The St. Aubin Massacre: Unsolved Detroit Murders and Street's Dark History

The Benny Evangelist Family Murders (1929)

• 💡 Benny Evangelist, an Italian immigrant and carpenter, became known as a mystical healer and cult leader, self-publishing a book on "occult science."
• 🎯 On July 3, 1929, Benny, his wife Santina, and their four young children were brutally murdered with an axe in their Detroit home at 3687 St. Aubin Avenue.
• 🔪 The crime scene was exceptionally gruesome, with victims' skulls crushed and Benny's head severed, suggesting a crime of extreme rage.
• 💰 Police initially suspected money as a motive, noting Benny's substantial earnings from healing sessions and a supposed large wood delivery that never materialized.
• 🔍 Despite a $1,000 reward and numerous leads, including a hoax letter and a man found with a bloody knife, the case remains unsolved.
• 👤 A prominent theory involves Aurelius Angelino, an escaped mental patient who had previously killed his own children with an axe and was a former friend and cult member of Benny's.

The Tamara Marshall Murders (1990)

• 💥 In 1990, on the same St. Aubin Avenue, a violent drug-related massacre occurred, resulting in six deaths.
• 👑 The mastermind was 18-year-old Tamara Marshall, a high school dropout who had become a ruthless drug kingpin, dubbed the "angel of death" by police.
• 🎯 Marshall ordered the killings to eliminate rivals and assert dominance over her drug operation, including her ex-boyfriend who was operating a crack house at the location.
• ⚖️ Marshall and two accomplices were convicted, with Marshall receiving three life sentences without parole and two 90-year sentences.

The Mitchelle Blair Murders (2015)

• 🥶 In March 2015, an eviction crew in the Martin Luther King complex on St. Aubin Avenue discovered two children's bodies hidden in a freezer chest.
• ⚠️ The victims were identified as 9-year-old Steven Barry and 13-year-old Stony Blair, who had been deceased for over a year.
• 👩‍👧‍👦 Their mother, Mitchelle Blair, was taken into custody and later confessed to killing them in 2012 and 2013 while disciplining them for allegedly abusing another sibling.
• ⚖️ Blair was charged with multiple counts, including felony murder and torture, and is serving two life sentences for the horrific deaths of her children.

St. Aubin Avenue's Dark Legacy

• 🏘️ The street of St. Aubin Avenue in Detroit has a disturbing history, marked by at least three major mass murders over a 90-year span.
• 👻 The original Evangelist home was demolished, but the land was rumored to be haunted, with reports of eerie noises and a headless man wandering the lot.
• 🚶‍♀️ The podcast highlights the difficulty in solving old cases and the chilling nature of crimes that occur on the same street decades apart.