THE UNEXPLAINED DEATH OF SHIRLEY LEE PARKER | What REALLY Happened the "Lady in the Lake"?
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Today we discuss another Lady in the Lake case. This one out of Baltimore, Maryland during the late 1960's. A death that has never been classified as a homicide but will leave you wondering what actually happened...
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Summed up in one word - Arno.
Shirley was murdered by the deadbeat sponge of a boyfriend.
This was Baltimore, right? In April? I don't believe she would have decided to go for a dip! I think the water would have been kinda cold
Not only that, but how did she get up into that light fixture? REALLY!
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This is really sad. I feel horrible for her family not having any answers.
As a family member missing someone who we have no idea what happened, I would much rather know. The mind wanders to dark territories in wondering what happened, where are they, are they suffering or did they suffer??? I would much rather know even if it is horrible.
Beaver Cleaver just had to know what was in that soup bowl.
I am with the people saying ARNO. Also like someone pointed out. Cold?
Good story Gabby
A sad case but i think the explanation that she fell and hit her head is possible.
How could they tell she was not strangled?
I can’t say for certain how they did for her case but I would guess they went off of seeing if there was any damage to the larynx and/or fracture of the hyoid bone.
Do you have a specific length of time that a story has to be older than before you cover it? Like does it HAVE to be 20 plus years older?
Perfect im on the Bus Going to work
Have you ever covered the murder of Gretchen Harrington?
Okay but who goes swimming with ALL of their clothing on, including knee high boots? That doesn't make any sense to me.
He did it.
Would be crazy if her son David's theory is what happened. A freak accident.
Um yeah she didnt randomly go swimming w all her clothes on🤦♀️ random side note.. , the R&B group Dru Hill (Sisqo is the lead singer) is from this neighborhood by Druid Lake. Thus the name of their group Dru Hill.
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Arno did it. He made up a bunch of untruths. He had the purse the entire time, took the money then made up a story.
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She and Arno went on the boat together. He brought a hammer. He hit her in the back of head with the hammer as hard as he could. It knocked her into the water. She was extremely disoriented from head trauma and breathed in some water before she began swimming. He was still in the boat, so she swam to the fountain and climbed up it to get away from him. He yelled at her that he'll be waiting on shore for her before rowing back to shore cause he got cold. She, petrified, stayed on the fountain. She wanted to hold out until morning, hoping someone would see her and save her from Arno. The hypothermia got to her first though, and she unfortunately didnt make it until morning. The head trauma was severe enough that even if she had survived, she likely would've been disabled or changed. He was attempting to kill her, but she got away and died awaiting rescue.
This definitely seems like a murder to me. The water would've been *super* cold and nobody, drunk or sober, is going to go swimming in frigid lake water wearing a coat and knee-high boots. I would guess that he maybe knocked her unconscious during that fight and brought her to the lake at that point. He then realized that her purse was still at his place, which is why he "found" it by the lake later and gave it to the police. He could've told his buddies to lie and say they met up with them at the bar; if they knew about the affair, he could've told them he had been with the other lady and didn't want the cops to know about it.
Whatever happened, I feel awful for Shirley and her family. I hope her sons get answers someday.
I hope his friends grow spines and speak up about it if that's the case.
Far too hinky not to be homicide and Arno sounds like the most likely suspect. Thanks.
an avid swimmer is not going to get in a lake after drinking, alone at night … c’mon now! he dropped her at the lake alright … in the lake!
Not the way a good swimmer would choose to end their life. Plus she had a beloved child, employment and was a strong woman. Was she going to give up over a jumpsuit bought by a sponge?
I'm going through the worst time of my life (my mum died and I'm an only child, single, so I am totally alone in the world now). But your videos keep me company somehow. I love your sweet face and the respectful way you always talk about the case. I follow you on Instagram too, sent you a message once, at your old username... I don't think you read it but it was basically the same good things I am saying now. Thank you Gabby. Much light your way, always. 🙌🏼✨🤍
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So sorry for your loss. Praying for you 🙏 may you be comforted x
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I am so incredibly sorry for your loss. My old Instagram was taken down over a year ago so I unfortunately don’t have access to those messages anymore and I usually tried to reply to any kind messages I received. I truly appreciate the support! Sending love your way during this difficult times. ❤️
Gabby gives appropriate attention to people who would be forgotten otherwise. She cares, and that is comforting.
