Didn't Klunder beat his first victim with his fists until she was almost dead? I don't think that he would need a weapon to cause blunt force injuries.
Otto, he did not beat her with his fists. He beat her head against a wall and used a firearm to beat her for refusing to disrobe. She later came too and plead with him. He pistol whipped her again causing unconsciousness. When she awakened, she had head injuries and was badly bruised and bloody above her waist, wearing only her jeans. Klunder, leaving her jeans intact is very revealing, imo.
When Klunder attacked his prior victims, he did not work on a hog farm and would not have had access to a euthanasia captive bolt gun. Imo, this gun was used as a creative means to legally arm himself as a convicted felon...
Although he would not need a weapon to cause blunt force injuries. The injuries described by the ME in Kathlynn's COD would be consistent with the injuries from different euthanasia captive bolt guns, imo..
http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/kl...cle_2a2025c0-c521-11e2-a593-001a4bcf887a.html
He blocked my way out and told me to take my clothes off,” she said.
“All I could think was, ‘I’m going to die.”
Twenty-six years later, Gansen, who now lives in Clear Lake, knows how close she might have come to death.
She has thought of it many times this past week — and of Klunder, and of Kathlynn Shepard of Dayton, his last victim.
The attack was vicious.
After Klunder got Gansen into the restroom she refused to disrobe.
Klunder began to struggle with her, banging her head against the wall of the restroom and pistol-whipping her in the head.
She momentarily lost consciousness.
When she woke up, she said, she still wore slacks but some of her upper clothing was removed.
“I begged him to let me go. I told him I wouldn’t tell anyone,” she said, and he began to beat her again.
When she gained consciousness again, Klunder was gone.
She began to drag herself home, a few blocks away, bleeding.
While her slacks had stayed in place, her breasts and chest were peppered with bruises. She said only two words to family members when she got home: “Gun” and “Klunder.”
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Imo, when Klunder left her, he thought that she was deceased...
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Scranton – who went on to serve as chief in Indianola and then Ankeny until his retirement in 2002 – says Klunder is on the list of the worst criminals he ever pursued. When the two toddlers were pulled from the dumpster, one girl had been choked.
From his perspective, Klunder deserved life in prison, Scranton said.
http://www.press-citizen.com/articl...mpleted-sex-offender-treatment-before-release
The following day, he abducted two 3-year-old girls who were playing outside his Charles City apartment complex. The toddlers were later found about 50 miles away, alive and abandoned in a trash bin near Northwood.
Paul Scranton was police chief in Charles City in 1991. In an interview with the Des Moines Register on Wednesday, he said he was “stunned” to see Klunder back in the news. He said he didn’t know Klunder had been released from prison.
“I’m convinced at the time of his crime in the ‘90s, that he thought at least one of the two girls was dead that he threw in the dumpster,” he said. “He had just a total disregard for their safety and welfare.”
Scranton didn’t know until he saw the news of the Dayton case that Klunder had been released from prison. Klunder’s name even came to mind last July when he saw news coverage of the disappearance of Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey from Evansdale, Scranton said.
Then, Scranton took solace believing that Klunder was still incarcerated, he said.
