IA IA - KLUNDER, Michael J: Violent Sexual Offender, Murderer, and Suspected SK

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Houston TX, Carrolton TX, Dayton, IA
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http://globegazette.com/news/local/...cle_b448708a-db89-11e2-bf27-0019bb2963f4.html

In the early morning hours of March 20, 1988 is when (Sunday) , Susan Renee Smalley, and Stacie Elisabeth Madison vanished.
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Nov. 15, 1986 — Attacks Ev Leasure, 15, in Kensett. Klunder is taken into custody by juvenile authorities and is eventually found guilty of a delinquent act.

Klunder is sent to the Boys State Training School in Eldora, to Meyer Hall in Des Moines, to Bremwood (a juvenile home) in Waverly and to the Mental Health Center in Cherokee.

February 1988 — Klunder is released from juvenile detention. He returns to Mason City and moves in with his father and stepmother.

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Feb. 22, 1989 — Klunder appears at the home of a Mason City co-worker and asks to use the phone, saying his car had stalled. When the co-worker offers to give him a ride home, Klunder accepts. As they walk to her car, he strikes her to the ground and tries to choke her. Court records show he choked her until she had trouble breathing, and had visible marks on her throat.

March 30, 1989 — Cerro Gordo District Court rules Klunder would be tried as an adult, citing the closeness to his 18th birthday and his record of assault. He is charged with assault with intent to commit serious injury.

He is also charged with second-degree burglary that had occurred on Feb. 15, 1989, but no other details of the burglary are released.
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May 17, 1989 — Klunder is sentenced to five years in prison and two years for assault with intent to commit assault; sentences to be served concurrently; the sentence came after a plea bargain.

June 15, 1989 — Judge agrees to reconsider Klunder’s prison sentence.

Sept. 16, 1989 — Judge Paul Riffel cancels the reconsideration hearing. He cites a report from prison officials that says while Klunder is doing well, he was in the midst of a sexual offender treatment program and should be able to complete it.

February 1991 — Klunder is released from Mount Pleasant Treatment Center.

Dec. 16, 1991 — Klunder is now living at the Lantern Park Apartments in Charles City and working at Comprehensive Systems recycling center.

But he loses his job on the morning of Dec. 16.

“He was really depressed, said he needed friends. He was really blue,” said Kristin Hesse, one of Klunder’s neighbors.

Klunder becomes the main suspect in the kidnapping of two, 3-year-old girls, who were taken from the front yard of their Charles City day care.

Both are found later that day in a garbage receptacle in Worth County. One of the children had been choked hard enough to raise concerns about her health. Other residents at the complex point to Klunder as a potential suspect.

He is questioned but he becomes uncooperative. When police try to find him again, they find he has fled the city in his 1982 Honda Civic.

Dec. 24, 1991 — Klunder is found in a Houston, Texas, bus station. Authorities are called there after being tipped off by a relative. His car is found abandoned on a road near Tallahassee, Fla.
Klunder fled to Florida, then to Texas, before being apprehended at a bus station in Houston, Tx.
Authorities searched his car and amid McDonald’s wrappers, clothing and road maps, they found a length of rope, a blood-stained quilt, “Playboy’s Book of Lingerie” and Klunder’s self-help books..
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/ar...e-Dayton-kidnapping-suspect-s-delusional-past
http://globegazette.com/news/local/...cle_b448708a-db89-11e2-bf27-0019bb2963f4.html
 
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Actually, anything that happened after Feb. 1988 to Feb. 1989, from Iowa, Kansas, TX, OK, and all states heading to FL they are probably checking. This one is close enough to turn in. jmo
 
  • #64
Notice the height of the boy sitting on the sofa in the above photo.
In the mug shot photo posted by SpringThyme above MJK was 6'6" tall.
MJK was 6'6" 240 pounds when he abducted DS & KH in Dayton IA-2013..
 
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Actually, anything that happened after Feb. 1988 to Feb. 1989, from Iowa, Kansas, TX, OK, and all states heading to FL they are probably checking. This one is close enough to turn in. jmo

I agree, Dr. Know..Too many parallels to ignore, imo.. Wondering where the relative that turned MJK in to the Houston, TX Police in 1991 lived?

