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I think either Larry Gene Bell or Fred Howard Coffey, Jr. could have been involved in Pricilla's death. They were both committing murders around that time in and about that area.
Coffey is still in prison for life. I thought he mainly went after a younger group though. I found this writeup that gives a lot of info on Coffey. I haven't looked to see if he is in our serial killer forum, but if he's not there, maybe he should be added.
http://www.bluelineradio.com/FredHowardCoffey
Fred Coffey is in Pender Prison at Burgaw, NC in a medium security facility. He was convicted of only one murder - that of ten-year-old Amanda Ray - for which he received the death penalty in two separate trials. After a third trial, at which much evidence was withheld, he was given a life sentence and made elligible for parole. Parole has been consistantly denied over the years.
Coffey is no doubt a serial child molester, who, in 1986, admitted to molesting over 100 children. He was convicted of various acts involving children in North Carolina and Virginia.
Although only convicted in 1986 of one murder (1979), he is strongly suspected in others as well.
Check out Fred Coffey's threads here on Websleuths. The above cited link used as its source (without credit), my earlier postings in this forum.
Fred Coffey is in Pender Prison at Burgaw, NC in a medium security facility. He was convicted of only one murder - that of ten-year-old Amanda Ray - for which he received the death penalty in two separate trials. After a third trial, at which much evidence was withheld, he was given a life sentence and made elligible for parole. Parole has been consistantly denied over the years.
Coffey is no doubt a serial child molester, who, in 1986, admitted to molesting over 100 children. He was convicted of various acts involving children in North Carolina and Virginia.
Although only convicted in 1986 of one murder (1979), he is strongly suspected in others as well.
Check out Fred Coffey's threads here on Websleuths. The above cited link used as its source (without credit), my earlier postings in this forum.
Every day for the past 37 years, Cathy Blevins Howe has wondered about the whereabouts of her 27-year-old sister, who vanished from her Charlotte, N.C., home in July 1975.
Howe had long accepted that her sister, Priscilla Ann Blevins, was likely dead, but was afraid she might go to her own grave without the opportunity to say goodbye. The reality of that fear deepened when her parents, Bob and Sadie Blevins, died in 2002 and 2001, respectively.
The waiting and the fear finally came to an end last month, when the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department contacted Howe and said her sister's remains had been found at the state medical examiner's office in Chapel Hill. The remains, initially identified as "Jane Doe," had been in storage at the facility for more than 20 years.
Authorities had been trying to uncover Jane Doe's identity since 1985, when she was found off Interstate 40 in Haywood County near the Tennessee border.
Another discrepancy: Priscilla's sister said that she disappeared on July 7, 1975, but the MP sites say the LKA was January 1, 1975. Not that this would have made a difference in this case though.
Glad to hear this after I looked at her face and her case so often! I think every case that they have been missing for years and it turns out theyve had the body for years always has mistakes in post morterm time, weight, height estimates, etc. Really crazy
:cheers::fireworks:
So glad she has been identified...
hoping for more this coming year of 2013 ending the same....
by the victims going home...:twocents:
... I have since searched the entire Websleuth website and found numerous entries concerning Coffey with your name listed. Do you have a list of all the cases in which you suspect Coffey?
What are your thoughts about Larry Gene (Eugene?) Bell as a suspect in Priscilla's case?
Hi Richard,
I checked out the link and I gather that's a website you maintain - very interesting. In any case, the write-up about Coffey says he ended up in North Carolina toward the end of '75, but she went missing in early July. By the account at the link, he was still working at Vitro Labs in Maryland April-end of July. Do happen to know if he had family ties in North Carolina or the Blue Ridge/Tennessee area and so may have been in the state for a visit? Charlotte and the Gaithersburg area are pretty far apart (with the mountains being even further), so I would think he might be less promising as a suspect unless there could be a reason he'd be passing through the area at that time.
-SG
In the Charlotte Observer it says:
Blevins was last seen alive by her roommate at their apartment on Tyvola Road near South Boulevard. Her younger sister, Cathy Blevins Howe, who lived in Arizona at the time, still vividly remembers the long-distance phone call from her worried parents saying her older sister couldnt be found.
My question is did Pricilla live in the same apartment complex as Denise Porch??? Yorktown apartments are on Tyvola very near South Blvd.