MI MI - Paul Atchley, 53, Battle Creek, 1 Sept 2011 - *H. Ordway guilty*

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http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/09/police_fear_missing_delton_man.html

ublished: Friday, September 09, 2011, 3:09 PM
Updated: Friday, September 09, 2011, 3:39 PM
By Rex Hall Jr. | Kalamazoo Gazette

Police fear missing Delton man 'definitely could be' victim of homicide; investigators link second missing man to Harold Ordway

 

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http://www.allegannews.com/articles/2011/09/12/ue_news/3.txt

By Daniel Pepper
Interim Editor
Monday, September 12, 2011 11:20 AM EDT

Police are still seeking answers about why a Battle Creek man had a mattress with a large amount of blood on it in the back of his truck when he allegedly caused an accident near Plainwell.

 

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http://www.wwmt.com/articles/ordway-1395810-police-mattress.html

September 14, 2011 8:46 AM

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We also know that a hat belonging to one of the missing men, Paul Atchley, was found in the truck.

 

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http://www.wzzm13.com/news/article/179161/2/Man-in-bloody-mattress-case-gets-exam-

7:33 AM, Sep 15, 2011

ALLEGAN, Mich. (AP) -- A man who authorities say was found with a bloody mattress in the back of his pickup truck following a crash in southwestern Michigan is getting a competency evaluation.

 

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http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/grand_rapids/Missing-mans-ex-wife-speaks-out

Updated: Monday, 26 Sep 2011, 11:42 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 26 Sep 2011, 11:14 PM EDT
By Leon Hendrix

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Paul Atchley, a transient man with no known family in the area, is also missing. VanBuskirk lived with Ordway and Atchley at a home in Battle Creek.

 

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http://wkzo.com/news/articles/2011/oct/21/more-charges-for-man-at-center-of-missing-persons-case/

Friday, October 21, 2011 7:05 a.m. EDT

GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO) -- The Barry County man at the center of 2 missing person’s cases is being held on state charges and now faces federal gun charges as well.

 

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http://www.wwmt.com/articles/information-1397626-michigan-missing.html

October 28, 2011 6:14 PM

WEST MICHIGAN (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – New details are emerging in an investigation that Newschannel 3 was first to report nearly two months ago.

 

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http://www.wwmt.com/articles/search-1398573-west-michigan.html

November 20, 2011 4:44 PM

WEST MICHIGAN (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – The search is on to find two men who've been missing since a bloody mattress was found in the back of a pick-up truck.

 

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http://www.wwmt.com/articles/michigan-1400714-west-newschannel.html

January 18, 2012 6:01 PM

WEST MICHIGAN (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – Wednesday saw new developments in the case of a Battle Creek man who was found with a bloody mattress in the back of his truck.

 

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http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/barry_county/dna-links-bloody-mattress-to-missing-man

Updated: Thursday, 26 Jan 2012, 8:54 PM EST
Published : Thursday, 26 Jan 2012, 7:18 PM EST

HASTINGS, Mich. (WOOD) - DNA testing linked a bloody mattress found in the back of a pickup truck to a missing man.

 

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http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/06/13/man-pleads-in-roommates-fatal-shooting/

June 13, 2013 7:59 AM

HASTINGS (WWJ/AP) - A western Michigan man long suspected in the deaths of two roommates has pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors.

 

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From September 2013:

http://wincountry.com/news/articles...ntenced-to-serve-at-least-20-years-in-prison/

He isn&#8217;t exactly getting away with murder, but some might say Harold Ordway is getting off relatively easily for someone who has confessed to killing two people. He has been given 20 to 50 years for 2nd degree murder, as part of a plea deal with Prosecutors.

They say in one case they don&#8217;t have a body, and in the other, the body was too badly decomposed to determine a cause of death...

Ordway told detectives he had to kill Paul Atchley because he knew about the Van Buskirk killing. He shot him to death and buried his body in a shallow grave somewhere in southern Allegan or northern Van Buren County. It has never been found.

 

[ADKGemini]

Now in NamUs: The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[Pennysmom1]

Paul is still listed as missing

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

6116DMMI - Paul Frederic Atchley

Identifiers​

Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Available
<<Investigators discovered Paul had been staying with Ordway at Ordway's parents' house and had been sleeping in the back of the pickup truck.

Police searched the parents' property and some 160 acres around it but found no sign of Paul.

While investigating the disappearance of Paul, it was learned that another roommate, Michael VanBuskirk, had not been seen since August 27, 2011. Michael's body was discovered in southeastern Kalamazoo County in October of 2011.

In 2013, Ordway was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Paul. As part of his plea, Ordway also admitted to causing the death of Michael. Paul's remains have yet to be found.>>