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Missing person: Daniel Kaiser-Küblböck
Last-seen date: September 9th, 2018 at about 5AM in the morning Last-seen location: Off the coast of Canada while on a cruise ship
Ethnicity/Race: Caucasian, a German national Sex: Male Age at time of disappearance: 33 years old Hair: Brown Eye color: Brown
Daniel Kaiser-Küblböck went missing after jumping overboard from a cruise ship early in the morning of September 9th, 2018. This happened at sea with the closest country being Canada.
The Canadian authorities executed a search for the German pop singer, however, they were not able to locate him. It's unlikely that he would have survived very long in the water, even if he was intact enough to swim after jumping from the cruise ship into the sea. The search focused on a nautical area about 200 kilometers north of St. John's. It was ended on September 11th, 2018.
Ocean currents are very difficult for experts to predict. Those that try will usually work with averages. If you took two identical objects and placed them side-by-side in a sea or ocean then they would drift apart immediately and, if they went to shore, then they could still be very far apart. There is simply no telling where any of the missing person's remains might have ended up. Like a lot of missing person's cases that involve being lost at sea, this isn't one that Websleuths or amateurs should be devoting much attention to.
In fact, there are missing person's cases where the people went into the water due to a wave that encroached the shoreline. In one case, two people who are missing for nearly 20 years were 'lost at sea' when they were at a well-known beach. If people who get lost at sea from a beachside last-known location can't be traced, then it's super-futile to try and trace someone who is lost to the ocean hundreds of kilometers from civilization. It will take incredibly luck for this person's remains to be found, not investigating skill.
January 10th, 2025: A websleuth (kara1218) recently attempted to match this Jane Doe to a missing person named Julie Ann Derouin.
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Unidentified Jane Doe in Carbon, Alberta
Who: Jane Doe found roadside near Carbon, Alberta, Canada
When: Discovered on April 20th, 1995 or April 21st, 1995
Post-mortem period: Thought to be dead for 10 to 15 years, meaning missing people last seen in April 1980 to April 1985 are all in play. However, missing people outside of this range cannot be ruled out based only on the post-mortem period's estimation.
Ethnicity/Race: Uncertain. Appears aboriginal by the construction; could be other ethnicities for sure but does not look Caucasian. One source says she may have been of north African descent but that dark skin color does not come through in the bust above. Mixed background possible.
Sex: Female
Age at time of death: 22 to 35 years old, estimated. Broadened range 20 to 40. Height: 5'0" to 5'4" (combined range from Service Canada and the Youtube video below which is of a press conference that was held, in part, for this Jane Doe)
Other: she had suffered from a disease called brucellosis
Case Details and Indigenous Connection
This is a case that doesn't have a lengthy profile with Canada's National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains. However, the Youtube video posted above will help deliver some case details.
I thought, at first glance, that this individual was one of the missing aboriginal women of Canada, a group that some think doesn't get a lot of police attention. However, I'm not sure this Jane Doe is actually in any missing person's database. Part of me wonders if no one at all is looking for her.
Be warned, this isn't an article for the weak-stomached. I don't apologize. If you are seeking out articles on missing people or Jane Does then you have to be ready for some topics that aren't exactly those for the pleasure reader.
I think she is aboriginal but my basis for designating her as such is tenuous. Firstly, she was found in the Albertan plains and that area has plenty of aboriginals. Secondly, she looks aboriginal to me in the police recreation but she could be of other groups. I've wondered if Indian reserves of Alberta might be alerted to this case. However, I really have low confidence that this person will be identified. I don't think there's a soul out there that is looking for her.
Websleuths or amateurs looking at this case should know that Carbon, Alberta is tiny. It's a village northeast of Calgary by about an hour. If she was from Carbon then she would have been identified, I think. Her roadside location sounds like a body dump to me and a person doing that would be looking for somewhere far away from where people knew her, I think.
Media Coverage and Grave Site Mystery
It was hard to find news that covered this Jane Doe. However, I believe that the following article from the April 25th, 1995 Calgary Herald might pertain to her. There is a statement in this news article that brings bizarreness into play.
Note, that the "last Thursday" that is referenced in the article would actually be April 20th, 1995 as opposed to April 21st, 1995 (the date that Service Canada reports as the date that the Jane Doe was found). Furthermore, the age range in the news article is different.
