MaryLiz
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Sep 25, 2005
- Messages
- 1,630
- Reaction score
- 153
Liz,
Thanks for posting the timeline. I found it helpful--it reminded me about things I read when I first became interested in the case that I have since forgotten.
The way it is written raises some questions. For example, under August 26-27, 1994, the timeline states: "He had escaped from prison and, most recently, was arrested for raping and sodomizing a woman in Springfield after breaking into her home." "Most recently" in reference to the grand jury dates, or the date of the timeline story (October 4, 2007)? Or both, I guess? There are other little odd moments like that. But it is a great summary of the big events and a place to start.
This could just be the English teacher in me seeing more than one possible meaning...
Pittsburghgirl, You're welcome. I found it helpful too. I think before I had read so many articles from the Springfield News-Leader and the Kansas City Star and I wasn't too organized in my thinking about things. Seeing it encapsulated like this made it a bit easier for me.
I think the "most recently" in the time line refers to the date from 1994. That's the way I took it. It is somewhat confusing though.
It is interesting that all 3 suspects were on the street when the abductions occurred. There were a couple other things in the timeline I don't remember hearing before, like the AMW tip about the bodies being in Gainesville, MO and searchers finding the garbage bag with 2 blue T-shirts with gunshot holes and old blood on them. I'm sure it was in a news article but I completely missed it. I wonder if they did DNA testing on the T-shirts? I assume they did but there was no follow up article in regards to that.