What is this blog about?
Well, to begin with my main focus will be on mystery short stories of the impossible kind.
However, to see whether this is something you'd be interested in, let's first engage in some definition making.
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In the scope of this blog, what is a "mystery"?
I want to immediately make clear that my definition of "mystery" here on the blog will be more limited than what is perhaps featured under this heading in your local bookstore (or, as this is the 21st century, on Amazon).
In Swedish - my native language - we have the wonderful word "pusseldeckare". It is a compound of two words:
- pussel - literally "jigsaw puzzle"
- deckare - short form of "detektiv", which perhaps obviously means "detective," and in turn is a short form of "detektivhistoria"/"detektivroman"/"detektivberättelse", all of which is best translated as "detective story".
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Unfortunately, unless I'm mistaken, English has no term for this type of fiction that is wholly appropriate. The usual epithet used is "Golden Age Mysteries", but I think that description is somewhat misleading (and also fairly cumbersome to write, though English has a penchant for abbreviations so I guess that isn't a huge problem).
It is misleading for two reasons:
First, I think it's hard to exactly pinpoint what the "Golden Age" actually is. No two people are agreed on where it starts and where it ends. It usually ends with people saying "Oh, you know it's kinda from the end of WW1 to the late 40s". And then a third person shows up and disagrees...
More importantly it is misleading because even if we could pinpoint the start and end of this Golden Age, you would not find any year within this so called Golden Age where all mysteries are of this particular type - fair play, clues strewn everywhere, you know what I mean.
I mean, Agatha Christie's "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest" and Kenneth Fearing's "The Big Clock" could all arguably be called Golden Age Mysteries. But I think the dissimilarities between these novels are bigger than their similarities, and really, what's the point with a term that becomes so fuzzy?
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Definition of "mystery"
Therefore, I propose to use the term "mystery" here as applied only to fair play mysteries. This means that we will exclude thrillers, adventure stories, spy novels, and more importantly modern style stories about crime and/or serial killer stories. Personally, I'd rather apply a term like "criminous stories" as the umbrella term and reserve "mystery" to stories that actually feature mysteries - solvable ones! If you have any opinions on this, do please let me know.
The upside of this definition is also that I don't have to continuously argue for the inclusion of authors who wrote their material in a time period that was clearly before or after the Golden Age. It defines a style, not a time period.
Excellent! So what's all this about short fiction then?
One of my main projects at the moment is to create some kind of concordance of worthy impossible mystery short stories in Swedish. In order to do that, I have scanned a fairly large amount of stories from Swedish anthologies and short story collections that I own. That resulted in maybe 75-100 stories.
The next part is to translate those stories that I only have in the English language and that I feel should be included in this large collection. This includes reading several collections and anthologies and trying to evaluate whether each story is interesting enough to be included or not. If I am of the opinion that a short story should be included, well, then there's only the small matter of translating them all into Swedish...
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However, it was a big help that in a previous folly^H^H^Hproject of mine, I'd already scanned and translated all stories by authors such as Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, John Dickson Carr, Clayton Rawson and Edmund Crispin (and a handful of stories by Edward D. Hoch as well, though unfortunately far from all his impossible crime output). That meant that I could concentrate on all other authors. Not the hugest delimitation, but in a project such as this you take what you get, right?
This is where I am at the moment in this project. I've translated around 100 stories by now, and have around 100 left to translate. If you're quick at counting you've already noticed that that will be around 300 stories.
So which stories have I included? And why those particular stories? Well, that's what this blog will reveal in coming posts. Knowing me, there will probably be posts about other "mysterious" stuff. However, I'm not a particularly great reviewer. I know what I like, but I'm not particularly good at putting in words why. So bear that caveat in mind when you return here.
Watch out for Hillary Applegate. She works with her mother, Valerie Houghton, to hack, harass, threaten, and stalk litigants in Family Court. Ms. Applegate is pretending to operate a tech company with the name Digital HQ. She does not seem to be engaged in any legitimate business. The shell company likely only exists to process payments.
ReplyDeleteHillary Applegate has access to all of her mother’s connections in Santa Clara County. She is making a ton of money working with all the divorce lawyers. Once she gets into your electronic devices, Ms. Applegate exerts almost complete control over her victim’s life. You cannot exist without electronic communication in this day and age. The Houghton’s exploit this.
Once Ms. Applegate clones your phone, she will be reading/writing/deleting emails and text messages. She will also have access to your social contacts, browsing history, GPS locations, and all of your passwords.
This is a modern-day sociopath that gets off on “surreptitious pranks” and ruining other people’s lives. My own kids are being raped because of this animal. Ms. Applegate demands that I let her continue to make money from the sexual abuse and stop trying to protect them. She, herself, is a mother, so I don’t understand how she can be so cold blooded about this.
Is Ms. Applegate a sick pedophile? Does she get sexual enjoyment from doing this?
Furthermore, Ms. Applegate employs a gang of thugs to physically stalk and assault me. I cannot go anywhere without these degenerates following me.
