Will "Wheaton", starred in "Star Trek, The Next Generation". This show featured many alien characters that killed humans. Bradley "Cooper" starred in "The Midnight Meat Train" which was about a serial killer on a train killing people to feed some alien creatures underground.More coincidences?
James Fenimore Cooper wrote articles regularly for Graham's Magazine. Mary Ann Plett last seen at Graham Realty
Cooper writes about the lone pine that stood above Otsego Lake in his short story, The Eclipse.
Cooper's father, William, was also a "realtor", as was Mary Ann Plett, selling off lots and farms from his purchase of the Croghan Patent, a huge tract of land around Otsego Lake.
There's even a character in Cooper's story Home as Found in Chapter 16 named Wheaton. Her (Plett's) car was found at Wheaton Auto Sales.
Will "Wheaton", starred in "Star Trek, The Next Generation". This show featured many alien characters that killed humans. Bradley "Cooper" starred in "The Midnight Meat Train" which was about a serial killer on a train killing people to feed some alien creatures underground.
Clearly, our clever SK is laying out the tale that he has to kill to feed alien creatures.
I was simply carrying on with the "movie" theme, and the 'roundabout' way we 'fattened' up the theory of a murder case from 44 years ago that was committed by a man who has potentially become an old man now. I'm no psychic, so I can't say if that 'someone' is now an old man 44 years later. That is clearly beyond my sleuthing capabilities. The killer may have only been 7 at the time... we just don't know.Your theory might apply to Area 51 if there were unsolved murders in that area and if one believed in that sort of thing.
Your two comparisons aren't related to each other, whereas all the multiple comparisons I've given are specifically related to James Fenimore Cooper and actual people, occupations, locations, etc. related to the Mary Ann Plett murder. I'm just pointing out the high number of coincidences and not setting my observations in stone. Did the killer plan the murder which reflects those coincidences? Whether consciously or subconsciously, who knows. It's open to speculation. It's also out in the public domain to be seen by someone at a future time who might be able to match the pieces of the puzzle and make a connection.
A case in point; a witness was told many years ago by someone known by a person of interest in a cold case serial killing that this someone had a specifically-named item. All the witness was told at the time by this someone was they had the item and were holding it as insurance/leverage for an unnamed reason, nothing at all about the murder. Since it didn't make sense to the witness at the time, (who knew nothing of any crime or even about a trophy taken from the scene of a cold case serial killing), the witness dismissed it as "just talk".
It wasn't until years later (and very recently), though, that the witness recounted that confession to a person researching that very crime who was able to put that specific piece of information together with what the researcher already knew about the crime and knew right away the connection of both pieces of the puzzle and the significance of that information (and its relationship to numerous instances of circumstantial evidence known about that murder) because it not only implicates the person of interest in the murder but also the other person for covering up their knowledge of the crime after the fact. Whether a sworn statement by the witness to these facts is enough to procure a search warrant for that item isn't known.
Too bad that the witness won't come forward. It could possibly solve several other murders.
From the limited amount of information I have gathered, it's my understanding the husband was cleared only by lie detector... a 1971 technology lie detector?
The husband also apparently saw the killer slowly drive by her office but failed to catch up with the car, which was later found just a few blocks away.
Is that alibi creation?
Perhaps since the husband saw the killer driving slowly by, the killer also saw the husband looking at him... and quickly parked the car in the first busy lot he saw as to camouflage it. That would explain the items left behind, as he was likely in a hurry to run away after being spotted.
How interesting that a rather independent young woman was being called out by a man at all hours "for work", on short notice, and oh bother... she was always so late because he kept her waiting and waiting... not because they were spending hours and hours together. Does that not sound like a potential affair happening with the necessary cover story?
Who did she tell she was meeting this "James Cooper" that fateful day? Was that told by the husband who was potentially onto an affair, or corroborated by others?
I'm no psychic, so maybe I'm completely off base here. An obscure character reference in a story, by a long dead author, makes so much more sense as to why the car ended up where it did. So much for my profiling skills.
I have to fact check, but wasn't the sighting late evening like 11 pm? I would assume 1971 traffic would be minimal.BBM
Iirc, the office Mary Ann worked out of was on the south side of Whyte Ave (82 ave). Traffic was often slow on that stretch of main artery because of heavy traffic. I always wondered how fast Mr. Plett could get into his vehicle, get across busy traffic and try to follow the perp who was supposedly travelling west. I don't know why but that has always stuck in my head.
I have to fact check, but wasn't the sighting late evening like 11 pm? I would assume 1971 traffic would be minimal.
Just to add to the possibility of a relationship between her and "James Cooper", a picnic set was also found in the car.
