tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60161418828812767902024-03-13T00:14:36.619-07:00Keller On The Loosethe official blog of true crime author Robert KellerRobert Kellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05852154942253142131noreply@blogger.comBlogger519125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016141882881276790.post-37672528950930430702024-03-03T04:41:00.000-08:002024-03-13T00:14:04.533-07:00Cold Cases Solved Volume 9<p> <br />
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in Tacoma, Washington are deeply concerned. Does the city have a serial
child killer?<p></p><p><b>Bad Obsession</b>: A bizarre murder on the campus of Drexel University has police baffled. The motive will leave them stunned.</p><p><b>The Gambler</b>:
As a skilled poker player, Marcus knew how to judge the odds. His
latest gamble is his most daring yet. Can he get away with murder?</p><p><b>Death Comes Calling</b>:
Beauty queen Tana has attracted the unwanted attention of a dangerous
admirer. He lives across the hall. He’s also a psychopath.</p><p><b>Fourteen, Going on Psycho</b>: He was a spoiled, rich kid who always got what he wanted. Just 14, he was already a serial rapist… and a killer.</p><p><b>Here Comes Trouble</b>:
Tommy thought he’d hit the jackpot with his attractive, young lover.
But Clara’s not just a pretty face. She’s dangerously unstable.</p><p><b>When Hope Dies</b>:
The body of a little girl is found dumped beside a turnpike in New York
City. How she got there is both heartbreaking and deeply unsettling.</p><p><b>The Accidental Detective</b>: The case was cold, the killer apparently beyond the reach of the law. Then up stepped a rather unusual homicide investigator.</p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><a name="_Toc146547328"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Black Summer</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc146547328;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></h1>
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Tacoma, Washington, the kind of day when kids are loath to be indoors. Sisters Michella,
Angela, and Nichole Welch had their piano lessons scheduled for that afternoon
but that gave them plenty of time to head to Puget Park, about two miles from
their home. The girls nagged their mom, Barbara, to let them go and Barbara
eventually acceded. Why wouldn’t she? They lived in a safe neighborhood and the
park would be teeming with visitors on such a gorgeous day. Besides, her
oldest, Michella, was mature beyond her 12 years and could be trusted to watch
over her younger siblings. <p></p>
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Park, a one-acre beauty spot bordering Commencement Bay. They arrived just
after 11:30 and it was then that they realized they’d forgotten to bring the
paper bag containing their packed lunch. “I’ll ride back and fetch it,” Michella
told her sisters. “You guys stay here.” She then departed, leaving them with a
stern warning not to wander off. Angela and Nichole promised that they’d stay
put. <p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">However, about a half-hour after their big
sister left, Angela and Nichole felt the call of nature. Since there was no
public restroom in the park, they decided to cross the road and ask if they
could use the facilities at one of the businesses there. They were confident that
they’d be back before Michella, but they were wrong. When they returned, they
found her Schwinn leaning up against a picnic table, the bag containing their
lunch sitting on the table beside it. Of Michella, though, there was no sign. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">At first, this did not particularly alarm the
girls. They assumed that Michella had gone looking for them and would soon
return. When she did, they could expect one of her ‘big sister lectures.’ But
as the minutes ticked by and Michella did not appear, they began to worry.
Eventually, they started looking for their sister, calling her name. When that
failed to get a response, they went back to the hair salon where they’d earlier
used the bathroom and asked if they could call their mom at work. Barbara Leonard
listened with increasing alarm as Angela explained what had happened. She told
her and Nichole to stay where they were until she got there. Then she hung up
the phone and called the police. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">By 3 p.m., a search of Puget Park and its
surrounding area was underway by a small contingent of police. By six, search
and rescue were called in, along with a K-9 team. It was just after 11:30 when
one of the dogs found Michella Welch. The little girl was discovered in a
ravine in a densely wooded part of the park. She had been throttled and badly
beaten and her throat was slashed. The autopsy would reveal that she had been
sexually assaulted. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">In the aftermath of this terrible murder, a
report surfaced of a man seen lurking in the shadows, watching the girls. That
generated an identikit and a slew of leads. One of the most promising came from
a man named Robert Washburn who said that he’d been jogging in nearby Point
Defiance Park when he spotted a man who fit the description of the suspect.
According to Washburn, the man was “acting suspiciously.” This lead,
unfortunately, led nowhere. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The community was up in arms. A little girl was
dead, a child killer loose on the streets. What was the Tacoma Police
Department going to do about it? In truth, Tacoma PD could not be faulted for
its diligence. Detectives worked the case hard, drawing blanks at every turn.
The best line of inquiry was the semen retrieved from the victim’s body, but
DNA profiling was still in its infancy back then, and CODIS was still three
years in the future. The case was slipping away. Then, on August 4, 1986,
another child was missing. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">At 13, Jennifer Bastian was only slightly older
than Michella Welch. A keen cyclist, Jenni was a member of a biking club and
was looking forward to competing in an upcoming tour. That afternoon, she
called her dad at work and asked if she could do a five-mile training loop of
Point Defiance Park on her new bike. He told her that was fine, but that she
should be home by 6:30. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Only Jenni wasn’t home by 6:30, or by 7:30, or
8:30. The police were called and started a search of the park, bringing in the
bloodhounds at 11:00 p.m. The dogs had helped find Michella Welch, but they were
unsuccessful in this case. Jenni Bastian would be missing for three weeks
before her body was discovered by a pair of joggers, buried under vegetation
deep in the park. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The method of murder was different, but the ages
of the victims and the proximity of the crime scenes suggested a link.
Investigators were convinced that a single perpetrator was responsible for both
deaths. That made him a serial child killer, a terrifying prospect in a
community with so many young families. As word of this latest atrocity spread,
a siege mentality descended on the city of Tacoma. Home security was beefed up,
children were kept off the streets, sales of firearms and ammunition spiked. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Meanwhile, the police identified a convicted
child killer named David Fisher as their prime suspect and launched a concerted
effort to track him down. Fisher, though, wasn’t making it easy for them. He
would remain at large for three years. When he was eventually arrested, DNA
cleared him. That was in 1989. By then, the investigation was already in deep
trouble. Soon, it would stall completely. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Step forward in time two decades to 2011, and we
find the Tacoma Police Department establishing a Cold Case unit, under the
leadership of Detective Gene Miller. Miller had been a patrol officer at the
time of the Welch and Bastian murders. One of his investigators, Det. Lindsey
Wade, had been just 11 years old back then, similar in age to the victims. She
could well remember the pall of fear she’d lived under at the time. In part, it
was what had inspired her to sign up for the police academy straight out of
high school. Now, Wade would get a crack at the case that had haunted her for
over two decades. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">During that time, the prevailing theory was that
a single perpetrator was responsible for the deaths of Michella Welch and Jenni
Bastian. However, it had never been possible to test the hypothesis since no
biological material had been retrieved from the Bastian crime scene. Now, as
Det. Wade looked over the evidence again, she realized that the bathing suit
Jenni had been wearing had never been tested. This was now submitted to the lab
and a semen stain was detected, producing a viable DNA profile. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">It was here that the case took an unexpected
turn. The profile was different from the one found in the Welch case. The
police had always believed that a monster had snuffed out two young lives in
the summer of ’86 in Tacoma. Turns out they were wrong. There was not one
monster, but two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Had either of these profiles found a match in
CODIS at that time, then the police would at least have had something to show
for their efforts. Frustratingly, there was no hit from the national database.
Unperturbed, Det. Wade started working through the nearly 200 suspects that had
been identified over the course of the two investigations. This was a mammoth
task. Wade had to track down the men, ask them to submit to a test, and then
send the samples to the lab for comparison and elimination. It was time-consuming
and expensive. It is a testament to the resilience of the detective that she
managed to process 160 of the 200 suspects before her retirement in 2018.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Lindsey Wade left the force believing that she’d
failed. She was wrong. Just weeks into her retirement, she got a call from the
detective who had taken over her cases. They had a match from the last batch of
samples she’d submitted. The killer of Jenni Bastian had been identified. His
name was Robert Washburn, the same Robert Washburn whose name had appeared as a
witness in the Welch inquiry. He was the jogger who’d called the police to
report that he’d seen a man matching the description of Michella’s killer.
Washburn ultimately entered a guilty plea to murder and received a 27-year
prison term. It remains a mystery why he sought to insert himself into the
Welch inquiry just months before he committed an atrocity of his own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">One of the two killers was in custody. The
other, as yet, had not been caught, having evaded justice for over three
decades. But the Tacoma police were not giving up. Encouraged by the Washburn
result, cold case detectives gave approval for Parabon NanoLabs to upload DNA
data from Michella Welch’s killer to GEDmatch. This is a public, genetic
genealogy database whose users voluntarily upload their DNA profiles, usually
in the hope of tracing long-lost relatives. It has already been used by law
enforcement to close several high-profile cold cases, most notably that of the
Golden State Killer. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">In this case, the results highlighted two
brothers as potential suspects. The siblings were placed under police
surveillance, with officers tracking them to retrieve any discarded object that
might contain biological material – a soda can, a cigarette butt, a drinking
straw. Here, it was a paper napkin, left behind at a fast-food restaurant, that
would provide the breakthrough. The item was rushed to the lab where a profile
was extracted. The comparison returned a match. Just like that, a decades-old
mystery was resolved. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The suspect’s name was Gary Charles Hartman, he
was 66 years old and until recently had worked at Western State Hospital as a
psychiatric nurse. Hartman had a clean criminal record. His neighbors described
him as a “nice guy, kind, always smiling.” He was married. He enjoyed restoring
vintage cars. A Tacoma native, Hartman had lived his entire life in the city.
He’d been living within a mile of Puget Park back in 1986, when 12-year-old
Michella Welch was murdered. Aside from that atrocious crime, Gary Hartman had
never gotten so much as a parking ticket in his life. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But now, Hartman stood accused of the ultimate evil.
Arrested and brought before the courts in 2021, he initially entered a not
guilty plea to murder. Later, after being convicted and sentenced to 26 years
and six months in prison, he broke down and admitted his guilt. “I’m so
sorry," he wept. “God knows I’m so sorry. That doesn’t help. I’m just
sorry.” He will have plenty of time to contemplate his evil deed behind bars.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">During the summer of 1986, two promising young
lives were cut short in Tacoma, Washington. Michella Welch was 12 years old
with blonde hair. She wore a pair of wire-framed glasses perched on her nose. Michella
was a talented musician who excelled at the piano and violin. She was devoted
to her younger sisters. Jennifer Bastian wore her blonde hair boyishly short
and had strikingly blue eyes. She was an athletic 13-year-old who loved racing
her bike and had already competed in several cycling tours. Who knows where
that might have led, but for the intervention of a monster. Two innocent girls,
two heartless killers, one black summer.</span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><a name="_Toc146533515"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Melanie Eam</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc146533515;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF9fn6nggK7aQMIGtxbkvkNFla9baZFPunFLKd8gvtgAYYLo3WdgxhuEokm3jz1MAbOVw9XgeOKwJ_lSEXMCjt31LMBiF3dwQ_P9p6gZjwnOEiIyq87FNlxF_jWLltByBs_CC9FWxjsX9ekLCHLtwq809pwWzMK1zgVbUsOasGZ0p0E9ve2JyJpdvv50Wj/s290/eam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="261" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF9fn6nggK7aQMIGtxbkvkNFla9baZFPunFLKd8gvtgAYYLo3WdgxhuEokm3jz1MAbOVw9XgeOKwJ_lSEXMCjt31LMBiF3dwQ_P9p6gZjwnOEiIyq87FNlxF_jWLltByBs_CC9FWxjsX9ekLCHLtwq809pwWzMK1zgVbUsOasGZ0p0E9ve2JyJpdvv50Wj/w180-h200/eam.jpg" width="180" /></a></div>Melanie Eam and James Barry met in the middle
of a heated battle, dodging bullets and running for cover, covering each
other’s backs as they engaged a formidable enemy. The pair were avid gamers and
their love of role-playing games was what initially drew them together. Melanie
was 18 then and having trouble with her high school grades. Fortunately for
her, James was not only a gaming partner but a willing and conscientious coach.
When it was time to turn off the X-Box and hit the books, he broached no
excuses. It was largely due to his influence that Melanie gained her diploma.
By then, she’d become a regular guest at the Loxahatchee, Florida home that
James shared with his mother and stepfather. Often, she stayed the night. <p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Also living at the property at that time
was a young man named Jeff Jarzabkowski, James’s best friend since childhood.
Like James and Melanie, Jeff was a keen gamer. The trio would spend hours
together, hunched over their controllers, zapping insurgents and aliens and
zombies. It was all great fun until it wasn’t. Melanie, as it turned out, had a
possessive streak. She was jealous of the friendship between James and Jeff. In
fact, she demanded an end to it. She resented her boyfriend paying attention to
anyone who wasn’t her.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And so, the real-life battle lines were
drawn with James caught in the middle. On the one hand, there was Melanie,
hinting that she might break up with James if she had to play second fiddle. On
the other, there was Jeff, warning his friend that Melanie had a dark side and
that she wasn’t to be trusted. James laughed off these warnings, of course.
“Mel may be a bit overbearing,” he chuckled, “But she’s alright. I just wish
the two of you would get along.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">To Jeff, though, this was no laughing
matter. Eighteen months into James’s relationship with Melanie, he decided that
he’d had enough. To him, his friend’s girlfriend was perfectly personified by
her gaming handle, “Hellraiser.” Mel’s avatar was also a fair representation of
her character, in Jeff’s estimation. It showed a succubus, a female demon, with
its heart ripped out of its chest and held bleeding in its hand. In any case,
Jeff wanted no part of Mel’s histrionics. After making his apologies to James’s
mom and stepfather, he moved out of the Barry residence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Round one in the battle for James’s affection
had gone to the possessive girlfriend. But if Mel thought that she had banished
her rival, she was sorely mistaken. Jeff continued to visit when she wasn’t
around, something that always sent Mel into a tantrum when she found out. She
issued an ultimatum, demanding that James make a choice between them. When he
refused, she stormed off to bed. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It was now that James would discover that
Jeff’s warnings had not been overblown at all. While he slept that night, Mel
slipped out of bed, crept down to the kitchen, and fetched a bottle of bleach.
The contents of this container were poured into James’s fish tank, condemning
its dozens of occupants to an agonizing death. James woke the next morning to
find his prized tropical fish floating dead on the surface. He immediately knew
who was responsible and Mel made no attempt to deny culpability. “I did it to
show you how much I love you,” she said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But this supposed show of devotion would
backfire badly on Melanie Eam. James wasn’t just furious at the loss of his
pets, he was deeply concerned by Mel’s behavior. Perhaps Jeff had been right
after all. Maybe Mel really was unhinged. While his anger over his ruined
aquarium was still up, he decided to end the relationship. Mel did not take the
news well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Melanie Eam had been James Barry’s first
serious girlfriend. Now, James was discovering the heartache that always
accompanies the end of a love affair. Over the weeks that followed, he moped
around the house, showing little interest in anything besides his nightly
gaming sessions with Jeff. His friend assured him that he’d done the right
thing but James wasn’t so sure. He missed Mel terribly and longed to be with
her. Gradually, his resolve began to waver. In early November 2017, he
eventually gave in to his loneliness. He picked up the phone and asked Mel if
he could see her. He was over the moon when she said yes. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">James’s reunion with Mel drew mixed
reactions in his immediate circle. His mother and stepfather had always liked
the girl, who’d never been anything but ultra-respectful towards them. Jeff was
less pleased, although he kept his opinion to himself. It wasn’t his place to
tell James who he should be with. Perhaps he’d been too harsh on Mel. Maybe he
should give her another chance. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But while Jeff might have been ready to let
bygones be bygones, Mel was not in the mood for such indulgences. No sooner was
she back in the picture when she started pressuring James again, insisting that
he end his friendship with Jeff. James wasn’t going to do that but he did come
up with a compromise. Mel would have her time and Jeff would have his. James
would do his best to keep the two of them apart. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This uneasy truce was never going to last.
It would be put to its first (and ultimately, last) test on November 17, 2017.
Jeff and James were in the midst of an online game that evening when, in the
midst of the action, another player entered the fray…Hellraiser. This was a
clear infraction of the rules the trio had agreed on. In disgust, Jeff threw
down his game controller and stalked off to bed. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Just weeks after his reunion with Mel,
James had been forced to face a harsh reality. He’d made a big mistake letting
Mel back into his life. Mel hadn’t changed. She was still the same obsessive,
controlling individual who had driven him away in the first place. No matter
how much hurt it might cause in the long run, he realized now that there was no
future for them. With Mel still online, he clicked over into chat and started
typing. “You’ll always be special to me but this was a mistake. It’s over Mel.
I’m sorry. Maybe one day, when this is behind us, we can talk it through.” Before
Mel had a chance to respond and try to convince him otherwise, James logged
out. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">About an hour later, just after midnight,
James was in bed and unable to fall asleep when there was a knock at the door.
He went to answer it and was surprised to find Mel on his doorstep. “You said
we could talk about it,” she insisted, pushing past him and entering the house,
where she stalked off toward the kitchen. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">“Mel, it’s late, can’t we just…” James
started to say before Mel cut him off.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">“Do you love me?” she demanded. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">“Mel, I…”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">“Do you?” she insisted. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This was James’s moment of truth. The next
words out of his mouth would determine how this went. If he backed down now
then the whole thing would start again, the possessiveness, the jealousy, the
demands for attention. Faced with that prospect, James made a decision, one
that would have catastrophic results. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">“The truth, Mel, is that I don’t love you.
I did once but not anymore. This just isn’t working. I hope that you can
understand and that we can still be friends.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It was the typical “let me down easy”
speech, with the exception that James meant what he was saying. Mel, though,
wasn’t listening. She was rummaging through a kitchen drawer. When she turned
around she was holding a 13-inch carving knife. Without saying a word, she
swung at him. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The first swing nicked James on the wrist,
creating a graze that he hardly noticed. The second was deeper but still barely
a nick. “Mel, stop,” James begged, warding off the next lunge, “Let’s talk
about this.” But Mel wasn’t stopping. Blinded by rage, she continued swinging
with the knife, inflicting six superficial wounds on her boyfriend’s arms as he
tried to defend himself. Then, suddenly, she shifted her grip on the knife
handle and thrust the blade rather than arcing it. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The move caught James by surprise. Before
he could even react, the knife had pierced his skin. Directed upward under the
ribcage, it sliced through flesh, inflicting massive damage as it penetrated
the left ventricle of the heart. James staggered back, mortally wounded, the
heft of the knife still protruding from his chest. Mel, perhaps realizing what
she’d done, turned and fled. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jeff Jarzabkowski was sound asleep in bed
when he was awakened by a crash and then the sound of someone crying out in
pain. The sight that greeted him as he opened his eyes must have convinced Jeff
that he was still asleep, afflicted by a nightmare. James had staggered into
the room, clutching his chest and gasping for help. Impossibly, there appeared
to be a knife sticking out from his chest. And the blood, so much of the stuff,
welling out from between his friend’s fingers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jeff was out of bed in a single movement.
He caught James just before he collapsed to the floor. Jeff screamed for help. His
cries were answered by Guy Hand, James’s stepfather. Guy immediately started
CPR but every breath that he exhaled into his stepson’s lungs was gushing out
through the ugly wound in James’s chest. “Call 911!” Guy yelled to his wife.
Unfortunately, it was already too late. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">James Barry was already dead by the time
paramedics arrived. That made this a murder and investigators soon had a
suspect to focus on. The problem was that Melanie Eam was gone. She’d quit
town, destination unknown. It would be three days before detectives tracked her
to her family home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Taken into custody, Melanie made
no pretense at innocence. She admitted stabbing James, saying that she’d done
so in a fit of rage after he’d ended their relationship via a text message.
“That set me off,” she said. “He could, at least, have had the decency to do it
in person.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">By the time the matter came to trial,
however, Melanie Eam’s defense team had concocted a new version of events. They
now claimed that it was Guy Hand who had stabbed James. According to this
narrative, Melanie and Guy had gotten into an argument. James had stepped in to
break it up and had been accidentally stabbed in the resulting melee. As
unlikely as this scenario seemed, it struck a chord with the jurors. They were
unable to reach a unanimous verdict. A mistrial was declared. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And so to the second trial, beginning in January
2019. This time around, the jury was not convinced by Melanie’s tall tale of an
altercation that resulted in an accidental stabbing. She was found guilty of
second-degree murder and sentenced to 50 years in prison. Should she serve her
full term, Melanie Eam will be in her seventies by the time she is released.</span>
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back in 1982, the attraction was instant. Michelle was working as a waitress at
a diner in Martinez, Georgia at the time and the handsome customer made a big
impression. Richard, known to family and friends by his middle name Danny, was
polite and soft-spoken, a self-described introvert who worked as a design
engineer at the Savannah River nuclear power plant, just across the border in
South Carolina. He and Michelle started dating and things progressed quickly
from there. They married in September 1982. It was, in many respects, a
textbook romance. </span><p></p>
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companion, a good provider. True, he had his quirks, but these were few in
number and mild in nature. Danny could be broody and withdrawn. He sometimes
drank too much but he was never a violent or abusive drunk. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But all of that was to change with the birth of
their daughter in 1987. After that, Danny was often unable to perform sexually,
only maintaining an erection for oral sex. He also wanted to film their
lovemaking, something that made Michelle uncomfortable. Aside from that, he
developed an obsession with pornography and designated a room in the couple’s three-bedroom
bungalow for this compulsion. Michelle was not allowed to enter this room under
any circumstances. She gave him his space. Marriage is all about give and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">What Michelle didn’t know, what she’d have been
horrified to learn, was just how deep-rooted this obsession was, how long it
had been a part of her husband’s life. It had started back in 1970, when Danny
was just 10 years old. The boy had been exploring an old, abandoned house when
he came across a box of dusty old magazines. These were pornographic and
immediately held Danny in their thrall. He’d later record in his journal, “I
spent every free moment at that building looking at my secret treasure of
magazines.” His addiction would only intensify as he got older. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But here’s the thing with addictions. The user
becomes desensitized over time. He needs a greater input of stimuli to obtain
the same rush of adrenalin. This is true of all junkies, and it was certainly
true of Danny Starrett. Over time, his tastes came to encompass more extreme
forms of pornography – sadism, bondage, horror, sexual violence, rape porn. He
also developed a troubling admiration for Ted Bundy, America’s most notorious
serial killer. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">It wasn’t Bundy the killer that Danny Starrett
admired, it was Bundy the rapist. He appreciated the man’s audacity, his
ability to target any woman he liked, to lure her into his grasp and force her
to do his bidding. Over time, Starrett’s imagination started to veer in this
direction. He could see himself in the role of the abductor, gaining control
over his victim, bending her to his will. Such fantasies play a formative role
in the development of all serial sex offenders. It was only a matter of time
before Danny Starrett brought them into the real world.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">In December 1987, Michelle made a visit to
California to visit her mother. Danny cried off, saying that he had to work. In
truth, he could easily have taken some long overdue vacation time. But Danny
had other plans. Over the prior few months, his rape fantasies had been
building to a crescendo. They had gotten to the point where he felt that he
might relinquish his grip on sanity if he did not act on them. Now, with his
wife and daughter out of the way, he had his chance. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The method that Starrett employed wasn’t original,
but it was effective. On December 28, he responded to an ad in the Carolina
Trader. A young woman named Tammy Cranford was selling a couch, which Starrett
arranged to view. Unfortunately for Tammy, she was home alone when he arrived.
She quickly found herself threatened with a gun, subdued, and forced to perform
oral sex. It was Danny Starrett’s first foray into sexual assault, and it had
gone exactly as he'd hoped. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">This now became Danny Starrett’s M.O. He’d scour
the classified ads of the Carolina Trader looking for items offered for sale by
female advertisers. He’d then set up an appointment to view the item. If the
woman had company when he arrived, he’d simply say that he wasn’t interested
and leave. If she was alone, she was in deep trouble. At least four victims
were assaulted over the next year, one of them a 12-year-old girl. Yet,
Starrett was still dissatisfied. His fantasy was to have a woman under his
complete control, to do with as he saw fit. To achieve that, he needed to bring
the victim somewhere secure, somewhere he could take his time with no risk of
discovery. His chance came in December 1988, when Michelle again made a trip
out to the west coast.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Jeannie Taylor McCrea was 15 years old and home
alone when Danny Starrett knocked on her door. He said that he was there to
view a table her parents had advertised for sale and so Jeannie let him in. We
can’t say for certain what happened next. All we can do is reference the
confession that Starrett later gave to the police. It seems fanciful at best.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">According to Starrett, he did not have to use
force to gain Jeannie’s compliance. The girl went willingly to his house.
There, he initially locked her in a closet while he went to the store to pick
up supplies. When he returned, Jeannie told him that he did not have to
restrain her. She was happy to spend time with him. Thereafter, according to
Starrett, they spent several days together playing video games and watching TV.
They even took a short trip, “like a couple on vacation.” Whatever sex occurred
between them (again, according to Starrett) was consensual.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But the situation could not continue
indefinitely. Michelle was due back in a few days and that left Starrett with a
problem. What was he going to do about Jeannie? Was he just going to let her
go? What if she went to the police? He didn’t believe that she’d do that but
still the question gnawed at him, pulling him in one direction then another. In
the end, he decided that letting her go was not an option. On December 29,
while he and Jeannie were in the shower together, he reached for a gun and shot
her in the head. “I did it because I loved her too much and couldn’t be without
her,” he later explained. Jeannie McCrea was wrapped in a green blanket and
dumped in a creek bed near her home in Irmo, South Carolina.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Danny Starrett had now escalated from rapist to
killer and had done so seamlessly. If he felt any remorse at all, there was
none on display. When Michelle returned from her trip, she found him the same
as he always was. If anything, he was more loving, more attentive. Meanwhile, Jeannie
McCrea’s parents reported their daughter missing and fretted by the phone,
desperate for news that would never come. Meanwhile, in Lexington, South
Carolina, a carefree teenager named Shari Dawn Teets got on with her life,
unaware that fate was steering her towards a terrifying encounter...with a very
dangerous man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">On February 6, 1989, 17-year-old Shari Dawn
Teets answered a knock on her door and found a stranger standing on the porch.
