However, Marilyn Smartt did not recall the meeting and also said the two were not friends to her knowledge. Cabin 28 at the Keddie Resort, where the 1981 murders occurred. Backpackerverse.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Sue's two younger sons, Rick and Greg, as well as their friend Justin Smartt, were also in the house but were unharmed. As police continued to search for Tina, other officers brought in multiple suspects. She was also tightly gagged. Authorities also interviewed Marty's ex-con friend "Bo" Boubede, who had moved in with Marty. Life changed dramatically in 1981 for this whole community, Gamberg said meaning not just Keddie, which is six miles west of Quincy. Fragments of her skull and other bones were discovered in Camp Eighteen, CA. Hagwood also had a childhood friend who lived in Keddie's cabin 28 long before the Sharps moved in there. I didn't think it was fair that they would have to go through it I didn't think it would be good. They had died. A bent steak knife was found on the floor, and a bloody butcher knife and claw hammer were found on a small wooden table near the entryway to the kitchen. DNA deoxyribonucleic acid is now considered the most reliable physical evidence. Dee Mack, Are you related to Angelique or Angels Mother Hester Mack then later Hester McCormick? Subscribe now to PEOPLE for more on this case. And some of the evidence in storage is contaminated. And more developments are anticipated. Sheila Sharp has purposefully pushed the horrific images out of her mind. WANTED: The Keddie Cabin Killer Episode Summary A family's brutal murder rocks a tiny California town and leaves behind too many unanswered questions. People: 5 Things to Know about the Keddie Cabin Murders and the New Hunt for the Killers. The FBI was also involved because it was believed that Tina Sharp was abducted. KEDDIE, Calif. It has been 40 years since what is known as the Keddie Murders took place in rural Plumas County. His Case Was Reopened When Investigators Looked into Murdaugh Murders, 'People Magazine Investigates' : Inside Decades-Old Disappearances of 5 People Along the Snake River, An Ohio High School Forensics Class Joins the Hunt for a Young Mother's Killer. She reported the possibility of a homicide in Cabin 28. Advertiser Disclosure: Backpackerverse.com is a free online resource that offers valuable content and comparison services to users. This just seems like a rehash of an old article. "I didn't know what I was supposed to do," she says. Keddie Cabin Murders Solved?Listen: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ghost-town/e/67103419?autoplay=trueTrue Crime Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuy_Via5vtA\u0026list=PLv5QzOH7CKqBf9WTQVbfJw-sVrF0GtrDnSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4iUdTQnVVmyjM8je06uzR3Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpodContact: ghosttownpod@gmail.com\r#keddiecabinmurders #truecrime\r\rTranslated titles:\rAsesinatos de cabina de Keddie\r\rKeddie Cabin Murders Hagwood was a teenager at the time and knew some of the victims. There were faint but heavy footsteps walking in the dirt. "It struck this community harder than anything," he said of the killings. Blood spatters were found on the floor and ceiling suggesting the kind of forced used. It was April 11, 1981 when Sheila Sharp, 14, opened the door to her familys two-bedroom cabin and discovered the bodies of her mother, older brother and family friend in the small living room. To make things even more suspicious, the anonymous called identified the skull as Tina's. In earlier years, before the Sharps moved in, he spent nights there with a friend and his family. Unsolved Mystery of the Keddie Cabin Murders by Joe Turner 1 Listen to this article. Marilyn claimed to never receive the letter. "It could have been that I blocked it out, and the shock of it all, too.". Another piece of perhaps vital evidence that Gamberg discovered was in an envelope that was never opened. DNA taken from a strip of white medical tape consistent with that used to bind the victims hands and ankles, and to cover the mouth of one victim, has revealed much as the Plumas County Sheriffs Office moves forward in its efforts to solve the quadruple murder case. Subscribe now to PEOPLE, or pick up this week's issue, on newsstands now, for more on this case. After countless hours of digging, the clues in the cold case started heating up, and new light is emerging on the decades-old crime. An April 11, 1981 Keddie became known all over the country for a brutal and horrific murder. Boubede died in 1988, and Marty Smartt died in 2006. Decades after a teenage girl came home to find her family brutally slain in their resort cabin, police said the cold case was heating up. He soon moved on to another job and has since retired. He wonders if DOJ protected him. Defensive injuries would be discovered on her arms. * Stream our true crime show, People Magazine Investigates on Investigation Discovery, which includes an episode on the Keddie cabin murders. At the time, law enforcement felt that the murders were committed by "more than one person.". I taught Dana Wingate that year at the highschool. Why did a enforcer from the mob, 'Bo' Boubede, move in with Smartt just prior to the murders? In 2004 the now infamous Cabin 28 was condemned and demolished. Sue was covered by a yellow blanket; her hands and feet were bound by electrical wiring. Despite there being much more to this case, the investigation strangely stopped there. "I have always talked about the situation," Sheila says. About the Cabin 28 Keddie Murders Case: The morning of April 12, 1981, Glenna Sue Sharp and her kids, Tina and John, and John's friend, Dana Wingate, were brutally murdered inside house #28 in Keddie, California. Even though the tape was never voice-analyzed, the audio of that phone call is now being compared with audio of suspects to find a match. 