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Ted Kacyznski a.k.a. The Unambomber's Montana Years
TIME: 5 Minutes 6 Seconds

The popular perception regarding the Unabomber following his 1996 capture was that he lived over 25 years isolated in remote Montana wilderness completely cut off from society and civilization. The reality regarding his years of Montana residence is far less stark and extreme.

Witches Castle: Spirits Surround Portland's Ruin
TIME: 2 Minutes 29 Seconds

Portland's Witches Castle is located amidst an original 1850 land claim by the Balch Family. The patriarch hid on the property as a fugitive from justice for murder for six months. The sinister appearing castle has hosted Forest Park rangers and generations of Portland high school drinking bouts. Spirits are reported living but in what form?

The Fatal and Ongoing Curse of Tacoma Serial Killer Jake Bird
TIME: 3 Minutes 34 Seconds

In 1948, transient serial killer Jake Bird was convicted of a double ax murder in Tacoma. Convicted of first degree murder, Bird issued a curse upon the judge and law enforcement with strange consequences. The house where he committed the crime has remained haunted, empty and lingering in the stench of his hex.

The Shooting Site of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
TIME: 3 Minutes 1 Second

Casa Adobes is a high-desert northern suburb of Tucson, Arizona. On January 8, 2011 in a nondescript shopping center, a deranged killer shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords point-blank in the skull and killed six innocent bystanders. The then fierce outpouring of outrage numbed by subsequent legislative inaction on gun restraint has sadly made this unforgettable tragedy consigned as a mere incident amidst our violent domestic history

James Dean Crash Site and Memorial
TIME: 5 Minutes 8 Seconds


At approximately 5:45 p.m. on September 30, 1955, actor James Dean swerved at 85 miles per hour in an attempt to avoid a vehicle turning left in front of him. The northbound crossroads of California Highways 46 and 41 became the site of his Porsche’s head-on impact. Two survived the collision. He did not. View the narrated events and highway convergence that cost the life of one of America’s most idolized film stars at the age of 24.

"The Brutal Murder of a Eureka, California Priest"
TIME: 9 Minutes and 5 Seconds


The vicious New Years Day 2014 murder of Eureka, California priest Father Eric Freed exposed the dangers of a transient population ravaged by violence, drug abuse and mental illness.

"The Berlin Wall Twenty-Five Years After The Fall"
12 Minutes and 34 Seconds


The video traces the course of the Berlin Wall from the Wedding district to the Oberbaum Bridge over twenty-five years since the Wall was first breeched in 1989. View the radical changes in the landscape and surrounding constructions that have replaced the former concrete and barbed wire barrier.

"Vladimir Putin and His Dresden, Germany Years"
6 Minutes and 13 Seconds


The video examines a propaganda story introduced by Russian President Vladimir Putin crediting himself with single-handedly defusing a hostile East German crowd intent on ransacking the Dresden KGB offices in 1989. Vickers’ book “Vladimir Putin and Dresden, Germany: The Genesis of Myth Making”, recounts the narrative, first related in Putin’s published memoirs “First Person” (2000) and later embellished in a 2009 broadcast via a Russian national television documentary.

"Ted Bundy's Washington State Based Murders"
TIME: 5 Minutes 20 Seconds

A return to the Seattle area crime sites and scenes of serial killer Ted Bundy. Bundy was never tried for his Washington crimes following his apprehension for three muders in Floridia. He was executed on January, 24, 1989 in Gainsville.

CALIFORNIA ARTIST AND AUTHOR MARQUES VICKERS
marques@artsinamerica.com
(707) 712-8062

The Green River Killer, Meeker Bridge and The Permanent Blood Red Taint
TIME: 7 Minutes 30 Seconds

Between 1982-2001, Gary Ridgway was responsible for 90+ murders and possibly more. He was called the Green River Killer because his first victims were discovered floating under the Meeker Street Bridge in the water of the Green River in Kent, Washington. This is the story of man responsible for evil and death of vulnerable teenage women.

Magnificent Oregon Coast Panoramic Attractions on the Pacific Coast Highway
TIME; 8 Minutes 53 Seconds

Enjoy the stunning views and attractions adjacent to the Pacific Coast Highway stretching along the Oregon Coastline.

Visual Map of 2014 Elliot Rodger’s UC Santa Barbara Shooting Rampage
TIME: 6 Minutes 53 Seconds

Elliot Rodger grew up in privilege and affluence but the emptiness and deep seeded anger issues regarding his life resulted in a killing rampage on May 23, 2014 in Isla Vista. The UC Santa Barbara student killed six innocent victims in a drive and shoot massacre that left more disturbing questions than answers.

Abandoned Ghostly Reminders From the Cascade Mountain Train Tunnels
TIME: 5 Minutes 14 Seconds

View abandoned train tunnels and snowsheds located on an 8-mile stretch between Stevens Pass and the former railroad town of Scenic. The late 19^th century relics are a reminder of the former primary mode of transatlantic transportation and the site of the worst American railroad avalanche and catastrophe in Wellington in 1910.

Was This Teenage Couple the Zodiac Killer’s First Victims?
TIME: 2 Minutes 40 Seconds

On Tuesday, June 4, 1963 18-year-old Bob Domingos and his girlfriend Linda Edwards, 17, decided to not to join their high school peers for Senior Cut Day at Goleta Beach. Instead they choose an isolated stretch of beach near Gaviota with fatal consequences The killing bore similarities to the Zodiac murders which would commence five years later.

