The Skeleton Key Chronicles

9 hours ago

More than a decade after the Slender Man case, there’s an interesting flip in the Morgan Geyser story. She’s now the one going to court saying someone else’s fixation with her has left her concerned for her own safety.

A Wisconsin judge has granted Morgan a four-year restraining order Wednesday against a South Milwaukee man she says has been contacting her for years and collecting items connected to her and her case. Morgan eventually wanted the communication to end, but according to her filing, his attention continued.

What makes this especially relevant now is that Morgan is trying to return to a group home. She currently resides at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute, and part of what she raised in court was concern about the man being able to find her if she were living outside the institute again.

It hasn’t even been a year since Morgan was last living in that setting. In November, she left her Madison group home after removing her monitoring bracelet and was located about 26 hours later at a truck stop in Posen, Illinois, more than 100 miles away.

Now, as she prepares for another conditional-release hearing on November 9, she has a four-year court order in place meant to keep this man away from her.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

14 hours ago

A 35-year-old Indiana man has been taken into custody in the 2006 case involving Chynna Dickus and her stepson Blake, nearly 20 years after the two were found inside their Franklin home. And here's an interesting piece of this case. Michael Jerome James, the guy now charged, was just 14 years old when it happened.

Chynna was 26 and living in Franklin with her husband, Sean, in the summer of 2006. Sean's 10-year-old son Blake spent time at both of his parents' homes, sometimes staying with his dad and Chynna and sometimes with his mother, Christina Smith. On July 24th, Blake was at Sean and Chynna's home on Aberdeen Drive. Sean returned home that Monday afternoon and found Chynna and Blake inside. Sean was quickly cleared in the investigation.

This case quickly became a major focus for Franklin police. Investigators worked leads, collected evidence from throughout the house and brought in outside expertise as they tried to piece together what had happened. The scene had also taken such a toll on the officers and first responders that counseling was made available.

Two days later, Franklin's local newspaper put Chynna and Blake on its front page beneath the headline “Many Leads, But No Suspects.” Tips continued to come in, evidence received additional examination and detectives kept working the case through one anniversary after another. A year later, police were still publicly saying they believed they would eventually solve it.

Now, 20 years later, there has finally been a major break. A Johnson County grand jury spent three weeks hearing evidence and testimony before returning an indictment against Michael Jerome James, who was taken into custody Friday at his home in Shelbyville. James is now 35 but would have been just 14 in July 2006. He is now facing four charges in connection with the case. After all these years, someone is finally facing charges for what happened to Chynna and Blake.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

1 day ago

So apparently Christa Pike is alert, awake and talking. Her attorneys shared the news Tuesday, six days after Tennessee attempted to carry out her sentence and Pike was taken by ambulance from Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to a Nashville-area hospital.

That is a pretty significant change from where things stood just a few days ago. On Sunday, her attorney Stephen Ferrell said Pike had not regained consciousness and remained on a ventilator. Now her legal team says she is awake, speaking and continuing to receive medical care. She remains under guard at the hospital and, according to her attorneys, is still handcuffed and shackled to the bed.

Meanwhile, Tennessee is still trying to sort out exactly what happened last Wednesday. The remaining procedures scheduled for 2026 have been paused, Corrections Commissioner Frank Strada is stepping down, and Gov. Bill Lee has asked former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton to conduct an independent review.

So what does this mean for Pike now? That part is still very much up in the air. Her original warrant expired at midnight last Wednesday, which means Tennessee cannot simply pick up where it left off. Any future attempt would require the state to go through the legal process of setting a new date, and after everything that happened last week, there are almost certainly going to be some major legal questions to work through first.

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