The Skeleton Key Chronicles

2 hours ago

A new documentary that dropped yesterday taking a deeper look at the 2012 case of Skylar Neese, the Morgantown high school student who left her house late one summer night to meet two friends and never made it back home.

Without giving too much away for anyone unfamiliar with the case, the documentary looks at the close friendships at the center of the story and how what started as a search for a missing teenager slowly turned into something very different as the truth about that night began to come out.

The three-part series premiered March 6 on Hulu. This one has been on my list to check out! … See MoreSee Less

The Skeleton Key Chronicles

7 hours ago

On June 6, 1991, staff at a Super 8 motel along University Boulevard in Albuquerque went to check on a room after the occupant failed to check out.
Inside, they found a young woman in the bathroom area of the room’s bathtub. The door had been locked from the inside.

Investigators noted several things in the room that suggested she had been traveling. A suitcase filled with clothing sat nearby, along with a decent amount of cash among her belongings. What they did not find anywhere in the room was identification that could clearly establish who she was.

The young woman appeared to be about 18 years old but without a confirmed identity, the case was eventually listed under the name “Becca Doe.” For decades that was the only name attached to her cass file. Years passed without answers about who she was or where she had come from.

Recently, investigators returned to the case using investigative genetic genealogy, a process that compares DNA from unidentified individuals to relatives who have submitted their information to genealogy databases.

Researchers at Ramapo College Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center, working with local law enforcement began tracing distant family connections and building out family trees. Those efforts eventually led investigators to relatives in California.

A DNA sample from a half-brother confirmed what the research had suggested. After more than three decades, the young woman found in that Albuquerque motel room finally had her name back.

She was Rebecca “Becca” Mallekoote, born March 4, 1973, in Tacoma, Washington. At the time, she was just 18 years old and had been living in the Los Angeles area before traveling to New Mexico.

Investigators noted one small coincidence when the identification was finalized.
It was confirmed on what would have been Becca Mallekoote’s 53rd birthday. For more than thirty years the young woman in that locked motel room was known only as “Becca Doe.” Now investigators finally know the rest of her name.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

20 hours ago

Daylight saving time is nearly upon us. Remember to set your clocks up one hour Sunday morning. We officially spring forward at 2 a.m. … See MoreSee Less