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MJA PODCAST/ EP : 19 / PT : 4 / MISSING : MAURA MURRAY & THE SEARCH
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6-14-21
Mja Inc Investigations
Missing : Maura Murray
We have a great show tonight : Listen to your Host Mark & Co-Host : Olivia interview two new Mja Staff Members Jess & Allie in the Search Of Missing : Maura Murray..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyucyL7zTAE&list=PLSwy3Xf3aBiCay828-9_wI43UlKRFb1ps&index=57
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THE DEATH OF MARCUS MERRITT SR
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6-4-21
Mja Inc Investigations
OUR CONSPIRACY BEGINS ON 1-4-2013 WHEN MARCUS MERRITT SR WAS FOUND DECEASED IN HIS HOME WITH HIM BEING LOCATED IN HIS BEDROOM..
FROM ALL INDICATIONS MR.MERRITT DIED FROM A SELF-INFLICTED GUN SHOT WOUND TO THE HEAD..
ON 1-4-2013 MR.MERRITT WAS TALKING TO HIS ESTRANGED WIFE & TEXTING HER WHILE SHE WAS AT WORK AT A HOSPITAL WHEN SHE CLAIMS THE PHONE WENT DEAD..
THE ESTRANGED WIFE THOUGHT SOMETHING WAS WRONG & SHE CALLED HER PARENTS TO GO OVER THE HOUSE TO SEE IF EVERYTHING WAS OKAY & SAID SHE WAS ON THE WAY HOME..
MY BIG QUESTION TO HER IF SHE THOUGHT SOMETHING WAS WRONG SHE WAS AT A HOSPITAL SO WHY DIDNT SHE SEND THE EMT'S TO HER HOME ?
WHEN HER PARENTS ARRIVED AT THE HOME THEY CLAIM THE HOUSE WAS LOCKED..
IT HAS NEVER BEEN CLEARLY EXPLAINED HOW THEY GOT IN THE HOME..
AFTER ENTERING THE HOME MR.MERRITT WAS FOUND DEAD IN THE BEDROOM BY HIS-IN-LAWS..
THE POLICE WAS CALLED & THE FIRST RESPONDER WAS A PARISH DEPUTY SHERIFF WHO FOUND THE IN-LAWS IN THE BEDROOM & THE DEPUTY HAD TO GIVE THEM 2 STREN ORDERS TO LEAVE THE HOME..
ON THE SCENE ARRIVES THE CHIEF OF POLICE OF LEONVILLE LOUISIANA WHO TOLD THE PARISH DEPUTY THAT HE WOULD HANDLE THE CASE BECAUSE HE WAS FRIENDS WITH THE FAMILY..
SO THE PARISH DEPUTY LEFT THE SCENE..
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FIRST E-MAIL FROM MISS ROYCE THE VICTIMS MOTHER WAS 3-24-2014
2ND E-MAIL 4-3-14
3RD E-MAIL 4-8-14
MJA FIRST E-MAIL TO MISS ROYCE 4-12-2014
ON 5-30-2014 MJA HAD MISS ROYCE FILL OUT AN INTAKE FORM GIVING MJA PERMISSION TO WORK ON HER SONS CASE & TO SPEAK FOR HER & HER FAMILY..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGGqd_OHag
THE NEW BEDFORD HIGHWAY SERIAL KILLER
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5-21-21
Mja Inc Investigations
We have a great show tonight..
Please listen to your Host : Mark & your Co-Host : Olivia talk with Wayne Perry one of the leading experts concerning The Bedford Highway Serial Killer..
Mr.Perry has been working on this Case for 34 years because his Sister was one of the Victims of this Serial Killer..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_b6x2qz-fE&list=PLSwy3Xf3aBiCay828-9_wI43UlKRFb1ps&index=9
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MJA INC INVESTIGATIONS : 20 YEARS OF SERVICE
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6-2-21
Mja Inc Investigations
On 6-1-2021 Mja has been operating for 20 years & we have shared some success..
Mark-Jim-Andy are the 3 founding Partners of Mja..
Mja was Founded at 67 West Main Street in Peru Indiana...
Mja was started because 18 of US who are related in some way had a Family Member Murdered..