2021. In one of the bedrooms, authorities found Rick, Greg, and their friend Justin Eason Smartt, unharmed. "But rarely did I speak to the family about it. Many others suspect the police on the case may have been involved in a cover-up. "I was told the suspects were told to get out of town, so to me that means it was covered up," Sharp said. Gamberg is having professionals analyze the tape recording comparing that male voice to recorded voices of others identified as potential or known suspects. That night I dreamt of a young girl, walking around the empty site. Sue Sharp, Johnny Sharp, and Johnny's friend Dana, were bound together by some type of electrical wiring. Both now share a common goalsolving the brutal quadruple murder that sat largely untouched for many years. The Gruesome Unsolved Keddie Quadruple Murders Posted on March 2, 2020 by Morbid N' Macabre Spread the love This is the crime which the movie "The Strangers" is loosely based on, though this true story is much more terrifying than any movie could ever be. Man Who 'Targeted Young Women' Convicted of Decades-Old Murders with Help of Investigative Genetic Genealogy, She Saw Her Family Murdered by a Hammer-Wielding Stranger When She Was 3. That and his personal connections led Hagwood to resurrect the case; to provide the resources and time needed to solve it. Both left the area. We aim to bring a resolution to cases which remain open. But that anonymous 911 caller said it was Tina's before the medical examiner confirmed it through dental records. He reportedly left for Reno, Nevada after the murders. Sheila's sister was missing her remains were found in the woods three years later. I felt this strong pressure on my throat. Even his leads in the case were ignored. I followed behind the footsteps until I heard them stop and a loud creaking noise took its place. But the void has stayed with her. 2016 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Along with key review factors, this compensation may impact how and where products appear across the site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). Although still open, it wasnt a priority. I was a little freaked out, but curiosity won out at the end. And as a deputy he knew what was and wasnt happening with the case. Leads werent followed and evidence wasnt checked. Locals describe it as a beautiful woodsy town, one with a strong sense of community. Every bit of evidence that can still be recovered is important to this case, according to Gamberg as he continues to search for leads and re-interviews anyone linked to the Keddie murders. In her book, Sheila wrote, "My mom's character has been subject to all manner of cruel supposition including accusations that she was a drug addict, drug dealer, prostitute, or at the very least an unfit mother.". In 1981, the gruesome murder of four in Cabin 28 of the Keddie Resort in Northern California has long been unsolved.or has it?. She waited and prayed for Tina to be found and reunited with her siblings a dream she held onto until 1984, when Tina's severed skull turned up in the deep woods some 50 miles away from the Keddie cabin, in another county. What else do you want?". This includes the living room carpet, wallboard and other items marked with blood and other potential evidence. Episode Info Although he prefers not to share his identity, dmac has been heavily investigating the Keddie murders for many years. "This killed this community Keddie was goneeddie was absolutely finished," Gamberg said. The sheriff at the time of the murders, Doug Thomas, is accused of a cover-up in many online theories. Three of them were murdered that night, and one of the children remained missing until years later. Keddie will never be the same because of those murders, and after visiting where it happened, I dont think I will be either, Kendall whispered. A GRAPHIC Look Back at the Keddie Murders On the morning of April 11, 1981, 14-year-old Sheila Sharp returned from a neighbor's house after a sleepover and stumbled upon the most disturbing and gruesome scene that she and the rest of Keddie, California, had ever seen. Our Forum holds the facts of the case. Although two of the main suspects, Smartt and Boubede are dead, they were alive at the time of Tina Sharps discovery. "There is not an expiration date on homicides, and to the extent that we have surviving siblings and family members, it is our fundamental obligation to them to understand who did this and why. Both had personal connections to victims of the case. She describes it as "more or less a self-help book, kind of how I dealt with issues that have happened in my life.". Of Marty and Boubede, he said, "The only thing I knew is, they hung out together. The hammer, similar to one reported