Interesting that there is someone on Classmates connected to that 1975 photo. That would be the married person I mentioned upthread who has a different birthdate than my DJS, daughter of RS. The 1985 article posted yesterday mentioned that "26 year old" DJS was testifying.
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-08-07/local/me-3831_1_execution-style-murders
That's a match to my DJS b. 1959. Not sure if it's a match to the married DS, as her birthdates have been alternately found (last night) to be 1949 and 1957.
And, that 1975 yearbook photo (in itself) would not prove a connection to LEK to me, if that's what you're asking. It just came up in hints on ancestry (along with the Anaheim junior high yearbook that had no labeled photo of her) due to her having family in the area at that time. The site makes those possible connections and provides them as hints, though we are left to determine if they are indeed the person we are looking for. I'd have to see the 1977 senior photo (same school) to get off the fence, and find it unusual that WSers were able to see the photo a couple years ago and exclaim over the resemblance--but the photo and yearbook is no longer findable online (nor does it come up as a hint on ancestry). I spent the better part of an afternoon trying to dig it up, finally deciding it'd be easier to contact the local library. Real life has been unusually busy and full since then, so I threw the whole thing on the back burner.
To be clear again--the 1977 senior yearbook photo for a DS from same school (Ulysses S Grant, Van Nuys) was referenced in these threads (I did a forum search and read all the Stalder posts in here when I was digging all this up last month). There were early comments by WSers about how striking the similarity was. But I was new to this case last month, and after reading those comments, I was not able to ever find that 1977 senior photo again in a search (nor even find the yearbook on ancestry!). I am also not a member of Classmates, so if someone here is and can get hold of a copy, I'd really be interested.
Agreed--and the sibling I found for DJS does not bear a striking resemblance to her. There is a possible third marriage record for her father, and if it is a match (no confirmation), then her sibling would have had a different (also later divorced) mother. Which, to me, makes sense on the individual timelines as far as where the siblings were living when.
I do, however, place a bit more weight on parent-child similarities. And to me, LEK bears a striking resemblance to DJS's dad RS, and also resembles several of his brothers. Those brothers/uncles, in turn, bear a striking resemblance to the photo of JTurner posted in these threads. So that, coupled with records finds, makes me suspect the connection.
Thanks, Gardener1850! No, I had not seen this brief obit, though it is a definite match to my S family. Personally, the fact that DJS is left out makes me think all the more that she may have been our LEK in TX and possibly still being hidden and protected by family. Dad RS died at the end of 1995, and if I recall, LEK declared bankruptcy in 1997, after a couple years of taking out car and student loans. The multiple overlapping addresses that I have for RS (one posh home plus several apartment or townhome addresses) and also have for C and G until RS's death (and even beyond) lead me to believe her father was possibly continued military and/or that there was no shortage of money. So he either was paid quite well (continued military or government work after Vietnam?) or he was involved in something criminally lucrative (drug trafficking from his military days with Asian contacts?). One CA Los Angeles 'burb golf course address I found, in particular, is listed as an address for RS (and his subsequent family members) from the time he graduated military school at age 21 until well past his death (with C's name continuing to be associated with it as well). I have wondered if it (or some of those apts) is government-owned. I have found not only the identical multiple addresses repeated over the years, but with slight variations to his middle initial or associated birth date. G also did this a bit after joining the military. You know they are the same people due to their joint address, so the fudging is either intentional or the public records system is making consistent 'mistakes.' (I do have a 1953 address for dad RS at Quantico, for what that's worth. Could just have been Marine training.)
Anyway, I've found no marriage or death dates for a DJS in that L.A. area from 1977 to 1995 to otherwise explain her absence from the obit and if the DJS who appears earlier in these multiple address records with this family was LEK, she was alive and well under an alias in TX.
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