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Dear Everyone,
The Higginbotham thread has been pulled from Websleuths for over a year.
It got totally out of control. To the point that it was causing problems on and off the forum.
I have been asked to put it back.
Rather than try and figure out who said what about whom and what is true and what is not I decided we should try and start over.
Please read over our rules if you are not sure what you can or cannot post. Here they are
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Here is the first post from Celine in April 17, 2009 that started our discussion about Mary Ann.
The Higginbotham thread has been pulled from Websleuths for over a year.
It got totally out of control. To the point that it was causing problems on and off the forum.
I have been asked to put it back.
Rather than try and figure out who said what about whom and what is true and what is not I decided we should try and start over.
Please read over our rules if you are not sure what you can or cannot post. Here they are
The Rules - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community
Here is the first post from Celine in April 17, 2009 that started our discussion about Mary Ann.
Mary Ann Higgbotham was my friend in high school. She went missing in 1978 and her body was found in a welded shut barrel in 1979 in a creek. Mary's boyfriend Tim also was missing. For 4 years, it was suspected that he killed Mary (Tim has never been found dead or alive) until an informant with burden heart called Indiana State Police Detective York saying they could not live with the secret any longer. This lead to an arrest of 2 men but there was not enough evidence to satisfy the prosecutor to bring them to trial. Charges were dropped.
This is where it gets complicated. A fellow classmate told me details about the case that were never published in any of the newspaper reports. She said she knew this from an other girl we went to school with that was talking to a newspaper reporter. She told me this sometime around 1982-84 and again in 2000.
I found the class mate that was supposed to have this information. She did not know the detail that other person said they got from her talking to the reporter.
I believe that the first classmate is the burdened informant.
I don't know if this classmate called the ISP anonymously or not.
Does anyone have a suggestions of what I should do?