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Where did Klunder live in Florida and does anyone know what work he did while he lived there? TIA.
Once released, Klunder attended a semester at a Des Moines community college, married 33-year-old LF in Florida last year, and recently bought a house with her in Stratford, records show. Klunder, 6 feet 6 inches tall and 240 pounds, had to periodically check in with authorities as a registered sex offender.]
Where did Klunder live in Florida and does anyone know what work he did while he lived there? TIA.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/23/michael-klunder-kidnapping_n_3327303.html :facepalm:But the kidnapping allegations and suicide have stunned Klunder's family, said RO of Mason City, whose son is married to Klunder's sister. RO said he met Klunder last year at a child's birthday party and "he seemed like a pretty nice guy to me." He said relatives thought Klunder was turning his life around after prison.
http://globegazette.com/news/local/...cle_36b8ec80-db89-11e2-acb2-0019bb2963f4.html
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A timeline of violence: Lulls between Klunder attacks never more than a year
KS, died from multiple sharp and blunt force injuries about the head, according to Iowa State Chief Medical Examiner Julie Goodin.
Those same type of injuries were suffered by his first victim, ELG — also 15 — some 27 years before. She had been pistol-whipped about the head by Klunder after he trapped her in a Kensett restroom. Her injuries required she be hospitalized for several days.
* “The violent nature of the defendant’s prior offense would indicate that the defendant does constitute a danger to the public,” said Judge Jon Scoles of the Gansen attack a few years later, when Klunder, 17, was being tried on the choking of a co-worker.
The discovery of Shepard’s body brought to a close the life of a man whose hallmark was predatory violence.
The majority of Klunder’s life could be measured by spans in jail, courtrooms, mental institutions and prison cells.
There was never a lull of more than a year following his first incarceration when Klunder did not assault someone, between his release from prison, in 2011, and the Dayton kidnappings in May of this year.
However, authorities aren’t sure there were not other victims.
He was 18 at the time.
But it did happen again. Court records and newspaper files show Klunder was found guilty of assaults or kidnappings, or both, five times. He was dead before he faced judgement in the case of the Dayton victims.
Cerro Gordo Sheriff Kevin Pals said he was not sure there weren’t more victims. Pals did not know Klunder but followed the case over the years. He has been asked to provide copies of records and complaints against Klunder, a Kensett native, to authorities working the Dayton case.
One thing is clear to Pals: Klunder “was not going to stop.”
How someone could entice girls into his truck in the era of warnings against strangers is hard to imagine.
“But he was clever; there was a reason he did what he did, — because he was that good at what he did” when it came to abductions, Pals said.
“He had years of practice,” he added.
I think there was an intense search to try and connect Klunder to Evansdale in any material
way, and the search failed. I think a lid has been put on the whole thing until such time as LE
feels it is safe to reveal the details of the search and search results without compromising the Evansdale investigation - otherwise any found connection would have been announced already.
I keep going back and forth on how much preparation went into Elizabeth and Lyric's abduction.
It's natural to think that a crime will go better if it is planned out in advance, that the perp will leave less evidence, etc. The flip side of that, though, is that often what trips a perp up is the pre-planning. If you substitute the term "staging" for planning, then it's easy to come up with many examples of how it was the perp's efforts at staging that actually led to their apprehension.
Some of the most difficult to solve cases that I've read about were spur of the moment impulses on the part of the perp. They didn't try to hide the crime, they just grabbed and got out. And by doing so left much less evidence behind.
what does this above article have to do with this case? Until a DNA link is established isn't this just rumor?
Statistically, I believe most abductions are random events, i.e. just being in the wrong place at the wrong time; people being too trusting. Serial killers seem to be pretty lucky in general with snatch and grab, I agree. Somewhere along the way they hone their craft and I think often that is where they start to slip up and become careless or even start to play cat and mouse with LE. Regarding Elizabeth and Lyric, whomever did this seems to have gotten away it for over a year now and that makes me very sad and fearful for the community of Evansdale.
Michael Klunder Timeline
May 15, 1971 - Michael Klunder born.
November 1986 - Klunder's first known victim - ELG, age 15 years - Klunder's age 15 years. Klunder is sent to the Boys State Training School in Eldora, to
Meyer Hall in Des Moines, to Bremwood (a juvenile home) in Waverly and to the Mental Health Center in Cherokee.
February 1988 Klunder is released from juvenile detention. He returns to Mason City and moves in with his father and stepmother.
1989 - The violent nature of the defendants prior offense would indicate that the defendant does constitute a danger to the public, said Judge Jon Scoles of the Gansen attack a few years later, when Klunder, 17, was being tried on the choking of a co-worker.
February 1991 Klunder is released from Mount Pleasant Treatment Center.
Dec. 15, 1991 - Klunder kidnapped a 21-year-old woman, who escaped.
Dec. 16, 1991 - Klunder kidnapped two 3-year-old girls, who were found alive in a garbage bin.
May 16, 1992 - Klunders son is born.
Dec. 25, 2011 Klunder is paroled, having served 18 years of his 41-year sentence.
2012 - Klunder attends one semester of college, marries in Florida, buys house in Stratford, Iowa.
July 13, 2012 - Lyric Cook and Elizabeth Collins missing.
Dec 2012 - L&E's bodies found.
May 20, 2013 - Kathlynn and D abducted. Kathlynn murdered. Klunder commits suicide.
Friday, June 7 Shepards body is found in the Des Moines River. An autopsy shows she died of sharp and blunt-force trauma wounds.
http://globegazette.com/news/local/...cle_b448708a-db89-11e2-bf27-0019bb2963f4.html
Don't get me wrong! I want it to be Klunder too, but as georger says. . . much time has passed. At first LE said they were hoping for results "next week" and that has turned into months as we are entering the last of July. Klunder had racked up (from what I can count - math is not my strong suit) 7 victims, poor Kathlynn Shepard and "D" being his last. If he was responsible for L&E, that would bring my count of Klunder's known victims to 9. I also believe, if Klunder had been the serial predator that had snuffed out E&L's lives, by May 20 of 2013, he would have been chomping at the bit for his next victim/victims. Alas, I fear, that E&L's untimely abduction and deaths are unrelated to Klunder. Possibly Klunder would have been the second serial murderer to be "working" that area of Iowa, I just do not feel it is likely at this point. So, I have come full circle, and it is a vicious one circle. Who killed Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook?
This guy must have had something about him that attracted women, it didn't take long after being released to get someone pregnant. Then in dec 2011 he was released and was married within a few months.
O/T - can you believe this!?!
Vermont authorities are warning residents in advance of a high-risk pedophile being released from prison Friday.
Residents are being told to be extra cautious with their children as a high risk pedophile is set to be released from a state prison Friday, with 12 to 13-year-old blond-haired, blue-eyed boys said to be at highest risk, according to reports.
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Timothy Szad, 53, was sentenced to 13 years in prison after handcuffing and repeatedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old autistic boy in 2000. With his sentence coming to an end Friday, authorities are warning the public he is at risk for re-offending, according to reports.
Szad is required to notify the state of where he chooses to live, but he will not be under supervision.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...dophile-sex-offender-getting-jail-Friday.html
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Huh? A child will probably be molested, maybe even killed by this unsupervised RSO. It's sickening.