Regional Murder Mysteries

[Stan41]

The disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, President of the Teamsters Union in Detroit July 31, 1975 has always puzzled me.
Stan

[sdreid]

Speaking of possible budding serial killers, Richie Neavear, 18, was found stabbed to death in a patch of tall weeds south of Pekin, IL on July 14, 1995.

On September seventh of 2009, 27-year-old Dustin Englebrect was found buried on his property in Mason County, also south of the city. Police are not releasing the cause of death but, since people don't bury themselves, we can safely assume that it was a homicide. There are several men who are suspects in both murders.

Quote changed to correct name from Randy to Dustin.

A man named Randy Deskin was tried and acquitted for Englebrecht's murder. He reportedly also denied any knowledge of the Neavear slaying. This month Deskin was found hanging from a tree. I'm not sure if murder has totally been ruled out but the authorities seem to be pretty sure it was suicide.

[sdreid]

Thanks Matt and Magpie. You get me reading up on these cases I either don't remember or haven't heard of.

[Magpie]

Valerie Anastacia Drew, 13.

Events:Left her Wiley Street home on Sept. 25, 1970, walking north with two teenage male friends who were hitchhiking to Peterborough. She was reported missing by family the next day and searchers found her body on the evening of Sept. 27 in the area that is now south of Conacher Drive.


As an aside, this is the neighbourhood I moved to when I returned to Canada in 1980. It's almost entire developed now, but even when I lived there, there were lots of open fields in the area. I never heard anything about the case until a couple of years ago when Kingston police started a public campaign to bring attention to several cold cases on their books.

http://www.unsolvedcanada.ca/index.php?topic=1993.0

[MattCoughlin]

Newspaper series I and my partner wrote regarding Shaun Ritterson started Sunday, here's the opening paragraph and links to parts 1 and 2...

The killer mutilated her body in unimaginable ways and dumped her on a wooded hillside, leaving her partially hidden from the road that wound down from a church and cemetery at the top.
She lay, naked and face down, on a bed of dead leaves; crumbled bits of tanned vegetation tangled in her frizzy brown hair. There were two empty beer cans and a sunflower seed pouch ditched nearby; trash from another day. Her last day on the hillside was Sunday, June 12, 1977. It was a warm and clear day, with temperatures in the high 70s and a slight breeze blowing through the woods as the birds, squirrels and ants picked away at the world.
No one knew how long she lay there beneath the trees, her arms tucked against her body. It could have been just an hour, or 12 or even 36 hours before she was found...

http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/courier_times_news/the-girl-on-church-hill-a-murder-mystery/article_16c630c2-5e0e-56e3-9c48-badd1ebdbd9b.html

http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/courier_times_news/the-girl-on-church-hill-retracing-shaun-s-movements-to/article_77f42398-169c-5e63-9903-e2d5afdd40f5.html

[sdreid]

George and Mae Dorsey were murdered in the same incident.

[sdreid]

And there was a black couple from Athens, GA who were murdered during the '60s Civil Rights movement whose killers were never found.

I did find the murders of Dorothy and Roger Malcolm but that was 1946.

[sdreid]

The Maynor murder was recently mentioned in a local newspaper article about a retiring policeman who'd worked on the case. It was apparently a great frustration to him.

[sdreid]

Mary Maynor was murdered when she was 23. Her two little girls were locked in a closet by the killer before he stabbed their mother 70 times and then went on to strangle her. The daughters were too young, 2 and 3, to give the police a full account.

I wonder if BTK was ever in IL.

[sdreid]

Thanks Holly. Yes, that hotel murder is a sort of a reverse murder mystery, that is, we think we know who the murderer was but we don't know who the murdered was. Actually, little of her was found although the assumption was that she was put through a meat grinder and flushed down the toilet in a fashion like Dennis Nilsen did with his murders in England.

[HollyDolly]

Regional Murder Mysteries

I don't know if i mentioned this before,but there was the Servant Girl Annhilator in Austin,and the axe murder of a family in Glidden ,both in Texas. Somewhere either at Lone Star Spirits or elsewhere, you can google murder at the Gunther Hotel,San Antonio.A woman was murdered at the hotel,and later her killer moved to the Crockett Hotel,back in the 1960s.The police were able to track the killer to the Crockett,where he shot himself, but they have never been able to learn who the victim was. They just found a woman's body today on the south side of San Antonio,,and while they now know who she is, they don't have any idea who killed her.
On Eisenhauer Road they found a man's body,but again nothing as to who killed him.Lot of dumped bodies here lately ,mainly on the south side of San Antonio.

[sdreid]

And there was a black couple from Athens, GA who were murdered during the '60s Civil Rights movement whose killers were never found.

Do you know their names Vila? I am having trouble finding a case that exactly matches your description. No big deal if you don't remember.

[sdreid]

I don't think many honestly believe that Wayne Williams murdered all the victims assigned to the Atlanta Child Killer.

[Vila]

I'm sure that I have read somewhere that there were a few of the Atlanta Missing & Murdered Children cases that the investigators weren't able to link to Wayne Williams.

And there was a black couple from Athens, GA who were murdered during the '60s Civil Rights movement whose killers were never found.

Vila

[sdreid]

Mary Maynor was murdered when she was 23. Her two little girls were locked in a closet by the killer before he stabbed their mother 70 times and then went on to strangle her. The daughters were too young, 2 and 3, to give the police a full account.