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My name is Lisa Coburn Kesler.
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So she was living with them when the nephew was killed??From newspapers.com, Concord Monitor, 11 Nov 80, pg 17. Article includes info on Ms. Taylor, first name is spelled as "Janice", however dates, etc., align with Namus case. There is info in the article (general specifics are which in her CharleyProject casefile). Janice/Janis would watch her nephew after school. It appears that she lived with her sister-in-law and sister-in-law's boyfriend. The boyfriend is the one who "returned to the trailer park later to say he hadn't been able to find her when he went to pick her up at school" (The SIL reported her as missing after she returned from work and Janis/Janice had still not returned) The same 2 y/o nephew that young Ms. Taylor babysat after school died a month later due to a beating. The same boyfriend was convicted of 2nd degree manslaughter.
I've attached the pdf file for the entire article as others missing from NH are referenced, including Stanley Bassett, for which a thread was recently created.
I've also wondered if there was another serial killer in the general area as well, that is before Terry Rasmussen's time 1979 - 1981 ~~~I just did some cursory research on young women murdered during this timeframe within (approx.) an hours drive of Concord, NH. I quickly found six women who could possibly be tied to the same killer. Here is the data base I was looking at:
Victim List | Cold Case Unit | NH Department of Justice
It sure looks like a SK to me, and I have read on various miscreants who "operated" in that area during that timeframe.
Many of the decedents were very close in age and looks. It seems this killer had a "type".
Amateur opinion and speculation
You made a list about possible victims of a NH SK a while back. I decided on eight of them possibly being murdered by the same person. When I put the locations of each murder/disappearance into a map. The all branch from one central location, Concord, the location of the first case, Janis' disappearance. IMO, if there was a SK operating in NH in the late 60s - early 70s, they may have been local to Concord.Could Janis Taylor's disappearance be connected to the murder of Joanne Dunham age 15, (11 June 1968) who was abducted while on her way to her school bus stop in Charlestown, NH?
Or could there be a connection with the disappearance of Debra Horn, age 11, (29 January 1969) missing from Allenstown, NH after returning home from the school bus stop?
These towns are so close to one another. SK really does seem possible.These cases might be related to the disappearance of Janis Louise Taylor. Although many more homicides are listed at the link, these all occurred in a 7 year span and involved similarities of victim, and methods of operation. Some of them have separate threads here on Websleuths.
Note that some are unsolved homicides, some are missing person cases, and some involve unidentified victims.
For more information on each case, click on the name.
Dunham,Joanne, Year: 1968 City/Town: Charlestown
Status: Unsolved Homicide
Horn,Debra Year: 1969 City/Town: Sandown
Status: Unsolved Homicide
Blakeslee,Luella, Year: 1969/1998, City/Town: Hopkinton,,Status: Unsolved Homicide
Whitacre, Carmel Sue
Year: 1970/1979 City/Town: Northwood
Status: Suspicious Death
Gloddy, Kathy Lynn
Year: 1971 City/Town: Franklin
Status: Unsolved Homicide
Unidentified Female Year: 1971 City/Town: Bedford
Status: Suspicious Death, unidentified victim
Clevesy, Arlene, Year: 1972, City/Town: Newton,
Status: Unsolved Homicide
Randall, Kathleen Year: 1972 City/Town: Nashua
Status: Unsolved Homicide
Compagna, Diane, Year: 1973, City/Town: Candia,
Status: Unsolved Homicide
Psaradelis, Anne Year: 1973 City/Town: Candia
Status: Unsolved Homicide
Doe, Jane Year: 1974 City/Town: Marlborough
Status: Unsolved Homicide, unidentified victim
Lord, Judy, Year: 1975 City/Town: Concord
Status: Unsolved Homicide
Stankiewicz, Melodie Year: 1975 City/Town: Salem
Status: Unsolved Homicide
LINK:
Victim List | Cold Case Unit | NH Department of Justice
Bumping this question: where is or what happened to Barry Bickford???Trying to familiarize myself with this case. Whatever happened to Barry Bickford?
Was he ever a suspect in the case ? He seems so suspicious to meBumping this question: where is or what happened to Barry Bickford???
As far as I know, he was convicted for the child's murder, but it apppears he was never linked to her disappearance. Article clipped from Nashua TelegraphBumping this question: where is or what happened to Barry Bickford???