Approximately 390 cold case murders where bodies are found outdoors. Dumped. The updated number according to the task force.

Why?

On May 23, 1984, a 14 year old freshman named Laura Parker goes missing from Lindenhurst High School right after school. She is seen at her last period class. But she does not show up for her high school team soft ball practice. The practice starts right after school lets out. She loved softball and played it well. She would not miss a practice.

The Suffolk County Police claim to have launched an extensive investigation that determined that after her disappearance from her high school unnamed friends saw Laura in the Lindenhurst area. As a result the Suffolk County Police make the determination that Laura is not the victim of a crime but left home voluntarily. Another runaway that did not runaway in the land of unexplained death.

Laura’s family is simple working class Suffolk and prone to believe the police. They wonder aloud to the media as to what would cause Laura to run away. Laura’s father wonders if it was because Laura had gotten several poor grades. He doubts it though. He recalls that he “just finished hammering the last nail into their new deck.” To celebrate he told Laura that she could have a party. 

At lunch shortly before she went missing Laura told a close friend in the cafeteria about the planned party. Her friend described her mood as “bubbly.” Laura’s school locker contains her purse, make-up kit, diary and glasses. It is odd that Laura would run away without those items – is it not. One might think that someone took Laura from her high school. That would certainly hurt the morale of Suffolk County parents and taxpayers. However undaunted by evidence and logic the Suffolk County Police terminated the search for Laura.

Laura’s parents beg her to call them like the police assure them she will. Her parents even leave their number with the local paper. The paper prints it along with a plea from Laura’s parents to the public to call them if they have any information. And the sick crank calls immediately commenced from the loving Suffolk County citizenry.

On September 10, 1984, three and a half months after she disappeared the body of 14 year old Laura Parker is found in the woods in Lindenhurst, Suffolk County, New York. It’s not woods anymore.

In the woods near North Monroe Street where Laura is found – two miles from her home – there was what us Suffolk County kids used to call a “Fort.” Except the kids in Lindenhurst called it “the Hut.” The Hut is hole in the ground about four and a half feet deep and about eleven feet in diameter. According to the police this hole is covered with old plywood that has boxes on top. We used to build our forts high in the trees in the fresh air. 

In Lindenhurst teenagers used to hang out in the Hut on a regular basis from May 23, 1984, to September 10, 1984 when they found Laura. This kind of stuff was a Long Island ritual of rebellion. Kids used to smoke cigarettes at these hangouts. I nearly choked to death from it.

Police told the public that three teenagers went into the hut to tidy it up. They removed some debris, saw a shoe. Upon further investigation they found a skull under a rolled up carpet that the teenagers used to line the floor of the Hut. These rebellious teenagers rushed home to their moms who came to the Hut where they saw poor Laura’s skeletal remains.

Police now changed their tune. They opined that she died the day she went missing. None other than Suffolk County Police Department Chief of Detectives John F. Gallagher further opined “the feeling is she may have died of natural causes.” 

The sheer idiocy of Gallagher cannot be underestimated for that would mean that Laura climbed into the Hut and placed herself under the rolled up carpet – on May 25, 1984 – and simply died. She could not have frozen to death because it was summer. And there Laura lay and rotted in the sweltering heat as teenagers hung out with – unbeknownst to them – a rotting corpse. All this stinking rotting and hanging out happened inside a hole in the ground. But it took the kids three and a half months to find out – after the body was just a skeleton. Further that 14 year old female athletes disappear from their high schools just before softball practice. They just spontaneously die and end up in ditches where kids spend time together. It happens all the time.

Oh this is not the same Gallagher the comedian that used to smash watermelons and such with a huge sledgehammer. No this a funnier comedian.

Laura’s family buried her ashes near their church.

Police attempted to cast innuendo upon Laura’s father stating that some unnamed kids said she was “fighting with her father.” Meanwhile her father walked the streets every night looking for her. Every single day he combed the area. He hung up “fliers on the beach, on poles, on trees.” So said Mr. Parker’s neighbor a Mrs. Carroll Brennan. “What more can you say of a parent?” He searched from Lindenhurst all the way to and throughout Manhattan.



Mr. Parker no longer had many words for the media. He said, “I had three and a half months of false hope. I wish I had three and a half months back.” Mr. Parker was a man much like my father. Working class Suffolk County. What he was trying to say was that he wished he had Laura back. She was an angelic tom-boy with eyes that smiled as big as a 14 year old could dream. 

The case is unsolved. It belongs to Podcasts now. Official information is sparse. Like it was covered up or something.



Actually there are some that theorize that the small town did in fact cover it up. Podcasters. But it makes sense doesn’t it. Because it is just so stupid.

If it were covered up someone with some sort of power would have to be involved. And low and behold as soon as I mentioned that I received information too scant to fully discuss. You all know I am not afraid to name names. But not when it is this scant … I just can’t. 

According to the information the son of a Suffolk County Cop was involved. The son of this cop later died of a drug overdose. I ran it down. They – cop and son – lived in Lindenhurst at the time of Laura Parker’s disappearance. The father … that would be the Suffolk County Cop … still lives. Evil never dies.

Let’s move on with unsolved killings that reach epidemic proportions and are far more hideous. 

And away we go …

Oh sorry I have to go …

Time for my remote telephonic psychiatric appointment. The Pandemic has been over for more than three and a half years. Still my psychiatrist insists he feels more comfortable having our sessions on the phone. 

But I will be back. I promise.