IL IL - Valerie Percy, 21, Kenilworth, 18 September 1966

[Winward1]

I recently saw someone posted, somewhere, that Malchow had rape charges (if not a conviction) prior to said charges against him in PA. I know someone who investigated him back in the day, and when I saw that, contacted him and his reaction was like oh yeah, Machow was a true bad guy.

 

[pleasestandby]

I recently saw someone posted, somewhere, that Malchow had rape charges (if not a conviction) prior to said charges against him in PA. I know someone who investigated him back in the day, and when I saw that, contacted him and his reaction was like oh yeah, Machow was a true bad guy.

That article was in the Kingston (NY) Daily Freeman, October 24, 1950. I'd classify him as a career criminal, serial rapist and serial burglar.

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm176/pleasestandby2/malchow_zpsg2gphqp0.jpg

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm176/pleasestandby2/valerie%20percy%20malchow2_zpsibjom7vp.jpg

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm176/pleasestandby2/valerie%20percy%20malchow_zpszz43lsp6.jpg

 

[pleasestandby]

The problem with the Mob is that they're notorious liars. They'll say anything to get back at somebody or try to get some benefit for their legal problems. The break-in gang Hohimer and Malchow were part of were known for not harming people. They were capable of it, but rarely, if ever, did it. We still don't know of the details of Malchow's rape conviction. The fact that nothing was stolen makes me tend to dismiss any Mob connection. The phone call claiming it looked like a Mob job was someone at the scene jumping to the wrong conclusion, IMO.

The phone call was made 4.5 months before the murder from the Percy mansion to Leo Rugendorf's Meat Market. That needs to be satisfactorily explained.

The statement above, "The phone call claiming it looked like a Mob job was someone at the scene jumping to the wrong conclusion", is confusing. Are you stating that someone phoned that tip in claiming it was a mob job?

i think rape could be classified as harmful to someone.

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm176/pleasestandby2/malchow_zpsg2gphqp0.jpg

Considering the phone call was made to Leo Rugendorf's Meat Market puts him high on the list of possible involved suspects. I don't think the Percy's were calling him for some hamburger.

 

[Winward1]

Would be interesting to know about Rugendorf's business. The Percys likely didn't call but they had big events at their house and elsewhere, often, and help to make them happen. They also ran a lot of his campaign's business out of his house. So it's certainly not out of the question that they were patrons of many Chicago area businesses.

And, with that gang's members, mob tied or not, they certainly had plenty of reasons to point fingers after they landed in jail.

I always find it interesting that some of these guys had legit ways to earn a living, were business owners (including Homier) but were criminals nonetheless.

I guess it's sort of like Thoresen: father was a multimillionaire when a million bucks was still a million bucks, could have done anything but instead chose to be the scum of the earth.

 

[Winward1]

By the way, anyone know where Hohimer ended up?

 

[pleasestandby]

By the way, anyone know where Hohimer ended up?

Last I read, he was still in prison, and that was from news articles. this might be him on Facebook...

https://www.facebook.com/frank.hohimer.9/about

Another angle on the VP murder:

http://s296.photobucket.com/user/pleasestandby2/media/jacksonpercy_zpsbgf84g1a.jpg.html

Linda Jackson told a narcotics informant she drove a getaway car while her B-I-L and three of his relatives broke into the Illinois senator's home...

Her B-I-L, Billy Jackson... (William J. Jackson)

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm176/pleasestandby2/valerie%20percy%20malchow2_zpsibjom7vp.jpg

Interesting angle. Everyone in that article who was involved has a Facebook page if anyone wants to pursue it. I wonder who the other three relatives were?

 

[pleasestandby]

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm176/pleasestandby2/hohimergirl_zps0841tp7r.jpg

A 1950 news article on Francis L. Hohimer with a 16 year old girl.

 

[Bargle]

The phone call was made 4.5 months before the murder from the Percy mansion to Leo Rugendorf's Meat Market. That needs to be satisfactorily explained.

Where did you hear that the phone call was 4.5 months earlier? I don't recall ever seeing that. Not that I can't be mistaken, I know better, but I always believed the call was made as police were investigating the crime. That is, within the first 24 hours or so.

I'm talking about the call saying the murder was an inside job. Is there maybe another call I'm not aware of?

 

[pleasestandby]

Where did you hear that the phone call was 4.5 months earlier? I don't recall ever seeing that. Not that I can't be mistaken, I know better, but I always believed the call was made as police were investigating the crime. That is, within the first 24 hours or so.

I'm talking about the call saying the murder was an inside job. Is there maybe another call I'm not aware of?

I listed the source in post #779. From the book C-1 and the Chicago Mob by Vincent L. Inserra. You can get this e-book online for a few bucks. It also has excerpts from the book online.

Rugendorf claimed that Hohimer spoke to him from the Percy residence and that a check of the phone records would reveal this fact and place him at the scene of the crime.

Rugendorf told this to Vincent L. Inserra when he went to the FBI office (February, 1973) right before he died (April 7, 1973?). Inserra relates this information in his book.

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?12874-IL-Valerie-Percy-21-Kenilworth-18-September-1966&p=12265347#post12265347

Inserra turned info over to the ISP, they re-interviewed Rugendorf. investigators did not know who made the May 2, 1966 call and that any number of persons could have called from the house.


