Thank you
mysteriew, for the link to that article. The link below is from that one. I've bookmarked their site. It seems they're going to be a good source for information on John Regan.
From day 1 that I heard of this guy, I knew he was going to be linked to many, many disappearances and rapes. We have links in this thread to earlier discussions of the many, many unsolved murders and disappearances in the region this guy traveled. Who knows, we never connected NY to this guy (Connecticut and New Hampshire),....... the
net widens. How many other states has he traveled?
In the end, I think we may need to have a section just for John Regan, as his victims come forward, as his crimes are revealed.
Thank the Lord this detective had the perseverance to continue to follow leads on this case from so many years ago. If it hadn't been for him, this guy may have gotten away with yet another crime.
Now I'm off to see what
Moe found.
JMHO
fran
http://www.waterburyobserver.com/worxcms_published/news_54.shtml
A terrifying incident on Halloween night destroyed John Regan's mask of innocence, and revealed the monster that lurked beneath.
As darkness descended upon Halloween, a month before his kidnapping trial in Waterbury was to begin, Regan was arrested in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. and charged with trying to abduct a 17 year old high school girl from the school parking lot.
Waterbury Police Chief, Neil O'Leary, who broke the case last year by connecting dots separated by an 11 year span, talked to the Observer the day after the latest arrest.
He said Regan had removed the back seat of his van in Saratoga Springs, laid down a blue tarp, and had pre-knotted ropes waiting to secure his victim.
In addition, sources have confirmed that the ropes were tied in a noose and Regan had a shovel in the van with him. It is not unreasonable to conclude that John Regan was intent on raping, killing and burying his young 17 year old victim
O'Leary, who immediately dispatched three Waterbury detectives to Saratoga Springs, said Regan had been in New York for two weeks working at a relative's construction project. O'Leary said Regan had probably stalked the girl because of the way he had positioned his van for the attack.
The sliding door was positioned right next to the driver's door. When the student, a cross country star on one of the premiere teams in the country, went to open her door after practice, Regan is accused of opening the sliding door of his van, grabbing her by the waist, covering her mouth, and attempting to drag her into the van.
"She bit, screamed, yelled and kicked him," O'Leary said. "He yelled at her to stop. Thank God she got away."
Regan was confronted by two teachers and is accused of jumping back in his van and fleeing the scene. A coach and parent pursued the van in their cars. They called the police on cell phones and the van was stopped minutes later and Regan was arrested. "It is horrific what happened to that child," O'Leary said. "Thankfully she was not physically hurt. But the fact that this happened strengthens the case back here in Waterbury." O'Leary said that the Waterbury police had received a tip about Regan several weeks ago which sparked a new police investigation. A photo technician at a local lab was processing film and he noticed all the images were of women who were unaware that they were being photographed. He saw that the film was sent in by John Regan and recognized that the customer had been charged with kidnapping and assaulting women in greater Waterbury. Security personnel for the store contacted the Waterbury police department. The women had been photographed as they jogged and worked out along a sev eral mile stretch of a bicycle path through the woods in Cheshire. In most of the images of the women, sources confirmed, they were wearing shorts and tight fitting athletic attire. Other images on the rolls of film were of a former co-worker that Regan was accused of assaulting last summer. Police have said that the woman was unaware that Regan had been stalking her. After Regan was arrested in New York, the Waterbury Police Department got a warrant to search his house on Euclid Avenue and removed additional photographic images. Waterbury police have charged Regan with stalking, and in the near future he will be arraigned back in Connecticut.
