Special Halloween Edition: With Bears and Christopher Walken

Happy Halloween everybody.  Halloween is now the second most expensive holiday in terms of money spent, having passed Mother's Day and Valentine's Day in recent years.  I'll never understand it.

Anyway, here's another creepy (probable) murder (3rd 2nd story) in Happy Valley like the Pattee Stacks Murder that has never been solved. It involves State College and Philadelphia's Chinatown, two of my homesteads for significant periods in my life. Creepy.

Hyun Jong “Cindy” Song was a 21-year-old South Korean student attending Pennsylvania State University. In 2001, she dressed up in a bunny costume and attended a Halloween party at a nightclub in State College. After leaving the club, Cindy spent the next few hours hanging out with her friends before she was dropped off at her apartment at 4:00 AM. This was the last anyone ever saw of her. After Cindy was reported missing, a search was conducted of her apartment. There was no sign of any struggle, but many of her belongings, including the false eyelashes from her costume, were there, indicating that she had gone inside after being dropped off. But what happened to her afterward?
Shortly thereafter, a witness reported seeing a woman resembling Cindy in the Chinatown district of Philadelphia. This woman was inside a vehicle with an unidentified male and crying out for help. A bizarre lead came about in 2003 when a Luzerne County man named Hugo Marcus Selenski was arrested after the remains of five people were found buried in his backyard.
Even though none of these remains belonged to Cindy, an informant told police that Selenski and an accomplice named Michael Jason Kerkowski Jr. had abducted her. After Cindy was raped and murdered, the two men allegedly buried her body at another location. Kerkowski’s remains were found in Selenski’s backyard, and the informant claimed Kerkowski was murdered for keeping Cindy’s bunny ears as a souvenir. Thus far, no evidence was found to tie Selenski to Cindy’s disappearance, but in January 2014, the burned remains of a dozen more people were found buried on his property. It remains to be seen if any of them will be identified as Cindy Song.

  And Bear stories are a meme here, in case you didn't know.  Did I ever tell you about the time...

And here's some bears fighting it out as if they are at the 14th Annual Coach Groves Golf Tourney following the Marquis of Queensbury rules.  Remember, no springs in your shoes.

And just when you started to make fun of me for being scared of running into a bear, we have this episode of a bear killing a Big Ten member.  What is it with New Jersey?

NJ student may have died in state’s first fatal bear attack in 150 years

And last, but never least here's Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven as read by Christopher Walken.  You are welcome.