WI WI - Barbara Nelson, 34, Elkhorn, 5 Aug 1982

[scorpionsting]

The victim...

 

[scorpionsting]

Barbara Nelson was working her day off at the convenience store and was supposed to be home canning beans. About 5:40 PM, August 5,1982, James Peterson stopped at the Mini Stop-N-Shop in Albion to get gas. Barbara came to the door of the convenience store and told him the station was out of gas. Peterson noticed a man standing behind Barbara. He had dirty, shoulder-length brown hair. Peterson then drove away.

The day after, a teacher was driving home on Bray Road or another rural road east of Elkhorn. She noticed a pickup truck parked alongside the road facing her. She observed a shorter person get pushed into the cab. She saw a man get into the driver's seat and another man climbed into the back of the pickup. The truck made a U-turn and then parked on the side of the road she was on.

The teacher didn't want to get involved and reported the incident to police only after the body was found four days later.

 

[LaLaw2000]

What great information and pics you have provided here, sleutherforlife! This case could have been solved with all of this information, IMO.

 

[scorpionsting]

What great information and pics you have provided here, sleutherforlife! This case could have been solved with all of this information, IMO.

I think one of the detectives working the case said the same thing, in different words. It's amazing that all of the above clues are public information, yet the case remains unsolved. They have 10 persons of interest, so they may know who it might be, but, they just don't have enough proof for an arrest. I believe they need to release more information, if not all. When a case reaches a quarter century unsolved, they should be required to release all information.

And now they have two more murders to solve; two women in suitcases found near Geneva, just 6 miles south of where Barbara Nelson was found.

 

[Donamena]

I think one of the detectives working the case said the same thing, in different words. It's amazing that all of the above clues are public information, yet the case remains unsolved. They have 10 persons of interest, so they may know who it might be, but, they just don't have enough proof for an arrest. I believe they need to release more information, if not all. When a case reaches a quarter century unsolved, they should be required to release all information.

And now they have two more murders to solve; two women in suitcases found near Geneva, just 6 miles south of where Barbara Nelson was found.

And that truck is parked in a local barn with a tarp over it. Unless they hat it crushed, but there would be a record of that, wouldn't there? In Louisiana you have to give over car title to get it crushed

 

[scorpionsting]

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19820811&id=j3tIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JhIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6921,1780676

The August 11, 1982 Milwaukee Sentinel states:

Authorities said they believed Nelson was abducted during a robbery. About $355 was missing from the store's cash register and floor safe.

The article goes on to state that the FBI was involved in the investigation and that the man was believed to be driving a late-model dark green pickup truck, possibly four-wheel drive with on-and-off-the road tires. The vehicle had rust on the sides and a chrome rear bumper. The article gives a description of one of the men along with a sketch.

 

[Tricia]

Thank you Sleutherforlife for posting all the information.

It is amazing that this case has yet to be solved with all the public info.

Let's hope and pray something is done soon.

Barbara Nelson's family has waited too long for justice.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

“We believe there’s two (suspects):” Detectives hope new technology will solve decades old cold case - April 20, 2015

http://fox6now.com/2015/04/20/we-believe-theres-two-suspects-detectives-hope-new-technology-will-solve-decades-old-cold-case/

Investigators hope an out-of-state crime lab can identify a suspect in a 32-year-old cold case. 32 years ago, Barbara Nelson's body was found in a field at Highway 11 and Bray Road near Elkhorn. Even though it has been decades, the Walworth County Sheriff's Department continues to get tips in Nelson's death, and they say they've investigated all of them. Now, they hope DNA technology will help to crack this case.

Now for the first time, the Walworth County Sheriff's Office is releasing new sketches showing age progressions of the two suspects.

 

[pleasestandby]

Serial killer Luigi Ernesto Aiello might be a good candidate for one of the killers of Barbara Nelson based on the physical description. Below are

1) a sketch from a description by witnesses in Nelson's 1982 murder,
2) a 1987 photo of Aiello in a Kenosha murder trial of the Kenosha County Sheriff's nephew and another victim in another robbery/murder at I-94 & Hwy 50, Kenosha County Stemper's I-94 Shell Gas Station (located west of Kenosha) and
3) a photo of Aiello in prison.

All three photos show he and the person in the sketch part their hair in the middle. Aiello also would have been 18-19 in 1982. The jawline, chin and facial hair "shadow" are also similar. The route taken from Albion, WI (the Nelson kidnap site) to Elkhorn, WI is on a direct route to Kenosha, WI, where Aiello is from. A military-type vest found at the Nelson murder is shown in post #12. Aiello was an ex-Marine. Spriggie Hensley, Jr., the other person convicted of the Kenosha County murder, doesn't resemble the other suspect in the Nelson murder. I have no description of the other ex-Marine, Edwin Telles, involved in one (or more?) of Aiello's murders in Arizona and California.

