John Cremer Young murder

[Ginger]

I was poking about, looking for information about the perennially fascinating disappearance of Beverly Potts, when I came across http://greendoch.com/finds/?p=53 . It's a page about a murder of which I'd never heard, the premeditated murder of a child named John Cremer Young, Jr, by his neighbor, a deranged housewife, in the summer of 1965. The actual article left me with more questions than answers, but then I began to read the replies!! Most of them seem to be from people who were children in the neighborhood at the time, and sharing their childhood remniscences about what happened, and how it appeared to them at the time. Several of them are downright creepy fifty years later.

Every neighborhood had one, I think - the kid who was never quite right, with a parent to match, but your mom and dad made you play with them anyway sometimes, because it wasn't nice to exclude people. This is how it ended up in a neighborhood where all the kids' worst suspicions were true.

[Harry D]

Hello, Ginger. Thanks for sharing this with us.

Just a word on Beverly Potts: I remember spending an entire afternoon reading up on this, definitely a spooky case. Some seem to believe that she was taken by someone she knew, as she was shy around strangers. There's a few people on WebSleuths who believe she was probably abducted by someone on her way home. If I remember rightly, apparently a local boy said he spotted her heading home, as he recognised her funny walk? Wouldn't take a lot for a car to pull over and grab her, or it was possibly a neighbour. Her remains might be mere feet away from her home after all this time, but with a lack of leads, who knows? The witness might have been mistaken. There's an outside chance she was taken during the show. A busy crowd distracted by the entertainment, would they have noticed?

As for this case in question, at first I thought it was bizarre how this was a seemingly motiveless crime, but then I read that Mrs. Colby had an unrequited obsession with the victim's father. Sounds like something pushed her over the edge and she wanted to get back at him through his kid. I also noticed to my chagrin that she was released after less than ten years in hospital thanks to a p*ssy pass, no doubt.

[Ginger]

Just a word on Beverly Potts: I remember spending an entire afternoon reading up on this, definitely a spooky case.

Beverly Potts can easily become an obsession. The trouble with the case is that no matter what solution you propose, the weight of the evidence against it is always much greater than the weight of the evidence for it.

[sdreid]

As for this case in question, at first I thought it was bizarre how this was a seemingly motiveless crime, but then I read that Mrs. Colby had an unrequited obsession with the victim's father. Sounds like something pushed her over the edge and she wanted to get back at him through his kid. I also noticed to my chagrin that she was released after less than ten years in hospital thanks to a p*ssy pass, no doubt.

Reminds me of the Esther Pay Case in the murder of Georgina Moore.