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I don't know whether I believe Schaefer's confession. Is there any additional information available about Kenneth Guy Shilts?
Re-posting the newspaper link:
St. Petersburg Times - Google News Archive Search
Peggy Rahns' DNA is in CODIS. Wendy Stevensons' DNA is not anywhere.
:banghead:
Her mother would not submit any DNA.
Before anyone makes a comment, remember, Mrs. Stevenson is a victim. I am sure she has her reasons.
This development makes it more about Peggy Rahn. Because I have something to work with.
I am concentrating on partials and young females 11-20 years old in Florida. Once I have exhausted that avenue, I will expand to the neighboring states.
I know it’s been many many years, but are you still investigating this disappearance?
I think there's a good chance that either Shilts or Schaefer did this, but I'm not sure we'll ever know for certain.Does anyone know if Kenneth Shilts (or Gerard Schaefer) fit this description? This is from a 2020 article be Jenn Baxter on Medium:
Vanished at the Beach: Where are Peggy & Wendy?
Betty Fischer, a clerk at a convenience store not too far from the beach, had been working a night shift that Monday when the girls went missing, and sometime around midnight a male customer entered the store with two young girls. He had purchased cigarettes for himself and ice cream for the two girls. It seemed to be a routine transaction, and the girls hadn’t seemed to be at all nervous. The only reason Betty remembered them at all was because the girls had both been clad only in bathing suits despite the fact that the night air was quite chilly. The next morning, Betty heard someone mention that two girls had gone missing the previous day and she immediately called the police to report what she had seen. An officer was sent over with pictures to see if Betty would be able to identify the girls that she had seen.
When Betty was shown pictures of the girls, she realized that she had indeed seen the two girls that were missing, and she immediately burst into tears. There was no way she could have known, and the girls had seemed to be perfectly calm, but she was inconsolable. If only she had known sooner, she never would have let them leave the store. All she could do now was give the police a description of the man the girls had been seen with and hope that it would help detectives find the two girls. She said he was a white male, around 25–30 years old, with sandy hair and blue-gray eyes. He had been about six feet tall and maybe 200 pounds, and she had noticed that he had two-inch scar running along the back of his right hand between his thumb and forefinger. He and the girls had driven off in a 1966 or 1967 metallic blue Chevrolet with a black top and wire wheel covers. She gave police so many details that they believed she was embellishing, perhaps to alleviate the guilt she felt for not realizing the girls had been abducted. The detectives actually asked her if she would be willing to take a lie detector test, and she agreed. The test results indicated that she was telling the truth, but police still seemed uncertain as to whether or not the girls she had seen were actually Peggy and Wendy. They had gone missing around 1:00pm. It seemed unlikely that someone who abducted them would be bold enough to remain in the same area with them almost 12 hours later, but they also knew criminals could be not counted on to behave in rational ways.
Vanished at the Beach: Where are Peggy & Wendy?
The disappearance of two little girls has haunted the Sunshine State for more than 50 years.medium.com
If that notebook entry is true, I am 95% sure it is Shilts. Could almost say 100%, but sometimes serial killers and child molesters are known to throw off LE by saying names of children gone missing when they had nothing to do with the crime to throw off LE.
From the witness descriptions, they describe. KS more than GS.
Satch
Is Shilts still alive?Overall I lean towards Shilts. The notebook makes Shilts seem like the obvious perp. The only thing that gives me pause is that Shilts was 42, and the witness described a 25–30-year-old man. GS was 23 (almost 24), but he didn't look anything like the man described by the witness. (Shilts did, aside from his age.)
I don't doubt that GS was capable of making false confessions in order to inflate his body count.