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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Authorities in New Hampshire are seeking any information on a murder suspect who had connections in Travis County during the 80s. Austin police also confirm they are aware of the case and have been in contact with investigators.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says the suspect referenced the state of Texas on multiple occasions. He suggested that he spent time in Nueces County, Harris County, Dallas County, Matagorda County and Travis County. The suspect might have known someone who lived at an RV park in Austin during 1986. The suspect called two RV parks: Austin Lone Star RV Resort and Pecan Grove RV Park. During the 70s and 80, he said he worked as an electrician, mechanic and repairman for various companies across Texas.
http://kxan.com/2017/01/26/new-hampshire-murder-suspect-couldve-had-ties-in-austin/Suspect’s work history in Texas:
- Claimed to have been employed as an electrician at a company called Brown and Root in Houston, TX during the 1970s
- Claimed to have been employed as an installation mechanic at a company called Big Three Industries during the 1970s and 1980s
- Claimed to have been an instrument repairman for a company called Bay City Electric, in Bay City, TX during the 1970s
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bob-evans-drifter-accused-killing-6-was-pure-evil-n713536Ramos said as soon as she met the haggard-looking man who called himself Larry Vanner, alarm bells went off. He had a hostile stare and a bizarre back story.
“He said he owned lots of property, that he was a self-made millionaire, that he used to be a colonel in the Army and that he worked for the CIA and if he wanted to disappear, he could disappear just like that,” she said.
When a skeptical Ramos pressed him for details about his properties, he grew angry.
“He looked at me and said, ‘Don’t you ever question anything I ever tell you’ –- and I knew something wasn’t right about him,” she said.
After Ramos expressed her misgivings, Jun started sending angry letters telling her cousin she couldn’t understand their love and cutting off contact. Ramos wasn’t there when Vanner “married” Jun in an unofficial backyard ceremony in 2001.
Jun also sent her mother, who lived with her, to stay with an aunt on the East Coast, Ramos said. And then she stopped answering calls from relatives and friends.
A close pal confronted Vanner and was given a series of conflicting explanations about Jun’s absence. Police got a search warrant for the house after they learned about Vanner’s checkered past and couldn’t get straight answers about Jun's whereabouts.
After investigators found Jun’s body, they determined she had been killed several months earlier by a blow to the head. In a surprise move, Vanner took a plea deal that would keep him in prison for the rest of his life.
Bob Evans sat at a picnic table outside friend Katherine Decker's motorhome in 1986, sobbing that his wife had died when his then-5-year-old daughter, Lisa, was just a baby.
"He really did cry. He'd cry and blow his nose and everything when he talked about it," Decker recalled. "I used to feel really bad all the time about it. Every time I saw him, I'd just feel sick."
But Evans hadn't been married to Lisa's mother. She wasn't his daughter, and her name wasn't Lisa. He also told Decker his name was Gordon Jenson.
Three decades later, authorities say only one part of his story was true: The girl's mother was dead. And they believe Evans killed her, along with at least five other women and children.
The girl had no toys, Decker said. She and Evans slept in the back of a truck, in what Decker remembered as a shell of a camper that was open on one side.
"I don't understand how they could live like that. It was freezing cold," she said. "She was tattered and torn, she was a little ragamuffin."
"She was always coming and sitting on my lap when I'd be sitting outside the motorhome on nice days," said Decker. "I had a little grandson who was her age and they used to play together all the time."
Decker said she has never forgotten the little girl who sat on her lap and called her "Grandma."
"I'm an old lady now. But she's welcome to call or visit me," she said.
http://www.unionleader.com/Allensto...new-relevance-after-serial-killer-revelationsAllenstown is where Evans dumped four of his victims. He was working at the Waumbec Mills in the late 1970s, and when the mill was closing, Evans was tasked with cleaning the site under a supervisor.
That supervisor owned the property where the barrels containing Evans' victims were found in 1985 and 2000, according to officials.
And there's another curiosity: A 1980 court order that established ownership of that same property mentioned several individuals with former claims to the land.
Three were named Evans.
Kokoski said investigators "are aware of the Evans name popping up in the old property records."
"Research into those types of details is on-going, but at this point we don't think that is of any particular significance," he said.