Does the murder of Rose Marie Levandoski have a connection to the abduction and murder of Mary Ann Favre? Dont know, but how many murderers of young ladies were roaming the coast of MS in the early '70s? (Approx. 40 mile distance between Bay St. Louis and Ocean Springs.)
MS - Mary Ann Favre, 1974 - Websleuths
There were probably more murderers traveling the Gulf Coast in the 1970's than you'd think. Of these five that remain unsolved, the first three from Jackson County are most likely to be linked.
JACKSON COUNTY
Rose Marie Levandoski, 13, Ocean Springs, 1 Feb 1973
On February 1, 1973, Rose Marie left class at St. Martin Junior High to use the restroom. Her body was found nude in the Tchoutacabouffa River in Biloxi. She had been stabbed in the back. Her case was re-opened in 2010.
http://www.wlox.com/story/13384024/who-killed-janie-sanders
Janie Sanders, 16, Pascagoula, 26 September 1975
Janie was walking home from school when a friend saw her getting into a car with a man near the corner of Louise and Lanier Ave. The car is believed to have been a blue El Camino. Janie's body was found in a wooded area near the intersection of Grand Bay-Wilmer Road and Airport Boulevard in Mobile County
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...lled-in-Pascagoula-1975&p=6964577#post6964577
"Sanders' body was dumped in a wooded area near the intersection of Grand Bay-Wilmer Road and Airport Boulevard in Mobile County. The crime was so heinous, so terrible, that it haunts Detective Versiga to this day. It makes him want to solve this case. Even more so than ever, he's driven to do it."
"'It needs to come out, we need to air it out, we need to see if we can find a suspect and put this guy in prison." Versiga said. "He killed this little 16-year-old girl. It's haunted Pascagoula. I can remember, I was 11-years-old when this happened and I can remember my mother not letting me go outside and play anymore because of what this man did.'"
http://www.wlox.com/story/13384024/who-killed-janie-sanders
Debra Gunter, 20, Gautier, December 1978
Kidnapped from her job as a clerk at a Gautier, Miss., convenience store and found stabbed to death five days later.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/public...s-girl-possibly-linked-to-more-deaths/2113744
Larry Eugene Mann, executed in 2013 in Florida for the 1980 murder of 10-year-old Elisa Nelson in Pinellas County, is a possible suspect for the the above three murders.
Mann once lived on Lanier Ave., and broke into a home and raped a woman on the same street in 1973. He was convicted, sentenced, and by 1975 was living in a work-release camp with limited access to wander the streets.
http://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mann-larry-eugene.htm
HANCOCK and HARRISON COUNTIES
Mary Ann Favre 15, Bay St. Louis, 22 April 1974
Rode her little sister to school one morning, and was later seen pushing the bike after the chain broke. She was last seen buying a Coke at a grocery store on Dunbar Ave. The bike and Coke can were found on Dunbar Ave. the same day.
Nine months later, her badly decomposed remains were located in a field near Discovery Bay in Pass Christian. She'd been shot in the head.
Witnesses reported a light green '60s Chevrolet with three taillights on each fender parked on Dunbar Ave. The FBI released a sketch of a man in his 20's, medium height and build.
http://www.seacoastecho.com/news/exec/view.pl?archive=13&num=7846#.VpnmmlmfXh4
The case was re-opened in April 2014.
"Adam declined to say if there were any suspects at this time, but he said technology is on law enforcement's side."
http://www.seacoastecho.com/news/exec/view.pl?archive=13&num=7851#.VpnmoFmfXh4
Robin Coultas Rodriguez, 20, Gulfport 1976
In 2014, LE said they had a potentially identifiable fingerprints from her car.
"Around noon Rodriguez's body was found partially nude, with her hands tied behind her back, face down in shallow water at the end of Magnolia Drive in Pass Christian, about 11 miles from where she disappeared.
Autopsy reports indicate Rodriguez was strangled to death."
http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/2591...l&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
"...disappeared from a Lil General store in west Gulfport. She was found dead hours later in a mud hole at the Wolf River near Pass Christian. She was naked, bound and strangled to death, and her car turned up in Long Beach."
A couple of weeks after her body was found, an unidentified man began making threatening phone calls to employees at the store at 15th Street and 42nd Avenue. One woman received the calls at her home, and then her family dog was found cut to pieces on her front doorsteps.
The unidentified man didnt want them to talk to authorities, former employees told the Sun Herald in recent interviews. They believe he was the killer..
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/crime/article24602248.html
ETA: Samuel Little, aka
Samuel McDowell, a serial killer who traveled around the South in the 1970's and '80s is a suspect in the 1982 murder of
Melinda LaPree in Pascagoula. He was known to have been in Pascgoula as early as 1977.
"In Mississippi, Pascagoula cold case Detective Darren Versiga is re-investigating the killing of Melinda LaPree, a 22-year-old prostitute found strangled in 1982. Little had been arrested in that crime but never indicted, Versiga said. The detective has tracked down old witnesses and is working to reconstruct the case file because much of it was washed away during Hurricane Katrina."
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"In Pascagoula, LaPree went missing in September 1982 after getting into a wood-paneled station wagon with a man witnesses later identified as Little. A month later her remains were found, and Little was arrested in her killing and the assault of two other prostitutes. Versiga believes grand jurors failed to indict in part because of the difficulty in determining a precise time of death but also because of credibility problems due to the victim and witnesses working as prostitutes."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/07/samuel-little-trial-states-cold-case_n_3033665.html
http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2013/01/pascagoula_cold_case_heats_up.html
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...s-thru-final-arrest-2012&highlight=pascagoula