Just to set the record straight in your quest to establish a serial killer as responsible for every missing female in the state of MO, you can remove the name of Crystal Kipper from your list. While it is true her remains are still missing it is also true that her murderer took his own life & left enough evidence behind to have been convicted in a court of law.
John Williams was first convicted as a 16 yr old youth of possessing child *advertiser censored*, sodomy, murdering & burying the remains of a 6 yr old boy. If a mistake was made at that time it was in sentencing him to just 5 yrs in a state reform school & hospital.
A yr after his release from the hospital Williams was convicted of possessing child *advertiser censored*, kidnapping & rape of a teenage boy. This time he was sentenced to prison, & paroled just 9 yrs later. He was paroled in 1992 to work at a print shop that hired only parolees & ex cons to collect state & federal subsidies for doing so. So much for not fraternizing with ex cons.
In February 1997 Crystal Kipper's car was found out of gas along I-29 at Platte City, Platte county, MO. She was missing & hasn't been seen since. John Williams was on a list of possible suspects but it was unclear exactly what had happened & other than a possible broken windshield to her car (no one could say for sure it wasn't broken before) there was no other evidence indicating a crime had possibly taken place. No evidence pointing to any suspect, let alone Williams.
John Williams remained off police radar due to lack of any evidence until Jan 1999 when he was convicted in Jackson county for the July 1997 kidnapping, assault, rape & sodomy of a woman over a 10 day period. While awaiting formal sentencing in the Jackson county jail Williams hung himself. He left a hand written suicide note in which he failed to mention any of his previous crimes. Only then was the Platte county Sheriff's Dept granted a search warrant in the Crystal Kipper missing persons case. When the warrant was served where Williams had some of his possessions stored, they found the jeans Crystal Kipper was known to be wearing at the time of her disappearance, her driver's license, & other possessions suspected to have belonged to her.
All of John Williams' former haunts including the burial location of the 6 yr old victim when Williams was 16 yrs old, have been throughly searched many times over for the remains of Crystal Kipper. Crystal's mother has provided DNA should skeletal remains or individual bones be found in the future.
I would love to hear your facts ( not JMO's, IMO's etc) on how this case was not properly investigated.
After 28 years I think everyone who came by Delmar should be interviewed with fresh eyes, as well as the party-goers and their parents. Most people only care about self-preservation for themselves and their loved ones.
