MI MI - Cynthia Coon, 13, Ann Arbor, 19 Jan 1970

Cynthia Coon: 48-Year-Old Missing Case Possibly Connected to Arthur Ream

As Arthur Ream’s potential victim count increases, it is believed that Cynthia Coon could be one of his earliest victims. Coon disappeared almost five decades ago. Now, investigators believe that Cynthia Coon’s cold case might be connected to Ream.

[...]

https://crimeola.com/cynthia-coon-missing-arthur-ream/

Here is Arthur Ream's thread to keep up on the search: https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...d-Rapist-Murderer-amp-Suspected-Serial-Killer
 
[h=1]Search resumes in Macomb Township for remains of missing girls[/h]
With a smaller team of investigators, the search resumed Monday in Macomb Township for the remains of up to six girls missing for decades.

The investigation at the 24-acre parcel south of 23 Mile Road, west of North Avenue, was postponed for the weekend because of rain last Friday and Saturday, but started Monday morning as authorities try to solve the disappearance of multiple young females.

“We are out there this morning,” Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer, whose department is the lead agency in the task force working the case, confirmed.

With rain again in the forecast, officials excavating multiple spots were expected to continue digging as long as possible.

As of Monday morning, no human remains had been found.
Dwyer said the group working in the woods Monday totaled eight to 10 people including Warren detectives and an unspecified number of individuals whose employment or affiliations he declined to specify.

The stages of the task force’s work have not been revealed, but there are indications the investigation could take months. Dwyer said other locations will be checked over a period of months in what could become a long probe to complete.

Police have confirmed other girls who have been missing and whose remains could be buried in the Macomb Township woods include:

• Cynthia Coon, who was age 13 when she disappeared from Ann Arbor in 1970

• Nadine O’Dell, 16, whose last known whereabouts were in Inkster in 1974

• Kim Marie Larrow, 15, who disappeared in Canton in 1981

• Kellie Marie Brownlee, who was 17 and had been at Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi before she went missing in 1982.

Discovering remains of any of those girls or others would bring some long-overdue, potential closure to families.
http://www.macombdaily.com/article/MD/20180514/NEWS/180519852
 
[h=3]Police end dig for remains of missing Michigan girls[/h]
MACOMB TOWNSHIP, MI (AP) - Crews have stopped digging up an area in suburban Detroit where police have said they hoped to find the remains of up to seven missing girls.

Warren Mayor James Fouts told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the weeklong excavation on the outskirts of a subdivision in Macomb Township has ended.

Fouts says police are weighing whether to excavate three other locations in the state where they believe the suspect, Arthur Ream, could have taken the girls who disappeared decades ago.
http://www.wnem.com/story/38192935/police-end-dig-for-remains-of-missing-michigan-girls
 
It sounds like they didn't find anything. Bummer.
 
Can anyone list the potential victims that LE is considering in regard to the recent searching?
 
Here is a case which seem to have some possible connection to Cynthia Coon's disappearance.

Dawn Louise Basom, 13, Murdered 16 April 1969, Ypsilanti, Michigan

At 6:30 a.m. on April 16, the body of a 13-year-old schoolgirl named Dawn Louise Basom was found discarded beside a desolate road in Ypsilanti. Clothed only in a white blouse and bra, which had been pushed around her neck, she had been repeatedly stabbed in the chest and genitals, had received multiple slash wounds across the breasts, buttocks and stomach, then strangled to death with a two-foot length electrical flex still knotted around her neck. A handkerchief found stuffed in her mouth had likely been placed there to muffle her cries throughout her torture, and her murderer had placed her body in a location where rapid discovery was assured.

Investigators found no definite evidence Basom had been subjected to a sexual assault prior to her murder.
Basom had last been seen alive at 7:30 p.m. the previous evening, walking home from a friend's house located barely a mile from her own home. She had been accompanied part of the way by a friend named Earl Kidd, who informed police he and Basom had parted company at a desolate road just five blocks from her home, where Basom had begun walking alone alongside railroad tracks toward her home. One eyewitness reported seeing the girl minutes thereafter, at approximately 7:35 pm, although her movements thereafter were never verified.

The orange mohair sweater belonging to the victim was found in a deserted farmhouse just 100 yards from the desolate road on which her body had been placed after her murder. Glass particles found within this basement were of a similar consistency to those found upon the soles of Basom's shoes.

Upon conducting a search of the basement of this farmhouse, investigators discovered a further garment of her clothing, a length of electrical flex of the same type used to strangle the victim, and fresh human bloodstains, indicating this location as being the site of Basom's murder.

One week after the murder of Dawn Basom, a detective conducting a routine examination of this farmhouse basement discovered a scrap of cloth from Basom's blouse, plus an earring later determined to belong to Maralynn Skelton. Each item had been deliberately placed in this location, indicating that the murderer had returned to the scene of the crime, and a definite link between both homicides. (The farmhouse itself was destroyed in an act of arson on May 13; when the fire was extinguished, five clipped lilacs were found arranged in an even row across the driveway to the building, leading investigators to theorize they had been placed there by the murderer to symbolize each victim.)

Investigators believed that Dawn was the victim of John Norman Collins, however he was never charged with her murder and it remains officially unsolved.
 