I am so very sorry for your loss, sending prayers your way 🙏🏾
Great job on this!! I was born in Baltimore and 9 when this happened. This was a huge story at the time.
I don’t believe for a minute that she did that to herself. If you just got into a fight with your boyfriend about him stealing money to buy something for a different woman, you are going to be so pissed off there’s no way you would get in the car with him willingly, and then say that you want to go swimming in a lake at 2 AM and could you drop me off. What woman would want to go in a forested, dark area alone in the middle of the night?! And how would she have swam with her clothes AND knee-high boots on?!! And a coat too??!! She had enough experience with swimming to know how difficult it would be to swim with big heavy boots on your feet. How did she climb up into that tower in pitch black still wearing boots would now be slippery from the water? She was smarter than this. And the boyfriend checking himself into a mental hospital because he was supposedly so upset over her death is a very convenient way to make it seem like you are truly upset and a good alibi in case he would be brought to trial that he was too mentally ill to know what he did. Someone took her into that lake to die and it’s sad that everyone just brushed it off as an accidental death or suicide. I feel sorry for her son for believing that. He is either in denial or fearful of the person who did it. This was no accident. This was no suicide. This was murder.
I completely agree with what you’re saying! It’s hard for me as a RUclipsr with a platform to jump to any conclusions in such an old case but I thoroughly believe there is more to the story.
@@gabulosisThank you for listening to my theory! I was just looking at some details from a woman’s perspective that seemed odd. Anyways, I love your channel! You put a LOT of work into each case! 🩷
Totally agree!
Wow I came here to leave a comment but I don't need to: you wrote exactly what my thoughts are! It's sad and infuriating at the same time... Poor Shirley so full of life, so intelligent, with a brilliant future ahead of her, just interrupted by a s1ck c0ward. (Sorry but I have no other words for this guy!)
My thoughts entirely. RIP, Shirley. I hope there is a memorial at the lake in her memory at some point as well.
This is an interesting case, Gabby! Lots of possible scenarios, but I have the impression Shirley's death was NOT accidental. Hope one day answers can be found to bring closure to her family.
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Maybe the city could turn on special lights at the lake in her memory on mothers day every year.
I think they could put a statue of her in the lake. Like an angel statue of her.
21.22 pm in the U.K. Perfect timing as have just crawled into bed 😄 Hope you’re doing well Gabby, sending you all my best wishes 💜
So failed lie detector
Witness saw him strike her
Had another side chick
Spent her $
Mother said she didnt come home-HE DID IT!
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No way was that a suicide.
Also, that black hair 😍 ❤
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Another good video Gabby you handled it well. I enjoy your work thanks.
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Hi Gabby this is a very sad and tragic cold case of Shirley. Hope her family will get justice by now 🙏
Woman in this situation would be more likely to put him in the lake than herself. Can you imagine swimming in boots? Much less knee high boots. My niece did swim out in a lake to committ suicide, and she also wore boots all the time. She left her boots at the edge of the lake before swimming out. Her name is Cristy Campbell and her story was quite notorious in Illinois, Her own father committed suicide when she was 5 and her husband was very abusive to her, They had 7 children, and she shot her husband and burned the house down with him in it before driving into the lake with her baby in the back seat. She needed psychological help as a child, and the domestic violence included simply caused her to snap one day. She had been a great mother of all honor roll students, involved in sports and church attendance. It was such a shocking story- somehow none of the crimes were ever proven and the insurance covered both Crist and her husband Jay, as well as the car, and the house. All 7 children survived and are doing surprisingly well today.
It would be a nice gesture for the NAACP Baltimore or the Urban League to put a bench there for her.
A hole in the back of the head was not from a fall in the fountain. Arno did it. He had mental problems from the beginning. The guilt was praying on his mind. Arno guily as guilty gets. He took her purse and emptied it of money. Who swims with their jacket and boots on?
This is just one more of many cases when it was easier to declare dead women and children did it to themselves rather than investigate and charge those actually responsible.
