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I have now found further Ancestry records which confirm she was born as Deborah Ann Helmontaller and that she married Roger Dale Binkley in Sumner, Tennessee on 27 October 1973. Presumably she divorced at some point as she then married David Eugene Murr on 4 December 1982. So she disappeared...

No. I do not believe it is related to his banking career but the scandal at the HBOS Reading branch in the noughties says it cannot be entirely discounted. In that case a local branch scammed many businesses and was only exposed after the Lloyds takeover, having been able to get away with it for...

The odd thing about the bullets is that they date from the 80s or 90s and so are not contemporaneous with the gun. This means they must have been sourced separately if the gun was a souvenir in the family of the gunman or the gun and ammunition were sourced together from a criminal source...

Thanks. I had missed that post. I have been thinking about this sighting. I would have recognised and registered a sighting of a minority of the pupils in the year ahead of me when I was at school so I think the confidence in this sighting rests on how well she knew Ruth. If they shared...

You have found another post from the witness which is useful. If the person I suggested as the witness is correct she would have been in the 5th form, one year below Ruth, at the time. The relevance of this is that, unlike 6th form, any younger sets are expected to be on the school site through...

Why do you think she does not know the time? It simply was not in her social media posts.

Unfortunately not.

A couple of small points; The notes exist. Apart from the contemporaneous reports of them in the press there is also the refusal of Surrey police to release them under a FOI request a few years back. If they did not exist they could have simply said so. Also the notes have been referred to in...

No. This has come up before. She was definitely 16. Her birth record is on Ancestry and she was also in the 6th form which starts at 16.

I have no idea why it is not coming up for you. It is still coming up for me with a simple search on Robert E Spurlock with his exact date of birth entered (which requires an initial filter to birth records as above that level only allows the year to be entered). The record is not from the SSDI...

Ancestry has a record from the US Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File which lists him as dying on 26 February 2009 (and is definitely the right man as it also has the birthdate of 19 October 1962 and middle initial E). Whether this is significant or just the Army writing him off as...

I have now found a newspaper article headed 'The Execution of James Leroy Jamison" in the Chico News and Review of 10 March 1983. The article is about a failed prosecution for the murder of the said Jamison and includes the information that; Fabian was a suspect in the November 1978 murder of...

An interesting book has recently been published called The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces. It is by Seth Harp, a serious investigative journalist unlike so many these days and is being developed by HBO. It provides interesting background on the environment...

My understanding was that the witness reported seeing Ruth with the suitcase on the Dorking-Reigate Road (the A25) during daylight (no time specified). That in no way contradicts later events although whether the sighting is correct is another matter. If she was seen before going into Dorking...

Bump. I am wondering if Luella Jane Armentrout is the Luella in this case. The reason is that there is a divorce record for Luella Jane Armantrout and James M Beckley in Oregon in 1956 where Louella is granted the divorce as plaintiff. I attach a pic of the divorce record. This would suggest she...