The man was neatly dressed and well-spoken and introduced himself as an
insurance salesman. Shari informed him that her parents weren’t home and would
not return for a few hours. That was when the man produced a gun and warned her
not to do anything foolish if she wanted to live. </span></p>
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She was handcuffed, blindfolded, and forced into the backseat of a car. She was
then driven a considerable distance before being dragged from the vehicle into
a house. Here, she was forced to perform oral sex on her assailant while he
held a video camera, capturing it all on film. Over the days that followed, she
would be frequently abused, before being handcuffed and shoved into a closet,
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McCrea, it seems highly unlikely that Shari Dawn Teets would have survived this
ordeal. Sooner or later, Danny Starrett was going to be faced with his wife’s
imminent return from California, where she was again visiting her mother. We
already know how he had dealt with this situation in the past. It seems likely
that he’d have stuck with what had worked before. But Starrett made a mistake
on the night of February 11, four days into Shari’s captivity. He had been
drinking heavily that day and passed out without cuffing his victim. Shari was
able to force open a window and escape. Moments later, the Starrett’s neighbors
were startled by a young woman banging on their door, screaming that she had
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scene, Danny Starrett was gone, fled into the night in his distinctive red
Camaro. But he was never going to escape. As a kidnapping, this was an FBI
matter, with a national alert issued. Starrett was arrested two days later,
asleep in his car at a rest stop in Texas. By then, the police had already searched
his house, uncovering a treasure trove of evidence. Aside from videotapes
documenting the sexual assault on Shari Dawn Teets, the detectives located the
keys to a storage unit. This was found to contain thousands of magazines and
videos, many in the most depraved sub-genres of porn. Most revealing, though,
was Starrett’s homemade collection, which showed him forcing his juvenile
victims into various sex acts. Among those victims was Jeannie Taylor McCrea,
missing two months and thought at the time to be a runaway. </span></p>
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interrogators, Starrett confessed to seven counts of sexual assault, various
counts of kidnapping, and one murder. He would later lead detectives to Jeannie
McCrea’s body. Starrett entered guilty pleas to all charges at trial and
received nine life sentences. He is currently held at the Perry Corrections
Department in Greenville County, South Carolina. </span></p>
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a well-trodden path from sexual pervert to fantasist to serial rapist to
killer. There is a wealth of research telling us what the next step would have
been on that trajectory. But for Shari Dawn Teets’s escape, it is almost
certain that he’d have become a serial killer. Thankfully, he was stopped in
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liking for the bottle. He and Linda clashed frequently over his drinking and in
1978 she walked out on him and filed for divorce. </p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Thus began a disruptive decade for Linda. By
1982, she was in a new relationship, with a man named Robert Beard. They
married and had a son together but split when he was still a baby. Four years
later, and Linda was walking down the aisle with husband number three, a
teacher named John Silliman. Shortly after, the couple moved to California,
where Silliman legally adopted Linda’s son, Joey. Was this the happily ever
after Linda had hoped for? Not quite. Her new husband was abusive and
controlling. The marriage went the way of the previous two, ending in the
divorce courts in 1990. Thereafter, Linda moved back to Minnesota. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">And it is here that our story comes full circle.
Back in her hometown of Big Lake, Linda reconnected with Charlie, who’d gotten
his life together during the intervening years and given up the booze. The pair
started dating again and quickly realized that they’d never stopped loving each
other. They announced their engagement that same year and tied the knot on April
4, 1991. By then, Linda was heavily pregnant with their daughter, Lisa. ‘Love
will find a way,’ is another truism, straight from a Hallmark card. In this
case, it had. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Then came the morning of February 24, 1992. Charlie
left for work at 6:15 that morning, his usual time. Joey departed for school at
7:45, leaving Linda home alone with the baby. Charlie usually made a call to
his wife around mid-morning. He did so this day but got no reply. There was
also no answer when he tried again at noon and three times during the
afternoon. By now somewhat concerned, Charlie asked his boss if he could clock
out early to check on his wife. He arrived home at 4:05 p.m. and walked in on a
scene of domestic normality. Joey was home from school and doing his homework.
Lisa was in her playpen, in obvious need of a diaper change but otherwise okay.
There was no sign of Linda. Joey said he hadn’t seen her and assumed that she
was in her room. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Charlie walked towards the master bedroom with
an odd sense of foreboding gnawing at his gut. The door was closed. Ignoring
the instinct to call out his wife’s name, he placed a hand on the handle,
twisted it, pushed the door inward. Charlie took a half step inside, then
stopped in his tracks. In the next moment, he was running back down the hall,
yanking the phone from its cradle, punching in 911. “My wife is dead!” he
yelled at the dispatcher. “I just got home, and I checked in the bedroom, and
she’s been stabbed. I got the two kids here. Oh my god, what’s happened?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Officers were soon racing towards the scene. They
arrived to find 39-year-old Linda Jensen dead on the floor of her bedroom.
Linda was naked and wrapped in a comforter. The killer had stabbed her right
through the fabric, inflicting multiple wounds. He’d left the murder weapon, a
steak knife from Linda’s own kitchen, embedded in her chest, pinning the
comforter to her corpse. The autopsy would reveal that Linda had engaged in
sexual activity shortly before her death. Semen was retrieved from the body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">With no sign of forced entry into the home, the
obvious suspect was Charlie Jensen. Was it possible that love had not been as
sweet the second time around? Was it possible that old hurts had surfaced, and
that Charlie had decided to relieve himself of an incumbrance? Charlie said no
and the evidence backed him up. He had an alibi and the sperm retrieved from
the body wasn’t his. He even volunteered to take a polygraph, which he passed.
Whoever had killed Linda, it wasn’t her husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">One day into the investigation and the police
got what appeared to be a solid lead. A mail carrier reported that she’d been
passing the Jensen residence on the day of the murder when she spotted an older
model tan pickup pulling out of the drive, a “scruffy-looking” Caucasian male at
the wheel. She judged him to be late 30s / early 40s and was able to provide a
detailed description which a police sketch artist fashioned into an identikit.
The police then got corroboration for this sighting. The Jensens’ neighbor,
Deborah Jones, had also seen the truck in the neighborhood although she never
got a look at the driver. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">This promising lead, though, came to nothing.
Whoever the man in the tan truck was, he was long gone. Investigators, in any
case, had turned their attentions elsewhere, to Linda’s second husband, Robert
Beard, the father of her son Joey. Beard hadn’t wanted much to do with the boy
since the divorce but now appeared to have had a change of heart. Phone records
showed that he’d called Linda several times in the weeks before her murder.
Linda’s family said that he’d been demanding visitation rights and threatening
to sue for full custody if Linda refused. Had things become confrontational
between them? Had Linda been killed as a result?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Brought in for questioning, Beard did himself no
favors by lying to the police. According to him, he had not spoken to his
ex-wife in years. He changed his tune when confronted with the phone records
but still denied harming Linda. “I don’t even have a car,” he told
investigators. “What was I going to do? Walk there?” He had a point. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But Robert Beard wasn’t the only one of Linda’s
ex-husbands to come under suspicion. John Silliman also attracted the attention
of the authorities, when it was learned that he bore considerable animosity
towards his ex. The source of his anger was the child support he still had to
pay for Joey. Silliman was not the child’s biological father but had legally
adopted him while married to Linda. That obligated him to continue paying,
something that he was none too happy about. Officers flew out to California to
question Silliman but found that he had a cast-iron alibi. He’d been teaching a
class of 30 students at the time that his ex-wife was murdered. He could not
have done it. By May 1992, just three months in, the case had gone ice cold. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">And so it might have remained but for Sandra
Rolling, Linda Jensen’s sister. Sandra refused to let the Sherburne County
Sheriff’s Department forget about her sister. Over the next seven years, she
kept pressure on the department, calling every week to ask for an update.
Eventually, that persistence paid off and a new sheriff agreed to reopen the
investigation. The first step was to test the DNA from the rape kit against the
prime suspects, Linda’s former husbands. Both were tested, and both cleared.
There was also no match when the profile was submitted to CODIS. The
investigation had barely been reignited, and already it had hit a wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">A year passed. Then, in 2000, a woman named Angela
Hennen came forward to offer up a name that was familiar to investigators. Kent
Jones was the husband of Deborah Jones, the witness who had reported seeing the
tan pickup driving around the neighborhood at the time of Linda Jensen’s
murder. The Jones family lived right across the street from the Jensens and
were pillars of the community in Big Lake. Kent and Deborah and their four
children were regular churchgoers. Kent was also a much-respected Boy Scout leader.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But Kent had a dark side. For starters, he was
an adulterer, who had been carrying on behind his wife’s back for years. Angela
Hennen was only the latest in a long line of mistresses. The Scout leader, it
appeared, had a voracious sexual appetite. He also had a temper. Officers had
frequently been called to the Jones residence to deal with domestic violence
incidents and had once had to take Deborah to the ER with a stab wound. She
claimed that she’d fallen on a knife that was protruding from an open dishwasher.
The police didn’t believe her and suspected that she was covering for her
husband.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">How did any of this relate to Linda Jensen’s
death? Well, according to Angela Hennen, Kent was touchy about the subject.
She’d once mentioned it in conversation, and he’d totally flipped out, warning
her never to speak of it again. That didn’t amount to evidence of wrongdoing,
but it was certainly suspicious. The police had nothing to lose by bringing
Kent Jones in for a conversation. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Approached by investigators, Jones seemed more
than willing to cooperate, even if he insisted that he had little to add. “I
didn’t know the woman,” he said before almost immediately contradicting
himself, admitting that he often saw her jogging by his house and had spoken to
her on several occasions. A detective then asked if he’d been sexually involved
with Linda and Jones got defensive and refused to say any more. He was then
asked to provide a DNA sample and refused. The sample was eventually obtained
via a warrant. Tested against the rape kit, it returned a match. The semen
lifted from Linda Jensen’s body was from her neighbor, Kent Jones, who was now
arrested and charged with her murder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Kent Jones went on trial in May 2001, entering a
not guilty plea. The intervening months had given Jones plenty of time to work
out his cover story. Previously, he had asserted that he’d barely known the
dead woman. Now he claimed that they’d been lovers and had engaged in
consensual sex on the morning she died. That was how his semen ended up inside
her body. The killer must have entered the house after he left and stabbed
Linda to death. The defense offered two possible suspects for the jury to
consider. The first was the man in the tan pickup, who the police had never
been able to track down. The second was a man named Richard Christy, who worked
out at the same gym as Linda and apparently had a crush on her. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The problem for the defense was that neither of
these suspects had left his DNA at the crime scene. Kent Jones had and there
was no evidence that it had an innocent origin. Linda’s family was adamant that
she had not been having an affair, that she was happy in her marriage, that
she’d loved her husband. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The case presented by the prosecution was that
Jones, a man of prodigious sexual appetite, had long lusted over his attractive
neighbor, who he saw jogging by his house every day. On the morning of February
24, he decided to act on that lust. He entered the Jensen home shortly after
Joey left for school. Picking up a steak knife in the kitchen, he walked
through the house and ambushed Linda in the bedroom. There, he threatened her
with the knife and forced himself on her. Then, having sated himself, he must
have realized what he’d done. He’d be reported, arrested, disgraced in the
community. The only way out was to eliminate the witness. For that reason, an
innocent woman, a wife and mother, was brutally knifed to death.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Murder trials are not often noted for moments of
levity but there was one in this trial. Taking the stand in his own defense,
Jones exercised extremely poor taste by telling the court that Linda had fallen
for him because he was so good in bed. Later, when his wife, Deborah, entered
the witness box, she was asked to rate his skill between the covers. “Nothing
special,” she responded, to chuckles from the benches. Meanwhile, at the
defense table, Kent flushed red.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">In the end, the jury found Kent Jones guilty of
murder and the judge sentenced him to life in prison. In 2004, he won a
retrial, but the result was the same and his life sentence was subsequently
upheld on appeal. Jones is currently incarcerated at the Minnesota Correctional
Facility in Bayport. He is eligible for parole in 2030. Linda Jensen’s family
has vowed to contest every application he puts forward.</span></p>
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Janice’s parents did not approve of her friendship with Natasha. The
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He was a thug and a bully. He did not deserve a girl like Karen but for
some reason, she loved him. That would come at a heavy price.</p><p><b>Jordan Wallick</b>:
Jordan wanted to make a name for himself with his gangbanger buddies.
If that meant killing somebody, then so be it. He was ready.</p><p><b>Toby Sincino</b>:
Toby had always told his friends that he’d never make it to adulthood.
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><a name="_Toc146547894"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">William Riley Gaul</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc146547894;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit611eonrUW0cge_J0vaf4u2bw8AYEGxEaOPqHv615ufoTxEJ7MXcz2MgY-BKfo5b1R4SVrfBfjdgaWlbuww-Q_yuUgf15OUyoMI75rIQFsdTsF837wTMKnqyCx16A0Pu3tyxZ047mKu6vmXFz3efBOWChyly-TBOg9i-HP0ewSsl7wxwyG9URga7hUGgm/s290/gaul.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="261" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit611eonrUW0cge_J0vaf4u2bw8AYEGxEaOPqHv615ufoTxEJ7MXcz2MgY-BKfo5b1R4SVrfBfjdgaWlbuww-Q_yuUgf15OUyoMI75rIQFsdTsF837wTMKnqyCx16A0Pu3tyxZ047mKu6vmXFz3efBOWChyly-TBOg9i-HP0ewSsl7wxwyG9URga7hUGgm/w180-h200/gaul.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US">At Central High School in Knoxville, Tennessee,
William Gaul and Emma Walker were a golden couple. William, who went by his
middle name, Riley, was the star wide receiver on the football team. Emma was
the beautiful, blonde cheerleader. Both did well academically. It seemed almost
inevitable that they would be drawn to each other. During Emma’s freshman year,
in 2014, they started dating. </span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">At first, Riley and Emma seemed like the perfect
match. He was attentive and fun to be with, polite to her parents, pleasant, if
somewhat aloof, to her friends. Emma certainly saw him as a catch. She posted
countless pictures of them on her Facebook page. One of those bore the caption,
“Look how lucky I am.” All too soon, though, Riley’s possessive side began to
emerge. Riley didn’t want Emma hanging around with anyone but him. He started
dictating what she could wear and where she could go. Emma, a sassy and
independent young woman, was never going to stand for that. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Over the next two years, the relationship
between Emma and Riley was a rollercoaster ride. There were breakups and
makeups, angry outbursts, and frequent arguments, often conducted via text or
on Snapchat. Riley took to lurking outside the supermarket where Emma had a
part-time job, often standing there for hours. Emma’s friends started to worry
about her and so did her mom, Jill. Emma brushed off their concerns, saying
that it would be okay. Meanwhile, the tone of Riley’s Snapchat posts was
becoming more and more aggressive. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">And it was one of those posts that would prove
the tipping point. “You’re dead to me,” it read. “I’ll see your name in the
obituary section.” That was when Emma’s parents stepped in. They banned Riley
from their house and strongly suggested to their daughter that it might be time
to end things. They also took away her cell phone to prevent her from
contacting Riley. However, Emma and Riley quickly circumvented that restriction
and stayed in touch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">In 2016, 17-year-old Riley Gaul graduated from
Central High School. In the fall of that year, he started attending nearby Maryville
College. Emma was now a junior at Central High and the pair were still dating.
However, their tumultuous relationship had not improved. The constant cycle of
fights and breakups, arguments, and toxic texts, was taking a toll on Emma.
Mark and Jill Walker decided that it was time to take a firmer hand on the
matter. They grounded their daughter. Henceforth, she’d only be allowed to
leave the house for school and cheerleading practice. That gave her no
opportunity to see Riley Gaul. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">And it worked. The break from Gaul gave Emma
time to think, time to gain perspective. The conclusion that she reached was
music to the ears of her friends and family. She decided to end the
relationship. “We’re done for good,” she texted her friend Keegan Lyle. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Riley, as might be expected, did not take the
news well. He became depressed, suffered mood swings. He spent hours moping
around in his dorm room, sometimes even crying in front of his friends. He also
swallowed a bunch of Vicodin pills, washing them down with vodka in an apparent
suicide attempt. After this, he appeared to regain a modicum of composure and
seemed determined to win Emma back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">On Friday, November 18, 2016, Emma Walker
attended a party and sleepover at a friend’s house. That evening, she started
receiving strange text messages urging her to, “Come outside alone if you don’t
want to see a loved one get hurt.” Thinking that it was Riley playing a trick
on her, she texted back, threatening to call the police. Then the calls became
more sinister, “I’ve got someone you love. If you don’t comply, I will hurt
them” and “If you’d like to hear his crying and screams give me a call.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Eventually, Emma asked a friend, Zach Greene to
go outside with her to check it out. They fully expected it to be a hoax. It
wasn’t. There was a body lying face down in a ditch near the house. It was Riley
Gaul. “What are you doing here?” Emma demanded. At this, Riley acted confused,
saying he didn’t know how he’d ended up in the ditch. According to him, he’d
been kidnapped and dropped there by his abductors. Neither Emma nor Zach
believed him. They saw it for what it was, a childish ploy to gain Emma’s
sympathy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The next incident was more terrifying. Emma had
just arrived home the next morning when a stranger appeared on her doorstep.
Dressed all in black and wearing a mask, he was rattling the door handle,
checking the windows, trying to enter the house. In desperation, Emma texted
Riley, who said that he was on his way. By the time he arrived, the would-be
intruder was gone. Emma’s parents would later theorize that the “intruder” was
none other than Riley himself. They believed that he had set the whole thing up
so that he could play the hero. If it was meant as a ploy to worm his way back
into Emma’s affections, it failed. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">By Sunday night, November 20, things had
regained a modicum of normalcy in the Walker household. Emma spent the evening
watching TV with her family and texting with friends. She went to bed a little
after midnight. At 6:00 a.m. the next morning, Jill Walker went to her daughter’s
room to wake her for school. This was her normal routine and Emma typically
responded on the first call. Today, however, Emma did not respond. Jill then
stepped into the room and shook her daughter by the leg. Still nothing. That
was when she spotted blood on the pillow. Jill checked for a pulse and found
none. She immediately ran for her phone and dialed 911. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Emma Walker was dead, killed by a bullet that
had been fired through her bedroom window, a bullet that had hit her in the
back of the head. A second slug had missed its target and would be retrieved
from the pillow she was lying on. Knox County deputies later found two matching
shell casings in the flowerbed outside the window. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Right from the start, there was one clear
suspect. Everyone investigators interviewed offered the same name, Riley Gaul,
Riley who was obsessed with Emma and distraught over their breakup, Riley who
had threatened her in the past. And it wasn’t only Emma’s friends and family
who suspected Riley. The day after Emma’s death, his friend Alex McCarty told
police that Riley had shown him a gun that he’d stolen from his grandfather.
Another friend, Noah Walton, had also seen the gun. Riley had asked him for the
best way to get fingerprints off it. It was time for detectives to have a word
with Riley Gaul.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But Riley wasn’t going to make it easy for them.
He denied having anything to do with Emma’s death, claiming that he’d spent the
whole of Friday evening at his friend Noah Walton’s house. Bizarrely, he
refused to use Emma’s name during the interview, referring to her only as “the
girl” or “the girl who passed away.” This was a world away from the way he’d
reacted on social media. His Facebook page had a post that read, “Rest easy now,
sweetheart. I love you forever and always.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Gaul was then asked about his grandfather’s gun
and denied knowing where it was or ever having it in his possession. He also
denied showing it to his friends. That was clearly a lie, but Gaul was
nonetheless allowed to leave. He immediately started firing off angry texts to
his friends, demanding to know why they had told the police about the gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Alex McCarty and Noah Walton still had an
important part to play in the resolution of this crime. Knowing that Gaul had
lied to them and to the police, knowing that he had likely gunned down Emma
Walker, they agreed to work with investigators in building a case against their
friend. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">On Tuesday night, one day after Emma’s murder, McCarty
and Walton were wired up and sent to meet with Riley Gaul. During their
conversation, Gaul handed them a bag, asking them to get rid of its contents.
Officers then moved in and made the arrest. Inside the bag, they found a
treasure trove of evidence, including gloves and black clothing. They also
found a 9mm pistol, which turned out to be the murder weapon </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">William Riley Gaul went on trial in May 2018.
There, his defense admitted that it was Riley who had fired into Emma’s room
but claimed that he was not trying to hit her. He was only trying to frighten
her, to create another crisis so that he could ride in and play the hero. The
jury wasn’t buying that and found Gaul guilty as charged. He was sentenced to
life in prison, with parole eligibility in 51 years. Riley Gaul will be
approaching 70 years of age by the time he has his first review board.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">18 Chilling true murder cases, including;</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><br /></div>
<p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSlKOIIQj0A6NHWPdzYnEv0rEXc6lw0wbGkKIzC0T2aeuI21gILQp-9Vf2S-1Y78Mwu2LcCNf7W_xhhOoN2dx0jc6PokUPg4W8HF6NuM5hrU9JJxm8M6z1MfuUMwEhZlq-Y4eT-RyP2HBvisWTrs1KuQ0sEwsQF_J74WifV9ZiM5z5DEbbkjZZhw5fyNyt/s1596/MMV45.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1596" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSlKOIIQj0A6NHWPdzYnEv0rEXc6lw0wbGkKIzC0T2aeuI21gILQp-9Vf2S-1Y78Mwu2LcCNf7W_xhhOoN2dx0jc6PokUPg4W8HF6NuM5hrU9JJxm8M6z1MfuUMwEhZlq-Y4eT-RyP2HBvisWTrs1KuQ0sEwsQF_J74WifV9ZiM5z5DEbbkjZZhw5fyNyt/s320/MMV45.jpg" width="201" /></a></b></div><b>Persuasion</b>: Everyone knew who shot Robert Breininger. His 10-year-old son, Corey, had confessed to the crime. But who put Corey up to it?<p></p><p><b>Satanic Panic</b>: He’d been a soldier and a circus freak. Now Frank Costal is a high priest of Satan, ready to do the bidding of his dark lord.</p><p><b>The War Next Door</b>:
For years, neighbors Bob and Glen had been at each other’s throats,
trading barbs and insults. Their cold war is about to turn hot.</p><p><b>Loser</b>:
James was the deadbeat of the family, the failure, the loser. Now, he’s
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Kingdom, one story dominated the news. Eight-year-old Sarah Payne had been
abducted from her grandfather’s house in the village of Kingston Gorse, West
Sussex on July 1, spirited away by a man who should not have been at liberty to
commit the crime. The little girl’s brutalized body was found 17 days later, in
a field some fifteen miles from where she had been taken. Roy Whiting, a
habitual criminal and convicted pedophile, would soon be identified as the
prime suspect. He’d eventually be convicted of Sarah’s rape and murder but that
lay in the future. On the morning of July 17, the little girl’s corpse had only
just been found, sending the entire nation into shock and grieving. <p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">One of those following the breaking news that
day was 51-year-old Carol Quinn. Carol was particularly moved by the story. Her
grandchildren Keiren, 8, and Jade, 7, were around the same age as Sarah Payne.
With her blonde hair and bangs and big toothy smile, Jade even bore a slight
resemblance to Sarah. Carol could not imagine how that little girl’s family
could cope with such a tragedy. An involuntary tear trickled down her cheek
just thinking about it. If something like that were to happen to her
grandchildren, she didn’t think that she could bear it. She was contemplating
that terrible idea when the phone rang. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The person on the other end of the line
identified herself as an administrator at Standens Barn Lower School. She was
concerned that Jade and Keiren hadn’t been to school in the past week. Calls to
the children’s parents had gone unanswered. Did Carol know what was going on? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The call alarmed Carol, especially since she had
been trying to reach her daughter all week and had been unable to do so. Her
calls had gone straight to voicemail. At first, Carol had not been overly
concerned. Claire’s husband, Phillip, worked nights as a forklift driver, and
so the family sometimes kept odd hours. This call from the school, though, put
a troubling spin on things. As soon as Carol hung up the phone, she called her
husband, Harry, at work. Harry listened to her story with growing unease. Then
he told his boss that he needed to take the rest of the day off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Still, Carol clung desperately to the hope that
there was some innocent explanation behind all this. On the 12-mile drive to
her daughter’s home, she tried several times to reach Claire and got nothing.
By the time that Harry pulled the car to a stop inside the private estate on
the outskirts of Northampton, her nerves were shattered. Harry must have felt
it too, because he told Carol to stay outside while he entered the house alone.
Just moments later, he re-emerged, all of the color blanched from his face.
“Don't go in there,” he told his wife. “She’s done something to herself.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But Carol was never going to be restrained, not
at a time like this, not by mere words. “No, she hasn’t!” she yelled as she
pushed past Harry and entered the house. The smell should have alerted her
immediately to what awaited her. Claire was lying on the kitchen floor, a pool
of black blood congealed around her. Beside her was the corpse of one of the
family’s little apricot poodles, Dandy. The gruesome sight barely registered
with Carol before her brain sent an alarm signal. The children! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Then Carol was running, sprinting down the
corridor toward the children’s rooms. What she found was something
inconceivable, a nightmare made reality. Keiren and Jade were both in their
beds, but they were barely recognizable as the grandchildren that Carol so
cherished. Rigor had set their faces in stone, the agony of their death throes
caught in freeze-frame, their complexions an unearthly, mottled purple. Jade
looked like she was screaming. Carol let out an anguished cry that gave voice
to that expression.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Claire Austin, her children, Keiren and Jade,
and the family’s pet poodles, Dandy and Sooty, were dead. The only survivors of
the massacre were the family cat, Snoopy, and the children’s father, Phillip
Austin. Snoopy was found wandering the neighborhood. Phillip was missing and
considered the prime suspect in the triple homicide. Already a search had been
launched. It would endure for three days before the fugitive was found, sitting
in his car in the Lake District, bleeding from self-inflicted wounds to his
wrists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Phillip Austin had always been a man with anger
management issues. Claire had known that early on in their relationship. But
Claire was young and in love and she was pregnant with Keiren. Walking away was
not an easy option. A year later, in 1993, Jade arrived. That same year, Claire
and Phillip were wed. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">This was never going to be an easy marriage.
Phillip was a control freak and a bully and Claire wasn’t one to be pushed
around. She stood her ground when she needed to, leading to frequent clashes.
There were break-ups and make-ups. Phillip attended anger management classes
off and on, and the couple was in marriage counseling for a time. Neighbors
would recall that Phillip was always pleasant and friendly with them but that
they often heard him yelling at his kids. Claire confided in friends that he
was hard on the children, especially Keiren, and sometimes resorted to physical
punishment. She told the same friends that they had marital and financial
problems but were trying to work things out. In April 2000, the family enjoyed
a vacation together that seemed to ease the growing tensions. Just six weeks
later, Claire and the children would be dead. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But what had triggered this massacre? What had
turned a tetchy, occasionally abusive husband and parent into a mass murderer?
Phillip Austin told investigators that it was his wife’s nagging that set him
off. “She started hassling me and arguing and that. I just turned on her,” he
said, as though that justified the extreme violence he’d wrought. He was then
asked why he’d killed Keiren and Jade. Surely, they had done nothing to deserve
such terrible deaths. To this, Austin offered a response that was both mundane
and chilling. “It sort of came to me that I had killed her, so I went upstairs
and killed my children.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Further probing by detectives would unravel how
the tragedy played out. Austin had worked his usual shift the previous evening.
Claire, who worked part-time for the local council, did not have an assignment
that morning and was at home. The children had already departed for school when
the argument broke out between their parents. It escalated quickly when Austin
picked up a mallet and struck his wife several vicious blows to the head. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Claire collapsed to the floor. Then Austin was
on her, ripping off her bra, knotting it around her neck, pulling it tight.
Claire was throttled into submission before he took a knife and started
stabbing her, using so much force that the handle snapped off. Then, with the
mother of his children bleeding out on the floor, he took up the mallet again,
chased down the family’s beloved pet poodles, and clubbed the terrified animals
to death. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But Phillip Austin was still not done with
carnage this day. He now took a shower, washing his wife’s blood from his body.
Then he dressed and spent several hours in the house before heading out to pick
up Jade and Keiren from school. The children were surprised to see their
father. It was usually their mom who picked them up. Nonetheless, they were
delighted when he suggested that they spend some time together. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">We don’t know all of their movements that
afternoon, but we do know that Austin stopped at his bank and withdrew £700. We
know also that he took the children for a fish and chip supper. It was early
evening when they got home. Jade and Keiren were steered away from the kitchen
where their mother lay and sent directly to bed. They were ushered off to sleep
with a dose of Nytol, an over-the-counter sleeping aid. That made it easier for
their father to murder them. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Eight-year-old Keiren Austin was strangled with
a pair of toddler reins. His sister Jade had her young life snuffed out with
the belt of her dressing gown. Despite the sedative they were given, there was
evidence that the children woke while their father was attacking them. It is
distressing to imagine their terror and confusion in their final moments. Here
was a man they trusted, a man they loved despite his frequent mistreatment of
them. Why was he hurting them? What had they done wrong?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">His family was dead, his wife brutally
butchered, his children strangled. Phillip Austin now packed a bag, got into
his car, and drove away. He spent the next ten days on the lam, living in
boarding houses in Brighton and Scarborough, while the bodies lay undiscovered.