Some interesting links to the Aiello/Hensley murders:

http://journaltimes.com/news/arizona-begins-prosecution-of-kenosha-killer/article_504fe9a9-fbdb-50ad-9f8b-7542a532b3fd.html

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-01-01/news/8701010105_1_gas-station-charred-bodies-utility-room

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19870425&id=qI5QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hxIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6846,7012791&hl=en

https://news.google.com/newspapers?...AIBAJ&sjid=hxIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6628,5554605&hl=en

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19870422&id=pY5QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hxIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6628,5554605&hl=en

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19870325&id=tYhQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gxIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5683,6419047&hl=en


https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19870325&id=tYhQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gxIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5683,6419047&hl=en

 

[JJ007]

I've attached a pic of brothers Larry DeWayne Hall and Gary Hall. I found the new pic via an old video on Discovery highlighting Larry DeWayne Hall titled Evil Twin. Larry is a well known SK serving life, while the other brother is living in Indiana. Also, read about Larry's victims at the link with additional info regarding their travels and thoughts about them both being involved with murders over the years. Now, Larry didn't drive a truck (van), but maybe Gary did? There was also another person who was thought to be killing alongside Larry, but died from cancer I believe (Dry cleaning biz). Regardless, the FBI found mounds of clothes Larry had kept from victims (could explain change of clothes), and maybe the vest is a Civil War style vest? Idk.

Berit Beck (7/17/90) was thought to be one of his victims who of course was taken and found very close to this (Nelson) murder, but a few years later.

MO may not fit, but considering how many victims Larry had it's possible along with same location of others.

It's entirely possible someone came down the road cutting short an eventual sexual crime, or was one of Larry's first victims so the robbery took place that didn't happen in others, etc.

Victims and file: http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc 405/serial killers/Hall, Larry DeWayne.pdf

Map: Grignon Mansion is close, which fits his Civil War site murder locals.

https://www.zeemaps.com/pub?group=6...e=1&shuttered=1&x=-86.375585&y=38.568330&z=13

Interview with writer about Larry, his travels and possibly twins involvement.

http://www.truecrimediary.com/index.cfm?page=cases&id=174

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[MCsleuth4]

Is this case still open?

 

[mothwings]

 

[mothwings]

This case is so similar to the abduction of Trudy Darby, profiled on Unsolved Mysteries in what was considered one of the scariest segments. I can see one of her killers (above) heading out to the Grateful Dead concert in 1982 and being so broke—looking for booze, they decide to abduct and rob Barbara Nelson—as he would later would with Trudy Darby and brutally murder her. I think he looks a lot like the composite and it's likely the individuals that did this were from out of town. Barbara really deserves justice. Poor woman just doing her job.

Man convicted of 1991 killing of Missouri convenience store clerk dies in prison - Missourinet

 

[Richard]

Barbara Nelson, 34, murdered 5 August 1982

 

[Quoththeraven]

Some Studebaker swaps and meets that were going on in the area might be a good source of info if they're still operating or if someone who belonged to them might remember or had seen that specific truck.

 

[Quoththeraven]

Two old Studebakers; one with oval edge and one with flared edge.

 

[dogsearch]

I just stumbled across this post and realized you're talkin about the body (the man) my grandfather found in his Valley at the house where I'M LIVING RIGHT NOW. I had forgotten about that. It was creepy because my mother and my grandfather and others walked right by there weekly if not daily walking up to various farms for chores, and never saw it. Not even buried - but sitting upright against a tree. I thought they'd never ideal, but eventually they did. Still no idea what happened though. We thought maybe he got hit by a car after a concert, but the blunt force trauma didn't lend itself to that possibility

If you continue east on Bray Road, you will run into Bowers Road. Go left (North) on Bowers Road a couple miles and you will come to the site of where another murder victim, who died from blunt force trauma to the head, was found on March 26, 2002 along Bowers Road, which is about a mile from the Alpine Valley Music Theater.

The white male was identified in 2009 as Daniel M. Walden of South Beloit, who had been reported missing in 1998. No known connections to the two murders.

http://www.communityshoppers.com/Ne...to-unsolved-murders-and-missing-persons-cases

 

[dogsearch]

If you go around the corner, about a 1/2 mile away, my great aunt was struck by a car so hard and off the road that she was thrown well into a nearby cornfield and our relatives did not find her body for some time (by then it was too late) . Around 1979-1980. She was a child caregiver, something like a teacher I think? I believe my great-uncle found her body (brother in law). About 3 years before that my uncle's struck a child in the area with his work vehicle and killed him. We much more recently found out that he had molested generations of our family as well as many others. He died in jail during a 7 year sentence for homemade *advertiser censored* at 87 I believe.

For a while i wondered if he had a hand in the jacob wetterling case, since when I was younger he used to take a bus to camp somewhere out there, and could never bribe any of the family children along, because apparently their parents didn't want the kids to go through what they did (but they never told anyone that). But fortunately that killer was found.

Years before those two cases my uncle found a woman's body while driving his work truck. I do not know the name. I only know it was in the area.

So that's two bodies my family found. My cousin found another body while scuba diving in a local like. Suicide.

 

[mothwings]

This poor woman and her family deserve justice.

I do have a feeling this was related to the Grateful Dead concert.

 

[Richard]

Barbara Nelson, 34, Murdered 5 August 1982

Wisconsin Cold Case: Detectives release photos to try to solve abduction, murder
Barbara Nelson's body was found in a cornfield...
Posted: May 9, 2014

EDGERTON, Wis. — Detectives admit it’s been years since they’ve had a credible lead in a Rock County woman’s death...

...The murder weapon, a .25-caliber gun, was never recovered...

If you can help call Walworth County’s tip line at 262-741-4425.

LINK:

Wisconsin Cold Case: Detectives release photos to try to solve abduction, murder