Both inconsistencies can be explained: dates are often a tad off in reporting and age ranges that are based on estimates can change over time. The reason I think that the reporting pertains to the Jane Doe pictured at the start of this article is just that Carbon, Alberta is puny. I don't think two Jane Does pop up in consecutive days but it's possible.
The news article says something that's very unique when it comes to Jane Does. According to the news article, this Jane Doe "may have been removed from a grave site."
What does that make you think? The RCMP might have been able to study the body and conjectured that it had been serviced by a mortician? That's what I think when I read that. Maybe there was a presence of embalming fluid. However, maybe they had different reasons for believing that she was previously buried. A lot more information is needed about the grave site that this person came from.
Was it a marked grave?
Was it a clandestine grave?
If it was the latter, then it's hard to think of a way to generate leads. It's also perplexing: why would someone unearth an individual in a clandestine grave and leave her on the side of the highway? If her grave was of a clandestine nature, then one would conjecture that the grave site was a better hiding spot than on the side of the road. However, the article also said that foul play was ruled out. That suggests that her original resting place was not clandestine in nature.
Timeline and Identification Challenges
If it was the former (ie. she was in a marked grave), then leads are possible. The timeline with this Jane Doe could be as follows:
a death between April 1980 and April 1985
a burial in a gravesite assumingly near her time of death
removal from the gravesite at some point
then she ends up roadside near Carbon, Alberta
discovered there on April 20th or April 21st, 1995 after laying dead outdoors for maybe 10 to 15 years
If all that is true then this Jane Doe case isn't going to be solved through any conventional means. Conventionally, when an amateur or websleuth is working on a Jane Doe's case, that person would cross reference the Jane Doe against missing person's reports.
That's worked in the past for many cases but if this particular Jane Doe died and was buried in a marked grave, then maybe she wasn't missing at the time of her death. Maybe the family and friends had a funeral for her and had a sense of closure. If that's true then it brings the following into consideration: maybe nobody that encounters this Jane Doe's profile, that actually knew her in life, will ever think to connect her to the person that she/he knew. This truly is a problematic Jane Doe when one considers that she was unearthed from a grave.
In this peculiar case, identifying the Jane Doe might involve looking for an empty grave in the region, one that belongs to a woman who died between the ages of 20 and 40, one who matched the height range, and someone who died between 1980 and 1985. I'm not sure how a Websleuth or amateur investigator goes about checking graves for empty coffins without stepping on a whole bunch of toes. But I do have ideas as to why someone would dig up human remains from a grave.
One understandable reason is exhumation for a legal reason, a historical one, or a scientific one. However, exhumation is not a good explanation in this case so long as you accept the following. Someone in charge of exhuming a body would be someone responsible enough to put it where it belonged afterward. The authorities, if they exhumed this person, wouldn't discard her remains on the side of a highway.
Another reason someone would dig up human remains borders on the bizarre and the grotesque: necrophilia. If you find it difficult to accept that someone would dig up a body for that purpose, then the definitive answer is that such acts are known to have happened before.
Furthermore, another reason why someone would take a body from a grave for clandestine purposes is to fake a death. That's believed to have happened before as well.
I think another reason someone might dig up a body from a marked grave is one that's less sinister in nature: extreme mourning. Somebody who is psychologically changed due to someone's death might have an insane episode and seek out the remains. I didn't find any historical news article about that but, I think, it can happen. Read the poem "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe. It tells a tale of a man who sought out his wife's tomb for comfort.
I really don't see this case as probable to be solved due to a lead from a missing relative. Firstly, there's hardly any news coverage that I could find. Secondly, there is barely anything in her profile. Lastly, I don't think there is anyone looking for her. If her grave was a marked one then the people that knew this Jane Doe might have buried her according to their customs and they might already have closure -- for decades. They might not know at all that she was removed.
The only point to take away is that if you ever come across any news from Alberta about an empty grave then think of this Jane Doe and cross-reference her particulars with that of the relevant grave marker or obituary.
Brucellosis Outbreak in Alberta
In the YouTube video, Staff Sergeant Jason Zazulak of the RCMP made the following statement:
"She may be or appeared to have been of north African ancestry or possibly of indigenous or mixed ancestry. She was approximately 5-foot to 5-foot-three inches in height...She had suffered from a disease called brucellosis and repetitive fever. Brucellosis is not a disease commonly found in Canada and may suggest that this person was born abroad."