Valerie Houghton says that she “lost a lot of business” because I complained. Since Ms. Applegate had her “aha” moment to work with other lawyers, you will likely never know that she is hacking you.
https://wwwcrossx.blogspot.com/2013/12/ted-bundy-case-cross-examination.html?sc=1760470230588#c1568869710827664061
The Digital HQ con is nothing new. Hillary Applegate and her mother previously used to embezzle money using a different company, Metaview. The Houghton’s are a family of con artists. Ms. Applegate used the ill-gotten money to treat her friends to fancy meals, pay for her college education and get a brand-new Porsche. Her mother was eventually indicted, but he charges soon went away. This is because the Houghton’s are connected to the District Attorney. They operate without fear. That’s why they are so violent and feel entitled to take your health.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6981163-HoughtonIndictment-Docket/
There is much more information here:
https://forum.legaljunkies.com/forum/attorneys-courts-litigation/civil-litigation/69836-austin-family-court-corruption/page16
https://thefamilycourtcircus.com/2025/05/02/family-court-injustice/
Hillary Applegate actually has 11 properties. She also owns her own home.
ReplyDeleteJust scroll down to Hillary Applegate’s profile and click on the “more about Hillary” tab.
https://dgtlhq.com/about
Then click on the “Polk Ranch property” (the four-bedroom house in Scottsdale)
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/579139738887750177?source_impression_id=p3_1711741088_ktc6VxUzW4NaWAei
Then click on the “host profile” and scroll down to see all the properties.
https://www.airbnb.com/users/profile/1467292151561484715?previous_page_name=PdpHomeMarketplace
Why even list this on her website? What is the association? Is Ms. Applegate mocking all the people that she hacked? Did she liquidate their assets and buy homes with the money?
I’ve filed a complaint with the IRS regarding Hillary Applegate. I believe that she is using Digital HQ to launder money from her hacking business. There doesn’t seem to be any evidence that her company does anything legitimate. It is likely just a shell company to declare an income and pay her “contractors”.
ReplyDeleteWith the number of properties that she has, Ms. Applegate has to be one of most notorious hackers out there. Her Scottsdale property alone must be worth at least $1,500,000.
Applegate cut her teeth working with Ruth Patrick at WomenSV. There have been numerous reports that victims of domestic violence were tricked into leaving their electronic devices behind for hacking. This is the type of grifting that you can expect from the Houghton’s.
Things are different now that they work with a street gang. No physical access to the device is even needed. All they need to do is capture the device’s WIFI or Bluetooth signal for a moment. Then Applegate will send the device a text message with a link and remotely open the link. Your phone will be cloned at that point, giving Ms. Applegate complete control over the phone.
Ms. Applegate is much like her mother. They have no boundaries. Everything is theirs to violate and destroy. This duo will enter your private life like a cancer. Nothing will ever be the same. They are MONSTERS! Even your health is not off limits.
They will even force your children (as young as two) to have sexual experiences. Then the Houghton’s will falsely claim to be involved in philanthropy related to child protection and the promotion of the wellbeing of youth.
I hope that the IRS will conduct an audit. I believe that Ms. Applegate will have a difficult time proving that monies were legally earned.
Hillary Applegate started using her hacking skill working for Ruth Patrick at WomenSV. Several victims of domestic violence that sought help at this agency reported being tricked into leaving their electronic devices behind. Said devices were subsequently hacked.
ReplyDeleteThe agency specifically catered to DV victims that were lived in affluent areas. Ms. Applegate was their “social media manager”.
https://davisvanguard.org/2023/12/nonprofit-founder-poised-to-flee-as-ex-wives-demand-fair-trials-and-return-of-funds-taken-from-duped-donors/
https://davisvanguard.org/2023/04/silicon-valley-domestic-violence-nonprofit-seeks-to-discredit-over-50-former-clients/
This is how she has made millions of dollars from hacking. Hillary Applegate targets people with high valued assets and involved in a divorce. She probably makes more than the lawyers.
Then she claims to be supportive of mothers in her blogposts. Women have to be the vast majority of people that Hillary hacks. She is so phony and fake about the whole thing, even constructing a website that advertises services that she does not render. This is so that she can declare the millions of dollars that she earns. It’s all a big scam.
I guess that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Hillary Applegate says that she works mostly with women and mothers. This is misleading.
ReplyDeleteMs. Applegate does likely target more women in family court than she does men. That’s because men are usually the abusers in a relationship. They usually have more money at the time of separation.
And if she targeted the bad parent, the divorce would be over in no time and there would be no one to blackmail.
Of course, Hillary Applegate is painting a rosy picture. This is to dupe her readers into thinking that she is supportive of women, when she is in fact abusing them. There is no workforce other than her gang of thugs, Valerie Houghton and Jacqueline Keidel Martinez.
That is why she removed her review from“Dr. Ritz” (nonexistent person). It’s all fake.
Hillary Applegate is a H-A-C-K-E-R. She does not work with fortune 500 companies, nor does she do anything productive or legal.
“88 percent of our contractors are women, and of those women, close to 30 percent are mothers. There is undeniably a “motherhood pay gap” in our culture. In a study reported by the World Economic Forum, the spousal earnings gap doubles between two years before the birth of the first child and the year after that child is born, with women’s earnings generally going down. Mothers tend to turn towards part-time jobs or positions that are more favorable to raising children. At Digital HQ, women and mothers can pursue their professional passions while doing so with flexibility.”
https://shoutoutarizona.com/meet-hillary-applegate-founder-ceo-of-digital-hq/
Hillary Applegate is just like her mother. They are both profit from being involved in other people’s divorces.
