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True story, but I will protect my lady friend's privacy and withold her name. CHAPTER 3: 'Handsome' EMU student was unlikely serial killer suspect. Clothed only in a white blouse and bra, which had been pushed around her neck, she had been repeatedly stabbed in the chest and genitals,[45] had received multiple slash wounds across the breasts, buttocks and stomach,[46] then strangled to death with a two-foot length electrical flex still knotted around her neck. "Was he still going to deny everything?". Although Washtenaw County Sheriff Douglas Harvey conceded at a press conference that same month that investigators had little physical evidence to act upon and that the perpetrator had yet to make a serious error, he was adamant about the fact the murderer was still at large was due to pure luck, and not for lack of police effort. [159] At the time of the announcement of this decision, preliminary legal maneuvers between Michigan and California authorities had been ongoing to extradite Collins to Monterey County to face trial for Phillips' murder.[160]. Although forensic experts would deduce later that morning that the stains covered by the black paint had actually been varnish stains, one of the investigators discovered numerous hair clippingsmany measuring less than three-eights of an inchbeside the family washing machine. Two people saw Roxie get in the car. She was never seen alive again. [47] A handkerchief found stuffed in her mouth had likely been placed there to muffle her cries throughout her torture, and her murderer had placed her body in a location where rapid discovery was assured. I remember the day they began to extract evidence from Collins apartment and car just down the streetvery, very spooky Geez! Secondary full And to your new HOME! August 1: Collins is arraigned on murder. Then, he waited. SoHarvey called the prosecutorand Collins' attorney. "Mary worked at the university. [5] The first witness to testify was the head of the Michigan Health Department's Crime Detective Laboratory, Walter Holz, who testified as to the human hair clippings found inside Karen Sue Beineman's panties being an exact match to those recovered from the basement of Sgt. On August 18, investigators announced that all significant leads had been exhausted, and that the number of officers assigned to investigate the case had been reduced. ", Collins and Beineman chatted, and then they "started making out. [92] Moreover, several of these female acquaintances divulged that Collins would become enraged upon learning a woman was menstruating: one woman revealed to police that on one occasion, when Collins had begun groping her breasts, she had informed him she was experiencing her period; in response, Collins had yelled, "That is really disgusting! In response to questioning from prosecution attorneys, Goshe described how, on the afternoon of her disappearance, Beineman had informed her she had accepted a lift home from the man waiting outside the wig shop. Thank You for this wonderful site. ", Collins writes he knew he "couldn't leave her in my uncle's basement" because "he was a State Trooper for God's sake." ", "Terror in Ypsilanti: John Norman Collins Unmasked,", Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. In the past decade, prison records show that Collins has hadonly one misconduct report. On July 31, the prosecution introduced two forensic witnesses to testify regarding the physical evidence indicating the victim had been killed inside the Leik family home. This summer, as Bundshuh prepared to retire, he gathered the more-than-50-year-old files that he had become familiar with so he could ship them to the Michigan State Police headquarters in Dimondale so the state candigitize them. Collins last victim was 18-year-old Karen Sue Beineman, another EMU student. A sorority house, quiet student rentals, family homes, downtown businesses, and isolated tracts of land still stand, hidden in plain sight, as a reminder of the lives cut short during a time of Terror in Ypsilanti. Larry thought he was onto something and, when he found Collins getting ready to put a new license plate on a Triumph bike behind the house, he got nervous. Contact Frank Witsil: 313-222-5022 or fwitsil@freepress.com. William Milliken promised to leave "no stone unturned" to find herkiller. He spent five months reporting on the state police investigation;reviewing books on John Norman Collins and serial killers; interviewing dozens of detectives, witnesses, experts and others connected with the case; and sifting through hundreds of archived newspaper articles, police photos and records and court documents. [107] Albrecht described this individual, whose surname she did not know, as being 5 ft 11 in tall, clean-cut, with dark brown hair and who had described himself as an Eastern Michigan University senior with aspirations to become a teacher. Her body was found two days later in a field. At that point, Karen was only missing. The perpetrator, John Norman Chapman (then known as John Norman Collins) was arrested one week after the final murder. Investigators determined the knife was consistent with the weapon used to stab Kalom. With the mounting evidence, Collins was arrested on July 31, 1969. Did I turn you on to the book Michigan