OH/IN/MI - Highway Serial Killings, Midwest, I-71, I-75

[bessie]

April 19, 1987
Mysterious Dr. No Sought in Ohio Truck Stop Prostitute Murder Probe

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...pg=6860,829029

Eleven murders of prostitutes working out o ftruck stops have been linked to Ohio serial killer

He may use the CB handles "Dr. No", "Stargazer", or "Dragon"

http://www.unsolved.com/ajaxfiles/mu...ial_killer.htm

http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/w...stitute_Killer

The body of the Jane Doe in this Unidentified thread was found in April 1990, and is thought to be his last victim.
OH OH - Licking County - Female 561UFOH, 25-40, April 1990 - *WARNING: GRAPHIC* - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

[Irish_Eyes]

Sharon Kedzierski of Florida was recently identified as a long unidentified Mahoning County Jane Doe. According to the below article Dennis Hetzel who died in prison in 1995 was a suspect in her killing who the DA indicted secretly in 1993 but who ended up instead being extradited to Texas and tried and convicted in a different case.

The article makes mention of the truck stop murders, but the wording is unclear to me. It says Hetzel was not considered as a suspect in those murders. I'm not sure if they are trying to say he is still not considered a suspect or that he wasn't on their radar at that time, but later he was.

http://www.tribtoday.com/page/conten....html?nav=5021

[Irish_Eyes]

Gotta wonder about this guy too: [ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51290"]TN TN - Bruce Mendenhall, Convicted in Truck Stop Killings, Suspected of More Murders - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]

[SheRa]

I believe this case was on Unsolved Mysteries back in the day? If so, I remember the images of the victims being particularly haunting. Man I hope this one is solved someday!

[JillyNJ]

Has anyone been able to find a photo of Dennis Hetzel? Im curious to see what this sicko looks like. I think its important for the public to see him as well in the event it jogs any memories regarding other missing persons cases.

[killer Chaser]

http://zodiackiller.fr.yuku.com/topi...INNATI-MURDERS http://community.aetv.com/service/di...67379&d=327322 The Zodiac and the East Area Rapist have a dragon connection http://ear-ons.com/maggiore.html http://www.zodiackiller.com/DCHR.html http://www.007james.com/characters/dr_no.php www.ear-ons.com

[Justiceforever]

I found this small article saying that DHs employers pager number was found on the victims body and he had a route in the area were she was found. Also bite marks matched.

Attachment 33431

However he was ruled out. I found a couple articles but the links didn't work. This one does.


http://mysticsnowangel.proboards.com...ad=3311&page=1

Dennis Ketzel was ruled out by DNA. He was charged and convicted of raping his 5 and 7 year old daughters and apparently died in prison. I haven't found a cause of death yet.

[Justiceforever]

http://www.unsolved.com/ajaxfiles/mu...ial_killer.htm

Anna Marie’s head had been bashed in and she was brutally beaten. An autopsy revealed that she had been killed within 48 hours of her disappearance. Disturbingly, the condition of her body clearly indicated that the killer had kept it refrigerated for nearly a month. Michael Berens.

There's a clue in there somewhere. I just can't put my finger on it. I can't figure out how he would be able to keep her in the trailer for so long without her being discovered. My honey drives truck for a big company and the shipper or reciever always unload and load the trailor. Sometimes, the companies use independant lumpers that you pay a fee to, in those cases you could choose to do it yourself. Sometimes the shippers want a seal on the trailor only to be broken by the reciever. Often they switch trailors.

When I asked my guy how could somebody get away with that he suggested that maybe he was a independant owner/operator with a local dedicated route who always went to the same places where he did his own "lumping".

Just thinking out loud I guess.

[Justiceforever]

This article is an absolute must read...

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/news...?currentPage=1

Well written account of a teenage runaway who may have had contact and escaped from Robert Rhoades dubbed The Truck Stop Killer.

Rhoades has been in jail since 1990. I'm not clear on the dates of the Ohio victims, but I believe they were all before 1990. Any chance RR killed these women?

[Justiceforever]

Is Sean Patrick Goble stargazer? According to this article it's certainly possible.

http://everything2.com/title/The+Stargazer+killer

[Justiceforever]

http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/w...stitute_Killer
Images of four of the victims believed to be killed by Dr. No aka Stargazer aka Dragon

ETA:

Anna Marie Patterson, aka Cindy Lawson, aka Jenny Morrison, age 27, found March 23, 1987 according to one report (Feb. 8, 1987 according to another.) near I-71 in Warren County, Ohio ( bottom left)

Shirley Dean Taylor, age 26, (in one account and age 23 in another) body found July 20, 1986 on Route 224 in Medina County, Ohio
(Top right)

The other twos names were not revealed. Curious?

[Justiceforever]

Just trying to sort out and get to know the victims. It hard to weed through and separate all the victims from all the truck driver killers! Good God there are so many! Please jump right in if you can help clear up the discrepancies.

[Justiceforever]

In the first post Bessie sited this link...

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...pg=6860,829029

I am on a tiny phone and no matter how much I crop and zoom the words are to tiny for these old eyes to read! Can someone highlight some of the details for me? It would ne so appreciated!

[Justiceforever]

Throwing him in the mix...James Robert Cruz Jr.

http://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/cruz-james-robert.htm

[Justiceforever]

"Sharon Lynn Kedzierski**found on April 9, 1992, near the edge of the Universal Truck Mall parking lot in Austintown, Ohio. She had been deceased for approximately 24 hours and died as a result of multiple blunt force injuries to the head, face, and upper chest."

also...

The victim was clothed in a well-worn, short-sleeved blue shirt, men's brief-style underwear (size small), and a white tube sock with three dark blue stripes at the top. A woman's calf-high brown leather boot (size 10) and a blue baseball cap with the logo "Lesco Truck Rental, Chatanooga, TN" was found nearby. This woman has been identified as Sharon Lynn Kedzierski, DOB 02/13/1945, female, white, blue eyes, brown hair, 125lbs and 5'2" in height.


http://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/F...emains/Doe-(29)