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================================================================================= Here is the #FAKENEWS posted by William Uchtman (aka Thor2000). http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Nancy_Manni  but what really happened is posted below. I know. I was there. William Uchtman was not. =================================================================================

 Real Name:  Nancy Lynn Manni

Nicknames: Nasty Nautical Nancy, Terror of the Seven Seas.

Location: St. Leonard, Maryland

Date: August 30, 1993

Case
 Details:  33-year-old ship steward Nancy Manni was one of the few female members of the Seafarer's Union that sailed around the world to places including Brazil, Greece, Iceland but mostly the Philippines. She often worked on the freighters that ferried natural gas from Indonesia to Japan as the ship's Steward. On August 30, 1993, a body was found floating in the Chesapeake Bay; the cause of death was drowning. Although it could not be determined if her death was a murder, suicide, or accident, her family and friends believed that she met with foul play.

 Nancy's boyfriend, Billy Mesmer, was questioned two days after her body was found. He became the primary suspect because he was the last man to have had a long term relationship with Nancy. Investigators focused on dark music lyrics that Billy wrote years before he ever met Nancy. Some of the heavy metal lyrics included: "Excited breathe escapes his lips, while he waits without the light. No one will ever hear your screams as the predator begins to bite." The title of the song was "Night Stalker" which was written about lucidity and being chased within your dreams by something unseen. Detective Lealand and his supervisors in Annapolis focused on taking as much as possible out of context as they profiled Billy Mesmer, and they were getting closer to indicting him for Nancy's murder. After all, statistically speaking, the boyfriend or someone very close to the victim usually is the one who commits such crimes. So all they had to do was spin what they knew a bit more and it was going to be case closed.

 Investigators claimed that Billy was obsessed with Nancy because he sent all of his poems and lyrics to her. They ignored the fact that this was at Nancy's request. Yes, some of them were written about her, but these were filled with loving memories of their time together. Even after Billy had confirmed to investigators that he and Nancy had agreed to get engaged the week prior to her death and were still debating as to when they were going to break the news to friends and family, Investigators still focused on Billy as the main suspect. And they would have hung this murder around Billy's neck except for one detail. Billy had an air tight alibi for the time of her death that was cooberated by 4 witnesses and verified by investigators in Annapolis, MD. Their investigation fell apart and stalled.

 Knowing that the investigation was going in the wrong direction, Billy told Det. Lealand to look into the members of the Seafarer's Union, specifically Tony Sacco, Mike Sacco, and SMCSD Captain Alioto's Father who works for the Sacco Family at their union run training center, Harry Lundberg School of Seamanship. Alioto is believed to be the Sacco Family's strong man and has had multiple indictments for beatings and even murder, but has yet to be convicted of any crimes. Billy believed that these men were involved in her death. Other members of the Seafarer's Union also became a suspect, along with the union itself because there were suspicions that some of the members were involved in international drug smuggling and trafficking. Det. Lealand asked a few questions and dropped this end of the investigation almost as soon as he had started. Again, the investigation stalled.

 Billy claimed that a few weeks before Nancy's death, she came to him beside herself. Nancy told Billy that she and Tony Sacco, Vice President of the SIU, in charge of labor at the time, had a fight and that Tony had told her that he was going to make her job impossible, and if she didn't do exactly as she was told he would not sign her "A-book" seamanship papers. She stated to Billy that she threatened to "expose them all and their little secrete" then ended the confrontation with, "So, you just better back off." Billy believes that the secret was related to drug trafficking within the Seafarer's Union. Several other witnesses also later contacted the police, claiming that her death was related to drug trafficking within the union and may have ties into the St. Mary's Count Sherriff’s Department, Sherriff Dick Voorhar, The State's Attorney, Richard Fritz, St. Mary's County Circuit Court Judge Densford and even President Bill and Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton held her health care reform meetings at the union training center at Piney Point, MD in 1992 which later became "The Health Care Plan of 1993" which was the precursor to Romney Care and Obama Care.

  After Nancy's death, her sister, Linda, received calls from her friends who claimed that she was murdered and that her murder was related to the Seafarer's Union. When Linda received her personal effects, she found that pictures of her and Tony were missing, and that her camera was damaged and missing its film. There were also suspicions about her last assignment, on the S.S. Maiaquez, that employed several union members. In June 1993, her friend received a letter from her saying that she was getting death threats from several of the people on board the Maiaquez. Something that letters to Billy from Nancy also confirmed.

Investigators in Annapolis even began to suspect that Elizabeth Greenberg, who was murdered in 1988, was killed by the same person who killed Nancy. They were not only similar in appearance but also had similar ties to the Seafarer's Union in the steward's department. Both were also dumped in the Chesapeake Bay. The authorities also believe that mysterious phone calls and threats made by unidentified perpetrator(s) may have had something to do with her death. Investigators have no concrete evidence that connects it to the Seafarer's union, the school, or drug trafficking; her case remains unsolved. Suspects: Billy and Tony were considered possible suspects, along with other union members. Extra Notes: This case first aired on the February 2, 1996 episode. It was also documented on Motives & Murders: Cracking the Case.



John David O'Meara

Results: Solved. On February 12, 1997, John David O'Meara, a man who reportedly has no ties to the school that Nancy was attending or the Seafarer's Union, was arrested and charged with her murder while serving time in a Polk County, Florida jail for an unrelated crime. An informant told the Maryland National Resources Police that he told him that he had killed a girl; when the informant asked who she was, he said "the one on Unsolved Mysteries." John later confessed to a family member for being responsible for Nancy's death. He told police that he met her at the Tiki Bar on the night she vanished. He claimed that he took her out on a boat and that she fell overboard accidentally and drowned. However, he later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. He has since been released.

  