Obsession or Relaxation?

Facts for the Crocheter in you

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II used to think crocheting was just for the grandmothers until i became addicted. 

I found that crocheting can be a real job, and i’m proving it!

Crocheting can be so much more than just a hook and some yarn. There is beauty in the colors of the finished pieces. It still amazes me at all the crochet products that can be made.

 

obsession?

You could probably say so! It starts with a soft yarn, or a pretty color. It could take me several lifetimes to complete all the gorgeous patterns i see. i find that i want them all!  Am I a couch monster? Maybe so…I am able to watch a Netflix series and have no idea what anyone looks like because i always have a project going and i’m always looking down. 

I find that i’m always telling myself, ” one more row. I will go to bed after i finish this last row.”  or, “i will fix dinner after i finish this last row.” 

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Bring Design to Life

Unique. Undefined.

 

Bold Solution

Crochet is a proven stress reliever. Believe me or not, you can googe it! There is a ton of research in the medical field that prove it. I’m sure you get it…. that satisfying feeling you get when you finish a project or the compliments you get when someone sees what you have created. There is so much love and passion that goes into what I create; it can’t be seen but hopefully it can be felt. 

Gallery

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Beautiful, crochet head wrap/turbine, made using a decorative purl stitch.

who i am….

i am pamela lockwood. i own pamela’ visions store. i am a visionary. i am an entrepeneur. 

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So much time, money, and love goes into the products that i make. i design them for you and for me. please take the time to visit my store at http://www.pamelasvisions.com

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Have You Seen This?

These sketches are so powerful that they have been featured on TV and major news media outlets recently in 2023.

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An Ice Cream Truck Abduction

Eleven year old Mikelle Biggs had been waiting for the ice cream truck with her younger sister, Kimber. Like most young children, Kimber had grown cold and lost her patience, and decided to go home. Upon arriving home, her mother had immedately sent her back out to tell Mikelle to come home too.

Kimber, in total, had only been gone 90 seconds, but in that short window of time, Mikelle was abducted. The rear wheel of the bike that Mikelle had been riding, still spinning, left behind. A neighbor with a criminal past had caught the eye of investigators, but not having enough evidence to charge him, they had to leave him alone. Less than a year later, this neighbor attacked and nearly murdered a nearby neighbor.

Is it possible he is the one responsible or Mikelle’s abduction or is it possible there is someone else who played a role in this and has eluded the authorities for more than twenty years?

Mikelle Biggs disapppeared on January 2, 1999. A tip in her disappearance was published on March 19, 2018.

A dollar bill in Wisconsin was the latest tip received that the Mesa detectives were investigating in Mikelle Biggs disappearance. The dollar bill was reported to the police on March 14, 2018 in Neenah, a town 9 miles southeast of Appleton.

There was a message written along the edges of the 2009 bill:

“My name is Mikel (sic) Biggs kidnapped From Mesa AZ I’m Alive.”

The note appeared to have been written in a child’s handwritting. Mikelle’s name was spelled wrong and “s” in “is” almost sits on its side while the “kel in the name is written in cursive. The Neenah Police Investigator Adam Streubel examined the bill and questioned the authenticity. He had noted that Mikelle’s first name was misspelled and suspected that it could have been just a senseless joke.

The detectives have said that they don’t dismiss any evidence that they find and that they follow up on any and all leads but that they don’t believe that this message was written by Mikelle. One of the lead detectives, Jerry Gissel, said evidence that that they found during their initial investigation showed that Mikelle was running away from somebody.

“It wasn’t somebody that she knew or wanted to be with. She dropped the bike, she was running toward home, she dropped quarters, and it was swift. And somebody grabbed her and, I believe, abducted her in a car and drove away with her,” Gisselll stated in an 2009 interview with ABC News.

Mikelle’s family believe her to be deceased and on the fifth anniversary of her disappearance they held a funeral for her with an empty casket. The family still believes that Dee Blalock, a convicted sex offender, who lived just two blocks away, and had spent the entire night in their garage, but are still suspicious of him, is responsible for her abduction. Blalock is currently serving a fifteen-and-a-half -year sentence in an Arizona prison for charges unrelated to Mikelle’s case.

An Unmarked Grave

Voices of the Present and Future has recently been reading about the 751 unmarked graves found at the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan. If you haven’t been following the news, please continue reading this post as this discovery just comes weeks after the remains of 215 children were found at a similar residential school in British Columbia.

A statement was given by Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. He said he was “terribly saddened” by the discovery in Saskatchewan. He also said it was “a shameful reminder of the systematic racism, descrimination, and injustice that indigenous peoples have faced.”

Between the years of 1863 and 1998, there were more than 150,000 indigenous children that were taken from their families and placed in these schools throughout Canada. Often, these children were not allowed to speak their language or to practice their culture. Many being abused and mistreated.

A former residential school student, Florence Sparvier, spoke at a press conference stating, ” They made us believe we didn’t have souls. They were putting us down as people, so we learned to not like who we were.”

