Murder Most Mysterious on Mass Ave

Murder is so rare in Portland, Maine, that you can count the incidents on one hand since 2011. But two of them have been associated with separate ends of Massachusetts Avenue in 2014 and 2011.

Here are the statistics for recent years: 2000, No murders; 2001, 1; 2002, 3; 2003, 1; 2004, 2; 2005, 3; 2006; 3; 2007, 1; 2008, 4; 2009, 4; 2010, 6; 2011, 2; 2012, 1. (Source.) There was only one homicide in Portland, Maine, in 2013. (Source.)

Most murders in Portland, Maine, are the result of domestic violence, but less than 10% remain "unsolved."

A new murder in Portland is a surprise. Where it happened is, as well. The Brighton Avenue-Massachusetts Avenue-Congress Street area is a mix of apartment houses at each end, with quiet single-family homes, lined with maple trees and comfortable little front and back yards, in between. This is near the University of Southern Maine, and where students, immigrants, professors, and ex-professors live. The site of these murders is where I live, and a shock for the neighborhood. (It was just a "coincidence" that I wrote about redrum/murder earlier on the same day.)

But are we discovering, at least, for murder mysteries of 2011 and 2014, this one area is a focus?

Here's what we know about the murder last night, Friday, November 21, 2014.

Portland police say a man was shot and killed by another man who fled the scene of the apparent homicide in an apartment on Brighton Avenue on Friday night.
Police found one man dead when they were called to an apartment at 214 Brighton Ave. shortly after 9 p.m. to respond to a report that shots had been fired.
The man believed to have committed the killing fled, but police didn’t know whether he got in a vehicle or ran. They did say that the suspected shooter was no longer thought to be in the area late Friday night, and that no one had been taken into custody.
Police did not release the identity of the victim.
Brighton Avenue was closed between Douglass Street and Massachusetts Avenue while police investigated the killing. They expected the street to remain closed for some time.
The shooting occurred in the Princeton Village Apartments, a large complex next to the train tracks that run through the neighborhood. (Read more.)

The time was also given in another report:

Portland police are investigating a homicide at 214 Brighton Ave. Officers arrived an apartment around 9:05 p.m. Friday and found one man dead. (Read more.)

Saturday evening, the victim was identified as Richard Lobor, 23, of Portland. Source.

Lobor was a guest in an apartment at 214 Brighton Avenue, where the fatal shooting took place. Source.

On Facebook, "Rich Lobor" (pictured) is profiled:

Works at Seeds of Peace

Studied at Southern Maine Community College

Past: Portland High School

Lives in Juba, South Sudan

From Cairo, Egypt

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In 2011, an unsolved murder happened at the opposite end of Massachusetts Avenue.

Portland police investigate a fatal shooting that happened early Monday, August 1, 2011, outside 4-6 Massachusetts Ave. Police were called to the Mobil gas station at 1196 Congress St., in the background, and found a 41-year-old man lying on the sidewalk in front of the station. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. John Patriquin/Portland Press Herald photographer

Portland police search an alley outside 4-6 Massachussetts Ave., where a man apparently was shot early Monday. The shooting is the first homicide of this year in Portland. John Patriquin/Portland Press Herald photographer

The victim, identified as Allen MacLean, apparently was shot at 4:30 am behind the three-story apartment building at 4-6 Massachusetts Ave., and collapsed on the sidewalk in front of a Mobil gas station and convenience store at 1196 Congress St.

The case is still listed as unsolved, as the Portland Police department's only "cold case homicide" for 2011. (See here.)

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Kubrick Red: Redrum, Redrug and More

Kubrick Red: Redrum, Redrug and More

When I visited the Stanley Hotel a few years ago, Redrum was an appropriate souvenir. Of course, Redrum is "murder" backwards. It also was a clever way for Stanley Kubrick to celebrate his favorite film color in The Shining.

A new short documentary has appeared this week doing the same thing for several of his movies.

Here it is:

Red: A Kubrick Supercut

Whether from recent tomahawk imagery, 

from hatchet horrors (see here) or axe attacks (see here), red (including via Red Dirt Report) is there too.

Note the extensive use of red in the following Progressive Insurance spot called "Superport."

I am not interested in making any claims for this ad, other than to mention the red. Some (e.g. The Grotx1 ~ thanks Steve L.) talk about the end times by using this Progressive ad. I'm more interested in the synchromystic link, via a chromaticism analysis.

