidden clues that baffled investigators, these stories reveal moments when victims managed to leave vital information about their attackers. Witness real-life mysteries where sharp minds and quick thinking led to crucial breakthroughs. Which clue do you think was the most ingenious? Share your thoughts in the comments!
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00:00I tried to just downplay it and say,
00:02Mom, don't worry about that. That would never happen.
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:06And today, we're looking at 20 times people left clues about their murderers.
00:11That is our biggest piece of evidence. It's her last words.
00:16There was no doubt that this document was authored by Susan.
00:21For this video, we're looking at murder victims who managed to leave behind a clue
00:25about the identity of their killer, whether intentional or not.
00:28We will be including cases that have yet to be solved,
00:31but excluding cases where there's debate over the authenticity of the clue.
00:36Which of these cases do you find the most fascinating?
00:39Let us know in the comments.
00:41Julie Jensen.
00:4240-year-old Julie Jensen was a mother of two and a Port Authority worker
00:46when she was found dead in her Wisconsin home in 1998.
00:49Julie Jensen, a mother of two, was poisoned with antifreeze
00:53and then suffocated to death in her home in 1998.
00:56Her husband, Mark, quickly became the prime suspect
00:59after one of their neighbors produced a letter written by Jensen before her death.
01:03In the letter, Jensen claimed that she was afraid for her life
01:07due to her husband's suspicious behavior
01:08and that if she died, he was likely the perpetrator.
01:12Days before her murder, Julie wrote a letter
01:14saying if anything happened to her, police should question her husband.
01:19Mark was arrested and tried for his wife's murder,
01:21with the letter being part of the prosecution's primary evidence.
01:25He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole,
01:29a decision that was overturned twice on appeal.
01:32Wisconsin Supreme Court back in March ruled that Jensen deserves a new trial
01:35and a letter from his late wife cannot be used as evidence against him.
01:40L. Rajeswar Singh.
01:41In January of 2006, 43-year-old businessman L. Rajeswar Singh was shot and killed in his home
01:48in Guwahati, a metropolitan city in India.
01:51According to his housemaid, Singh and his killer had gotten into a heated argument
01:55before he was shot four times and left for dead.
01:58Unbeknownst to the assailant, Singh was able to grab a pen and paper
02:02on which he scribbled a name before meeting his unfortunate end.
02:05This name was considered a vital clue to the killer's identity,
02:10especially because it was also found in Singh's phone.
02:13Police later arrested a 28-year-old man named Balishwar Singh in connection with the crime.
02:19Sherry Jo Bates.
02:20In 1966, Sherry Jo Bates was an 18-year-old freshman at Riverside Community College in California.
02:27On the night of October 30th, she decided to visit the school library to study
02:31and never returned home.
02:32Bates' body was found early the next morning by a groundskeeper at the school.
02:37She had suffered multiple stab and slash wounds, with some inflicted on her face and neck.
02:42According to crime scene investigators, Bates seemed to have aggressively fought off her killer,
02:47scratching him in the process and breaking off his wristwatch.
02:51Hair strands and skin cells of the assailant were found on her hands and under her fingernails,
02:55respectively.
02:56Despite an abundance of evidence found at the scene, the case still remains unsolved.
03:02Edward Baldock.
03:04The town of Brisbane in Australia was shaken in 1989 by the bizarre murder of Edward Baldock.
03:11Baldock, a father of four, was returning home after a drunken night out
03:15when he was picked up by 24-year-old Tracy Wiggington and three other women.
03:19Tracy Avril Wiggington is accused of the murder of a middle-aged man, Edward Baldock.
03:26The group drove Baldock to a park, where Wiggington stabbed him multiple times,
03:31drank his blood, and left him for dead.
03:33She said, this is the night.
03:35This is what we're going to do.
03:37I need the blood.
03:39I need it.
03:41I'm a vampire.
03:42Before his gruesome killing, Baldock had undressed and folded his clothes into a neat pile beside him.
03:48When his body was found, police made a discovery that quickly closed the case.