Then the story was all over the news and he knew that the police were hunting
him. That was when he drove to the Lake District and made a half-baked attempt
at suicide. Like others of his ilk, Phillip Austin was quite capable of hurting
others, less proficient when it came to self-harm. After treatment for his
superficial injuries, he was charged with three counts of murder. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Yet even now, Austin was scheming, trying to
wriggle his way out of the consequences of his actions. At his initial court
hearing, he entered a plea of not guilty on the grounds of diminished
responsibility. Later, he changed that plea to guilty and was sentenced to
three concurrent life terms. Given the heinous nature of his crimes, the parole
period was generous. For butchering his entire family, Austin would have to
serve a minimum of 20 years. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Phillip Austin became eligible for parole in
2021 but was turned down by the review board. A request to be moved to an open
prison was also rejected, amid a public outcry. Carol Quinn, now in her 70s,
remains determined to keep him behind bars.</span></p>
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California. Ellie Nesler was either an avenging angel or a dangerous
vigilante. You decide.</p><p><b>Maryann Castorena</b>: Jose thought that
he’d found the love of his life in Maryann. What he’d really found was a
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murder.</p><p><b>Sarah Vercauteren</b>: Heroin can lead its users down
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murder of her own mother.</p><p><b>Sabah Khan</b>: It’s sister against sister over the affections of a man who was hardly worth the trouble. One of them won’t survive.</p><p><b>Gaile Owens</b>:
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female Charlie Manson. The murder she and her followers committed was
certainly worthy of that unflattering title.</p><p><b>Andrea Claire</b>:
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Ellie
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir1FHL_fqgJBsLne12Pk-21HRmjpYN18_HUunw-rDJu2JcjXoATnC3EcYKopQfNdc9tMb_rjyiUumDvAhAX2AvKbFfZ_AWVHFjGy2eb3k-lSpvw8SpJ5FbboJibz7CB2sfYI0qnosTp491DLixDD8-FDxO7O3lCRZ26QQNOcPUo9vu9NCsH1x7ot_PzH9y/s290/nesler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="261" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir1FHL_fqgJBsLne12Pk-21HRmjpYN18_HUunw-rDJu2JcjXoATnC3EcYKopQfNdc9tMb_rjyiUumDvAhAX2AvKbFfZ_AWVHFjGy2eb3k-lSpvw8SpJ5FbboJibz7CB2sfYI0qnosTp491DLixDD8-FDxO7O3lCRZ26QQNOcPUo9vu9NCsH1x7ot_PzH9y/w180-h200/nesler.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US">To some, she is a hero, to others a
stone-cold assassin. Either way, no one can dispute that Ellie Nesler was a
killer. Her act of violence was committed in public, inside a crowded courtroom
in Tuolumne County, California, on an April morning in 1993. At the receiving
end of her bullets was 35-year-old Daniel Mark Driver, a counselor at a
Christian summer camp, who was on trial for sodomizing Nesler’s seven-year-old
son, Willie. Yet, the story is bigger than that. At its height, it would spark
intense public debate over a justice system that sometimes allows dangerous
criminals to walk unchecked among us. It would elicit diverse opinions on a
citizen’s right to act where the law has failed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ellie Nesler was the oldest of three
daughters, born to a coal miner and his wife in August 1952. She grew up in the
hill country around Jamestown where her family eked out a living and where
Ellie showed an independent streak from a young age. By her mid-teens, she was
earning her own money, driving tractors for local farmers, digging irrigation
ditches, and even doing auto repairs. She married young as well, although the
union soon broke down. Then Bill Nesler arrived and swept her off her feet. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Bill earned his living mainly as a crop
duster, although he dabbled in prospecting and had dreams of striking it rich.
That dream would take the family to the West African country of Liberia, where
there was a gold rush underway during the eighties. By then, they already had
their son, Willie, born in 1982. They’d add a daughter, Rebecca, while living
in Africa. Soon after, a civil war broke out and Ellie decided to return home
with the children, while Bill stayed behind to continue mining. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Back in Tuolumne County, times were tough
for Ellie and the children. Sure, she had the support of her family and of her
local church, but with no income and two young mouths to feed, it was no
picnic. The family survived on welfare checks and on the meager amounts Ellie
was able to earn from low-paying jobs like chopping wood and washing dishes.
Despite these difficulties, Ellie was a devoted (some would say overprotective)
mother. She seldom let her kids out of her sight. There was a good reason for
her paranoia. Ellie had been molested by a family friend as a child. She feared
that the same might happen to her children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">By the summer of 1988, the now six-year-old
Willie was feeling stifled by his mother’s overbearing presence. His latest
bone of contention was Ellie’s refusal to let him attend their church’s annual
campout. Willie pleaded with her to let him go but Ellie was adamant that he
would not. It took the intervention of her sister Jan to change Ellie’s mind. “He’ll
be with people that we know and trust,” Jan argued. “What’s the worst that can
happen at a Christian camp?”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And so, Ellie relented and in doing so
changed her life and the life of her child forever. Willie returned from the
three-week event a changed boy. Whereas he’d once been a happy, outgoing child,
he was now sullen, morose, tearful, prone to fits of temper. Ellie begged him
to tell her what was bothering him, but Willie refused, angrily telling her to
leave him alone. Eventually, Ellie backed off. She hoped that it was just
growing pains, a phase that would soon pass. It didn’t. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It would be nine months before Willie spoke
to anyone about the thing that was bothering him. His confidant was his Aunt
Jan, who drew him aside during a sleepover with his cousins and gently pressed
him on the issue. Eventually, tears welled up in Willie’s eyes and he said that
he would tell but only if Jan promised to keep his secret. Jan said that she
would. “It was that Danny,” a tearful Willie told her. “He did nasty things to
me.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The man who Willie Nesler was accusing was
35-year-old Daniel Mark Driver, an active and trusted member of the church.
Driver was seldom seen without a Bible in his hand. He had an encyclopedic
knowledge of the scriptures and often inserted biblical quotes into his
conversations. He also seemed to have a way with children and was particularly
attentive to boys who did not have a father figure in their lives – boys like
Willie Nesler.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">What the church didn’t know, but perhaps
should have, was that Driver was a lowlife with a sordid past. In 1984, he’d
been at the center of a much-publicized child molestation case in San Jose, a
case involving assaults on several young boys. With overwhelming evidence
against him, Driver had entered a guilty plea and thrown himself on the mercy
of the court. He was looking at hard time. But then the good members of his San
Jose congregation stepped in and deluged the judge with letters, vouching for
the good character of the accused. As a result, Driver was given probation
rather than jail time. Soon after, he returned to his mother’s home in Tuolumne
County. There, he used his standing in the community and church as cover, while
he continued molesting children. One of the boys who fell into his clutches was
Willie Nesler. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The sexual abuse of Willie Nesler started
at the summer camp. Driver had been showing the boy a lot of attention which
Willie, deprived of his father, lapped up. Then, one day, Driver lured him away
from his companions on the pretense of showing him some frogs. Out of sight and
earshot, he subdued and raped the boy, thereafter threatening to kill him and
his family if he told anyone. He used this same threat to continue molesting
the child even after the camp was over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jan had promised to keep Willie’s secret,
but this was a promise she would have to break. She immediately went to her
sister and shared the terrible news. Ellie was devastated when Jan told her
what had happened, filled with rage at the man who had hurt her baby, equally
angry with herself for failing to protect him. She immediately took Willie to
the sheriff’s office to report the crime. A warrant was issued but Driver had already
skipped town. He would remain on the run for three years, during which Willie
lived in constant terror that he would show up one day to make good on his
threat of murdering his family. Unsurprisingly, the boy’s behavior deteriorated
during this time. His academic performance suffered, and he was constantly in
trouble for fighting. He attended three different schools in as many years.
Even from afar, Driver was still terrorizing him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And then, in 1992, there was finally a
break. Daniel Driver was caught shoplifting in Palo Alto, California, and
subsequently returned to Tuolumne County to face child molestation charges.
Five children had been assaulted and all were due to testify against the
pedophile. Willie Nesler, now eleven years old, was particularly terrified of
facing his abuser. He was also ashamed of what he’d have to admit in a public
courtroom. He was physically sick at the prospect, actually throwing up as he
sat outside the court, waiting his turn on the stand. His mother urged him to
be brave, telling him that his testimony would stop Driver from hurting other
kids like him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But Willie would never have to take the
stand, would never have to face the man who had destroyed his life. His mother
would see to that. As Driver sat at the defense table, Ellie Nesler walked up
behind him, reached into her waistband, and drew a gun. Raising it, she calmly
pulled the trigger, firing six shots at the back of Driver’s head. All but one
of the bullets found their mark, triggering pandemonium in the courtroom as
spectators screamed and scrambled for the exits. Meanwhile, Driver slumped to
the floor, his life rapidly slipping away. Then deputies entered the courtroom
with weapons raised and Ellie calmly dropped her gun, raised her arms, and
surrendered. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The shooting made Ellie Nesler a hero in
the eyes of many Tuolumne County residents. As Ellie was charged with
first-degree murder, public collections and fundraising efforts were already
springing up, gathering thousands of dollars for her defense. “Free Ellie
Nesler” bumpers stickers started to appear, along with others that read, “Good
Shooting, Ellie!” Gifts, cards, and flowers arrived from around the country. A
Sacramento bondsman put up $500,000 to get Ellie released on bail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But not everyone was on board with the
adulation. Many spoke out against vigilantism and Ellie tarnished her image by
making controversial statements to the media, once referring to herself as the
“next best thing to God.” It was also revealed that she’d been hopped up on
methamphetamine at the time of the shooting. Later, the media would discover
that she had a record. She’d served time in a juvenile facility at age 18, on a
charge of auto theft. This time, she was looking at a far harsher sentence. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The gun that Ellie had used to kill Daniel
Driver belonged to her sister Jan. She’d taken it from Jan’s purse that very
morning, without the latter knowing. That pointed to a decision made on the
spur-of-the-moment but then Ellie foolishly admitted to state prosecutors that
she had been thinking of killing Driver for two years. That made it
premeditated. At trial, Ellie’s lawyers cited temporary insanity, an argument
that the jury was happy to accept. Ellie Nesler was acquitted of murder but
convicted of voluntary manslaughter. She was sentenced to ten years in prison,
later reduced on appeal. She’d end up serving less than four years. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But this would not be Ellie Nesler’s last
run-in with the law. In 2002, she was caught in possession of 10,000
pseudoephedrine tablets. These are commonly used in the manufacture of
methamphetamine. It appeared that Ellie was in the process of setting up a meth
lab and that earned her six years at the Central California Women’s facility in
Chowchilla. She was released in 2006 having served just over half that time.
Ellie Nesler died two years later on December 26, 2008, of breast cancer. She
was 56 years old.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Ellie Nesler story has another tragic
by-product. Willie Nesler, the little boy in whose name she committed a public
assassination, would go on to become a murderer himself. Raised by his Aunt Jan
while his mother was serving her prison sentence, Willie never regained his
youthful innocence. Beginning at age 14, he was in and out of juvenile
detention on a litany of offenses. He would continue that inglorious record as
an adult. Over one five-year period, he was arrested no fewer than 18 times, on
charges ranging from robbery to assault to drug possession. In 2005, he
committed the ultimate offense when he beat a disabled man to death in a petty
dispute over missing tools.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTqX0jfbulXl_dGmEybt2EhOTSEAJY3KkEmSme92cr1SlKnzNZhfQb-sFDUP0wOtMulZHezgLbWvsaICpIdGBPwaEeO5FAG6N3w4NOUiOXsxzaEoBbdZiojmMuySGeyLjNJ08y7zDEetoUveGVmET1WzX3YfAqNDbDlfXBtAgOC4B15AVUAOH-JZ7U3AEB/s290/six.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="261" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTqX0jfbulXl_dGmEybt2EhOTSEAJY3KkEmSme92cr1SlKnzNZhfQb-sFDUP0wOtMulZHezgLbWvsaICpIdGBPwaEeO5FAG6N3w4NOUiOXsxzaEoBbdZiojmMuySGeyLjNJ08y7zDEetoUveGVmET1WzX3YfAqNDbDlfXBtAgOC4B15AVUAOH-JZ7U3AEB/w180-h200/six.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US">In the spring of 1984, the tiny rural burg of
Drakesville, Iowa, experienced a sudden surge in violent crime. It started with
an arson attack on a trailer, home to 20-year-old Justin Hook. The residence
had already burned to the ground by the time firefighters got there and, with
no sign of the occupant, there were genuine fears that he might have been
incinerated with it. However, Justin wasn’t among the ruins. His body was
discovered nearby, lying on the ground, bloodied and battered. It appeared he’d
been bludgeoned to death. </span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Drakesville is a town of just 200 inhabitants.
The deputies knew that Justin Hook’s mother lived nearby and now had the
unenviable task of breaking the terrible news to her. However, when they
arrived at Sara Link’s residence, they found nobody home. Given the
circumstances under which her son had just been found, that sparked immediate
concern, and a search was launched. It would be resolved two days later when a
farmer in Eldon, 15 miles northeast of Drakesville, found a body in a wooded
area of his property. Like her son, Sara Link had been beaten to death. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">And that discovery would soon be connected to a
missing person report from Ottumwa, some 20 miles away. Nineteen-year-old Tina
Lade had disappeared while visiting her fiancé in Drakesville. Worryingly, her
fiancé was the recently discovered murder victim, Justin Hook. That did not
bode well for Tina. The worst fears were realized on April 18, when police dogs
brought their handlers to her corpse, discarded in a ravine about a half-mile
from where Sara Link had been found. Like the other victims, Tina had been
beaten to death with a blunt object. She had also been raped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Given the relationship between the three
victims, it seemed very likely that the same perpetrator was responsible. This
was confirmed when Wapello County investigators found identical shoe prints at
two of the crime scenes. As their inquiries continued, detectives learned that
Justin Hook had recently been involved in a dispute with another man over the
sale of a pickup. The name they were given was one that many of the officers
were familiar with. Andrew Six was a young thug and petty criminal. Just 19
years old, he had already accumulated a lengthy rap sheet.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Six wasn’t difficult to find. Hauled in for
questioning, he denied involvement in the murders and claimed that he’d been
out of town at the time. This was backed up by some of his lowlife friends,
which meant that his alibi was basically worthless. Nonetheless, it was
impossible to break, and the police had nothing else to connect Six to the
crime scenes. Nothing, that is, but the shoeprints. The size was right but Six
did not have a shoe with matching tread in his closet. A criminal as savvy as
he would have known to get rid of it. In the end, the Wapello County Sheriff’s
Department simply lacked the evidence to bring charges. Six was free to go.
That would have tragic consequences for a family living in nearby Ottumwa,
Iowa.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Don Allen had health issues, specifically a
cardiac condition that required open heart surgery. That was expensive and Don,
unfortunately, did not have health insurance. The only solution was to sell off
some of his belongings, starting with his beloved pick-up truck. He put the
word out that it was for sale and soon attracted the attention of a man named
Donald Petary, who said that he was interested and wanted to view the vehicle
and take it for a spin. Arrangements were made. On the evening of April 10,
1987, Petary pulled up in front of the Allen family’s trailer, driving an old
clunker. There was another man in the car with him, his nephew, Andrew Six. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Petary spent very little time viewing the
pickup, not even bothering to lift the hood. After circling the vehicle just
once, he asked to take it for a test drive. Don Allen, of course, was not about
to let a stranger drive off in his truck unsupervised. But Don was unwell and
so his wife, Stella, agreed to accompany the potential buyer. Minutes later,
she was being driven away from the trailer, seated between the two men. They
were barely a mile down the road when Six pulled a knife and held it to her
throat. Petary then pulled over and he and Six overpowered Stella, securing her
hands with duct tape. They then turned the vehicle around and headed back to
the trailer. This had been their plan all along, to steal the truck and rob the
family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Don Allen was waiting outside when the truck
pulled up. He was somewhat surprised that they’d returned so soon but then Six
dragged Stella from the front seat with a knife to her throat. Petary, also
armed with a knife, ordered Don back into the trailer. Here, his hands were
bound before he and Stella were hustled into their bedroom, where they were
gagged. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But Don and Stella were not the only ones in the
trailer that night. Also present were their heavily pregnant 17-year-old
daughter, Christine, and her younger sibling, 12-year-old Kathy. The younger
girl was brought into the room with her parents. Christine was found cowering
in her bedroom by Andrew Six. Despite her advanced state of pregnancy, he held
a knife to her throat, and forced her to undress. Then, ignoring pleas for the
safety of her unborn child, he raped her.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The Allen family had been terrorized,
brutalized, violated in their own home. But for them, a terrifying evening was
only just getting started. All four were now sequestered in a single room while
their captors went through the place, taking anything of value. They then
returned to demand Don’s wallet and Stella’s purse. At this point, Don managed
to break free and tried to defend his family. But he was weak with his illness
and easily subdued. “You try anything like that again, and you all die,” Six
sneered at him. Then he ordered his terrified captives to their feet and
jostled them outside. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">What was the purpose of this? We don’t know.
Possibly Six and Petary’s plan was to butcher the family outside their trailer.
But it was at this point that Don and Christine broke free and sprinted away
into the darkness. In revenge, Six lashed out at Stella, drawing his knife
across her throat, opening a deep gash, nicking the carotid artery. Blood
immediately started gushing from the wound as Stella threw up a hand and tried
desperately to stem the flow. The cut would later require 50 stitches to close.
Had Don not returned with help at that point, Stella would likely have died. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But Don had arrived too late to save his younger
daughter. Six and Petary dragged her into their car and sped away into the
night. Shortly after, an alert was issued but the fugitives somehow managed to
avoid the dragnet. When they were apprehended in east Texas the following
evening, Kathy Allen was not with them. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Six would later reveal under interrogation what
had happened to the girl. And he wasn’t holding back on the appalling details.
He said that he and Petary had taken Kathy to an isolated spot where they’d
taken turns raping her. Six had then cut her throat. Kathy’s body was later
recovered from a muddy ditch along a gravel road about 20 miles south of the
Iowa border in Schuyler County, Missouri. The gaping wound to her throat had
severed both her jugular vein and carotid artery. The 12-year-old had bled to
death, alone and terrified in the dark. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Andrew Six and Donald Petary would pay the
ultimate price for their inhuman act of savagery. Convicted of aggravated
murder by a Schuyler County jury, they were both sentenced to death. Petary
would not keep his date with the executioner. He died in prison in 1998, while
awaiting execution. Andrew Six was already dead by then. He’d felt the sting of
the needle on August 20, 1997. The world is a better place for his passing. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">In August of 2011, the Iowa Division of Criminal
Investigation (DCI), contacted the Sheriff’s Offices in Davis and Wapello
Counties to inquire about old, unsolved homicides. The DCI had recently
received a federal grant, allowing it to set up a cold case unit. It was
looking specifically for quick wins, cases in which the jurisdictions had
unprocessed biological evidence. As it turned out, Davis and Wapello Counties
had a mutual case that fit the criteria, the triple homicide of Justin Hook,
Tina Lade, and Sara Link. Semen had been retrieved from the inside of Tina
Lade’s jeans. It held the secret to a 25-year-old mystery. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Or perhaps not that much of a secret.
Investigators had always known who was responsible for the murders, they’d just
lacked the evidence to prove it. Now, DNA would provide the answer. It was
Andrew Wessel Six. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Six, of course, was beyond the reach of the law.
He’d been put to death 14 years earlier for the murder of Kathy Allen. You
can’t prosecute a dead man, but you can bring closure to the loved ones of his
victims. After years of uncertainty, the families finally had answers. The man
responsible was dead. He’d never harm another soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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Case Unit would achieve remarkable success during its short tenure, closing
numerous cases that had appeared to be lost causes. However, the unit ran out
of funding in 2011 and was shut down. Even without the dedicated unit, though,
the DCI remains committed to solving Iowa’s cold cases. Its agents still
diligently work these investigations. Murderers should not rest easily in their
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performing all over the Stockton-Lodi area. When not thus engaged, she worked a
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continued to see even after he and Terri were going steady. The third party in
this scenario was a former classmate at Lincoln High School in Stockton,
19-year-old Ricky Ortega. Randy, struggling with his sexuality, had kept the
relationship deep under wraps. Now he tried to end it, only to be met by a
barrage of abuse and threats. Ricky was staying put. If anyone was going to go,
it would have to be Terri Winchell. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">An uncomfortable situation now developed, with
Ortega insinuating himself into Randy and Terri’s circle. Terri, oblivious to
her boyfriend’s secret gay liaison, could not understand why Ricky was always
so mean to her, always needling her and making unkind comments. Being the
person she was, Terri rode out the unpleasantness without responding. Maybe
Ricky would come around one day. Maybe once he got to know her, he’d see that
she wasn’t a bad person. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But what Terri was seeing was just a sliver of
Ricky’s resentment towards her. To him, Terri was an imposter, an intruder
coming between him and the man he loved. He wanted her gone and in late 1980,
started thinking about how to make that happen. For a time, he considered outing
Randy. However, he quickly realized that Randy would never forgive him for the
betrayal and would likely leave him. That was when he decided on Plan B…murder.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Ricky was under no illusions as he explored this
option. Much as he hated Terri, he knew that he could not do the killing
himself. But why would he need to when he had an assassin right on his
doorstep? His cousin, Michael Morales, was a member of the Little Unity gang.
He was a guy you didn’t want to mess with, a drug-addicted gangbanger who would
not think twice about dropping the trigger on someone. Perhaps he’d be prepared
to do his cousin Ricky a favor.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Michael Morales’s early life had offered no hint
of the man he would become. Born into a large churchgoing family, he grew up to
be a quiet, respectful boy who delivered newspapers to earn pocket money. But
then the terrible teens hit, and Morales went off the rails. He started staying
out late, drinking, doing drugs, hanging with the local Latino gangs. He began
wearing gang colors and dressing like them, in Pendleton shirts buttoned at the
throat and baggy chinos. Michael’s parents tried hard to steer him back onto
the straight and narrow, but it was a losing battle. Finally, when the boy was
15, they gave up and threw him out of the house. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The years that followed were a wild ride for
Morales. He was on the streets, hanging with his Little Unity brethren,
drinking heavily and abusing cocaine, amphetamines, and PCP. He was in and out
of prison on any number of petty offenses. He fathered three children. Then, in
late-December 1980, came a request from his cousin, a request to get rid of a
troublesome Gringa who was interfering in his love life. Morales agreed on the
spot. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">It was just before 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, January
8, 1981. At the Winchell residence, 17-year-old Terri was heading out the door,
bound for a local restaurant where she was to pick up a takeout meal for her
mom, Barbara, who was sick in bed. She’d just reached the front door when the
phone jangled into life. Terri went to answer it and was surprised at who was
on the other end. Ricky Ortega had never spoken a civil word to her in his
life. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">However, this was a different Ricky. He was
subdued and apologetic, saying that he was sorry for how he’d treated her and
suggesting that he wanted to make amends. He then asked if she’d go with him to
a local shopping center to help him pick out a gift for his new girlfriend. Eager
to mend fences, Terri agreed, saying that she had an hour to spare. Ortega
thanked her for her kindness and said that he was on his way. A short while
later, he pulled up in front of the Winchell residence. In the back was Michael
Morales, who Ortega introduced as his cousin. What Terri could never have
suspected was that Morales was armed. Hidden under a blanket on the back seat
were a claw hammer, a leather belt, and a 7-inch kitchen knife. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The route that Ricky took that night was away
from the city limits, through a semi-rural area with grapevines on either side
of the road. It was here, with no other traffic in sight, that Morales launched
his attack. In a flash, he slipped the belt around Terri’s throat. Then he
cinched it tight and started applying pressure, throttling the breath out of
her. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">In Morales’s mental rehearsal of this moment,
Terri had submitted meekly, slumping against the seat as her breath was spent.
The reality was quite different. Terri fought hard, thrashing against the
restraint until the belt buckle broke and she was free. But that was only a
temporary reprieve. Now Morales picked up the hammer and started raining down
blows on her head. Terri was screaming for Ricky Ortega to help her. Morales
was yelling at him to keep driving. The interior of the car was being spattered
with blood. Still Terri struggled, trying desperately to free herself from the
grip that Morales had on her hair, ripping out clumps of it from the scalp in
the process. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">It was a brave but ultimately futile fight.
Twenty-three hefty hammer blows landed on Terri Winchell’s skull. Other blows
fractured her arms and fingers as she tried to ward off her attacker. By the
time Ortega pulled over at the corner of Bender and Peltier Roads, seven miles
outside of Lodi, Terri was unconscious and slumped against the passenger door. Morales
then got out of the car and looked in on the destruction he’d wrought. “Shame to
waste such a good piece of ass,” he commented as he dragged the body from the
vehicle. He then told Ortega to “take a drive” and return for him in 15
minutes.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Terri Winchell was dying. Not even the world’s
most skilled trauma surgeon could have saved her. But Morales still wasn’t done
with violating the young woman he’d only just met. With the car’s brake lights
receding into the distance, he dragged Terri face-down across the tarmac into a
vineyard. There, he stripped off her lower garments and flipped her onto her
back. He then pushed up her bra and sweater and raped her right there in the
dirt. When his evil lust was finally sated, he drew his knife and drove it four
times into Terri’s heart, making sure that she was dead. Then he walked
casually back to the road to await his cousin. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Each of the killers celebrated their kill in his
own way that night. For Ortega, it was a sex session with Terri’s boyfriend, Randy
Blythe. For Morales, it was a six-pack and a bottle of cheap wine, bought with
$11 he’d stolen from Terri’s purse. Meanwhile, the alarm had gone up regarding
the young woman’s disappearance. It would not take the police long to zero in
on the perpetrators. Terri had called her friend Glenda Chavez while she was
waiting for Ortega to pick her up. She’d told Glenda that she was heading to
the mall with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Ricky Ortega did not hold up well under
interrogation. He quickly talked himself into a corner and then cracked and
admitted everything. Michael Morales was sleeping off his hangover when the
police burst into his apartment. Here, they’d find a wealth of evidence – the
broken belt stained with Terri Winchell's blood; a bloody hammer hidden in the
kitchen; blood-splattered floor mats from Ricky Ortega’s car dumped in the
trash, Terri’s purse and credit card carelessly tossed into a drawer. Michael
Morales was arrested on the spot. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Not that Morales seemed too concerned about his
predicament. Faced with accusations of murder, he yawned and told the officers
that he was tired since he’d been up partying all night. The officers knew
exactly what that ‘party’ had entailed. Terri Winchell’s brutalized corpse had
been retrieved from the vineyard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Ricky Ortega and Michael Morales would have
separate trials, both in 1983. In Ortega’s case, the verdict was guilty, and
the sentence was life in prison with no possibility of parole. Morales was also
found guilty. In his case, there were the special circumstances of “lying in
wait” and “murder by torture.” The sentence of the court was death by lethal
injection. Now began the protracted process of carrying out that sanction. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Putting a man to death is not an easy thing to
do in the United States. The appeals process is protracted and can keep a
condemned man on death row for years, if not decades. In the case of Michael
Morales, there would be numerous legal maneuvers to save his life. In the
meantime, Morales found God and transformed himself into a model prisoner. He
came close to execution in February 2006, only to be reprieved when two
court-appointed anesthesiologists refused to participate in the procedure.