ReplyDeleteIf you want proof that the “apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” just read the indictment of Hillary Applegate’s mother.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6981163-HoughtonIndictment-Docket/
Valerie Houghton started a real estate company called “MetaView”. She embezzled money from her partners by depositing money directly into her personal accounts and using the company credit card for personal expenses. Ms. Houghton would give the credit card to her Ms. Applegate so that she could treat her friends to fancy meals at Morten’s. She would also use company money to pay for her daughter’s college tuition, a brand-new Porsche, and “extravagant vacations”.
Now Applegate has started a real estate company of her own – Hometown Hosts.
https://www.hometownhosts.com/aboutus
Hillary Applegate and her mother have upended the way people game the legal system. No longer does it stop with public corruption. Ms. Applegate and Ms. Houghton have devised a strategy that involves street thugs. Said thugs will ‘take care of you’ if you don’t do what the Houghton’s want.
ReplyDeleteThey will threaten, intimidate, harass, and even assault people who have landed on the Houghton’s bad side. Privacy will be compromised beyond just your electronic devices. The Houghton’s thugs will get into home and car, plant cameras, and obtain your spare keys. These people are mostly young Latino men that wear red articles of clothing. They were probably already part of a street gang before they started working for the Houghton’s.
In any case, Ms. Applegate didn’t become a millionaire by accident. She and Valerie Houghton use the combination of personal connections in the legal system and street violence to make families submit to their every will. It will be almost futile to fight back. They will not hesitate to take your life.
Since her “ah-ha moment”, Hillary Applegate remained active in hacking Silicon Valley residents involved in litigation. The only difference is that she is using a shell company to launder the proceeds and pay her “contractors”.
ReplyDeleteSo, if you live in San Jose, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Milpitas, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Los Gatos, Saratoga, or Los Altos, you might not even know that Ms. Applegate is hacking you and messing with your life. That’s because she now works with other attorneys besides her mother.
Applegate and her street gang are in high demand. Not many other hackers have “contractors” to stalk their targets.
Part of the purpose of the hacking is to foil your every attempt to protect your children. The Houghton’s have connections with other lawyers, judges, the District Attorney’s Office, and DFCS. Their specialty is spreading money to those willing to take it. None of it comes out of the Houghton’s pocket. It all comes from the offender’s pocket.
ReplyDeleteThe effect amounts to a sick practical joke. My own kids have suffered from being molested over the last ten years. No one will do anything to stop it. This makes the Houghton’s laugh. You can see many of the taunting messages that I was directed to view here.
https://www.scribd.com/document/628344196/Valerie-Runyan-Houghton-Therapist-Attorney-Divorce
The same thing happened to many other parents after the Valerie and Hillary were made aware of abuse. Violet Brooks could do absolutely nothing to protect her three young daughters. Ms. Houghton actually went on to testify as a special witness in the case. She made sure to completely shut the door on any protection.
Ms. Houghton and Ms. Applegate also did the same to the Terpko kids. Houghton actually served as the guardian ad litem for the children. Then she filed for a restraining order against the protective parent which was later granted.
The Houghton’s are just cold when it comes to children suffering. They cannot feel empathy for them. All they want is to establish control over you and your children to prolong the abuse and fill their pockets with the abuser’s money.
Make sure to see Valerie Houghton’s websites (Hillary Applegate’s mother). They are two peas in a pod. The Houghton’s are experts at misleading and conning the people are them.
ReplyDeleteMs. Houghton makes it seem as if she is a gentle and caring therapist who works tirelessly to make her clients happy. This is not the person that I encountered.
She destroyed my body because I didn’t want my kids to be raped. She also made sure (along with Hillary) that I couldn’t work, which has forced me to live in a car for the last 8 years.
The Houghton’s are truly a family of monsters.
https://famdynamics.com/about
https://www.valeriehoughtonmft.com/
ReplyDeleteJacqueline Keidel Martinez is Hillary Applegate’s right-hand man. She is the same kind of degenerate – helping ruin the lives of other people’s children.
Keidel Martinez, herself, is a mother. What she does to other people’s children has to be reflection of her own ability to be a mother. It can be no other way.
She is just a horrible human being pilfering from families going through a divorce through hacking and inducing misery.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelinekeidelmartinez
Then Keidel Martinez pays for articles to be written about her in “Fabulous People”. What a joke!
https://fabulousarizona.com/fabulous-people/fabulous-people-jacqueline-keidel-martinez/
Hillary Applegate is not too good at hiding who she is. Even when she pays for articles to be published about her on websites that employ excellent SEO strategies, Ms. Applegate gives it all away.
ReplyDeleteFor instance, Hillary claims to be an agent of change in work-life balance. She glamorizes her work by pretending to be a secret agent. Having a private militia and working behind the scenes must be intoxicating for her.
As far as changing your work or life, the more appropriate word to use would be “destroy”. This is because Valerie Houghton’s daughter is a complete sadist. She gets off on inflicting misery on her targets and hiding in real time behind her computer screen.
How Digital HQ became an [secret] agent of change in work-life balance
https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/profiles-strategies/2024/05/how-digital-hq-is-improving-work-life-balance-for.html
Here is another one of Hillary Applegate’s paid for profiles. She claims to be a “queen” that is a “digital marketing b*tch”. This is really how Ms. Applegate she acts.
ReplyDeleteShe wants to rule over your family, as you kiss her hands and beg her to spare your kids from being raped. Being a “b*tch” is really an understatement. Ms. Applegate is a sociopathic and degenerate child abuser.
I just don’t see how she can do this to other people’s children and still be an effective and loving mother to her child. It is highly improbable.
