I was mistaken about it being the Westside, it was two sisters from the Northside and one little girl here in Arlington. Mom was mistaken about the timeline: she pulled out the file from her 'Helping Hand' program days and all the newspaper articles about the program and getting it started were from the 1974-1975 period, before Joyce* Malinka was killed. One little girl was killed off Merrill road..taking a shortcut through the woods. Two girls from the Northside named Mylette and Annette Anderson were never seen again. I don't have any other information about any of them unfortunately. One of the earliest clippings reads that the impetus for the starting the HH program were these 2 incidents; a Mrs. Rae Myers (a fellow PTA member with Mom) approached the City Council and the Sheriffs office about starting a public safety program for the Arlington area, and incidentally, she was the first person to receive and display a Helping Hand placard once Mom got the program started. I had forgotten til I read all those clippings...basically, my Mom was the Helping Hand program back then...lol
FL FL - Joyce Malinka, 22, Jacksonville, 25 Oct 1976
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I just searched this forum Cold Cases for 'Mylette' and as you will see there were even more girls missing that summer(1974)...strangely, the girl mentioned in the newspaper article back then, the one killed while walking through the woods off Merrill road isn't one of the ones mentioned in those posts.
The article that mentions her was from the Jacksonville Journal (the afternoon newspaper back then, owned by the Florida Publishing Company, publisher of the Florida Times-Union, and no longer in print) dated February 11, 1975, page 6; Sandie Strickland was the columnist/reporter.
The article that mentions her was from the Jacksonville Journal (the afternoon newspaper back then, owned by the Florida Publishing Company, publisher of the Florida Times-Union, and no longer in print) dated February 11, 1975, page 6; Sandie Strickland was the columnist/reporter.
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Ok,Thankyou.You said the two girls from the Northside named Mylette and Annette Anderson are still missing?Is there a police report on them?If they are not listed somewhere maybe we can get them listed on the Charlie Project,Doe Network,Porchlight and other places.Do you know any more on them?
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Ok,Thankyou.You said the two girls from the Northside named Mylette and Annette Anderson are still missing?Is there a police report on them?If they are not listed somewhere maybe we can get them listed on the Charlie Project,Doe Network,Porchlight and other places.Do you know any more on them?
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What is it with Jacksonville? Just read in People Magazine that there's someone prowling the Jacksonville mall area currently, abducting and murdering women (and one's 7 year old daughter) and tying them up in their cars.
Jeeez.
Jeeez.
I went to the library and found 2 articles and the obituary from Joyce Malinka. The print is a little hard to read. I scanned them, but I don't know how to put them online and make a link. I'll try emailing them to a moderator.
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If they are in a photo format you can upload them to photobucket.com and make a link to there. www.photobucket.com
Let me know if you need help, I am here until 9 PM PDT
Let me know if you need help, I am here until 9 PM PDT
http://s309.photobucket.com/albums/kk380/jaybyrd1974/?special_track=nav_album_album
See if this link works.
See if this link works.
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The pics are there, excellent job! :clap:
I can't. There was a program my ex used to use that was a kind of handwriting identifier. You could copy the article and the program would identify the typed letters. Sorry I can't help more than that.
Thank you birdie74 for all the time and work you put into finding all of this information, you went above and beyond the call. Thankfully, we have her first name for certain. I felt bad about posting before I even knew her name, but I was hoping that someone from Jacksonville who was older than me at the time would be on this site and would remember her, or the case. I was able to read the obit and the larger article (with the photo) by changing my zoom level on Windows...but the second one I can't read. It was heartbreaking to read the longer article, I had no idea the attack on her was so brutal. It seems like there would be other cases to connect to hers. Maybe it's just the "T.V. true crime fan" in me, but it's difficult for me to believe that this was a one-time thing for this guy, or the first time for that matter, not with this level of brutality anyway.
The Florida Times-Union
Wednesday, October 27, 1976
MISSING WOMAN'S BEATEN, STABBED BODY FOUND
BY ROBIN CLARK
Judy Melinka, 22, who had been missing since last Friday evening, was found dead in a Southside borrow pit Tuesday. She had been beaten, raped, and stabbed repeatedly in the back.
"It's the most brutal crime I've seen in two years on homicides," said Homicide Detective Fred Williams.
Her dungerees had been cut into strips which were used to tie her legs. She had been struck a hard blow across her forehead and choked, police said.
HER PARENTS, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Malinka of 1856 Landwood St., reported her missing Sunday. The last time anybody saw her was Friday night at Regency Square about 7:30 p.m. when she withdrew $10 from Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association. She headed for her beige Vega hatchback in the parking lot and vanished.
A girl friend with whom she was planning to go to a party called her at 9 p.m. but she wasn't at her apartment in Century 21 Apartments on Atlantic Boulevard.
About 10:30 that night the girl friend went to her apartment. She still wasn't home, so the girl left a note.
SATURDAY MORNING Theodore Malinka received a phone call from the Hertz car rental agency at Jacksonville International Airport where she has been employed for a year. Her friends there were concerned that she hadn't shown up for work. "It's not like her," they said.