I do not think that this person was born abroad.
Alberta’s 1980s Brucellosis Context
It's important to note that brucellosis might not be a common disease in Canada in modern times. However, the Jane Doe in question is believed to have died in the early 1980s and her remains were found in Alberta. It's important to note, I think, that there was a brucellosis outbreak in Alberta in the 1980s. The balance of my research on this outbreak makes me think that this individual was an Albertan and that she had some kind of exposure to a farm or farm products.
Lethbridge Outbreak and Potential Leads
The second snipped article below is interesting. It says that there was an outbreak that affected people in Lethbridge in 1980. Note, that you didn't have to work on a farm to get brucellosis. It seems like any work related to cattle could expose you to the disease. It's also interesting that this outbreak is within the range of the Jane Doe's estimated death.
The second snipped article above is interesting. It says that there was an outbreak that affected people in Lethbridge in 1980. Lethbridge is not particularly close to where the Jane Doe was found, however, nor can it be considered out of range for someone who owned a vehicle. According to Google Maps, a drive from Lethbridge to where the body was dumped in Carbon would be just under three hours.
The six employees in the news article might know something about who this person is. They had the disease she had and they may have transmitted it to people they knew. Furthermore, it's not impossible that the Jane Doe was one of the six employees, yet, that would seem like a fluke if it was so.
Note, that you didn't have to work on a farm to get brucellosis. It seems like any work related to cattle could expose you to the disease. It's also interesting that this outbreak is within the range of the Jane Doe's estimated death.
Alberta’s Agricultural Link to Brucellosis
Farms in Alberta are very common. You will find them across a huge range of the province and the province itself is enormous. The only place in Alberta where you won't find many farms would be in the mountain parks on the province's western border.
Accordingly, that she might have worked or lived near cattle or their products isn't necessarily going to be a case-breaker. However, I would reject the opinion that she was of foreign originations based on her exposure to a disease that's not common in Canada. At the time when she lived and in the province where her remains were found, brucellosis was part of life.
Marcella Krulce has been missing since November 19th, 1959. At the time of her disappearance, she was believed to be about 30 years old (b. 1929). She is missing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and NamUS offers the following circumstances:
Marcella Krulce
"Last seen on 11/19/1959 dining at the restaurant at the Martinique Apartments. She was a secretary at the United Fund of Allegheny County, living at the Martinique during the week and spending weekends at the family home in Strabane Twp. Failed to show up at work on Friday, 11/20/1959. Her clothes, jewelry, insulin and needles were found in their place at her apartment."
Marcella Krulce disappearance 1959 Thu, Nov 26, 1959 – Page 18 · The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com
The Martinique Apartments were at 4740 Baum Boulevard. It was a building that made the news for the wrong reasons in the 1950s and 1960s.
Firstly, I did find evidence of a mass murderer living at those apartments, however, the match to the address was just over four years later. Robert Lee Bricker, known as Pittsburgh's most notorious contracted killer, lived at the apartments in January of 1964 according to an address given in a news article.
At the time of Krulce's disappearance, he would have been 18 years old and, assumingly, capable of renting his own place. It would be interesting in regard to Krulce's case if anyone was able to connect him to his 4740 Baum Boulevard address at an earlier time than when I was able to. By my research, he was living there as of January 9th, 1964.
How long had he been at that address?
Marcella Krulce Fri, Jan 24, 1964 – Page 2 · The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com
I did not find a ton of coverage for Krulce's missing-person's case in the media at the time. The one article that I found was in The Pittsburgh Press on November 26th, 1959. The article quoted the brother of the missing person who stressed that she needed daily insulin shots.
Is her diabetic condition a clue?
I do find it interesting that she disappeared after visiting a restaurant and that she was diabetic. When strangers prepare a diabetic's food, then I think he/she is at increased risk of going into insulin shock. If Krulce ordered something believing it was diabetic friendly or was inadvertently served sweetened food or drink (ie. a sugary drink instead of something low calorie) then perhaps she later went into insulin shock and ended up in a hospital as a Jane Doe. I would think that websleuths looking into this case should take some time to focus on a woman who was brought to a Pittsburgh hospital without ID on the date in question. If she collapsed in public it's possible that her purse would be stolen from her before a good samaritan would happen on her.