I don't believe for even a second that she did this to herself. She had a huge fight with her boyfriend after he stole money from her to buy something for another woman. I personally think her boyfriend is responsible for her death.
It’s always nice to see you talk about cases like this. Some deaths are so bizarre that it’s not known what happened for many years, and even then it might not be simple to explain. Thank you for the work you do Gabby, have a great rest of your day and take care!
Thank you for the kind words, have a great rest of your day as well! ☺️
Born and raised in Baltimore Maryland and I'm still here I be 40 this year and I have never heard of her or her case and it's really sad and I hope they do something here to memorialize her death❤ tfw
I am 66 getting ready to turn 67.I have never heard of this story either. I seriously doubt though that she will be memorialized. Baltimore doesn't have that kind of money. You do one you better do them all. Start with the victims who have never received justice in Greenmount, then you have Pigtown, the unsolved in Hamden,the unsolved in Roland Park and I can go on. I imagine you would like BCPD to close down for 3 yrs so all these cases (the majority of which) are not going to be solved. You don't have a clue or are delusional.
I’m two years behind you and I literally lived 700 feet away from there and never heard about her unfortunately
@@leahhayes8256 sad I'm over east now but rised in west Baltimore near walbrook high School ,near North Ave smh never heard of this case
@@cherylnelson3554 Would it cost so much to turn on the lights once a year? Are they that hard up?
Afro American Newspaper? Crazy that it was segregated as well! Wow!!!
Questional Death😮 Really, no drugs found and trama to the back of Her head. He failed his polygraph too😲
Why would her boyfriend kill her when he had such a good meal ticket? Maybe they were both drunk out at the lake, got out of the car to walk & get fresh air to clear their heads, then got into another heated argument. Perhaps he struck her again, & she fell, hitting her head on a rock. Perhaps this killed her, or perhaps he was just afraid she was dead, so he took the body out to the fountain to hide it, causing her to drown. No way she'd go swimming in all those clothes! And there's no other person who would want to kill her, is there? 🤔
Hello from Tennessee Gabby your looking beautiful today ❤ thank you for telling these long forgotten crime stories 😞
from baltimore I remember hearing about this case always been a mystery
This was definitely murder imo. So tragic
It's çlear to everybody that the facts of this case do not add up to reaching the conclusion this was not a homicide. They don't lead to any conclusion at all. A good litmus test for whether someone is worth listening to or not is if they are so arrogant that they view own personal hunches as a perfectly equal substitute for actual evidence. We don't know obviously but I think the evidence leans more toward foul play.
How tragic for this to happen to this young lady! 😒
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It seems most unlikely Shirley committed suicide in the fountain, and it seems just as unlikely her death was an accident. How the medical examiner could tell she possibly died of exposure after decomposing for 40 days seems beyond the forensics of the time, but the water in her lungs is significant. The hole in the back of her skull may have knocked her out, and she drowned after being thrown into the fountain. I also believe Arno's alibi is extremely suspicious, and it seems to be unsubstantiated.
This could not be a suicide. Especially if she was an award-winning swimmer, her instincts would not let her do this. She was murdered.
The Boyfriend Did it!!!
Baltimore, Maryland is not a place I would ever want to visit. Too much weird happenings. Watch the documentary “The Keepers”. Heartbreaking.
I live in Baltimore and was 4 when Ms. Parker was murdered. Her murder never got the attention it deserved outside of black press, it was a huge story in my neighborhood. Trust me, no one swims in that lake, much less fully clothed. This case is used as training for new Baltimore City police officers. There have been a lot of theories including her body was pulled through the drainage system and ended up in the fountain. In any case her family deserves answers
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I would think her fingers would have been way too bloated and decayed form being in the water so long to get fingerprints
Mail is not being recieved I can imagine how many you have!
They could at least name the fountain after Shirley
Had a difficult day, so I am happy to see you have just uploaded a video. I am sure watching it will help me relax before falling asleep. Thank you Gabby 💓
I hope your day gets better! ❤️
Thank you Gabby 💓 Today was better, your reply to my comment definitely helped, too ☺️
Her boyfriend did it.
Uhhh huh Arnot...
