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Continue reading →: The Murder of Pauline Storment
It was a warm April night in Fayetteville, Arkansas when 27-year-old Pauline Storment was brutally murdered. The medical examiner’s reports confirmed the gruesome details—Pauline had been stabbed seven or eight times with a sharp instrument, her body stained with her own Type A blood.The investigation quickly honed in on seventeen-year-old…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to the Gray House – A Night of Amphetamine Induced Euphoria
The Gray House: A Hub of Activity The Gray House appears to be a central location for various individuals throughout the evening of April 12, 1971. Michele K. Phelan states she was there around 6:00 PM, talking to friends in Tim Copeland’s and Terry Smith’s apartment. She indicates that Peter…
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Continue reading →: UNSOLVED: The Tragic Murder of My Cousin Pauline Storment.
The Pauline Storment Story Pauline Storment’s murder has been a shadow in my life for decades. The details of this tragedy have lingered since my childhood, yet it wasn’t until my forties that I began to actively investigate, driven by a need to understand what happened. Since my initial Freedom…
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Continue reading →: Kawinkidink Alert: Could the murders of Betsy Aardsma and Pauline Storment be connected?
Kawinkidink Alert! 🕵️‍♂️ Okay, let’s get serious. There’s a super curious connection between two unsolved cases that has my inner Scooby-Doo—Mystery Machine brain working overtime. One happened deep in the stacks of the library at Penn State in 1969, and the other just a couple of blocks away from the…
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Continue reading →: Unveiling Shadows: The Enigma of Pauline Storment's 1971 Cold Case
Picture it: the night of April 12, 1971, a peaceful evening in Fayetteville, Arkansas. A young woman named Pauline Storment was walking south along Duncan Avenue, having just left the University of Arkansas. Little did she know, this seemingly ordinary walk would tragically mark the end of her life. Storment…
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Continue reading →: Justice in the Shadows: The Constitutional War of Wallace Peter Kunkel
In the heart of Washington County, Arkansas, the machinery of justice often grinds slowly, but rarely does it spark the kind of fervent legal warfare seen in the case of State of Arkansas v. Wallace Peter Kunkel. While the tragedy lies in the silence of Pauline Storment—a life cut short…
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Continue reading →: Kunkel's Memory of the Night
The following is the statement Wallace Peter Kunkel provided to the police. I interviewed the aforementioned suspect on April 23, 1971. He provided the following account of the events on the night of April 12, 1971. According to his statement, at around 5:30 p.m., MICHELLE PHELAN called him at his…
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Continue reading →: UPDATE: What to do when the DNA evidence collected in 1971 vanishes?
 For some some time now I have been curious about the possibility of taking whatever DNA was provided by the accused attacker and re-testing it with modern technology but that hope appears to have been lost for now, short of finding enough proof to convince a judge to exhume a…
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Continue reading →: How Google's Historical Street View Images Brought Pauline Storment's Story A Bit More Clarity.
For the longest time, I had operated on the assumption that Pauline Storment had been walking on the west side of the road, the left side of this photo, where the better sidewalk is. Yet going back and reviewing the witness statements from Robert L. Spray and John A. Hall…
Hello,
I’m Lance
Why do I care?
It’s because my maternal grandfather’s cousin was Pauline Storment and I have seen everyone who knew her pass on without ever learning the truth.
So, that is why this site is dedicated to exposing the hidden truths that have held her tragic murder in the shadows for all these years.
We may never ger the complete picture of that night but I will go to my grave knowing I did everything to honor her memory and untangle the web of confusion that has engulfed this case for half a century and counting.
