GUILTY MI - Fred Johnson, 53, Scott & Melissa Berels, both 27, die in crime spree, Feb 2006

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  • #21
Why would the killers go to the trouble of wrapping the couple in plastic? That is really strange. Makes me believe that they knew they were going to murder the couple when they went there.

Sounds like they are close to catching the one couple...they know who they are now. Maybe a family member will point LE in the right direction.
 
  • #22
Bobbisangel said:
Why would the killers go to the trouble of wrapping the couple in plastic? That is really strange. Makes me believe that they knew they were going to murder the couple when they went there.

Sounds like they are close to catching the one couple...they know who they are now. Maybe a family member will point LE in the right direction.
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Good question. The wrapping in plastic thing really has me scratching my head, too. I mean, the whole thing does, but wrapping them in plastic and leaving them there? Unless they were wrapping them in plastic and where going to get rid of the bodies and then someone was coming and they left?
I just don't get it.
 
  • #23
Murder charges filed in New Baltimore slaying case

Police warn suspects are considered armed and dangerous following couple's killing.

The Macomb County Prosecutor’s office on Monday authorized arrest warrants for Samantha Jean Bachynski, 19, and Patrick Alan Selepak, 27, on two counts each of first degree murder, felony firearms, home invasion and auto theft in the Thursday murders of Scott and Melissa Berels of New Baltimore.
Bachynski and Selepak also are being sought in connection with an armed robbery of a gun store Flint, police said Monday. They were identified from composite photographs from the earlier crime in Flint. Details of that crime are not yet available.

More: http://www.thetimesherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060220/NEWS01/60220002
 
  • #24
Mother: Suspect 'was my baby'

Man wanted in slayings in New Baltimore turned to crime, drugs at 17, she says; warrants issued
The mother of a Macomb County man accused in the slayings of a local couple described her son Monday "as lovable as he could be as a little boy" whose life took a downward spiral into crime 10 years ago.

Gail Lynne Southers, the mother of Patrick Selepak, said in a telephone interview from her home in Corinth, Miss., that her son was a typical child growing up on Detroit's east side, but he turned to crime and drugs beginning when he was 17.

"He was lovable and sweet. He was my baby," said Southers, 50. "You never figure things would turn out the way they did. I wanted him to be a model citizen and go on with his life as he got out of school."

More: http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060221/METRO/602210367/1003
 
  • #25
Mother: Suspect 'was my baby'

Man wanted in slayings in New Baltimore turned to crime, drugs at 17, she says; warrants issued.

The mother of a Macomb County man accused in the slayings of a local couple described her son Monday "as lovable as he could be as a little boy" whose life took a downward spiral into crime 10 years ago.
Gail Lynne Southers, the mother of Patrick Selepak, said in a telephone interview from her home in Corinth, Miss., that her son was a typical child growing up on Detroit's east side, but he turned to crime and drugs beginning when he was 17.

"He was lovable and sweet. He was my baby," said Southers, 50. "You never figure things would turn out the way they did. I wanted him to be a model citizen and go on with his life as he got out of school."

More: http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060221/METRO/602210367/1003
 
  • #26
About the ATM card. I'm wondering if maybe Scott and Melissa gave them the wrong pin number. Why would they attempt to use it if they didn't know the pin number? My guess is that they thought they did know it. I don't know why, they really just jumped out at me. I hope someone turns them in soon.
 
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should be a triple murder, without question...the baby was a person:twocents:
 
  • #29
Suspects in New Baltimore slayings arrested at Owosso hotel
Bachynski, Selepak found with body in pickup truck, police chief says

The suspects charged with last week’s double murder in New Baltimore were arrested at 1 p.m. today in Owosso. Samantha Jean Bachynski, 19, and Patrick Alan Selepak, 27, were taken into custody by Owosso police without resistance at a Comstock Inn, New Baltimore Police Chief John Bolgar said Tuesday afternoon.

More: http://www.thetimesherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060221/NEWS01/60221003
 
  • #30
Suspects Arrested in New Baltimore Murder

19-year-old Samantha J. Bachynski of Midland and 27-year-old Patrick A. Selepak of Chesterfield Township were arrested in Owosso in a truck parked outside of a hotel. When police got to the scene, they found a body inside the pickup truck.