“I Hate Mondays”1979 Cleveland Elementary School Shooting in San Diego
TIME: 1 Minute 52 Seconds

On Monday January 29, 1979 , Brenda Spencer stepped outside of her father’s house with a .22 caliber rifle. She arbitrarily began firing into a group of Cleveland Elementary students across the street wounding 8 students, a police officer and killing the school’s principal and custodian.

San Francisco Zebra Killer Murder Sites
TIME: 6 Minutes 17 Seconds

Between August 1973 and April 1974 the city of San Francisco was terrorized by a series of cowardly hit and run murders conducted by a renegade assassin squad called the “Death Angels”. The video revisits the actual crime sites forty years later. Police identified the case as Zebra after the special police radio “Z” band they assigned for the investigation. The designation seemed equally appropriate given the racially motivated nature of the attacks. Twenty-two individual crimes within a six-month spree were attributed exclusively to four convicted suspects. Three remain imprisoned, one died in jail. They know secrets about the extent of the killings that will likely never be revealed. Was these synchronized murders part of a larger statewide ring involving over 200+ killings?

The Murder Site of Christopher Wallace a.k.a Notorious B. I. G. or Biggie Smalls
TIME: 2 Minutes 1 Second

The murder of Brooklyn’s Christopher Wallace, more renowned as rapper Biggie Smalls or The Notorious B.I.G. on March 9, 1997, punctuated a purported bi-coastal feud between factions of the warring rap music industry. This clip shows in the murder site at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and South Fairfax Avenue in the Mid-Wilshire District of Los Angeles, adjacent to Petersen Automotive Museum where he'd attended a party earlier in the evening.

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"The Alpha Dog" Movie Murder Location of Nicholas Markowitz
TIME: 2 Minutes 17 Seconds

In 2000 Nicholas Markowitz was kidnapped and held hostage by a gang that was owned money to by his half-brother. The bizarre sequence of events following became the movie “Alphadog”. Nicholas was killed on the gorgeous bluffs of Lizard’s Mouth Trail overlooking Santa Barbara and the Pacific Ocean. The panoramic footage shows the area where he met a brutal and senseless death.

CALIFORNIA ARTIST AND AUTHOR MARQUES VICKERS
marques@artsinamerica.com
(707) 712-8062

Reconstructing Kristin Smart's 1996 Kidnapping at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
TIME: 5 Minutes 40 Seconds

On the evening of May 25, 1996, Freshman Kristin Smart vanished and is presumed murdered following her return home from an off campus Fraternity Party. One sole witness last viewed her alive. He has become the primary suspect in a case that has ignited sustained passion and fury amongst her family, friends and the Central California Coast communities. Follow the trail of her intended route back to her Muir Hall dormitory on the Cal Poly campus.

The 1933 San Jose Kidnapping of Brooke Hart and Resulting Public Lynching
TIME: 4 Minutes 29 Seconds

On November 9, 1933 22-Year-Old Brooke Hart, groomed successor to San Jose’s giant Hart’s Department Store was kidnapped, killed and dumped into the San Francisco Bay. Once his body was discovered on November 26^th, a mob estimated to number between 5,000-15,000 broke down the doors of the downtown San Jose courthouse and lynched the two probably subject. No charges, no trial and no mercy.

Morro Rock: The Veiled Bride of the Nine Sisters
Time: 9 Minutes 32 Seconds


Morro Rock is the most prominent of the Nine Sister mountain range located within San Luis Obispo County and fronts a beachfront gateway to the city of Morro Bay, California. The ancient sacred rock is geographically termed a protruding plug rising from the Pacific Ocean. A volcanic plug can also be called a neck as it is an object formed when magma hardens within a vent on an active volcano. A man-made causeway and harbor connects the rock with the shore giving it the resemblance of an island. Morro Rock was initially surrounded by water but the northern channel’s harbor was later created from its sediment.

Entombing Our Icons: The Bruce and Brandon Lee and Seattle's Lake View Cemetery Memorials
Time: 5 Minutes 10 Seconds


Bruce Lee is lionized as a Chinese-American martial artist, Hong King film actor and director, martial arts instructor to celebrities, philosopher and founder of his own self-titled martial arts movement called Jeet Kun Do. He became the undisputed global face of a martial arts craze during the latter decades of the 20^th century. Neither new fads nor successors have eclipsed his unique fame. He was born in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1940 to a Cantonese actor and father, Lee Hoi-chuen and half-Chinese/German mother, Grace Ho. He was raised in the Kowloon district of Hong Kong until his late teens. Seattle would become his pivotal formation center. He transplanted at eighteen to Seattle. Upon his sudden death in 1973, he was interned at the Lake View Cemetery in the Capitol Hill Section of Seattle. Like the diverse population of urban Seattle, the composition of the Lake View Cemetery has evolved into its own semblance of multi-nationalism. Death and remembrance becomes irrespective of culture, importance or age. Tombs and plaques signifying Russian Orthodox, Communist and Masonic affiliation, Asian Nationalism and even artistic ciphers are interspersed amidst the grounds. Their subtle identifications are often invisible to the casual and transient viewers.

Toxic Silicon Valley: Poisoned and Tainted Groundwater
TIME: 7 Minutes 41 Seconds

The semiconductor manufacturing era of the 1970s and 80s created an environmental catastrophe with accompanying serious health risks throughout much of the Silicon Valley. Commercial and residential housing development has predominately replaced the former tainted lands. Should Silicon Valley residents be concerned about the potential future consequences?

Effectively Selling Your Original Paintings, Sculptures and Handmade Crafts
4 Minutes 25 Seconds

The realities of the marketplace for artists and artisans may often seem harsh and brutal. Enhance your odds for success with some of these basic marketing tools.