Seems Mr. Bunch changed his story after his death. In the first article, from 2006, it says he
insists he didn't know her. In the article from yesterday his daughter and aunt both say he did know her. If he was innocent, I wonder why he felt the need to lie?
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/03/a_look_back_the_investigation.html
March 05, 2008, 10:03AM
This story originally was published Feb. 12, 2006
Bruce Bunch, a former Lowell High School student who was 17 when Deanie vanished, said he had a dream about Deanie after watching a TV news report about her disappearance but insists he never knew her.
"When I was a kid, I used to have this mental telepathy thing," Bunch said during a phone interview from his home in Somerset, Ky. "I could tell things, like when a bird comes into your house and tells you someone's going to die."
He said he can't remember details of the dream, only that he told friends about it, and it somehow mushroomed into how he had killed Deanie and buried her. Some say they've heard he struck her with his car or truck.
"Everybody just keeps carrying it different ways," said Bunch, who owns an auto-repair shop.
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http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/target_8/Finding-Deanie-Secrets-Revealed
Updated: Thursday, 04 Feb 2010, 11:23 PM EST
Published : Thursday, 04 Feb 2010, 6:59 PM EST
from pages 4&5:
Detectives found his only child, his daughter, [omitted], in Louisville.
"The detectives have came to everybody and asked everybody that they can possibly ask, and they haven't found out anything that they didn't know before, and I mean, I just don't see why they keep bringing it up," [omitted] said. "People can talk, but that's all they can do is talk. There's nothing to be proven. Oh, we don't know who it is, so let's put the blame on some dead guy."
It wasn't the first time [omitted] had heard about Deanie and her father's alleged involvement.
About nine years ago when [omitted] was 16, a retired detective --- she believes it was Kleinheksel -- tried to reach her father. So, she questioned her dad.
"I said, why? And he told me that there was some girl that was missing, her body was missing and they thought that he could have something to do with it because he knew the girl or he met the girl, or something like that," she said. "I asked him straight out. I said, did you have anything to do with it, dad? 'No, hell no.' That's what he told me. 'Hell no.' "
[Omitted] said she has no reason to doubt her dad. Even though her father drank a lot and had a big mouth, he was still a good man, she said.
"He was a very lovable guy, even though he was an *advertiser censored*****e, because he was -- but it was because of his mouth," she added.
[Omitted] said cold case detectives didn't like what he had to say.
"Bruce was too good-hearted of a person," he said. "Accidents happen, and kids do stupid things, but I'd never believe it. I couldn't see it. He just wasn't that way.
"As far as Bruce goes, I think they're picking on the wrong bum (bone). They need to leave him be. He's dead and gone. He lived his life. He's left this earth. They need to leave him be."
But for the first time, Target 8 has found a connection between Bunch and Deanie -- revealed by his daughter and an aunt who also lives in Kentucky.
"Yeah, he'd met her, that's what he told me. He met her," his daughter said.
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