Good eye & sleuthing Watcher9..
 
  • #66
I stumbled onto something the other day. It seems MK's father passed away about a month ago. The obituary was online. His father lived at Nashua, which is north of Waterloo a little bit. And it appears MK has a step brother who lives in Waterloo.


According to obit, MK's father worked for the railroads for years.
I wonder if MK ever rode along with him or if they had a free pass for rides on the train?
 
  • #67
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Here's a case where two teenage girls disappeared together from Carrollton TX back on Mar 19, 1988. The case is still open and the girls have never been found.
Stacie Madison & Susan Smalley- Missing 24 Years

http://deaniepeters-missingangels.blogspot.com/2012/03/stacie-madison-susan-smalley-missing-24.html

The timeline could fit. MK was released the month before the girls disappeared.

February 1988 &#8212; Klunder is released from juvenile detention. He returns to Mason City and moves in with his father and stepmother.
 
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This Night Wounds Time: The Mysterious Disappearances of Stacie Madison and Susan Smalley
 
  • #69
Thanks Watcher. Two things I noticed from the pictures are the vehicle isn't a 1982 Honda Civic as they had headrests & picture number 6 of the guy looking into the vehicle is holding what appears to be a carton of beer. Possibly Budweiser.
 
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You've got some good eyes.
I thought it was something on his shirt.
Did you notice that one pix shows his head of hair and the next looks like some sort of hat on him? Or, is it two different guys?
Does the last picture look like a dead person with a cigarette pack stuffed in the mouth?
 
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You've got some good eyes.
I thought it was something on his shirt.
Did you notice that one pix shows his head of hair and the next looks like some sort of hat on him? Or, is it two different guys?
Does the last picture look like a dead person with a cigarette pack stuffed in the mouth?

Bad eyes, good zoom. I blew it up and you can see a red carton with the letter B on it and letters following it.

The guy's hair looks like a bowl cut from the side, thick hair like the picture of Klunder in court standing up. His hair was cut in that picture up higher on the side.

3 of the pictures of the mystery guy all have him wearing a burgundy or brown shirt. Can't really tell with the picture of him holding the beer carton the shirt color.

http://deaniepeters-missingangels.blogspot.com/2012/03/stacie-madison-susan-smalley-missing-24.html

eta, he does have either his teeth showing in that last picture or something white in his mouth.
 
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http://deaniepeters-missingangels.blogspot.com/2012/03/stacie-madison-susan-smalley-missing-24.html
 
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Gosh that last photo is scary. The guy in the burgundy shirt looks like MK to me. i sure hope LE is looking into a connection here. has anyone left a message on those blogs suggesting MK? I think I will do that tomorrow when Im not on an ipad.

i really think mk is connected to L and L. Especially after hearing he had a bro close to Waterloo. And now to hear he was in texas around the time of these two girls going missing. maybe that is why it is taking so long for evansdale LE to say anything. Maybe there is just a lot to sift through as they look more closely at MK. MOO
 
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Here are a couple of comparisons.
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  • #76
Well I am just 100 percent convinced. IMO that is klunder. That bowl haircut with the same straight lines around the ears. Same eyebrows. Smae nose. Same ears. I pray to God that LE is looking into this. After hearing that MK wasnt even on the radar for L and L, I sure hope now they are being very proactive and leavng no stone unturned. I am really sure that is klunder. And if he got away with it down in texas, he certainly could have gotten away with it in Evansdale. MOO
 
  • #77
FYI:
Thank you for the information. I will look into the possible connection.

Regards,
Jason R. Peattie #835

Detective, Crimes Against Persons Unit

Carrollton Police Department (TX)

Criminal Investigations Division

[email protected]

Tel.: (972) 466-3352 Fax: (972) 466-3549
 
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Yay Foxfire! I called it in too and left messages everywhere I could think. I'm glad you got a response.
 
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:rockon:

Great work folks! :)
 
  • #80
At least the detective sent you a reply.
I hope he means business and it's not just a form letter.
Did you also call/mail this info and pictures in to Black Hawk LE?
Maybe, by getting the two LE departments together so they could compare facts/evidence in their cold cases, it will help both of them?
 

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