Cabin 28 – The Unsolved Horror of the Keddie Murders

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Cabin 28 The Unsolved Horror of the Keddie Murders

By Richie D Mowrey for The Sassy Gazette

Wow. This one takes me back to the very beginning seasons of my youth: 1981.

Welcome to another installment of Dicking Around With Richie, where we don't let decades of dust or dropped badges keep us from chasing the truth. Today, we're diving headfirst into one of the most haunting cold cases in American crime history: the brutal 1981 slayings in Keddie, California.

In a sleepy mountain resort, four lives were shattered in ways too horrifying to forget. Glenna “Sue” Sharp, her teenage son John, his best friend Dana Wingate, and 12-year-old Tina Sharp were murdered or abducted in a small cabin tucked into the woods and for over four decades, the silence around this case has been just as chilling as the crime.

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🧩 The Scene of the Crime: Blood, Tape, Silence

The living room of Cabin 28 wasn’t just a murder scene it was a declaration of evil. Sue Sharp, John, and Dana were bound, gagged, stabbed, and bludgeoned. Tina was missing. A blanket was draped over Sue’s half-naked body. A pillow was placed under Dana’s bloodied head.

And three boys Rickey, Greg, and Justin slept through the whole thing. Really?

How did Rickey, Greg, and Justin not hear the murderers when the next-door neighbors were briefly woken up to muffled screams?
Who sleeps through something like that?

Justin later gave a hypnotically retrieved account of two intruders, and instead of calling in the FBI’s best forensic artist, law enforcement settled for... an amateur sketch.

In the most violent crime Plumas County had ever seen.

📞 The Skull, the Call, and the Blatant Negligence

Fast forward to April 11, 1984 exactly three years later. A skull and jawbone are found 50 miles away in the woods at Camp 18. Not long after, an anonymous call is made to the Butte County Sheriff’s Office:

“I was watching the news and they said the body they found was Tina Sharp’s.”

The caller was never traced. The recording? Sat unreviewed until 2016.
You read that right. Until 2016.

Who made that call? How did they know before forensic confirmation?
Why wasn’t it analyzed back then?
This isn't just incompetence it feels like obstruction.

🔍 Questions That Scream for Answers

• Why kidnap Tina, then later kill her and dump her remains in the middle of nowhere?
• Why stage the bodies? Why the pillow? Why the blanket?
• Who was the real target Sue? Tina? Or someone else entirely?
• Were any of the victims sexually assaulted? If not, why was Sue undressed and gagged?
• Why was Dana the only one strangled, while the others were stabbed and beaten?
• How many attackers were there? One person didn’t do this alone.
• Why leave some murder weapons and dispose of others?
• Why hasn’t the public been told whose DNA was found on the binding tape in 2018?
• Wouldn't revealing that name put pressure on the people involved?

🧬 DNA, Confessions, and a Cold Case Crying for Heat

Let’s talk facts.
In 2016, a hammer matching Marty Smartt’s "missing" one was pulled from a nearby pond.
In 2018, investigators announced they had touch DNA from the medical tape used to bind the victims.

And guess what?

It matched a known living suspect.
And still no arrest. No name released.

Why not? What are they waiting for another 40 years?

📁 Botched or Buried?

The 1981 investigation was either monumentally incompetent or intentionally sabotaged.

• Marty Smartt allegedly confessed to his therapist. No formal interview.
• He wrote a near-confession letter to his wife. Not entered into evidence.
• An eyewitness sketch was done by a random amateur, not a forensic artist.
• The 911 call about Tina? Shelved. Forgotten. Ignored.

And when investigator Mike Gamberg took the case over decades later, he had to hound forensic labs just to get cold case evidence processed.

Why? Why don’t cold case victims get the same urgency?

🧠 We Know Who Did It But No One’s Talking

It’s not a mystery anymore. All signs point to Martin Smartt and Bo Boubede two men with motive, access, and violent histories.

They’re dead now. But others aren’t.

• Someone helped move Tina’s body.
• Someone made that anonymous call.
• Someone’s DNA is on that medical tape.

Someone. Knows. Something.

🗣️ Final Thoughts from Cabin 28

The pain this family endured. The trauma this community suffered. The lives that were stolen. They all deserve more than sealed records and forgotten tips.

The Sassy Gazette isn’t here to sugarcoat it.

We’re here to ask:
Why hasn’t justice come knocking at their doors?
And when will the silence finally break?

If you know something, say something.
Even after 44 years, the truth matters. And so do these lives.

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