Also, it is intriguing how the number "211" is used and made to vanish in the ad. Grotx1 sees in "211" a connection to the 21st of the month.

But, of course, the use of 211 is a not-too-subtle way for Progressive Insurance to broadcast they are the company to turn to for answers. 2-1-1 is a special abbreviated telephone number reserved in Canada and the United States as an easy-to-remember three-digit telephone number meant to provide quick information and referrals to health and human service organizations for both services from charities and from governmental agencies. It is similar to the use of 9-1-1 as a way to recall an emergency number for help.

The 211 Crew is a white supremacist prison gang, active both in and out of prison, that was formed in 1995 at Colorado's Denver County Jail. It was linked to several high-profile assassinations of correctional and legal officials, and on-going criminal investigations.

Kubrick is more intrigued with 237, however, as most of us involved with syncs and the twilight language know.

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More Kubrick/237 postings:

More 237: Scorpion and The Shining

IKEA Even Set The Clock At 2:37

Beyond Room 237: Pitch Perfect 237 and 9/11

Flight 237, Obama's 237, and Room 237

Ebola Scare At Logan on Ebola Discovery Anniversary (Flight 237)

Colorado Clusters and Copycats (.237 caliber handgun used)

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Attempted Murder For Slender Man

A murder based on a myth? It nearly happened. A stabbing's motive laid at the feet of a character created on the Internet? It did happen.

The Mythos

In an as-yet-unpublished article written in January 2014, my wife Jenny penned this beginning to her historical overview:

Slender Man is the hipster monster in the black suit waving his multiple appendages outside Generation Y’s bedroom window. 

Slender Man is not a new and trendy entity; it is simply the reborn face of an ancient evil, resurrected from the ashes by ever-increasing access to media, technical advances, and the bleak corners of the human mind: evil as timeless and as ubiquitous as thought itself, pre-dating language, its true origins in death, the dark, and the rolling eyeball of primal fear.

At top: Slender Man on granite, by Andy Finkle.

The Slender Man was first created on a thread in the Something Awful forum on June 8, 2009, with the objective of editing photographs to contain supernatural entities. On June 10, a forum poster with the user name "Victor Surge" contributed two black and white images of groups of children, to which he added a tall, thin spectral figure wearing a black suit. The Slender Man (sometimes written Slenderman) is described as very tall and thin with unnaturally long, tentacle-like arms (or merely tentacles), which it can extend to intimidate or capture prey.

The Attempted Murder

On May 31, 2014, two 12-year-old southeastern Wisconsin girls stabbed their 12-year-old friend nearly to death in the woods to please Slender Man, which they had learned about online. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, 12-year-old girls in Waukesha, Wisconsin, held down and stabbed a 12-year-old friend 19 times.

The two girls claimed that they wished to commit a murder as a first step to becoming "proxies" (acolytes) of the Slender Man. They had planned it for months, and finally made the attempt in a park on Saturday morning, after a slumber party. They said they learned about Slender Man on Creepy Pasta, a website about horror stories and legends. They planned to run away to the demon's forest mansion (in the Nicolet National Forest) after the slaying, the police complaint said.

The girls invited their friend to a slumber party on Friday evening, the complaint said. They planned to kill her during the night so they wouldn't have to look into her eyes, one girl told police, and then run away. They decided to put it off, but the next day, during a hide-and-seek game in a wooded park, they attacked their friend with a knife. One girl told the other to "go ballistic, go crazy," according to the court documents.

The victim began to scream that she hated them and started stumbling away, one of the girls told police.

The girls left the victim lying in the woods. She crawled to a road where a bicyclist found her lying on the sidewalk. Police arrived and she gave them the name of one of the girls who attacked her.

She was rushed into surgery, police said.

The two girls have been charged with attempted murder, and each could be sentenced to 65 years in prison each.

Name Game

Waukesha: Over the years, many believed, incorrectly, that the origin of the name of the city was an Algonquian word meaning "fox" or "little foxes," though it is actually an Anglicization of the Ojibwe proper name Waagoshag or the Potawatomi name Wau-tsha. Wau-tsha (sometimes written as Wauk-tsha or Wauke-tsha) was the leader of the local tribe at the time of the first European settlement of the area. This is confirmed by accounts of Increase A. Lapham, an early settler and historian of the region. According to Lapham, the word for "fox" was pishtaka. Cutler also told visitors about Wau-tsha, who was described as "tall and athletic, proud in his bearing, dignified and friendly."

