MN-PLEASE READ Memory Pachowicz, 33 Mother of 2

[MistyGirl]

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Police received new leads Thursday about the disappearance of a St. Paul woman under suspicious circumstances, but they have not found Memory Pachowicz.
Pachowicz, 33, was last seen Sunday. Hers originally was considered a missing person case — roughly 1,000 adults are reported missing in St. Paul each year — but the stakes were raised when St. Paul police found her car, where they saw signs of a struggle, and determined her cellular phone hadn't been used since her disappearance.

Police assigned the case to the homicide unit because its investigators look at serious crimes, including kidnapping, said officer Paul Schnell, department spokesman.

"We have no evidence that absolutely makes it a foul-play situation," Schnell said. He wouldn't describe the evidence in the car that made investigators suspicious, but he said it wasn't blood.

"Obviously, the longer it takes to find her, the more concerned we become, but because we don't have witnesses we don't know what all these things mean yet," Schnell said.

Pachowicz, the mother of a 1-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl, got divorced in June, according to Ramsey County District Court records. Originally from South Dakota, she has lived in St. Paul for several years and attended an area technical college, Schnell said.

She was last seen in the parking lot of a North End apartment complex early Sunday and did not return to her East Side home, where her older daughter was baby-sitting the younger one. Family members reported Pachowicz missing later Sunday.

Friends said Pachowicz was planning to meet someone, believed to be a man, after she left the parking lot, Schnell said. Police have no suspects in connection with the disappearance, he said.

Pachowicz's children were staying with family members Thursday.

Her car was found Tuesday near Western and Cottage avenues, about a block from where she was last seen with friends. Her cell phone was missing.

Police face difficulty in searching for adults when they are reported missing because they are free to "disappear" or walk away if they choose to, Schnell said.

He said police do cursory checks, such as looking at area hospitals and interviewing family and friends, but once a determination of suspicious circumstances is made they go further.

Investigators re-interview the people last seen with the missing person, take a closer look at the person's network of friends, do paper searches (such as studying financial transactions) and seek evidence in other ways, Schnell said.

One benefit of asking for the public's help, which police did Wednesday, is the new information that comes forward, Schnell said.

"You start identifying other circles of associates," he said. "People have called today, and those things have been very helpful."

ST. PAUL WOMAN DISAPPEARS

Memory Pachowicz, 33, is described as an olive-skinned white woman, 5 feet 7 inches tall and 140 pounds, with long, straight, dark hair. She has a rose bracelet tattoo on her wrist.

When Pachowicz was last seen she had a puppy with her. It is described as a 9-week-old, brown or tan miniature dachshund.

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http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/11105081.htm

ETA: Her Picture

[MistyGirl]

A few more links this all I could when I googled her name:

Foul Play Suspected in Missing Woman Case http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=76573

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St. Paul police are asking for the public’s help in finding a woman missing since Saturday night.

Officer Paul Schnell says the police department received a call about a missing person on Sunday evening.

Friends and family of 33-year-old Memory Pachowicz, a college student and mother of two, hadn’t seen her since early Sunday morning.

She had been out with friends the night before and was last seen near the intersection of Western Avenue and Arlington Street in St. Paul.

Police found Pachowicz’s car on Tuesday and say evidence found in the Ford SUV indicates a struggle took place. Officer Schnell would not elaborate on what exactly police found inside the car.


Police Seek Missing Mom http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_068232942.html


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Mar 9, 2005 10:28 pm US/Central
St. Paul (WCCO) A St. Paul mother is missing and police are asking for the public’s help finding her.

Memory Pachowicz, 33, has not been seen since early Sunday morning, St. Paul police said. She was last seen in the area of Western Avenue and Arlington Street, where she met some friends.

Family members reported her missing late Sunday night. Pachowicz is a single mother of two children, ages 13 and 1.

Police said the circumstances surrounding Pachowicz’s disappearance are “suspicious.” The homicide unit of the St. Paul Police Department is now investigating Pachowicz’s disappearance.

Pachowicz’s car was found Tuesday. Police said there was evidence of a struggle within her car.

Investigators said they have also found Pachowicz’s cell phone, which they determined has not been used since she disappeared.