Mja wants to thank our first Client Patti Bishop & our 55th Client Becky Sherrill for helping Mja grow bigger than we ever thought could happen..
Patti Bishop & Becky Sherrill seen our work first hand & they put us in contact with other Families that needed our kind of help..
Mja wants to Thank Team Hope for directing Famlies in need of our services...
We want to Thank Together We Stand out of California for having the Trust & Faith in US to be the Investigative Team for some of their Cases..
We want to Thank our Newest Relationship with Boots On The Ground out of Maryland...
Now 20 years later we are working on 104 Cases covering 13 States..
We are also consultants on dozens of other cases in States we dont travel too..
Mja wants to Thank all of our Clients for putting there Trust & Faith in US to do what needs to be done..
At this time Mja has 46 Staff Members who are educated to do this type of work..
I want to Thank our whole Staff for their dedication for giving their Time & Money & the traveling they do to work on any given Case..
We have been blessed with the Loyality of our Staff & their will power to do what ever it takes to move along a Case & their help to Solve a Case..
Mja wants to Thank all the Colleges that allowed their Criminal Justice Students to do their 140 hours Internship with Mja to get their College Degree for 2 of those Students joined Mja..
Mja wants to Thank all of the Law-Enforcement Agencies for working with US to solve the Case at hand..
A Special Thanks to Retired Garland Texas Detective Gary Sweet -- Retired Clinton County Indiana Sheriff Detective Captain Morgan -- Alabama's ABI Detective Wall & Thorntown Indiana Police Chief Clark...
A Special Thanks to The Ohio Department of Corrections & the Ohio AG at the time for letting Mja interview Inmates concerning several of our Cases..
There were several Interviews that produced top Suspects--New Leads & Evidence...
We also want to Thank all of our Media Contacts who covered many of our Cases & all the Podcasters who invited US to come on their Podcast to talk about any given Case..
Mja wants to Thank all of our Followers on Facebook--Twitter--Unsolved Mysteries [ not related to the TV show ] Porchlight International--Maura's Room -- our Mja Web-Site & our Podcast on You Tube..
Our Loyality belongs to the Victim & to the Victims Family ...
We Hope & Pray They Gain What They Seek
MJA PODCAST / EP : 22 / PT : 1 / WELCOME TO SERIAL KILLER AVENUE / THE REDHEAD MURDERS
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4-8-21
Mja Inc Investigations
Listen to your Host : Mark giving the introductions of the Case Victims who are mostly Jane Doe's..
Listen to Mark ask our CO-Host : Olivia about the Redhead Murders that became Famous because of the Internet..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8ix1cC3A5g&list=PLSwy3Xf3aBiCay828-9_wI43UlKRFb1ps&index=58
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MJA PODCAST / A TRUE CONSPIRACY / CHAPTER : 1 / PART : 2 / THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF MARCUS MERRITT SR
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4-8-21
Mja Inc Investigations
Listen to your Host : Mark & CO/Host : Olivia speak with their Special Guest : Royce Eckley who is the Mother of Marcus Merritt Sr..
Listen to the Evidence that has been uncovered using the Documents that came from The Louisiana State Police...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwJRjzoMVdc&list=PLSwy3Xf3aBiCay828-9_wI43UlKRFb1ps&index=78
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MJA PODCAST/ EP: 2 / PT : 2 / THE ABDUCTION OF ELIZABETH ANN GILL
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4-8-21
Mja Inc Investigations
On 6-13-1965 Elizabeth Ann Gill who was 2 years & 10 months old was abducted..
Listen to your Host : Mark & C/O Host : Olivia speak to their Special Guest : Martha Hamilton who is the Sister to Missing : Elizabeth Ann Gill..
There is evidence that a Family Clan of Gypsy's abducted Little Beth..