In any case, keep your kids away from Applegate. She gets off on abuse.
“She's a queen, but she's still a digital marketing b*tch”
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5mT-rWsLGb/
All you need to see is the social media posts from Hillary Applegate’s mother. The Houghton’s are plain sick to have a favorable view of pedophilia. They believe that the only thing wrong with it is the associated stigma. To them it is not a crime and just part of gender identity. (THEIR OWN WORDS)
ReplyDeleteYou can also see her mother’s sick post regarding 13-year olds engaged in sexual activity. It is reminiscent of Yelp review (by “Max”) for Ms. Houghton that was written by another teenage boy. He claims that the Houghton’s hacked him and discussed his pornography preferences with him.
https://www.scribd.com/document/628344196/Valerie-Runyan-Houghton-Therapist-Attorney-Divorce
Here is Max's review on Yelp:
ReplyDeleteMax K.
San Francisco, CA
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Jan 12, 2021
Parents and kids beware. This is not the therapist for your family. She will make the parents believe what they are doing is right, but it is clearly not. She will treat your children like shit. About 2 years after my terrible experience with this woman, I started seeing another therapist. After I told my therapist the things that Valarie R. Houghton did to me and siblings, she told me that its really fucked up and that it's not something practiced in family therapy. Here's what she did: She convinced my parents to install spyware onto me and my siblings phones, and the next time we saw her, she had a binder for each of us: containing everything we did "wrong" on our phones. Ex. (texts, photos, videos, search history, app usage). I wont reveal too much information but when she pulled out my folder, she had many things to embarrass me about but she began by reading my search history in front of my entire family. (siblings included) What was my search history? It was porn. I was a 13 year old boy going through puberty, of course I was watching porn. Obviously I didn't want my parents and siblings to know, and to this day I am curious what the therapeutic benefit of exposing me like that was. We literally all sat in awkward silence as she read through countless porn titles, and pop up ads. Again I don't want to give to much detail, but she did similar things to my siblings. My siblings and I got together and made a plan to get our parents to stop seeing her. Thank god it worked. If any other kids had this kind of experience please share it here.
PS...
I posted this comment on google reviews last night but overnight she changed her google location to "San Jose Chiropractor" so the reviews are gone. I can't find her on google maps anymore. Shady asf
https://www.yelp.com/biz/valerie-houghton-rn-mft-esq-campbell?start=10
There were even two articles written in Davis Van Guard about Valerie Houghton’s scams and influence over court proceedings.
ReplyDeletehttps://davisvanguard.org/2023/10/is-your-childs-attorney-a-crook/
https://davisvanguard.org/2023/07/power-outage-disrupts-secret-judge-club-investigation/
So be careful. This duo can get out of anything, then have you prosecuted. They have no fear of being in trouble with the law.
Hillary Applegate and Valerie Houghton don’t care about anyone. If they did, I would have never been poisoned and my kids would have been protected from being raped.
ReplyDeleteThey are focused on filling up their pockets with other people’s money. In their minds, it is their birthright to do it. Hillary Applegate and her mother are your “queens”, even you want nothing to do with them.
You have to see it from their point of view. The Houghton’s live in a different reality which has been supported by the legal system.
And this reality is all that Hillary Applegate knows. She has been raised by her mother to be violent towards others and sexually aggressive with other people’s children. There is no other way for her to be. It is completely ingrained in her. Applegate also admits in LinkedIn post to watching her mother work from a young age.
Please see an article written by Citizen Portal about the cover up by the Houghton's of the sexual abuse of my kids.
ReplyDeletehttps://citizenportal.ai/articles/3248473/Santa-Clara-County/California/
Hillary Applegate has made her LinkedIn private or has deleted the profile. I believe that she is trying to hide the fact that she used to work for WomenSV.
ReplyDeleteFortunately, there is an archived screenshot.
Here it is:
https://archive.ph/wip/dlQ88
Here is a threatening post by Valerie Houghton. She appears to be threatening to kill my kids if I don’t shut up about the child molestation. The 3 attachments to her post are clear.
ReplyDelete1. The first one references making shoes out of dead children.
2. The second one references child molestation.
3. The third one references shutting up.
You really need to see this for yourself to believe this.
https://www.threads.com/@valeriehoughton/post/DPKTRKIjQTE (post)
https://archive.ph/wip/Im9X1 (post archived)
https://archive.ph/wip/ou3OE (attachments archived)
Hillary Applegate’s mother previously joked that molesting goats [kids] is not reportable. You can watch her mother here:
ReplyDeletehttps://rumble.com/v2ceev2-valerie-houghton-joke-that-kids-getting-molested-is-not-reportable.html
There is a related post from today by her mother. She says that a post regarding not protecting goats is brilliant.
It’s all so sick. I don’t understand how Hillary or her mother can find this stuff funny and be so active in forcing children to live this way.
https://x.com/VRHOUGHTON/status/1991522808762101895
https://archive.ph/wip/Ytn7C (archived post)
Here you can see what Hillary Applegate and her mother did to my face:
ReplyDeletehttps://archive.ph/nf2ag
They poisoned me so many times that now also all of my organs are damaged and testicles atrophied. I have also have lost sensation across my entire body and trouble swallowing. Tampering with someone’s food is easier than one might think.