Since then, the state of California has declared an indefinite moratorium on
capital punishment. </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Michael Morales will never
feel the sharp end of the executioner’s needle. He will live out his life and
may even walk free one day. All it would take is a change in legislation
declaring life without parole to be “cruel and unusual punishment.” Such
legislation has already been enacted for juvenile offenders. Meanwhile, Terri
Winchell’s family has been four decades without their beloved sister and daughter,
a young woman whose life had promised so much, only to have it cruelly and
viciously snatched away. Mr. Bumble, the put-upon character in Charles Dickens’
<i>Oliver Twist</i>, was right. Sometimes, the law is an ass.</span>
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Joe Clark</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">On the night of July 4, 1994, 14-year-old Chris
Steiner went missing from his home in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Chris had been due to
start work at his first paying job that morning and had been excited at the
prospect of earning his own money. But when his father went to wake him at
6:15, he found Chris’s bed empty. Confused, George Steiner made a quick search
of the house. What he found was troubling. The screen of a ground-floor window
had been cut. There were muddy footprints tracking through the house. A patio
door was unlocked. George ran to the phone and called the police. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Despite the evidence, though, Baraboo’s finest
were far from convinced that a crime had occurred. Perhaps Chris had snuck out
to meet a girl, they suggested. The boy’s parents said no. He had been keen to
start his new job and would not have missed his first day. They were even more
vociferous in their rebuttal of the next suggestion the cops offered. Chris had
not run away, they insisted. He was a happy, well-adjusted kid with no reason
at all to do something like that. The officers suggested that they wait anyway.
They were sure that Chris would show up under his own steam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But Chris did not show up that day, nor the
next. The police belatedly launched a search, but Chris would be missing for
nearly a week before the mystery of his disappearance was resolved. The
teenager’s badly decomposed body was found on July 10, caught up in the
branches of a partially submerged tree on a sandbar in the Wisconsin River. An
autopsy ruled that he had drowned. With no obvious signs of trauma to the
corpse, it was impossible to say if foul play was involved. The death was
categorized as ‘undetermined’. That meant that the police expended little
effort in finding a perpetrator. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">A year passed. In the early morning hours of
July 29, 1995, 13-year-old Thad Phillips was asleep in the living room of his
home in Baraboo, when he felt himself lifted from the couch. Groggy with sleep,
he assumed that it was one of his parents, carrying him to bed. However, when
Thad opened his eyes a few moments later, he realized that he was no longer inside
the house. He was out on the lawn and the person carrying him was an
unfamiliar, older teen. The boy seemed friendly. He lowered Thad gently to the
ground and then asked if he wanted to jog with him to his house. Half-asleep
and befuddled, Thad agreed. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Thus began a waking nightmare that Thad Phillips
will remember for as long as he lives. At the boy’s filthy hovel of a house, he
introduced himself as “Joe” and said that he was throwing a party and that his
friends would soon be arriving. Some of the boys he named were familiar to
Thad. Then he asked if Thad wanted to check out the model car collection that
he kept in his room. Thad said yes and followed him upstairs. It was here,
inside the bedroom, that Joe’s demeanor changed. The smile was gone, replaced
by a blank, cold-eyed expression. Without warning, he grabbed Thad by his
shirtfront, threw him onto the bed and pinned him down. Then he gained a grip
on Thad’s ankle and started twisting, bending the joint to an impossible angle.
A loud snap reverberated across the room as the bone splintered.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Oddly, Thad felt little pain. That would come
later. Right now, his overwhelming need was to get away. But that was easier
said than done. Thad was a slight boy, weighing in at just 90 pounds. His
attacker was bigger, heavier, stronger. Still, the adrenalin pumping through Thad’s
veins gave him strength. He pushed Joe aside, got himself up from the bed, and
started hobbling towards the door. He’d made only a few steps when Joe tackled him
to the ground. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Now Joe was angry. Punches rained down on the
boy. Kicks were landed. Eventually, Thad lay curled into a fetal position on
the floor, arms thrown over his face for protection. Then Joe hoisted him to
his feet, threw him over his shoulder, and carried him back downstairs. Now
that he had subdued his victim, he was sweetness again, gently positioning Thad
on the couch. Then he started talking about trivialities, as though nothing had
happened. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Thad, though, wasn’t going to let his captor change
the subject. He begged Joe to release him, promising that he would say nothing
and would explain away his injuries by saying that he’d tripped over a table. “No
one will believe you,” Joe told him. Then Thad tried another tack, reasoning
with Joe, asking what he’d done wrong, asking why Joe wanted to hurt him. “I
just love hearing the sound of bones snapping,” was Joe’s chilling reply. Then
he suggested that they watch a movie. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">If he hadn’t known it before, Thad Phillips knew
now. He was in a perilous situation, a battle to survive. Joe was clearly a
sadist and would continue hurting him until it no longer amused him. Thad did
not even want to contemplate what came after that. As if to confirm these
fears, Joe admitted that Thad wasn’t the first. He’d hurt other boys in the
past and one of them had died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Over the hours and days that followed, Thad
would continue to suffer at the hands of his captor. The torture sessions often
started when Joe became frustrated at something. Like when his car wouldn’t
start, and he came in and twisted Thad’s legs until the bones snapped. Another
time, he dislocated the boy’s knees. On another occasion, he jumped on his
chest. He also once placed a pillow over Thad’s face, holding it there until
the boy began to think that this was it, that he was about to die. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">By now in constant agony, weakened by lack of
food and loss of blood, Thad Phillips was fading fast. Unless he did something,
unless he made some effort to get away, he was going to die right here in this
hovel. But how does one escape on legs that are incapable of carrying you? By
will and determination and superhuman resilience is the answer.
Thirteen-year-old Thad Phillips possessed these qualities in spades. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">One time, when Joe went out to visit his girlfriend,
Thad pulled himself downstairs, grimacing at every bump on the way down, yet
somehow managing not to scream. Unfortunately, Joe returned with the girl
before Thad could get out of the house. The two of them sat canoodling on the
couch while Thad lay hidden just a few yards away. The escape attempt would
earn him a dislocated hip when Joe found him, after the girl had left.
Henceforth, he’d be locked in a closet when his captor went out. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Yet even this would not foil the determined
youngster. Inside the cupboard was an old electric guitar. Thad used this to
force open the door. Then he again endured the agony of traversing the stairs
to the ground floor. Several times, during that excruciating journey, he passed
out from the pain. Each time he opened his eyes terrified that he’d find Joe
scowling down at him. But Joe still hadn’t returned and so Thad dragged himself
through the house, to the kitchen, where he had noticed a phone fixed to the
wall. One last, superhuman effort was required to haul himself to his feet,
leaning hard on a kitchen cabinet. The phone was in his hand. He was punching
in the numbers. 9-1-1. The voice on the other end of the line sounded like an
angel sent by God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Thad Phillips had been held captive for 43
hours. During that time, he had sustained fractures to both legs, a dislocated
hip, and dislocations to both kneecaps. There were also other injuries,
including cracked ribs. Thad could not have survived this mistreatment for much
longer. But for his bravery and will to live, he would undoubtedly have become
Joe’s second victim. As it was, he would have to endure several surgeries to
repair the damage inflicted on him. Despite those procedures, he will always
walk with a limp. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">“Joe” turned out to be Joe Clark, a 17-year-old
miscreant who lived with his mother and older brother. Neither of them was home
during the time that he held Thad Phillips captive. But this was no one-off for
Clark, no casual undertaking. When police officers searched his house, they
found a macabre list on which he’d written the names of 29 local boys. They
were arranged into three columns headed, “Can Wait,” “Get to Now,” and “The Leg
Thing.” Thad Phillips, it seems, had not only saved his own life but others
too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Joe Clark was originally charged with
kidnapping, attempted murder, mayhem, causing bodily harm to a child, causing mental
harm to a child, and child enticement. However, once Thad told the police that
Clark had admitted killing another child, they cast the net wider. Who was the
victim that Clark was referring to? One obvious candidate was Chris Steiner. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The Steiner case had never been resolved to
anyone’s satisfaction, least of all the dead boy’s parents. Now his body was
exhumed and subjected to a second autopsy. The results left investigators
stunned. During the original examination the corpse had been severely bloated,
hiding the child’s internal injuries. The body had not been x-rayed at the
time. Now it was and revealed that Chris had suffered near identical injuries
to Thad Phillips. Joe Clark had just landed himself a charge of first-degree
murder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Yet, even with the overwhelming evidence against
him, Joe Clark denied culpability. He admitted taking Thad from his home but
insisted that it was just to “hang out.” As for the injuries the boy had
sustained, Clark claimed that he’d blacked out and could remember nothing. He
denied involvement in Chris Steiner’s death entirely and was backed up by his
mother who said that her son, “never left the house after dark.” This was contradicted
by several prosecution witnesses and rejected by the jury, who found Joe Clark
guilty as charged. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The sentence for the
abduction and torture of Thad Phillips was 100 years. For the murder of Chris Steiner,
it was life in prison plus 50 years. Joe Clark, who is unquestionably a serial
killer in the making, will be viewing the world through prison bars for a very
long time. That is a good thing.</span>
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Secrets</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0uzhtLoaoZSNnHtc7Pg4v5_jrGYYODguaXBsFUteidHshWiPbXpk7yDSwystnKYilY3FE5xzsJsd9uHwhLkeNCQJ-KbuYiYdHT4UONqMPlNF_JyF-R0OrtfvTvprdbb2uQPf9xkFPANLKq081THFHuoRLUUbNKBnsAljZBehSDO9T7x5FQZWDLkjJeg/s520/jones_p.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="520" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0uzhtLoaoZSNnHtc7Pg4v5_jrGYYODguaXBsFUteidHshWiPbXpk7yDSwystnKYilY3FE5xzsJsd9uHwhLkeNCQJ-KbuYiYdHT4UONqMPlNF_JyF-R0OrtfvTvprdbb2uQPf9xkFPANLKq081THFHuoRLUUbNKBnsAljZBehSDO9T7x5FQZWDLkjJeg/s320/jones_p.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>During the early 1990s, ABC launched a
television series that would become a cultural phenomenon. Twin Peaks tells the
story of a small-town murder and the efforts of an FBI agent to solve it.
Typical of director David Lynch, the story is mind-bending and offbeat. We are
taken down a twisting path before we eventually get the answer to the show’s
pivotal question: Who killed Laura Palmer? In July 1989, in Newaygo, Michigan,
there was a murder that mirrored many of the plot elements of Twin Peaks. The
only thing missing was Lynch’s surrealist twist. <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Shannon Siders was 18 years old, a pretty,
sweet-natured teen who was popular with her peer group. Born and raised in
Newaygo, Shannon lived with her dad, Bob, an employee at the local Pepsi-Cola
plant. Bob Siders was a devoted single dad who’d raised his daughter alone. He
and Shannon’s mom had divorced when Shannon was still a toddler. It made for a
strong bond between father and daughter. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">On the night of July 17, 1989, Bob was due to
work the graveyard shift at his job. He left home at 10:30 that evening telling
his daughter that he’d see her in the morning. Shannon had plans of her own
that night, plans that involved partying with a group of friends. It is
uncertain whether she shared these plans with her father. In any case, Bob
expected to find his daughter safely tucked up in bed when he got off work. He
arrived, instead, to an empty house. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">At first, Bob wasn’t unduly concerned. Shannon
was a friendly, outgoing girl. She often visited the neighbors. Bob went out on
the lawn and called his daughter’s name, knowing that she’d hear him if she was
near. He got no response. A little perplexed now, Bob re-entered the home. He
then started making calls to Shannon’s friends, asking if any of them had seen
her or knew where she was. The response at every turn was no. Now Bob was
getting worried. After thinking about it for merely a minute, he picked up the
phone and called the police. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The days and weeks that followed were a waking
nightmare for Bob Siders. His daughter was missing and the police efforts to
find her were coming up empty. Bob was grateful for their work, but he wasn’t
going to sit around idly while Shannon was out there, maybe in trouble or in
danger. He refused to contemplate the very real possibility that she was dead.
He started working the phones, systematically calling every police department
in the state. Always the answer was the same. They couldn’t help but would be
in touch if anything came up. Bob also posted missing person flyers all over town,
ultimately to no avail.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Then, over the Labor Day weekend, there was
finally a break in the case. A couple of teens were walking through the woods
when they found an ID card belonging to Shannon Siders. This was handed to the
police and Michigan State troopers descended on the area to conduct a search.
They didn’t find Shannon, but they did find a pair of jeans, which Bob Siders
confirmed belonged to his daughter. The discovery held ominous implications.
Those would be confirmed a month later when a hunter came across a body in the
Manistee National Forest. The corpse was severely decomposed, with bones
scattered by animal activity. It would take dental records to identify the
missing teen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Shannon Siders had not died an easy death.
Several fractures were recorded in the autopsy report, suggesting that she’d
suffered a severe beating before her life was ended with a crushing blow to the
head. A table leg found in the area was thought to be the murder weapon. Why
had she been killed? The coroner believed that it was to cover up a sexual
assault. Shannon had been found with her shirt pushed up, her panties around
one of her ankles. Her genitals had also been mutilated, probably with a knife
and likely postmortem. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Who can understand the anguish of a father who
loses a child in this way? None but those who have had the misfortune to
experience it themselves. Bob Siders laid his daughter to rest in a somber
ceremony, attended by Shannon’s entire high school class. Many of the children
wanted to write letters to Shannon and place them in the casket. Bob allowed
them to do that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The small Newaygo police force had a murder on its
hands, a murder with a townful of suspects. Its first act was to narrow the
field by calling on the Behavior Analysis Unit of the Michigan State Police. A
profile was compiled, pinpointing the likely suspect as someone Shannon had
known. Drugs and/or alcohol were likely a factor and there may have been more
than one perpetrator involved. The description tied in with what investigators
suspected. Indeed, they believed they might already have interviewed the killer
during their missing person inquiry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Initially, suspicion fell on a teen named
Brandon, a known misogynist who liked to refer to women as “sluts” and
“whores.” Shannon had been spotted in Brandon’s car on the night she went
missing, along with another teen named Levi. Interestingly, Brandon had left
town within days of Shannon’s disappearance. He was back now and was picked up
for questioning. He admitted to driving around with Shannon but said that she’d
asked to get out at some point. He’d then seen her get into a red Mercury
Cougar with two men. As for skipping town, Brandon denied doing any such thing.
He’d driven to Colorado to pick up his cousin, he said, and was only gone for
two days. That turned out to be true. Brandon was free to go…for now, at least.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But what of the two men in the red Cougar? The
police knew who they were and had interviewed them before. They were brothers
Paul and Matt Jones, 17 and 18 years old respectively. They, too, admitted that
Shannon had been in their car. But they insisted that they’d dropped her at
home, sometime between midnight and 1 a.m. The police couldn’t prove otherwise.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The investigation was stalled. Meanwhile, rumors
engulfed the town. One of the stories held that the killer had taken Shannon’s
class ring and was keeping it as a trophy. Another was that one of the letters
placed in Shannon’s casket was a confession to her murder. There were other
stories too, just as farfetched. They would continue to flourish over the
years, as Bob Siders kept the case alive. Bob could frequently be seen around
town putting up flyers. “Who Killed Shannon Siders?” they asked, in an eerie
echo of Twin Peaks.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But for all the rumors, for all the efforts of a
grieving father, the case would go unsolved. It was still in that state of
purgatory in August 2011, when a new administration in Newaygo decided to
create a Cold Case Task Force. One of the first cases on the agenda was that of
Shannon Siders. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Several new leads would emerge during the new
investigation. One of these involved a notorious local family who’d had many
encounters with law enforcement, involving accusations of assault, murder, and
incest. The tip-off that the task force received suggested that these ingrates
had abducted Shannon and imprisoned her in their basement, where they’d used
her as a sex slave for several weeks. Then, growing tired of their captive,
they’d beaten her to death and dumped her in the woods. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Given the reputation of the individuals
involved, this seemed like a credible lead. The police obtained a warrant and
raided the property, but they came away empty-handed. There was no evidence
that Shannon had ever been there. As for the basement where she’d supposedly
been held, the house didn’t have one. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The next clue to emerge would end up being just
as much of a dead end. During the original investigation, a story had emerged
about a confession to murder being placed in the victim’s casket. Now that
rumor reared its head again and this time the police took it seriously. An
exhumation order was obtained with the blessing of Bob Siders. After 22 years
underground, Shannon was brought to the surface. The letters were there, of
course, but they were just the soppy writings of high school kids bidding
farewell to a fallen classmate. None of them was a confession to murder. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">And then there was the story that would bring
investigators full circle, back to the Jones brothers. It came from a close
friend of Shannon’s named Julia, who told police that she and Shannon had plans
on the night that Shannon was killed. Julia had headed for Shannon’s house
after she finished work at 11:45. But the place was quiet and dark when she
arrived. She waited a while and then left. She returned several times over the
next three hours. In each case, the house was in darkness, and no one answered
when she knocked on the door. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">This directly contrasted the story that Matt and
Paul Jones had told the police. They’d claimed to have dropped Shannon off
between 12 and 1 a.m. Had that been the case, Julia would have found her friend
at home. Clearly, the Jones boys were lying. It was time for investigators to
take another look at them. Once they started doing so, the missing pieces began
falling into place. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Paul’s former girlfriend reported that she’d
seen a class ring in the ashtray of his car the day after Shannon went missing.
She’d confronted him about it, accusing him of seeing another girl. To this,
Paul had responded that the owner of the ring was “probably dead.” That would
not be the last time that the brothers uttered incriminating statements. In
another incident, Matt told a woman who rejected his advances that he’d kill
her, just like he’d done to “that bitch up north.” On other occasions, the
brothers had bragged about getting away with murder. “They can’t pin anything
on us,” one of them told a group of friends. “They had us, and they let us go.”
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">None of this counted as evidence, of course, but
it did let the police know that they were on the right track. They continued
digging and eventually unearthed a witness with a terrifying story to tell. Her
name was Jenny Corgin and she had held onto a secret for a very long time. On
the night of July 17, 1989, Jenny had been driving with her boyfriend, Dean
Robinson, when they spotted a red car parked by the roadside, two men standing
beside it. Thinking they needed help, Dean pulled over. One of the men told him
that they were looking for a girl who’d wandered off and didn’t need their
help. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But Jenny and Dean would encounter the men again
that night, this time in the company of the girl they had been looking for. She
was lying on the ground, apparently unconscious. Dean got out to see what was
happening but one of the men attacked him, punching him in the face. Then they
noticed Jenny in the car and broke off the attack, allowing Dean to escape.
Jenny firmly believed that he would have been killed had she not been there.
She now identified the men who’d attacked them as the Jones brothers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Matt and Paul Jones were arrested and charged
with murder. They would face separate trials but in each the prosecution case
was the same. The brothers had picked up Shannon Siders, driven her to the
woods, and demanded that she have sex with them. When Shannon refused, they
attacked her, beat her, and subjected her to a vicious rape. At some point,
Shannon must have escaped but they found her and clubbed her to death, leaving
her body in the woods. It was a compelling story, the only one that fit the
evidence. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Matt Jones was convicted of
first-degree murder in 2015, 26 years after the death of Shannon Siders. Bob
Siders was there to see his daughter’s killer convicted and sentenced to life
in prison without parole. Paul Jones drew a second-degree murder conviction. He
was sentenced to 75 years behind bars.</span>
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<p><b></b></p><p><b></b></p><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1k4j9QZPPM9P5RKptEMDRnsVNMyN4VTF1ovqcvrM2JwuIAp99sVG77bFrgvB2WqHY7o2jXRR23WPzOwatxmwatxZh5S42CbeMNFes7jUqpg73Z81t_LwIOqdCwmWM-4RF-KiPJRuUDsxG1E3u0Q5I2d-PPYWRcVEXFOVrnwgSFujdxibOj83aSTsZZQ/s1596/Women%2014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1596" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1k4j9QZPPM9P5RKptEMDRnsVNMyN4VTF1ovqcvrM2JwuIAp99sVG77bFrgvB2WqHY7o2jXRR23WPzOwatxmwatxZh5S42CbeMNFes7jUqpg73Z81t_LwIOqdCwmWM-4RF-KiPJRuUDsxG1E3u0Q5I2d-PPYWRcVEXFOVrnwgSFujdxibOj83aSTsZZQ/s320/Women%2014.jpg" width="201" /></a></div></b><p><b>Ellen Boehm</b>: A uniquely evil monster, Boehm took out her petty
grievances on the innocents she was supposed to protect, her own infant
children.</p><p><b>Christina Walters</b>: Christina wasn’t your average
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis8F096jYfE5kfUdjTdThxUR8Erc95bC49zNi6gQOW_j-L_QmPzbXfCkzAzA6ABpyQOvi7FoKpJ4YgfFs0DZZ2A8qal56fxrxD7W-usN5qHYZh5244yuGPowC1Jf0JgScMZ0zCa5wiE43h0eBnRvKFu9WsvLPnQeT8lwO0xS44ZUu3eIkIBikWRsVHdg/s290/boehm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="261" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis8F096jYfE5kfUdjTdThxUR8Erc95bC49zNi6gQOW_j-L_QmPzbXfCkzAzA6ABpyQOvi7FoKpJ4YgfFs0DZZ2A8qal56fxrxD7W-usN5qHYZh5244yuGPowC1Jf0JgScMZ0zCa5wiE43h0eBnRvKFu9WsvLPnQeT8lwO0xS44ZUu3eIkIBikWRsVHdg/w180-h200/boehm.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US">The relationship between Ellen Booker and
Paul Boehm was a difficult one for her friends and family to fathom. Ellen was
just a teenager. Paul was a married man with children and a reputation as a
womanizer. He was also old enough to be Ellen’s father. Still, the fresh-faced
18-year-old was besotted with her older lover, determined to lure him away from
his wife and kids. She eventually succeeded in 1980, when the couple used money
that Ellen had inherited from her paternal grandparents to put a down payment
on a house in St Louis, Missouri.</span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In September of 1981, the Boehms welcomed a
daughter, Stacy Ann, into their lives. Four years later, on September 22, 1985,
Ellen gave birth to a son, Steven Michael Boehm. Within a month of his birth,
Ellen was pregnant for a third time. By then, the marriage was already in
trouble. The couple was taking more and more time apart. For Ellen, a
considerable chunk of that time was spent attending professional wrestling
tournaments with her friend, Deanne Smith. For Paul, it was spent in the arms
of a new, younger lover. In June 1986, with Ellen eight months pregnant, he
took off, abandoning her and their children. He’d show up at the hospital on
the day that his third son, David Brian Boehm, was born. Thereafter, he
disappeared again, moving with his new girlfriend to Tucson, Arizona. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Paul Boehm was the archetypal deadbeat dad.
He never called, never inquired about his children’s well-being, never sent
cards on their birthdays. He was also loath to pay the $105 per week child
support that the court had ordered. Ellen eventually got tired of chasing him
for money and gave up. Meanwhile, she was delivering pizzas at night to keep
her children housed, clothed, and fed. Despite these efforts, she was swamped
by debt. In 1988, she filed for bankruptcy. With her house foreclosed, she was
forced to move her young family to more affordable housing at the Riverbend Apartments
on South Broadway. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ellen’s only solace, during this wretched
time, was her love for pro wrestling. Despite her money troubles, she always
managed to scrape up enough for a ticket, and still attended every event she
could, with her friend Deanne. And her obsession ran deeper than that of most
fans. She frequently wrote to her favorite performers, hinting not too subtly
that she wouldn’t be averse to some one-on-one time. Getting no response to
these solicitations, she took to boasting about sexual liaisons anyway, telling
her friends that she’d slept with many wrestlers on the circuit. Few believed
her and Deanne knew outright that she was lying.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But who would begrudge Ellen these flights
of fancy? Who can blame her for wanting to escape the daily grind that was her
life? At the time, she was having trouble paying for even her most basic needs;
utility bills were piling up; the phone company was threatening to cut her off.
And then there was the check that she couldn’t avoid writing, her monthly payment
to the bankruptcy courts. It was all getting too much for her, dragging her
down, pulling her under.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ellen was bemoaning this very fact to a
friend during the Thanksgiving holiday of 1988. Then she suddenly broke off the
conversation and said that she’d have to hang up because something was wrong
with her baby, David. A short while later, Ellen Boehm dialed 911 and said that
her son’s lips had turned blue and that he wasn’t breathing. Paramedics rushed
to the scene but found that they couldn’t enter the apartment because the front
door was locked. It would take several minutes of knocking before Ellen’s
daughter, Stacy, let them in. She said that her mother was “out.” Then, as the
medics were preparing to transport the toddler to the hospital, Ellen suddenly
reappeared. She seemed oddly calm given the crisis, informing the paramedics
that her son had been suffering from a cold over the last few days.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">David Boehm was still alive when he arrived
at the ER. He would remain on life support for the next few days, until the
decision was taken to turn off the machines. He died on November 26, 1988, at
the age of just 28 months. Cause of death was officially given as Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome or SIDS. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The loss of a child is devastating to any
parent. Yet Ellen Boehm seemed to cope just fine. Her demeanor could best be
described as neutral, neither happy nor sad. Her friends put this down to shock
but even they were surprised when they heard of a phone call that Ellen made to
Deanne. This was on the day before her infant son was laid to rest. Ellen
wanted to know if Deanne was interested in attending a wrestling show at the
Kiel Auditorium. She had a meeting at the funeral parlor that afternoon, she
said. It would be no problem at all for her to stop off on the way and pick up
a couple of tickets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">David Brian Boehm was buried at Trinity
Cemetery in early December 1988. A few days later, Ellen received a check for
$5,000 from her employer’s group life insurance policy. And that must have
given her an idea because a few months later, she started shopping around for
life cover on her two surviving children. Six policies were eventually written
with three different insurers. They valued each child’s life at $100,000.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On the evening of September 13, 1989, an accident
occurred in the Boehm household. Stacy Ann was in the bathtub when a hairdryer
somehow fell into the water. The child received a severe jolt that left her
screaming in pain with blood trickling from her nose. She was rushed to the
emergency room where Ellen told doctors that her younger child, Steven, had
dropped the hairdryer into the tub. When Stacy insisted that Steven had not
even been in the room at the time, Ellen shushed her, saying that she was
confused. Stacy, fortunately, suffered no serious injuries. She was treated and
discharged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But just nine days later, another tragedy
befell the Boehm family. On Monday, September 25, 1989, Ellen called her
workplace and spoke to a co-worker, telling her that she was taking
four-year-old Steven to the emergency room. “He’s been feeling under the
weather since his latest round of vaccinations,” she claimed. Then, ominously,
she added, “The same thing that happened to David is happening to Steven.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ellen Boehm did not bring her son to the ER
that day. Instead, she took him for a meal at Taco Bell and then to visit his
brother’s grave. At 11:30 a.m., she phoned the colleague she’d spoken to
earlier and told her that the doctors had examined Steven and found nothing
wrong with him. She said that she was taking him home and would be back at work
in the morning. She wouldn’t, though. The afternoon was about to take a tragic
turn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Just after 1:00 p.m. on that September
afternoon, one of Ellen Boehm’s neighbors was startled by someone pounding at
his front door. The man worked as a paramedic and so he was used to his
neighbors coming to him for first aid assistance and always willing to help.
