Regional Murder Mysteries

[Magpie]

The disappearance of Tom Gencarelli has been a much discussed local mystery for as long as I can remember:

http://officialcoldcaseinvestigations.com/showthread.php?t=11150

http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2223351&archive=true

http://ottawa.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090220/OTT_Unsolved_Murders_090220/20090222/?hub=OttawaHome

[sdreid]

Thanks Magpie. I hadn't heard of that one either but I guess that's a reason for this thread.

[Magpie]

Every couple of years they cops get tip and drag the local marshes for a body, but they've never found anything. The cops are pretty sure who did it (as are a lot of other people) but there's no case against them.

[sdreid]

Another unresolved murder in my area is that of Mary Maynor. On May 31 of 1974, she was found dead in her Pekin, IL apartment. The cause of death was multiple stab wounds.

[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.

[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]

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

[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.

[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]

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.

[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]

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]

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]

George and Mae Dorsey were murdered in the same incident.

[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