FL Rebecca Ann Sady, 20, murdered 20 September 1977, Pensacola. Florida

[Richard]

This case is one that would fit a number of classifications: Missing person. Unidentified, Identified. Abduction, Rape, Murder, Unresolved, and Closed. It involves the states of Massachusetts, Florida, and Alabama.

Rebecca Ann Sady, 5ft 4in, young, pretty, brunette daughter of Mamie and Frank Sady was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1956.

In the summer of 1977, when she was 20 years old, she traveled with her parents to Pensacola, Florida for a visit to her mother's sister Estelle Weston.

In August her parents returned to Massachusetts, but Rebecca decided to stay with her Aunt Estelle on Long Medow Lane and got a job at a restaurant on Pensacola Blvd.

On 20 September 1977, Rebecca went for a 2 mile walk from her aunt's house to Westwood Mall to do some shopping. When she failed to return home she was reported missing.

On 5 March 1978, Ludwig Oddo Baglioni, a 25 year old unemployed bartender, walked into police headquarters with a human head he claimed to have found in a trash heap near a Swamp in Seminole, Alabama - just over the state line. He led investigating officers to the site where more remains were recovered.

Baglioni related how he had experienced dreams about a girl being murdered by several men, and how those dreams guided him to the body. Eventually he confessed to abducting, raping, and killing the as yet unidentified victim.

An autopsy first by Alabama officials, followed by forensic specialists in Washington DC, proved that the body was that of the missing young woman Rebecca Ann Sady, and that her death was due to a gunshot wound ro the head by a .38 Special revolver.

Most of this information was found in old articles in the Pensacola News Journal.

More to follow...

 

[Richard]

This case is mentioned in regard to the autopsy effort which positively identified the remains as those of Rebecca Ann Sady in a 1992 book titled Bones: A Forensic Detective's Casebook.

The authors are Dr. Douglas Ubelaker and Henry Scammell.

Dr. Ubelaker performed the autopsy in Washington DC. It was his first case and the first one in which he was called to testify in court.

His account of this case begins on page 124. No names are mentioned in his discussion.

 

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This case is one that would fit a number of classifications: Missing person. Unidentified, Identified. Abduction, Rape, Murder, Unresolved, and Closed. It involves the states of Massachusetts, Florida, and Alabama.

Rebecca Ann Sady, 5ft 4in, young, pretty, brunette daughter of Mamie and Frank Sady was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1956.

In the summer of 1977, when she was 20 years old, she traveled with her parents to Pensacola, Florida for a visit to her mother's sister Estelle Weston.

In August her parents returned to Massachusetts, but Rebecca decided to stay with her Aunt Estelle on Long Medow Lane and got a job at a restaurant on Pensacola Blvd.

On 20 September 1977, Rebecca went for a 2 mile walk from her aunt's house to Westwood Mall to do some shopping. When she failed to return home she was reported missing.

On 5 March 1978, Ludwig Oddo Baglioni, a 25 year old unemployed bartender, walked into police headquarters with a human head he claimed to have found in a trash heap near a Swamp in Seminole, Alabama - just over the state line. He led investigating officers to the site where more remains were recovered.

Baglioni related how he had experienced dreams about a girl being murdered by several men, and how those dreams guided him to the body. Eventually he confessed to abducting, raping, and killing the as yet unidentified victim.

An autopsy first by Alabama officials, followed by forensic specialists in Washington DC, proved that the body was that of the missing young woman Rebecca Ann Sady, and that her death was due to a gunshot wound ro the head by a .38 Special revolver.

Most of this information was found in old articles in the Pensacola News Journal.

More to follow...

I just found out about my cousin Ludwig Baglioni. I have been doing some family history research and happened upon his name. His name was curious to me as my Uncle never spoke of him, and I never met him. In fact, none of that side of my family have ever mentioned his name. Now, I am looking into Sady's murder because the way the justice system treated the case against my cousin, sounds suspicious.
The FBI in '76 investigated him and dropped the case stating no evidence. Even though Ludwig confessed to kidnapping, rape, and murder. Then almost a year later Ludwig just decides to bring her skull to investigators and confess again. The county judge acquitted him of the rape and murder charges based on lack of evidence. Then because he was in custody and violated his probation by confessing he found her remains in Alabama, he was then charged with probation violation on 4 counts crossing state lines, disappearing for 3 months, AND the rape and murder of Sady. He was given about 6 years and some time already served. He got nothing, if he was responsible.
A source from the family stated they believe he was a drug dealer during that era. I have looked everywhere to find anything connecting cold cases in that gulf coast area, and nothing. I have come across a couple other cold cases who were suspected as possible cover-ups or victims of Samuel Little or Bundy, etc.
What I don't understand is how Ludwig was acquitted of kidnap, rape , and murder and then was found guilty on 4 points of probation violation, 2 of which are rape and murder. Also, 1 violation was for going over state lines to Alabama involved in a "possible kidnapping". It was like Ludwig wanted to be charged. Like he was doing anything in his power to be the one held responsible. Why did they not listen? Why was he so willing to give himself up? I understand some serial killers almost want to be caught but usually make it difficult until the very end. Was he another "remorseful" serial killer like William Adam Ford?
Ludwig Baglioni passed away in 2001 without any further legal issues that I could find, Yes, I came across all of the threads on this chat of cold cases in same area and timeline. Was my cousin a murderer and rapist? Did he kill again? Is there a trail of any missing or cold cases during his lifetime that could possibly prove he was likely responsible of poor Rebecca Ann Sady? Or was something bigger involved? It does seem he was too willing to confess not once but twice to deaf ears. Why?