Just see what Hillary Applegate and Valerie Houghton did to Daya Baran after he discovered that someone was molesting his toddler daughter. The pigmentation in his face was damaged and he became a diabetic when he tried to stop the abuse.
You can read about his experiences and see him in the emergency room here:
https://freearianna.org/story (Daya Baran website)
https://archive.is/0PsNL (Daya Baran’s archived website)
Hillary Applegate can get to you from anywhere. I’ve fled to Nevada in an attempt to preserve my standing to protect my kids and to get away from her.
Applegate sent some of her goons, but she also hired several locals. Here are a couple of them:
https://archive.ph/wip/YpFab
They follow me wherever I go 24/7.
I just think that it is wrong to equate transgenderism and pedophilia. One doesn't justify the other.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=64319
The Houghton’s are District Attorney Jeff Rosen’s political supporters. They enjoy complete informal immunity whenever they commit crimes. Mr. Rosen would rather prosecute their victims than to prosecute them.
ReplyDeleteAfter I told Rosen about the physical assaults and sex trafficking, I thought that he would do something about it. I was surprised to find out that the charges were filed against me. I never even committed a crime. The whole goal was to bring the matter to competency proceedings. Ms. Houghton had promised to tamper with any psychological evaluation.
When I refused to undergo an evaluation, the assaults only intensified. The D.A. didn’t care and let it go on.
Eventually, a psychological report was submitted into the record. I had never met or spoken to a psychologist. The focus of the report was almost completely on the sexual abuse of my children and Ms. Houghton’s violent behavior.
Here are a couple of excerpts.
https://archive.is/M246J
https://archive.is/N5J7qgoogns
https://t.co/mzgiEeSAn3
Here is a brief summary:
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/272/404/301/district-attorney-jeffrey-rosen-please-stop-sex-trafficking-my-kids/
ReplyDeleteHillary Applegate has been trained from an early age that another person’s money is hers for the taking. You can see it with MetaView. Ms. Applegate would use the Clyde Berg’s money to treat her friends to meals at Morten’s. She also got a brand-new Porsche and her college tuition paid with Mr. Berg’s funds. According to the District Attorney, Ms. Applegate also went on extravagant vacations and obtained fancy jewelry with the money.
You can read the indictment for Hillary Applegate’s parents here:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6981163-HoughtonIndictment-Docket/
In all, it is alleged that about $10,000,000 was stolen by the Houghton’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEg1fTduQp0
When Mr. Berg tried to get his money back, he was suddenly arrested for tying up a pregnant woman, putting a dog collar on her, then raping her with a golf putter. Mr. Berg was in his 80’s and had no criminal history.
Mr. Berg claims that the Houghton’s arranged for the prosecution.
After spending $3,000,000 on attorney fees and spending 8 days in jail, Berg was eventually found factually innocent.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2400973/Clyde-Berg-Wife-allegedly-tied-bed-raped-golf-putter-Silicon-Valley-millionaire-husband-returns-witness-stand-storming-court–use-smelling-salts-stay-calm.html
https://www.denverpost.com/2013/08/05/silicon-valley-real-estate-magnate-facing-charges-in-suspected-sexual-abuse-of-wife/
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/silicon-valley-millionaire-declared-innocent-of-sex-crimes/1968979/
You can see Hillary Applegate bragging about her mother's influence on her when she was a young child. She says that she would hear Valerie Houghton when she was on the phone at all hours of the day discussing cases.
ReplyDeletehttps://archive.ph/PtNxm
It really is a 24/7 ordeal.
Ms. Applegate learned how to stalk, manipulate and abuse families at a young age. It is all she knows. There is no way that she has the ability to earn an honest living.
ReplyDeleteWhen you hire an attorney to represent your children, it is imperative that you do as much research as possible. Many lawyers will post information online that could illuminate the quality of the services that they render.
According to District Attorney Jeff Rosen, Valerie Houghton had the largest private wine locker at Morton’s the Steakhouse. You can read about this in the indictment.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6981163-HoughtonIndictment-Docket/
Then I found on Ms. Houghton’s LinkedIn profile that she liked a post regarding a personal account of lawyer’s battles with alcoholism.
https://archive.ph/J3DD4
Is Valerie Houghton’s massive wine locker or her liked post an indication of alcohol abuse? If so, would this interfere with her ability to soundly provide therapy to children?
Furthermore, when I previously checked Ms. Houghton’s yelp profile, she had reviews posted for four different doctors in far away cities. According to Ms. Houghton’s reviews, these doctors had prescribed medications to her after a telemedicine interview.
I had read that doctor shopping is related to obtaining narcotics without a true need. I don’t know if this is what Ms. Houghton has been doing, so I called her out on it. The doctor reviews were then deleted.
https://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=PbCtdBFrZA4wkq1y5JOb8A
Here is one of the websites that I found on doctor shopping.
“What Is Doctor Shopping?
Doctor shopping describes the practice of seeking out multiple medical providers to obtain prescriptions for controlled substances. Doctor shopping is often considered a serious sign that an individual has developed a substance use disorder (SUD). When doctor shopping, an individual makes multiple appointments to see different prescribing physicians to obtain a controlled substance, such as an opioid, for purposes that do not follow medical guidance. They do not share that they are seeing other medical providers to maximize the number of prescriptions they receive.
Prescriptions for controlled substances are often restricted to specific doses, amounts, and refills which can feel limiting for someone who is misusing the substance, leading to the start of these behaviors.