So he called the apartment and, when he received no answer, drove over. He found the door unlocked. The lights and television were turned on. The note was still on the door.
He and his wife waited all day Saturday. Sunday morning they called police.
Monday, Williams and Homicide Detective Frank Japour spent the day investigating the missing person complaint. They learned that Miss Malinka was a Terry Parker High School graduate who spent a year at Florida Junior College and a year at Florida State University before joining Hertz.
She was an attractive young girl just breaking into life and a good girl who still spent a lot of time with her parents, Williams said.
TWO SOUTHERN BELL Telephone employes, John Grechin and William DeVane, had decided to do some target practicing on their day off and had gone to the borrow pit, located off Touchton Road near Southside Boulevard, to shoot when they spotted what they thought was a mannequin in the water.
They walked around to it and discovered it was a corpse.
Today searchers will go to the pit with magnets looking for the car and the murder weapon.
Investigators are asking that anyone who saw her Friday night or who spots her 1971 Vega with tag number 2D18598 to call police.
Wednesday, October 27, 1976
MISSING WOMAN'S BEATEN, STABBED BODY FOUND
BY ROBIN CLARK
Judy Melinka, 22, who had been missing since last Friday evening, was found dead in a Southside borrow pit Tuesday. She had been beaten, raped, and stabbed repeatedly in the back.
"It's the most brutal crime I've seen in two years on homicides," said Homicide Detective Fred Williams.
Her dungerees had been cut into strips which were used to tie her legs. She had been struck a hard blow across her forehead and choked, police said.
HER PARENTS, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Malinka of 1856 Landwood St., reported her missing Sunday. The last time anybody saw her was Friday night at Regency Square about 7:30 p.m. when she withdrew $10 from Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association. She headed for her beige Vega hatchback in the parking lot and vanished.
A girl friend with whom she was planning to go to a party called her at 9 p.m. but she wasn't at her apartment in Century 21 Apartments on Atlantic Boulevard.
About 10:30 that night the girl friend went to her apartment. She still wasn't home, so the girl left a note.
SATURDAY MORNING Theodore Malinka received a phone call from the Hertz car rental agency at Jacksonville International Airport where she has been employed for a year. Her friends there were concerned that she hadn't shown up for work. "It's not like her," they said.
So he called the apartment and, when he received no answer, drove over. He found the door unlocked. The lights and television were turned on. The note was still on the door.
He and his wife waited all day Saturday. Sunday morning they called police.
Monday, Williams and Homicide Detective Frank Japour spent the day investigating the missing person complaint. They learned that Miss Malinka was a Terry Parker High School graduate who spent a year at Florida Junior College and a year at Florida State University before joining Hertz.
She was an attractive young girl just breaking into life and a good girl who still spent a lot of time with her parents, Williams said.
TWO SOUTHERN BELL Telephone employes, John Grechin and William DeVane, had decided to do some target practicing on their day off and had gone to the borrow pit, located off Touchton Road near Southside Boulevard, to shoot when they spotted what they thought was a mannequin in the water.
They walked around to it and discovered it was a corpse.
Today searchers will go to the pit with magnets looking for the car and the murder weapon.
Investigators are asking that anyone who saw her Friday night or who spots her 1971 Vega with tag number 2D18598 to call police.
Florida Times-Union
Thursday October 28, 1976
Death Notices
MALINKA- Funeral services for Miss Joyce Ann Malinka, 22, of 1856 Landwood St., will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Chapel of Giddens-Griffith Southside Funeral Home, 6940 Atlantice Blvd., Rev. Terry Taylor officiating. Survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Malinka, of Jacksonville; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Lena Anker, San Bernardino, Calif.; 2 brothers, John Nelson Malinka and James Edward Malinka, both of Jacksonville. The family suggests memorials be made to the City of Hope Hospital, Duarte, Calif.
Thursday October 28, 1976
Death Notices
MALINKA- Funeral services for Miss Joyce Ann Malinka, 22, of 1856 Landwood St., will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Chapel of Giddens-Griffith Southside Funeral Home, 6940 Atlantice Blvd., Rev. Terry Taylor officiating. Survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Malinka, of Jacksonville; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Lena Anker, San Bernardino, Calif.; 2 brothers, John Nelson Malinka and James Edward Malinka, both of Jacksonville. The family suggests memorials be made to the City of Hope Hospital, Duarte, Calif.
Florida Times-Union
Thursday, October 28, 1976
PARALLELS SOUGHT IN MALINKA CASE, SEARCH FOR YOUTH
BY ROBIN CLARK
The investigation into the brutal slaying of Joyce Malinka continued Wednesday as police launched an investigation into the disappearance of a 17-year-old man.
Rolland Q. Hyatt Jr. of 12301 Ft. Caroline Road was last seen alive Friday about 2 p.m. at his father's Exxon service station at Regency Square.
Investigators are considering the possibility that his disappearance and the disappearance of Miss Malinka, who was last seen Friday evening at Regency Square, may be related. Her body was found in a borrow pit Tuesday.
