WI WI - LAKE GENEVA SUITCASE MURDERS, Laura Simonson & Jenny Gamez - #1

[Alski]

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today...-oregon-woman-found-in-suitcase-in-wisconsin/

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.tribtown.com/view/story/fc4232e9e6054dd18a958ae87fa77fe4/US--Human-Remains-Suitcases

He said one reason for the delay in identifying Gamez was that she had told her family she was moving, and as a result, was never officially reported missing.

 

[Rallygrrl]

From what I understand, she was an adult and there were no reasons to question the possibility of leaving town.

 

[KDub]

With or without her son? That part wouldn't strike them as odd and something to question?

 

[OhThatVictoria]

this video from KEZI (posted three days ago) gives more info on Jenny Gamez's background:
http://www.kezi.com/oakridge-mom-linked-to-murder-suspect/

 

[Alski]

http://www.jrn.com/tmj4/news/Police-expected-to-ID-second-suitcase-victim-today-265215161.html

 

[KDub]

this video from KEZI (posted three days ago) gives more info on Jenny Gamez's background:
http://www.kezi.com/oakridge-mom-linked-to-murder-suspect/

The title is OakRidge Mom linked to murder suspect not one second of that video says a single thing about her being a Mom....how sad for her that she was "lost" in such a way that she wasn't even reported missing.

 

[OhThatVictoria]

Jenny was a foster child and the article that accompanies the KEZI video indicates that after graduating from high school she moved into her Foster Father's home (per her Foster Mother). What's that about? From what her friends stated in video, it sounds like she was somewhat adrift in life (and had had a hard life), perfect target for exploitation.

I'm wondering if Zelich paid her way to WI?!?

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/2nd-suitcase-body-may-be-missing-Oregon-woman-5589458.php

The foster mother of an Oregon woman whose remains were found in a suitcase dropped along a rural road in Wisconsin says she hadn't heard from her foster daughter for more than a year.

Lorraine Ericksen, of Cottage Grove, Oregon, told The Associated Press on Monday that she's been in shock since police came to her house Friday to look at hair samples...

Ericksen says Gamez was an upbeat teenager who had a hard time after giving up her son to his father several years earlier.

 

[seattlechiquita]

marking spot.

 

[Woe.be.gone]

Wow, it's still shocking to me that they knew so much about SZ and stories like this we're posted in January.

http://www.missingpersonsofamerica.com/2014/01/is-underground-world-of-sex-traffickers.html

I thought Rochester police did have evidence to indicate that Laura died at the hotel and that Steven was there with her and left without her. That's not enough to bring him in for questioning and do a search?

Mind-boggling, especially combined with the incident on record as to why he was forced to resign from his LE position.

When will law enforcement switch to a proactive mode of investigation versus the current hindsight mode?

There are crime categories where the writing is on the wall yet the writing isn't good enough. Stalker cases are an example. Someone I know of had their whole house trashed by her stalker - destroyed at the tune of thousands of dollars - months before she was gunned down in a parking lot. Destroying someone's home doesn't count as a felony worthy of serious punishment especially stacked on top of all the threats and other bad acts leading up to its destruction?

Instead let's worry about people smoking marijuana (my current example of lessers that seems to get too much attention imo). I guess that's an easier arrest.

 

[Woe.be.gone]

I'm unclear - it is Oregon, Wisconsin, correct? Not the state of Oregon.
Or, is it the state? (I assumed the city of Oregon in WI)

 

[KDub]

Thanks OkieGranny, I was getting concerned about that little boy...so at least we know he is with his father. My heart still breaks for Jenny, though..

 

[KDub]

I'm unclear - it is Oregon, Wisconsin, correct? Not the state of Oregon.
Or, is it the state? (I assumed the city of Oregon in WI)

this is the state of Oregon.

 

[Woe.be.gone]

This is a good point, Believe.

When we had our local serial killer preying on women who worked the streets in a nearby city, the investigation took at least a couple of years and they eventually talked to probably half the population of our five-town area. They even asked me a couple of questions because I was a regular customer at the food-service place where one of the victims worked. But it took months.

The reality of LE work is that it doesn't proceed nearly as fast as we would like. Or as they would like, for that matter.

Yes but we can't make excuses when patterns are ignored anymore imo.

Also I'm noticing a trend among recent perps. Often times the quiet person is making headlines. Sneaky people.

 

[STANDREID]

When was Jenny born - around 1992? Is 21 her age now or in 2012?

 

[snarkymalarkey]

In case anybody here is interested, another murder took place right down the road from here in 2003.

Keith Addy ordered an escort over the phone from "Beautiful Blondes". A young woman agreed, she arrived, and eventually he killed her.
He dismembered the body and threw her remains in the dumpster next to his apartment

Keith Addy lived on 87th and National Ave.



http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZiwqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RUUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6459,6717947

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jrQaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gUMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6632,2722468

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XywqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RUUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3830,841279

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jLQaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gUMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6691,1135962

http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...LIaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GUUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6437,5800256

He was actually found not guilty due to mental illness.

 

[Woe.be.gone]

Yes, I don't see what you could have said at the time. It's weird, but there are people like that. I personally know a woman who likes to be treated like that.

That is how she spends some of her vacations. Seriously. She goes to this guy's house and he puts her in the crate in the basement. He has poker night with some friends of similar taste, and the women in collars and leashes sit behind the chairs and bark like dogs when their "owner" hands them a treat off the table.

Seriously.

She didn't see fit to tell me any more than that and frankly, I don't want to know. She gets really turned on by just talking about it but I find it more than a little creepy. I don't get the impression there's even any actual sex to it. She just likes to pretend she's a dog.

I'm sorry but I can't stop laughing. You know that famous poker playing painting where the faces of the players are faces of different dogs? The image your description conjured up in mind made me think of that picture but if I could paint, I'd paint a new one the way you described it. Men want their women behind them while they are free to do what they want but the woman should be there when they call and to admire their success, etc.

(I'm in a strange mood - have been for days.)

 

[KDub]

When was Jenny born - around 1992? Is 21 her age now or in 2012?

I believe she was 19 when she was killed...I'd have to find an article where I read that, though.

 

[Woe.be.gone]

Nothing is ever going to change. Bad attitude but not without reason. I'll go back to reading. Woe.is.me.