Jennifer123
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I am also fairly certain that a podcast will be released within the year covering this story- I know as I was consulted. Largely it will center on information that is public record. If you are an individual directly involved in this investigation, say RCW or a relative of BS and would be interested in telling your side of the story, please PM me here and I can likely put you in touch with the author. I would propose that your name be withheld from the podcast in exchange for your insight. Of course if a relation of Asenath or the May attack would be interested (or have objection) let me know as well. I believe the author will be reaching out to the family for consent.
Any updates on the podcast? I have been curious about this case and wonder if the WS community is convinced it was RCW and BS or was it possibly a serial killer/rapist operating throughout the area as mentioned in the 1982 Akron Beacon Journal posted above?I am personally on the fence.
Hate to see this thread stagnate, when there has to be more information out there. Would love to hear what others have to say on this terrible case. I remember it like it was yesterday, and I was very young. It would be great if in this age of Social Media, someone started running with the case. The Podcast sounds like a very interesting idea, and at the least would get others in the community talking about Seenie again.
It also seems that while everyone (including the police) has focused on two individuals BS and RCW, that there has to be another avenue. Both of them were never indicted, which is frankly not hard to do at all. There must be some evidence or alibi's that caused the police to not push it further with them. Does anyone here have knowledge of that???
Stipes you are correct that if Seenie did cut through Miller Park she would have been able to walk down the stream, under Cambridge. However, I think that there is a strong chance that she walked all the way to Waltham with her classmate. That would place her beyond the Bridge and really would have made it difficult for her to cut back down to the stream due to the houses in the area. So then the question becomes how in a 4 very short block area (Cambridge to Malvern) was someone able to grab or coerce her with them.One detail that should be emphasized for those not familiar with the neighborhood. There is a drainage runoff creek that begins at Miller Park, south of Waltham Road and west of Arlington avenue, that goes under Cambridge Road through a tunnel that can be easily walked through. On the other side the creek continues for several blocks at the back edge of residential properties and ultimately ends at the culvert where Asenath was found. The key detail is that if someone is walking along the creek, it lies deep enough that they wouldn’t be seen from the street or backyards or houses, not unless you go right up to the edge of where the ground drops off. I believe it levels off with the street closer to the culvert. So that could answer the questions regarding why there were no sightings past Arlington Ave. It was common for kids to play down there and go through the Cambridge tunnel. It may be the “deviation” in Asenath’s path that day referred to by police, whether by choice or not. The runoff creek is visible on Google maps if you know where to look, but the depth isn’t discernible.
The circumstantial evidence against RCW and BS seems strong and I've confirmed that a UA Police investigator, "off-the-record" believes it was both of them, together, who committed the crime and articulated it as the consensus belief amongst those in-the-know. One curious note that I pulled up through research is the similar crimes of that era in Ohio. Take a look at this newspaper clip from 1982.
Clipping from The Akron Beacon Journal - Newspapers.com
Hi. I am new to this site and I grew up in upper Arlington untill the age of 12. We moved out of state then. The year would have been 1985. Something happened to me that I will never forget and haunts me to this day. In my adult years, I've always been wanting to tell someone, like the police department in Upper Arlington, share with them what happened to me but haven't. First let me say I know nothing about this case I am posting in, I didn't know this girl. but what I have to say may be of some relevance, I don't know. When I started reading what happened to her the street names hit me, I know those street names. I lived off of Leeds Rd, I went to Wickliffe elementary and Jones jr. High. I used to ride my bike all the time, so did my friends. We rode out bikes everywhere. Well one day I was riding my bike down my street alone, it was still light out but getting dark so I want to say it was around dinner time, when I felt the worst feeling in my entire life. And this is no joke, I swear I could feel something evil behind me, and I never knew that feeling or had anything like it before of after this. When I looked back there was a car driving slowly behind me. They would not pass me, they stayed right on me. I kept looking back and I was so scared because I knew this wasn't normal and it wasn't right for someone to do that. It was a larger black or brown car, square shaped, like an Oldsmobile or Cutlass, style. I am pretty sure it had very tinted windows. I would look back and I couldn't see the person's face. I started to pettle as fast as I could and I knew I wasn't going to stop at my house because I didn't want the person to know where I lived so after I past my house I turned right on the next Street and on the corner was a house of my neighbors but there front porch had like a little area you can go behind and no one from the street would be able to see you, so I turned the corner went on their driveway crashed my bike and ran to the door and tried to hide while ringing the doorbell. No one answered. And the car stops right in front of the house and sits there for what felt like an eternity. Then they drove off.
About a week later, I'm on my bike again but I was far down the street when I looked around and saw that car again turn onto Leeds. This time I knew I was far enough away that I could easily loose them, I think I cut into someone's yard and went to another neighbors house thru the back door. In my neighborhood, you knew every car that would drive down your street. You practically knew everyone, I had never seen that car before or after that time. And I'm telling you that I know that person had intentions to harm me. I know because of how I felt and what they did and I have thought about this everyday almost because the feeling that went thru my body was like nothing I've ever felt, I knew it was evil and I knew they would kill me.
I tried to look up missing persons/ children in upper Arlington for around that time period and I never found anything untill I found this site. I'm glad I am finally able to share this. I know it isn't much, but maybe the description of the car might help. Thanks