Murders that had a bunch of stuff on John Norman Collins? beautiful ceramic fountain, and enjoying your concrete round gas fire pit. [11], A detailed examination of the crime scene revealed that the body had been moved three times throughout the month it had lain undiscovered:[12] initially, the body had lain upon a pile of bottles and cans obscured from view by elder trees, before being dragged five feet from this location into a field, where it had remained exposed throughout much of the time it had lain undiscovered. [76] In his opening statement to the jury on July 20, Delhey outlined the prosecution's contention that the evidence to be presented would form a clear pattern indicating that Collins had been in the company of Karen Sue Beineman at the time she was last seen alive by Mrs. Joan Goshe and her assistant; that he had taken her to the home of his own uncle, where he had tortured and beaten the girl before strangling her to death at this location; and that he had then discarded her body, before attempting to persuade his roommate to provide him with a false alibi. Still, in interviews with detectives,Collins described meetingKalom, 21, of Portage, and taking her on a motorcycle-riding date just before she was slain. The victim had received multiple slash and stab wounds to the body (including two stab wounds which had pierced her heart),[55] and a gunshot wound to the forehead before her neck had been cut through to the spine. I understand they still have DNA, perhaps if the local press would get off this guys back and allow fairness to take place you might find out the culprit was someone else. [82], The description of the young man with whom Beineman had last been seen alive was heard by a patrolman named Larry Mathewson, who believed the person described by Diana Goshe and others may be John Norman Collins: a former Theta Chi fraternity brother[85] of his who had previously been interviewed but eliminated from police inquiries,[86] and who he had himself seen riding his motorcycle around the Eastern Michigan University campus on the afternoon of July 23. If you missed part one, stop reading right now and go to part one here. Delhey formally closed his opening statement to the jury by requesting they return a verdict of life imprisonment with no possibility of parole. It seemed,Schroeder said, as if Collins was describing what "he had done himself. Furthermore, each victim had been found with an item of clothing tied around her neck, and each woman had been menstruating at the time of her death. Collins claims he left the house alone, but came back and foundBeineman dead. This spokesman indicated the reasoning being that, as Collins had already received a life sentence in Michigan, the case therefore was undeserving of "priority attention" by California authorities, in part due to the fact Collins would be returned to Michigan to serve his sentence if convicted. [50] She had been accompanied part of the way by a friend named Earl Kidd, who informed police he and Basom had parted company at a desolate road just five blocks from her home,[51] where Basom had begun walking alone alongside railroad tracks toward her home. The moment passed and they continued their ride uneventfully. The 619 Emmet house is actually a sorority house, not a fraternity house. But Collins wasn't all that he seemed. In 1967, John Norman Collins lived in a rental about one block south of EMUs campus. I am adding your comment to the story.My friend Ray who grew up near Gale rd confirmed your facts. To expand on their allegations that certain defense witnesses had been subjected to police harassment, and that eyewitness accounts had been flawed, defense attorney Joseph Louisell subjected Sheriff Harvey to a 45-minute cross-examination as to his contact with the two eyewitnesses prior to completion of this composite drawing. The two played intramural football. Several motions by the defense counsel throughout the jury selection process that the trial should be moved to a jurisdiction outside of Washtenaw County were rejected by Judge John Conlin, who ruled on June 29 that the 14 members of the jury selected from Ann Arbor by this date and considered satisfactory by both counsels would serve as jurors throughout the trial. Sex Slayer Could be Anyone! Greg Fournier who attended EMU and wrote a book,"Terror in Ypsilanti: John Norman Collins Unmasked,"and blog, Fornology.com spent years gathering informationwith his researcher Ryan Place. [84] He held a part-time job as an inspector at a firm which manufactured drum brakes,[66] and was currently majoring in elementary education at Eastern Michigan University. Prosecutor William F. Delhey agreed to a proviso that the test be conducted off the record and its results remain confidential. Honest to God, that's what they said - apparantly, they didn't clean it well enough, and they came through the paint!Needless to say, Sherry and Mike were creeped out!!! He planned to become a teacher. The killer had taken too big of a risk with Beineman however. [49] Sales of tear gas, knives, and security locks increased,[64] hitchhiking became a rarity among students, and the reward offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer increased to $42,000 (the equivalent of about $341,046 as of 2023[update]). He also did some