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On 8-4-73 Teresa “Tess” Hilt was murdered in her basement apartment in Maryville, Missouri. Tess was a graduate student working on her Masters Degree in Music and was only 22 years old. Was this a jilted lover or a jealous women who committed the crime as law enforcement believe? Or is it something even more sinister?
Lets see what nationally renowned cold case detective Ken Mains thinks as he dives in the deep waters to get to the truth.
About Ken Mains: You have seen him on the History Channel tracking the Zodiac Killer and on the Discovery Science Channel investigating history’s greatest mysteries. Most recently he can be seen on the Reelz Channel giving his expert opinion on the “When Friends Speak” true crime series.
Detective Mains served a combined 20 years in law enforcement and the United States Marine Corps. You read his best-selling autobiography ‘Unsolved No More.’ It is said he is “one of this countries greatest detectives” and the foremost authority on unsolved cold cases. He is raw, unfiltered and only cares about the truth.
The credentials are there: USMC Veteran, Bachelors Degree (Criminal Justice), Masters Degree Studies (Criminal Profiling), Patrol Officer, Undercover Narcotics, FBI Task Force, District Attorney’s Office, Drug Task Force Supervisor and Cold Case Detective. He is the founder of AISOCC, where he led the worlds best investigators including the Homicide Hunter Joe Kenda, Dr. Werner Spitz, Dr. Henry Lee, Dr. Mary Ellen O’Toole and Dr. Cyril Wecht, Jim Clemente, Bob Keppel to name a few. Follow renowned Cold Case Expert Ken Mains on his mission to solve the unsolved.
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I lived in two apartment buildings where someone went around trying door knobs to see if they were unlocked.
They ever look at the maintenance man, or someone that would have a master key for the apartments
Are Black People allowed on this page? Between the Tats and Never seeing a Black case on Here,just don’t want to be where I ain’t wanted🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
Ken and all: We did not necessarily need to lock our doors in 1973. Society in Maryville, Missouri was not as it is today. We did not experience that type of violence. It was and still is an excellent place to live and thrive. Although, over the years, Nodaway County has seen its share of criminality and violent offenders, this particular case is very localized to someone who was familiar with Ms. Hilt's patterns and whereabouts. Ken, think deeper regarding the deviance, the knife, and the cut. (My credentials: MSCJ, MSForPsy – I likely shouldn't comment but felt compelled for the community). Have followed your career for some time now. Best.
In terms of it possibly being someone from her apt buildng – they would be familiar with the rhythm of the neighbourhood and also with her exact floorplan even if they'd never been inside before. They'd have a good idea what time of day/night to act, and also whether she habitually left her door unlocked.
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Another cold case from the 70's. Holly Branagan from Bethlehem, Pa needs to be analyzed by someone like you.
I’m glad you did this case
I heard they found a hair at the crime scene, what are your thoughts on that?
Here is a unsolved case in Maryville, Tn. The guy who built my house….Michael Herron. Look into still unsolved today.
Love the cold case coverage!
The pairing knife is the smallest knife in the set. The scrappy-do of the knife block. Her heart and her va-jay-jay targeted. What can knives represent and the stabbing action? It's not the size of the knife, it's what you do with it. He conquered and he amused himself by giving her the knife. Your turn. You want to hurt me now? haha. You can't now can you? Ligatures either trace back to him or he jerks off to them. His trophy.
When you said Ms. Hilt took a shower with the door open , did you mean the exterior door or just the door to the bathroom with the exterior closed?
Kenny, the no forced entry makes me wonder about either the manager of the apartment building or a maintenance man that has keys to all of the units. Also, would somewhat know ppl's routines and who comes and goes from where and at what times…
Another theory, a male and female, a couple. The female performs the acts that are involving putting things into her lady parts and stabbing it and the rest was done by the male.
The male has fantasies but can't perform, the female wants to please her man so she allows him to do these things and she comes with him but she has hatred toward the victim because of her husband's sexual interest in her so she attacks the lady parts when he's finished.
Most likely my first theory is more plausible but had to throw it out there.
So many cases like this I’ve watched on True Crime – the guy was a maintenance guy in the building.. amazing how these places don’t do background checks and yet give these guys keys to everyone’s apartments! This case just has that “flavor”..
Could the knife in her hand and cut wrist have been done for symbolic purposes on the part of the killer and not anything to do with trying to stage the scene? Perhaps the cut was some ritual for the killer; he just wanted to cause her pain without killing her, or that played out in his fantasies.
