The strange story began on February 21st, 1977, when the police found the body of Teresita basa. The 48-year-old woman was lying on the floor of her high-rise Chicago apartment, stabbed to death and partially burned. There were no clothes clues on the crime scene that were directed towards any culprits, and the crime scene itself left many of the officers scratching their heads.
Like many other hopeful immigrants, basa had come to the United States from the Philippines seeking employment and a better quality of life. She had been working as a respiratory therapist at Edgewater hospital, and the police didn’t know how to solve the crime. Their initial impression was that perhaps she had been killed by her boyfriend. However, the real solution to the case is that food eventually comes from basa’s ghost.
The case reminds us of one of the very few cases where the investigators were forced to seek help from sources that were literally out of this world. This case has been hailed across the world and held by many para psychologists in high regard. Many paranormal researchers and Ghostbusters have also taken this case while advocating for the recognition of ghosts and other interdimensional beings.
The Bizarre Case of Dr. Chua
Doctor Jose Chua and his wife also worked at the hospital, though they hadn’t been close to Teresita. But one evening, while home together in Skokie, a small city just outside of Chicago, Mrs. Chua unexpectedly entered a strange sort of trance. She got up and walked to the bedroom, where she lay down. Then a strange voice, speaking in Tagalog (the Philippine language), issued from her mouth: I am Teresita basa.
After the strange voice accused a hospital orderly of the murder, Mrs. Chua emerged from the spell. Bush suffered similar spells during the next several days, declaring in the murdered woman’s name that the orderly, a black youth named Alan showery, had taken her jewelry and given her Pearl cocktail ring to his common-law wife. This was quite uncommon for his wife, add the doctor fear that his wife was suffering from some kind of psychological ailment. But the doctors could not attribute the sudden spells, and this left doctor Chua and his wife terrified.
Even though the doctors gave the poor woman medicines, they proved to have little to no effect on her condition. Throughout the next several days, her condition began to get worse, with the woman getting adamant about the fact that she was Teresita and that she had been murdered.
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The Case Takes a New Lead
Doctor Chua, terrified by the claims, was left with no alternative but to contact the local police. His call was turned over to Joseph Stature and Lee Esplin. The duo was two veteran detectives who were experienced in homicide. At first, the detectives were naturally skeptical of doctor Chua’s story.
However, when it soon turned out that there was no other Leeds food shop, they decided to take the paranormal path. When they met with the Chua’s, the question damned minutely about the deceased Teresita basa’s claims. They asked her especially if she was murdered and as well as raped. She had not been raped, and the detectives asked the question to see if the duo were fake or genuine. However, the duo did not fall for the spurious lead.
However, the Chua didn’t take the bait. The investigators were so impressed with how much they seemed to know about the murder. To this day, detective Stature wrote sometime later; I’m not quite sure that I believe how the information was obtained. Nonetheless, everything was completely true.
Working with the available clues, the Chicago police searched Shorey’s apartment and found the jewels that belonged to Teresita. They even found her Pearl cocktail ring in the position of his girlfriend. When confronted with the evidence, chauri confessed to the crimes and was convicted of murder. The case was officially closed in August enter this day; it is believed that the ghost of Teresita solved her own murder. It remains unknown how the couple could have known facts about the murder, which was in complete police secrecy.
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