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Why do you believe they’re involved?

Notch likely had various accomplices in his many crimes, so it’s hard to say who was with him, if anyone at all. What is clear is that Herb Notch and Mary Reker knew each other, and were seen together shortly before the murder when Mary was spending time with her family in Herb’s tiny town of...

It’s my belief that SCSO was able to determine where Lloyd was at the time of the Reker sisters murders. There was another Lloyd, from Appleton, WI who worked for Roy Hoppe’s carnival in nearby Kimball that weekend. I’ve spoken to Georgianna about her encounter. I have no reason to believe she...

Notch is the guy. The only question is did he have an accomplice. He was a likely suspect in other offenses where a knife was the weapon of choice, and there was nearly always an accomplice. Lloyd Welch is a distraction.

After 29 years there is finally a major breakthrough! https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/10/02/morgan-nick-kidnapping-arkansas-billy-jack-lincks/75485425007/

Yes! I have been keeping up with the podcast and have been in touch with them. They are doing a great job finding and revealing new information about Josh’s disappearance. I had forgotten that the local papers had published information about Josh participating in online chats, etc. Another...

I tend to doubt Welch’s involvement. There were two carnivals operating in the area that weekend. One in Kimball at St. Ann’s church. I spoke with the owner of that carnival and he said he had a young man named Lloyd on his staff, but he was from Appleton, WI and was arrested for writing bad...

Well you got me there, lol. However, I would say the malfeasance with that case lies more on the office of the District Attorney than it does on the Sheriff’s department investigation. Law enforcement had Heinrich for the Paynesville incidents and Jared’s kidnapping months and years before...

How certain is it that Josh’s friend was accurate in say Josh had taken his wallet to the party? My understanding is the wallet was found at Josh’s apartment, but are we absolutely certain of that either? Again it seems to me that if both aspects are correct that would have been a huge red...

This is certainly an interesting twist if true, and my mind immediately goes to staging by someone, and then to the hour or so time discrepancy between Katie and Nick as pointed out in the Unsolved Mysteries program. If your scenario is accurate, and I’m more on board with it than I was...

As a fellow true crime sleuth I very much admire your thought process. Regarding the article and the statement that Josh had his wallet, isn’t it possible this was miss-reported? Why would they report that he had taken his wallet unless it turned up missing?

As a fellow true crime sleuth I very much admire your thought process. Regarding the article and the statement that Josh had his wallet, isn’t it possible this was miss-reported? Why would they report that he had taken his wallet unless it turned up missing?

How did you like Patty’s book? I thought it was very well written. Spoiler alert! I cringed at times when Patty acknowledged being in denial that Danny Heinrich was involved, right up to the point of his courtroom confession. Yet, it explained some things that happened over the years. I also...

Thank you, but I didn’t solve the case either. In my next book I’ll share more of the real story about Joy Baker. When I met her at the library in St. Cloud in November 2013 to share more information I had, she said she wanted to write a book about the case. “But I have to have Patty for that,”...