Listen to Martha speak about their 56 year search for their Missing Sister..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZMvtLHRtw8&list=PLSwy3Xf3aBiCay828-9_wI43UlKRFb1ps&index=5
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MJA PODCAST/ EPISODE : 19 / PART : 3 / 6 MISSING PERSON CASES & 6 UNSOLVED HOMICIDE CASES
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3-10-21
Mja Inc Investigations
Listen to you Host : Mark & Co-Host : Olivia Profile 6 Missing Person Cases & 6 Unsolved Homicide Cases from Texas..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eh4tnf2sSo&list=PLSwy3Xf3aBiCay828-9_wI43UlKRFb1ps&index=55
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MJA PODCAST : NEWS SPOTS/PART : 18 / COLDCASES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE & VERMONT / UNSOLVED HOMICIDES
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3-2-21
Mja inc Investigations
Listen to your Host : Mark & Co-Host Olivia speak about the Homicides from 1970 to 2006 & we will be profiling 16 Unsolved Homicides on this Podcast..
Hear about all the 5 possible Serial Killers who was targeting the States of New Hampshire & Vermont..It seems they all were working in a 300 mile radius..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36hXJH29WsQ&list=PLSwy3Xf3aBiCay828-9_wI43UlKRFb1ps&index=74
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MJA PODCAST / EPISODE : 19 / PART : 2 / 14 UNSOLVED HOMICIDES
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2-22-21
Mja Inc Investigations
Listen to your Host : Mark & Co-Host : Olivia profile 14 unsolved homicides..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4IQkfFXFSc&list=PLSwy3Xf3aBiCay828-9_wI43UlKRFb1ps&index=54
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MJA PODCAST/ EPISODE : 18 / PART : 3 / AN UNSOLVED ABDUCTION & MURDER
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2-14-21
Mja Inc Investigations
Listen to your Host : Mark & Our new Co-Host Olivia Profile the 1980 Unsolved Abduction & Murder of Dorothy Jane Scott..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhcztvbvP2Q&list=PLSwy3Xf3aBiCay828-9_wI43UlKRFb1ps&index=52
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MJA PODCAST / JUST A WORD OR TWO/ PART : 3 / CASE PROFILES : THESE ARE TRUE CASES
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1-27-21
Mja Inc Investigations
Listen to your Host : Mark speak about Cases that went under the radar for different reasons..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RVcUlYk6cA&list=PLSwy3Xf3aBiCay828-9_wI43UlKRFb1ps&index=98
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MJA PODCAST : JUST A WORD OR TWO / PART : 2 / TRUMPS NETWORK UNDER 17 CRIMINAL PROBES
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12-28-20
Mja inc Investigations
Listen to your Host : Mark speak about the 2020 Presidental Election & the Criminal Charges Trump faces when he leaves Office...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0lgpz-J628&list=PLSwy3Xf3aBiCay828-9_wI43UlKRFb1ps&index=97
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MJA 2020 OPERATIONS : PUBLIC RECORD FILES
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1-14-2021
Mja Inc Investigations
The numbers below are our Public Record Files that Mja releases every year..
At this time Mja has 43 staff members but only 35 staff members are active at this time due to personal leaves..
At this time Mja is working on 105 cases covering 13 States..
All figures are work related for 2020 :
Mja E-Mails : 2,775,391
Phone Hours : 12,413
Research Hours : 111,234
Mja Postings on Web-Sites : 289
Mja Produced Mja Podcasts : 21
Mja Podcast Production Hours : 467
2020 Phone Staff Meetings One on One Hours : 2605
2020 Mja Webmaster Hours : 321
Hours of Travel : 387
Miles of Travel : 19,700
Search Man-Hours : 2,730
In 2020 Mja had " 370,238 " visitors at our web-site located at :
http://mja--inc--investigations.webs.com/
In 2020 Mja NY Staff Traveled to 3 States..
Those States were Vermont--New Hampshire & Indiana
3 Trips to New Hampshire
2 Trips to Vermont
3 Trips to Indiana
In 2020 Mja Indiana Staff Traveled to 5 States...
Those States were Michigan -- Kentucky -- Tennessee-- Illinois & Ohio
3 Trips to Michigan
2 Trips to Kentucky
1 Trip to Tennessee
2 Trips to Illinois
4 Trips to Ohio
MJA worked alot of area's in Indiana--Michigan--Ohio--Vermont & New Hampshire..
Mja Money Spent for 2020 to operate Mja : $ 15,898.00
The 35 active Mja staff members for 2020 averaged paying $ 450.00 for the year 2020 to carry out our work & the balance of 148 dollars was paid by the NY office..
