15 Aug 1975
Bonnie Marie Repinski (nee Newby) goes missing in the
Town of Menasha after a fight with her estranged husband,
David R. Repinski, regarding an upcoming divorce. She was living with her sister in the
Town of Menasha.
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Laine R. Shields, David Repinski's brother, was questioned about that disappearance by police when a warrant was served at the
B Bar 10 in 2013; this according to
Laine R. Shields himself in news interviews in 2013.
Wow! That's a ton of information and way to much crossing over of people to just be a coincidence.
I went to the Waupaca County's Cold Case webpage and they keep mentioning their SCRIBID App to get a pdf of information of this case. Is that something you already have? I'm wondering if their is more information there.
17 Dec 1975
Marvin G. Vande Hey, of Route 4,
Town of Buchanan area, calls his wife from Fond du Lac, WI at 2:30 am.
30 Dec 1975
Marvin G. Vande Hey's wife reports him "missing". (2 weeks later!) She states he quit his job, took all his clothes & took all their money out of the bank. She said he was depressed and under medical treatment.
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30 Jan 1978, (Monday) 26 year old
Peter Galowski convicted in
Stevens Point, WI, of a double murder on July 29, 1977, of
Francine Flowerette and
David Dethardt using a .38 caliber pistol he said he bought in June from Hunter's Corner. (Francine was also pregnant)
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31 Jan 1978 (Tuesday)
Marvin G. Vande Hey was found dead in his running vehicle on Sunset Lake Road,
New Hope, WI, just four miles (a 48 minute walk) north of the B Bar 10, of what appeared to be a suicide. A .38 cal. pistol was found on the seat next to his body. This was three years after he left his wife in
Appleton, WI! And then turning up dead several miles from Laine R. Shields' home/business the day after a double murder conviction involving a weapon allegedly belonging to
Laine R. Shields and right before
Vande Hey was to testify in a grand jury investigation also involving
Laine R. Shields.
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24 Feb 1978
Laine Richard Shields, age 34, aka
Lloyd R. Repinski, Jr. indicted by federal grand jury on firearms charges. Accused of making false statements to acquire a firearm in 1976 from a Stevens Point gun store.
Shields said he had no felony record when he bought a .38 caliber revolver from a Stevens Point store in 1976, when in fact, he had been convicted of aggravated battery. Article does not specify exactly when in 1976 the false statements were made. source: Wisconsin State Journal page 4
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Vande Hey was rumored to be either going to testify in the Galowski trial or in the federal grand jury investigation involving Laine. R. Shields (which may have arose out of the Galowski investigation), who was being investigated and was indicted February 24, 1978.
(Laine R. Shields allegedly claimed to have been subpoenaed to a grand jury investigation stemming from this murder supposedly because the gun used in the crime was registered to him)
Even though it was David Repinski who had left his wife on Highway 41 in the middle of the night after a fight over an upcoming divorce (and was the last one to see her alive), it was Laine R. Shields who had stated in news interviews in 2013 that he was a person of interest in that disappearance. This was after he was cautioned not to say anything by law emforcement about the warrants. Go figure.
So where was Marvin Vande Hey for three years between his "disappearance" in Dec 1975, which wasn't reported by his wife for two weeks, and his "suicide" in Jan 1978? What was he doing in all that time? Was it really a suicide or was he another murder victim? Was the bullet from that gun ever tested to see if it matched the bullets from the Galowski murders? What were his ties to Laine R. Shields? Was it just coincidental he was found 57 miles away in New Hope, WI from where he "disappeared" in Appleton, WI three years earlier. And it was within walking distance of the B Bar 10, Amherst, WI?
Bonnie's cold case can be reviewed here (in the second column)
http://php.wisinfo.com/mktg/unsolved_apc/
While you're at it, check out
Waupaca County's Cold Case webpage.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Waupaca-County-Cold-Case/241074659361282
It's tied in to
Bonnie Repinski's cold case. Interesting note in the disappearance of
Bonnie Marie Repinski; she "disappeared" on Hwy 41 in the
Town of Menasha several miles south of the Paradise Club, also on Hwy 41, an
Appleton, WI strip joint. Two "exotic dancers" who danced at that club were
Francine Flowerette and
David Dethardt, the two people who
Peter Galowski was convicted of killing! Their performer names were Fancy Clancy and Mr. Nitro. They even performed in Sheboygan, WI, two blocks from David Repinski's bar.
(Note who the former owner of the Paradise Club was. Stranen. Records show that was Bonnie Repinski's stepfather, John Stranen. Bonnie's mother at the time of marriage was listed as Mrs. John Stranen)
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http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h337/tangledweb55/clancynitrosheboygan-1.jpg
Another "mere" coincidence is that the
Paradise Club is the same place where
Iola Police Chief Michael Schertz, (reputed friend of Laine R. Shields) said he sold the Beretta pistol that he illegally obtained from an Iola bar owner (and stole from a police storage locker) to a biker. The same kind of pistol that was used to kill
Deputy Gerald Mork, son of the
Waupaca County Sheriff. (The same county
Togstad and Mumbrue were found murdered, as you already know.
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/24/us/around-the-nation-police-chief-is-charged-in-death-of-his-officer.html
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Waupaca-County-Cold-Case/241074659361282
The Vande Hey Route 4 address is in the
Town of Buchanan area, a few miles north of Willow Road, where
Dawn Marie Schnetzer was found in 4 Nov 1978. Vande Hey also once lived at 854 1/2 Third St. Menasha in 1969, 6 blocks from where Dawn was dropped off before she went missing. Is there a connection to this case even though Vande Hey died in January?