Doctor shopping has become such a significant concern that it is considered an illegal activity in the US, with each state having its own laws meant to deter individuals from deceiving medical professionals. Unfortunately, doctor shopping can lead to serious consequences such as controlled substances being provided in larger amounts than medically necessary and substance misuse.”
https://www.addictioncenter.com/addiction/doctor-shopping/
I also found this concerning picture on one of Ms. Applegate’s profiles.
https://cdn.shoutoutarizona.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/c-HillaryApplegate__HillaryApplegate3_1713375554334.jpg
https://archive.ph/wip/fYfpH (archived picture)
Valerie Houghton is a violent person. She has completely destroyed my body. I am still being poisoned by her. This is just her thing. She can’t even hide it.
ReplyDeleteMs. Houghton once said that “lunch is the killer time of day”. She goes on to define trajectory as “burning like a heart attack”.
https://youtu.be/IuQ0GI8LzS8?t=155
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Hillary Applegate has been assisting her mother each step of the way.
Ms. Applegate talks about “super haters”, then goes on to talk about a client whose business was “meal kits”. She goes on to talk following people on social media and knowing about their lives. The she talks about a husband who ate food from those boxes having DIED because of it.
(go to 9 minutes and 10 seconds ---- listen for about a minute after that point)
https://brittanyhodak.com/creating-superfans-podcast-episode-9-hillary-applegate/
Please be careful if you are dealing with these two.
Here is another one of Valerie Houghton's and Hillary Applegate's goons.
ReplyDeletePlease let me know if you can identify him.
JNOFARC (Nevada plate)
https://archive.ph/1n31e
If you include her home, Hillary Applegate own 13 real estate properties. She has the audacity to brag about one of her properties on her about page. (click on “more about Hillary” on her profile page)
ReplyDeletehttps://dgtlhq.com/about#/
You will see her brag about one of her properties in Scottsdale. There is a complete listing of all of her properties if you click on the Airbnb profile.
https://www.airbnb.com/users/profile/1467292151561484715?previous_page_name=PdpHomeMarketplace
These properties have to be worth several millions of dollars. Just the large rancher that Ms. Applegate has in Scottsdale has to be worth 3 or 4 million.
And if she has that much in real estate, how much does Ms. Applegate have in her retirement and savings accounts? Does she have crypto and/ or gold?
Keep in mind that she earns a living from divorce cases. There has to be a large volume of cases that Ms. Applegate handles to earn that kind of money.
Hillary Applegate and her mother have absolutely no sense of responsibility for anything that they do. They stole millions of dollars from Clyde Berg. The money was only repaid because they were forced to.
ReplyDeleteCharles Smith used to represent the Houghton’s in their criminal and civil case.
https://chucksmithlegal.com/
After Mr. Smith managed to keep the Houghton’s out of prison for the criminal part, the Houghton’s settled their civil case by returning the stolen money.
Now the Houghton’s are trying to recover this money by suing Mr. Smith. They seem to blame Mr. Smith for their own criminality. He needs to be the one to repay the money that they, themselves, embezzled.
There is a news article in The Daily Journal about the lawsuit that Valerie Houghton recently filed.
"Couple sues attorney who says he saved them 'a lot of time in jail'"
https://www.dailyjournal.com/article/383480-couple-sues-attorney-who-says-he-saved-them-a-lot-of-time-in-jail
Charles Smith seemed to do a good job for the Houghton’s.
You can see him defend his clients in an interview with a journalist.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NHk2_0z1-cQ
Here is the criminal indictment:
https://archive.org/details/6981163-HoughtonIndictment-Docket
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6981163-HoughtonIndictment-Docket/
This poor guy is likely hacked and the Houghton’s are probably ruining his life until he coughs up the money. Ms. Applegate is probably destroying his law practice and including Mr. Smith’s social circle to harass him. The goal is to bring him to his knees.
They can’t demand the money without the court case. Mr. Smith would accuse the Houghton’s of extortion. The Houghton game plan is to use the courts to make demands, then covertly abuse their victims until they surrender. This gives them plausible deniability.
This is just how the Houghton’s are. They expect you to be their servant. YOU CLEAN UP THEIR MESSES.
They did something similar with my kids.
Ms. Houghton says that she “lost a lot of money” because I tried to protect my kids from being raped. Her solution was to sex traffic my youngest daughter (from a second mother) to regain the business. Said girl was forced to be under the legal custody of man that previously drugged and raped a teen. Even the mother didn’t want this.
But my daughter is expected to be Valerie Houghton’s and Hillary Applegate’s sex slave. My daughter is supposed to make everything right for them. This family is just SICK!
I know it sounds strange that the Houghton’s would be able to fix their image by doing the exact same thing that caused them to lose business. But with their twisted minds, they managed to make It work.
Like with Mr. Smith, the Houghton’s demands are being made in court proceedings. They made it clear that they will not stop assaulting and harassing me until I comply with the demands.
Just read this writ that I filed in a failed attempt to preserve my standing to protect my kids.
https://www.calameo.com/read/007167182627202c7c563
Valerie Houghton is invincible. She can do whatever she wants with no accountability.
ReplyDeleteBecause Ms. Houghton has threatened to kill my children, I filed complaints with both the Board of Behavioral Sciences and the Board of Nursing. I included the social media posts that depict Ms. Houghton’s threat to make shoes out of my children’s skins if I don’t stop trying to protect my kids from being sexually abused. No nurse or licensed therapist should be threatening murder kids for any reason.