35 Members X $ 450.00 = ==== $ 15,750.00
In 2020 Mja Spent : $ 15,898.00
In 2020 Mja made $ 35.00 selling items on our web-site at our Mja Gift Shop..
MJA NEVER CHARGES FOR OUR SERVICES..
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MJA PODCAST : THE SERIES : JUST A WORD OR TWO / PART : 1 / VOLUNTEERS
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12-3-2020
Mja Inc Investigations
Listen to your Host Mark speak about Volunteer Search Groups...
Speaking to the Critic's & Trolls : These Volunteer Groups Search for The Missing & using K-9 Units when ever possible..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvEAXHLYL5Y&list=PLSwy3Xf3aBiCay828-9_wI43UlKRFb1ps&index=90
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MJA PODCAST / EPISODE : 18 / PART : 2 / THE UNSOLVED HOMICIDE OF ANITA GREEN
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12-3-2020
Mja Inc Investigations
Listen to your Host : Mark speak about the facts of the Unsolved Homicide of Anita M Green...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryR3FCuuftY&list=PLSwy3Xf3aBiCay828-9_wI43UlKRFb1ps&index=48..
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Alexis Miranda Badger: AKA : Aundria Michelle Bowman Found Deceased
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11-19-2020
Mja Inc Investigations
AMB--30
UP-DATE :
14 Year Old Aundria M Bowman Found Deceased
Born : Alexis Miranda Badger A.KA. Aundria M Bowman
She went Missin on 3-11-1989..
She was Adopted as an infant, Bowman was raised by her adoptive father, Dennis Bowman...
In early February 2020,.
it was reported the Dennis Bowman, incarcerated while pending trial for the murder of Kathleen Doyle, confessed to police that he had murdered his adopted daughter, Aundria...
Several days later..
It was announced that skeletal remains had been recovered at 200 block of 136th Avenue of Monterey Township (near the home of Bowman) in Allegany County,[concealed by a thin layer of cement...
On February 9, 2020, Dennis Bowman was extradited to Virginia to face charges in Doyle's murder..
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It was confirmed via DNA that the remains were in fact Aundria Bowman...
On May 15, 2020, Dennis Bowman was charged with the murder of Aundria Bowman...
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MJA PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT / PART : 16 / IN SEARCH OF MAURA MURRAY
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10-22-2020
Mja Inc Investigations Podcast
Mja Public Service Announcement
Part : 16
In Search of Maura Murray
Please share
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBElx9oSMKY&list=PLSwy3Xf3aBiCay828-9_wI43UlKRFb1ps&index=89&t=681s
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Missing : Maura Murray On 2-9-2004
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10-9-2020
Mja Inc Investigations
MM--061
Recorded October 6, 2020
Archived October 6, 2020
Missing Maura Murray, how a father remembers his youngest daughter years after her mysterious disappearance...
Julie Murray sits down with her father, Fred Murray, to discuss his youngest daughter, Maura Murray, who mysteriously disappeared without a trace in 2004...
This is the first time Julie has interviewed Fred publicly...
The mysterious circumstances surrounding Maura’s disappearance has attracted an enormous following making her case one of the most well known missing persons cases in the world...
Learn more at www.mauramurraymissing.org.
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Up-Date Of Missing : Denise Pflum
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10-8-2020
Mja Inc Investigations
DDP--017
13 News WTHR
Author: Kevin Rader
Published: 4:54 PM EDT September 7, 2018
Updated: 3:56 AM EDT September 10, 2018
Possible human remains found in Fayette County renews interest in missing person case..
It's been 32 years since Denise Pflum disappeared...but the search for the 18-year-old high school senior continues.
CONNERSVILLE, Ind. (WTHR) - It's been 32 years since Denise Pflum disappeared...but the search for the 18-year-old high school senior continues.
Search dogs have detected something in Forth pond on the Mary Gray Bird Sanctuary property.
Investigators are in the process of draining the pond located south of Connersville in Fayette County to see if they have a lead..
"The dogs are indicating possibility. No assurance that it's her or anything is there but I feel it's our burden to follow up on it."