Love these cold case crime scene assessments. So instructive.
These are my favorite type of videos. I loved when you did these in the beginning of the channel. I love all your content but Def miss these types of videos.
I know you say don't think it was Ed. I'm not 100% convinced: You believe offender was w/in walking distance: he was. You say prob not a college kid. How old was Ed? She was pursuing her masters. He poss 24-26? 25 yr olds in 70's were more "mature" than nowadays -imo. You don’t think someone she rejected & they likely suffered from ED. On their date, they only made out. Poss she was willing to do more (even just a hand job, etc.) but, he wasn't able perform? Could this have caused embarrassment (intentional or not)? Thot she might talk, as girls do, & tell her friends? Could this cause rage & desire to control? Poss he called her…wanted another shot at it (no pun intended), was coming over & reason no forced entry? Poss the two 4in laces were orig tied together (1 8in ligature) for her wrists but tore apart during the assault? Poss she kept paring knife by her bed (safety) but, wasn't able to ever use it…too late, not strong enough to break free & use it? Prob not but, a thot that crossed my mind. More likely attempt to cause confusion around poss suicide, altho a bad one. Just some non-expert lol thots (lol).✌️
This is the same county as Branson Perry, Daisy Coleman, and Town of Skidmore –
Do organized offenders stop after one act or do you think they keep going until they get caught ? Or is there something that could cause them to stop
Great analyst as always and I concur. It' would be difficult to stage a suicide with the stab wounds to the chest, maybe he just tried to make it look different to what it was. I would bet someone from there would have noticed this person strange fetishes.
I believe the short laces were used to tie her hair back or up while sleeping. Laces wouldn't break off or damage her hair. Just a thought 💭🤔
Could maybe be a maintenance guy. Had a master key. ??
The only reason that it doesn't even seem like a half-hearted attempt to stage a suicide is that she was face down, one hand behind her back. Nobody kills themselves like that, so you'd think he'd at least roll her over. I'm thinking he cut the shoe lace bindings with the paring knife in one last dramatic act (probably cut her other wrist in the process), then just put it in her hand. It makes no sense to take bindings home, but leave the pantyhose and the knife.
Perhaps a Ted Bundy type of perpetrator. Wait, maybe it was him. 😮
Maybe he used the knife to cut the shoelaces so he can take them. He cuts the laces and instead of taking the knife or setting it there he decides to put it in her hand.
Or
Maybe she manage to grab it and was hoping she'd have time to cut her way out.
Prayers.
So very sad. Excellent coverage on this case. Thank you for covering it.
Maybe he was staging it to look like a suicide because he was already a known creep in the area. Charges, complaints, or imagined gossip about his behavior might have made him feel very visible. He probably didn't want police looking for a S.O. because it would point towards him, and he possibly lived nearby. He might have withdrawn from normal activities after the crime IMO. He could have been taking the eyes off him, because someone knew him, even if she didn't. I feel like somebody would have suspected him, but might not have come forward.
The thing that bothers me is that he covered her body up and covered her head with a pillow (?). Was that remorse, shame, buying time, hiding the crime?
What a shame. She was beautiful.
I guess I’m not explaining myself very well…lol
Like “she” got herself killed, for teasing him. Or, him thinking she was teasing him.
Could it be symbolism? And, the cut on her wrist?
So sad and so sick
I wonder if after the gratification he felt an element of shame or guilt, hence why he covered her up and tired to make it look like a suicide. I assume that’s what the knife was for. Pretty pathetic attempt at it but possibly.
My coffee came out my nose when Ken said…"well this works." 😂
Jealousy motivated.
Guy was in a relationship with another girl.
Sounds like guys girlfriend set him up.
Or, she was cheating and her bf killed her.
The knife could be a message directed at the victim, see! You did it to yourself.
Or she sleeps with the knife for protection?
Apartment hahdiman?
Great video enjoy listening to you walk through the steps for cold cases😊
Some girls keep baseball bats or knives at their bedsides for protection.
I think maybe killer took a picture! Might at least be worth considering.
Regarding the knife in her hand, we can deduce it was placed there post-mortem, correct? Why? Killer covered her with a sheet, so it wasn't about posing for whoever would find her, right? If he was an organized killer… could he have taken a picture? Was that a pose for his picture? If so, could the killer be found through communities that fetish that type of imagery?