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A cold case team investigating the disappearance of a Lansing-area woman last seen in Livingston County 21 years ago has released three new suspect sketches.
www.mlive.com
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'Authorities say the sketches released Monday in the investigation into Paige Renkoski's disappearance were developed from several recent tips. They're based on tips from a now-retired Michigan State Police intelligence officer and two separate travelers.'
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Interesting. I went back through the entire thread and checked every post and every still-active link (I think!) - and only on one post (
@Richard ‘s June 25, 2023 post #169) shows the suspect on the left (who I think DOES resemble the suspect in the Beverly Wivell case).
I have no clue where this sketch came from, as the link
@Richard provided is not functional (it is “redacted”, I suppose - as good a term as any other).
Credit to you
@dotr for finding (or having) a link with those 3 sketches. Despite there being many article links and references to “3 new sketches” (issued by the cold case team), I could never seem to find a link that actually contained the sketches.
The linked article sources the 3 new sketches to a retired Michigan State Police Intelligence officer and two separate travelers. I’m curious why the sources for the 3 new sketches didn’t come forward (or, the cold case team opted not to have them created or issued) until over 20 after Paige’s disappearance. Can anybody help me understand this better?
From reading articles, I think the guy in the middle was a sketch that resulted from Paige’s family continuing to press (and investigate in their own?) to have her case solved. I think that sketch looks like one of the 6 sketches that were issued way back in 1990 (top row on the right).
I think the guy on the far right of the “3 new sketches” also looks like one of the original 6.
But the guy wearing the hat - the one on the left in the “3 new sketches” is new (jmo).
Although there were reports of one man and two men (and maybe three, I can’t remember) by the red or maroon van (and reports of a suspect having his hand on Paige’s shoulder or bicep), several linked articles stated that “all of the suspects” appeared to be black men in the 20-30 yr age range.
Just my opinion, but the guy in the left in the “3 new sketches” with the hat and long hair does not appear to be a 20-30 yr old black man.
Since the man in the middle of the “3 new sketches” was generated following investigative work by the family (meaning I guess they prompted the creation of the sketch by LE) and imo looks similar to one of the first 6) - and since the man on the right in the “3 new sketches” also (imo) appears similar to one of the original 6 - the only “new sketch” imo, is the guy in the left in the “3 new sketches”.
The “new” sketch (my term, and jmo) was shown in
@Richard ‘s June post (which referenced them as “some sketches”), but was excluded from his August 28 post “a few sketches”. Maybe
@Richard can shed some light on the origin of the “3 new sketches” - and in particular, the origin of the sketch of the man on the left - as he (jmo) appears to look similar to the suspect in the Beverly Wivell case.
Lastly, after further reading, the only other evidence I found referenced in Paige’s disappearance that might connect the two cases is, apparently a palm print was found on Paige’s car. Still no mention of DNA.
So, the only things I can see that are even in the category of possible similarities / connections between Paige’s disappearance and Beverly’s murder are: the cars were left running, the driver’s doors were open, both women had been at the same park the day they disappeared, there was a palm print on Paige’s car, there might be content on BR’s phone, and a possible sketch match (to a sketch that has largely gone unpublished since being issued in 2011 by the cold case unit - the guy on the left in the hat.
I wonder why there are not more articles containing the 3 new sketches (again, idk how @dote found it) and not any articles that I’ve found that show 9 sketches. Even the articles in the 2020’s show the original 6, or just 4 of the original 6 but most (if not all but the one that
@dotr found) do not contain the white guy with longish hair in the hat in the left). Why? Did LE feel like it was the least “solid”?
Just wondering why that sketch wasn’t created in 1990? Why wasn’t that info obtained from the State Police Intelligence Officer and / or the two separate “travelers” bank in 1990. Seems that all these years the focus has been on two 20-30 yr old black men in a red or maroon van - not a 30ish white guy with longish hair in a hat.
If anybody knows the answer to some of these questions or can speculate what other evidence might connect Paige’s disappearance to the murder of Beverly Wivell, I’d be very interested in hearing it! Tia!
All jmo
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