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Authorities taking new look at brutal, unsolved 1979 homicide in Seekonk Pizio's daughter also wrote a recent diary about this: Please Help Solve a Forty Year Old Unsolved Murder

Slightly off-topic, but one feature I noticed with the book is that it reported sections that other people had underlined. I was surprised the second time I read this book to find sentences underlined, as if it was a hypertext link, & when I clicked on the underlined passage be told "3 [or more]...

Hey everyone! Just finished reading Maureen O'Hagan's book for the second time, & found it a very revealing -- & well-written reading. Its strength is that Maureen was able to talk to many people who knew LEK, which filled in some of the blanks we all wondered about. I remember how we'd...

I met with Maureen O'Hagan today, the woman who wrote the Seattle Times article. I suspect she's planning on writing a book on the case, & if not I suggested to her that she should. Speaking to her, I learned one answer to the many questions we've had about this case; not the most important...

When I first posted to this forum, I felt the problem was that the known evidence had been so picked over there was nothing left to say, & that anyone who wanted the answer had to find more evidence. Almost a year has passed, now that we know LEK's birth name & some of her earlier history, but...

Ditto. My suspicions about the story of LEK? She was a typical person who did something unusual for typical reasons. Maybe she was fleeing sexual/physical/mental abuse, but if that was the case I doubt anyone from her family would be willing to admit to that. Shame & loyalty to family runs...

You're not the only person who would like more information. Consider that last week, when the news broke about LEK's birth identity, up to 200 people at a time were scouring this thread for details. There is definitely a hunger out there for more information about this case. And I know there is...

Thanks for the link. I hadn't known about that article until now -- & I had used Google every day last week to mine for new articles on LEK's confirmed identity. I think someone's math is off. You can arrive at "four different names" if you count Kim McLean (her birth name), the unknown name...

It was that nothing was shared about his further work on this case after the Seattle Times article. Not that I expect to be kept informed about an active case, but the way the article presented the case made it seem like an insolvable mystery, unless someone from her pre-LEK life happened to...

When S/S1988 knew her, she was not going by her birthname KM, or as LEK, but by a third name. So it is possible she stopped using her birthname very early on. That will make it difficult for anyone to trace her movements between 1986-1988. But it might be worth the effort for someone to...

It gets a sentence or two in the original Seattle Times article: "Neighbors on their single-lane road couldn’t figure them out. Blake tried to be neighborly. Lori didn’t. They’d see her in the evenings, walking the perimeter of the property, avoiding eye contact." Her...

I wonder if "painfully shy" wasn't simply a conclusion drawn from her actions, & these symptoms she presented actually could be diagnosed by an expert as some kind of other mild form of a personality disorder. Note: I'm just throwing out a thought that has bothered me about how a number of...

Lori Erica Ruff née Kennedy identified as Kimberly McLean -- http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/special-reports/my-god-thats-kimberly-online-sleuth-solves-perplexing-mystery-of-identity-thief-lori-ruff/ (Originally published 21 September 2016)

I'll confess it was a surprise to me. I'd not assumed LEK had come from anywhere, though, due to lack of solid information. But I figured there was no reason to favor Pennsylvania because that possibility seemed to be based on some faulty reasoning, the phone number from the Notes Page. And I...

And consider that the story broke Monday, & people immediately started clamoring for details (including yours truly), & she managed to write up a fairly comprehensive story that was published at noon on Wednesday. That was a praiseworthy achievement. And even if she had some lead time to...

Adding for everyone's entertainment: Maybe the most audacious example of plagiarism I have encountered in the last few days was finding a blog post about this case, & realizing it was a cut-n-paste job from the Wikipedia article on LEK. I was quite sure it had been plagiarized because just the...

Yes. Too much of what we found emphasizes the troubles she had in her life. It's good to know there were some happy times in her life.

I suspect we're going to need to wait for someone to write a book on this case. A single person could probably get all the parties involved to open up & answer questions. Lots of anonymous usernames from the Internet won't accomplish that. Once enough questions are answered, then the rest of the...

I'm probably reading too much into these facts, but I am noticing a likely pattern here. KM was born & raised for her first years in Wynnewood, PA; her father is reportedly a carpenter & a volunteer fireman. According to Wikipedia, Wynnewood straddles two townships: Lower Merion, which WP...

Just saw the article over on the Philly.com website. It's a verbatim repost of the Seattle Times article, but with one difference -- a larger snapshot of the page KM's photo is on. On that page you can see other pictures of students, & it's clear she's wearing a school uniform. (And there's no...