[MistyGirl]

This just breaks my heart, this woman is the same age as me and we are both mothers. I can't imagine a mother leaving her 1 & 13 year old and never returning. I fear something bad has happened. I can't beleive there has not been more news about this here locally. :confused:

[Yeah,me]

I noticed it says she's recently divorced. Wonder if the ex-hubby was been looked at?:waitasec:

[MistyGirl]

I know I wish I could find his name or more details anything. But I can't find much. Her poor children must be so sad. I am not sure where else to look to find info.

I am single like her and I have done the match.com thing (yeah, not anymore too scary to meet peopel you dont know)......it makes me wonder if she was meeitng someone "new" or someone she already knew?? If she already knew this person, has this person been located????

I found this case because I was trying to find info on a 38 old man missing from Savage MN (20 miles from St. Paul)....I have not find any info on this case yet....ummm I wonder if they might be related?

[KatherineQ]

This is interesting. Looks like in 1996, she was charged with distribution of meth, and that during a heated public argument apparently shot at her partner accusing him of stealing the drugs they were selling.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=10th&navby=case&no=978090

[MistyGirl]

This is interesting. Looks like in 1996, she was charged with distribution of meth, and that during a heated public argument apparently shot at her partner accusing him of stealing the drugs they were selling.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=10th&navby=case&no=978090WOW Great sleuthing...how did you find that? The only thing I know how to do is "google". Let me know if you find anything else!

[KatherineQ]

Misty - I just googled it. ;D

I really hope in this investigation they check into that Bonner character.

[MistyGirl]

I all have searched all I know how to and I have found nothing. Not a website for her is set up no mention of her ex-husband name etc. I guess there is not much more we can do if we have no further information. Praying for her children I hope their mom returns home safe.

[Kelly]

Mistygirl,

You asked me how one could help with this. Based upon what I am reading, it would seem that the most effective use of time for persons living in this area would be to place posters of Memory, especially near the area where the car was located.

If someone lives in that area, and wants to do this, I would be more than happy to create a poster. If you live there, you could also contact LE and ask if they know of any ground searches and poster placement campaigns that you can assist with.

With Hope,
Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
www.projectjason.org

[Yeah,me]

Where were the children when she disappeared? Who were they with at the time? Does anyone know?

[KatherineQ]

They were at their house, according to the article. The 13 year old girl was watching the 1 year old baby for the evening, and now they're with relatives.

It's interesting that she took the puppy. Why would you take a puppy on a night out with friends? It's a puzzle.

[Yeah,me]

They were at their house, according to the article. The 13 year old girl was watching the 1 year old baby for the evening, and now they're with relatives.

It's interesting that she took the puppy. Why would you take a puppy on a night out with friends? It's a puzzle.
Now that's just bizarre. I guess I was babysitting at that age, but why take the puppy??:confused:

[MistyGirl]

Mistygirl,

You asked me how one could help with this. Based upon what I am reading, it would seem that the most effective use of time for persons living in this area would be to place posters of Memory, especially near the area where the car was located.

If someone lives in that area, and wants to do this, I would be more than happy to create a poster. If you live there, you could also contact LE and ask if they know of any ground searches and poster placement campaigns that you can assist with.

With Hope,
Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
www.projectjason.org (http://www.projectjason.org/)Thanks Kelly for the info. I will do some checking into the things you mentioned about tomorrow. If I need flyer I will let you know. Maybe they have one already and I just don't know it yet.

[MistyGirl]

Now that's just bizarre. I guess I was babysitting at that age, but why take the puppy??:confused:

Yeah I am not surpised her 13 year old was baby-sitting...that is the same age as my daughter and she baby-sits alot for family and friends. But the dog is really strange. It sounds like she was at a friends apartment complex "hanging out" with friends & the puppy and then went to meet the mystery person. I wish we knew who this mystery person was...did she know the person? Was this the 1st time meeting this person??? Have they located this person?...so many questions...and no answers.

Maybe the reason this is not getting much media play is this maybe drug related and they are trying not to "let-on" to their possible suspect and they are jsut watchign and waiting so to speak...meaning they don't need the publics help? St. Paul has a lot of gang/crime/drug activity.

Hmmmmm...very much a puzzle and so close to home for me.