I have mentioned another case in earlier threads about a possible link between this case and that of another young girl, Eileen Marie Adams, age 14 who was abducted in Toledo, Ohio.

She was kept alive as a prisoner in a basement dungeon, tortured, and eventually beaten and strangled. Her body was dumped in Michigan.

Robert Bowman was arrested, tried and convicted of her murder some ten years ago. He is currently serving a life sentence in Ohio.

Her age, the time frame, and the circumstances of Eileen's abduction and murder might show some similarities in both the Cynthia Coon case and that of Dawn Basom.
 
Dawn Basom was likely murdered by John Norman Collins. Who was already in prison when Coon was taken.

Coon's family received phone calls months after her abduction, they thought the calls were from her.
 
Anita Drake's family received calls, too, only they believed it was her killer calling to taunt them.
It wasn't, it was most likely Anita. Her sister later confessed she knew Anita wasn't murdered and knew Anita ran away and knew why, and Anita had called and talked to her over the years.
If you haven't already, check out her case, it was an eye opener for me.
 
Dawn Basom was likely murdered by John Norman Collins. Who was already in prison when Coon was taken.

Coon's family received phone calls months after her abduction, they thought the calls were from her.
-------------------------------------------------

It is true that John Norman Collins was in Prison as of late July 1969. He was convicted of only ONE murder - that of Karen Sue Biennaman. He was suspected of having murdered several others (the count varies from source to source).

The big question regarding Collins and these murders is "Did he act alone, or did he have accomplices?"

It was established through eye witness testimony that he picked up one of the murder victims in front of the University of Michigan Student Union and that there were two other males with him. And he had at least two room mates/ associates who were interrogated and who testified against him in court.

One of those associates was a guy named Manuel (last name) who had accompanied Collins in a cross country drive with a stolen camping trailer from Michigan to California. During their stay in California, Collins murdered a young girl named Roxie Phillips and evidence of that was found in Collins' car when he returned to Michigan.

Immediately after Collins' arrest, Manuel blew town - traveling first to California and then to Arizona where he was eventually captured by the FBI. Was Manuel "innocente completimente" (as Cave Man Lawyer would have said) who knew absolutely NOTHING of Collins' activities (as he claimed) OR was he intimately involved in the murders as well?

Was Manuel available to have abducted Cynthia? Were there others associated with Collins who might have committed the crime?

Also, three separate murders at times believed to have been committed by Collins were later resolved and others (not associated with Collins) convicted of them. Could one of them have been the perpetrator of Cynthia's disappearance?
 
three separate murders at times believed to have been committed by Collins were later resolved

which three murders?
 
three separate murders at times believed to have been committed by Collins were later resolved

which three murders?

The Three Murders that I was referring to in my previous post were:

1. Jane L. Mixer, age 23 who was shot and killed on 21 March 1969. By most accounts, Jane was one of a series of murders of young women from the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area. Long considered a victim of John Norman Collins, her murder differed in several ways from others closely linked to him. Years later, in 2005, Gary Leiterman was convicted of her murder on the basis of DNA evidence.

2. Margaret A. Phillips, age 25, a U. of Michigan graduate student who was shot in her apartment on 5 July 1969. She died the next day and newspapers were speculating that she might be connected with the series of "Co-Ed Murders" of Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor. But on 7 July 1969, Police arrested a convicted rapist named Ernest R. Bishop, Jr. for her murder. He was subsequently convicted.

3. Eileen Marie Adams, age 14, from Toledo, Ohio was abducted 18 December 1967, held prisoner, tortured, and then killed. Her body was found 12 days later in Michigan near Highway US 23. Some LE and news reporters thought her case had many similarities to the other murders, but it remained unsolved until 2011 when Robert Bowman was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in Ohio for Eileen's murder.

The other Michigan murder victims were:

Mary Fleszar, 19 found 7 August 1967
Joan Schell, 20 - 5 July 1968
Maralynn Skelton, 16 - 25 March 1969
Dawn Bason, 13 - 16 April 1969
Alice Elizabeth Kalom, 21 - 9 June 1969
Karen Sue Beineman, 18 - 23 July 1969

Murdered in California:

Roxie Ann Phillips, 17 - June 1969

Collins was only convicted of killing Karen Sue Beineman and the other cases are all officially considered "unsolved" - With Collins the strongest suspect.
 
Bumping this case up. 19 January will mark 49 years since Cynthia went missing.
 
Interesting,

I was searching for missing people who might be a match for the 668UFNJ UID and came across Cynthia as well. The dentals in both cases struck me as well since both were described as having excellent teeth.

The dates, age, and description seem to fit pretty well.

Does anyone know if Cynthia has ever been submitted for this UID? Do you think it is worth submitting as a potential match?

668UFNJ

668UFNJ.jpg


http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/coon_cynthia.html

coon_cynthia.jpg

Cynthia Coon's MP page on Namus lists her as a rule out of this UID from Galloway NJ.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

The UID page does not list Cynthia as a rule out.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

It is safe to say Cynthia is not the UID from NJ.
 

Staff online

Members online

Online statistics

Members online
172
Guests online
1,379
Total visitors
1,551

Forum statistics

Threads
589,160
Messages
17,914,990
Members
227,745
Latest member
branditau.wareham72@gmail
Back
Top