Regarding her health problems, the name "Miss Marcella Krulce" appeared in the March 7th, 1958 edition of the Daily Notes, a newspaper out of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. The date of the article is roughly a year-and-a-half prior to Krulce's disappearance. It states that one "Miss Marcella Krulce," possibly the same individual that went missing, was admitted to a hospital for monitoring. It used to be that newspapers would chronicle hospital admissions and I think that's what the snippet below did.
The relevance could be that Krulce was having health problems in and around the time of her disappearance. A guess that she went into insulin shock after consuming too much sugar at the restaurant and was admitted to an area hospital without identification cannot be ignored in my view. Another article I found from the same newspaper is dated Thursday, March 20th of 1958. It states that she was "discharged" from the hospital on "Wednesday," which would have been March 19th. That means she would have been in the hospital for 12 days, suggesting that she did have significant health problems in the years that preceded her disappearance.
Krulce connected to another case?
But overall "Marcella Krulce" did not appear regularly in the databases I looked in. She was mentioned in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article on January 5th, 1997 as part of an article that commented on several cases. Another article in the July 22nd, 2001 edition of the same newspaper mentions the case, calling it the "oldest" case that Pittsburgh detectives have regarding a missing person. This article contained an interesting comment as it stated that someone named Mary Ann Verdecchia went missing from the same apartment complex three years later.
Mary Ann Verdechia
Verdecchia is NamUS MP #7036. NamUS states the following:
"Verdecchia was last seen in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 7, 1962. Mary Ann, who lived with her Aunt, had returned home after a half day of classes at Immaculate Conception School, changed from her uniform and went outside about 12:30. She had lived with an aunt for five years, ever since her parents separated.
She was seen going into the Martinique Apartments on Baum Boulevard. She ran errands for a lady there, and the woman sent her to the store. She was seen going back into the apartment about 14.45. That was the last reported sighting of her. About 18.00 her relatives began looking for her, and they called police at 22.30."
The name of the "lady" that sent Mary Ann to the store is Jane Emery, a 23-year old who used to be Mary Ann's neighbour. A janitor at the Martinique Apartments, one William Dozier, also saw Mary Ann at a time after 2pm the day she disappeared (June 23rd, 1962 Pittsburgh Post Gazette).
Whether the cases of Krulce and Verdecchia should be considered related to one another isn't clear. Furthermore, the Martinique Apartments didn't seem to be a safe haven. A woman was murdered there in 1958, someone named Mrs. Mary Regan.
Thora Chamberlain's NamUs profile was added in 2017 despite the fact that she went missing in November of 1945 when she was 14 years old (she's referred to as 15 years old in some articles I read, perhaps because she was close to her birthday). According to NamUs's last accounting of her she "was seen getting into a stranger's vehicle outside her high school in Campbell and has not been seen since." That account doesn't really jive with the media coverage of the day. If we accept the conviction and confession of a murderer and another witness who claimed to see Chamberlain then she was certainly spotted after she got into the car.
Oakland Tribune - December 16 1945
In this case, the websleuths and mystery enthusiasts won't find anything too interesting to work on with Chamberlain's case. Her killer confessed and he spent time in prison. His name was Thomas Henry McMonigle (right) although Wikipedia's page for Thora Chamberlain appears to have his name wrong (they mention one "McGonigle"). McMonigle claimed that he abducted Chamberlain, shot her, and threw her over a cliff called Devil's Slide (see photo below) into waters that were described as tumultuous. According to one writer of the day "the undertow and swell is such that it is possible the body might have been torn to pieces within several days" (Oakland Tribune - Dec 16 1945). NamUs says that the girl's DNA is available, but the chances of finding something to compare too has to be considered at the utmost edge of the possible.
Devil's Slide as photographed in modern times
(Creative Commons/Lawrence Lansing).
How they got her DNA is a bit of a mystery since they weren't aware of the scientific advancement in 1945 and wouldn't be for a few more decades. But they did find her socks, which were of her school colors as she was abducted heading to a football game, near the spot that McMonigle said he killed her and they linked those socks to her. It could be that they were able to find some DNA from that clothing as evidence in crimes isn't simply discarded due to the passage of time. McMonigle was considered a suspect because of prior suspicion in a crime involving a similarly-aged female youth.
