Recent content by Carl W. Goss

I mean a set of parallel chrome strips on the trunk. Only 1958 corvettes had those strips.

I keep wondering about that corvette that the police say they saw Graham getting into. Did anyone ever do a sketch of the vehicle? Did anyone notice perhaps a couple of parallel chrome strips on the hood? Seems to me that corvette is still running somewhere. I wonder if GM would have a...

While looking at old records in the Pasadena California library today, I found a reference to Kirst Construction company. It shows an address of 836 West Woodbury Road, Altadena California. This location is not very far from the last known location of Tommy Bowman. Tommy Bowman disappeared...

I found an old aerial photo of the area, including Karen Lynn Tompkins school and her house. This was taken in 1963 at an altitude of 15,000 feet. Seems the route to her house would have taken her over an old slough area which was not built up until the 1970s or thereabouts. In 1963 it...

I've also come across a record of an award of a reservoir contract in 1960 to Kirst Constructin of Altadena California. Altadena is not far from where Tommy Bowman and Bruce Kremen disappeared. I'm going to see if I can find the application for bid and get perhaps some history of Kirst...

Thinking maybe Karen might have walked past some construction in progress near Halldale school, I'm sending a quiery to the USGS in search of historic aerial photographs. Hoping for a photo taken shortly after Karen's disappearance and shortly before. If I get good enough photos, at a low...

Thanks for your note. Karen's case depends on finding out exactly where Mack Ray Edwards was working on the day Karen disappeared. I still can't seem to find out if there was freeway construction on-going near Halldale school on the friday of her disappearace. Edwards may have seen Karen...

No, I haven't yet received any information from Cal Trans on the work history of Mack Ray Edwards. That is those sections of the freeway he was working on when all those poor kids disappeared. I'll hit him up again one of these days. I'd like to know what section he was working on when Karen...

Bones were found by an Orange County California freeway according to the LA Times. See http://www.latimes.com/ Apparently it was an adult, but I wonder if there is a connection to Mack Ray Edwards.

Please do. I think the fact that the Brown girl was missing her ring might have had something to do with whoever killed her.

No, I wasn't aware that Dorothy Brown had some sort of crush on anyone. But if she did, the guy would certainly have been a suspect. Seems to me the family would have known something.

Karen Lynn Tompkins and Dorothy Gale Brown's disappearances have always thought to have been connected. But are they? I did some research and here's what I found: Dorothy Gale Brown was last seen alive at 7 PM Tuesday at her trailer park home at 1820 Torrance Blvd. Torrance, California. Her...

Status Victim Date Went Missing/Killed Day of Week Confessed Stella Nolan 6-20-53 Tu Confessed Don Baker, Brenda Howell 8-6-56 Mon Suspect Tommy Bowman 3-23-57 Sat. Suspect Bruce Kremen 7-12-60 Thurs Suspect Karen Tompkins 8-18-61 Friday Suspect Dorothy Brown 7-3-62 Tu. Confessed Roger Madison...

I'm going to have to get an aerial photo of Halldale Ave school as it existed in 1961 and 1962. There’s no large vacant areas near Halldale Ave school now. But back then there must have been undeveloped areas. With an older photo I could go over possible routes she might have followed between...

I'm thinking Karen's school was on the west side of the freeway. Did she lived on the east side of the freeway? If so, she might have passed under the freeway on one of those streets that cut under the freeay. If Mack Ray Edwards was working on the freeway he might have somehow seen her. He...