[Kelly]

Mistygirl,

If they do have a flyer, please make sure it does not have the family's personal contact info on it, which is a common mistake that these families make. Let me know if you need one made. I will be happy to work on it.

Kelly

[MistyGirl]

There are two reasons why Memory Pachowicz probably didn’t just walk away from her life. One is 13-years old and the other is one-year-old, both are daughters that friends say mean everything to Pachowicz.

"Memory loves her kids,” says Pachowicz’s friend Bobie Aylor , adding, “She wouldn’t have left her two babies.”

Pachowicz is a 33-year-old single mom who disappeared early Sunday morning. Her Ford SUV was found near a friend’s house in St. Paul.

Friends say Pachowicz had just started her life over by going back to school and studying veterinary medicine.

Aylor says life seemed good, “She wasn't depressed she was just fine. Memory had high hopes for life now.”

According to St. Paul police Pachowicz’s friends walked her out to her car early Sunday morning. She told them she was going to go out with a guy who police say may have been parked right behind her in a two or four door maroon sedan.

Friends say they did not notice or know of anyone that Pachowicz was dating.

Pachowicz received a call on her cell phone at 1 a.m. Sunday, and since then that phone hasn’t been used and Memory hasn’t been seen or heard from.

“It hurts, I miss my friend,” Aylor sobbed on Friday, “I want my friend back, and her babies miss her.”

Pachowicz’s daughters are now staying with family.

Read the rest here:
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=76720

[MistyGirl]

Bobie Ayler found herself in the home of her missing friend Memory Pachowicz on Friday afternoon, taking a memento and grasping for reason.

Ayler held Pachowicz's brown and blue beaded dream catcher to her chest and cried.

Reflecting on that moment later in the day, Ayler said of her friend, "She was there with me."

Pachowicz, a St. Paul mother of two, has been missing since early Sunday morning. Police say her disappearance is suspicious.

Investigators continued the search for her Friday, this time using State Patrol helicopters and cadaver dogs to scour a 2-mile area near where her car was found on Tuesday.

Pachowicz, 33, was last seen by friends at an apartment complex near Arlington St. and Western Av. about 1 a.m. Sunday. She told friends that she was going to follow a man who had driven up behind her but was never seen again.

Investigators are concerned because her cell phone was last used when she received a call just before leaving to follow the man. Investigators, who found her unlocked sport-utility vehicle, believe a struggle took place.

For Ayler, the most telling thing is what Pachowicz left behind.

"She wouldn't leave her babies," Ayler said, referring to Pachowicz's daughters, a 1-year-old and a 13-year-old cancer survivor.

That daughter was the first to tell Ayler that something was wrong. Pachowicz and Ayler had plans to go to church.

"She called me Sunday afternoon and said, 'Bobie. Mommy didn't come home last night,' " Ayler recalled. "You better believe that I flew over there."

And despite her belief that Pachowicz wouldn't just walk away from her responsibilities, she realized that it might be the best-case scenario.

Investigators have entered Pachowicz's name and description into a database for law enforcement agencies. They also have reached out to the U.S. Marshal Service and the FBI for help with the case, said St. Paul Sgt. Janet Dunnom.

Read the rest here:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5288081.html

[KatherineQ]

The worst thing about these missing people cases, it seems to me, is the people they leave behind.

Prayers for the people in Memory Pachowicz's life who sound like really good-hearted people, who are left in agony in her wake. And for her children who are also victims.

Maybe she's still alive. Prayers for those who are left behind to wonder and grieve where she actually did go and what became of her.

(Edited this morning for unnecessary harshness.)

[KatherineQ]

Memory Packowicz's body found?
How could it be so badly decomposed in this small amount of time?

Prayers for her children. I really hope they investigate that drug dealer friend Bonner.


http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5289110.html

[MNmama]

Very sad ... praying for her two children.

http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S6953.html?cat=1

Police have now identified a body found in St. Paul Saturday afternoon. It is that of 33-year-old Memory Pachowicz.

[KatherineQ]

Very sad. It sounds like the story has now changed from a maroon 2 or 4 door SEDAN to a maroon VAN.

That makes it easier. Maroon vans, around here, are pretty scarce. Hopefully they'll catch whoever did this to her.

