MA MA - Simone Ridinger, 17, Sherborn, 2 Sept 1977

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Try this link: ‘He was hunting females along the Cape Cod Canal.’ Investigators explore new lead in 1977 disappearance.

 

[Skiptracegal]

I’ve been analyzing that interaction for a while. I’m not sure whether There is holdback information or not here. On the one hand, I wonder if her sister Betty had additional clarifying information such as Was she talking about giving her a ride to the bus station in Framingham or a ride all the way to the Cape. Did Simone give her sister Betty a more detailed answer? For a while, I was thinking that perhaps the elderly man or someone at the diner offered to give her a ride down the Cape before hand. However, when the eyewitnesses were interviewed recently, one or two of them mentioned that Simone started to hitchhike as soon as she left the restaurant.

I found Simone listed on the FBI website. She is on the ViCAP Missing Persons list. I'm terrible at linking. Can a fellow websleuther link the info ?Thank You!!
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SIMONE S. RIDINGER - SHERBORN, MASSACHUSETTS | Federal Bureau of Investigation

September 2, 1977 Sherborn, Massachusetts

www.fbi.gov

 

[mlhenn]

Simone Stephanie Ridinger – The Charley Project

Updated

 

[Sweetluv]

Charlie Project now mentions Eric Anderson as a possible suspect.

 

[jgfitzge]

Charlie Project now mentions Eric Anderson as a possible suspect.

Hello,

I want to give a little initial input on the latest Boston Globe article concerning Eric Anderson as a possible suspect in Simone Rinkers disappearance on Labor Day, 1977. Maybe over the weekend I’ll look into my archives a little bit more but, here are some initial thoughts that I have.

I’m not so sure of Eric Anderson as a viable suspect. His name came across my archives for the 1977 case in Myles Standish Park. That was solved several years ago. Don’t get me wrong, he is certainly a very bad man and probably responsible for more than what he’s been charged. I look at the territory where he did his work. Generally speaking, there are only two main routes to travel if you are going to Cape Cod. One is Route 3, which goes over the Sagamore Bridge. If you’re going to Hyannis, this would be the route you would take. The other main road to Cape Cod is going route 24/495/44 where you go over the Bourne Bridge if you’re going to towns like Bourne, Falmouth, Mashpee and the Islands. this would be the road you would take. Eric Anderson did almost all of his crime along this Route 24 Corridor.

On the other hand, where the old man supposedly picked up Simone and was heading to Hyannis he would go directly 95 south to route three and over the Sagamore Bridge. It seems that Eric Anderson as far as I can see, didn’t commit his crimes along this route. I’m just saying this has I’m making the assumption that violent criminals are creatures of habit and tend to stay in their own territory. But I could be completely wrong, just my opinion here.

One other thing that struck me was the new detective handling the case seems to be the opinion that whether Simone made it to Cape Cod is much more an open question. I may double check this, but it seems previous investigators seem to conclude that she had made it to Cape Cod. But again upon a little further digging, I found that the detective that took the old man’s report in April 1986 seemed to express the opinion later that he thought she never got out of the Natick/Framingham area.

That’s just my initial take on the story with the Retired state trooper and Eric Anderson. I’ll sleep on this a little more and read over some of my archives and see if anything else hits me.

 

[Sweetluv]

Even though I believe Simone could have hitched a ride with a serial killer such as Anderson, I can't shake the feeling about the elderly man's story being "questionable."

 

[jgfitzge]

Even though I believe Simone could have hitched a ride with a serial killer such as Anderson, I can't shake the feeling about the elderly man's story being "questionable."

The more read think about the case it’s clear to me that Simone was in the old man’s car. He admits it in his 1986 interview and clearly gives the same description as the coworkers at the restaurant. I believe the story about the trooper passing off Simone to him is B. S. Now, whether she got to the Cape is another matter. As I’ve said before, I lived around here all my life. Anyone going to Martha’s Vineyard would be going over the Bourne bridge to Route 28 then take the ferry from either Woods Hole or Falmouth.

One other point:

Accounts differ on whether she was going straight to the Cape or whether she was going back to her apartment first. If she started hitchhiking right from the restaurant in Natick. I can tell you that she would get picked up pretty quickly. She was a fairly attractive girl, and I don’t see her standing with her thumb out very long. That’s why more information from her sister would clear a lot of questions up like, when you offered her the ride did she say she was going home first or was she going straight from the restaurant? If she was leaving straight from the restaurant, then that tells me that the old man must have picked her up right as she started hitchhiking.

 

[Sweetluv]

September 2, 1977...what happened to Simone and where is she!?

 

[Sweetluv]

Thought I would pop in this thread to try and bump it up...
Wonder what the original Dectectives who interviewed the elderly man thought of him and his story? Did they interview him one time and for how long?
And this phantom cop...did the elderly man give a description of him? Im sure there is a way for LE to find out what officers were employed in that jurisdiction Sept of 77. Maybe even who was working Labor Day weekend..paper trail.

 

[Sweetluv]

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[jgfitzge]

Thought I would pop in this thread to try and bump it up...
Wonder what the original Dectectives who interviewed the elderly man thought of him and his story? Did they interview him one time and for how long?
And this phantom cop...did the elderly man give a description of him? Im sure there is a way for LE to find out what officers were employed in that jurisdiction Sept of 77. Maybe even who was working Labor Day weekend..paper trail.

Hello,

On your first point I partially mentioned it in a November 2024 posting. See below-
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“That is a great question and one that I’ve been struggling with for a while now. I know that the officer (I think his name was Stevens) who took the elderly man’s report in 1986 has said in subsequent interviews that he believes Simone never got out of the area. Part of me that wonders whether if the elderly man knowing that the breakfast/lunch shift ends at 3 o’clock was riding around the area in the hopes of seeing Simone and offering her a ride.”
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On your other points, let’s just say I am pretty sure they did look into whether or not that state trooper did a pass off to the elderly gentleman going down the Cape. However, I don’t know whether or not they did this investigation in 1986. I do not know what the outcome was, but I do not think they were able to find out if this happened otherwise I would think something major like that would’ve been publicized, just my opinion.