missing by Smartt, was dug up near the crime scene just last month. Decades after the horrific incident, there is still significant public interest in the unsolved case. When finding out about Sue's interference with his marriage, Marty reportedly went "ballistic" about it. He also compared the available evidence in 1981 to someone firing a shotgun loaded with evidence and no one followed up on all of it as it spread out like pellets. The anonymous caller said he was watching the news about the discovery at Feather Falls down Highway 70 from Keddie. In 1979 she made the brave decision to leave her abusive husband and make the move from North Carolina to Northern California to be closer to her brother who lived in the town of Quincy. Gamberg also knew the two boys. Obsessed with travel? ET) on Investigation Discovery. On April 11, 1981, Sue's 14-year-old daughter, Sheila, spent the night at a friend's cabin, returning home to her own cabin the now infamous cabin number 28to discover her mom, one of her brothers (Johnny, 15) and his friend Dana Wingate (17) brutally murdered. 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A bent steak knife lay on the floor, and a butcher knife and claw hammer, both also bloodied, were side-by-side on a small wooden table near the entry into the kitchen. Sheriff Hagwood had this to say about the tape: The third development came from Gambert speaking to Marty's former therapist in Reno, Nevada. My reasons are simple: there is no evidence tying either of these men to the murders. As with other related evidence, the process of scientific evaluation is slow. What occurred next shocked the country: Four people were killed, three of which were found in Cabin 28. In the larger community of Quincy, with a population of just under 2,000, Sheriff Hagwood was a schoolmate of victims Johnny and Dana, and the summer before the murders they'd all worked together as teenagers on a painting crew. Among those questioned in the killings was Sue's neighbor Marty Smartt, who lived two cabins away with his wife (and Justin Smartt's mother), Marilyn. Amazingly, Sheila's two little brothers, Greg and Rick, then 5 and 10, were asleep and unharmed in an adjacent bedroom, along with a friend. Apparently Marty had confessed to the murders in a session. Everybody was suspicious of everybody and afraid of everybody else, he said. In recent interviews, both Hagwood and Gamberg said the sheriffs office and the California Department of Justice blew it in 1981. It was an emotional experience, but it didnt reach its peak until after I got home. The three were killed using knives and a hammer. They looked through every box in connection with the case and found a recording of a man believed to be one of the killers, or at the very least an accomplice. It haunted people. As she got older and contemplated a career in law enforcement, she became more interested in the case. Moving forward, DNA might still be retrievable from evidence collected at Keddie Cabin 28 if it hasnt been compromised and DNA testing facilities are notoriously backlogged. "I thought the adults would do something. He writes under dmac and Dee Mack but his name is David McNarie. Its suspected that someone brought a hammer, the one recovered in a nearby pond in 2016, as well as using a hammer and knives found in the home. ", Thomas wasn't so sure. Between them lies the forgotten tape of the anonymous phone tip left in 1984, rediscovered in 2013. "I want to remember the happy times," she says. Then he got fired. The Keddie Cabin Murders: With Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford. It sounded within two feet of me, but nobody was around. DOJ sent two men, special agents Harry Bradley and P.A. Updated 2/11/2020 Sue Sharp, her son John and his friend Dana were found in the Sharp family cabin beaten and strangled to death in the family room. Boubede died in 1988, according to Gamberg. "The neighbors say I came back screaming. The therapist also reportedly told Gamberg that he was surprised the investigators at the time of the murder hadn't used the confession against Marty. In 1981, the gruesome murder of four in Cabin 28 of the Keddie Resort in Northern California has long been unsolvedor has it? It was discovered on the once cheerful, ivy patterned wallpaper and on some bedding in the bedroom Sheila and her sister, Tina, shared with their mother. "The most vivid image I have is of my brother laying there," she says. On April 12, 1981, a group of 7 people went to sleep in Cabin 28 at the Keddie Resort Lodge in California. There have been a lot of rumors floating around and unfortunately people are considering them as the truth, instead of checking and doing the research. Just as important, Gamberg and Hagwood wonder if they've also recovered another of the murder weapons. While the crime was being reported, Jamie Seabolt, Sheila Sharp and possibly Zonita Seabolt helped the three young boys out a side bedroom window of the cabin. The problem there is that its become disorganized. People Magazine Investigates' episode on the Keddie cabin murders airs Monday (10 p.m. It has been 40 years since the tragedy took place in rural Plumas County. That includes the possible mishandling of evidence Hagwood and Gamberg were determined to find. Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter. As of November 2016, it was being tested for DNA or blood residue as a possible additional murder weapon. rice farms in northern california. It's a believe long-shared by the victims' family. It's a case that involves a triple-slaying and a missing child whose remains. Also, a man recently discovered a steel blue claw-hammer using a metal detector that matched the description of one that Marty had told investigators he lost. In the rural town of Keddie, California, a mother and three children were attacked on Saturday, April 11, 1981. Sue Sharp had envisioned a new life when she moved near her brother, Don, from Connecticut to northern California with her five kids in the late 1970s. Justin Smartt Eason, 12, one of three boys left alive in a second bedroom, was allowed to spend the night. To join the discussion, click the link below. Spring showers replenished the waterways near the Feather River, giving life to the picturesque landscape in Plumas County, about 140 miles northeast of Sacramento. The freezer got turned off, Gamberg said. Although a lot of potential evidence was collected and catalogued, very little worthwhile information was realized from the scene. In a way, their work has only just begun. "She's a hard one to talk about," Sheila says. And there were only two suspects examined by the police Marty Smartt and his roommate Bo Boubede, who lived two cabins down from the Sharps. Neither Hagwood nor Gamberg are willing to divulge specifics on whom theyre watching, but new evidence has given them solid leads. Outside of organized crime, that basically never happens, and even within the world of organized crime it is probably quite rare to have so many people in on a hit. More than 35 years after a teenage girl came home to find her family brutally slain in their resort cabin, police say the cold case is heating up. "I believe in one-way shape or form we are going to pull this together," Gamberg said. And now two years after that, hes announced that theres more that links a living person or persons to the crime. Investigators now seek any biological material including skin, hair, blood and other bodily fluids at crime scenes, according to Randy James in a 2009 feature on DNA testing for TIME. But she doesn't get to the great-grandkids, she doesn't have that. The tape was never admitted into evidence, and it was in fact found at the bottom of a box. Both Hagwood and Gamberg said residents had very little trust or confidence in the sheriffs department before the murders. A segment of tape containing identifiable DNA was found on the floor near the body of Glenna Sue Sharp, 36, in 1981, Plumas County Sheriffs special investigator Mike Gamberg said recently. Brenda Brown, Ryan Becker, 2020 "Murder in California: Serial Killers and Unsolved Murders", Marques Vickers, 2019; References This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 06:27 (UTC). And the cops have DNA. The Crime Logs mission is bring awareness to crimes which are both solved and unsolved. Keddie Cabin Murders Solved? For some reason, the DOJ had an interest in Boubede, according to Gamberg. Deputy Hank Klement was the first to arrive on scene. Reporting on what you care about. By. New evidence has surfaced in the infamous 37-year-old Keddie murders case. His department was short of funding and he was short staffed. Teen Died Mysteriously in 2015. Investigators Allude to a Break in the Keddie Cabin Murders The 1981 murder of Sue, Johnny, Tina Sharp and Dana Wingate remains a mystery, but we may be seeing an arrest soon. The Keddie Cabin Murders took place on April 12, 1981; Sue Sharp, two of her children, and her son's friend lost their lives. Authorities arrived at the scene shortly after 8 a.m. It said, "I've paid the price for your love and now that I've bought it with four peoples lives, you tell me we are through? Main Street Artists Gallery puts the work of two artists in the spotlight for March Debbie Kercmar Boyd and, FRC is joining Plumas County and Plumas Unified School District, with campus remaining closed on Wednesday, March 1st. Public File for KMAX-TV / Good Day Sacramento. Sheriff Hagwood gave an update on the status of the case: Sheriff Hagwood had this to say in regards to Marty Smartt and Bo Boubede being the killers: Sheila Sharp, the surviving member of the Sharp family had this to say of Hagwood: As of now, nobody has been charged and Hagwood and Gamberg continue to dig deeper into what happened that tragic night. Hes had the DNA for several years, but it wasnt until recently that he obtained needed samples and found the match. Sharps oldest daughter, Sheila, had been at a sleepover when she returned to the family home, Cabin 28, to find her murdered family. "She was a kind and loving mother who was doing her very best to raise five children alone. Truly a case of wrong place, wrong time. The second development was something else found in the same boxes of case files: the taped anonymous phone call that tipped off the location of Tina Sharp's remains. November 22, 2016. Severin John Bo Boubede, Smartts friend. And I have every confidence that they either participated after the fact or they have first-hand information Its obviously a worthwhile pursuit. And also, as I'm growing older, what can I expect in my later years? It's debated whether it was the murders themselves that