[Valindrea]

I feel so bad for her kids. Hopefully, they get the scum who did this. Only good thing was the puppy survived.

[MistyGirl]

This is so sad. I feel so terrible for her poor children...how sad they had to lose their mother this way. May she rest in peace.

I hope they catch the person responsible for taking the young mothers life.

[MistyGirl]

To Admin - sorry I posted this in the wrong thread to begin with, I will be sure to do it correctly the next time. However due to the sad fact they found Memory's body this weekend, should this thread be moved to the "Located" thread?? If so please feel free to do so. Thank you in advance.

Misty

[Timex]

To Admin - sorry I posted this in the wrong thread to begin with, I will be sure to do it correctly the next time. However due to the sad fact they found Memory's body this weekend, should this thread be moved to the "Located" thread?? If so please feel free to do so. Thank you in advance.

Misty

This is fine Misty..since this forum if for the discussion of both the missing and the located :)

[MistyGirl]

Last update: March 15, 2005 at 7:06 AM
Man arrested in missing woman's death also was held in February sex assault

Howie Padilla, Star Tribune March 15, 2005 MEMORY0315

The St. Paul man who called police to report that he had discovered the body of Memory Pachowicz is considered the prime suspect in her death, authorities said.

Police arrested the man hours after he reported finding the body Saturday afternoon. He had been held in connection with a Feb. 19 sexual assault in the same vacant apartment where Pachowicz's body was found.

Late Monday, police officials said the man also was being held on suspicion of killing Pachowicz.

The suspect hasn't been charged in either case, although investigators have sent the sex assault case to the Ramsey County attorney.

Police spokesman Paul Schnell said investigators are confident they have the right person.

According to police records, officers were at the building in the 800 block of E. 5th St. twice Saturday, the first time at 1:11 p.m. when they were called about Pachowicz.

Along with her body, investigators found her puppy alive.

Bruce Olstad, who described himself as Pachowicz's boyfriend, said Monday that police were working to return the dog, Lowrider, to him.

"I just hope I can love and care for him the way she would want," Olstad said.

The couple bought the miniature dachshund the Friday before Pachowicz went missing.

She was last seen alive by friends at an apartment complex near Arlington St. and Western Av. about 1 a.m. March 6. Before she left, she told friends she was going to follow a man who had driven up to her.

In an attempt to find her, authorities used cadaver dogs and helicopters to search a two-mile area Friday morning. After her body was found, officials said that they believed she had been killed in the apartment. It appeared the body had been there for several days, police said.

Because of decomposition, the manner of death could not be determined and one was not released Monday.

Olstad said that Pachowicz had been taking veterinary medicine classes at Argosy University.

"She loved animals, I think, because they return that love unconditionally," Olstad said.

Pachowicz, a mother of two, first came to Minnesota to get her eldest daughter, now 13, treatment for cancer, he said.

The girl's disease is now in remission. She and her 1-year-old sister are in South Dakota with their grandparents.

"She was really a giving person," Olstad said. "Her smile would light up a room."

Read the rest here:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5292786.html

[KatherineQ]

What a TRULY bizarre story.

What can you say, when you read an article like that?


edited to add: I think some of the details in that article are wrong. It's really TOO bizarre, that a man arrested for a sexual assault on Feb. 19 in a vacant apartment would call to report finding a dead woman, his girlfriend, in the exact same apartment.

This article is different, and sounds a little more realistic. Still bizarre, but less so.

http://wcco.com/localnews/local_story_073210444.html

[MistyGirl]

What a TRULY bizarre story.

What can you say, when you read an article like that?


edited to add: I think some of the details in that article are wrong. It's really TOO bizarre, that a man arrested for a sexual assault on Feb. 19 in a vacant apartment would call to report finding a dead woman, his girlfriend, in the exact same apartment.

This article is different, and sounds a little more realistic. Still bizarre, but less so.

http://wcco.com/localnews/local_story_073210444.htmlI think the article confused you - Her boyfriend was not the man who reproted finding her body or the man arrested. The boyfriend was just interview for the article and was on the news last night talking.

