OH IL/OH - SERIAL KILLER /rapist Samuel W. Legg, III -truck driver

[Owutatangledweb]

I am so worried that this potential victim may be overlooked. I would like to see more solid confirmation of when exactly Legg shows up in Arizona and how they are certain of Lynn's date of disappearance. Same truckstop area as the rape victim in Medina.

Lynn A. Cunningham – The Charley Project

 

[Owutatangledweb]

A comment here places him in Tucson sometime in 2002. I want to know more.

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[Earth]

Does anyone know his whereabouts from 1997 until his arrest? It's quite a large timespan. In addition, does anyone know his truck driving route?

I think that this woman could be a possible victim.
Christine Marie Kingsley – The Charley Project

I also wondered about this case.
https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov.../Investigator/Cold-Case/Homicides/Collins-(3)

 

[YESorNO]

Police Believe Trucker Samuel Legg Is a Cross-Country Serial Killer
Authorities have tied him to four bodies and a rape but say there may be more secrets to uncover.

03.04.19

"..it was DNA from a close relative that brought police to his doorstep in Arizona, where he retired from the trucking business. The investigators weren’t looking for Kedzierski’s killer; they were hunting for the man who had raped a teenage girl in 1997.

The victim, who lived in Lexington, Ohio, told police she was attacked at a truck stop on Interstate 71 after “hitch[ing] a ride with a truck driver after visiting her boyfriend in Cleveland,” Medina County Prosecutor Forrest Thompson said.

Legg, then 29, was deemed a possible suspect by Medina County police but was never prosecuted for lack of evidence....

Through extensive family tree search, Ohio police eventually landed on Legg and issued a warrant for his DNA, Yost said. He was extradited to Ohio and ordered held on $1 million bail.

“No other human being on earth except Mr. Legg could have been the contributor of the DNA,” a spokesperson for the Medina County Sheriff’s Office said.

Soon after, County police announced Legg’s second indictment: for the murder of Sharon Kedzierski.

“I'm assuming that there are other jurisdictions now actually looking to determine if he may be a suspect in any of their cases because of the fact that he was a truck driver and he was mobile,” Mahoning County Prosecutor Paul Gains said in announcing the charge.

The Ohio Attorney General office said Legg’s DNA is also linked to three other homicides, although no details of those crimes have been released because he hasn’t yet been charged in connection with them.

“It doesn't even look like he was hiding from this, if he's truly affiliated with all of these different crimes, including my mom's,” Kuring told a local news station. “It just seems like he doesn't process it as it being a problem and that's so disturbing.”

Legg has pleaded not guilty to both the 1997 rape and Kedzierski’s murder. His attorney, David Shelton, has declined to comment.

Before Legg can be tried, the courts have to sort out the issue of his mental state. Medina County Judge Joyce Kimbler has ordered a competency evaluation for Legg, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was living in a Arizona group home at the time of his arrest.

According to records obtained by the Chandler Police Department in Arizona, the former truck driver has a mental illness and has been picked up a few times for wandering the streets and leaving the group home.

“Samuel is on medication for Schizophrenia. He hears voices that tell him he is needed in court in Tucson,” said a February 2017 police report, adding the group home employees claim that “Samuel has solicited rides from truck drivers previously to get to Tucson and has been found miles from the group home in the past.”..."

Police Believe Trucker Samuel Legg Is a Cross-Country Serial Killer
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[YESorNO]

Trucker accused in Austintown cold case ordered to undergo competency evaluation

Mar 19, 2019

"YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -
The Arizona trucker accused in a 1992 cold case murder in Austintown has been ordered to undergo a competency evaluation.

Forty-nine-year-old Samuel Legg, III faces charges of aggravated murder, aggravated murder during the commission of a felony (rape), aggravated murder during a felony (robbery), and murder.

Legg previously pleaded not guilty to the charges and is being held in the Mahoning County Jail on a $1 million bond.

A Mahoning County Judge has now ordered that Legg must be evaluated to see if he is mentally competent to stand trial.

Legg was charged in February in the 1992 murder of Sharon Lynn Kedzierski....

All hearings in the case have been postponed until the results of the competency evaluation are released. "

Trucker accused in Austintown cold case ordered to undergo competency evaluation

 

[Owutatangledweb]

Posting this both here and in Samuel Little's thread. A good recap of truckstop killings of prostitutes. Would really have to study each man's timeline very closely.

Body trail prompts fear of serial killer — a 1991 Dispatch investigation

 

[Earth]

Have there been any updates regarding his known victims or timeline?

 

[doozle]

Samuel Legg III ordered to undergo psychological treatment

 

[cocomod]

Seriously, he was there all along. Suspected multiple times, but never enough evidence. So thankful for the updated DNA testing.

 

[bessie]

I just wonder how far this case can go?

