Mysterious Madison: Unsolved Crimes, Strange Creatures & Bizarre Happenstance by Noah Voss

Author:Noah Voss [Voss, Noah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2011-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

State Street, facing toward the capitol, would have appeared the same when Donna Mraz was walking home in 1982. Photograph by Noah Voss.

There had been several sexual assaults in the university campus area, some that included a knife-wielding, unidentified assailant. There was also the unsolved murder of Christine Rothschild, who was stabbed fourteen times in the downtown area in 1968. Police even went so far as to use controversial hypnotic regression, hoping that some witness might have seen more than he or she could consciously remember. Despite compiling a rough police sketch of a bearded man seen near the stadium that night and offering a $10,000 reward, the police were running out of avenues to pursue. A new lead was to come in November of the same year.

Donna Mraz’s body was exhumed for “tests related to the investigation,” according to university police officials. Detectives wanted to compare dental casts of Donna to “bite marks on a possible suspect.” The suspect was already serving a sentence in prison, but no definitive conclusion could be made with the evidence. The man later died in prison, and no other suspects were found.

Our next mystery comes from 1988, when again a UFO was sighted above the “Mad City.” I personally spoke with the witness, who shared that he was hanging out in his room in a downtown apartment. It was a nice day, and the window was open, and that’s where John sat watching the day go by. Something in the sky caught his attention. It was a bluish gray object that was “nearly invisible to my naked eye,” he shared. John estimated the size as “not quite…the size of a dime on its side at arm’s length.” For all you aspiring UFO witnesses, that is a great way to give scale to something you are viewing in the sky. It may initially sound overly complicated; however, all things being relative, this method helps give scope to a situation difficult for investigators to, well, accurately investigate after it is over.

Let’s run through a quick mental exercise. If a 747 jet airliner is sitting on the runway, you might easily be able to identify points that anyone can later compare for size, such as the end of the runway to the ninth light. Using that information in relation to where the witness was can divulge some helpful data to the intrepid investigator. When in the wide-open sky, the 747 has nothing else an observer can compare it to. This is called losing perspective. A way to gain some perspective is to imagine that you are holding something in your hand at arm’s length. This is not a precise science, mind you, just something that investigators can later use as a single data point among many to estimate the size and potential location of an object. For example, a 747 jet airliner may be obscured by one basketball held at arm’s length if you view it flying one thousand feet overhead. That same 747 may only be covered by a single pea held at arm’s length if viewed from two miles.

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