03:53Tucked far into one of Baldock's shoes was a bank card with Wiggington's name on it.
03:57Nearby was a set of tan shoes.
04:01And in one of those shoes was found a Commonwealth bank card in a yellow folder.
04:07She was swiftly arrested and pleaded guilty to the crime.
04:11Floyd Moore Jr.
04:12In 1986, Floyd Moore Jr. was a sheriff's deputy in Florida and a security guard at the Turtle Lake apartment complex where he resided.
04:22Moore Jr. was working on January 28th when he noticed a man he suspected had broken into the complex.
04:28He questioned the suspicious man and collected his ID, which he kept in his breast pocket.
04:33Just after midnight, Moore Jr. radioed in for backup.
04:36And when the responding officer arrived minutes later, he found the deputy in a pool of his own blood.
04:42The only clue police had was the ID in Moore Jr.'s breast pocket.
04:46They were able to trace it to the culprit, Walter Grant Kaiser, who was arrested later that same day.
04:53Grace Brown
04:54It's especially tragic when a whirlwind romance turns deadly.
04:58That was the unfortunate case of Grace Brown, a factory worker who fell in love with her employer's nephew, Chester Gillette.
05:05When Brown found out she was pregnant in 1906, she pleaded with Gillette to marry her, even sending him multiple letters to that effect.
05:12But he kept stalling.
05:14Her friends were warning her that he wasn't what he seemed to be, that he was something different.
05:20And I think that she had no experience with that type of person.
05:23And so she was seeing what she wanted to see rather than what her friends were telling her.
05:28Eventually, he took her on a trip to the Adirondack Mountains in New York, where he killed her.
05:33Her body was found at the bottom of the Big Moose Lake, and Gillette quickly became a suspect.
05:38A short distance from the capsized boat, they found Grace's body.
05:42Brown's love letters, which showed the amount of pressure she had put on him to accept the pregnancy, helped in securing a murder conviction against Gillette.
05:50He was tried and convicted of first-degree murder.
05:54On March 30, 1908, Chester Gillette died in the electric chair.
05:59Michelle McNeil
05:59On April 11, 2007, Michelle McNeil was found dead in her bathtub, several days after undergoing plastic surgery.
06:07I've fallen in the bathtub. She is unconscious. She's underwater.
06:12Police initially ruled it an accident, but it soon became clear that her physician husband, Martin, had a hand in her death.
06:19Martin had pumped Michelle full of multiple unnecessary drugs, which allegedly caused the cardiac arrest that killed her.
06:26Before her unfortunate death, Michelle reportedly told her oldest daughter, Alexis,
06:30quote,
06:31If anything happens to me, make sure it was not your dad.
06:35That was something that, as soon as I found out my mother was dead, you know, I knew he killed her, partially because of that statement.
06:43After Alexis and her siblings demanded a review of the case, the manner of death was changed, and Martin was charged with first-degree murder.
06:52He was convicted of the crime, but took his own life less than three years into his sentence.
06:58The shrieks of joy came the instant the guilty verdict was read.
07:03Martin McNeil's daughters sobbing while their father remained expressionless.
07:07Odin Lloyd
07:08Odin Lloyd was a 27-year-old linebacker for the Boston Bandits, a semi-professional football team, when he was killed in 2013.
07:16But according to Lloyd's coach, Mike Branch, and others, somehow Hernandez and Lloyd had formed an unlikely relationship, united by the women in their lives.
07:27His murder and the subsequent trial became sensationalized when NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez was charged with the crime.
07:33The whole world was watching as the 23-year-old former tight end for the New England Patriots was charged with murder, allegedly orchestrating the execution-style killing of his friend.
07:45On the day he died, Lloyd was picked up from his house by Hernandez, and his younger sister, Shaquilla Tebow, saw him get into the car.
07:52While on the move, Lloyd texted Tebow, saying, quote,
07:55You saw who I'm with, following up later with, quote, NFL, and, quote, just so you know.
08:02It's not exactly clear whether Lloyd sent this to alert his sister or to brag to her.
