The Skeleton Key Chronicles

17 hours ago

Friday the 13th gets all the attention when people start talking about unlucky dates. But long before that superstition showed up, there was another day people were already side-eyeing on the calendar: March 15.

More than two thousand years ago in ancient Rome, that date became tied to one of the most famous betrayals in history after Julius Caesar was warned to be careful when that day arrived. A soothsayer named Spurinna had already given him a heads up to keep his head on a swivel mid-March.

In 44 BCE, Caesar had recently been declared dictator for life, which made a number of senators uneasy about how much power he was collecting. On the morning of March 15, he headed to a meeting of the Roman Senate inside the Theatre of Pompey in Rome.

During the gathering, a group of senators closed in around him and the meeting quickly turned into one of the most famous betrayals in history, carried out by members of his own government, many of them men he knew personally.

The warning attached to that day ended up outliving the Roman Republic itself. More than two thousand years later, March 15 is still remembered for the same reason people bring it up every year:

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

23 hours ago

For more than thirty years, a random phone call, an abandoned car, and a discovery in the woods have been the only clues in determining what happened to a teenager in Cambridge, Ohio.

It was the afternoon of August 27, 1991, when 17-year-old Robin Stone left her home in Cambridge, Ohio after receiving a phone call. Her mother later recalled overhearing Robin say, “I’ll be right there,” before hanging up. Robin told her mother she was going over to her friend Jody’s house to study and would be home for dinner. But the friend Robin said she was going to see later told family members she never arrived. She was seven months pregnant at the time and had already chosen a name for her baby, Zack.

Later that evening, around 8:30 p.m., Robin’s car was found along Claysville Road outside Cambridge. The vehicle, a Ford Granada, had been left parked beside an abandoned trailer along a quiet rural stretch of roadway surrounded by fields and patches of woods. There was no sign of Robin anywhere nearby, and nothing immediately explained why her car had been left there.

Robin had told her family where she was going, yet she never reached that house, and her car had ended up sitting miles away along a rural roadside.

For months, the case remained unanswered as search efforts and investigative work continued throughout the area. Then on December 28, 1991, hunters moving through a wooded area off Luburgh Lane near Luburgh Lake in Guernsey County came across human remains roughly a mile from where Robin’s car had been found months earlier along Claysville Road.

Authorities later confirmed the remains belonged to Robin. Investigators determined her death was not accidental, although the condition in which she was discovered prevented them from determining the exact cause.

Detectives continued working the case in the montha that followed, and looked into Robin’s boyfriend at the time, Lee Savage, and his father Jack, but authorities have said no physical evidence ever connected either man to the crime. After years without new evidence or additional information the investigation eventually stalled, and after about two years the case went cold.

More than two decades later, in 2014, the case drew renewed attention when the television series Cold Justice brought two investigators to Guernsey County to review the evidence alongside local authorities and take another look at the circumstances surrounding Robin’s disappearance and death.

Robin’s younger sister Jamie Edwards was ten years old when Robin disappeared. In the decades since, she has continued speaking publicly about her sister and working to keep attention on the case, hoping someone who remembers something from that afternoon in 1991 might eventually come forward. Jamie also started a petition calling for new state legislation that would require every law enforcement agency in Ohio to list unsolved cases on their website.

More than three decades later, the case remains unsolved.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

2 days ago

There’s a new documentary dropping next week that dives into the Twelve Tribes, a religious movement that began in Chattanooga, Tennessee in the early 1970s before eventually expanding into communal settlements across the United States and overseas.

At first glance, the group appeared to be a close-knit religious community. In places like Island Pond, Vermont, members lived together and operated businesses connected to the community, including the Yellow Deli and the Common Sense Café.

But over the years former members began sharing accounts of what life inside the communities was like, describing a tightly structured environment and raising allegations about strict disciplinary practices and other internal rules.

Without giving too much away for anyone unfamiliar with the story, the special revisits the accounts shared by former members and the questions that have followed the group for years.

The two-hour special, People Magazine Investigates: The Secrets of the Twelve Tribes Cult, airs on Investigation Discovery on Monday, March 16 at 9 p.m. ET and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.

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