I included in the complaint the photo of the injuries that Ms. Houghton has already caused me.
https://archive.ph/nf2ag (my damaged facial structure)
Unfortunately, both agencies don’t believe that Ms. Houghton has violated any of their conduct policies and have referred me to law enforcement. This misconduct will likely continue with Ms. Houghton’s future professional relationships. I don’t understand how they can only defer to law enforcement without acting on something so clear cut.
This only fuels the Houghton’s to continue to sex traffic my children and poison me. It also makes them more dangerous to any potential clients that might retain them in the future.
https://archive.ph/wip/QDq7h (BBS answer to complaint)
https://archive.ph/wip/s5qJj (Board of Nursing answer to complaint)
Here are many social media posts from Hillary Applegate's mother. It gives a clearer understanding of what is going on.
ReplyDeletehttps://pdfhost.io/v/Su6QiWEU8_Valerie_Houghton_posts__1_-compressed
ReplyDeleteThere is new social media post from just yesterday from Hillary Applegate's mother. Her mother states what she “loves”. It is stated in the post below that they “can’t tell you why”.
https://archive.is/wip/yuQNU
The post is bit cryptic. Does anyone know what it means?
Who is sending Ms. Houghton and Ms. Applegate all of this business? The size of Ms. Applegate’s Silicon Valley gang is quite large, which could be indicative of taking on many cases.
ReplyDeleteI recently checked Ms. Houghton’s LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/valeriehoughton/?locale=es_ES
There is a definite pattern in the posts that Ms. Houghton likes and/or comments on.
The top two posters that she engages with are:
The top two posters that she engages with are:
2. BJ Fadem Law (in San Jose)
https://fademlaw.com/
2. Hoover Krepelka Law (in San Jose)
https://hooverkrepelka.com/
Valerie Houghton also frequently likes and/or replies to Heidi Herz (a real estate agent in Los Gatos)
https://heidiherz.com/
https://archive.is/wip/9tDA1 (Valerie Houghton’s archived LinkedIn posts)
I am only speculating here, but I believe that this pattern likely indicates that these are the sources of referrals that Valerie Houghton and Hillary Applegate get their business from.
I have read a lot of things about these law firms in the past.
Hoover Krepelka was involved with WomenSV. Hillary Applegate also used to work with WomenSV.
See Ms. Applegate’s LinkedIn showing that she used to work for WomenSV.
https://archive.ph/wip/dlQ88
They have over 20 lawyers listed on their website. If Hoover Krepelka is indeed sending Valerie Houghton and Hillary Applegate hacking assignments, it could explain why Ms. Applegate has millions of dollars’ worth of real estate.
Here are the lawyers listed on the website: Robert L. Hoover, James J. Hoover, Travis I. Krepelka, Julia P. McDowell, Christine A. Pham, Elaine Le, Jaymi L. Salisbury, Wenjia Ma, Katherine Moinpour, Monica R. Nemec, Joy Antonette B. Diaz, Patricia M. Zerbin, Constance L. Carpenter, Caycie Favier, Stephanie Huang, Wendy Chao, Marianne Gil-Lian, Jessie Smith, Kelly Wynne, Jordan Beckerman, Kavan Sabahi, and Lee Hoffman.
And here are some articles about BJ Fadem. Mr. Fadem is a transgender male lawyer that was also involved in Daya Baran’s case. Mr. Baran was poisoned and prosecuted after discovering that his toddler was being molested.
https://freearianna.org/story (Daya Baran website)
https://archive.is/0PsNL (Daya Baran’s archived website)
Again, I am only guessing that there is likely a link here. The business has to be coming from somewhere.
If you want to know who someone is, all you have to do is listen. Check out Ms. Houghton’s LinkedIn profile. She posted a presentation titled “Mission impossible: Protect Your Data.”
ReplyDeleteAt the bottom, “GVT” is delineated as “Garden Variety Thieves.” Notice the plurality of thieves. Ms. Houghton and Ms. Applegate are a team.
In addition, the top write was a postmark like symbol that says, “Val’s Tips and Tricks.” This could indicate that it comes from email. The truth is that Ms. Houghton doesn’t need you to click on a link. She doesn’t even need physical access to your device. All she needs to do is send her gang to capture the WIFI or Bluetooth signal from your phone for a few seconds.
Instead of Ms. Houghton saying “By Ms. Houghton,” she writes “Powered by Ms. Houghton.” Need I say more?
https://archive.ph/CYCmh (Valerie Houghton's LinkedIn profile archived)
These people are so crazy that I cannot reach for help. If I tell anyone what the Houghton’s are doing to me and my kids, they think that I am the crazy one.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that is their superpower.
Hillary Applegate used to work with WomenSV, an agency accused of fraud and the abuse of domestic violence survivors.
ReplyDeleteOne of the victims ended up suing them and the lawyers that they worked with. The victim’s husband was represented by Hoover Krepelka.
James J. Hoover (partner of Hoover Krepelka) discloses on his profile that he is “advisory counsel” for WomenSV. This seems like a conflict of interest.
https://hooverkrepelka.com/attorney/james-j-hoover/
Before the case could go to trial, the victim committed suicide.
Valerie Houghton’s daughter, Hillary Applegate, worked with WomenSV.
I can only imagine that Hillary Applegate was involved. She and her mother seem to be the only ones in Silicon Valley with a private gang.