modeling, appearing in a bodybuilding magazine bare-chested with ripplingmuscles. When the killer had not been found in two years, the public outcry was became intense. ICK!!! [44], At 6:30a.m. on April 16, the body of a 13-year-old schoolgirl named Dawn Louise Basom was found beside a desolate road in Ypsilanti. Triad Animal torture Yes. He remembered something from the day before. I saw your video you did on the location of where the girls went missing and where they were found.. That was haunting to me and very disturbing .. After I saw in the video the home you lived in and how you lived next door this man It had to be haunting to you to know you could of been one of his victims After watching the KELLY AND COMPANY VIDEO that i saw I have to question myself if I truly believed he could of murder these women .. After I read the book there was no doubt in my mind.. Well I just want to let you know much I had enjoy the video you had done it just put everything in perspective . Following Collins' arrest, a section of a red-and-white belt bearing the same distinctive floral pattern was found in the trailer he and Manuel had towed to Salinas on June 21. [54]), Less than two months after the murder of Dawn Basom, on June 9, three teenage boys discovered a partially nude body of a young woman in a field close to an abandoned farmhouse on North Territorial Road. He was known to engage in sexual violence, including one instance in which he had raped a woman who had resisted his advances. But back then, DNA profiling didn't exist, and. Best wishes! "Butwhat you want him to do is admit things that you can investigate. As for the youngest victim, 13-year-old Dawn Basom, he was connected to her too: he had friends that lived in the apartment building near Dawn's home. Frank Witsil is a staff writer at the Detroit Free Press. Collins ends his email, with a request: "You can say whatever you want about me" butleave "my Dear Mother" out. In 1967, John Norman Collins lived in a rental about one block south of EMU's campus. But they also found something unusual, more than 500 short clipped blonde hairs. A medical examination revealed Beineman had been extensively beaten about the face and body, with some lacerations inflicted being so severe sections of skin had been removed, exposing subcutaneous tissues. [147] In response, Collins rose from his chair and made the following speech:[148]. In a final address to the jury on August 14, Judge Conlin informed the panel they had two choices in the verdict they could render: Guilty of first-degree murder, or not guilty. As Davis opened the door for his roommate to leave the apartment, he observed that the contents of this box included a woman's purple shoe, rolled-up jean-like material, and a burlap purse. She had last been seen on July 1 with John Norman Collins. Author Greg Fournier later wrote a book about the killings. It would seem unlikely he didn't know Mary. Victims like Mary Terese Fleszar, a 19-year-old EMU accounting major and Joan Elspetch Schell, a 20-year-old art student.Collins was a student at EMU majoring in elementary education. In an email to the Free Press sent this week, Collins maintainshe is innocent. [84], On July 27, Arnold Davis testified as to his being in the company of Collins throughout the late afternoon and evening of July 23, 1969 (hours after Beineman had last been seen alive). [9] Her nude body was found by two 15-year-old boys on an abandoned farm at Superior Township on August 7, and was formally identified via dental records the following day. There have been six before her, five in southeast Michigan and one in California - though that one was not connected at the time. The letter was mailed so they knew she got that far. "[155] This appeal motion was partly upheld upon the basis that Dr. Guinn's testimony relating to probabilities was based upon on the statistical probability of another prosecution expert, and therefore, this part of his testimony was impermissible. Almost one year later on July 6, 1968, student Joan Schell was found dead in Ann Arbor with 47 stab wounds. ". Collins "was arrested based on a tip provided by his uncle" (Ejk), who was a Michigan State Trooper. Fournier said Karen was the only one to get on the bike. Collins went to trial and on August 19, 1970, was found guilty and sent to prison for life with hard labor.John Norma will mark his 40 th year of incarceration in 2010. One of the men in the car Schell had entered was Collins' roommate, Arnold Davis, who later informed police the girl had indeed entered the car he had been driving, but that Collins had insisted he give Schell the lift she was seeking to Ann Arbor in his own car. Shortly before the body was discovered, the murderer had again returned to the body, which he had moved a further three feet.