A commission that was launched in 2008 to document the impacts of this system, found that large numbers of indigenous children never returned to their home communities. The practice amounted to cultural genocide. In 2008, the Canadian government formally apologized for the system, although this does not bring back the lives that were lost or to quote the words used, “the souls” that were lost.

Chief Delorme said there may have once been markers for the graves but the Roman Catholic Church, which oversaw the cemetary, may have removed them. It is not yet determined if all of these unmarked graves are those of children.

There was an estimated 6,000 children who died while attending these schools. The students were often housed in poorly built, poorly heated, and unsanitary facilities. There was also physical and sexual abuse at the hands of the school authorities which led other children to run away.

I urge you to take a moment of silence for the lives of those lost and prayers that identities will be provided for the unmarked graves that have been found.

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Statistically Speaking

Voices of the present and the future wants to offer you a little insight into the statistics of serial killers. According to research (via Discover; and Radford University’s Mike Aamodt), there are fewer serial killers on the prowl since the dawn of the new century. If we look at the 1980’s we were at a high point with almost 770, that we know of, that we operating across the U.S. during the decade. That number dropped during the 1990’s and yet again in the 2000’s, and by 2016, there had been only about 100 that had popped up in the prior decade. So, this has to be some good news for some of you who may suffer from regular nightmares that may involve being stalked or attacked by a serial killer. You can rest at ease, at least a little.

I want to offer you a few theories that police have put out there that may explain just what may be going on. It involves things like the advances in investigative methods and forensic science, a higher chance of getting caught, and being linked definintively to more crimes, there is stricter sentencing. There are also factors like cell phones and an increased connectivity between parents and children that make picking out victims a little more difficult these days. It is possible that our young kids and teens who have the potential to grow up to become serial killers are instead seeking help they need first.

We can’t say there aren’t any serial killers out there, because ther are, as well as new ones popping up. In addition to the ones who have managed to elude police and capture for a long time.

LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT WHO A FEW OF THEM ARE:

WE HAVE THE I-70 KILLER, who between April 8 and May 7, 1992, shot and killed six people along the stretch of I-70. There were striking similarities between these victims. Five of them were women and the police believe the sixth was mistaken for woman when the killer saw his long pony tail. All were brunettes, and all were employees at stores just off the highway. They were also all killed with a .22 caliber bullet. There had been no sexual assault, no major thefts, and witnesses were able to give a description of a man seen entering the stores before the murders. The spring of 2022 marks the 30-year anniversary of the still-unsolved murders.

WE ALSO HAVE THE EASTBOUND STRANGLER. On November 20, 2006, the bodies of four women had been beaten and neatly discarded behind the Golden Key Motel in a Subur outside of Atlantic City. The women had been fully clothed, except for their shoes and socks, and they had been positioned face down in a line behind the motel. They all had been strangled. This killer is still out there and a $25,000 reward has been issued for information leading to the killers arrest.

WE MOVE ON TO THE WEST MESA MURDERS. These murders stated back in 2001, when women started going missing more often than usual. Almost a decade late, on February 2, 2009, a woman came across a human bone, leading to a crime scene no one could imagine. Eleven victims of the “West Mesa Bone Collector” wouldn’t be identified for another 11 years. Eleven women and one child were found and identified. The West Mesa Bone Collector’s idenity still remains a mystery and the investigation is still ongoing. There is a $100,000 reward being offered for information about the killer.

There are many more as you will soon learn if you continue reading my blog. I urg you to follow the conversation and subscribe or leave a comment. Thank you to all my followers!

HANNIBAL THE CANNIBAL

Hello my inquiring minds! Today I have for you a pretty interesting case. It involves a man named Robert Maudsley, an English serial killer. He killed four people, with three of those killings taking place in prison after he received a life sentence for murder.

If this sounds right up your alley and if you want to learn how he earned the nickname Hannibal the Cannibal continue reading….

Robert Maudsley was one of 12 children, born in Speke, Liverpool. He spent his early years in a Catholic orphanage in Crosby. His parents came and got him at the age of eight when he was then subject to routine physical abuse until social services eventually removed him from his parents care. He had later stated that as a child he was raped. Such early abuse had left deep psychological scars.

In the late 1960’s, when Maulsley was a teenager, he was a sex worker in London using his his income to support his drug addiction. After several suicide attempts, he was forced to seek psychiatric help. During one of these conversations with the doctors, he claimed to hear voices telling him to kill his parents. he is quoted as saying, “If I had killed my parents in 1970, none of these people would have died.”

MURDERS:

A man named John Farrell had picked up Maudsley in 1974, in Wood Green, London. Farrell picked up Maudsley for sex and showed him pictures of children he had sexually abused. Maudsley garrotted Farrell (form or strangulation by wire or metal). He then surrendered himself to the police, saying that he needed psychiatric care. Maudsley was found unfit to stand trial and was sent to Broadmoor Hospital.