(In appearance, Wau-tsha - without tentacles - sounds like Slender Man.)

Waukesha, Wisconsin has a long history of poltergeist, hauntings, and related stories. Also, the town was the epicenter for "phantom kangaroo" sightings in 1978, in Wisconsin.)

Nicolet National Forest: The national forest was named after Jean Nicolet (Nicollet) de Belleborne (ca. 1598 – 1 November 1642) was a French coureur des bois noted for exploring Green Bay of Lake Michigan, in what is now the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He was a known friend of Samuel De Champlain and Etienne Brule. He was attracted to Canada to participate in Samuel Champlain's plan to train young French men as explorers and traders by having them live among native Americans.

Jean Nicolet, landing at the Bay of Green Bay. 

Painted by Gavin Doyle (1852-1919) in 1910.

Morgan Geyser: Morgan is a Celtic/Irish/Welsh name meaning "dweller by the sea" and/or "fighter of the sea." Geyser literally means "a spring that throws forth intermittent jets of heated water and steam."

Anissa Weier: Anissa as a girl's name has the meaning "pure, holy; satisfaction" and is a variant of Agnes (Greek): Latin form of the Greek name Hagnes, from the feminine form of "hagnos." Weier means "dweller at the sign of the kite (a bird of prey)" and/or "dweller by a fish pond."

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One Dead in Coudersport Church Shooting

The underlying nature of the copycat effect calls forth vulnerable, suicidal, homicidal, and suicidal-homicidal individuals to repeat a pattern that has flooded recent media attention.

We are certainly seeing an uptick in public murder-suicides and related forms of domestic violence.

Another such shooting occurred on Sunday, December 2, 2012, in the First Presbyterian Church in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, around 2 p.m.

Pennsylvania State Police report they have the suspect, a elementary music teacher from Coudersport School District, Greg Eldred (pictured above), in custody.

Fifty-three-year-old Eldred allegedly entered the church and then allegedly fired two shots at his ex-wife, Darlene Sitler, who was a long time music teacher at the Northern Potter School. She died instantly.

The accused shooter was subdued by members of the congregation until police arrived.

Witnesses say that Eldred was pacing in front of the church for a while before entering.

Enki, who passed along this news, noted, "A teacher shot a teacher in church...in CouderSPORT. Greg = "watchful, alert." Eldred = "battle counseler," "wise advisor," "old wise ruler" (King resonating), or "wise or red haired man."

Coudersport is known within Fortean circles as a hot spot of strange phenomena, especially regarding reports from the nearby Black Forest. For example, I once was traveled to the area to be interviewed by a Discovery Science youth-oriented program, detailing mysteries of the Black Forest.

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Aurora Again: Murder, Comedy and Gilligan's Island Too

Aurora comic Tyler Warren Withrow, 30, has been accused of killing two women in rural Yuma County, Colorado. Days after the murders, through dental records, the women were identified as Withrow's mother, Dianne Withrow, 50, and his grandmother, Elva Doddridge, 88, who lived in the farm house in the small town of Kirk. The aspiring comedian has a day job of processing insurance applications, 7NEWS reported. 

Withrow was charged with two counts of first-degree murder with premeditation. He was advised of the charges on August 14th, during a hearing in Yuma County District Court in Wray, the Yuma Pioneer reported. He is accused of killing his two female relatives on Monday, August 13, 2012, at a home near the community of Kirk, near the Kansas border.

Deputies responded to the home after a woman called 911 at 10:35 a.m., gave her address and said she needed the Sheriff's Office before apparently hanging up, the newspaper reported. It took about 35 minutes for the first deputies from Wray to reach the remote home. They found Withrow at the home along with the bodies of the two women.

The Denver Post learned that Withrow had a run-in with Aurora Police in late July 2012. Officers responded to a residence on the 2500 block of South Victor Street, near where Withrow lives, and discovered him naked in a garage, "smashing car windows with a golf club," the paper pointed out.

"Your neighbor is naked, and he’s throwing things out in the driveway. Something’s wrong," said Sydney Summers, a neigbor who called 911 before the destruction began. 