[13]. On October 14, Judge Conlin rejected defense motions to dismiss the case, or suppress any evidence obtained; ruling Collins' arrest had been on the reasonable grounds he had committed a felony. [73] (The blunt instrument used to inflict these injuries to Beineman's skull and brain was never found. Davis wrapped the gun in a blanket and tossed them both into a garbage bin. ", But, a "cop car pulled through the driveway and he got nervous.". "I would 'NEVER'hurt a CHILDEVER!!!" As we now know, police make mega mistakes and prosecutors have major egos and will NEVER EVER admit to being wrong. Police had noted (and would continue to note) common denominators in the physical characteristics of the victims, and the manner in which they died: all of the victims had been brunette Caucasians; each (excluding Mixer) had been the recipient of extensive violence inflicted with a blunt and/or bladed instrument prior to her murder; each of the victims' bodies had been found within a 15-mile radius of Washtenaw County; and each victim (excluding Mixer) had received knife wounds to the neck. The victim's right thumb had also received a gunshot wound, suggesting the woman had instinctively raised her hand to protect herself before her killer had fired the gun at point-blank range. [41] By early April, each of these law enforcement agencies had collectively assigned 20 investigators to work exclusively upon the four homicides. It didn't take a scientist to figure out what transpired. Kalom, who graduated from the University of Michigan not long before she was killed, was described as a "wholesome-looking girl" with "a vivid imagination." She had made arrangements to meet Collins at her home on the evening of June 30, but Collins had never arrived. On August 17, 1970, John Normans Collins was found guilty. My brother and I, walk down the rickety steps down the basement as it explained in the book.with the cobble stone walls.let me tell you, something came over me it's hard to explain.but I cried uncontrollablyI will never forget that night ! While they were in the store, Free Press reports at the timesaidGoshe heard Beineman comment:"I've done only two foolish things in my life buy this wig and accept a ride from a stranger on a motorcycle.". "They took the car apart and they found under one of the seats, a swatch of fabric, I think was about the size of a dime. [89] At a press conference relating to the arrest and charge of Collins in relation to the last of the Michigan Murders held on this date, Police Superintendent Frederick Davids revealed that Collins had been a suspect in the Beineman case from the very day she had disappeared, and that these suspicions had heightened following their forensic examination of David Leik's basement; furthermore, surveillance of Collins had been initiated on July 26, following the submission of a report compiled by Patrolman Larry Mathewson detailing the positive eyewitness identification he had obtained, and he had been formally arrested upon an open charge on the evening prior to his arraignment. "He was probably 20 or 30 pounds heavier that I was. "He reveals himself by what he doesn't say, as much as by what he says,"Fournier said of Collins. He has ordered to life without parole in prison. The Michigan Attorney General and the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office confirmed no litigation is in the works, and to prosecute the cases, investigators would need more evidence. Defense attorneys Neil Fink and Joseph Louisell, in their opening statement, labeled the eyewitnesses' identification of both Collins and his motorcycle as flawed and unreliable, and stated their intentions to introduce several witnesses who would provide an alibi for their client in the early afternoon hours the prosecution contended Karen Sue Beineman had been abducted and murdered. ", "I started talking to him like a father would talk to his son," Harvey recalled, telling Collins:"Youve got a serious problem, son, and weve got a good case. Collinsassertshis innocence by saying that if the sheriff had caught the killer the night of the stakeout, "I wouldn't be here now.". That seems tocorrelatewith a memory Collins describes in his longletters. In the case of Joan Elspeth Schell, two separate witness accounts had placed the victim both entering a car with three men on the night of her disappearance, and walking alone in the company of a man believed to be John Collins later that evening. The seven. Bundshuhadded that the new information, along with the DNA match, supported that Collins was the "perpetrator in that case." Found as a mass of rotting flesh. ", Collins introducedBeineman and Davis and offeredBeineman the option of riding home on his bike with him or going in the car with Davis. ButCollins says Davis did somethingthat would "lead right back to me.". [71] As had been the case with previous victims, her killer had placed a section of cloth in her throat to muffle her screams throughout her torture. "And nobody wanted to say anything to anybody because it was very obvious by that time that there was a serial killer working this area.". Hurkos proved to be of little help and soon the police had yet another body on their hands, student Karen Sue Bieneman. [114] An FBI arrest warrant was issued against Andrew Manuel, who was located in Phoenix on August 6[115] and detained by FBI agents. By '69, he was a senior at Eastern Michigan University, studying to be a teacher. Collins was arrested, tried, and convicted to a life sentence for Beinemans murder. If a person wants something, he alone is the deciding factor of whether or not to take it, regardless of what society thinks is right or wrong if a person holds a gun on somebodyit's up to him to decide whether to take the other's life or not.

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