I remember a thread here about truck stop murders in Ohio, Pa, IN, IL, NY, etc. there were maps and all. Not sure if it was this one:

FBI Database links long-haul truckers, serial killings

Still looking for a map.

OH - OH/IN/MI - Highway Serial Killings, Midwest, I-71, I-75

 

[Owutatangledweb]

Thank you Bessie!!!!!

 

[YESorNO]

Court says Samuel Legg not competent to stand trial for 1992 truck stop murder

Jun 28, 2019

"AUSTINTOWN, Ohio — Accused “serial killer” Samuel Legg, III, will not tried at this time for the 1992 murder of Sharon Lynn Kedzierski, a woman who was found dead at a truck stop and listed as a Jane Doe for two decades.

Legg is facing three counts of aggravated murder and one count of murder in the Kedzierski case.

A judge in Mahoning County ruled last week that Legg is currently not competent to stand trial, according to Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas records.

Legg has been ordered to undergo up to four more months of evaluation and treatment to determine if he could be tried within the next year...."

Court says Samuel Legg not competent to stand trial

 

[oceanstarryeyes]

DNA connects Arizona man to 1997 Medina County rape, 4 homicides

Accused of four murders and rape. Linked by DNA.

Round 'Em Up & Lasso ‘Em in! Thanks to DNA.

 

[Owutatangledweb]

Suspected killer tied by DNA to murders and rape declared incompetent to stand trial in Medina County

 

[GoBuckeyes]

Suspected killer tied by DNA to murders and rape declared incompetent to stand trial in Medina County

I assume they'll reevaluate at a later date?

 

[GoBuckeyes]

Any word on where he's being treated/held?

 

[GoBuckeyes]

I sure wouldn't want to have to work on that psych floor! Ugggghhh

 

[JohnnyChicago]

FBI suspects truckers in highway killings
Lansing State Journal Lansing, Michigan 12 Apr 2009, Sun • Page 11

KANSAS CITY, Mo.
They call her Miss Molly. Her battered body turned up in a shallow creek 23 years ago west of Salina, Kan., thrown from a bridge on Interstate 70. Despite efforts by investigators that have taken them across the country, she remains unidentified to this day. Miss Molly is among hundreds of murder victims whose bodies have been dumped along highways across the country over the past three decades. And, according to the FBI, many of the victims were likely killed by long-haul truckers. This week, the agency announced its Highway Serial Killings Initiative to raise awareness of the issue and the FBI's effort to support local and state authorities in their investigations into highway murders. The victims, the FBI says, are usually women living high-risk and transient lifestyles that involve substance Murder along the highways Each dot indicates where bodies or remains have been found in the past 30 years I n t Source: U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation MCT News Service abuse and prostitution. Often picked up at truck stops or gas stations, they are sexually assaulted, murdered and discarded along inter-states and highways. Tough to solve' "The suspects are predominantly long-haul truck drivers," the FBI said in a statement. "But the mobile nature of the offenders, the unsafe lifestyles of the victims, the significant distances and multiple jurisdictions involved and the scarcity of witnesses or forensic evidence can make these cases tough to solve." At least some truckers are furious that their industry is being linked to serial killers, but the FBI says it is not trying to disparage truck drivers. Until recent years, no one had made that connection. Indeed, the FBI initiative developed out of an Oklahoma case in 2004 when an analyst with the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation noticed that bodies of murdered women were being dumped along Interstate 40 in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi. FBI analysts checked records in the database to determine whether there were similar patterns of highway killings in other areas. There were. Working with other agencies, the FBI developed a grid of more than 500 murder victims found along or near highways, along with 200 potential suspects, most of them truckers. 10 suspects arrested The FBI says the system is working. Since its inception, at least 10 suspects believed to have committed some 30 homicides have been arrested. All of them were long-haul truckers at the time, although not all were on duty when the crimes were committed. The FBI said it couldn't speculate on whether the killers became truckers in order to gain access to victims. Those in the trucking industry are angry at any implication that many of their colleagues are serial killers. "Truckers are just absolutely outraged that various media sources or the FBI would draw the conclusion that truckers are over-represented in the ranks of serial killers," said Todd Spen- - cer, executive vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association based in Grain Valley, Mo. "This stereotypes, totally unfairly, a particular profession," he said. "If you're talking 500 murders over a span of 30 years, and given the millions and millions of people who have driven trucks over those years, it doesn't make any sense." The FBI said it wasn't trying to impugn all truckers. "While the list of subjects involved in the Highway Serial Killings Initiative consists primarily of long-haul truckers, this represents a very small percentage of the drivers within the industry," agency spokeswoman Ann Todd said. "The trucking industry is the backbone of commerce in this country, and the vast majority of the drivers are honest, law-abiding citizens."

 

[JohnnyChicago]

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[JohnnyChicago]

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