He gave him a trunk to store and had a corpse: the crime was solved after 40 years

It was a cool afternoon in 1987 when ‘Gabby’ decided to move from Thermopolis, Wyoming. As if it were her life, she mysteriously left almost running to an unknown destination. In that, he left an old acquaintance a large locked trunk to take care of while he found a place to stay.

Five years later, in 1992, Newell Sessions, the military veteran who received the trunk, decided it was time to open that package that his neighbor had ordered. but that in the end he had ended up abandoned.

Very carefully, he took a blowtorch and cut the padlock, not having the slightest idea what to expect. In the he found a human skeleton wrapped in a piece of plastic, a belt, and a rotting grocery bag.

Without much hesitation, he told his wife, who told him to call the authorities as soon as possible. And said and done, minutes later, Hot Springs County Sheriff John Lumley was at the scene where the remains of an unidentified person had been found.

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After briefly questioning Sessions, Lumley took the trunk and, along with the remains, took all the evidence to the Wyoming State Crime Laboratory.

Unfortunately, the only thing they could figure out at first was that the The victim had died from a shot to the chest and skull, behind the left eye. There, in turn, was the bullet that could perhaps give them some information about what had happened with that unknown person.

It was initially a practically impossible case. They had no place, date or time of death. They did not know the name of the victim nor of the perpetrator. The whereabouts and true identity of ‘Gaby’ were unknown, and Sessions seemed like he really had nothing to do with it.

As it was, they had to get by with just two tracks: The first was the 25-caliber bullet that was in the victim’s skull. According to the lab’s firearms examiner, it came from a Colt semi-automatic pistol, which became available in the United States around 1908.

The second clue wasThe bag that was with the body, which was from the ‘Hy-Vee’ chain, a supermarket originally from Iowa. According to the logo that was printed on the plastic, the Police found that it had been made in 1950.

With this in mind, they were able to determine that the crime had been committed between 1940 and 1960, but there was little more they could do. Or so they believed.

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‘Unsolved Mysteries’: The Show That Achieved the Impossible

The story came to national attention a year later, when the former NBC-TV true crime series ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ aired an episode titled ‘Gabby’s Bones’.

There they managed to reveal that ‘Gabby’ was really a man named John David Morris, a man who in 1992, after giving Sessions his bones, moved to Arlington, Texas.

Hot Springs County detectives never considered Morris a suspect in the trunk man’s murder.despite the fact that Sheriff Lumley did believe that perhaps he could give more clues about the identity of the person.

Thanks to the fury of the case, the media ‘Des Moine Register’ published a story about the case. That’s when Shelley Stlater’s father told her that those bones could really be her grandfather.

Shelley was a 19-year-old girl attending high school in Iowa. She knew her family was complicated, especially on her mother’s side. But she never wondered why.

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Or at least not until now.

Since then, she gradually became interested in her family’s history and eventually ended up immersed in the case.

Statler asked Wyoming authorities to match the DNA of his mother, Kathy Mulvaney Guynn, and the results were surprising.

The Bones of Joseph Mulvaney

Joseph Mulvaney was a technician in the Illinois Army National Guard when World War II began. He belonged to the 33rd Infantry Division and was serving in the Philippines and Australia until the end of the conflict in 1945.

Once retired, he moved to California to find a life in the railway sector. However, that was not the only thing he found. There he met Mary Alyce McLees, the woman he married and raised a large family.

The couple had three children and raised a little boy whom Mary Alice had conceived in a previous relationship: John David Morris, the man who had delivered the trunk to Sessions. Together they moved in 1963 into a small house south of Des Moines, Iowa; but shortly after Mulvaney signed the papers, she disappeared without a trace.

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This is the story Stlater tells. According to her, her grandparents never had a good relationship and that is why they may never have reported him missing. His theory is that he was shot dead at close range, put in the trunk and left in the attic for several years, until Morris took out the box before moving out.

In fact, it is known that Mary Alyce, who died at the end of 2009, never had a good relationship with her husband or with her children, much less with her grandchildren.

After all this research, Stlater and his mother did their best to confirm their hypothesis. Several years passed, until in 2017 Wyoming law enforcement officials agreed to match Guynn’s DNA to the bones. And, sure enough, the result showed that they were compatible by 99 percent.

Peace in his grave

Newell Sessions passed away in 2003 before the identification of the body and after a hard fight against cancer. He, like Shelley, had been very attentive to the evolution of the case and was an important face for the media that reported on the crime.

Stlater, for his part, managed to officially claim his grandfather’s remains from the state of Wyoming. On March 29, 2019, a full military memorial service was held for him at Ballard Funeral Home in Cody, where he was welcomed as a war veteran.

His remains were cremated and are now buried in Iowa, where his surviving family resides.

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