IF the Houghton’s were indeed dealt with this domestic violence victim, I could see why she committed suicide. The abuse is pervasive and relentless. It doesn’t stop until their target gives in.
https://davisvanguard.org/2025/05/womensv-judge-hendrickson-controversy/
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/susan-j-bassi-48783879_on-may-8-2025-spent-a-lovely-day-with-activity-7326882160840187904-Yr7E
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There is a free download of a PDF which contains a description of all of Ms. Houghton’s conduct and includes tips on how to deal with her. Ms. Houghton has managed to get a similar document deleted from a different host.
ReplyDeletePlease make sure to read this if you are dealing her or Hillary Applegate. These people are incredibly violent and intrude on other people’s lives in ways that you could not imagine.
https://pdfhost.io/v/0AmJGqtio_Valerie_Houghton_family_therapist
There is another family court case that Valerie Houghton could have been part of. I am still trying to find out if she and Hillary Applegate were involved.
ReplyDeleteJeffrey Haskell alleges that BJ Fadem pushed his child to become transgender and to change his child’s name to be a boy. Mr. Haskell also claims that there were false allegations that his children were self-mutilating.
This made Mr. Haskell emotionally distraught. He went to his children’s therapist office (Marica Clark) with a gun to his own head. The therapist first called Mr. Fadem, then called the police. Mr. Haskell was subsequently charged with attempted murder and spent two years in jail.
Allison Gomez was his public defender. This is the same lawyer that threw me under the bus to benefit Ms. Houghton.
Ms. Gomez told Mr. Haskell that she would not call any witnesses in a trial and coerced him into taking a plea deal by saying that he would get 30 years. The subsequent plea deal further hampered Jeffrey Haskell’s ability to see his children.
Given Ms. Houghton’s work on the Daya Baran case with Mr. Fadem (without disclosure), I believe that there is a chance that Houghton still works on some his cases.
Ms. Houghton also used to operate a clinic for transgender males. I wonder if she and Hillary Applegate also worked on this case.
Now Mr. Haskell is suing BJ Fadem and Marcia Clark.
HASKELL v. BJ FADEM (2025)
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-n-d-cal/117660702.html
https://forum.legaljunkies.com/forum/attorneys-courts-litigation/civil-litigation/69836-austin-family-court-corruption/page24
Ms. Applegate has been earning millions from her involvement in family court cases. Her mother says that she “lost a lot of business” because of my complaints, so the earnings have to be coming from somewhere else.
If your life has been falling apart in an uncharacteristic fashion, the Hillary and her mother could be involved. The parties could gain a lot of benefit by asking lawyers if the Houghton’s have been retained in any capacity.
Ms. Houghton has said that the “goal is to mass produce transgender youth.”
ReplyDeleteI keep wondering about Mr. Haskell’s daughter. Was she getting treatment at Ms. Houghton’s transgender clinic? Houghton discloses that she would take between 8-9 women at one time. How many young kids has Valerie Houghton brought to her clinic?
Valerie Houghton’s archived brochure for her transgender clinic.
https://archive.ph/TrdFa
Here is an excerpt from Mr. Haskell's lawsuit against BJ Fadem:
ReplyDelete"On December 20, 2024, Haskell filed this complaint against Clark, his children's former court-appointed attorney BJ Fadem, and another attorney Nicole Ford. Ford had represented Fadem in restraining order proceedings against his sister that took place in 2022.2 Haskell alleges that defendants Clark, Fadem, and Ford conspired with the judge in the family court proceedings to falsely assert to Haskell that one of his children was transgender and self-mutilating and that his other child was suicidal. Haskell alleges that an ex parte communication was made to the judge about his child's transgender status before an August 2021 hearing, and that Haskell first learned of the child's transgender status when the judge announced it from the bench. Haskell alleges that he later learned, at an unspecified date, that his children were not suicidal or self-mutilating. He learned in February 2024 that his child was not transgender when Haskell's sister searched for and found the child's TikTok account."
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-n-d-cal/117660702.html
If you are familiar with case and know if Valerie Houghton and her daughter were involved, please let me know.
Since Ms. Houghton has threatened to kill my kids, I have started again to complain. She advertises that she works in all 50 states. Maybe one of them will do something.
ReplyDeleteww.famdynamics.com
Here is an excerpt from a letter that I just for from Idaho. They seem to grasp the danger that Ms. Houghton potentially poses there.
"You report that Valerie Houghton is advertising a life coaching business in Idaho and claiming
to be a licensed therapist on her website (www.famdynamics.com). You allege that this
business is a front for a violent sex trafficking operation involving your children, and that she
has threatened to kill your children if you continue to speak about the alleged sexual abuse.
You state that Ms. Houghton has previously carried out threats that caused you serious bodily
harm, leading you to believe her current threats are credible. You request that she be directed
to terminate her activities, expressing concern that she may be harming other families in Idaho
while operating without an Idaho license, and noting that her licensure is limited to California
and Texas."
archive.ph/wip/b7tUv (archived letter from Idaho)
In the event that Valerie Houghton is on your case, the framework will deliver her everything that *SHE* needs. Movements that appear like a sure deal will be totally denied. It will not matter on the off chance that you’re asking for your life or your children to not be assaulted. Ms. Houghton knows how to spread the cash. She will continuously discover the individual willing to accept it.
ReplyDeleteJust see my denied motion.
https://archive.ph/ZPgjR