OH OH - James Dean WORLEY, known and possible victims, '80s-present

[dexter75]

Skibaboo, you're famous!!!
Your map just came through my FB feed. Being shared everywhere. Missing In Michigan is, also, sharing it.

Just saw that myself

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[katydid23]

He said that he had learned from previous abductions, and that he was going to bury the next one.

This can be taken two ways, IMO.
1) That he is using 'bury' to mean 'I am killing the next one'.
2) He has killed before, but has not bothered to bury his victims bodies. He has learned that this is something he should do going forward.

If option 1 is determined at some point to be correct, then we will find that there are a lot of abductions out there where the victim is allowed to live.
If option 2 is determined to be correct (and I think this will be the case), then we will probably find a lot of victims prior to 1990 left in the open, maybe hidden but not buried, and afterwards found with some attempt at burial.

I hope like hell I'm wrong, but I think it's going to be a lot more than 10 or 15.

You are probably right. I just have a few doubts that he is as prolific as it might seem. Maybe I am just clinging to false hopes.

 

[NWOhio]

I know she's on the list, but did anyone read this excerpt from Unsolved Mysteries about Cynthia Anderson?

In September, 1981, a month after Cindy vanished, another strange phone call gave police a new lead. According to Det. Adams, a woman called to report that Cindy was being held in the basement of a white house:


"She said that she was scared and she was talking in low whispers. She kept saying she had to go. I kept begging her to stay on the line, give me more information, give me an exact address, something that we could act on. A short while later, she again called. The lady mentioned that there were two houses side by side owned by the same family, and that the family was out of town. But their son was home and he was the party that was holding Cindy in the basement. We did check street after street on the north end to see if we could find two houses side by side. There's many, but you can't find any positive location to the house."

http://unsolved.com/archives/cynthia-anderson

 

[BeesInMyBonnet]

I've looked through the thread and haven't seen this mentioned already. Forgive me if I missed it.

This article says Lori Ann Hill was shot, as well as beaten and sexually assaulted. I hadn't seen the info about the gunshot wound previously. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/find-a-grave-prod/photos/2014/262/91538948_1411218259.jpg

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[Kadoober]

Honing his MO?

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[Tssiemer]

Ok. Getting gross. I apologize.

GROSSNESS AHEAD

I don't think he would favor a gun as an MO because I think he likes the up close and personal, probably likes to torture and MAYBE even revisit the bodies later. A gun shot would like "taint" the body.


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[Foxfire]

I know she's on the list, but did anyone read this excerpt from Unsolved Mysteries about Cynthia Anderson?

In September, 1981, a month after Cindy vanished, another strange phone call gave police a new lead. According to Det. Adams, a woman called to report that Cindy was being held in the basement of a white house:


"She said that she was scared and she was talking in low whispers. She kept saying she had to go. I kept begging her to stay on the line, give me more information, give me an exact address, something that we could act on. A short while later, she again called. The lady mentioned that there were two houses side by side owned by the same family, and that the family was out of town. But their son was home and he was the party that was holding Cindy in the basement. We did check street after street on the north end to see if we could find two houses side by side. There's many, but you can't find any positive location to the house."

http://unsolved.com/archives/cynthia-anderson

Wow! This morning, when reading about investigators locating the jewelry in the basement and crawl space during the search warrant. I wondered if it was placed there by JDW or a victim leaving a Hansel & Gretel type clue for investigators.. Wouldn't be the first time this has happened in a serial predator investigation.
Wonder where JDW lived 35 years ago in September 1981?

 

[ChiefsGranddaughter]

Wow! When reading about investigators locating the jewelry in the basement and crawl space during the search warrant. I wondered if it was placed there by JDW or a victim leaving a Hansel & Gretel type clue for investigators.. Wouldn't be the first time this has happened in a serial predator investigation.
Wonder where JDW lived 35 years ago in September 1981?

He graduated in 1978. I assume he lived at home. In 1985 he was living on Lincoln Street in Swanton. He moved back home in 1989. It is unclear where he lived after graduating or when exactly he moved to Swanton as far as I can tell.

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[skibaboo]

Skibaboo, you're famous!!!
Your map just came through my FB feed. Being shared everywhere. Missing In Michigan is, also, sharing it.

:blushing::scared:

 

[ChiefsGranddaughter]

:blushing::scared:

Certainly most famous! All one has to do is enter "JW map" in their search browser and the click "Maps" and there it is. Very talented indeed!

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[BoggLed in Ohio]

Unfortunately so am I. Most are close to where I grew up, or presently live. I could have potentially seen him on any day as a teen as I lived at Alexis and Clover. My friends and I roamed freely, often at night even.

