Larry Gene Bell

[Goody2Shuze]

Does anyone know if he had ties to California in January 1985?

 

[Kell1]

His first recorded murder was in 85 , but Ive never seen any ties with him to Ca

 

[Marg from Oz]

You need to put more information in so we know what you are talking about. You also have to have the source of where you got the information and it needs to be a MSM site or a Police sight. You need to read the rules. You will find what you can and cannot do in there. Best of luck.

 

[Richard]

Larry Gene Bell

Larry Gene Bell was not the kind of man to jot notes on scraps of paper or backs of envelopes. He was, as FBI profilers would characterize him, a highly organized serial killer. That may have explained why he chose to have his victim write a farewell note on the same yellow legal pad he had used to record phone numbers for work.

That one orderly action would prove to be his undoing.

On May 31, 1985, pretty, blond Shari Faye Smith, 17, of Lexington, S.C., had gone to a pool party with her boyfriend and a few school chums. On her way home, she stopped at the mailbox at the end of the driveway that was about a tenth of a mile from the house where she lived with her family.

Her father later noticed the car still parked at the mailbox, driver's door open and the engine running. But Shari was gone. She was happy and stable, not the kind of girl to run off. She also had diabetes, and was not likely to wander far without her medicine.

After three days of fruitless searching, a 2:30 a.m. phone call to the Smiths offered the first clue to the girl's whereabouts. A man's voice said that he was sorry he had snatched her and that they'd get a letter from her soon. Police found it awaiting delivery in the post office.

At the top of the two pages of yellow legal paper, in Shari's handwriting, were the words: "Last Will and Testament." She told her family that she loved them. She also specified that, at her funeral, she wanted a closed casket...

LINK:
South Carolina serial killer forced girl to write a farewell note and tormented his victims' families after sick spree in mid-80s

 

[Kell1]

If I recall he was considered a suspect in at least 2 other cases, of missing women. 1 was actually an acquaintance that went missing and was never found

 

[Richard]

Sharon "Shari" Faye Smith, age 17
Murdered 31 May 1985
Victim of Larry Gene Bell

LINK:

Murder of Shari Smith – Forensic Tales

 

[Detailz]

Larry Gene Bell timeline, history and convictions.
Many other victims are believed to be left in his wake.
Highly methodical, with an ability to stay off police radar. Until the abduction/murder of Shari Faye Smith in 1985. sister of Dawn Smith, a former Miss South Carolina
Full forensic files episode

 

[Detailz]

Larry Gene Bell timeline

Larry Gene Bell | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

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Larry Gene Bell did commit other assaults over 10 years before Shari Faye Smith and Debra May Helmick's abductions and murders
Citing:

https://amp.heraldonline.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andrew-dys/article12194075.html

This was in 1975 Rock Hill, S.C.
I believe he should be the prime suspect in the abducting of Eva Gerline Debruhl

Eva Gerline DeBruhl – The Charley Project

Larry Gene Bell LIVED in Rock Hill S.C. around that time.
Eva Gerline Debruhl was mowing the lawn that morning and disappeared while home alone between 11am and 3pm.
It's possible he saw he mowing the lawn and Larry Gene Bell later abducted her as she went to check the mail. That or he knocked on the door.
John Douglas, the profiler, gave his profile of Larry Gene Bell . Stating he likely has a vast history of abductions and murders.
Citing:

Ret. FBI Profiler John Douglas on Larry Gene Bell: 'One of the Most Sadistic Murderers'

Expert FBI Profiler, John Douglas, shares how he turned the sophisticated and cruel tactics of murderer Larry Gene Bell against him in order to prevent another tragedy.

www.aetv.com

It's time to take another look at abductions and murders of females in North and South Carolina to see if these females fit his known victims.
Eva Gerline Debruhl

Missing Person / NamUs #MP5556

View NamUs missing person case MP5556 for Eva Gerline Debruhl missing from Catawba, South Carolina. Date of last contact: Jun 29, 1977. NCMEC case number: 834337.

namus.nij.ojp.gov