"This guy was usually quiet. We had no idea. He didn’t talk to anybody. He stayed to himself."

Police officers got Withrow under control by tasing him.

Aurora's Withrow as the Green Lantern and in mugshot.

Police said Withrow was transported to a hospital, where he was treated for cuts and given a mental health evaluation. Aurora police said they couldn't locate Withrow after he was released from the hospital, but detectives have applied for an arrest warrant in the window-smashing case.

Afterward, Withrow was briefly hospitalized both for minor injuries and his disturbed mental state before being released. 

And then he dropped off the radar and disappeared from Aurora.

Until August 13th. (1. 2. 3.)

Comic Withrow was never really funny, apparently. Take, for example, his two self-published e-books: Barack Obama and the Politics of Pussy: Fired Up!, and What Unhinged Tyler Withrow Pt 1: The Whore of Babylon.

From his bio:

I am currently studying necromancy and hope to raise the dead to destroy the world as you know it and rebuild it in my own image.
I also enjoy using the juicer that I have broken twice. Fresh fruit is beyond the limit of my budget, but I found that when spoiled, grocery stores just throw them out. I need penicillin with my juice, but it is affordable and environmentally friendly.
I must point out that I weigh 20 pounds less now then I did in this picture. I was the fattest Green Lantern outside of Comic-Con. I'm still very aroused by the sight of myself.
In brightest day...

From the content of the first book:

Here's an analogy that has served me well: You are about to play a game of chess. If you play the game like me, you'll do the following before you start:
• Deep breathing exercises
• Meditation
• Pop a few horse tranquilizers
• Punch your pig while listening to Bryan Adams
• Think about what you know about the opponent's strategy
• Punch your pig while thinking about your opponent's strategy
• Ejaculate onto the chair of a coworker that you hate
• Weep softly at your broken dreams

Tyler Warren Withrow.

In my 1983 Mysterious America, I wrote:

Cryptologic or coincidence? Jim Brandon should be credited with calling attention to the name Watts/Watkins/Watson, and its entanglement with inexplicable things. Some other names involved in mysterious events pinpointed by Brandon are Bell, Mason, Parsons, Pike, Vernon, and Warren. The influence of such names as Mason, Pike, Warren, and Lafayette, for example, issues, in some cryptopolitical and occult way, from their ties to the Masonic tradition.

And Gilligan's Island too...

Speaking of supposed "comedy," there has developed an intriguing synchromystic subculture of folks looking at Gilligan's Island and it's contemporary insights, culturally. A relatively short-lived program, it was on the air for three seasons, 1964-1967, and it is recalled favorably by many. 

Red Dirt Report's Andrew Griffin pointed this out to me, specifically noting the complex writings at the blog, Dismantle the Beam Project's "Gilligan’s Island (NWO Blueprint)."

Gilligan's Islands gives forth with plenty of material, and images for several forms of synchronicity discussions, in terms of colors, people, places, plots, and more. For example, let me point out how Bob Denver, as "Gilligan," appeared in one episode, compared with recent mugshots of alleged Aurora shooter James Holmes and alleged Tucson killer Jared Loughner, below.

And then today, I was amazed to discover, concerning a piece of land near Puerto Rico, the island today which is identified as "Gilligan's Island," this factoid:

"While doing research for a recent trip to the south-west of Puerto Rico, I found that a day trip to Gilligan’s Island was on everyone’s 'must-do' list. Gilligan’s Island (the official name is Cayo Aurora) is a little speck of land about a mile off the coast of Guánica." Source.

and

"The western cay, also called Gilligan's Island (after the TV series), or Cayo Aurora, is served by boat (600 m from the mainland at Punta Jacinto) and has public beaches." Source.
And there you have Aurora again.

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The Isaac Who Planned To Kill Obama

by Loren Coleman ©2012

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. 

~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address, given the day after he was sworn in as President on the highly symbolic date of 3.3.1933.

A man leading a conspiracy named FEAR plotted to assassinate President Barack Obama. Prosecutors said on Monday, August 27, 2012 that a murder case against four soldiers in Georgia has revealed they formed an anarchist militia within the U.S. military.

The Isaac who wanted to kill the President is Isaac Aguigui.