This time it was Ellen Boehm that he found on his doorstep, and she appeared
distraught. “Please come quick,” she said. “My son…he’s not breathing.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The medic immediately went to his phone and
called for an ambulance. Then he grabbed his medical bag and followed Ellen to
her apartment. The boy was lying on the floor. The blueish tinge to his lips
was not a good sign. There was also no pulse or hint of breath. Still, the
paramedic did his best, keeping up CPR until the ambulance arrived. Tragically,
it was not enough. Steven Boehm, who had celebrated his fourth birthday only
three days earlier, was dead.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But this death was not as easily explained
away as that of David. Steven was four years old. He had certainly not
succumbed to SIDS. So, what had caused his inexplicable death? Ellen’s
insistence that he’d had an adverse reaction to a vaccination was dismissed by
medical experts. And her muted reaction to losing a second child in the space
of a year raised eyebrows. In fact, some of her friends were so put out by her
lack of emotion that they began to suspect the worst. A few of them even spoke
to a homicide detective they knew, asking him to look into the matter.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Events, though, had already gotten ahead of
them. Dr. Michael Graham, medical examiner for the city of St Louis, was
another who didn’t trust Ellen Boehm’s version of events. Graham was convinced that
Steven had been suffocated, a view that he shared with investigators looking
into the case. That sent the detectives on a quest to find a motive and it
wasn’t long before they learned of the insurance policies. Ellen, it seemed,
was already writing checks. She’d recently splashed out on a new car, hardly
the actions of a mother grieving the tragic death of her 4-year-old son.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So now the police had motive and they had
opportunity. Did they have a murder weapon? Dr. Graham wasn’t sure. Convinced
though he was in his theory of mechanical asphyxiation, he needed a second
opinion. To obtain such validation, he sent his autopsy findings to seven
respected medical experts, asking them to review the evidence. The results,
when they came, were unanimous. Every single one of these experts concluded
that Steven had been suffocated. Finally, after a year-long investigation, the
decision was made to bring Ellen Boehm in. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">St Louis PD was taking no chances with this
one. They had consulted beforehand with the FBI, gaining insights into the best
way to approach the interrogation. When Ellen walked into the interview room,
she found herself confronted with an array of charts and exhibits, detailing
her checkered financial history, the insurance policies she’d purchased, her
recent spending spree, and the medical records of her children. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And the strategy worked. Just a few hours
in and Ellen Boehm was admitting to ending the lives of her children. She
wasn’t taking responsibility, though. This was everyone’s fault but hers. It
was her desperate financial situation, her deadbeat ex who refused to support
his children, the stresses of being a struggling single mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ellen Boehm’s confession was captured on
tape. It would be played at her trial. Delivered with no discernable emotion,
it makes for chilling listening. Describing the murder of two-year-old David,
she said: “I put the couch pillow over him. And my hands were on both sides.
And he was really strong. He did struggle a little. And then I put the pillow
right there for about forty-five seconds at the most. Then I put the pillow
back on the couch and at this point he was lying on his back. And then I called
my girlfriend and we talked, you know, about what each of us did for our
Thanksgiving.”</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">These are damning words, spoken by a uniquely
evil monster. And yet, Ellen Boehm was still determined to go to trial and put
the matter before a jury. Perhaps she thought that sob stories about her
difficult life would gain her some sympathy. It was only when prosecutors signaled
their intention to seek the death penalty that she buckled and asked for a
deal. A guilty plea to two counts of murder got her life in prison without
parole. She is currently incarcerated at the Women’s Reception, Diagnostic, and
Correctional Center in Vandalia, Missouri.</span>
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Purgatory </span></h1>
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in the early 1970s, the Dill family was living an idyllic life. The six
siblings and their parents were exceptionally close, making for a happy family
unit. Home life was active and fun and there were outings and picnics, often embarked
upon on a whim. The town itself was quaint, picture book pretty and safe. It
was as you’d imagine a perfect life to be in rural America and it was all about
to end. <p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">At around 9 a.m. on the morning of Sunday,
September 16, 1973, two Maine State Police detectives arrived at the Dill
residence in West Gardiner. Robert and Janice Dill were asked to step outside
so that the officers could speak privately with them. What they had to share
was devastating. The body of a young woman had been found beside her car on
Whippoorwill Road in nearby Litchfield, a location so remote that the locals
called it Purgatory. The car was registered to the Dills’ oldest daughter,
Debbie, and the police needed them to come down to the morgue to identify her
body. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thus began a descent into hell for the Dill
family. The body at the morgue was badly beaten, her facial features battered
and bruised. Janice and Robert only recognized their 18-year-old daughter by a
small scar on her forehead. Questioning the officers, Robert learned that his
daughter’s car had apparently run off the road and that she had then been
attacked with a hammer, beaten so savagely on the head that there were holes
punched through her skull. Debbie had never stood a chance, but she’d put up a
fierce fight. Blood and skin cells were retrieved from under her fingernails.
Since the body was found with its lower garments removed the suggestion was
that this was a sexually motivated attack although the autopsy results would be
inconclusive. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Robert and Janice Dill returned to their
home that day broken. Still, there was a terrible duty to perform. They had to
tell their children that Debbie was dead. That task fell to Robert, but he
could not bring himself to utter the word ‘murder’ in reference to his oldest child.
He told Debbie’s siblings that she had died in a car accident. That family
secret would prevail for the next seven years. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In the meantime, there was a homicide
investigation to run, a brutal killer to be taken off the streets. The obvious
place to start the inquiries was with those closest to the victim. According to
the Dills, their daughter had recently become engaged to a young man named
Kenneth Gillman, who happened to be a Lewiston police officer. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Brought in for questioning, Gillman said
that he’d last seen Debbie when she left his apartment just before 1 a.m.
Sunday morning. Debbie had brought along some wedding invitations to show him,
and this had led to some tension between them. Ken had told her that she was
moving too fast. He wasn’t sure if he was ready to settle down just yet. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Might that have been a motive for murder?
Had he and Debbie argued about their conflicting relationship goals? Gillman
said no and he had the perfect alibi to back up his denials. He’d been working
a shift and had attended to several verifiable complaints, including a domestic
disturbance. That eliminated him as a person of interest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The next suspect to emerge in the Debra
Dill investigation came straight out of left field. Two days after the murder,
on September 18, police received a report of a man ‘behaving strangely’ at a
local restaurant. Taken into custody, the man continued his bizarre ranting,
telling the officers that he had gotten into a fight with a man and had struck
him with a hammer. Then he said that he’d argued with a woman wearing brown
slacks. That caused the officers to sit up and take notice. Debra Dill had been
killed with a hammer and had been wearing brown slacks at the time of her
death. Had the police just lucked out in trapping their killer?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The answer to that question was no. The man
did have a hammer, which the police found lying beside his car. That hammer had
blood on it, but it was not Debra Dill’s blood. The police had learned in the
interim that the suspect was a former mental patient. His known movements at
the time of Debbie’s murder meant that he could not have killed her. Since they
could not link him to any crime, he was free to go. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There would be one more serious suspect
over the course of the investigation. His name was Frank White, and he was
Debbie Dill’s former boyfriend. By all accounts, he’d been upset by their
breakup, madder still when he learned that she was engaged to be married. That,
of course, gave him a strong motive but he also had an alibi. He’d been partying
with friends on the night of the murder. At least six people could vouch for
his whereabouts. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">White was cut up over Debbie’s death,
certainly more affected than Ken Gillman. Two months after he was questioned by
police, Frank White took his own life. Some in West Gardiner believed that he
was driven to suicide by guilt. Others held that he could not deal with the
death of the woman he still loved. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In any unsolved homicide, there comes a
point where investigators can go no further. All of the leads have been run
down, all of the suspects questioned and eliminated. The Dill case had been
worked hard, generating a ton of paperwork that included over 400 recorded
interviews. It had reached the point that all investigators dread. The trail
had gone cold. It would remain so until 1986 when it landed on the desk of
Detective Steven Drake, newly assigned to the Maine State Police’s cold case
division. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Eager to make his mark on a case that most
considered unsolvable, Drake worked the clues hard, keeping at it for two years
solid, going over every scrap of evidence. Then, in 1988, he got an unexpected
break. It came via a telephone call from the Bridgeport Correction Center in
Connecticut, where a prisoner had confessed to killing a man in a bar fight in
Maine back in 1973.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The inmate who’d made this admission was a
habitual criminal named Michael Boucher, a name that meant nothing to Drake at
that time. And the confession that he’d made appeared false. Try as he might,
Drake could find no record of a fatal bar fight during the time frame
mentioned. Then Drake started looking into Boucher’s background. What he found,
made him sit up and pay attention. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For starters, Boucher was a man with a long
history of violence against women. Second, he was a native of Lewiston and had
been living in the area at the time that Debbie Dill was murdered. Was it
possible that he might have been involved? To test that theory, Drake tracked
down one of Boucher’s victims, a woman named Emily Campbell. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The attack on Emily Campbell had occurred
in the early morning hours of June 4, 1974, nine months after Debbie Dill was
bludgeoned to death. Emily had worked a late shift that night and was driving
home when she was rear-ended by another vehicle. Thinking that it was an
accident, she pulled over. The other vehicle then stopped behind her, with the
driver remaining inside. Emily took a notepad out of her glove compartment and
got out of her car so that she could write down the other driver’s license
plate number. She was doing that when the driver suddenly emerged, holding a
length of steel pipe. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Emily was struck several times but managed
to get back into her vehicle. She kicked at her attacker as he tried to drag
her out and was able to fend him off while she got the passenger door open.
Then she was out the other side and running before her attacker could round the
vehicle to stop her. Fortunately, she could remember his license plate number
and later passed it on to the police. She was also able to pick out Michael
Boucher from a photo array. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This technique, called ‘bump and run’ by
the police, is a common tactic employed by certain rapists. They deliberately
drive into the vehicle of an intended victim, hoping they’ll take it as an
accident and pull over. Now Det. Drake had to wonder whether the same technique
had been used on Debbie Dill. An examination of the crime scene photos
confirmed that it had. There were noticeable impact marks on the rear bumper of
Debbie’s car. That confirmed the M.O. Now, Drake had to see if he could place
Boucher at the scene.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And so, Det. Drake tracked down one of
Michael Boucher’s former wives, a woman named Anita. She was more than willing
to cooperate and what she had to say was illuminating. In the early morning
hours of September 16, 1973, Boucher had arrived home covered in blood, his
hands cut and bruised. He claimed that he’d been involved in a fight and handed
his bloody clothes to his wife, telling her to wash them right away. Later that
morning he asked her to help him clean his car. While doing so, she discovered
a hammer under the driver’s seat. It was covered in red, rust-like stains and
so she asked if she should wash it. Boucher said no. He was going to get rid of
it. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Months later, Boucher would confess to his
wife that he’d lied about the fight. He told her that he’d driven a woman off
the road and beaten her to death. The woman, he claimed, had insulted him after
they met in a donut shop. Anita wasn’t sure if she believed him, but she knew
what her husband was capable of. In fact, she was so terrified of Michael
Boucher that she continued to keep his secret, even after they divorced. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This was explosive evidence. But Drake knew
that he would need something to corroborate it, some means of linking Boucher
to Debbie Dill. And so, the detective obtained a warrant for Boucher’s last
known address. It was here, in the garage, that he found what he was looking
for. The killer had kept trophies from the many women he’d victimized over the
years. Among those was an invitation to an event that would never happen, the
wedding invitation that Debbie had so excitedly shown to her fiancé on the
night that she died.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Investigators now believed that they could
piece together the last hours of Debbie Dill’s life. After leaving Ken
Gillman’s apartment, the young woman had driven towards her parents’ home in
nearby West Gardiner. On the way there, she’d made the fateful decision to stop
at a donut shop. She wanted to surprise her siblings with a treat at breakfast.
It was at the donut shop that Michael Boucher spotted her. When Debbie drove
away, he followed. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Whippoorwill Road was a familiar shortcut
for Debbie but on this night, it played right into the hands of her pursuer.
Had she taken the turnpike, he would never have had the opportunity to run her
off the road. As it was, he hit her from behind, causing her to pull over.
Then, as Boucher approached her vehicle, Debbie must have had a premonition of
danger because she drove off again. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But that only served to anger Boucher. When
he rear-ended Debbie for a second time, it was with enough force to send her
vehicle careening off into the bushes. Boucher then approached, holding a
hammer. He pulled Debbie kicking and screaming from the car and launched a
frenzied attack, causing irreparable damage to her skull. Then, according to
what he later told his wife, he raped her, inflicting the final indignity as
she lay dying or already dead. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Maine police were now confident that
they had their man. However, it would take a laborious two-year process before
Boucher was eventually extradited to stand trial. Court proceedings began in
the summer of 1991 and resulted in a guilty verdict and a sentence of life in
prison. The sentence, however, fell under the statute in place at the time of
the murder. That meant that Boucher would be eligible for release in just ten
years. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Michael Boucher has come up for parole five
times. On each of those occasions, Debbie Dill’s siblings have appeared before
the board to oppose his application. They have vowed to continue the fight
until Boucher eventually dies behind bars. Now in his seventies, Boucher
remains in prison, serving his own form of purgatory.</span>
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chest. Nearby, officers located a law enforcement badge. The victim had worked
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what had happened.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">According to the distraught husband, he and
Elizabeth had visited a mall earlier that evening. While they were there, he’d
handed her $5,000 in cash, which Elizabeth had stuffed into her purse. However,
the transfer of money had not gone unnoticed. As Nuzzio looked up, he saw three
men watching them, men he described as “gang members.” He and his wife and
daughter had left the mall soon after. They’d stopped a short distance away at
a Chevron station to fill up. That was when he spotted the gang members again,
circling the block in a light blue sedan. That same car had followed them when
they got on the 91 and started driving towards Anaheim. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Nuzzio had tried losing the pursuers in
traffic but was unable to shake them off. He’d decided to leave the freeway,
loop around and then get back on, heading in the opposite direction. That
turned out to be a mistake. The sedan intercepted them on the off-ramp, boxing
them in. Three men got out and approached their SUV. As they got closer, Nuzzio
pulled his daughter out and led her to the back of the vehicle, where they took
cover. But Elizabeth was not going to cower down. She walked directly towards
the men, brandishing her badge. Words were exchanged and then Nuzzio heard two
closely spaced shots, followed soon after by the sound of screeching tires as
the men got into their car and raced away. He emerged from hiding just as
another vehicle pulled up. It was the driver of that car who had called the
police. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On the face of it, Nuzzio Bergaren’s story
was entirely plausible. The 1990s was a decade in which Southern California was
particularly blighted by gang violence and carjackings. And Nuzzio’s version of
events was backed up by his daughter, who added one important detail. She said
that while the car was following them, her mom had written down the license
plate number on a piece of paper. This was a vital piece of information and the
police immediately launched a search for the note. They did not find it inside
the vehicle. Rather, it was a keen-eyed patrol officer who spotted something
fluttering in the breeze and went to retrieve it. The torn strip of paper had a
couple of digits written on it. The remaining four pieces were soon collected
allowing officers to piece together a seven-digit license plate. Also written
on the paper was a descriptor, “light blue.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The vehicle in question, a light blue Buick
Regal, turned out to belong to Jose Sandoval, a known gangbanger with the
street name Preacher. Brought in for questioning, Sandoval seemed genuinely
perplexed. He did not know how Elizabeth Bergaren could have written down his
license number since he’d been nowhere near Anaheim on the night of the murder.
He’d been at the home of his cousin, Guillermo Espinoza, in east L.A. Guillermo
would vouch for him and so would other family members who were present. This
was a far from stellar alibi but with no other evidence against Sandoval, the
police were forced to let him walk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But investigators were still working the
gang angle, wondering about the motive for the crime. Perhaps it wasn’t about
money at all, perhaps this was about retribution. Elizabeth Bergaren had been
assigned to a special unit within the California Department of Corrections, a
unit that dealt with the most dangerous and disruptive inmates, including those
with gang affiliations. Had she offended someone, written someone up, gotten in
the way of some jailhouse transaction? Had someone put out a hit on her? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">To explore this possibility, the cops
brought in Elizabeth’s husband, Nuzzio Bergaren. Nuzzio was cooperative at
first, even if he offered little by way of tangible information. But then the
investigators asked if they could talk to his daughter, Angelica, and Nuzzio’s
demeanor changed. He became angry and aggressive, accusing the Anaheim PD of
trying to set him up and threatening to sue them for harassment. This outburst
surprised the officers but it also got them wondering. Was Nuzzio hiding
something? Had he perhaps coached the little girl to lie for him? Had there
been any gangbangers at all or was it Nuzzio himself who’d pulled the
trigger?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">These questions took the investigation in
an entirely new direction. Looking into Nuzzio Bergaren’s background the police
found that he and Elizabeth were newlyweds, having tied the knot in Las Vegas
just ten days before her murder. No one in Elizabeth’s circle, not her family
or friends, seemed to like the man, who they described as controlling and
abusive. The only reason Elizabeth had accepted his proposal, they said, was
because she was 40 years old and afraid of being left on the shelf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But Elizabeth would soon come to regret her
impulsive action. Just one week into the marriage and she was already talking
about getting out. Nuzzio wasn’t just abusive towards her, he was a compulsive
gambler and a work-shy loser, who’d never held down a steady job in his life.
Elizabeth was the sole breadwinner in the relationship. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">All of this made investigators wonder
whether Elizabeth might have told Nuzzio that she was leaving him and if he’d
killed her as a result. But then they discovered a far more powerful motive.
Two days after he married his wife, Nuzzio Bergaren had insured her life for $1
million, making himself the sole beneficiary. He had, in fact, been shopping
for a policy on the day they exchanged their vows. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">All thoughts of a gang-related killing were
now set aside by the investigators. Their entire focus was now on Nuzzio
Bergaren. Nuzzio was placed under 24-hour surveillance. A few weeks into that
operation, he gave the police even more reason to suspect him of murder. On
that day, Nuzzio took a 100-mile taxi ride from south L.A. to the house he’d
shared with his wife in Lancaster. He emerged from the property holding a
garbage bag. He then directed the cabbie to a nearby convenience store where he
got out, walked to the back of the building, and dropped the bag in a dumpster.
Detectives later retrieved the bag, convinced that it must contain some
incriminating evidence. They would be disappointed. The only item of note was
an itemized phone bill, torn into several pieces. None of the numbers on the
bill could be linked to the murder.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">A battle of wits was now being waged
between Nuzzio Bergaren and the Anaheim Police Department. And it was Nuzzio
who struck the next blow. He sued the department for harassment and ultimately
reached an out-of-court settlement which gained him $25,000. Then Nuzzio went
after the big prize. His insurance company had been refusing to pay out the
proceeds of his wife’s policy, citing the fact that he was a suspect in her
murder. Nuzzio sued and the insurers buckled. Now a wealthy man, he left the US
for his native Romania. There, he acquired a common-law wife and fathered twin
boys. The murder case against him had gone stone.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And it might well have remained that way
but for the persistence of Elizabeth’s father, Robert Wheat. Robert had
remained in touch with investigators for over a decade, hoping against hope
that there would be some break in the case. In 2009, eleven years after his
daughter was gunned down, he decided to appeal directly to the Anaheim District
Attorney. The letter was so heartfelt that the D.A. asked one of his
prosecutors to look into it. Larry Yellin was an expert in cold cases and this
one immediately spoke to him. He could not understand why the investigators had
so easily dismissed Jose Sandoval as a suspect. To him, it seemed obvious that
Sandoval was involved. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Unfortunately for Yellin, the police held a
different opinion. They still believed that Nuzzio had acted alone. It would
take two years and the appointment of Sgt. Daron Wyatt to the Cold Case Unit,
before the case started gaining forward traction. Wyatt was with Yellin and
believed that Sandoval was the key that would unlock the case. The former
gangbanger, now a married man and the father of two children, was thus brought
in for questioning. He swore that he knew nothing, but Yellin persisted,
threatening him with a charge of murder with special circumstances, a death
penalty offense. Sandoval’s lawyer then made an error of judgment. He
challenged Yellin to make good on his threat or let his client go. Yellin
obliged by charging Sandoval. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This was a calculated risk but it quickly
paid dividends. The possibility of a trip to death row loosened Sandoval’s
tongue. He admitted that he’d been present on the night that Elizabeth was
killed but insisted that he’d been just the driver. The shooter was his cousin,
Guillermo Espinoza. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And then Sandoval offered up another name,
one that the police had never connected with this case. Rudy Duran had been
affiliated with a rival gang but was connected to Espinoza by marriage.
According to Sandoval, it was Duran who had recruited them for the hit on
Elizabeth Bergaren. And who had recruited Duran? None other than Elizabeth’s
husband, Nuzzio. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Rudy Duran was easy to find. He was
currently serving time for assault. Confronted with Sandoval’s statement, he
buckled and admitted his involvement. According to him, the hit was supposed to
go down at the Chevron station. But Nuzzio had panicked and driven off when he
spotted a police car. Sandoval then followed and eventually caught up with
Nuzzio’s vehicle after he pulled off the freeway. They had not cut Nuzzio off,
as he’d told the police. They’d simply pulled up behind him. Nuzzio then got
out and walked away with his daughter, covering the child’s eyes. As he passed,
Duran asked what he wanted them to do. Nuzzio’s instruction was explicit, “Do
it,” he commanded. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In her final moments, Elizabeth realized what
was going on. As Espinoza approached holding the gun, she cried out, “No Tony,
don’t do this!” (Tony was her pet name for Nuzzio.) Moments later, the gun spat
fire, and Elizabeth’s life was taken. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Nuzzio Bergaren, undoubtedly convinced that
he’d gotten away with murder, had by now returned to the United States. Imagine
his surprise when investigators showed up at his door and placed him under
arrest. Still, Nuzzio was not going to make it easy for them. He insisted that
he’d never heard of Rudy Duran and challenged them to prove otherwise. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It was here that the meticulous police work
of a decade-and-a-half earlier paid dividends. In Duran’s statement, he’d told
the police that Nuzzio had called him twice in the aftermath of the murder. Now
investigators went back to that phone bill that they’d found in the trash 15
years earlier. Scanning the list of numbers, they soon found one that Duran had
used back then. This was confirmed when detectives matched it to a number he’d
given on one of his many arrest records. The link between Nuzzio and his hired
assassins had been established. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Still, this was far from a sure thing.
Prosecutors had to sweat through three days of jury deliberation before the
verdict came back – guilty as charged. The sentence was 25 years to life. Rudy
Duran and Jose Sandoval were also convicted for their part in the murder. Duran
got six years. Sandoval was released with time served. That left just the
shooter, Guillermo Espinoza, still at large. He would eventually be arrested in
2016, in Mexicali, Mexico. Brought back to the US to stand trial, he entered a
guilty plea to manslaughter and was sentenced to 21 years in prison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">One of the remarkable things about this case is
that it was solved by the victim. That scrawled license plate number was what
led the police to Jose Sandoval in the first place. But for that, the killers
would likely have evaded justice. Those five puzzle pieces, the torn fragments
of Elizabeth’s note, had nailed them.</span>
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<p><b>The Toledo Clubber</b>: He was known as ‘the Clubber’ for the weapon he carried, a carved hunk of wood wielded to deadly effect.</p>
<p><b>The Doodler</b>: The killer enjoyed drawing sketches of potential victims. Later, he’d paint the walls with their blood.</p></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><b></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<h1><a name="_Toc118288246"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-themecolor: text1;">The Valley Killer</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc118288246;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 18.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></h1>
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started with the death of a birdwatcher. Cathy Millican was a keen
ornithologist and lived in the perfect place to practice her hobby. Cathy’s
favorite spot was the Chandler Brook Wetland Preserve near her home in New
London, New Hampshire. She visited regularly and was there on September 24,
1978, the day that would be her last on earth. The 27-year-old failed to return
home that night. Her body was found early the next day, sprawled on a path that
ran through the wetlands. Cathy’s clothes were disarranged, and her belongings
lay scattered around her. Her death had been bloody and brutal. Knife thrusts
to the throat had caused irreparable damage. The killer had then taken his time
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those in Cathy’s inner circle were eliminated as potential suspects, New London
investigators had to face the fact that this was a stranger killing, the most
difficult kind to solve. Meanwhile, about 40 miles south, in Springfield,
Vermont, detectives were dealing with a perplexing homicide of their own. The
remains of 13-year-old Sherry Nastasia had been recovered. Sherry had been
missing for a month. The autopsy would reveal that she had been severely
beaten, suffering a broken leg and fractured ribs. Death, though, was by
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Nobody
made any link between the murders of Cathy Millican and Sherry Nastasia and
they were right to ignore a possible connection. The M.O. was decidedly
different. However, the abduction and murder of 12-year-old Theresa Fenton did
resemble the Nastasia case. Theresa was snatched while riding her bike along a
street in Springfield on August 29, 1981. She was found the next day, still
alive but severely injured after suffering a savage beating. Despite the best
efforts of doctors, she would succumb to her injuries within 24 hours.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">This
latest murder left the Springfield police deeply concerned. They feared that
they had a serial child killer on their streets, and they were right to be
worried. On April 9, 1983, he struck again, snatching 11-year-old Caty
Richards. The little girl’s battered corpse would be found the next day. Only,
this time, there was a witness to the abduction, leading police to a lowlife
named Gary Lee Schaefer, a supposed born-again Christian with a sideline in
pedicide. Schaefer would ultimately strike a deal with prosecutors and accept a
term of 30 years to life in exchange for his guilty plea. However, he
steadfastly denied involvement in the death of Cathy Millican, and prosecutors
believed him. Cathy’s killer was still out there. He was deadlier than Gary Lee
Schaefer, craftier. And he was about to resurface. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">On May
30, 1984, 16-year-old Bernice Courtemanche, a nurse’s aide at the Sullivan
County Nursing Home, told a co-worker that she was going to hitchhike to
Newport to visit her boyfriend. Bernice never arrived and efforts to find her
came up empty. For a time, the authorities thought that she might have been
swept away by a flash flood, that had burst the banks of a river along New
Hampshire Route 12. That theory would be disproved nearly two years later, on
April 19, 1986, when skeletal remains were found near Kellyville. Bernice was
identified using dental records. There were knife marks on the cervical
vertebrae and there were indications of head trauma. Bernice Courtemanche had
been murdered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">And the
killer had not been idle in the two years between Bernice’s disappearance and
the discovery of her remains. On the night of July 10, 1984, a 26-year-old
nurse named Ellen Fried made the ill-advised decision to stop at an isolated
payphone in Claremont. Despite the location, Ellen spent nearly an hour
chatting with her sister. During the conversation, she mentioned that there was
a car circling the block, the driver slowing down to look at her. Eventually,
the sisters said their goodbyes and hung up. Ellen Fried failed to show up for
work the next day and her car was found abandoned on Jarvis Road, a few miles
away from the payphone she’d used. Her skeletal remains would be found 14
months later, near Newport, New Hampshire. Telltale notches on bone told the
medical examiner everything he needed to know about the cause of death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">And
then there was Eva Morse, a single mother with a 10-year-old daughter. Eva went
missing from Charlestown, New Hampshire, on the morning of July 10, 1985, after
telling her supervisor that she was feeling unwell and was going home to rest.
Actually, Eva’s plan was to hitchhike to Claremont, to visit a former lover.
Somewhere along that route, she encountered a killer. Her remains were found
next to an old logging road on April 25, 1986, the head almost severed by stab
wounds.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">So far,
we have the impression of a killer preying on lone women late at night or
picking up hitchhikers. But no woman was safe from the Valley Killer, not even
in her own home. On April 15, 1986, Steven Moore returned from work to find his
wife Lynda lying dead on the floor in the blood-spattered kitchen. Lynda had
put up a desperate fight for her life, suffering terrible injuries in the
process. There were over a dozen knife wounds to her throat and abdomen and
defensive wounds to her hands that had nearly severed several of her fingers.
In the end, though, the killer had gained the upper hand, butchering his victim
in a frenzied onslaught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Four
women were dead, the police making little headway in apprehending their killer.
