I am going to try a Hail Mary play here. We will get nowhere until modern DNA testing is done on Mr. Bones’ bones. I am willing to pony up $500 towards doing the testing. Anyone want to join me? How do we get Othram to take the case?
Just to spark some interest, I will reveal some interesting things I uncovered that I have sat on for years now.
1) One of Conner’s family members in Lima told me that he thought that Conner and RF’s wife may have been involved with each other, hence RF’s possible ïmotive for the killing.
2) Another family member told me that according to family lore, Conner’s body was “under a highway in Pennsylvania”.
I wondered who could possibly have been in a position to tell them where the body was. My best guess: Conner’s son (now deceased) had got in trouble on a burglary charge in the early 1960s. He was quite young at the time. RF’s attorney in the “Bodyless Murder Trial” later represented Conner’s son at his burglary trial! Did he feel sorry and tell him where his father’s body was? Was this remotely true? We will never know, everyone involved is gone now. This attorney was a real character.
RF was exiled to Ft. Wayne by a judge in the early 1950s. Mr. Bones’s Remington was sold there. We know thanks to Richard that the 1939 date (which keeps cropping up) can’t be true, as that weapon could not have been made before 1949.
No smoking gun (sorry) but enough coincidences to make one wonder if somebody really would go that far with a body in the back of a vehicle. And we will keep on wondering until the DNA testing is done.
One individual has excoriated me here for the theory that Mr.B could be Conner. I am not sure why he has that level of hostility.
Conner is officially a rule out, though I don’t know the basis for it. Conner had no dentals and Mr. B. has no DNA.
So, let’s see if we can get DNA done.How much are you willing to pledge to satisfy your curiosity, if Othram will take the case?
Anyone willing to kick in?
