Triss
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It truly is! DNA is a blessing.Oh, me too! After so long, it really is a miracle!
It truly is! DNA is a blessing.Oh, me too! After so long, it really is a miracle!
Anyone know approximately what time of day it was when this occurred?
She disappeared from the drive in diner she worked at about July 1, 1966. She was 17. Age 16 is the age of consent in Kansas. The man with her was an adult using an assumed false name. Four days and 750+ miles later she was heard screaming for help in what appears to be an enclosed pool at Roper's Motel in Pecos, TX. The route appeared to head directly to Mexico. A bruise was found on her temple. The motel was up for sale the following year.
What I'd like to know is did she know how to swim?
Tarango said Jolaine’s siblings don’t recall their shy sister having any boyfriends and can’t think of anyone she would have run away with. But they did share something that may be useful in the investigation.
Jolaine did not know how to swim.
If "Russell Battoun" was a fictitious name, why would he go back for the registration card?
I suppose there could be some fictitious and some true info, like perhaps he'd given the correct make and model of his car?
Also if I were to pick some fake name, I would use something generic like "John Smith" or so. Battoun is a really rare last name.
Exactly! He had to have known the guy. Perhaps he was stationed with him. I wonder if any of the guys from his troupe had been reported AWOL. Or the guy could of been from the same home town as Baytown. That is too of a specific name to just make up to rent a room.
So glad to see she's been identified. What a sad ending.
I used to go into pools all the time back when I couldn't swim. I'd just be careful to stay in the shallow end, or near the side. That said, I don't think that's what happened here. Sounds for sure like kidnapping and murder.
I still don't think this was murder, personally.
It was July, in Texas. It was probably very hot. I can see her getting in the pool to cool off, being unbearably hot - she probably wasn't used to that sort of heat. If he wanted to murder her, he had countless opportunities to do so during their 750+ mile journey. Why would he not have murdered her sooner? On the long stretches of lonely road, where he could dump her in the middle of nowhere and she may never even have been found? That would make so much more sense. He could have killed her and gotten away with it easily.
In comparison, murdering someone in a motel pool is extremely risky. As I've said before, it's likely that at least some of the rooms faced the pool, there was no way of knowing nobody was watching. And since they were together, he would be the immediate suspect and would be heavily questioned were she to die in the motel. The reports of screams are not consistent, with some reports saying there were screams and other reports saying there were not. I doubt there was enough time to hold her under the water until she died, go back to the motel room with nobody seeing, change clothes (as they would be wet) and get into bed - all before she was discovered in the pool. It's just so very unlikely.
That he immediately took off isn't a sign that he killed her, I don't think. He was grooming a vulnerable teen. He had no way of knowing if he was wanted for kidnapping, so it makes sense that he would take off rather than getting arrested for kidnapping or whatever else he knew he'd done.