IL IL - Valerie Percy, 21, Kenilworth, 18 September 1966 #2

[Bargle]

Some questions I'd like to know the answers to either to steer me in the right direction or, maybe more importantly, steer me away from the wrong direction:

Was Valerie at home on a Saturday night because she'd recently broken up with a boyfriend?

Did Valerie know any of the women who vanished from the Indiana Dunes 2 months earlier?

Was Valerie into horseback riding?

Had Valerie ever been impregnated, either consensually or non-consensually?

Did Valerie have a phone in her room?

Was Valerie involved in CB radio?

Considering the roof alarm, had there been a previous intrusion?

Did any campaign workers ever make advances toward Valerie or her stepmother?

Did Valerie ever read "romance" magazines that had personal ads in the back?

Was Valerie's grave watched?

Was anyone the Percys knew later arrested for abuse or a sex crime?

Was there a newspaper deliverer out at that time who might have seen the killer or "his" car?

Was Valerie, from either end, ever involved in any college hazing?

Had Valerie ever dated someone her parents did not approve of?

No, her boyfriend was in the UK at the time.

Not that we're aware of.

Not that we're aware of.

I don't know.

Not that we're aware of and that applies to the rest of the questions.

 

[Richard]

Bumping this thread up.

 

[mysuspect]

No one has ever been able to place Thorenson in the Chicago area at the time of her murder. He was living in California at that time, IIRC.

He was a horrible person, but, I agree, not the guy.

FBI reports confirm they suspected Throesen of this crime because his parents lived a five minute walk from Percy's, his record of violence and, in Dec. '66, he had purchased several bayonets identical to the one found near Percy's and the hilts of which matched the victim's head wounds. Mrs. Percy's description was basic but fits his description as well, though the age was a bit off. But given the lack of light in the room and his youthful appearance even years later could be expected.

Robert Lamb said whoever did this crime was responsible for the Bricca's the following weekend. The book on that crime, like the one on this one, reveals that crime was also linked to an unidentified red sports car, which was seen at the 5 a.m. hour, the same unlikely hour as this crime was committed. A witness in that case, as is documented in that book, described a man who fit WT's description, watching those victim's house shortly before they were murdered. WT owned a red Ferrari in '66, not a car many people were familiar with.