One early morning in February 1977, the Chicago fire department responded to a call reporting billowing smoke coming from one of the units at the Pine Grove Avenue apartments. After putting out the flames, they discovered that this was much more than a simple fire - it was a crime scene. Inside the smokey apartment, they found the body of Teresita Basa, a middle-aged healthcare worker originally from the Philippines. She had been stabbed to death, and still had the butcher knife lodged in her chest.

When police searched the apartment for any clues as to who may have done this to Teresita - they found only one: a note that read, “Get theater tickets for A.S.” Beyond that, there wasn’t really any evidence left behind and her murder went unsolved for months. That is - until they received a call from a man who claimed to know the name of the killer.

How did he know? He said his wife had gone into a trance while taking a nap, she began to speak in a strange voice, identifying herself as the victim Teresita - and naming her killer as a man named Allan Showery. As you can imagine, initially the police were skeptical - but when they began to investigate Allan Teresita’s killer, things began to line up.

Did Teresita Basa solve her own murder from beyond the grave?

Sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/09/17/voice-from-the-grave-evokes-a-murder-trial/13b6d805-2413-4015-b70a-b9b28ab5d40d/

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Teresita_Basa

https://www.mamamia.com.au/teresita-basa-unsolved-mysteries/

https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/features/teresita-basa-the-filipino-nurse-who-solved-her-own-murder-a2836-20230707-lfrm

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“If he catches me, he will make me disappear,” was one of the last things wife and mother of three, Amy Mullis, allegedly told the man she was having an affair with just a few months before she was found lying face down with a corn rake sticking out of her back. She would die from her injuries received in what was initially believed to be a freak farm accident. However during her autopsy, it was revealed that Amy had sustained six stabs to her back - when the corn rake only had 4 prongs - meaning, the corn rake entered her back more than once. Police believed she was murdered - and they were looking directly at her husband, Todd Mullis, as suspect #1. However, Todd had an alibi – the couple’s 13-year-old son.

So was Amy Mullis really murdered or was this some kind of freak accident? And if she was murdered, was it her husband who did it? He did have an alibi and there were other people on the farm that day who may have wanted to hurt Amy.

Sources:

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ia-court-of-appeals/2162327.html

https://heavy.com/entertainment/todd-mullis-prison-sentence-trial-update-now/

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/5754855/Todd-Mullis-complaint-and-affidavit.pdf

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/24/an-iowa-hog-farmer-said-his-wife-fell-corn-rake-jury-ruled-he-used-it-murder-her/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amy-mullis-iowa-farmer-corn-rake-murder/

https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/IdYJaS0S0ka8yqCM9pf2dMRCL2mqFh6C/

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28-year-old Kanika Powell was a young military veteran who lived in an apartment by herself in Prince George County, Maryland. She has been described as a strong, independent woman, whose life experiences made her very capable of handling stressful situations. However, all of that would change in August 2008, when Kanika would receive a series of strange visitors to her front door. The first was a man, dressed in plain clothing, claiming to be an FBI agent, who refused to produce a badge to prove his identity.

Kanika was shaken to her core, especially when this was followed up by a man who claimed to be a FedEx driver, demanding she open her door so that he could deliver a package - one he was not carrying. She thought that someone was after her - and her suspicions were confirmed when on August 28, 2008, she returned home after running some errands and was gunned down in the hallway of her apartment building.

Kanika’s killer has never been caught - leaving her family to wonder who had targeted her and why.

Sources:

https://truenoirstories.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/kanika-powell/

https://truecrimedaily.com/2015/10/09/unsolved-national-security-worker-gunned-down-amid-mysterious-circumstances/

https://cdn.unsolved.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/74-A-Killer-Comes-Knocking.pdf?x38205

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