Sailor Haumea
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The photos of unidentified women remind me of the photos Rodney Alcala had.
Was he working at schools,I wonder. Or as a photographer, just like Alcala.The photos of unidentified women remind me of the photos Rodney Alcala had.
I have seen the upper left girl somewhere. Can't remember where.
Newbie here...as I grew up in Queens, NY, this case always haunted me....I know the area quite well actually, but this happened long before then, when I was a kid. I don't know that I buy into the theories being tossed around in the book (I did read much of it a couple years ago)...it makes sense but it's really far fetched. One thing I didn't like was that they assert that Antonella Mattina died of multiple stab wounds to the chest, same as the woman who was kidnapped and scalped. I have never seen any cause of death released for AM..
Anyway, the main reason I posted here...while it's thousands of miles away, I couldn't help but notice the similarity in appearance between Antonella Mattina and Jonelle Matthews, the 12 year old girl who disappeared in Colorado 5 months after Antonella did. She's all over the news now because her remains were just unearthed. It's a long shot I know, but two 12 year old girls with similar appearances and braces disappearing and found buried in rural areas - neither was ever intended to be found. It makes me wonder if maybe - just maybe, there was a connection...
Thoughts?
I have looked but haven't been able to find anything. does anyone know when Alex Mengel's brother Gustav came to the US? did they come together at the same time in 1976 or may he have been here first?
I ask because while I doubt it is related, I do think it odd that in 1974, just 2 miles south of where Gustav Mengel lived in 1976, 17 year old Leslie Sue Zaret was seen for the last time on her way home from a friend's house. She stopped into a bar very briefly looking for her bf 2 miles south from Gustav's address. She was found strangled the next day in a park behind an elementary school in Bayside Queens, which was only 4 miles west of Gustav's house.
Leslie's case is always on my mind as I live in the area where she lived and was sadly abducted from. She has a similar appearance to the girls in the pictures. I doubt this is related but I am very curious...
Welcome justagirlfromqueens. This is interesting also. I did not realize Leslie was so close to Gustav. I have tried to find info also as I have tried to make a timeline to see if they could be connected to any others. I have not found much on Gustav to make a timeline.
I have always been into true crime but have recently started researching and putting together timelines for crimes in queens and long island (started out as a fascination with the LISK) and it is truly maddening the amount of unsolved murders, especially a few of young teenagers in the 80s (before my time). I just came across the Mengel brothers names today and when I saw his address from living in the area I knew it wasn't that far from where Leslie went missing.
exactly! I wish we knew these things.
earlier in the thread I saw that because of the pictures found in Alex Mengel's wallet that perhaps he was a photographer or worked in a school. In the case of Leslie Sue Zaret the police believed that the killer would had to have prior knowledge of a hole cut out in a fence behind the elementary school where her body was found. I imagine a pedophile like Gustav might know his way around an elementary school not far from his home - had he been living there that is.
and thank you for the link, I was wondering which of the brothers was older and it turns out Gustav is. I wonder if he was here first and then his little brother joined him.