Then, on January 10, 1987, four became five. Barbara Agnew was a 36-year-old
nurse from Norwich, Vermont, who worked at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital,
across the river in Hanover, New Hampshire. Barbara had spent the day of her
disappearance skiing with a friend near Winhall, Vermont. Three days later,
someone reported to police that they’d found bloodstained items of women’s
clothing in a dumpster near White River Junction. Officers searched the
receptacle and turned up Barbara Agnew’s purse. Her car was later found
abandoned at a rest stop. Her brutalized remains would be discovered by hikers
two months later, near Hartland, Vermont. Freezing weather conditions had
preserved the corpse. It was easy to see how she’d died. Multiple knife wounds
to the neck and lower abdomen were the signature of the Valley Killer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">You
would be justified in asking, at this point, what the police were doing to stop
the ongoing slaughter. The truth is that this was a complex case, spanning
multiple jurisdictions, and crossing state borders. Undoubtedly, that
complicated things. With the current open cases offering scant clues, some
investigators began looking into unsolved homicides from the past, hoping to
find any that might be linked to the homicidal maniac they were hunting. Two
were considered noteworthy, the murder of 15-year-old Jo Anne Dunham in
Claremont, New Hampshire, way back in June 1968; and the July 1981 slaying of
Elizabeth Critchley. The problem is that both of these victims were strangled,
which did not fit the Valley Killer’s M.O. The only point of similarity was in
the location of the bodies, which were found close to dumping grounds used by
the killer. The inclusion of these murders in the overall inquiry remains a
contentious issue to this day. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">But
there are few who dispute that Jane Boroski was a victim of the Valley Killer,
albeit one who lived to tell the tale. On the night of August 6, 1988,
22-year-old Jane was returning from a county fair in Keene, New Hampshire.
Driving south on Route 9, she spotted a vending machine in the parking lot of a
closed convenience store and made the fateful decision to stop for a soda. Jane
parked her car, fed some coins to the machine, and picked up her drink. She was
walking back to her vehicle when a Jeep Wagoneer pulled into the adjacent slot,
leaving a narrow gap. Heavily pregnant at the time, Jane sidled past the Jeep
and opened her driver’s door. That was when he grabbed her. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Jane
was manhandled, pulled back towards the man’s vehicle. She knew instinctively
that if he got her inside, if he drove away with her, she was dead. “Why are
you doing this to me?” she protested. “Because you attacked my girlfriend,” was
the man’s enigmatic reply. Jane insisted that she had done no such thing, that
she did not know him or his girlfriend and had not attacked anyone. Her denials
seemed to give the assailant pause. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">They
were now standing at the rear of her vehicle. “Are those Massachusetts plates?”
The man demanded. Jane assured him that they weren’t. They were from New
Hampshire. The killer then released his grip on her, and Jane scrambled away,
backing up against her car. The man started walking back towards his Jeep. She
could hardly believe that he was letting her go. It was then that her attacker
turned back towards her, murder in his eyes. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">The
attack was swift, and it was brutal, the knife plunged repeatedly into the
young woman’s flesh. In spite of her pain, in spite of her terror, all that
Jane could think was “my baby.” Then, as quickly as it had started, it was
over. The man left her lying on the tarmac, apparently believing that he’d
killed her. He got into his Jeep and drove away. As the sound of the engine
faded, Jane staggered to her feet. Somehow, she made it into her car and turned
over the ignition. Somehow, she managed to drive to the home of a friend who
took her to the hospital. There she would come to realize just how lucky she
was to be alive. The blade had entered her flesh 27 times. It had nicked her
jugular vein, lacerated a kidney, collapsed a lung. The tendons of her thumb
and forefinger had been severed as she tried to ward off the attacker. It was a
miracle that she had survived. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">And
that was not the only miracle that happened on that hot August night. Despite
the severe injuries inflicted on her belly, Jane Boroski’s unborn child was
somehow unarmed. Two months after her night of terror, Jane delivered a healthy
baby girl. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">The
attack on Jane Boroski would mark the end of the Valley Killer’s spree. Jane
was able to provide the police with a description of her attacker, allowing
them to compile a composite sketch that was widely distributed. Perhaps that
spooked the killer and forced him to lay low. Or perhaps it persuaded him to
abandon his preferred hunting ground altogether and head for pastures new.
Whatever the truth of the matter, there were no further murders that matched
his unique signature. The case of the Valley Killer remains an unresolved
puzzle.</span></p>
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In an apartment just off Rittenhouse Square in central Philadelphia, university
student Parmatha Greeley was awakened by screams coming from the unit next
door. Greeley immediately went to investigate, pounding on the door of his
neighbor, Shannon Schieber, and calling out her name. Getting no response, he
shouted that he was going to call the police. He then walked back to his
apartment and dialed 911. “I heard yelling and then like a choking sound,” he
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and with no sounds or evidence of movement from inside the apartment, they
decided to leave. As they explained to the concerned neighbor, they did not
have probable cause to enter. Had they done so, they would have found the body
of the 23-year-old doctoral student. Shannon Schieber had been raped and
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concerned and went looking for her. After hearing about the previous night’s
events from her neighbor, Shaun Schieber needed to know that his sister was
okay. He and Greeley shoulder barged the door open. It was Shaun who had the
terrible misfortune of finding his sister’s corpse. Shannon was lying face down
and naked on the bed. Bruising to the throat suggested the method of her
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Shannon Schieber had been a singularly
impressive young woman. A Presidential Award finalist, she’d graduated from
Duke University in just three years, with a triple major in mathematics,
economics, and philosophy. Thereafter, she’d been accepted into Wharton, one of
the country’s most prestigious business schools, on a full scholarship. She had
been about to complete the first year of her PhD and was due to write her final
exam on the morning that she was killed. All of this by the age of 23. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But none of that mattered now. Now, Shannon
Schieber was a corpse on a slab at the city morgue, where the coroner would
confirm cause of death as manual strangulation. The young woman had also been
raped and semen was retrieved from her body. This was sent to the lab for DNA
extraction, a relatively slow process back in the 1990s. The police had also
found blood spatter on the wall next to Shannon’s bed. Since she had no open
wounds, this was believed to be from the killer. It, too, was sent for DNA processing.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Murder investigations typically follow a
familiar path. The police start with those closest to the victim and work out
from there. In this case, both Shannon’s brother and her neighbor were
interrogated and subsequently cleared. Then investigators zeroed in on a more
likely suspect. Shannon’s most recent boyfriend was said to be bitter about
their breakup and had reportedly made threats against her. Brought in for
questioning, the young man was subjected to a fierce interrogation, maintaining
his innocence throughout. He would remain the prime suspect until the DNA
results were in, proving beyond doubt that he was innocent. The DNA indicated
that the killer of Shannon Schieber was African American. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Nine months passed, with little to no
progress in the investigation. Then, in January 1999, the case blew up in
spectacular fashion. A Philadelphia Inquirer reporter received a call from an
anonymous informant who identified himself as a police officer. According to
the tipster, Shannon Schieber was not the first victim of the killer rapist. He
had sexually assaulted at least two other women, both living within a ten-block
radius of Shannon’s apartment. Philadelphia PD was well aware of these crimes,
the tipster said, but had failed to warn the public. This was because the
authorities had a policy in place to underreport violent crimes. Its intention
was to make the city appear safer than it was. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This was explosive stuff, provoking a
backlash when DNA comparison proved that the informant was correct. A serial
rapist was prowling the streets of central Philadelphia and the public had not
even been warned of the grave danger in their midst. People were out on the
streets protesting and several city officials lost their jobs as a result. In
the aftermath, new momentum was injected into the Schieber investigation. A
task force was formed to hunt down the predator the media was now calling the
“Center City Rapist.” Investigators would soon link him to two more rapes,
bringing his victim toll to five.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Questioning the victims of these crimes,
the police learned that their suspect had a consistent M.O. He targeted women
in their early-20s, living alone. He’d enter their apartments between the hours
of midnight and 2:00 a.m., launching his attack while the victim slept. After
subduing the woman with a hand on her throat, he’d pull a pillowcase over her
head so she couldn’t see him. Then he’d rape her, all the while whispering in a
voice that his victims described as soft but creepy. “Don’t fight me and I
won’t hurt you,” he told them. Then, after having his way, he’d disappear into
the night.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Usually, the Center City Rapist was
efficient and practiced in executing his plan. But in one of the attacks, he
slipped up. He allowed the pillowcase to fall from the victim’s face, giving
her a quick glance at him. She described him as a light-skinned black man,
early-20s, slim of build, and between 5’10” and 6’ tall. This finally allowed
the police to compile an identikit of the suspect and disperse it via the
media. They also put additional officers, both uniformed and plainclothes, on
the street. Within the space of just a few weeks, these officers stopped and
questioned over 100 suspects, all of them subsequently released. All they
succeeded in doing was driving the rapist underground. In the 12 months
following Shannon Schieber’s murder, there were no other linked attacks. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And then, on August 28, 1999, the Center
City Rapist was back. A young woman was accosted in her apartment in the early
hours of that Saturday. She was raped and then the intruder forced her to
perform oral sex on him and to spit his semen out onto a pillowcase. This he
left at the scene, as though to confirm his identity to the police. It was
almost as though he were issuing a “catch me if you can” taunt. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But the Philadelphia police would not catch
the Center City Rapist, at least not for the next three years. There were also
no new attacks, leading them to conclude that the rapist might have left the
area or been incarcerated on some other charge. With budgets and resources
under pressure, the task force was gradually scaled down, until there were only
a few officers still actively working the case. One of their daily tasks was to
scan reports from other jurisdictions, hoping to find crimes that were similar
to theirs. That was how they got to learn of an active investigation in Fort
Collins, Colorado. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The perpetrator of these crimes had an M.O.
that was almost identical to their suspect. Eight young women had thus far
fallen prey to the intruder, most of them students at Colorado State
University. He’d enter a victim’s apartment in the early morning hours, subdue
her and blindfold her with a pillowcase. He’d then rape the woman, all the
while talking to her, urging her to remain calm and not to resist him. His
voice was described as soft and creepy. It was, in other words, a carbon copy
of the Philadelphia attacks. What were the odds that it might be the same man? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Very good, as it turned out. The DNA from
the two cases was run and returned a match. The Center City Rapist had taken
his show west to Colorado. But how were the police going to find him in a city
of over 150,000? The idea they came up with was quite novel. They started
looking at credit card transactions in the two cities during the span of the
crimes, isolating card numbers that had been used in both places. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The original list contained over 300 names.
Then they whittled that down further, first eliminating all women and then all
men who fell outside their age range. That left them with thirteen possible
suspects and those would eventually be reduced to one. His name was Troy Graves
and he was an enlisted man, serving at an Air Force base near Fort Collins. He
was 29 years old and recently married. More importantly, he was a Philadelphia
native and had been living in the city in May 1998, when Shannon Schieber was
murdered. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Brought in for questioning, Graves denied
raping anyone, whether in Philadelphia or Fort Collins or anywhere else for
that matter. He seemed particularly affronted by the suggestion that he might
have committed a murder. There was an easy way for him to clear his name, of
course, but Graves refused to have his cheeks swabbed for a DNA sample.
Investigators, though, had a workaround. They contacted the Air Force and asked
for Graves’s blood type. It was A-positive, the same as the blood found on
Shannon Schieber’s wall. That was all the police needed to arrest Graves on
suspicion of murder. Now he was compelled to provide a DNA sample. Once those
results were in, Graves could no longer plead innocence. Confronted with
irrefutable evidence of his guilt, he eventually cracked and admitted to it
all, 13 rapes across two states, and the murder of Shannon Schieber. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">According to Graves, he had entered
Shannon’s apartment that morning by scaling a tree outside her building and
gaining access to her second-floor balcony. He’d then slipped in through an
unlocked sliding door. Finding Shannon in the bathroom, about to take a bath,
he’d grabbed her, dragging her to the bed. Unlike his earlier victims, though,
Shannon had fought him. She’d started screaming and had bitten him on the hand,
drawing blood. Then someone (Parmatha Greeley) started banging on the door and
Graves panicked. He started throttling Shannon to keep her quiet. By the time
he released his grip, she’d stopped breathing. Then the police started knocking
on the door and Graves fled, exiting the same way that he’d come in. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Graves would share another piece of
information with investigators, one that did not reflect well on the
Philadelphia PD. He said that he’d been stopped by police at least ten times
while wandering the city streets in the early morning hours. On each occasion,
he’d talked them into letting him go. This despite the fact that he was a
dead-ringer for the police identikit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Troy Graves would have two trials, one in
Fort Collins, the other in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania prosecutors were
determined to seek the death penalty, but Graves found an unexpected ally in
his quest to avoid the needle. Shannon’s parents were opposed to capital
punishment on grounds of their Christian faith. Graves ended up with a life
sentence instead, a sanction that excluded the possibility of parole. He is
serving his time in Colorado.</span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Body of
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1WMLHXInll_jfiIdW8zX43BOBUnuQAIIuUQSta1NFeTv58fAACNe7HZLYcuBmnQcdrCkV_8BDKZFWfQqASeM81f3e4vr0cDfjZ_bl63KZ5gkPoHK1AauIilB0PGsB5nQkUaJ9ovhPDtjLNbwrunhKWSzzQvqlbsZppNFGX1MyHjYVENbjWrp-qPH19w/s290/bierenbaum.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="261" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1WMLHXInll_jfiIdW8zX43BOBUnuQAIIuUQSta1NFeTv58fAACNe7HZLYcuBmnQcdrCkV_8BDKZFWfQqASeM81f3e4vr0cDfjZ_bl63KZ5gkPoHK1AauIilB0PGsB5nQkUaJ9ovhPDtjLNbwrunhKWSzzQvqlbsZppNFGX1MyHjYVENbjWrp-qPH19w/w180-h200/bierenbaum.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">To the people of Minot, North Dakota, Dr. Robert
Bierenbaum was a saint. Here was this brilliant New York City plastic surgeon,
working as the town doctor in their humble community; here was this esteemed
physician, taking out a week of every month to fly to Mexico, where he would
operate on children with cleft palates and other physical deformities, never
asking a penny for his high-priced services. To Dr. Bierenbaum’s wife, Janet,
also a highly qualified physician, Robert was the perfect husband, the perfect
father to their 22-month-old daughter. To others in Bob Bierenbaum’s universe,
he was a genius who excelled at every challenge he took on. Aside from his
medical expertise, the esteemed doctor was a gourmet chef, a talented classical
guitarist, fluent in five languages, and a qualified pilot. Just about everyone
who knew him was stunned when he was arrested for murder in December 1999.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The arrest in question related to the
disappearance of his first wife, Gail Katz-Bierenbaum in 1984. Gail and Robert
had been introduced by a mutual friend in the early 1980s and married in 1982.
It was an odd match. Robert had just graduated medical school and was handsome
but socially awkward. Gail was a beautiful social butterfly but deeply
troubled. She had a long history of emotional instability and had twice been
hospitalized for depression. She had issues with drugs and had once attempted
suicide. Bob Bierenbaum was taking on a challenge with his high-maintenance new
bride. Perhaps he believed that love would conquer all. In this case, it did
not. The union was in trouble almost from the start.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Depending on who you believe, the Bierenbaums’
marriage broke down because Bob was a control freak or because Gail was a
neurotic, demanding woman who was impossible to live with. According to Gail,
he insisted on micro-managing every aspect of her life, telling her what she
could wear, who she could see, and where she could go. He also became violent
when he did not get his way and once choked her almost unconscious after he
caught her smoking, something he forbade. On another occasion, he tried to
drown her cat in the toilet bowl because he was jealous of the affection she
showed towards the animal. Gail also complained to friends that Robert was
never around. As a surgical resident, he was putting in 130-hour weeks at
Brooklyn’s Maimonides Medical Center. She was left at home and bored. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But Robert also had complaints about his wife,
who he described as moody, neurotic, and unfaithful. The first two of those grievances
were subjective. The third was hard fact. Gail had always been fond of male
company and had continued seeing other men even after she and Bob were engaged.
She would continue sleeping around after they were married, engaging in two
ongoing affairs and a series of flings. Neighbors reported a string of male
visitors to the apartment while Robert was at work and Gail was hardly discreet
about her infidelities. She often boasted to friends about the sexual prowess
of her lovers, comparing them to Robert who she said was “clueless” in bed.
Just a year into the marriage and Gail was refusing to sleep with her husband.
By 1984, when she started talking to a divorce attorney, she and Robert had not
been intimate for more than a year. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">This marriage, however, would not end in the
divorce courts. It would end with the disappearance of Gail Bierenbaum on July
7, 1985. Robert called Gail’s parents that night and told them that Gail had
walked out on him after a fight. The Katzes, who were used to the dramas in
their daughter’s life, thought nothing of it at the time. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But concern began to grow when there was still
no word from Gail by the next morning. That was when Bob walked into the 19th
Precinct station house in Manhattan and reported her missing. According to Bob,
he and Gail had argued that afternoon and she’d stormed out, taking a towel
with her. Since she often went to sunbathe in Central Park, he assumed that
she’d gone there. When she still hadn’t returned by dusk, he went looking for
her. Her favorite spot was on the lawn behind the Metropolitan Museum and that
was where he found her towel and suntan oil. Of Gail, though, there was no
trace. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">And there was still no sign of the missing woman
the next day or the next. None of her friends had seen or heard from her.
Although the police were still treating this as a missing person case, alarms
were beginning to jangle. Gail had left behind her purse, with her cash and
credit cards. How far could she have gone without money? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Gail’s family believed that they knew the answer
to that question. Gail wasn’t missing. She was dead… and it was her husband who
had killed her. To make their point, they showed NYPD Detective Tom O’Malley a
letter written to Gail by Dr. Michael Stone, a psychiatrist who both Gail and
Bob had consulted. In it, Stone had cautioned that her husband was a very
dangerous man and urged her to leave him. This wasn’t evidence of murder, of
course, but it did make the police sit up and take notice.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Robert, meanwhile, had various theories to offer
for his wife’s disappearance. He was quick to remind everyone that Gail had attempted
suicide before and might have done so again. He also suggested that Gail might
have run away with one of her lovers or that she might have been killed by the
drug dealers that she associated with. The Katzes weren’t buying it, and
neither were the police. They were now almost certain that the doctor had
murdered his wife. They just couldn’t prove it. There were no eyewitnesses, no
forensics, no clues at all. And then there was the biggest mystery of all. If
Bob Bierenbaum really had killed his wife, what had he done with her body?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Those questions would remain unanswered as the
case went unsolved. Dr. Bierenbaum eventually left New York and moved to Las
Vegas, where he met Dr. Janet Chollet, a gynecologist. The couple hit it off
from the start and were soon engaged. After they tied the knot, they moved to
Minot, North Dakota, where their daughter was born in 1998. It was at this time
that Bob started making those mercy flights to Mexico, flying his private plane
to perform those life-altering surgeries at his own expense. Meanwhile, back in
New York, Gail’s family would not allow the NYPD to forget about her. Gail’s
sister Alayne, an attorney, was particularly active in keeping the case top of
mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">In May 1989, four years after Gail disappeared,
a headless torso washed up on a Staten Island beach. After examination, the
coroner declared that it was the last mortal remains of Gail Katz-Bierenbaum.
This, at least, gave the Katz family some closure. Gail was buried at Mount
Zion Cemetery in Queens. Sylvia Katz passed just a few months later and her
husband, Manny, five years after that. They were buried in adjacent plots.
Alayne drew some comfort in knowing that they’d at least put Gail to rest
before their own passing. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But 1997 would bring a new twist to the case.
The district attorney’s office had decided to reopen the investigation and had
exhumed the torso for DNA testing. Those tests would show that the coroner had
been mistaken. These were not the remains of Gail Katz-Bierenbaum, after all.
This was a Jane Doe. Gail remained among the missing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">So what was it that had prompted the D.A. to
reopen the case after all this time? It was an interview with Roberta
Karnofsky, a woman Bob had dated back in New York. She advised them to check his
flight logs for July 1985 and it was then that they made a startling discovery,
something that Robert Bierenbaum had failed to disclose on the many occasions
that they’d spoken to him. On the afternoon of July 7, 1985, the same afternoon
that his wife disappeared, Bierenbaum had rented a Cessna 172 from an airport
in Caldwell, New Jersey, and taken it up for a two-hour flight. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Bierenbaum had not filed a flight plan that day,
but prosecutors believed that they could make a pretty good case for where he’d
gone. They believed that he’d flown out over the Atlantic and dumped his wife’s
remains into the sea, somewhere between Montauk Point, New York, and Cape May,
New Jersey. Even more damaging to Bierenbaum was an amateurish attempt to alter
the logbook. The number ‘7’ had been overwritten, changing it to an ‘8’. The
implication was obvious. Bierenbaum was trying to make it seem that he’d made
the flight in August, rather than in July.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">With a warrant issued for his arrest, Robert
Bierenbaum surrendered to police on December 8, 1999, and waived extradition to
New York. He went on trial there in October 2000. With no physical evidence and
not even a body, this was a difficult case to make. Prosecutors had to pass the
“corpus delicti” test if they were to succeed. This is a confusing term that
has tripped up criminals in the past, most famously, the notorious Acid Bath
Killer, John George Haigh. It does not refer to the physical corpse but rather
to the “body of evidence.” Simply put, the prosecution would need to connect
the dots in a way that was convincing enough to satisfy the court. They did
that by painting a compelling picture of how the murder might have occurred. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Bierenbaum’s biggest mistake was trying to
conceal the evidence of his unscheduled flight. Had he told police that he’d
been upset after the argument with his wife and had taken to the air to calm
himself, then he might have had a defense to fall back on. Instead, he kept
quiet about this significant detail and then compounded suspicion by altering
the flight log. Why would he have done that if the flight he’d taken was
entirely innocent? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The prosecution contended that it was not
innocent at all. They suggested that Bierenbaum had strangled his wife during
an argument, had dismembered her corpse in the apartment, had packed the body
parts into a duffle bag, had dragged this down to his car, had driven to
Caldwell Airport and from there taken the plane out and dropped the bag into
the Atlantic from a height. They even provided evidence of an experiment they’d
carried out, dropping a 120-pound sandbag from a Cessna. Taken with the
evidence from Roberta Karnofsky and the letter written by Dr. Michael Stone, it
was enough to convince the jury. </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Robert Bierenbaum was
convicted of second-degree murder. The prosecution asked for the maximum
sentence and the defense for the minimum. Judge Leslie Snyder split the
difference and sentenced him to 20 years to life. He is currently incarcerated
at New York’s Attica Correctional Facility.</span>
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/></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US">Andrew Conley had been thinking about
murder for some time. He’d seen it done on his favorite TV show, Dexter, noting
that it looked easy and exciting, even glamorous. He’d fantasized about it
since he was in the eighth grade, running through various scenarios in his mind.
He’d even come close to following through. One night in November 2009, while
the rest of the household was asleep, Andrew had gone to the kitchen and
selected a large knife. He’d carried the blade upstairs and snuck into his
parent’s bedroom. Standing there in the dark, watching their sleeping forms
while his heart pounded in his chest, he’d willed himself to action. His plan
had been to slit his father’s throat but when it came down to it, he couldn’t
follow through. Eventually, he slunk away, berating himself for being a coward
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But still, the urge persisted, a drive that
17-year-old Andrew would later compare to a hungry person craving a hamburger.
To the outside world, he was a normal, well-adjusted kid who did well at school
and had never been in any serious trouble. On the inside, though, Andrew Conley
was in turmoil. That turmoil eventually reached its boiling point on the night
of November 28, 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Bridget Conley and her husband, Shawn, both
had to work that evening, pulling a shift at a riverboat casino in their
hometown of Rising Sun, Indiana. That meant that Andrew would have to babysit
his 10-year-old brother, Conner, the usual arrangement in these circumstances.
Andrew wasn’t too happy about it. He had plans with his girlfriend that night.
Still, he made no complaint. He and Conner bade their parents goodbye. Shawn
and Bridget were barely out of sight when Andrew told Conner to get his stuff.
He was taking him to their grandmother’s house. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Unfortunately for Andrew, their grandmother
wasn’t in when they got there, meaning that he’d have to bring his brother back
home. It also meant that he’d have to cancel his plans with his girlfriend.
Whether or not it is this which sparked the tragic incident that was to follow,
is unknown. What we do know is that the brothers got into a wrestling match that
started as a game and quickly turned serious. Andrew Conley was a slightly
built teenager, but he was seven years older than his brother and stronger than
him. He quickly got the upper hand, trapping Conner in a headlock. “Andrew,
stop,” the little boy gasped as the pressure was increased. But Andrew wasn’t
stopping. He kept squeezing and squeezing until Conner went limp and lost
consciousness. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">At this stage, it would still have been
possible for Andrew to back out, to lay his brother out on the couch, to
perhaps spray some water on his face until he came to. But Andrew had been
fantasizing about murder for so long that backing out wasn’t an option. It was
as though he was in the grip of some homicidal fugue. Grabbing Conner by the
ankles, he dragged him into the kitchen and laid him out on the tile. Then he
rummaged through some drawers until he found a pair of latex gloves. These he
donned before putting his hands on his brother’s throat and applying pressure.
He would continue throttling the child for a full 20 minutes, until blood
started dripping from Conner’s mouth and nose. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Was Conner dead? Andrew kneeled over the
body and pressed an ear to his brother’s chest. No trace of a heartbeat. He
tried for a pulse. Nothing. Certain now that his brother was gone, Andrew got
to work covering up the crime. First, he fetched a plastic bag from a kitchen
drawer and pulled it over Connor’s head, securing it in place with black
electrical tape. Then he dragged his brother, again by the feet, down into the
garage, banging his head on every one of the basement steps. For good measure,
he also slammed Conner’s head several times against the concrete floor of the
garage, just to be sure that the child really was dead. Finally, he loaded the
little boy’s corpse into the trunk of his car. Then he went back inside, washed
up, and changed his clothes. He had a date to keep. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Andrew would spend several hours at his
girlfriend’s house that evening, watching a movie and hanging out. He also
presented the girl with a friendship ring. He left at around 11 p.m., driving
to Rising Sun City Park, near the elementary school where his brother attended
fifth grade. There, the boy’s corpse was unceremoniously dumped in a wooded
area, covered over with leaves and twigs. Having done that, Andrew drove home
and went to bed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Shawn and Bridget Conley did not realize
that Conner was not in the house until late the next morning. Andrew offered an
easy explanation for this. He said that he’d dropped Conner at their
grandmother’s house. Since this was a fairly common arrangement, the Conleys
thought nothing of it. Shawn did, however, tell Andrew to drive over and pick
Conner up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But, of course, that was never going to
happen. Conner was dead and Andrew had killed him, and the deed could not be
undone. When Andrew left the family home for the last time that afternoon, it
was not to fetch Conner but to visit friends. They were the first to hear the
story of how he’d murdered his brother. Later that day, Andrew would drive to
the Rising Sun Police Department and tell the story again, this time to stunned
police officers. Conner’s body was recovered that same evening and Andrew was
charged with murder. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Since there was never any doubt as to who
had killed Conner Conley, the thrust of the legal arguments was to establish
competence. Andrew’s defense attorney insisted that his client was mentally
impaired and pointed to the sexual abuse he’d suffered as a child and to his
habit of inflicting self-harm. The prosecution was equally convinced that
Andrew was of sound mind and that he presented a danger to the community.
Andrew Conley settled the argument himself by going against the advice of
counsel and pleading guilty to first-degree murder. He said that he wanted to
be put to death but since his age excluded him from the possibility of
execution, the judge did the next best thing. He sentenced Conley to life in
prison with no possibility of parole.</span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Melinda Raisch</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></h1>
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devout young man. When these two attractive teenagers met at a summer camp run
by the Church of the Nazarene in the 1970s, it was love at first sight. The pair
started dating and were married in 1977, when David was 20 and Melinda just 19.