Correct me if im wrong but how did they compare finger prints when he body was in the water over a month. Wouldnt he skin and fingerprints be basically gone at that point
yes it would be sloughed off, and whatever was left would not contain fingerprints.
All of the puzzle pieces in this one do not fit accordingly.
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Two questions:
How far was Shirley's residence from the lake? Was it a reasonable walking distance?
Was the ladder physically part of the fountain? In other words, was it permanently there? (Rather than just being brought out only when maintainance was required.)
I think her sons theory is correct!!
Het death is suspicious. I live sevetal miles from that lake, its a rough area nowadays.
Tragic.
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I've never been this early hell yeahhhh
If she was that decomposed, how did they get prints?
She was not completely decomposed.
Thank you.
I hope the case gets solved soon.I love the idea of memorialising her.I was thinking the Boyfriend was guilty the whole time but I just don’t know
Such a sad and strange case. Shirley wouldn't have gone swimming in a coat and boots, no matter what her state of mind or level of sobriety. Even if she had intended to unlive herself in the fountain (highly unlikely), she would have removed her coat and boots to swim there. Seems she had more cause to be angry at Arno than to be despondent about life in general. Arno's story is totally unbelievable, but what really happened? How could he have taken Shirley out in the lake to the fountain, unless maybe there were unsecured boats nearby? Or is there a significant current in the reservoir that could have carried her there, after Arno threw or pushed her in? It's unfortunate Arno wasn't charged, but I can see why. It is impossible to tell what exactly he did (reckless h*micide? second degree m*rder? first degree?). Any halfway competent defense attorney could argue reasonable doubt against any theory that a prosecutor could form.
I do not believe she killed herself. But I do think her son's explanation made sense. If Arno had killed her, how would he get her body to the fountain and why bother? Would have been easier to just push her off the edge - and would've looked more like an accident. I do think he may have lied about taking her home. Also, her purse could have been stolen. I lean toward accident while she was swimming. Maybe she had swam out to the fountain before, but not after drinking so much.
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Does the NAACP describe itself as an "interracial organization"? 😂
Some of the founding members were Black, but most weren't. The idea to establish it came from two people who were not Black. Membership has never been limited to one ethnic group.
@@JJoy-bk8yr I'm aware the history of the orgs founding 😁. Plus, my people rarely ever ban others from joining our cause due to race. Thanks for the info though. I still find that description funny in combo with the orgs name 😂.
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Afri-CAN, American… we’re not the only race who can sport Afro’s.. if you’re looking for a shortened word for African, it would be Afr-A, since the word Africa ends in an “A”.
It is known to us that Afro-American is another derogatory term as a way to pigeon hole us with racial stigma. Words to grow on 😉
I am sorry but I don’t know what else I should have called the newspaper because that is the name of the newspaper. It is called the Afro American Newspaper, I did not name the newspaper myself and I have to give credit where it is due if there is information that comes from a specific source. I list my sources in the description of my videos so if you want to check it out for yourself then you can. I would never be offensive in any way to any race of people, I can’t call the newspaper anything else because that is its name. As their own website states, “The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO 130 years ago with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a platform to offer images and stories of hope to advance their community. The AFRO provides readers with good news about the Black community not otherwise found.” I hope that clears things up.
@@gabulosis you’re fine, no worries. I totally get what you’re saying. I’m not blaming you or anyone else who really doesn’t understand that history. Just figured I’d put it out there.
Anyways, I love your channel. Keep up the good work and the intriguing stories.
@@LyndaE79 Understandable, I just wanted to make that known. Thank you for the support and kind words!
??? what are you on or smoking? Nobody anywhere uses the term 'Afr-A' outside of seemingly your personal delusions!?
NO, Afro-american is not a derogatory term its excepted as a legitimate term everywhere including the most searched information platform on the planet Wikipedia "African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa."! Additionally you do not have to 'get' what anyone is saying when the pure facts are the pure facts they do not change regardless of how you 'get' them or not, the founder of the publication and ex-slave called it the "Afro" as explained!... and guaranteed he understood more about the actual 'that history'!
@@gabulosis No need to apologize. You explained that that is the name of the newspaper from which you got your information and that should be enough.
Just started the video paused to say Baltimore is my home town