08:07Hence, it was ruled inadmissible during the trial.
08:09However, it likely played a part in Hernandez's indictment.
08:14Russ Stager
08:14Russ Stager was a divorced high school baseball coach when he married Barbara Ford, a recent widow.
08:20Russ and Barbara Stager lived a storybook life, but all that changed in the early morning hours of February 1st, 1988.
08:31On the morning of February 1st, 1988, Barbara called police, saying that Russ's gun had accidentally discharged and killed him in his sleep.
08:40Police initially believed her, but Russ's first wife, JoLynn Snow, later recounted a disturbing tale that changed their minds.
08:46Before his death, Russ had complained bitterly to Snow about Barbara, and seemed to be afraid for his life.
08:53JoLynn wrote a letter to police because Russ often confided in her.
08:59Russ told her that Barbara removed large sums of money from their bank account.
09:04He also left behind a tape recording in which he questioned his wife's actions,
09:08and raised doubts over the accidental shooting of her first husband.
09:11Snow's testimony and the tape, which was played in court, were instrumental in convicting Barbara of Russ's murder.
09:18The tape was recorded just three days before Russ Stager's death.
09:24On the tape, he confided his belief that his wife, Barbara, was planning to kill him.
09:31Susan Powell
09:32The last time Susan Powell was seen by anyone outside her immediate family was on December 6th, 2009.
09:39When Susan Powell suddenly vanished in December 2009, all eyes turned to her husband, Josh,
09:45who eventually became the only person of interest, according to police.
09:49Before then, Powell lived with her husband Joshua and their two sons in Utah.
09:54According to journals Powell kept and testimonies from her friends,
09:57there was a lot of tension between the couple over Joshua's reckless behavior.
10:01Prior to her disappearance, Powell created a secret will in which she detailed her marital discord and expressed fear for her life.
10:09She wrote about how bad the marriage had become.
10:12She talked about a million-dollar life insurance policy that Josh had taken out on her.
10:17And she told her boys she would never leave them.
10:20She even goes as far as to say, if I die, it may not be an accident.
10:25In 2012, before a case could be built against him, Joshua took his own life and those of his two sons.
10:32While no longer an active investigation, the case of Susan Powell is still officially listed as a, quote,
10:39disappearance, as her body has never been found.
10:42There are two overwhelming emotions out here this morning.
10:45Deep, deep sadness and also anger.
10:48Anger that these two little boys couldn't somehow be protected from their father.
10:52A man that so many people feared was a killer.
10:55Abigail Williams and Liberty German
10:57On February 13, 2017, teenagers Abigail Williams and Liberty German went missing when hiking through Deer Creek Township, Indiana.
11:06Their bodies were found the next day.
11:08And while details have never been released, the police began a murder investigation.
11:13This is the bridge that we've all seen in the images released to the media.
11:16You can see now some flowers left behind in memory of the girls.
11:20One clue was found on German's phone.
11:22It was Libby who managed to take a cell phone picture of a strange man on the bridge.
11:28He's the prime suspect.
11:30While hiking, German had taken a photo of an unknown man walking towards the girls.
11:35Unfortunately, the picture is not clear, but police were quick to suspect this man as the murderer.
11:40An audio recording was also found on the phone, with a muffled male voice saying, quote,
11:45Down the hill.
11:48A sketch of the suspected killer was released in July of 2017, which was updated by police two years later.
11:56More than 50,000 tips have poured in over the years, but none of them have led to the elusive killer.
12:03After several years, Richard Allen, who had originally been taken in for questioning, was arrested.
12:09And in November 2024, Allen was given 130 years on four counts.
12:15When South African teacher Sebesile Happiness Koza was discovered dead on a remote dirt road in 2015,
12:23the numbers 071 were found inscribed in the dirt near her burnt body.
12:28Police suspected this to be the beginning of a cell phone number, but Koza had died before finishing.
12:34Koza's boyfriend, Siamam Kelaodwa Nampumza, became the leading suspect after his fingerprint was discovered on a petrol bottle found at the crime scene.