AN AUTOPSY Wednesday revealed the most likely cause of Miss Malinka's death was strangulation. Dr. Peter Lipkovic, county medical examiner, said she was alive when she was beaten in the back of the head, stabbed 12 times in the back and finally strangled.
None of the knife wounds penetrated into the body cavity, he said.
Police brought pumps to the borrow pit - off Touchton Road near Southside Boulevard - in hopes of draining it.
Chief of Detectives Matt Touchton said investigators hope to find a pocket knife or her purse which might provide some clue in the murder.
Water is being pumped into nearby pits.
Touchton said two persons claim to have seen Miss Malinka on Friday night around 10 p.m. But the witnesses put her in two different locations and police are still wondering why she would have left for the evening leaving her lights, television, and a hair curler on.
ROLLAND HYATT SR. said he became concerned about his son's disappearance on Monday when he received a call from an Amoco station at San Juan Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard informing him that his son's car had been abandoned there. The car had been damaged on the right front.
Mr. Hyatt said, "He wouldn't run away because of the damage. He pays for the insurance on it himself. If he was going to leave he'd take his car or a truck or his motorcycle."
"His clothes haven't been touched. The first thing I do every morning is check the bedrooms to see if he has come in and gone to sleep... but so far, nothing."
The younger Hyatt is enrolled in the high school program at Florida Junior College after moving from Jacksonville's Northside with his family.
A POLICE SPOKESMAN said, "This is a serious case and we are looking at a possibility of foul play."
Rolland Jr. is described at 6-feet-2 and 150 pounds with blue eyes and long locks of brown hair.
His car is a brown Capri.
Police are seeking information from anyone who might have seen the youth. He was expected home for dinner Friday night.
As yet no connection between Hyatt's disappearance and Miss Malinka's death has been established and police are still seeking her 1971 beige Vega.
FUNERAL SERVICES for Miss Malinka will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Giddens-Griffith Southside Funeral Home, 6940 Atlantic Blvd., Rev. Terry Taylor officiating.
Survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Malinka, Jacksonville; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Lena Anker, San Bernardino, Calif., and two brothers, John Nelson Malinka and James Edward Malinka, both of Jacksonville.
The family suggests memorials be made to the City of Hope Hospital, Duarte, Calif.
Thursday, October 28, 1976
PARALLELS SOUGHT IN MALINKA CASE, SEARCH FOR YOUTH
BY ROBIN CLARK
The investigation into the brutal slaying of Joyce Malinka continued Wednesday as police launched an investigation into the disappearance of a 17-year-old man.
Rolland Q. Hyatt Jr. of 12301 Ft. Caroline Road was last seen alive Friday about 2 p.m. at his father's Exxon service station at Regency Square.
Investigators are considering the possibility that his disappearance and the disappearance of Miss Malinka, who was last seen Friday evening at Regency Square, may be related. Her body was found in a borrow pit Tuesday.
AN AUTOPSY Wednesday revealed the most likely cause of Miss Malinka's death was strangulation. Dr. Peter Lipkovic, county medical examiner, said she was alive when she was beaten in the back of the head, stabbed 12 times in the back and finally strangled.
None of the knife wounds penetrated into the body cavity, he said.
Police brought pumps to the borrow pit - off Touchton Road near Southside Boulevard - in hopes of draining it.
Chief of Detectives Matt Touchton said investigators hope to find a pocket knife or her purse which might provide some clue in the murder.
Water is being pumped into nearby pits.
Touchton said two persons claim to have seen Miss Malinka on Friday night around 10 p.m. But the witnesses put her in two different locations and police are still wondering why she would have left for the evening leaving her lights, television, and a hair curler on.
ROLLAND HYATT SR. said he became concerned about his son's disappearance on Monday when he received a call from an Amoco station at San Juan Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard informing him that his son's car had been abandoned there. The car had been damaged on the right front.
Mr. Hyatt said, "He wouldn't run away because of the damage. He pays for the insurance on it himself. If he was going to leave he'd take his car or a truck or his motorcycle."
"His clothes haven't been touched. The first thing I do every morning is check the bedrooms to see if he has come in and gone to sleep... but so far, nothing."
The younger Hyatt is enrolled in the high school program at Florida Junior College after moving from Jacksonville's Northside with his family.
A POLICE SPOKESMAN said, "This is a serious case and we are looking at a possibility of foul play."
Rolland Jr. is described at 6-feet-2 and 150 pounds with blue eyes and long locks of brown hair.
His car is a brown Capri.
Police are seeking information from anyone who might have seen the youth. He was expected home for dinner Friday night.
As yet no connection between Hyatt's disappearance and Miss Malinka's death has been established and police are still seeking her 1971 beige Vega.
FUNERAL SERVICES for Miss Malinka will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Giddens-Griffith Southside Funeral Home, 6940 Atlantic Blvd., Rev. Terry Taylor officiating.
Survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Malinka, Jacksonville; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Lena Anker, San Bernardino, Calif., and two brothers, John Nelson Malinka and James Edward Malinka, both of Jacksonville.
The family suggests memorials be made to the City of Hope Hospital, Duarte, Calif.
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