In 1977 Maudsley and another resident, David Cheeseman, locked themselves in a cell with a third patient named David Francis who was a convicted child molester. Mauldsley and David Cheeseman tortured David Francis to death over a period of nine hours. After this incident, Mauldsley was convicted of manslaughter and sent to Wakefield Prison. He had disliked the transfer and made it clear he had wanted to return to Broadmoor. Maudsley was later sentenced to life imprisonment with recommendation that he never be released.

NOW in my opinion, this man told them he needed psychiatric care. WHY on earth didn’t they keep him in a locked psychiatric facility under careful watch? Get this man the help he needed?

In 1978 Maudsley would kill two more fellow prisoners at Wakefield Prison in just one day. His first victim would be Salney Darwood, who was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife. Maudsley had invited Darwood into his cell, he then garrotted and stabbed him before hiding his body under his bed. He then tried to lure other prisoners into his cell, but they refused. He then prowled the wing hunting for a second victim, eventually cornering and stabbing a prisoner, William Roberts, to death, by hacking at Robert’s skull with a makeshift dagger and struck his head against the wall multiple times. Maudsley would then calmly walk into the wing office, place the dagger on the table and tell the officer that the next roll call would be two short.

In 1983, Maudsley was deemed too dangerous for a normal cell. The prison authorities built a two-cell unit in the basement of Wakefield Prison. Due to his history of violence, when he was outside of his cell he was escorted by at least four prison officers.

NOW ON TO WHY “HANNIBAL the CANNIBAL” : Initials reports had falsely stated that he ate part of the brain of one of the men he killed in prison, which earned him the nickname among the British press and “The Brain Eater” amongst other prisoners. However, the Press Complaints Commission records that national newspapers were subsequently advised that the allegations were utrue, according to the autopsy report.

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“Little Miss Nobody”

Voices of the Past recently brought to you the story, “The Hollow Tree”. This story falls in with nine other stories involving vicims whose identity and names have never been discovered.

“Little Miss Nobody”, a little girl named by a local radio host who had began a campaign to raise funds for this little girls’ burial, so that she would not have to go to Potter’s Field.

Toes painted red, hair dyed auburn, a little girls body was partially buried in the sand, which to investigators looked like whoever buried her had made several attempts to dig her a proper grave.

On March 15, 2022 “Little Miss Nobody” was finally identified as Sharon Lee Gallegos. Her body was found in Congress, Yavapai County, Arizona on July 31, 1960. The specific cause of her death has never been determined due to the decomposition of her remains, although it is still considered to be a homicide.

Gallegos was kidnapped from outsided her grandmother’s home in New Mexico, by two unknown individuals and her body was found ten days later. Gallegos had been playing in an alley with two of her cousins when a man and a woman offered to buy her some candy and new clothes if she would get into their car with them. Once the little girl refused, she was dragged by the arm into the car by the woman. The car then sped away, last being seen turning west onto Fifth Street.

THE INVESTIGATION: The vehicle Gallegos was pulled in to was believed to be a dark-green 1951 0r ’52 model Dodge or Plymouth Sedan. The female abductor was described by the witnesses as a short, bespectacled and heavy-set woman, in her 30’s with dirty blonde hair. The male was described as a fair, thin caucasian, having a long, straight nose, and sandy colored hair.

One of the witnesses immediately reported the kidnapping to her mother who in-turn immediately notified authorities. The police had set up road blocks at the Texas-New Mexico border within the hour, searching numerous vehicles that matched the description given. The police were unable to apprehend the kidnappers.

The possibility that Galegos was kidnapped for ransom seemed unlikely due to the family’s modest means and the fact that no demands for money had been received. There had been evident previous stalking which indicated that the Galegos girl was was specifically targeted by these individuals. An 11-year old witness to the abduction, was adamant that she had observed this same vehicle outside Gallegos’ home shortly before the abductio. The witness stated that she and Gallegos walked toward the vehicle while en route to a local grocery store. According to the witness, Gallego had become greatly distressed and asked to be carried when they saw that the woman inside the vehicle was staring intently at Galegos’ home. A friend and neighbor of the Gallegos family also stated that the previous Sunday she also had observed a dark-green vehicle parked where the child had been abducted.

Upon the police finding Galegos body, her hair had been changed, her clothes had been changed since the abduction, and she was found only 800 km from the abduction site they could not elliminate that this was possibly her but due to the belief that the inidentified child was estimated to have been around 7 years old the police had made a statement that it could not be the missing Galegos girl.

Because of advanced technologies and genetic geneology analysis, “Little Miss Nobody” was identified as the little girl who had been found back in 1960.

Now, while I know that there was a lack of resources availble to investigators and forensiics during that time period, it saddens me that it took this long to identify this child and give her back her born name and for the remaining family to finally find a little peace in that she was finally identified. ‘

The invesigation into “Litte Miss Nobody’s” abduction is still ongoing focusing on the abductors and the events that occured during the ten days before her abduction.

Voices of the Past and Present hope you enjoyed this once unsolved missing child case from the past being solved as to the identity of who she is in the present.