I beleive the wcco arfticle you linked above was published last night before the 10 o'clock news ran and seems by then they had more information. The one I linked from the Star Tribune was published this morning.....I could be wrong but I watched the news last night on 3 different stations an they way I understand it is this:


They (media) 1st reported that the landloard reported finding a body. Then it finally came out that the person who reported finding the body after further investigation was arrested for an assault that happened in that same vacant apartment on 2/19/05 this assault was reported on 2/19/05 but no arrest was made until this person reported finding Memoray's body in the vacant lot and after further investagion they determined the same man that assaulted someone was the same person who killed Memoray and was the person who reported finding her body.

Remember no arrest had been made and I am sure this guy had no idea for sure the person he assaulted on 2/19/05 even reported it.

[KatherineQ]

Misty - I think the way you summarized it is the way it happened, I agree.

But the SLT article states he HAD BEEN HELD in connection with the sexual assault that occurred on Feb. 19. To me that indicates the writer is trying to say he had been held prior to his reporting finding Memory's body, and that seems very hard to believe.

Anyway, very sad. It seems like there were two distinct sides to Memory - a very loving, open, likeable woman who was in vet tech school and was loving mother, and this other side to her that she kept hidden. I wonder, had she introduced her boyfriend to her friends like almost anyone would when he drove up, maybe somehow she would still be alive.

Her face was so intriguing, and her smile. Prayers for her family.

[MistyGirl]

Slaying suspect in custody

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Man initially booked in connection with assault on another woman in same apartment
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BY RUBÉN ROSARIO
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Homicide investigators said Monday a 26-year-old man in custody is the prime suspect in the abduction and slaying of a St. Paul mother of two, whose body was found last weekend in an East Side apartment where a rape was reported last month.

"This, we believe, is the guy,'' said Paul Schnell, spokesman for the St. Paul Police Department.

"Right now, we are still exploring the relationship between this man and the victim,'' Schnell said of Nathaniel Christopher Glass, who turned 26 on Monday, and Memory L. Pachowicz, 33, both of St. Paul.

Glass was picked up, booked and jailed late Saturday in connection with the Feb. 19 sexual assault of an unidentified woman inside apartment No. 5 at 875 E. Fifth St. The arrest took place hours after a landlord found Pachowicz's decomposing body inside the vacant Dayton's Bluff rental unit. Late Monday afternoon, police officially placed Glass under arrest in the Pachowicz case.

Pachowicz, the divorced mother of daughters ages 1 and 13, last had been seen March 6 in the parking lot of an apartment complex in St. Paul's North End. Her car was found about a block away. Autopsy results were not available Monday, but police said the woman suffered trauma wounds and that the apartment where she was found showed signs of a struggle.

Glass reportedly lived at 602 Mendota St., which police said is a residence and mailing address for another section of the home where the body was found.

Charges against Glass in both cases are expected today, police said.

"Yes, we have heard. Please give us the space and the respect to grieve privately,'' Paul Pachowicz, Memory's father, said Monday from his South Dakota home.

Police did not disclose a motive for the slaying but said there were indications that Pachowicz did not voluntarily abandon her car. Her disappearance triggered a search that included cadaver-sniffing dogs and emotional appeals from the missing woman's friends.

One friend pleaded for her safe return, describing Pachowicz as responsible in caring for her daughters, the oldest of whom is a cancer survivor, according to court records.

Pachowicz pleaded guilty in Wyoming in 1997 to conspiracy to possess and distribute methamphetamine. She was sentenced to 60 months in prison, which was reduced to 37 months in 2000 in consideration of the cancer treatment her daughter was receiving in Minneapolis.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons said then that she had "taken every initiative to rehabilitate herself and has been a model inmate."

Schnell told the Pioneer Press that Pachowicz had no legal trouble while she was in Minnesota. "She came to Minnesota in part because her daughter was receiving treatment for that cancer here, and stayed," he said.

The investigation into the disappearance originally centered on a maroon vehicle that Pachowicz reportedly told friends she intended to follow the night she vanished. A similarly colored vehicle was found in front of the home where her body was found, but the car does not belong to the alleged suspect, police said.