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but he also developed a friendship with Melinda, even visiting her at home
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situation. Melinda was a married woman and a member of a church that frowned on
divorce. She, herself, considered it a sin. The only way that she and Mark
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Or so it seemed until the early hours of
February 28, 1982. At around 2:30 that morning, Gail and Richard Bergstrand,
neighbors of the Harmons, were awakened by loud thumping from the other side of
the wall. The couple thought of going next door to check on their neighbors but
then the noise abruptly stopped. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All was
still again. The Bergstrands drifted back to sleep only to be woken about an hour
later by someone banging at their door. They answered it to find Melinda Harmon
crying hysterically on their doorstep. They’d been attacked, she said. David
was dead. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Police officers who responded to the scene
walked in on an extremely brutal murder. David Harmon had been beaten to death,
his injuries so severe that detectives at first thought that he’d been shot in
the face with a shotgun. The skull fractures, however, suggested that he’d been
bludgeoned, possibly with a crowbar or metal rod. The lack of defense injuries
probably meant that the first blow had been struck while he was asleep and had
knocked him unconscious. The subsequent strikes had been delivered with such
ferocity that one of his eyeballs had popped out. It was found some distance from
the body. This extreme overkill suggested a killer who knew the victim and
perhaps bore a grudge against him. Maybe his wife knew of someone who had meant
him harm.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But Melinda Harmon rejected the idea that
the killing might be personal. According to Melinda, her husband had been
killed by two black men who had broken in and demanded the keys to the bank
where David worked. One of these assailants had punched her in the face,
knocking her out. She’d woken about an hour later, to find her husband beaten
to death. That was when she’d gone to the Bergstrands to summon help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">A search of the apartment showed that the
keys had indeed been taken and a bruise on Melinda’s chin seemed to back up her
story that she’d been punched. But to experienced detectives, something just
wasn’t matching up. Although they initiated a stakeout on the bank, in case the
murderous robbers did turn up, they also started working other angles. One of
those was to bring a tracking dog to the Harmon residence. The dog soon picked up
a scent and followed it to a dumpster, several blocks away. Unfortunately, the
dumpster had recently been emptied so whatever evidence it might have held was
gone. Its location, though, was telling. It stood right outside Mark
Mangelsdorf's apartment building. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The investigators were already familiar
with Mangelsdorf. He had showed up at the crime scene soon after they arrived,
apparently summoned there by Melinda Harmon. He’d later accompanied her to the
police station when she was taken in for questioning. He’d been very attentive.
The police had since heard rumors of a possible relationship between him and
the widow. That supplied a motive and there was physical evidence too, that
Mangelsdorf might be involved in the murder. Spots of blood had been found just
inside the front door of his apartment. The blood type matched the victim but
was also the same as Mangelsdorf himself. In 1982, with DNA profiling yet to be
discovered, it was impossible to match the blood to the murder victim.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In the end, the murder of David Harmon
would go unsolved. The mysterious burglars never did try to use the stolen bank
keys and, despite the suspicions of investigators, there was never enough
evidence to charge either Mark Mangelsdorf or Melinda Harmon. The case went cold,
and everyone involved got back to their lives. Mangelsdorf would later graduate
from MNU and obtain a post-graduate degree from Harvard Business School. He
became a successful marketing executive in New York City and married twice,
fathering five children. Melinda Harmon would have an equally successful life.
She married a wealthy dentist named Mark Raisch and raised two children in
Delaware, Ohio. It was a happy ending for all concerned…all except David
Harmon. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">By the turn of the century, nearly two decades
separated Melinda Raisch from the murder of her first husband. Technology had
come a long way in that time and the field of crime detection had benefitted
from its trajectory, particularly in the ever-evolving science of DNA profiling.
Back in Olathe, Kansas, there were still officers who remembered the Harmon
murder and remained determined to solve it. In the summer of 2001, they got
their chance. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">That was when the Johnson County Crime Lab
asked local law enforcement agencies to submit cold cases that had unprocessed
biological material. Olathe PD immediately thought of the blood found inside
Mark Mangelsdorf’s apartment. The match it returned wasn’t perfect, but the
result was enough to convince them that it came from David Harmon. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On December 17, 2001, Olathe detectives
Bill Wall and Steve James made the 700-mile trip from Kansas to Ohio and
arrived unannounced on Melinda Raisch’s doorstep. Melinda was somewhat taken
aback when they asked if she would answer some questions about her husband’s death,
but she nonetheless agreed to talk to them. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The answers that Melinda gave, though, did
not match the story she’d told nineteen years earlier. Then, she’d spoken of
two attackers, now she mentioned only one. The race of the killer had also
changed. She now said that he was white. Then she voiced her suspicion that it
may have been Mark Mangelsdorf. Pressed on the issue, she confirmed that it was
Mangelsdorf who had killed her husband. He’d done it, she said, because he’d
been obsessed with her and had wanted the two of them to be together. She’d had
no involvement in planning the murder. All that she was guilty of was lying to
the police about the identity of the killer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Unfortunately for Melinda, the D.A. didn’t
buy her story. She was arrested in December 2003 and charged with first–degree
murder. At her trial, in April 2005, the prosecution contended that she and
Mark Mangelsdorf had been involved in an inappropriate relationship and killed
David Harmon for one simple reason. The Church of the Nazarene forbade divorce.
Murder was the only way for them to take their relationship forward.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Melinda strongly rebuffed this accusation,
and her defense team had a solid argument to back up her denial. She and
Mangelsdorf had last seen each other at David’s funeral, 23 years earlier. If
they had killed David to further their relationship, why had they stopped
seeing each other directly after his death?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Called to the stand, Mangelsdorf added his
own denials to the defense case. There had never been anything between him and
Melinda that went beyond the bounds of a platonic friendship, he said. And
neither of them had contributed to David’s death. What possible motive could
they have had for killing him? It seemed a reasonable enough argument, but it
was one that the jurors ultimately rejected. On May 2, 2005, they returned a
guilty verdict against Melinda Raisch. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Melinda was now looking at life in prison
without parole. But before the sentencing phase was completed, she contacted
prosecutors and asked for a deal. She would tell the truth and would testify
against Mangelsdorf at his upcoming trial. In exchange, she wanted leniency in
her sentence. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It was thus that the truth of David
Harmon’s murder was finally revealed. Melinda admitted under oath that she and
Mangelsdorf had conspired to kill her husband. It was Mark who’d done the
actual killing but she had been in on it from the start. David Harmon had been
killed for one simple reason. His wife wanted out of their marriage and with
the avenue of divorce cut off to her that left only one option…murder. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On the night in question, Mangelsdorf had
arrived at the Harmon apartment carrying a crowbar. Melinda had let him in.
He’d struck the first blow while David was asleep and had continued hitting him
until he was sure that he was dead. Melinda had then waited an hour before
raising the alarm, giving Mangelsdorf the chance to escape and dispose of
evidence. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Melinda was also able to clear up the
question of her and Mangelsdorf ending their relationship. They had planned to
be together after David was dead, but they had not counted on the feelings of
guilt that would plague them after the murder. It had driven them apart and
they’d gone their separate ways immediately after the funeral. After two
decades, Melinda had thought that she’d gotten away with murder. But for
advances in forensic science, she might well have done so. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Faced with the testimony of his
co-conspirator, Mark Mangelsdorf must have realized that the game was up. He
asked for a deal, entering a guilty plea to a charge of second-degree murder,
and accepting a term of 10 to 20 years in prison. Melinda Raisch got an
identical term. She walked free in 2015, having served just nine years behind
bars. A year later, Mark Mangelsdorf was also released. For the savage beating
death of an innocent man, a man who had welcomed him into his home and trusted
him as a friend, Mangelsdorf had spent just ten years in prison.</span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Poisonous
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2NNR1k86BaHBLXlYsJMqjwAc1OU-TgcBGWTiB99fAbyl7V0JwN9pbESa3c2ECYuM5gUiGOsN4W0VVK0GmMwhF32q6KIUu82yWci1iM7jMZpLiXI2CwHmxsbbMEYQOM0NAan95e44PjE4Eot6uVBhJURhL1Co9gWGUkrZXlQBE63sw5X3Fn91-CmmjbA/s290/meling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="261" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2NNR1k86BaHBLXlYsJMqjwAc1OU-TgcBGWTiB99fAbyl7V0JwN9pbESa3c2ECYuM5gUiGOsN4W0VVK0GmMwhF32q6KIUu82yWci1iM7jMZpLiXI2CwHmxsbbMEYQOM0NAan95e44PjE4Eot6uVBhJURhL1Co9gWGUkrZXlQBE63sw5X3Fn91-CmmjbA/w180-h200/meling.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">No one should die from a common cold. No one.
Not ever. But for 40-year-old Kathleen Daneker, the sniffle she picked up in
the winter of 1991 would end up being a death sentence. Kathleen was the mother
of three teenage boys from Tacoma, Washington. She and her husband, Ken, had
divorced a year earlier but they’d since patched up their differences and had
just remarried. On the morning of February 9, 1991, Kathleen got out of bed
with everything to live for. Before heading downstairs, she stopped at the bathroom
cabinet to fetch a Sudafed, to clear her blocked nose. Moments after swallowing
the capsule, she collapsed to the floor and started gasping for breath. Then
she started convulsing and foaming at the m </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Rushed to a nearby hospital, Kathleen was taken
directly to the ER, where emergency medical staff immediately got to work. But
even these highly experienced doctors were mystified as to her symptoms.
Kathleen appeared to be having a seizure and nothing they tried seemed to help.
Soon, she lapsed into a coma. Within two days, she would be dead. An autopsy
revealed elevated levels of acid in the bloodstream, elevated blood sugar
levels, and evidence of high blood pressure. The thing is, Kathleen had been a
healthy and health-conscious woman, with none of these problems prior to her
sudden death. So what did it all mean? To the medical examiner, the suspicious
symptoms brought to mind a case he’d worked on five years earlier, the case of
Stella Nickell. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Nickell was the woman at the center of one of
America’s most infamous product tampering cases. She’d killed her husband,
Bruce, with Excedrin capsules tainted with cyanide. She’d also claimed another
victim, Sue Snow, who’d swallowed one of the cyanide-laced pills that Nickell
had placed on a supermarket shelf to deflect attention. Convicted of two counts
of murder, Nickell was sentenced to 60 years in prison. Now, looking at the
bloodwork of Kathleen Daneker, the M.E. was reminded of that case. Was it
possible that Kathleen had been poisoned?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The answer to that question was yes. Analyzed
for cyanide, Kathleen Daneker’s blood returned a positive result. Soon
Kathleen’s family would receive news that served only to compound their grief.
Their beloved Kathleen had been murdered. The family was stunned by the
revelation. Kathleen did not have an enemy in the world. They could not think
of a single person who might mean her harm. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Ken Daneker, of course, was a suspect. The
spouse always is in circumstances like this. But was it really likely that a
man would spend a year wooing his former wife back, only to kill her the day
after they were remarried? No, that did not seem likely at all. Then detectives
learned of the Sudafed Kathleen had taken and the investigation veered off in a
whole new direction. What if Kathleen wasn’t a targeted victim? What if she’d
just been unlucky enough to pick a tainted product off a supermarket shelf?
What if there was a Stella Nickell copycat out there? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">This idea was a terrifying prospect for the
authorities. Seattle-Tacoma is a massive metropole, home to nearly four million
people. Depending on the extent of the product tampering, they might be looking
at dozens of deaths. Time was of the essence and so the Food and Drug
Administration moved swiftly, putting out warnings to the public via the media.
Burroughs-Wellcome, the manufacturers of Sudafed, also issued a statewide
recall. This would later be expanded nationally, costing the company nearly $17
million. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But for two unfortunate individuals, the
warnings were already too late. As the police continued working the case, they
learned of Stan McWhorter, a 40-year-old husband and father who’d died on
February 18, one week after Kathleen Daneker. McWhorter had collapsed after
taking a Sudafed to clear a stuffy nose. Doctors had been perplexed as to the
cause of death. Now they knew. Stan McWhorter had been poisoned with cyanide. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">And then there was the case of Jennifer Meling,
the first victim of the poisoning spree and its only survivor. Unlike the other
victims, Jennifer had not been suffering from a cold. She'd taken the Sudafed
at the insistence of her husband, Joe, who’d been complaining that her snoring
was keeping him awake at night. Just moments after swallowing the capsule,
Jennifer felt her lungs constrict. She was sucking in huge mouthfuls of air but
somehow still suffocating, not getting any oxygen. By the time Joe found her,
she was convulsing on the bedroom floor. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">A frantic 911 call would bring paramedics racing
to the Meling residence. Jennifer was rushed to the hospital, barely clinging
to life by the time she arrived. As doctors flailed around not quite knowing
what to do, she lapsed into a coma. She might well have died had her husband
not intervened. In among the chaos, Joseph Meling blurted out to the doctors
that they should treat Jennifer for cyanide poisoning. As soon as they did,
giving her hydroxocobalamin via an IV-line, Jennifer’s condition stabilized.
Although she remained in a coma, she was out of immediate danger.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Of course, the realization that Jennifer had
been poisoned brought the police into the equation and, of course, they wanted
Joe to explain how he’d known that his wife had been poisoned. Joe had a
plausible explanation. He said that he’d recently read an article on the
Nickell case and that the idea had suddenly occurred to him. He’d blurted it
out more in desperation than in hope. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">That was fair enough. But what Joe said next
turned the spotlight of suspicion right back on him. Without any prompting from
the officers, he declared that he would probably be flagged as a suspect since
he’d recently taken out a large life insurance policy on his wife. He assured
the cops that their suspicions would be unwarranted since the policy
specifically excluded death by poisoning, accidental or otherwise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">This would turn out to be a foolhardy
declaration by Meling. It was easy for the police to verify that the policy did
not exclude poisoning. And this was no misunderstanding of the terms either.
Joseph Meling was an insurance salesman by profession and would have known
better. In fact, when detectives questioned the colleague who’d sold him the
policy, she told them that Meling had specifically asked whether death by
poisoning was covered and had also insisted on an indemnity clause that would
double his payout should his wife die in an accident. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">From that moment on, Joseph Meling was the central
focus of the investigation. Once his wife regained consciousness and started
talking about Joseph’s insistence that she take the Sudafed, he was staring
down the barrel. Then the police learned that Jennifer had not returned to her
marital home to recuperate. She was living with her parents. That suggested
problems in the marriage adding another potential motive. The only thing
investigators were struggling with was Meling’s intervention at the hospital.
It had saved his wife’s life. Why do that if he wanted her dead? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The police were still trying to figure out the
answer to that question when they received a blow in their efforts to link
Meling to the poisonings. He and Jennifer had reconciled, she’d moved back in,
and they were trying to work things out. Soon after, Jennifer retracted her
earlier statements and refused to cooperate with the investigation any further.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Deprived of their primary source of information,
the investigation team obtained a wiretap on the Melings’ phone. They were
hoping that Joe would slip up and say something incriminating. But their
suspect turned out to be a wily character. Whatever he was hiding, he did not
allow it to leak into his telephone conversations. It was time to try something
new. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">And so, the police upped the ante, obtaining permission
to plant bugs in the Meling residence. It was by this method that they finally
got the break they needed. In a conversation with his father, Meling revealed
that he was afraid that the cops might find out that he’d recently bought some
cyanide. The purchase, he claimed, was entirely innocent and had nothing to do
with Jennifer’s “accidental” poisoning. However, he was afraid that the police
might use the purchase to frame him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">This disclosure would lead investigators to the
chemical supplier where Meling had bought a pound of sodium cyanide just two
weeks before his wife was poisoned. A clerk at the company clearly remembered
him and provided police with an accurate description. Meling had not used his
own name when signing the register. He’d made the purchase under the name
“Richard Johnson.” However, a handwriting expert was able to confirm that it
was indeed Meling who’d made the entry. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">So now the police were certain that it was
Joseph Meling who’d poisoned his wife and they also knew the motive – a life
insurance policy worth $700,000. What they still didn’t understand was why he’d
then murdered Kathleen Daneker and Stan McWhorter, who were strangers to him.
They also could still not figure out why he’d scuppered his plan by telling the
doctors to treat his wife for cyanide poisoning.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The answer to the latter question, came down to
one thing – greed. For the double indemnity clause of the insurance policy to
kick in, Meling needed the doctors to diagnose poisoning. When they weren’t
getting to that conclusion on their own, he became frustrated and told them. He
believed that Jennifer was beyond saving anyway. He’d be proved wrong in that
regard. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">As to his motive for the other two murders, that
came down to self-preservation. Kathleen Daneker and Stan McWhorter were the
collateral damage of this diabolical scheme. They’d been killed to cover
Meling’s tracks once the police started looking at him as a suspect. That was
when Meling started poisoning packs of Sudafed and planting them at supermarkets
and pharmacies in the Tacoma area. His plan was to deflect attention from
himself by suggesting that some random psychopath was behind the product
tampering that had almost claimed his wife’s life. Three more tainted packs
would ultimately be recovered. The purchasers were just lucky that they had not
taken any of the medications. Had they done so, the death toll would have been
higher. </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Joseph Meling was convicted
of six counts of product tampering, one count of causing serious bodily injury,
and two counts of murder. He was sentenced to life in prison with no
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<p><b>The Oakland County Child Killer</b>: There’s a killer on the loose, targeting the most innocent of victims. In Oakland County, no child is safe.</p>
<p><b>The Vending Machine Killer</b>: Stopping for a cold soda on a hot day should never get you killed. In this case, it just might.</p>
<p><b>The Thames Torso Murders</b>: In the shadow of the Ripper, another killer stalks the streets of London, just as depraved and twice as lethal.</p>
<p><b>The Atlanta Lover's Lane Killer</b>: Three young couples are attacked in their cars by a gun-wielding maniac. Making out just got deadly.</p>
<p><b>The Butcher of Mons</b>: Plastic bags start showing up around the city of Mons. What they contain is the handiwork of a madman.</p>
<p><b>The Colonial Parkway Killer</b>: It is scenic stretch of highway, dotted with historic sites. It also has a more nefarious claim to fame.</p>
<p><b>The West Mesa Bone Collector</b>: The missing person cases had drawn little attention from the authorities. Then a mass grave was discovered.</p></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><b></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It was a sight that horrified commuters
making their daily drive out of Rochester, New York. In the dim, evening light
of November 16, 1971, a young, dark-haired girl, not yet a teenager, was
running down the breakdown lane of the 1-490 westbound, near the Chili-Riga
exit. Shockingly, the child was naked from the waist down. She was frantically
waving her arms, trying to get someone to stop for her. Then a vehicle pulled
over and backed toward her and a man got out. The little girl cowered in fear
as he grabbed her by the wrist and dragged her back to the car. Moments later,
they had blended back into traffic and were racing away from the scene. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The little girl involved in this terrifying
incident was named Carmen Colon. She was ten years old and a native of Puerto
Rico who had moved to Rochester with her family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Earlier that day, Carmen had set off to pick
up a prescription for her mother at a drugstore close to her home. Witnesses
would later report her getting into a car with a man who she appeared to know.
She was not seen again until her body was found three days later, lying by the
side of the road near Churchville. Carmen had been raped and strangled. The
last hours of her short life had been filled with terror.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For homicide investigators picking up the
strands of this terrible case, one thing seemed obvious. Carmen had known her
abductor. Why else would she have gotten into a car with him? That narrowed the
suspect pool considerably and detectives soon homed in on one man, the little
girl’s uncle, Miguel Colon. Brought in for questioning, Miguel vehemently
denied any involvement. He was then asked to take a polygraph and passed.
Released from police custody, he promptly boarded a flight back to his native
Puerto Rico. That should have rekindled suspicions, but the Rochester police
took no further action. They believed that they’d eliminated Colon as a
suspect. They may have been right. He wasn’t even in the country when the next
little girl was killed. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Wanda Walkowicz was just eleven years old,
a freckle-faced little girl, much loved by all who knew her. At around 5:10 p.m.
on the evening of April 2, 1973, Wanda walked the few blocks to a local store
to pick up some groceries for her mom. She never returned. By 8 p.m., with all
other avenues exhausted, a frantic Joyce Walkowicz called the police and
reported her daughter missing. Just over 14 hours later, came the news that
every parent dreads. Wanda had been found, strangled to death at a rest area in
Webster.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The brutal slaying of another child, just
15 months after the first, sent shockwaves through the community. It also left
investigators with a puzzle to solve. Were the murders connected? The initial
consensus was no. There were too many discrepancies. Both girls had been raped
but Carmen was naked when she was found, and Wanda was fully clothed; both had
been strangled but Carmen’s killer had been facing her, and Wanda was choked
from behind. Any criminal profiler will tell you that this is a significant
pointer to the psychology of the offender. Few stranglers kill their victims in
both ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But for all the discrepancies between the
two crimes, there was one oddity that could not be ignored. Both of the victims
had alliterative names – Carmen Colon / Wanda Walkowitz – and both had been found
in towns that matched their initials – Carmen in Churchville, Wanda in Webster.
Most likely, this was coincidence. But what if it wasn’t? What if this was some
bizarre signature that was somehow important to the killer?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">That, however, was something for a
psychologist to mull over. Detectives prefer to concern themselves with
workable leads and there were plenty of those to keep them busy. Tips had been
streaming in from the public. One tipster reported that Wanda had been forced
into a Dodge Dart. Another reckoned that it had been a Ford LTD, and the driver
had enticed rather than coerced her. A tearful Wanda had also been spotted in a
green Pinto, with a tattooed man at the wheel. All of these leads had to be
checked out but none of them went anywhere.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">More promising was a tip-off about an
ex-con, a man who had previously been arrested for child endangerment. This
individual was hauled in and subjected to a fierce grilling, lasting over
twelve hours. But he refused to buckle and eventually insisted on clearing his
name via a polygraph. He passed. The police were back to square one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Seven months passed with little progress in
the investigation. Then, on November 26, 1973, another child was missing.
Michelle Maenza, an 11-year-old with learning disabilities, disappeared on her
walk home from school. A search was immediately launched but it would not have
the outcome that everyone was praying for. Michelle was found in Macedon, New
York, two days later. She was fully clothed, but an autopsy would determine
that she had been raped. She’d also been strangled with a ligature, in a way that
was identical to Wanda Walkowicz. The police could not help noticing, too, the
alphabetic pattern that had become a feature of this series of murders. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Again, there were plenty of tip-offs and
again they led nowhere. One tipster described an encounter with the driver of a
beige vehicle along Route 350. The man appeared to have broken down, but he
became angry when the tipster stopped and offered his help. He also seemed
determined to cover up his license plate. A man matching that general
description and driving a similar vehicle was later seen at a fast-food
restaurant, buying a cheeseburger for a little girl who appeared to be crying.
This was significant since the contents of Michelle’s stomach revealed that
she’d eaten just such a meal shortly before she died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">With nowhere else to go with the inquiry,
detectives worked this lead hard and eventually tracked the beige car to a
petty criminal living in Lyons, New York. The man was brought in for
questioning but offered up an alibi, saying that he’d been out job hunting all
day. This was far from solid but was backed up by his family. He also agreed to
a polygraph. Like the suspects before him, he passed. His elimination from the
suspect list would mark the end of the forward momentum in the investigation.
The leads quickly dried up after that and the case eventually went cold.
Mercifully, there were no more dead little girls, but the Alphabet Murders
remain unsolved to this day. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But that is not to say that there are no
theories, no suspects, no clues as to the perpetrator of these horrific crimes.
Before we consider those, we need to answer a fundamental question. Were all
three girls killed by the same man? The consensus among those involved in the
case is that they were not. Most investigators believe that the same person was
responsible for the deaths of Wanda and Michelle, but that Carmen was killed by
someone else, probably someone she knew. The most likely suspect (despite his
polygraph result) is Miguel Colon, the dead girl’s uncle. Unfortunately, Miguel
can no longer be pressed on the matter. He took his own life during a domestic
dispute back in his native Puerto Rico. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As for the other two murders, there are
three suspects who commonly enter the conversation. The first of those is a
Rochester firefighter named Dennis Termini, who shot himself in a standoff with
police just weeks after Michelle Maenza was killed. At the time, Termini was
holding a hostage, a teenage girl who he had just abducted. Subsequent
inquiries would link him to a series of brutal rapes in the area and confirm
that he was the elusive serial offender known as the “Garage Rapist.” The only
problem with Termini as an “Alphabet” suspect is that he targeted women in the
18 to 21 age group. That makes him an unlikely killer of pre-teen girls. Any
lingering doubts as to his culpability were eliminated in 2007, when he was
cleared by DNA. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The second suspect in the case is one of
America’s most notorious serial killers. Kenneth Bianchi was half of the
infamous killing team known as the Hillside Stranglers. Along with his cousin,
Angelo Buono, he terrorized Los Angeles in the late 70s, subjecting ten women
to terrible deaths. But before Bianchi moved out to the West Coast, he was a
native of Rochester. He was living in the area during the Alphabet Murders,
working variously as an ice cream vendor, a security guard, and an ambulance
driver. Forensic evidence from the Walkowitz crime scene puts Bianchi within
the 20% of males who could have committed the crime. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But Bianchi has consistently denied
involvement in the crimes and a wrist print lifted from one of the scenes does
not match him. Then again, such prints are far from reliable. They also change
over time, as the skin loses elasticity. Despite his denials, we can’t rule out
Ken Bianchi. We can’t conclusively link him to the murders either. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Which brings us to the third of our
potential suspects, another serial killer who once called Rochester home and
was living there at the time of the Alphabet Murders. Joseph Naso was 77 years
old when he was arrested for a series of murders in California. What is
striking about his case is that the women he was accused of killing all had
alliterative names, just like those in the Rochester murders. One of them was
even named Carmen Colon. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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especially as regards victim profile. None of Naso’s victims were children. The
California Alphabet Killer preferred prostitutes. He was ultimately convicted
and sent to death row for six murders. His DNA was subsequently compared to
that from the Rochester crime scenes. It did not match. The Rochester murders
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Who Killed
Baby Doe?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvEu4GotF9Xn29czv17ZQf7u9l6lfHnVovK10oic8Em3rpqIMfYv3j8Uqh6mFPYYPsPGvY_-1SPPURuK6vurF-8fzlk47E25MWHRkBNbBh2nDr6DWzKM1LhICrr-br-eQ_rLY7LAgbXePig3EJ3Fcq4jvtKq0wYz-FRAfqH_1IVsXv5fWRXDUTLJxOsw/s520/mccarthy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="520" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvEu4GotF9Xn29czv17ZQf7u9l6lfHnVovK10oic8Em3rpqIMfYv3j8Uqh6mFPYYPsPGvY_-1SPPURuK6vurF-8fzlk47E25MWHRkBNbBh2nDr6DWzKM1LhICrr-br-eQ_rLY7LAgbXePig3EJ3Fcq4jvtKq0wYz-FRAfqH_1IVsXv5fWRXDUTLJxOsw/s320/mccarthy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US">Taking your dog for an early morning walk
on the beach should never be a traumatic event. But for one Boston dog-walker
that is exactly how the morning of June 25, 2015, turned out. The woman was
strolling along the shoreline at Deer Island, the silhouette of the city
skyline forming a backdrop across the bay. Then her dog started pulling hard on
the lead, dragging her in the direction of an object, lying at the water’s
edge, lapped by the incoming tide. Closer observation revealed it to be a green
garbage bag. Curious as to what had attracted the dog’s attention, the woman
decided to peek inside. She instantly reeled back in horror. The bag contained
the corpse of a child, probably no more than three years old. </span>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ask any homicide investigator about the
kind of case that affects them most and they will invariably tell you about a
case like this one. The body was badly decomposed, so badly that it was
impossible to visually determine its gender or the cause of death. The child
was dressed only in white leggings, decorated with a black polka-dot pattern. A
zebra-print blanket was also stuffed inside the bag. Other than that, there
were few clues to be found at the scene. The police weren’t even able to tell
if the body had been dumped on the beach or if it had been deposited there by
the tide. It would be up to forensic experts and the medical examiner to unlock
those mysteries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But not before the story had broken in the
media, sparking outrage that rippled out from Massachusetts and quickly
consumed the nation. There is nothing that provokes an outpouring of emotion
quite like the murder of a child. This one was particularly galling. A child
had been killed and tossed away like garbage. What kind of a monster does
something like that? The authorities were desperate to answer that question.