Same here! I grew up and lived for 20 yrs 2 blocks from the state line off Whiteford N. Of Alexis. My teen years (80s) were just crazy and my girlfriends and I were out all night in NW Ohio amd SE Michigan. We used to get rides to Roscoes (a teen dance club) in Toledo and sometimes we didn't have a ride home and would walk all the way home at 1 am, so scary !! Many times guys stopped is amd asked if we wanted a ride . And more than once (after we had our own cars to drive ) we broke down up in Michigan countryside and had to walk miles in dead of the night. We once even accepted a ride from a total stranger on a dirt road surround by corn fields! I can't tell you how lucky I feel to still be alive!

 

[kat913]

I know she's on the list, but did anyone read this excerpt from Unsolved Mysteries about Cynthia Anderson?

In September, 1981, a month after Cindy vanished, another strange phone call gave police a new lead. According to Det. Adams, a woman called to report that Cindy was being held in the basement of a white house:


"She said that she was scared and she was talking in low whispers. She kept saying she had to go. I kept begging her to stay on the line, give me more information, give me an exact address, something that we could act on. A short while later, she again called. The lady mentioned that there were two houses side by side owned by the same family, and that the family was out of town. But their son was home and he was the party that was holding Cindy in the basement. We did check street after street on the north end to see if we could find two houses side by side. There's many, but you can't find any positive location to the house."

http://unsolved.com/archives/cynthia-anderson

I know I remember that too!!

 

[Tssiemer]

God. Cindy sounds like me after I was mugged at work. I was soooo paranoid of everyone and everything!!


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[kat913]

http://unsolved.com/archives/cynthia-anderson

Back when I read that..I wondered if JDW had any dealings with that law firm. He stated he knew his lawyer Mark Powers for 20 years or so (in 1990). Maybe he had gone to that law firm for some reason? Also Cindy had changed her behavior in days before her disapearance...putting on makeup, fixing hair. I know we think JDW is a creep but what if he was charming and had met Cindy and that is how she disapeared? Just a thought?

 

[keeleydoll]

This baffles me. If the case of Lori Ann Hill were not there, honestly I might wonder if his accident with RG in 1990 was truly and accident and truly DID happen the way he explained. It seems like this many little accidents in 6 months time could cause a person to be like "oh hell no you aren't leaving me to explain this to my insurance". It is believable. And then he finds himself in the same exact situation in July 2016, maybe her bike swerved in front of him, and he snapped.

BUT....I don't believe this is what happened at all, obviously. He has the room and the freezer and lord knows what else. Still, another person and I might have believed this 1990 case.

Still, if she left, didn't care to report it and it was such a minor "bump", WHY would he report it to insurance?? I'm not particularly mechanical myself but I first replaced a headlight on my car with one from the auto parts store when I was 16. He didn't want her to report later and have LEOs coming to his house unannounced.


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[BoggLed in Ohio]

http://unsolved.com/archives/cynthia-anderson

Back when I read that..I wondered if JDW had any dealings with that law firm. He stated he knew his lawyer Mark Powers for 20 years or so (in 1990). Maybe he had gone to that law firm for some reason? Also Cindy had changed her behavior in days before her disapearance...putting on makeup, fixing hair. I know we think JDW is a creep but what if he was charming and had met Cindy and that is how she disapeared? Just a thought?

In my own mind since this whole thing started I think I dismissed Cindy Anderson on a hunch that she either left on her own because of her overbearing father or had something to do with her crooked attorney she worked for but if someone could dig back through old records (good luck) and see if JDW did indeed use that attorney for something else back then. .( how old would he have been then like 19 or 20?) I can't recall the year she vanished right now

 

[Tssiemer]

81. So he was 22 ish? Born in April 59.


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[kat913]

Ok I think we can conclude from Notnice's work that he did indeed have a CDL at least for past 2 years (all she could see on BMV) records. It is only for Intrastate so only in Ohio. He may have gotten his CDL many years ago and just kept it up all these years...I don't know the year but the CDL laws changed and you had to do a medical certification or something to continue Intersate. So, he had one and continued to pay extra for the tanker/double and triple endorsements, I don't know what this information will do for us but it does confirm he had ability to travel and maybe that was reason he was so protective of his "insurance". This wouldn't be true but maybe concerned about points on his CDL. Just a thought. Where in the world do we narrow search down for this creep!!

 

[kat913]

In my own mind since this whole thing started I think I dismissed Cindy Anderson on a hunch that she either left on her own because of her overbearing father or had something to do with her crooked attorney she worked for but if someone could dig back through old records (good luck) and see if JDW did indeed use that attorney for something else back then. .( how old would he have been then like 19 or 20?) I can't recall the year she vanished right now

It was Aug. 1981..she was 20. Worley would have been 22 yrs old.

 

[kat913]

JDW was working at Art Iron in 1981 and it would have been 7 - 10 miles to law office Cindy was working at.