12:42It's suspected that Nampumza murdered Koza after growing jealous of her new boyfriend.
12:47However, Nampumza claims that he had nothing to do with Koza's murder.
12:51Simon Ng
12:52This teenager from Hong Kong was living in New York City when he began writing a blog.
12:58The blog was meant to detail his personal struggles of living in a new country.
13:02Instead, it led to the apprehension of his murderer.
13:05On May 12, 2005, Ng wrote that his sister's ex-boyfriend, Jin Lin, had entered his apartment,
13:11despite being asked to wake downstairs, supposedly to retrieve some fishing equipment, and that he was acting agitated.
13:18Simon and his sister were murdered soon after.
13:20Police searched Simon's computer and found the blog, pointing them towards Jin.
13:25He was subsequently arrested and sentenced to life in prison.
13:30Kathleen Weinstein
13:31In 1996, special education teacher Kathleen Weinstein was murdered by a teenage carjacker.
13:37Give me the keys!
13:38Come on!
13:38Hurry up!
13:39Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
13:40Get down!
13:41Unbeknownst to the teen, Weinstein was capturing the entire ordeal on a hidden tape recorder that she retrieved from a bag and hid in her coat pocket.
13:49Following the discovery of her body, authorities listened to the recording, which contained key details, like the carjacker's first name and age.
13:57The man, 17-year-old Michael Lesane, was later captured driving Weinstein's car, arrested and sentenced to life in prison.
14:06Following a successful appeal in 2007, Lesane was once again found guilty and re-sentenced to life.
14:13Sandra Deist
14:14On March 29, 2000, Michigan man David Deist called 911 and reported that his wife Sandra had taken her own life.
14:22We didn't have any reason to dispute his story. And quite frankly, given his background, the fact that he appeared to be a stable, normal guy with a family and a good job and some community involvement and stuff, we basically gave him the benefit of the doubt.
14:36The story was widely accepted until Sandra's autopsy was conducted, which revealed that she'd been shot twice.
14:43Sandra's sister Mary also came forward with an incriminating note.
14:46Sandra had told Mary that if anything happened to her, a note hidden in her china cabinet would explain everything.
14:53For the first time, Sandy described what really happened in the horse stable 18 months earlier.
15:00The note stated that David had tried to kill Sandra with an axe hammer back in 1998.
15:05Further analysis of David's shirt revealed microscopic blood spatter, indicating it was David who had shot Sandra.
15:11Forensic professionals did the rest, and David was sentenced to life in prison for Sandra's murders.
15:16And died there in 2018.
15:19After the verdict, relief from Sandy Dice's relatives, grief from David's side of the family.
15:26That it was a difficult thing for both families, and no one's a winner.
15:32Matthew Pike
15:33British student Matthew Pike lived with his girlfriend, Joanna Witten, in Suffolk, England.
15:38Witten drew the attention of a man named David Heiss on a gaming website, and Heiss grew dangerously infatuated with Witten.
15:45Heiss proceeded to stalk both Witten and Pike, and in September 2008, he broke into Pike's apartment and fatally stabbed him in a fit of jealousy.
15:53A German computer game enthusiast calling himself David Heiss left a message on her Facebook page.
16:01The message said,
16:03You must be suffering unbelievable pain. I'm sorry for causing so much trouble lately.
16:08Pike was able to write the letters DAV in his own blood before dying of his injuries.
16:14Witten returned home to find her boyfriend dead, and Heiss was quickly arrested.
16:19He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
16:22Alexander Litvinenko
16:23This Russian defector once worked for the Russian Federal Security Service before publicly accusing his superiors of ordering an assassination.
16:31The fitness fanatic was an outspoken critic of the Kremlin.
16:35He fled to the UK in 2000, where he was given political asylum.
16:40It's thought he then worked for MI6 and Spanish intelligence as an informer.
16:45He subsequently relocated to London and sought protection.
16:49While living in England, Litvinenko wrote two books and dropped numerous bombshells about the Russian government.
