{"id":24918,"date":"2022-11-01T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1730362"},"modified":"2022-11-01T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T09:02:09","slug":"what-happened-to-marie-elizabeth-spannhake-true-story-behind-unsolved-mysteries-case","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/what-happened-to-marie-elizabeth-spannhake-true-story-behind-unsolved-mysteries-case\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Marie Elizabeth Spannhake? True story behind Unsolved Mysteries case"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Lauren Morris\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 01 November 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The final three episodes of Unsolved Mysteries<\/a>\u2018 third volume arrived on Netflix<\/a> today, with the docuseries diving into a range of perplexing cases \u2013 including that of Marie Elizabeth Spannhake\u2019s.<\/p>\n

In the episode titled The Ghost in Apartment 14, we meet single mother Jodi Foster who claims that a flat she moved into was occupied by the ghost of Marie Elizabeth Spannhake, a woman who went missing in 1976.<\/p>\n

But who is Marie Elizabeth Spannhake, also known as Marliz, and what happened to her? Here\u2019s everything we know about the unsolved case.<\/p>

What happened to Marie Elizabeth Spannhake?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Marie Elizabeth Spannhake, also known as Marliz, was a young woman living in Chico, California who went missing in 1976 at the age of 18.<\/p>\n
She was last seen on 31st January 1976 and according Al Shamblin, the retired chief of police at Red Bluff Police Department, her missing persons report detailed that she had visited a flea market with her boyfriend but decided to walk home after they got into an argument.<\/p>\n
Spannhake is alleged by his former wife to have been abducted and killed by Cameron Hooker, who in 1985 was sentenced to 104 years in prison for kidnapping and raping Californian woman Colleen Stan.<\/p>\n
As described in Unsolved Mysteries, in 7th November 1984, Hooker\u2019s wife Janice alleged to Shamblin that her husband had also kidnapped and killed Spannhake. \u201cJanice\u2019s reasoning to come forward was that she was afraid of Cameron and also Janice had a lot of guilt built up from what had occurred over the years at different times,\u201d Shamblin said in the documentary.<\/p>\n
Janice was granted immunity for her cooperation and she alleged that on 31st January 1976, she was driving with her husband when they offered Spannhake a lift in their car. However, she claimed that Cameron stopped Spannhake from leaving the car and put a head box on her to prevent her from being heard.<\/p>\n
According to Janice\u2019s statement, her husband began torturing Spannhake and allegedly tried to cut her vocal cords to prevent her from screaming, but stopped after she began bleeding heavily. He took Spannhake down to the basement, where Janice reportedly found her hanging from the ceiling, with \u201ca noose around [her] neck\u201d and a pillow case over her head. The couple later allegedly drove Spannhake\u2019s body near Lassen Volcanic National Park and buried it in a shallow grave.<\/p>\n
Cameron and Janice kidnapped Colleen Stan in 1977 and she was kept as a sex slave for seven years, during which time she was kept in a box under the Hookers\u2019 bed in their Red Bluff home. Stan managed to escape in August 1984 and later reiterated what Janice had said to the police, adding that Cameron had a picture of Spannhake in their home.<\/p>\n
However, since Spannhake\u2019s body was never found, the district attorney\u2019s office felt that there was not enough information to pursue the murder charge against Cameron, who denies any involvement in the disappearance or murder of Spannhake.<\/p>\n
Hooker was sentenced to consecutive prison terms totalling 104 years for sexual assaults, kidnapping, and the use of a knife relating to the kidnapping of Stan, with the judge describing him as \u201cthe worst psychopath I have ever dealt with\u201d.<\/p>\n
Where are Cameron and Janice Hooker now?<\/strong><\/h2>\n $\"""\"$ <\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>