On February 21, 1977, respiratory therapist Teresita Basa was brutally murdered by an unknown assailant. Her body was discovered by firemen. It was immediately apparent that Teresita was a murder victim because the butcher knife used to murder her was still embedded in her naked body. Police assumed Teresita had been sexually assaulted and then the fire set deliberately to cover up her murder, but the autopsy results showed that the murder was not an attempt to cover up a rape. The fe only clue found at the scene was a note that simply said "Get theater tickets for A. S." Four months passed, and the investigation began to go cold. However, in August detective Joseph Stachula received a phone call out of the blue that blew the case wide open. A doctor named Jose Chua who worked at the same hospital as Teresita called to report a most unusual circumstance -- his wife Remy had begun to go into trances and claimed to be temporarily possessed by the spirit of Teresita Basa, who then provided the doctor with specific information about her murderer. The Chuas claimed they did not know Teresita Basa--the only thing they had in common was the doctor worked at the same hospital and all three of them were Filipino. The Chuas had not wanted to come forward or get involved out of the fear of looking ridiculous, but Basa's ghost would not leave Remy Chua alone until Dr. Chua helped her by telling police what he "knew" about Basa's murder. According to Basa's ghost, a man named Allen Showery had come to her apartment to fix her broken television but while there decided to steal … [Read more...]