16:55In November 2006, he was poisoned and murdered by what's assumed to be members of the Federal Security Service.
17:02Litvinenko grew very sick after meeting prior colleagues,
17:05but was able to remember a particular pot of tea that only he drank from.
17:10The police later found this teapot, which contained high amounts of polonium-210.
17:16Alexander Litvinenko died in hospital the very same day.
17:21His hospital room was sealed.
17:27I've been a consultant for over 20 years.
17:30I've never seen a case like this, and I hope I never do again.
17:32Unfortunately, the primary suspect in the case, Russian politician Andrei Lugovoy, cannot be extradited from Russia.
17:40Sir, can you tell me, why did you murder Alexander Litvinenko?
17:45Interesting approach.
17:48This is the first time in my life that a question has been asked this aggressively.
17:53You should ask this question the Prime Minister of the UK and the head of intelligence services of UK.
17:59Denise Amber Lee.
18:00On January 17th, 2008, a man named Michael King abducted Denise Amber Lee from her own home.
18:08King took Lee to his house and assaulted her before taking her to his cousin's house.
18:12At 6.14pm, the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office received a bizarre 911 call from a cell phone
18:18from someone claiming to be Denise Lee.
18:21The missing person herself.
18:23How could that be?
18:24Lee managed to grab King's cell phone and called 911.
18:27The call lasted approximately six minutes and saw a panicked Denise providing various pieces of information to the authorities.
18:34Using her abductor's cell phone, everything she is saying is clearly for one purpose, so she can be found.
18:41Unfortunately, they were unable to save Lee, and she was murdered by King shortly after the call.
18:47The whole ordeal lasted seven hours, with Lee being kidnapped around 2pm, and King being arrested at 9.15pm that night.
18:56Lee's 911 call aided the prosecution, and King was sentenced to death.
19:01Her father, Rick Goff, had one last message for Michael King.
19:04I just want to tell Michael King, you're a coward.
19:08You've got what you deserve coming, and Denise was a lot better person than you, and she's going to put you in the place where you belong, which I believe is hell, and that's where you're going to be.
19:17Nadine Haig
19:18The death of 33-year-old mother Nadine Haig in 2009 was made to look like she took her own life.
19:25The police bought it, but her family insisted there had been foul play.
19:29Investigating themselves, they found the words, quote, he did it, on a note underneath her supposed note.
19:36These same words were later spotted etched into a bathroom tile.
19:40The family believes that the he in question is Nestore Guizan, the father of Haig's young daughter.
19:47The family collected enough convincing evidence to overturn the ruling on her death.
19:51However, Guizan denied involvement, and there's no direct evidence linking him to what happened to Haig,
19:57which means it remains an open case.
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20:16Amarjit Chowen
20:17Wanting to use Chowen's business as a front, Horncy forced Chowen to sign it over,
20:41then killed the captives and dumped their bodies in the ocean.
20:45However, Chowen's body later washed up in Bournemouth, as did his wife's and mother-in-law's.
20:51Inside Chowen's sock was a note addressed to Horncy's father, naming his murderer.
20:55And it's dated the 12th of February, 2003,
21:00which clearly meant it arrived the day we believe Mr. Chowen was being held captive at Forge Close.
21:06Horncy and his associates were quickly apprehended,
21:08and each received severe prison sentences for their roles in the Chowen family murders.
21:15Horncy and his associates were quickly apprehended in the comics every year and the women's story around the world.
21:20So, for all of us, have been infected.
21:22So, what are we for?
21:23To me, let's finish my house every year.
21:24I still see.
21:24Now, I'm friends.
21:24I need to be here for the last time.
21:25I am friends.
21:26We are still friends with you.
21:27Here are friends.
21:30I'm friends with you.
21:31I am friends with you.
21:33I recommend the Chowen.
21:35We are friends with us.
21:36You may be here for you.
21:37You may see us.
21:39I'm friends with you.
21:40I'm friends with you.
21:41And we're friends with you.
21:42Well, we're friends with you.
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