Mount Carmel Daily Republican Register December 28, 1973

Police Study Call
From Percy Home
CHICAGO (U PI) - Illinois
State police said Wednesday a
toll call was made from the
suburban estate of Sen. Charles
H. Percy, R-Ill., to a Chicago
meat market owned by reputed
crime syndicate figure Leo
Rugendorf about 4 and a half
months before Percy’s daughter
Valerie, was slain in the home
on Sept. 18, 1966.
Lt. Gerald Schilling of the
state police said investigators
knew of the call several months
after the slaying, but could not
“ finalize” the lead to the Rugendorf
market, a reported front
for a nationwide jewel - theft
ring.
He said investigators did not

 

[Bargle]

pleasestandby, we are talking about 2 different phone calls. The one I was referring to was made during the initial investigation of the murder. That said, I should have read your posts more carefully. My mistake and apologies for it.
Still, I don't believe this was a mob related crime.

 

[pleasestandby]

pleasestandby, we are talking about 2 different phone calls. The one I was referring to was made during the initial investigation of the murder. That said, I should have read your posts more carefully. My mistake and apologies for it.
Still, I don't believe this was a mob related crime.

Okay, I wasn't aware, either, that there was another phone call during the initial investigation. So, couldn't one of the gang members have attacked VP on his own for purposes (as in sex crime) other than for financial gain and it wouldn't be classified as mob-related? Or are you alluding to a family member, family friend or campaign worker as being involved?

 

[Dreamnine]

Interesting snippet of Sen. Percy at 4:05 during election 72:

[video=youtube;RROUumDCuz0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RROUumDCuz0&index=33&list=PLg2KzMsaR9dVIHml_hullcl9OdBZqHCrv[/video]

This is the one case I want solved the most. Glenn Wall's book is very good and paints Thoresen as a likely suspect.

Coming up for 50 years now; I myself will be 50 in July.

I did have some email correspondence with the Thinking Sideways podcast, and they are interested in doing an episode on Valerie

http://thinkingsidewayspodcast.com/

 

[Bargle]

Okay, I wasn't aware, either, that there was another phone call during the initial investigation. So, couldn't one of the gang members have attacked VP on his own for purposes (as in sex crime) other than for financial gain and it wouldn't be classified as mob-related? Or are you alluding to a family member, family friend or campaign worker as being involved?

While it's possible, I don't think that's what happened. They did show pictures of the method the killer used to enter the house to the pro burglars and they said that wasn't the way they did things. In his book, Hohimer tells how they entered homes quietly, trying not to wake people, not using the noisy method here that awakened Mrs. Percy.

 

[pleasestandby]

While it's possible, I don't think that's what happened. They did show pictures of the method the killer used to enter the house to the pro burglars and they said that wasn't the way they did things. In his book, Hohimer tells how they entered homes quietly, trying not to wake people, not using the noisy method here that awakened Mrs. Percy.

I wonder if that glove is still in their evidence locker? They would be able to get DNA off it, I would think.

Benton Harbor News Palladium October 3, 1966:

"Among the bags of evidence was a wet woolen man's glove found 30 feet from the home."

"Ten days after the murder, Dragel reported the woolen glove had bloodstains and that its fibers matched strands of wool found on the cut screen and in Valerie's bedroom."

 

[STANDREID]

Who proved the stepmother innocent?

 

[Bargle]

Who proved the stepmother innocent?

More what than who. There were tooth marks on Valerie's hand where she struck her attacker in the face. Mrs. Percy had no injuries to her face. Also no apparent motive. We don't always know everything about a family, but Valerie and Mrs. Percy seemed to get along well.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/04/18/attorney-sues-for-records-about-1966-murder.htm

A New York attorney who represents families in high-profile wrongful death cases sued several Illinois agencies for refusing to release records about the 50-year-old cold case murder of a politician's daughter...

Kelly... claims in his lawsuit that his requests for "all records relating to the investigation" into the 1996 murder from the Village of Kenilworth, the Illinois State Police, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, the Chicago Police Department and the Cook County Medical Examiner have been denied.

Some offices said they had no records at all, while others are "refusing to produce records from the investigation of an unsolved murder that occurred more than 50 years ago, claiming that there is not a single record from the investigation that can be released without interfering with an allegedly 'ongoing' investigation"...

 

[pleasestandby]

http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/04/18/attorney-sues-for-records-about-1966-murder.htm

The article implies wrongdoing on the family's part. They also had the whole room cleaned and remodeled within 24 hours of the crime. Couple that with a mysterious phone call to a mobster, with nothing taken, and one wonders what the motive really was.

The article does not mention on whose behalf the attorney is requesting the records for. That's a glaring omission in my book. Is this lawyer fishing?

Three days later, the entire family took a private jet to California and refused to directly speak with any police officers.

 

[Winward1]

He could be researching the case for himself.

 

[Winward1]

They talk about Manson but in a case like this I suspect William Thoresen. He was in LA in the sixties quite often: [video]http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/27/us/jane-doe-no-59-charles-manson/index.html[/video]