MO MO - Loy Evitts, 29, Kansas City, 28 Feb 1977

[Serinna]

I watched a YouTube video about this case few days ago. I recognize the building she worked at because a few years before I had looked up after I found both of these business ads by accident in the same 1975 local news paper. Creepy both of them had ads same day, area and paper. Never looked to see if any women were missing near address then but I notice that there was a missing man near the other ads address tho idk bout that probably coincidence.

 

[spartanx]

I think it is very possible that you are still in a body of water or even one of the less traveled areas...I was looking and Kansas City has a surprising amount of overgrown wooded areas and small bodies of water even in the areas urban areas of the city. Brush Creek, right in the square where she worked, has claimed many victims and was never seen again... And southeast of the city center, she could have been placed in a vacant lot and easily remained undiscovered for 40 years... Vines and kudzu cover everything that is not normally landscaped in a very short time and can hide anything. I hope your case is resolved soon...
Poor her husband still waiting for answers...
either way
rest in peace

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Loy Gillespie Evitts – The Charley Project

 

[theshadow45]

Loy has been missing for 47 years today.

 

[Diane Redfern]

Anthony LaRette - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I wonder if LaRette had something to say about this. He confessed at least eight murders committed across Kansas, without naming locations, and another murder in Kansas City.
I'm not sure if LE were able to link these confessions to specific victims.
However, none of his victims seem to be missing, so this is pure speculation.
This case reminds me a lot to the disappearances of Mary Shotwell Little (1965 - Atlanta, Georgia) and Diane P. Licciardello (1971 - Chelsea, Massachusetts), although it's hard to believe they are connected.

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

The Trace Evidence Podcast on YouTube recently posted Loy's case. Something I never knew about her case that I found of interest was that sometime after her purse was discovered, police officers searched two abandoned houses on Bowlin Road, about 6 miles from where her purse was found. Evidently the police received a report that Loy's name was spray-painted on the garage wall of one of the houses. How odd and creepy.

Authorities also stated that young people would party at the abandoned houses so I'm assuming that's how they received the tip. With that knowledge, the spray paint could have also been from teens partying there that knew about her disappearance and were just messing around. The police found no trace of anything related to Loy when they searched the area.

I don't know where the houses were located but Bowlin Road has nothing but woods on both sides still to this day. I imagine in 1977 it was considered pretty remote.

***The source was from a newspaper article which is posted in the podcast.

 

[Caring1]

19 Unidentified Person Exclusions

 

[Paintedhousecat]

Pardon me for butting in here; There are several links on this thread that are broken. I grew up in this area and know that it's a scary place for women, that's why I moved away in 1988. It might be easier to find the missing by looking at the people that have been caught and charged with similar crimes. I don't even know how to put this into words, sorry.

It's simply known and everyone accepts the fact that men who do this travel in a pair. My aunts who grew up in the 1930's talked about the "pairs of men that commit crimes" as a matter fact or area knowledge, like everyone knew that's how they operated. In a pair.
In 2017 I moved back to the area (Belton, MO) to work and spend a year with my dying father. I was in the grocery store parking lot at dusk, and was approach by two men asking me for $1.00. One man was knocking on my window on the passenger side while the other one was at my drivers door. I was 50 years old at the time, not 23. I told them to shove off and took off in my car. I called the manager of the grocery store and told him about the two men approaching me and he said "Yes that happens from time to time". He was seriously not concerned about it.
My point is, it's so common knowledge that these perps travel in 2 , no one thinks twice about it.

Does anyone have a good link to historical arrest records of Jackson County, MO? Also, Lafayette County just due east of there is big haven for hide-outs of criminals. Still...

 

[Caring1]

 

[theshadow45]

Today is Loy’s birthday.

 

[springheel]

Where the purse was found is only a half mile from the biker hangout of Knobtown Mo. Froggys bar was hopping with motorcycle gangs in the mid 70s to early 80s. A roadside park just a half mile north on 50 hwy was no place for a picnic from 1965 to about 1977 unless you wanted to participate in a drug fueled orgy. It was eventually demolished because of all the trouble there, and a man committed suicide "by cop" just before it's destruction. The Missing Links biker club was out of Grandview, where the unnamed suspect toyed with the cops in a traced phone call after the purse was found. I always felt like there was a biker "link", and the Tiny Mercer crime family fits this abduction perfectly. I'm sure the cops grilled him hard on this until his arrest a couple years later for rape and murder, then his execution in 1989. Look for a biker connection, then look closely at every known sicko who lives or works within 3 miles of the place where the purse was found. Their subsequent criminal record would have revealed their nature. Not that big of a population group to peruse, 2/3rds of the radius is rural. Your perp should stand out in retrospect.

 

[springheel]

Further research shows the Grandview perp suspect was Richard lee Smith, age 34. Almost sounds like a nom de plume. Anybody with better research skills than me can try to search his records and associates. Look to see if he had any links to all of the other raping/murdering scumbags out of south KC area. Also see what questionable character was employed around the area of the abduction. This takes a researcher with a computer program that accesses employment records and rap sheets, spread across a geographical area with a nod to profiling. Why do only the cops have such tools when private citizens could find so many tips/clues given the greater amount of manpower ?

 

[theshadow45]

Loy has been missing for 48 years today.

 

[Andrew Micheal KCMO]

I bet John and Bob knew each other supposably definitely in the same area. Was told they hung out with lawyers and judges but regardless John was in the same building as this missing woman and at the time John Robinson lived in raytown near the area where her stuff was found. This was before he moved to Kansas. There's a missing boy near the restaurant address Bob has an this ad for on the same page as Johns ad also?

 

[LynnKC84]

Berdella's known victims only date back to 1984, and were all young gay men/boys. As I recall he attended the KC Art Institute sometime during the 1970's, which is just east of the Country Club Plaza. There may be unknown victims that he is responsible for, but I doubt that she is one of them.

I have always wondered if the key to her disappearance isn't with the law firm where she worked, and something that she may have known was going on there.

Oh I have been wondering if they could have known each other or if anyone else thinks it's weird both of them were in the same newspaper in 1975. I thought it could have something to do with the law firm also supposably John was running a brothel providing BDSM sex for lawyers and judges. Berdella was weirdly around a lot of lawyers and friends with judges. Before opening his booth at the Westport flea market Bobs last job was at a private restaurant. As a chef for Morris Larson King Stamper and Bold also on a police report Bob says his lawyer is Michael J Mann a adoption lawyer? Few missing for both near these locations. Both Bob and John were kind of doing the same thing. Same neighborhood just one liked boys one likes girls creepy.