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Any other cases in the late 70s or 80s involving a blunt object only in a sexual assault that anyone knows of?
I have been putting myself to sleep looking at pictures of missing and unidentified people. Something that came to my mind last night is the bite mark. How bad was it? An impression of teeth or was flesh missing? Given the brutality of her assault and murder I wonder how hard she was bitten.
I saw the missing persons flyer for Theresa Jones and found that @CarlK90245 had suggested her as a possible match a few years ago in the other thread. The only problem was Theresa had a small tattoo on the back of her shoulder. I was wondering if it was possible the tattoo had been destroyed by the bite mark. But if it was just a superficial mark then the tattoo would have still been there. The other thing was the description of her car. It sounded similar to the car WCJD was seen getting out of and a car that was seen in Sam Houston park at the site where a body was burned. I saw that there has been discussion of the other unsolved murders around that area. There are more than a handful of girls who were left dead without their clothing but with jewelry just like WCJD. I will have to get my notes but there was one that was only about 12 and she was killed in a neighborhood and left along the path the kids took from home to where they went swimming. These cases make me wonder. I know one of the murders where the victim was burned that two men were seen by a witness. Where did the clothes go? Someone might have an attic full of women's clothing.I haven't seen anything with more detail on the bite other than they were able to get an imprint. so my guess is it was a mark rather than an actual bite out of the flesh. I could be wrong though.
I saw the missing persons flyer for Theresa Jones and found that @CarlK90245 had suggested her as a possible match a few years ago in the other thread. The only problem was Theresa had a small tattoo on the back of her shoulder. I was wondering if it was possible the tattoo had been destroyed by the bite mark. But if it was just a superficial mark then the tattoo would have still been there. The other thing was the description of her car. It sounded similar to the car WCJD was seen getting out of and a car that was seen in Sam Houston park at the site where a body was burned. I saw that there has been discussion of the other unsolved murders around that area. There are more than a handful of girls who were left dead without their clothing but with jewelry just like WCJD. I will have to get my notes but there was one that was only about 12 and she was killed in a neighborhood and left along the path the kids took from home to where they went swimming. These cases make me wonder. I know one of the murders where the victim was burned that two men were seen by a witness. Where did the clothes go? Someone might have an attic full of women's clothing.
I saw the missing persons flyer for Theresa Jones and found that @CarlK90245 had suggested her as a possible match a few years ago in the other thread. The only problem was Theresa had a small tattoo on the back of her shoulder. I was wondering if it was possible the tattoo had been destroyed by the bite mark. But if it was just a superficial mark then the tattoo would have still been there. The other thing was the description of her car. It sounded similar to the car WCJD was seen getting out of and a car that was seen in Sam Houston park at the site where a body was burned. I saw that there has been discussion of the other unsolved murders around that area. There are more than a handful of girls who were left dead without their clothing but with jewelry just like WCJD. I will have to get my notes but there was one that was only about 12 and she was killed in a neighborhood and left along the path the kids took from home to where they went swimming. These cases make me wonder. I know one of the murders where the victim was burned that two men were seen by a witness. Where did the clothes go? Someone might have an attic full of women's clothing.
I saw the missing persons flyer for Theresa Jones and found that @CarlK90245 had suggested her as a possible match a few years ago in the other thread.
I have tried to find news articles online but haven't been able to find anything. I did find an obituary for a man who could have been the driver who found her (same name, city of residence, and occupation). If I am correct about that being the man he had a daughter about the same age as WCJD. Apparently the police were never able to get anyone to come forward as being the person who dropped her off at the gas station. Being that it was on 45 it could have been anyone. Its possible the driver was headed out of state and never even heard about the murder. The account made by the waitress makes it sound as if she was in and out. Probably uncomfortable about the questions being asked. Maybe she thought someone was looking for her or had reported her missing. The thing that is making me wonder is that in one of the official accounts I was reading it says that the police never determined for sure that the girl in the truck stop was the girl that was found dead. If I recall correctly it was stated here that the waitress was shown the body? But due to the beating the girl endured maybe she wasn't able to be completely positive? If we learned anything from trying to identify this girl its that you can find 100 girls that look similar. All efforts to locate her identity in Rockport or Aransas Pass turned up nothing. Its possible she wasn't a local and had spent the summer there with a friend or relative. Or maybe she knew someone who lived there and was hoping to throw possible pursuers off her trail. If she was worried about someone coming after her then maybe she had run away before and was found.How much publicity did this case get at the time? Would love to know who the driver was that dropped her off....and what info he would have been able to provide.
Do we know how long she stayed at the diner and what she actually did while there? Stop to rest, bathroom, eat??
How much publicity did this case get at the time? Would love to know who the driver was that dropped her off....and what info he would have been able to provide.
Do we know how long she stayed at the diner and what she actually did while there? Stop to rest, bathroom, eat??
How much publicity did this case get at the time? Would love to know who the driver was that dropped her off....and what info he would have been able to provide.
Do we know how long she stayed at the diner and what she actually did while there? Stop to rest, bathroom, eat??
“Supposedly, (the girl) came into the restaurant, asking for directions to the Ellis Unit,” Burmester said, referring to the state prison near Huntsville. “She had a milkshake or something, and the waitress had a conversation with her, asked why she was going to the Ellis Unit. She was kind of young.
“She told the waitress she was going to see her boyfriend at Ellis,” Burmester said. “And, in the same conversation, it came up where she was from. She told the waitress she was from the Port Aransas area. And she told the waitress that she was 18, even though it was obvious she wasn’t.”
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Police tried without success to figure out which inmate at the Ellis Unit could have been the girl’s boyfriend.
“There was only one that could have possibly been her boyfriend, if you considered their ages, but we checked him out, and he didn’t work out at all,” Burmester said.
Cold case | Port Aransas South Jetty
Story told by retired Houston PD Homicide Detective John Burmester.
She might be too young. They tend to stay away from child cases.Has she not been submitted to the DNA DOE Project for a DNA match.
I wonder why they interviewed a Houston police officer? Did he have some involvement in the case?Found it! Courtesy of Bit of Hope, up thread page 27 !
Made me think there for a second had to look it up! Here is an excerpt from the article:I wonder why they interviewed a Houston police officer? Did he have some involvement in the case?