Okay, I can buy that. What about the other two murders, though? Three "middle-aged" women sexually assaulted and mutilated in the same jursidiction within a span of a single year, and the article focuses on only one? The other two don't rate even a mention. That makes my head spin. And...the same guy was a POI in all three. The public should have been alerted. Maybe the second and third killings would not have occurred if there'd been more news coverage.
Back to the pink Mercury, I take back what I said. If a neighbor noticed a pink Mercury was at the house prior to the murder, that should have been broadcast over the entire region immediately so the next lady holding a garage sale would be wary of a customer in a pink Mercury. KWIM? I appreciate the fact that investigations require a degree of confidentiality. Absolutely. But you don't hold back an eyewitness description of the perp or the perp's car. From what I can tell, little to no reporting was done about the three killings with the exception of the article I found the other day. As one who searches archived records almost daily, I find that highly unusual. JMO
Bessie, you are more than correct in your opinions! Trust me. They KNOW who is responsible and yet.............he's still living free and easy in the same town he grew up in (even in the same home) except for his 18 year stint in Kansas for MURDER! LE even has his confessions on wire as well as photographs of the inside of his home and even his drawer where he keeps his favorite gun, a knife, latex gloves, etc, that we risked our very lives to get for them. For some reason, I believe that there is some kind of cover up going on and yet I am stumped and heart-broken as to figure out just why it would be covered up and shoved under a rug. When this man was physically and verbally threatening to shoot me in the head if he so much as saw me in the yard and then threatened my children with violence he found another baseball that wasn't picked up.........LE said there was nothing they could do and I better just keep our butts in the house until we had the money to move. This was well after the fact that we were helping them. When I initially went to LE with the info I knew, I was young and naive and did not know to never trust an officer unless they give a promise in writing or on tape. I was promised that as long as I gave them all the info I knew and was willing to work with them then they would make sure no harm would come to me. They lied and lied big time. I have nightmares every night and live in fear for my children and my family. My mother is 50 and grandmother is 75 and he knows their address and phone number. I am 32 and it won't be long before I am at the age that he prefers. LE doesn't care what this man is continuing to do and the pain that he has and continues to cause. I constantly hear that they can't convict him because he's been careful about DNA, etc so everything is circumstantial. But it wouldn't be the first time that someone was able to be found guilty on circumstantial evidence. Not only that but I'm sure back in 1985,86 and 87 he wasn't worrying about DNA. When we asked about that, we were told "it's too expensive to test evidence that old". What I really suspect? They no longer have it.
Something else that greatly bothers me. He had always told my husband that he would remain being a "good" man until the death of his parents because he had promised that to them. Maybe that's why there is only a murder here and there and not back to back like before. But his parents are extremely elderly with his father being nearly 90 and his mother being in her upper 80's. His father has such severe dementia that he no longer recognizes anyone around him and his mother has been having to have multiple surgeries lately. How much longer before these murders start happening again and on a much more regular basis?
There is so much more to this story that I'm too afraid to go into but would answer the questions of "Why the cover up?" I don't know why I'm afraid because it is no worse than these murders, and perhaps I"ll get over my fear and it will be what opens this all up. My husband insists that I go into it without giving names so that we can get more help. But it would add so much more confusion (IMHO) and, honestly, I"m afraid of making people feel "Wow! This chick is out there! That's just TOO bizarre!" and I want more than anything for this man to stop and for everybody to trust me.
Sorry for my rambling! I suffer from insomnia since this all started in 2009 and my brain seems to get the most going around 4AM or so.
Thanks so much to all of you for helping me with this and giving me faith that there may come a day that this will all end for me and my family and that there is the possibility that, while we can't take back the pain that has been caused to many of these families, we may be able to offer an apology and give them some kind of closure.
While doing my nightly searching I came across this article from The Toledo Blade dated 8/1/2012 by Erica Blake:
http://www.toledoblade.com/State/2012/08/18/Database-to-list-Ohio-s-unsolved-homicides.html
Just to summarize, it is an article describing the Ohio Attorney General's new Cold Case section on it's website. Nothing new for those familiar with it as I am, but what I found so interesting is that it states that it is up to each Police Department to submit the cases. Could this be why there are no listings for any of these known murders? Are they simply not adding them for some unknown reason? Just something I'm pondering now that I know that and could be why it hasn't offered me any help in the hours I've spent there.
