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In 1980 I lived in Westvale duplexes on West Chipman Road in Lee's Summit. Everyone around us knew that it was the one lane bridge/tunnel west of the duplexes where Loy Evitts purse contents were found under. It was a heavily wooded area at the time. Chipman Road runs parallel to I470 which was under construction then. This makes sense when you factor in that was where they were searching for her body. It is about a 20-30 minute drive from the Country Club Plaza where she worked.
Loy Evitts drove an MG sports car made in EnglandShe lived with her husband in Overland Park, KS but worked and disappeared from the Plaza area in Kansas City, MO.
KCPD did not take seriously the idea that she disappeared of her own free will because her purse and it's contents were found a few days later under a bridge in the area. Why go to the trouble to plant the purse? Why not just leave it in the Corvette that she drove, or just drop it in the parking garage if she wanted to give the impression that she was abducted?
Her husband was about 10 yrs older that she. He was quickly cleared as a suspect. Within a couple of years he gave up hope that she would ever be found alive and stopped granting interviews.
It was Loy's friends who said that she had many personalities and could be a different person, depending on who she was with.
If I remember correctly her mother died a few years ago. A DNA sample is on file should her remains ever be found.
John Edward Robinson, the BDSM killer, was living in the KC area at the time that she disappeared. I, for one do not believe that he suddenly switched from small time fraudster to serial killer overnight in 1984, I suspect, as did the agents that worked the case, believe that he started killing much earlier then the cases that he was convicted of.To my knowledge from the info that I have saved on this case the Grandview man who was apprehended or questioned, but not arrested, in this case was never named publicly. So we don't know who he is/was. He was obviously responsible for the anonymous phone call as it was traced to him, and we can assume at a minimum that the phone call concerned the purse which was found under the bridge. If the phone call mentioned the location of Loy's remains they were never found during the search.
It seems to me that the lawyer she worked for was indicted a few years after her disappearance, and it was something along the lines of a shady real estate or development deal, or some other type of money laundering scenario. I don’t recall exactly what it was but I have a media file on the case, if I can find it. KCPD has always said that the lawyer and her husband were both cleared as suspects. I recall that Loy’s mother died some years back (maybe 8-10 yrs) and a new but short lived emphasis was placed on the case then. Correction: Loy's mother died in 2008.
To her friends she was a woman of mystery. Some knew her as a woman who wanted a career and would let nothing stand in the way of that goal; some said she married her older husband for money and status. Others said she wanted to start a family. So who really knows?
If her abduction was a random event brought about by someone she might have encountered while at lunch that day, then why return her car to the garage to her exact parking spot, and then wipe it down of all finger prints inside and out?
If you know about Berdella’s case and his “head shop” in Westport then you probably know what he said he usually did with the bodies. The Westport merchants association used to have a pot luck luncheon (weekly or monthly, not sure) for themselves, and after this all came out in the media some of the merchants said that Bob used to bring some of the best stews!
In a 2017 interview her husband, Donald mentioned that when they first met he was 19 and she was 17. He was in Coffeyville Junior College and she was a senior in high school, not much of an age difference to confer status in the communityIt seems to me that the lawyer she worked for was indicted a few years after her disappearance, and it was something along the lines of a shady real estate or development deal, or some other type of money laundering scenario. I don’t recall exactly what it was but I have a media file on the case, if I can find it. KCPD has always said that the lawyer and her husband were both cleared as suspects. I recall that Loy’s mother died some years back (maybe 8-10 yrs) and a new but short lived emphasis was placed on the case then. Correction: Loy's mother died in 2008.
To her friends she was a woman of mystery. Some knew her as a woman who wanted a career and would let nothing stand in the way of that goal; some said she married her older husband for money and status. Others said she wanted to start a family. So who really knows?
If her abduction was a random event brought about by someone she might have encountered while at lunch that day, then why return her car to the garage to her exact parking spot, and then wipe it down of all finger prints inside and out?
If you know about Berdella’s case and his “head shop” in Westport then you probably know what he said he usually did with the bodies. The Westport merchants association used to have a pot luck luncheon (weekly or monthly, not sure) for themselves, and after this all came out in the media some of the merchants said that Bob used to bring some of the best stews!
Although it would be less likely a "serial killer" than just a random act, what about Lorenzo J. Gilyard? He mostly killed prostitutes, but he did kill a few who were not prostitutes.