And not just because there was immense public pressure to do so. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Several lines of inquiry were run out
simultaneously. A dive team was brought in to trawl the waters for additional
clues; cadaver dogs were employed; the US Coast Guard was consulted regarding
tidal drift patterns. Meanwhile, detectives were chasing down leads regarding
the child’s clothing. The leggings were determined to be from a childrenswear
range carried by Target. Pollen lifted from the garment confirmed that the
child had lived locally in Boston. There was also a media campaign, with
Anderson Cooper and John Walsh providing cover. Anyone who might have seen or
heard anything, who even suspected anything, was urged to come forward. As is
often the case in such a high-profile inquiry, this brought a deluge of calls
but few substantive tips.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And then, on July 3, came the autopsy. The
child was determined to be female, Caucasian, between the ages of three and
five. There were no obvious signs of trauma to the body, no fractures or
contusions. Likewise, no toxins were found in her system. Decomposition made it
difficult for the coroner to determine cause of death, but he was adamant about
one thing. The victim had not died of natural causes. This was undoubtedly a
homicide. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The one question that the autopsy couldn’t
answer was the identity of the victim. Who was the little girl the media had
dubbed Baby Doe? To unravel that mystery, the police turned to the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). A search was conducted of
its extensive database, returning 200 potential missing person matches. These
were whittled down and whittled down again until all possibilities had been
eliminated. Still, the identity of the child remained an enigma. Next, a
forensic artist was brought in to create a photo-realistic composite, using
information provided by the police and by the coroner’s office. Baby Doe had a
face at last and that face would soon appear in newspapers from coast to coast,
on billboards across Boston, on every social media platform. The Twitter post
alone produced over 500 shares.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And yet, despite a renewed flood of
incoming tips, Baby Doe remained nameless. Someone must have known who she was;
someone must have been missing her, but that person wasn’t coming forward.
Other avenues, using Mitochondrial DNA, also came up empty. None of the
national databases returned a potential match. There were genuine fears at this
time that the child would never be identified and that her killer would get
away with murder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Three months passed during which the police
chased down hundreds of tips, all of them ultimately useless. Then, finally, a
break. A tipster called in to report an exchange with a neighbor of her sister,
a woman named Rachelle Bond. Bond had a two-year-old daughter named Bella who,
according to the tipster, bore a strong resemblance to Baby Doe. She hadn’t
seen Bella in a while and so she decided to confront Rachelle and her
boyfriend, Michael McCarthy, about the child’s whereabouts. The pair, who she
described as drug addicts, told her that Bella had been taken by social
services. The woman didn’t believe them. Then, after she saw some of Bella’s
toys thrown away in the trash, she decided to contact the authorities. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On the face of it, this tip was no
different from dozens of others that the police had received. But it became far
more relevant once it was clear that Bella had not been taken by the Department
of Children and Families, as her mother had claimed. On September 17, 2015,
police executed a search warrant at Rachael Bond’s apartment in the Dorchester
area of Boston. Bond was not home at the time. One of the first items that
investigators recovered was a white top with black polka dots, the matching
item to the leggings Baby Doe had been wearing when she was found. When Bond
returned to her apartment that day, she was taken into custody. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Rachael Bond was never going to be a
candidate for mother of the year. The 40-year-old was a longstanding drug user
with a substantial police record that included multiple arrests for
prostitution. By the time she gave birth to Bella in 2012, two of her children
had already been removed from her custody by the state. There were conflicting
reports regarding her treatment of Bella. Some neighbors said that she was
attentive to the child and that they often heard her talking to Bella and
singing to her. Home video of Bella’s second birthday party seems to support
this view. This shows a sweet little girl, happily playing and opening her presents.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But that does not tell the full story.
There were also complaints lodged against Bond for neglect of her daughter,
complaints that had brought the police to her door on no fewer than four
occasions. There had also been two investigations by the Department of Children
and Families. Both cases were ultimately closed, with Bella remaining in her
mother’s care. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Bella’s father was a man named Michael
Amoroso but he played no part in his daughter’s life and had never even met
her. In his stead, was a succession of Rachael’s deadbeat boyfriends,
terminating with probably the worst of them all, Michael McCarthy, a heroin
addict with an obsessive interest in Satanism and demonology. Even McCarthy’s
friends warned Rachael to stay away from him, telling her that he was crazy. It
was a warning she failed to heed, with terrible consequences for an innocent
child. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Rachael Bond told conflicting stories about
what had happened to her daughter. The only consistent theme was that she was
innocent and that Michael McCarthy was solely responsible for Bella’s death.
The gist of it was this. One night in May 2015, Bella was acting up and so
Rachael sent McCarthy into her room to settle her down. After a few minutes,
she became concerned and went to see what was happening. She found McCarthy
beating Bella, repeatedly punching the child in the stomach. One of the blows
was delivered with such force that the little girl “bounced” off the bed and
landed on the floor. Rachael tried to intervene, but McCarthy dragged her into the
lounge and shot her up with heroin. “Bella is possessed by demons,” he told her
as the drugs took hold. “It’s her time to die.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">According to Bond, she and McCarthy would
continue on a drug bender for the next three days. When she eventually regained
her senses, she found to her horror that McCarthy had stuffed Bella’s corpse
into the refrigerator, to delay decomposition in the midst of a hot Boston
summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So what did the mother do after making this
horrific discovery? Did she flee, screaming, from the apartment? Did she
confront her daughter’s killer? Go to a neighbor for help? Call the police? No,
Rachael Bond went right back to getting high, living out the next month with
her baby daughter’s corpse stashed in the fridge. During that time, she even
continued cashing the welfare and housing assistance checks that were being
sent to her for Bella’s care. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But, of course, they could not keep the
body in the apartment forever. Eventually, with decomposition setting in,
despite their efforts, McCarthy decided to dispose of the corpse. Again
painting herself as the innocent, Bond claimed that she was not involved in the
decision. She said that McCarthy asked her to drive with him to his father’s
house. It was only when he opened the trunk of the car at that location that
she realized it contained Bella’s corpse. McCarthy then stuffed the remains
into a green duffle bag which he weighed down with several barbells. Later that
day, he threw the bag into the sea. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The police were initially skeptical of this
story. Bond’s entire testimony had been peppered with inconsistencies,
inaccuracies, and outright lies. Besides, they already knew that Bella had been
found in a green garbage bag, no duffle bag in sight. Nonetheless,
investigators managed to identify the section of coastline from Bond’s patchy
description. Divers were sent into the water there. Within minutes, they
recovered the duffle bag. Rachael had been telling the truth. It appeared that
the gas that builds up in a body after death had lifted the tiny corpse out of
the bag and brought it to the surface. From there, it had been carried on the
tide to wash up on Deer Island. But for that, Bella would never have been found
and her killers would likely have gotten away with murder. It was almost as
though the little girl had risen from the depths to see that justice was done. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Michael McCarthy’s version of events was
somewhat simpler than the one given by his girlfriend. At his June 2017 trial,
he claimed that he was not even in the apartment when Bella died. According to
him, he had moved out days earlier because he could no longer stand to witness
Rachael’s physical and emotional abuse of the child. The next time he called at
the apartment, Bella was gone. Rachael told him that the child had been taken
by social services. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Unfortunately for McCarthy, his story was
undone by a series of texts he’d sent to Rachael, coaching her on what to say
to the police and to anyone who asked about Bella’s whereabouts. Rachael also
asserted on the stand that he’d threatened to kill her if she implicated him in
Bella’s death. That was enough for the jury to find him guilty. They wavered,
however, on the first-degree charge. McCarthy was ultimately convicted of
second-degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison and will be eligible
for parole in 2037.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And Rachael Bond? She walked away with a
sweetheart deal. In exchange for her testimony, she was allowed to plead to
“accessory after the fact” and sentenced to just two years in prison. With time
served, she walked away a free woman, albeit one who is universally reviled in
her hometown. The blood of her innocent baby daughter will be forever on her hands.
It will weigh heavy on her conscience. That is, of course, if Rachael Bond has
a conscience at all.</span></p>
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neighbors called them an all-American family and the Brownings, of
Cockeysville, Maryland, certainly seemed to meet those criteria. Patriarch John
Browning was a real estate lawyer at Royston, Mueller, McLean & Reid,
Baltimore County’s oldest law firm. His wife, Tamara, was a homemaker who also
served as PTA president at her son’s school. Then there were the boys, Nick,
15, Gregory, 13, and Benjamin, 11. They all did well at school and attended Boy
Scouts, where their father was the scoutmaster. The family enjoyed the great
outdoors and took regular camping trips. They had a comfortable home in the
suburbs. They were regular attendees at Timonium United Methodist Church. It
doesn’t get more all-American than that. </span></p>
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the jewel in the Browning crown was oldest son, Nick. By 1991, Nick Browning
had grown into a gangly teen with handsome, boyish looks. He was an honor
student at Dulaney High and was on the golf and lacrosse teams. He played the
cello in the school orchestra. He was looking forward to qualifying as an Eagle
Scout and had recently built a prayer garden at his church as part of the
criteria. Nick also had a wicked sense of humor and was considered the class
clown of his sophomore year. That, at least, was the good side of Nick Browning.
There was a dark side, too. </span></p>
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that Browning was a bully who liked picking on smaller kids and enjoyed
taunting minorities and those with disabilities. One of his regular victims was
his brother Greg who he often humiliated in public. Any effort by Greg to stand
up for himself would earn him a beating. This, in turn, led to clashes between
Nick and his parents. John and Tamara were not going to tolerate bullying. Not
in their house. By late 1991, the harmonious home they’d tried to build was
frequently the scene of angry confrontations. </span></p>
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things took a decidedly darker turn. Nick started musing to his buddies on the
school bus that he was thinking of killing his parents. “My dad’s rich and I
want some of that money,” he told them. He also complained that his father was
always shouting at him and that his mom was a ditzy blonde who wasn’t very
bright. No one took any of these proclamations seriously. This was just Nick
being Nick. His sense of humor often had a dark edge to it. </span></p>
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evening of Friday, February 1, 2008, just a week shy of his sixteenth birthday,
Nick Browning was hanging out at a friend’s house. He’d spent a good part of
the evening talking about some “dumb camping trip” that his family was
undertaking to western Maryland and complaining that his father expected him to
go with them. Then, at around 9 p.m., he abruptly got up and left, offering no
explanation. He returned well after midnight, asking if he could sleep over.
His parents had given him permission, he said. Given Nick’s earlier complaints
and knowing that Nick’s parents were quite strict, the friend found this
unusual. Nonetheless, he said yes, and Browning stayed the night and most of
the next day. He was going to wait his parents out, he said, and return home
after they’d left on their trip. In fact, he was going to throw a party that
night to celebrate his upcoming birthday. He would spend a good portion of that
afternoon on the phone to friends, inviting them over. Just before five, he
asked for a ride home. </span></p>
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for Nick, it appeared that his impromptu party plans had been scuppered. As the
car pulled up outside the handsome, farm-style bungalow, he saw that his
father’s trailer was still standing in the drive. John Browning had recently
bought the tow-along specifically for camping trips. It appeared that the
family had decided to cancel this one. Telling his friends to stay in the car,
Nick went inside, to check if “the coast was clear.” He returned a short while
later to calmly inform the waiting teenagers that his dad was dead. He then
re-entered the house and called 911, telling the dispatcher that his father
might have suffered a heart attack. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The officers
who responded to the call fully expected to find the victim of a cardiac
arrest. What they found instead was a bloodbath. Forty-five-year-old John W.
Browning lay on the couch in the living room, dead from a bullet to the head.
His wife Tamara was upstairs in bed, also deceased from a bullet wound. The
same, tragically, was true of the two boys. Greg and Ben had both been shot,
apparently while they slept. Nick Browning had chosen a fortuitous night for a
sleepover. He was the sole survivor of a massacre.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">For someone
who had just lost his entire family to a terrible tragedy, Nick Browning was
remarkably calm as he answered police questions. He also offered his theory of
what might have happened. He believed that someone had broken in to rob the
place and had ended up executing the family instead. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Only, that
didn’t make sense. Nothing had been taken from the house and the family had
been killed in their beds. None of them had offered resistance so why would a
burglar go through the house, shooting them one by one and then leave without
taking anything? It did not take genius-level detective work to figure out that
robbery was not the motive here. This was personal. That made 15-year-old Nick
Browning the prime suspect. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And so, the
police continued to probe and press, interrogating Browning well into the
night. During that time, the teenager made several contradictory and
potentially incriminating statements. Eventually, at 1:05 a.m. Sunday morning,
he cracked and admitted the murders. According to Browning, he’d left his
friend’s house at nine and had walked the approximately two miles back to his
family home. His parents and brothers had retired early that night, in
preparation for their trip the next day. Browning had snuck into the house
under cover of darkness. He’d retrieved one of his father’s handguns and
carried it to the living room, where his father lay asleep on the couch. John
Browning had died first before the killer proceeded upstairs to systematically
wipe out his mother and brothers. He then left the house, tossed the gun into
some bushes (it would later be found there by police), and returned to his
friend’s house to establish an alibi. Browning could offer no motive for the
killings, other than to say that he and his father “hadn’t been getting along.”
It was later, after talking to his friends, that detectives learned of the
possible financial motive.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Arrested and
charged with four counts of first-degree murder, Nicholas Browning was taken to
the Baltimore County Detention Center in Towson, Maryland. He’d spend his
sixteenth birthday here. On the same day, some 1,300 people attended a funeral
service for his family at the Trinity Assembly of God in Lutherville. But
despite the atrocity he’d committed, the juvenile killer still had his supporters,
including his maternal grandparents, whose daughter’s life he’d so callously
snuffed out. After the somber events of the funeral, the family issued a
statement. “Our concern and love goes out to Nick,” it said. “Whatever else
lies ahead, he is a member of our family, and he will have our support.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">They were
not the only ones willing to fight Browning’s corner. As the trial date edged
closer, Browning’s lawyers offered a hint of the defense they were planning.
They were falling back on the botched robbery theory, suggesting that Nick was
so traumatized by the murders of his family that he had given a false
confession. This rather farfetched explanation was very unlikely to have
succeeded with a jury. But perhaps his defense team already knew that. Perhaps,
they were just angling for a deal. If that was the case, they succeeded. </span></p>
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2009, Nicholas Browning reached an agreement with prosecutors and entered
guilty pleas to four counts of first-degree murder, accepting four life terms.
In exchange, the state agreed to parole eligibility and allowed two of the life
terms to be served consecutively. This means that Browning will qualify for
early release in 23 years. With good behavior, he could be a free man by 2031.
Nicholas Browning is currently incarcerated at North Branch Correctional
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Intruder</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-no-proof: yes;"></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivnCvBnHNcVBLkF2-bFrnONPvr4VrItEJBZI3g_dJsw7HRNkG9u3zcspHKKUgmCqHG6gBLyfcU9X_kPUxcJRdv4xTB7zKNmVngJkGHSpxNoDxiqRcp_NUnqG5i2_lApYQj2BuDJkGVQ9NWZSLakXZGBXIMq5ok94zxu-lHIy2YP0tidblwe8gCT-YJjQ=s290" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="261" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivnCvBnHNcVBLkF2-bFrnONPvr4VrItEJBZI3g_dJsw7HRNkG9u3zcspHKKUgmCqHG6gBLyfcU9X_kPUxcJRdv4xTB7zKNmVngJkGHSpxNoDxiqRcp_NUnqG5i2_lApYQj2BuDJkGVQ9NWZSLakXZGBXIMq5ok94zxu-lHIy2YP0tidblwe8gCT-YJjQ=w180-h200" width="180" /></a></div>This was the bloodiest crime scene that
Detective Rick Lincoln had encountered in his 36 years as a police officer.
What made it even worse was that the victim was a child. Karen Slattery was
just 14 years old on the night that she encountered a monster inside a suburban
home on a quiet cul-de-sac in Delray Beach, Florida. A popular 9<sup>th</sup>
grade student at Pope John Paul High School, Karen was a regular babysitter for
families in her neighborhood. On the night of Saturday, March 24, 1984, she was
looking after the Helm siblings, while their parents, William and Carolyn, went
out to dinner with friends. The Helms returned at around 12:15 a.m. to the
worrying sign of their front door standing ajar. They entered the home to find
a scene that sent them fleeing back into the night.
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The sight that had caused such an extreme
reaction from William and Carolyn, that had shocked even an experienced
homicide detective like Rick Lincoln, was a terrible thing to behold. On the
floor of the kitchen, stark under the white light, was a large puddle of blood,
almost black in its intensity. From there, a thick trail of the stuff tracked
across the floor, down the hall, into the master bedroom. Even worse was to be found
here. Karen Slattery lay on the bed, her naked body perforated by multiple stab
wounds, her blouse pulled over her face, hiding her dead eyes. An autopsy would
later determine that the 14-year-old had suffered 18 deep and terrible knife
wounds, to her back, her neck, her throat. She had also been raped, with this
atrocity inflicted either while she was taking her last breaths or already
dead. The only point of solace in this horrendous tragedy was that the two
little girls, aged seven and two, were unharmed. They’d apparently slept
through the whole thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Piecing the puzzle together, detectives
figured that the murder had happened between 10:00 p.m., when Karen phoned her
mother, and 12:15 p.m., when the Helms returned from their dinner date. A cut
screen in the master bedroom marked the spot where the killer had entered the
home. He’d attacked Karen in the kitchen, probably just after she hung up the
phone. He’d then dragged her down the hall to the bedroom, where he raped her.
Then, having sated his unnatural lusts, he’d taken a shower, leaving blood on a
mat and on a bath towel in the process. Finally, he left, walking out through
the front door. A bicycle track in the dirt suggested that he might have
traveled to and from the crime scene by that means. The imprint of a bare foot
outside the bedroom window was believed to be from the killer. The police also
had a sample of his semen, although this was of limited use in those pre-DNA
days. Regrettably, they did not have a single fingerprint. The killer had been
careful. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The murder of Karen Slattery was a crime
that severely traumatized the community of Delray Beach. The police were under
tremendous pressure to solve it and they worked the clues hard. Neighbors were
quizzed and Karen’s friends interviewed; known sex offenders were hauled in and
interrogated; anyone found riding a bicycle at night was stopped and quizzed;
even William Helm found himself under suspicion at one point. And there were
tips, of course, dozens of them that had to be followed up and investigated.
Two of these initially seemed promising but the suspects were ultimately
released after their blood types did not match the semen lifted from the crime
scene. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">While all of this was going on, the
Slattery family was not sitting idle in their mourning. Eugene Slattery,
Karen’s dad, was particularly active in the hunt for his daughter’s killer.
Along with friends and neighbors, he raised $50,000, to be offered as a reward
for information. This was advertised through hundreds of flyers, plastered
around town. It all came to nothing. Two months passed with limited progress in
the case. The police were stumped. In truth, they had very little to go on,
limited forensics, no eyewitnesses, no one who’d seen or heard anything
untoward. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The city of Boca Raton lies a short nine
miles from Delray Beach, directly accessible via I-95. It was here that single
mom, Georgianna Worden, lived with her daughters, aged 13 and nine. On the
night of May 28, 1984, Georgianna stayed up to watch a movie on television. She
then retired to bed, turning out the lights just after 11 p.m. The following
morning, the girls were surprised to find that their mom was not up before
them, as she usually was. They were even more perplexed to find that her
bedroom door was locked. No amount of banging or calling brought any response
from within and so the 13-year-old fetched a pry bar and levered the door open.
The girls walked in on a scene that no child should ever see. Their mother was
lying naked on the bed, drenched in blood that had also seeped into the
bedclothes and spattered across the walls and furnishings. They ran screaming
from the house. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Almost from the start, investigators
believed that the man who’d killed Georgianna Worden was the same person who’d
butchered Karen Slattery. However, there was one significant difference between
the two crimes. A butcher’s knife was found on Georgianna’s bedside table but
the killer hadn’t used it. He’d battered the petite 38-year-old to death with a
claw hammer. According to the medical examiner’s report, Georgianna had
suffered, “multiple depressed fractures of the skull involving the left orbit,
frontal area, and right temporal area.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Discounting the choice of murder weapon, the
crimes were strikingly similar. In both cases, the killer had gained access by
cutting through a screen; in both, he’d sexually assaulted the victim while she
was dying or already dead; in both he’d covered the victim’s face. He’d then
taken a shower before slipping away into the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This time, though, the killer had made a
crucial mistake. He’d left behind a single print. From a paperback novel
sitting on the nightstand, crime scene technicians were able to lift a smeared
imprint of his left little finger. This wasn’t the clearest fingerprint by any
means. Forensic experts believed that they could clean it up but it would take
days, potentially a week or more. And this was time that the police did not
have. A killer this vicious was very likely to strike again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The next week would be an extremely anxious
one for investigators. But at least they had other leads to follow. The first
of these involved an attempted burglary, in which the householder had
confronted a man who he found cutting through a window screen on his property.
The burglar had fled the scene and escaped by diving into a canal. He’d left
his sneakers and 12-speed bicycle behind. The second case was far more serious,
involving housebreaking, rape and battery. In this instance an unknown
perpetrator had entered a 17-year-old’s bedroom, beaten her unconscious with a
hammer and then raped her. The girl survived but was left with permanent brain
damage. The police had every reason to believe that the person responsible was
the killer of Georgianna Worden and Karen Slattery. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And then there was the case of the Florida
Atlantic University flasher. This individual had been exposing himself to
female students on the campus. In the week before the Worden murder, one of
these students had given police a sketch of the suspect. They’d then compared
the drawing to the mug book of known sex offenders and found a match that
looked promising. The suspect’s picture was put into a photo array that was
shown to several students. All of them picked out the same man – a small-time
burglar and sex offender named Duane Owen.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On May 30, a Boca Raton police officer was
on patrol when she spotted the suspect. Asked to identify himself, he showed a
military ID in the name of Dana Brown. He was arrested anyway and brought to
the station. There, he continued to insist that his name was Dana Brown. It was
only when police showed him his own mugshot that he eventually admitted to
being Duane Owen. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Duane Eugene Owen was born on February 13,
1961. He grew up in Gas City, Indiana, a town of about 5,000 inhabitants,
situated between Indianapolis and Fort Wayne. Life was hard for Duane and his
brother, Mitchell. Their parents were both alcoholics and abused the boys, each
in their own way. Gene Owen was a brutal man who frequently beat his sons. The
boys’ mother, meanwhile, fed them alcohol, usually a concoction of vodka and
Sprite, when they were not even ten years old.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But even life in the dysfunctional Owen
household was preferable to what awaited the boys next. After their mother died
in 1970 and their father committed suicide soon after, Duane and Mitchell were
sent to the VFW orphanage in Eaton Rapids, Michigan. They would remain here
until 1979, suffering physical and sexual abuse. After leaving the orphanage,
Duane took to drifting, moving from place to place, racking up arrests wherever
he went. Mitchell, meanwhile, settled in Florida, where Duane would join him in
1982. Here, as before, he began compiling a lengthy rap sheet for burglary and
sex crimes, mainly flashing and peeping tom complaints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">However, Owen’s crimes were becoming
progressively more violent. On November 1, 1982, he broke into a room at the
Peter Pan Motel in Boca Raton and clubbed the female occupant with such force
that a section of her skull became embedded in her brain. He then proceeded to
rape the severely injured victim. On February 9, 1984, he entered an apartment
near the Boca Raton Regional Hospital and beat 18-year-old Marilee Manley
nearly to death with a wrench. Again, he raped his seriously hurt victim. Given
the level of violence inflicted on them, it is a miracle that these women
survived. The next victim would not be so lucky. Karen Slattery, a carefree
14-year-old with dreams of becoming a schoolteacher, had just six weeks left to
live.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">That Duane Owen was the man responsible for
Karen’s death, and that of Georgianna Worden, was not in doubt for
investigators. But suspicion alone has never won a murder conviction. What they
really needed was solid forensic evidence and, failing that, a confession.
Unfortunately, it did not look like Owen was ready to confess any time soon. He
was enjoying his moment in the spotlight, teasing the cops, dangling little
bits of information in front of them only to clam up when it looked like he
might be about to share something meaningful. He readily admitted to the
flashing charge and to a series of burglaries but had nothing to say when it
came to murder. Instead, he wrote taunting little couplets like this one,
“Roses are red, you pigs are blue, if you count up my victims, there’ll be
quite a few.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But Owen was in less jocular mood when the
fingerprint evidence came back from the lab, placing him inside Georgianna
Worden’s house on the night she died. Confronted with this, he finally came
clean and admitted that it was he who had beaten her to death. He delivered this
confession with not a trace of remorse. In fact, there was a distinct hint of
pride as he explained his M.O. He said that he always stripped down to his
underwear before entering a victim’s house. He would then use his socks as
makeshift gloves, pulling them over his hands to avoid leaving prints behind.
In the Worden murder, the socks had become so drenched with blood that he’d
gone to the bathroom to rinse them. He’d later put them back on but must have
touched the book before doing so. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The police now had Owen’s confession to the
Worden murder. But he was still making them work for an admission in the
Slattery case. Despite the obvious similarities between the crimes, he was
still insisting (usually with a grin on his face) that he wasn’t the person
responsible. Instead, he continued his game of dropping in little titbits of
information, things that he could only have known if he’d been inside the
house. He would continue taunting the police for days before he apparently
tired of the game and admitted, “Yeah, I did it.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">According to Owen, he would go out at night
on ‘maneuvers,’ riding his bicycle around a neighborhood, looking for places to
rob or women he could peep in on. On the night of March 24, he spotted Karen
Slattery through the window of the Helm residence and decided that he wanted to
rape her. He then entered the house through a window in the master bedroom.
However, he soon realized that the little girls were still awake and so he
left, cycled to a nearby bar and had a few beers before returning to the house.
This time he found Karen alone. She had just hung up the phone when he ambushed
her, plunging the knife in again and again, cutting down the defenseless girl
where she stood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Duane Owen faced separate trials for the
murders of Karen Slattery and Georgianna Worden. But the outcomes were the
same, guilty of murder and sentenced to die. At the time of writing, he remains
on death row, having spent more than twice Karen Slattery’s lifespan fending
off his date with the executioner. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the years since her death, Karen Slattery’s
family has endured yet another tragedy. Her father, Eugene, died in a light
aircraft crash in 1989. He at least lived long enough to see his daughter’s
killer sentenced to death. The $50,000 reward raised by Karen’s friends and
family was never claimed. It was used instead to found the Karen Slattery
Education Research Center for Child Development at Florida Atlantic University.
In 1987, the graduating class at Pope John Paul High, Karen’s class, planted a
tree in her honor. Rooted as a sapling, it stands, tall and proud, on the
school grounds to this day.</span>
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