The intersection of
South Shore and
Allen was in my opinion intentionally chosen to relate to the
South Shore Line train wreck (7 dead) of January 18, 1993, (MLK day) in Gary Indiana. According to a Northwest Indiana Times Article, the 10-year-old boy killed in the wreck, traveling to Chicago from South Bend, was taken to the Guy and
Allen funeral home in Gary. Two days before James Earl Ray escaped from a Jefferson City prison in 1967, allowing him to eventually assassinate MLK almost a year later, there was another wreck on that line in
South Bend, near the end of the line near the old LaSalle Hotel the same day as the
Belvidere/Oak Lawn tornado. (The Lasalle hotel in South Bend is homonymous with the infamous La Salle Hotel in Chicago, which suffered a disastrous fire (61 dead, many of them children) at 12:15 am, June 5, 1946, corresponding in local time to when RFK would be shot 22 years later.) What is especially weird about it is that one week earlier in 1967 there was another wreck (on April 14, 55th anniversary Titanic hitting iceberg, responsible for the Titanic trail that Piirainen's remains were found near being called the Titanic trail) on the South Shore Line that ended at pretty much the exact same spot for the same reason (brake failure). I'm guessing that superstitious Ray thought the alignment of the Belvidere/Oak Lawn tornado and the non-fatal wrecks in South Bend across from the LaSalle Hotel were a sign from disaster spirits or whatever that he should try to escape forthwith.
According to a June 2017 article in the South Bend Tribune, it was Mayor
Allen of South Bend (the last Republican Mayor of that city), who as a result of the 1967 accidents decided to get the South Shore Line to end street running through South Bend by having the line end on the west side of town. August 5 probably relates to the
Tipton Ford, MO, railroad wreck (43 dead) of August 5, 1914, the day (Berlin time) Britain formally started its war against Germany in WWI (it started at midnight, Berlin time, which was 11pm, August 4, London time). In 1922, eight years to the day after this wreck, there was another horrific Missouri train wreck in Sulphur Springs that killed 34. Tipton Ford reminds me of
Tipton Air Base, which was located on the
South Shore Line of the former WB&A railroad in Maryland, and which was where Robert Preston flew the helicopter from that landed on the White House grounds on February 17, 1974, the day Carla Walker was snatched in Fort Worth to be murdered and the anniversary of the 1950 Rockville Centre wreck, the other well-known train wreck that occurred on a partially overlapping "gantlet" track (like the 1993 South Shore line wreck on the bridge in Gary). Possibly, though it's not nearly as clear, Five Bridges Road may be a reference to Bridge No. 5, where the Southern Pacific's
City of San Francisco wrecked on August 12, 1939, east of Harney, Nevada, in what is officially at any rate the deadliest ever railway sabotage in the history of the United States.
The Truesdell bridge disaster happened the day before Leon Czolgosz was born opposite where Reagan lived in Dixon when he went to Dixon High (the bridge was very close to where Dixon High is now, but that's not where Dixon High was when Reagan went there). As a lifeguard on Lowell Beach on the Rock River, Reagan saved 77 people, who I suppose if left to drown may have floated down to where the bridge used to be. I'm pretty sure the bridge was built from iron work created in a factory in
Belvidere, Illinois. The design of the (dangerously ineffective) "Truesdell truss" bridge design employed in Dixon was created by Lucius Truesdell when he lived in
Warren, Massachusetts. Of course,
Warren is where Molly Bish vanished from on June 27, 2000, when she was a lifeguard. She vanished on the anniversary of the
South Bend train wreck of 1859 (at least 42 dead), sometimes also called the Great Mishawaka train wreck since it actually happened between South Bend, Indiana, and Mishawaka, Indiana. Notice how the "Mish" in Mishawaka rhymes with "Bish".
May 5, 1973, on what would be Leon Czolgosz's 100th birthday (thus, one day after the centennial of the Truesdell bridge disaster in Dixon), Donna Maria Boudreau was murdered in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where the Iver-Johnson revolver that Czolgosz used to assassinate President McKinley was presumably made. There's a findagrave page for Lincoln conspirator Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt that indicates she was born May 4, 1823, which would be 50 years to the day before the Truesdell bridge disaster, but more common opinion on internet is that it is unknown when she was born in May/June 1823.
A few years ago I called about these things to the Holly hotline, but they weren't patient enough to let me tell them about most of the clues and how they relate to one another. Oral presentation isn't best approach. The ideal thing is to send several hundred page treatise full of similar coincidences in hundreds of murders and assassinations, but there is no place in law enforcement that advertises to want such. You can't evaluate complex theory presented orally otherwise than sequentially, while books can be flipped through, allowing one to see quickly with high degree of probability that likely almost whole book is indeed remarkably full of same sort of coincidences repeated over and over, which thus obviously would signal an actual pattern. The Piirainen/Bish case is highly interesting as being at the tail-end of the murders of young females that I have noticed which have creepy coincidences with disasters. They seemed to peak in 1970s and early 80s. Maryland and Massachusetts seem to have had the most cases like that. But mass murders nowadays often have similar references to disasters, I have observed.