Anthony Peden, Isaac Aguigui

U.S. Army Sgt. Anthony Peden, 25, right, and Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, 19 are led away in handcuffs after appearing before a magistrate judge at the Long County Sheriffs Office Monday, December 12, 2011 in Ludowici, Georgia. Four Fort Stewart soldiers have been denied bond on charges connected to the killings of a former serviceman and a teenager in Long County. Two fishermen found the bodies of 20-year-old Michael Roark and 17-year-old Tiffany York on December 6, 2011, the day after investigators believe they were killed. The government alleges the group killed the two people – former soldier Michael Roark and his 17-year-old girlfriend, Tiffany York – by shooting them in the woods last December in order to keep its plans secret.

Michael Burnett, Christopher Salmon

U.S. Army Pfc. Michael Burnett, 26, right, and Pvt. Christopher Salmon, 25, were likewise charged and photographed in 2011. 

Anthony Peden, Isaac Aguigui

In this Dec. 12, 2011 file photo, U.S. Army Sgt. Anthony Peden, 25, left, and Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, 19, are shown being taken back to jail after a hearing with a magistrate judge at the Long County Sheriffs Office. (All three photos, Lewis Levine)

A short AP piece was published about these four Georgia-based soldiers who formed an “anarchist militia within the U.S. military with plans to overthrow the federal government.” They had some targets in mind,

Prosecutor Isabel Pauley says the group bought $87,000 worth of guns and bomb-making materials and plotted to take over Fort Stewart, bomb targets in nearby Savannah and Washington state, as well as assassinate the president.

They also planned to poison apple orchards (see here for more on the symbolism of apples).

MSNBC online looked at what and where this money came from:

The U.S. Army private accused of being the ringleader of an anti-government militia in Georgia was a suspect in the death of his wife months before prosecutors say he and three fellow soldiers murdered two people to keep their clandestine group secret, authorities said.
Isaac Aguigui funded the anarchist militia FEAR, or Forever Enduring Always Ready, with up to $500,000 in life insurance benefits he collected after his wife's death in July 2011, prosecutors said.

In the Summer of the Gun, in which wall-to-wall coverage has covered alleged random shootings and copycats in depth, isn't it remarkable how little we have seen about this plot in the mainstream television media?

Could it be because there has not been any notion that the individuals involved in this plan to kill Obama were a "lone wolf," a "lone nut" or "crazy"? That it is a conspiracy goes against the comfortable American "lone nut" tagline with most of these stories. Europeans do conspiracies, Americans are just "lone wolves," we are told often.

Is the story being downplayed because law enforcement agencies successfully caught these guys before they murdered the President?

Is it because no one was killed? Well, that's apparently not true. As it turns out, perhaps three people are dead due to this F.E.A.R. group.

Phuong Le in "Fort Stewart Terror Plot: Isaac Aguigui's Relative Reported Worries About Soldier." wrote,

A relative of one of four soldiers accused by Georgia authorities of killing a fellow soldier and plotting anti-government acts came to police with concerns about the man almost a year ago...The female relative, who didn't want to be named, called police in September 2011 to relay her worries about Isaac Aguigui, who is originally from the small town of Cashmere near Wenatchee, police Sgt. John Kruse said. The woman told police that Aguigui's wife had died in July 2011 under suspicious circumstances, and the soldier had bought 15 firearms from a store in Wenatchee while on leave from the military. 

One of the four in the group turned government witness. Pfc. Michael Burnett pleaded guilty to manslaughter, illegal gang activity and other charges, and made a deal to cooperate with prosecutors against the three other soldiers.

Le continued,

Prosecutors say [Michael] Roark, 19, served with the four defendants in the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division and became involved with the militia. The group believed it had been betrayed by Roark – who left the Army two days before he was killed – and decided the ex-soldier and his girlfriend needed to be silenced, authorities said.

Why has there been hardly anything heard about this on cable and network tv news?

Is it because the establishment details about the bios of these people are too touchy to have come out during the Republican Convention?  That they were active military is perhaps part of it. But more significantly, the ringleader Isaac's story has been directly tied to the Republican Party. 

"Republican National Convention page Isaac Aguigui watches from the edge of the floor at the start of the first session of the 2008 Republican National Convention in St Paul, Minnesota September 1, 2008." Original caption: Reuters.

The coming storm, it appears, the last week of August 2012, was about two Isaacs.

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