Pachowicz loved animals and was taking veterinary classes, according to friends. Her 9-week-old dachshund, a gift she received two days before her disappearance, was with her when she last was seen. The dog, suffering from emaciation, was found inside the apartment with Pachowicz's body.

read the rest here:
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/11136772.htm

[MistyGirl]

Misty - I think the way you summarized it is the way it happened, I agree.

But the SLT article states he HAD BEEN HELD in connection with the sexual assault that occurred on Feb. 19. To me that indicates the writer is trying to say he had been held prior to his reporting finding Memory's body, and that seems very hard to believe.

Anyway, very sad. It seems like there were two distinct sides to Memory - a very loving, open, likeable woman who was in vet tech school and was loving mother, and this other side to her that she kept hidden. I wonder, had she introduced her boyfriend to her friends like almost anyone would when he drove up, maybe somehow she would still be alive.

Her face was so intriguing, and her smile. Prayers for her family.

I agree. It is very sad indeed.

The man that drove up and that she followed was NOT her boy friend nor was the man who is now arrested for her murder. I think they are on ein the same. The man arrested is Nathaniel Christopher Glass whom I would guess was the guy who drove up to her when she was with friends. The guy Bruce Olstad from the Star Tribune article IS her boyfriend and had nothign to do with Memory's murder.

[KatherineQ]

Misty -acck, I completely misread the first article. Not enough coffee. I thought Bruce Olstad was the man who was arrested, as well as being her boyfriend.

Okay, the story isn't odd like I thought.

Very sad for her, and sad for her boyfriend and her family.

[MistyGirl]

Misty -acck, I completely misread the first article. Not enough coffee. I thought Bruce Olstad was the man who was arrested, as well as being her boyfriend.

Okay, the story isn't odd like I thought.

Very sad for her, and sad for her boyfriend and her family.
Don't worry about it, I had to read it a few times also because at first Ithought the same thing...and I dont even drink coffee...LOL

[MNmama]

http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S7027.html?cat=1

ST. PAUL - Nathaniel Glass, the suspect in the murder of St. Paul single mother Memory Pachowicz, was charged Wednesday with her murder in Ramsey County District Court. He was also slapped with a second murder charge for the murder of her unborn child.

The charges against Glass state that friends and family members had been telling police repeatedly since Pachowicz disappeared earlier this month that she had just learned she was pregnant. The child was reportedly due in late October.

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Very sad!

[MistyGirl]

Homicide victim was pregnant

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Suspect charged with two counts of murder
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BY MARA H. GOTTFRIED
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When a man Memory Pachowicz accompanied to smoke marijuana began making sexual advances, the pregnant St. Paul woman fought for her life, slapping him in the face, kicking him and grabbing a hammer.

But the man took the hammer and struck her repeatedly on the head, according to a complaint the Ramsey County attorney's office filed Wednesday in charging Nathaniel Christopher Glass, 26, of St. Paul with second-degree murder and second-degree murder of an unborn child.

Pachowicz, 33 and the mother of 1-year-old and 13-year-old daughters, died from multiple blunt-force trauma impacts to her head — the medical examiner counted 32 impacts, along with fractures on both sides and the base of her skull, the complaint said. She also had been stabbed in the chest and had five blunt-force impacts to the back of her right hand, believed to be defensive wounds, said Paul Schnell, police spokesman.

"Clearly she was struggling, she was putting up a fight to save her life," he said.

How Glass allegedly lured Pachowicz, who was about five weeks pregnant, to a vacant St. Paul apartment by promising her marijuana and what ensued closely mirror the experience of a woman Glass is accused of raping two weeks earlier.

Glass is being held in the Ramsey County jail. He declined an interview request.

He told police that late on March 5 or early March 6, he saw Pachowicz leaving a Rice Street bar, the complaint said. He said she approached him and asked if he knew where she could buy marijuana.

Glass invited Pachowicz to smoke marijuana with him in a vacant apartment at a Dayton's Bluff building and intended to have sex with her, the complaint said. The building at 875 E. Fifth St. was being sold and Glass, his girlfriend and their 2½-year-old daughter were the last tenants there, said Shirley Dishmon, Glass' mother.

The last person who reported seeing Pachowicz was a friend who told police Pachowicz was in her car and a maroon car was behind her at about 1 a.m. March 6.