led to less interest in renting in the once-busy area, or if it was the allegedly poor management of the cabins themselves that led to fewer people being willing to live there. This case is as screwed up as a soup sandwich, Gamberg said recently. Its known that Sue Sharp was home with her daughter Tina, 12, and her two sons, Rickey, 9, and Greg, 5. A few Keddie residents believe that when Cabin 28 still existed, it became haunted after the Sharp murders. CALLER: And I was just wondering if they thought of the murder up in Keddie up in Plumas County a couple years ago where a 12-year-old girl was never found? What has made this case particularly hard to organize is that the original case history log who did what and on what date is gone. Hagwood commented on the theory of it being a cover-up: "It has brought to light some amazing timelines, histories, and what some may call 'coincidence.' And there were few reassurances from the sheriffs office that they were doing everything possible to catch the killers. He was also familiar with Cabin 28 in Keddie. Hagwood personally knew them. A Daughter's 35-Year Fight For Justice: Sheila Sharp Longs to Know Who Murdered Her Family in Their Cabin Sheila Sharp who discovered the victims of the Keddie Cabin 28 murders in 1981, when . My kids don't know who my mom is. However, she did recognize her ex-husband's handwriting. Sheila herself hopes the case will be solved. The two say they've zeroed in on longtime suspects, and they believe they've discovered new evidence and re-discovered old evidence that was either forgotten or overlooked that could point to a resolution. * Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? There is not an expiration date on homicides, and to the extent that we have surviving siblings and family members, it is our fundamental obligation to them to understand who did this and why, Hagwood said in 2016. ", "It's a little bit confused," Sheila says of her recall after more than three decades. "I guess I don't want to relive that," she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue of the memory 35 years ago when, at age 14, she opened the front door of her family's northern California cabin to find their bloodied bodies on the living room floor. "I know we are closer than we've ever been.". She has never surrendered her hope the case would be solved, if only to rescue her family's reputation and by extension her own. We questioned them extensively.". "It's very easy to say somebody's guilty when they're dead," he said. He lived there with his mother and stepfather, Marilyn and Martin Marty Smartt, and his brother. Dozens peripherally involved in the case had motive, if not opportunity, yet Law enforcement immediately zeroed in on their prime suspects then, seemingly inexplicably, ignored them. The mystery endures about who brutally murdered the Sharp family single mom Sue Sharp, 36; her son Johnny, 15; daughter Tina, 12; and Johnny's friend Dana Wingate, 17 in the small Sierra Nevada community of Keddie, California. The footfalls stopped close to me for a moment, but then started up again, moving closer to where the cabin had been. in 1990. There are people locally who know more than theyve said, and I believe weve identified some of them, and we know who they are, and we know where they are. Case file update is a new column featuring previous cases involving Plumas County and its people. "The fascinating aspect of that discovery is that the envelope had never been opened," Hagwood said. "There are people locally who know more than they've said," Hagwood told PEOPLE, "and I believe we've identified some of them, and we know who they are, and we know where they are. ", "But then it's also, I think, made me stronger," she says, "because I've had to look out for my two younger brothers. What hadn't been discovered until last month was a hammer that's believed to be one of the murder weapons. I could ask a hundred people what started this and Id probably get the same rehashed rumors from most of them. When Tina's remains were first found in 1984, on the third anniversary of the murders, her skull was unidentified. Editorial opinions expressed on the site are strictly our own, and are not provided, endorsed, or approved by advertisers. Johnny was face-up, with hands and feet bound by electrical cord that also wrapped around Dana's feet. They said I said it was Johnny. * Watch our new true crime show, People Magazine Investigates, which continues with an episode on the Keddie cabin murders on Monday at 10 p.m. Why did both DOJ and sheriff Doug Thomas skate these key suspects when LE noted they were lying, and Marty FAILED his polygraph? He said, And I was wondering if they thought of the murder up in Keddie up in Plumas County a couple years ago where a 12-year-old girl was never found.. On the night of April 11, 1981, four people were brutally murdered in Cabin 28 of the Keddie resort in Northern California. He became a deputy in his hometown in 1988. Its also believed medical tape was brought along, and theres some evidence that an 880 BB or pellet rife was there, but was not recovered at the scene. ", "To have this solved would finally give my family some closure, some answers as to why it happened and why it took so long to solve," Sheila says. 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