upallnite said:
I've been curious,there was another woman from Jessup Maryland,named Billie Jean Hall.She dissappeared on her way to a biker ralley in Daytona,Fla in February 1985.Hadden was living in Silver Spring,Maryland with his brother and it is very close to Jessup.She was never found and I've never been able to find out if she was wearing any jewelry or if they found her vehicle.Anyone know?Oh,by the way,I'm new here.Hi,everybody!!!!!!
It would be possible that Hadden Clark was involved in her disappearance, and by a coincidence, the prison in Jessup, Maryland is now Clark's home. Clark has admitted to murdering many women, but he has only been convicted of two murders: That of Laura Hotelling, and that of Michelle Dorr. In both of those cases, Clark was living in their vicinity for some time before making his move.
He was a gardener for the Hotelling family prior to Laura's abduction and murder, and he came under suspicion early on. He had killed Laura with a knife and had buried her body in a secluded spot where he camped regularly in his pick-up truck.
Earlier, in 1986, Clark had lived a few houses down from the Dorr family with his brother's family. Little Michelle Dorr was a friend of his neice and came over to play with her when only Hadden was at home.
Clark enticed Michelle into the house and murdered her there in a bedroom - again with a knife. He then buried her in a remote area not far from her home, and lied to police about knowing anything. He was considered a suspec early on, but it was not until police used a special type of chemical that could luminesce old blood that they obtained trace blood from Clark's former house, and it tested positive for Michelle's DNA. Many years later, and without a body, Maryland prosecutors obtained a first degree murder guilty verdict on Hadden Clark. Afterward, Clark agreed to lead investigators to her buried body.
Clark should be considered a very likely suspect in this case of the Dunes Lady. He actually confessed to a similar murder, the method of death fit his proven MO, and he was in the area at the time. The fact that investigators could not find a body when he tried to show them where it was might be because the body had been found back in 1974. It might be that after 25 years, his recollection of the actual location (in sand dunes) might have blurred. Clark is as crazy as a loon, so you have to consider possible memory blurring.
There are, of course, two possibilities with this murder. One is that she was simply sunbathing and the murderer came upon her entirely by chance, with no previous knowledge of her. The other is that the killer may well have known her and either accompanied or followed her to the beach.
With Clark's known victims (Laura and Michelle) elements of both chance and familiarity entered. Clark knew both girls, and he waited for a "chance" to kill them. If he is connected to the murder of the Dunes Lady, I feel that he probably "knew" her in some way. Probably not on a normal personal level, but as a weirdo in close contact with her - maybe a neighbor or work acquaintance. Or maybe someone that he saw several times before at a bus stop or business place. It would have been in character for Hadden to have followed and spied on this girl, and waited his chance to kill her.
I do not know what specifics Clark gave LE, but he is a pathological liar, so anything he told them regarding this girl has to be suspect. If, however, his residence, work place, and other hangouts were known for that time, perhaps there is a missing person from the vicinity who would be a possible match to this woman.