"Pachowicz assured him (the friend) that the vehicle behind her was with her and was OK," the complaint said. She told her friend she was going to follow the man to buy marijuana.

At the apartment, Glass tried to kiss Pachowicz, but she turned away and "she would not let him touch her breasts or put his hand in her pants," the complaint said.

"He said that he didn't mean to hurt the girl and that he was getting mixed messages," the complaint said. Glass described a "tussle" that followed and said he "snapped out and did not recall how many times he hit her with the hammer," the complaint said.

Police haven't determined whether Pachowicz was sexually assaulted, Schnell said.

When Glass returned home at about 2 a.m. March 6, he was covered in blood and he told his girlfriend he had been "jumped," the complaint said. He wanted to throw away his clothes and boots and told her "he may have killed the guy that he fought with," the complaint said.

On Saturday, Glass called police to report a body had been found in the building where he lived, the complaint said. Investigators identified the body as Pachowicz's.

People close to Glass expressed shock over the charges.

"I do not feel at all that he did this or that he was capable of doing it," said his mother, who moved to the area from Chicago with Glass in 2000.

Glass' girlfriend of four years, who asked not to be identified, said she didn't believe the accusations until she read in the complaint he had confessed. The woman is five months pregnant with their second child.

Officers investigating Pachowicz's homicide discovered a woman had reported being raped Feb. 19 at the same apartment. The county attorney's office charged Glass on Tuesday with first-degree criminal sexual conduct in that case.

A woman told police she had been walking home when a man offered her a ride in his maroon vehicle. She agreed to go to the apartment after he told her he had marijuana. Once inside, the suspect allegedly pulled a knife and sexually assaulted her, the complaint said.

Homicide investigators noticed a car matching the description the rape victim gave parked outside the building where Pachowicz was found. They discovered it was Glass' mother's car and Glass drove it, the complaint said.

Bail was set Wednesday at $500,000 on the murder charges and had been set Tuesday at $100,000 on the criminal sexual conduct charge.

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Just a few of my thoughts on this article - Ok this is soo very sad. But if she knew she was pregnant WHY was going with him to smoke marijuana??? Maybe she didn't know she was pregnant?? I know this is what the suspect said he did to get her to go with him...so it could be a lie. How sad if true, had she not gone with him her and her baby would be alive and her two children would still have their mother. I am in no way saying this is her fault because it is NOT. It just sad to think that one simple choice made can change your life in an instant, this poor woman was so violently attacked my heart breaks for her. Very sad story. My prayers are with her children, family and friends.

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St. Paul Man Pleads Guilty to Killing a 33-Year-Old Pregnant Mother (http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5662176.html)

Nathaniel C. Glass faces more than 28 years in prison after he pleaded guilty Monday to murdering a St. Paul woman in March, and raping another woman two weeks earlier in the same St. Paul apartment. Glass, 26, of St. Paul, admitted in court that he hit Memory Pachowicz in the head with a hammer more than 30 times. He pleaded guilty to intentional second-degree murder in the death of the 33-year-old mother of two who was several months pregnant.

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Seems to me he should have gotten more than 28 years for the murder of Memory...her unborn baby...and the rape of the other woman. He got off easy if you ask me.

This story is so sad when you look at all of the characters in it. Memory had a 1 yr old baby at home and a 13 yr old daughter who has survived cancer and a baby on the way. She also had a boyfriend who seemed to care for her. She was just pulling her life together after being in prison. Her life ended when she made the choice to follow the killer to an apt to buy some pot from him.

The killer had a girlfriend of 4 years...a baby daughter and another baby on the way. He offered to sell pot or share his pot in order to get women to go with him to the empty apt so he could have sex with them. Sex was his objective.

The girl that got raped in that empty apt went into the apt with the killer/rapist to smoke some pot with him. Of course pot isn't what was on his mind and he raped her but thank God she didn't die.

Drugs are the most evil thing in our universe. Look at the lives that have been destroyed because of drugs in just this one case. Children left without moms and dads...a young life taken...the woman who was raped will have to cope with that for the rest of her life. A young mother who discovered that the person she thought was a good guy/the father of her children was a killer and rapist. All of this could have been avoided if it weren't for the poor choices made. It is truly heartbreaking.