Baltimore Police Chief John Bolgar said, "They were in a blue Chevy pickup. Police also discovered the body of an unknown victim in the truck itself wrapped similarly to the New Baltimore incident."

More: http://www.wxyz.com/wxyz/nw_local_news/article/0,2132,WXYZ_15924_4484857,00.html
 
  • #31
:behindbar Hope they get DP .I dont want to make light of what they did but they must be candidates for dumb and dumber:slap: to carry a body around in the car they are driving while the LE are searching for them.
 
  • #32
I'm glad they caught them. What I can't believe is that they were driving around with a body in the car. I had to read it three times because I thought I was seeing things. Talk about dumb! So now that's 4 murders (counting the baby Melissa was pregnant with) I guess we don't know yet who the body is.
 
  • #33
MrsMush99 said:
I'm glad they caught them. What I can't believe is that they were driving around with a body in the car. I had to read it three times because I thought I was seeing things. Talk about dumb! So now that's 4 murders (counting the baby Melissa was pregnant with) I guess we don't know yet who the body is.
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Yeah, they are morons! What's up with wrapping them in plastic, too?
I wonder who this 4th person is and how they picked their victims and why?
Pathetic individuals. :mad:
 
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Sadly, there is no death penalty here in Michigan. Between these 2 crazies and Ricky Holland's parents, I'd say we've got some prime candidates.
 
  • #36
Maybe these cases will bring back the death penalty in Michigan. Too late for these, but for future cases.
 
  • #37
It was stated that they were cleaning out and painting a room for the baby, that could be where the plastic came from. When we painted a few years ago, we bought big sheets of plastic to cover the carpet furniture etc.

Also, could wrapping them in plastic and covering them indicate that they knew them, and were trying to keep them "neat" in some way, or dispose of their bodies "properly" the only way the knew how? I know that doesn't sound right, but hopefully ya'll will get what I am trying to say.

On the other hand, maybe they did that so that they could put them away, out of the picture and hang out in their house without seeing or thinking about what they had done. I am no psychologist or anything, I am not trying to pretend that I know what I am talking about, I don't. Just thoughts.
 
  • #38
Also, could wrapping them in plastic and covering them indicate that they knew them, and were trying to keep them "neat" in some way, or dispose of their bodies "properly" the only way the knew how? I know that doesn't sound right, but hopefully ya'll will get what I am trying to say.
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Yeah like dispose of them neatly, i don't know why killers do that, or maybe just cause it's less of a mess than chopping them up...*ponders*
 
  • #39
State official: slaying suspect should have been in prison

2/22/2006, 8:55 p.m. ET
By TOM KRISHER
The Associated Press
NEW BALTIMORE, Mich. (AP) - Patrick Alan Selepak, the man accused in a murderous southeast Michigan crime spree, should have been in prison at the time of the killings, a state Department of Corrections official said Wednesday.

Now the state is investigating why Selepak was released from a Jackson prison last month despite a recommendation from his parole officer that he be kept behind bars. . . .
http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/news-32/1140658759132400.xml&storylist=newsmichigan
 
  • #40
Police: Killers sought victims
Pair will be arraigned today for slaying of New Baltimore couple

Police said murder suspects Patrick Alan Selepak and fiancee Samantha Jean Bachynski sought out friendly, outgoing victims they could exploit - and then killed them. "As we pieced our investigation together," Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell said, "it was part of their plan (that) they would take advantage of a vulnerable adult."

... Genesee County authorities arrested Selepak of Chesterfield Township and Bachynski of Midland on Tuesday in Owosso. They also found a body believed to be that of Winfield Frederick Johnson, 53, in the bed of a truck the two suspects were traveling in, which Johnson owned.

...Marlan said the employee who failed to schedule Selepak's hearing has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. Investigators also will look into whether Selepak had to be released by law after spending 45 days without a hearing.


Chesterfield Township police Lt. David Marker said it is reasonable to believe Selepak should have been in prison at the time of the killings. "If he would have still been locked up, there would have been three people still alive," Marker said.



LONG ARTICLE... More: http://www.thetimesherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060223/NEWS01/602230301/1002
 
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