The case has haunted the community and been a great mystery of Fayette county and I think it has been the burden of our Sheriff’s Department. It's our investigation," he told WTHR.
Sheriff Laughlin says it could take up to three weeks before they are able to determine if they have a new lead in this case.
It as been a heartbreaking mystery since 1986. Whatever happened to Denise Pflum?
Fayette County Sheriff Joey Laughlin was seven years old when she went missing. He has now been Sheriff for four years.
They borrowed search dogs from Homeland Security that search several locations but they detected something on pond number four along Columbia Road near 400 South at the Mary Gray Bird Sanctuary.
"We brought out two more dogs two days later and those dogs hit as well. We began efforts to drain the pond and study the contents," he explained.
Laughlin says he remembers this case like it was yesterday.
"Denise Pflum was an 18-year-old high school senior. Had went to a party Thursday night and the next day was Good Friday.
Forget her purse at the party so told her family she was going back out to the property to get her purse," he remembered.
They would never see or hear from her again.
"There have been rumors and a myriad of things they talk about over the years. Our interest is to bring closure to the family," he continued.
The search area is a good half mile of this road and hard to access especially with the current wet conditions.
Because of the current weather it could be up to three weeks before there is any word about whether this is a true lead at the Mary Gray Bird Sanctuary in rural Fayette County but for now it's all residents have since 1986.
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13 News WTHR
Author: Matt McCutcheon
Published: 7:38 PM EDT September 28, 2020
Updated: 4:07 AM EDT September 29, 2020
Suspect in 1986 Cold Case Dies Months After Confession
The murder of Denise Pflum finally appeared to have a major lead with an arrest in July, but suspect Shawn McClung passed away on Sept. 26 before trial.
CONNERSVILLE, Ind. — It has been called the biggest mystery of Fayette County: what happened to Denise Pflum?
The case has haunted the community since 1986.
In March of that year, the star athlete and scholar disappeared without a trace.
The case finally appeared to have a major lead with an arrest this past July, but the suspect passed away on Sept. 26 before a trial or plea deal.
“This is my favorite picture of her; it’s just a crowd picture,” Pflum's mom, Judy, said in a previous WTHR interview.
It’s the pictures and memories that help the family of Denise Pflum pull through another setback. In a previous interview in their living room, they showed her works of art that surround them.
“It allows her to be with us,” her father, David, said.
Denise, who was 18 when she was killed, hasn’t been physically with them in 34 years, leaving her family with only memories and questions.
In July, her ex-boyfriend, 56-year-old Shawn McClung, was arrested and charged with voluntary manslaughter.
“He was arrested on separate charges on defrauding a financial institution and check deception.
He had a warrant for his arrest, so he was incarcerated, and we took the opportunity to speak to him about the case again,” said Fayette County Sheriff Joey Laughlin.
Detectives say he confessed, possibly because he was terminally ill.
Denise’s parents were called in and actually faced the suspected killer.
“We were asked to come to the jail that day while he was being interviewed and try to persuade him to tell us the truth,” they said in a statement.
Detectives didn’t get a chance to fully question McClung in 1986 because he moved to Arizona shortly after Denise disappeared.
He returned to Connersville about four years ago.“He was a person that we had wanted to speak to in re-evaluating the case,” Laughlin said.
At a court appearance in early September, Denise’s mom remembered when she saw him: “His eyes were blank, like had no soul.
"McClung passed away Saturday after spending about a week at an Indianapolis hospital dealing with an undisclosed illness.
“We were very disappointed that he didn’t give us the information we wanted but are hopeful that his attorney may be authorized to reveal more information after his death,” the Pflum family said.
The community helped raise $100,000 for a reward to finally give the family closure.“Until we find Denise Pflum’s remains, this investigation stays open.
We want to give the family closure, and we have some things we’re going to continue to look into,” Laughlin said.
The lawyer representing McClung said he is working with the Fayette County prosecutor and sheriff’s department to release more information and evidence from McClung.
Laughlin and Det. Chad Blaes believe someone else knows what happened to Denise Pflum and continue investigating and asking for any tips.
The Fayette County Sheriff’s Department can be reached at 765-825-1110 if you have any information about the case.
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