SewingDeb
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An underground fort once in the backyard of a Scottsdale home where police ended a search on Friday for more clues in a 30-year-old unsolved homicide case was more than a hole with planks of plywood over it.
In the late 1970s, that fort was where teenager Jon Benson used to live and lure other kids to drink alcohol and smoke pot in a "den of terror," according to past published reports in the Scottsdale Progress newspaper.
Benson's fort - which had been filled in by his father with a backhoe behind the family's former residence at 8650 E. Joshua Tree Lane in the early 1980s - was where a gruesome discovery was made on Dec. 22, 1992:
Partial human skeletal remains were unearthed and later identified as those of 14-year-old Greg Holman - missing since Oct. 8, 1978. Police said they had received a tip from Holman's sister about the fort's existence a month earlier, and officers searched the Benson home.
Benson, also 14 at the time of Holman's disappearance, was the last one to be seen with the Saguaro High School freshman as they left nearby Agua Linda Park that evening. He is the lone suspect in Holman's death and has been since his disappeared, according to Scottsdale police detectives.
Much, much more at this link:
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/117043
In the late 1970s, that fort was where teenager Jon Benson used to live and lure other kids to drink alcohol and smoke pot in a "den of terror," according to past published reports in the Scottsdale Progress newspaper.
Benson's fort - which had been filled in by his father with a backhoe behind the family's former residence at 8650 E. Joshua Tree Lane in the early 1980s - was where a gruesome discovery was made on Dec. 22, 1992:
Partial human skeletal remains were unearthed and later identified as those of 14-year-old Greg Holman - missing since Oct. 8, 1978. Police said they had received a tip from Holman's sister about the fort's existence a month earlier, and officers searched the Benson home.
Benson, also 14 at the time of Holman's disappearance, was the last one to be seen with the Saguaro High School freshman as they left nearby Agua Linda Park that evening. He is the lone suspect in Holman's death and has been since his disappeared, according to Scottsdale police detectives.
Much, much more at this link:
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/117043
. He truly damaged many people's lives during that time period; including all the young boys he abused in his "fort". I know the justice system is flawed at times and him serving just seven years is proof of that, imo. On a side-note though, I don't believe Benson's father was involved with anything.