Besides McMonigle seeing Chamberlain, there's also the sighting of Mrs. Ella Beaudoux. She says she witnessed a girl in the back seat of a car near the scene and the time of the abduction "clawing at the window" at the back of the car as it sped away. Mrs. Ella Beaudoux was a Physician & Surgeon at the time of a 1921 passport application. In my opinion, such professionals are good witnesses when it comes to events that they have no personal connection to because they are not frivolous in what they say as they are well-schooled in the importance of facts in matters such as these.
At this point, we should look back at what NamUs said because I don't agree with the last-seen statement with that source which says that Chamberlain was last seen entering a stranger's car. Chamberlain was seen in the car after she got into it, the stranger they mention isn't an unnamed person by any stretch because McMonigle was proven to have killed her in court. The way NamUs makes it sound is like there's a mystery here.
But Chamberlain's fate isn't too mysterious and it is very possible that there's no further justice on the matter of her disappearance and death to be had. I would say that websleuths out there should not be working on Thora Chamberlain's case. Her body might be lost to the ocean and the creatures within it for seven decades now, making the situation of recovery entirely futile -- and pointless given that justice was actually served on her killer.
However, where websleuths should focus is on her abductor: Thomas Henry McMonigle is a probable serial killer in my view. Other girls identified him as trying to lure them into their vehicles. Working on his life history may yield a Ted Bundy-like history in my opinion. I noted some similarities for sure between the two:
Luring victims into vehicles.
Preying on women.
Theft as a pettier crime.
McMonigle defended himself at a trial as Bundy did.
McMonigle had scores of women attesting to his character despite the evidence against him. Bundy also received a lot of support from adoring women while in prison.
McMonigle had a problematic upbringing.
Those that knew both were shocked to find out that each was capable of murder.
Both were considered good looking and intelligent.
Both were chronic liars.
McMonigle is someone whose life should be placed under a microscope. To start that, here are some details I uncovered:
Born: May 28th, 1914 in Covell, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Dead: Feb. 20, 1948 in Marin County, California, USA
He was in prison when he was 17 (sometime around May of 1931) according to one news source.
Occupations included bus driver, truck driver, and a guard at something called "Mills field" (The Times, San Mateo, California, December 17 1945)
Owned a 1933 Plymouth Sedan
Attempted to gain employment as the captain of ambulance drivers, was refused
Once remarked to have killed 11 people (source: Santa Cruz Sentinel, Aug 18 1957/writer: Don Becker)
Received death penalty for murdering Chamberlain despite the fact that her body was never found (considered strange in the press of the time)
In his teens (ie. March 28th, 1927 to March 28th, 1934) he was arrested for vagrancy, assault, and attempt to rape (source: Santa Cruz Sentinel, Aug 18 1957). He served an eight-year and three-month prison sentence at one point
His 4th arrest was for fighting a bus driver
His 5th arrest was for attacking a young girl, but the family didn't press charges. It's this arrest that made him a suspect in the Chamberlain disappearance.
He fled to Illinois sometime after the abduction of Chamberlain (ie. November 2, 1945)
He was also the suspect in the murder of what was called a "San Francisco negress" (a black woman)
I found no evidence of him serving in WWII.
He can be placed near East Alton/Edwardsville, Illinois on June 5th, 1934 when he would have been about 21 (The Edwardsville Intelligencer/page 2).
McMonigle appears to have participated in and lost a boxing match on Monday, March 23rd, 1931 (at the age of 16). The Alton Evening Telegraph in Illinois notes what seems to be his participation in bouts involving "Club and Unemployed Men." Alton is the area that McMonigle is associated with at that time in his life. The date of the fight would mean that McMonigle was not in custody at the time. Furthermore, the news article notes a body weight of 150 pounds at the age of 16.
He can be placed in Alton still, or again, around Monday, November 19th, 1931 (Alton Evening Telegraph, Page Two).
His father Stephen's address is mentioned as 316 Goulding Avenue in East Alton in a February 17th, 1941 in the Alton Evening Telegraph announcing the wedding of his daughter Alma
Brother Roy McMonigle was a criminal too (Alton Evening Telegraph/August 12th 1933)
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