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After hearing six hours of testimony from nine prosecution witnesses, Judge Edward Deake ruled that probable cause had been established, and Collins was formally ordered to stand trial for Beineman's murder.[73]. The victim had received multiple slash and stab wounds to the body (including two stab wounds which had pierced her heart),[55] and a gunshot wound to the forehead before her neck had been cut through to the spine. In response to questioning from prosecution attorneys, Goshe described how, on the afternoon of her disappearance, Beineman had informed her she had accepted a lift home from the man waiting outside the wig shop. I jus wish we lived in a world where that wasnt necessary, and where that sick man would have gotten the help he needed. When questioned Collins claimed that he was with his mother at the time in Centerline, MI and it was probably just a case of mistaken identity. John Norman Collins, aka the Coed Killer,was convicted of one murder in the series of seven linked murders that occurred between 1967-1969 in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area, involving young women from two college campuses. Collins, Chapman recalled, give him explicit, sexually graphicinstructions on what to do with a girl, including suggestions that some women "like it rough.". [68], Mindful of the fact the killer had evidently returned to sites of his previous murders to move the bodies, possibly in a sexual ritual, police theorized he may also attempt to return to this latest crime scene. Thatseemed to make Collins happy. The first motion by Collins' attorneys, contending denial of defense motions to move the trial outside of Washtenaw County and the prejudice of prosecution witnesses, was filed with the Michigan Court of Appeals on December 14, 1970. "I was on patrol the afternoon of the 23rd of July, and turned the corner down by Sill Hall on the campus and there was John Collins. These two witnesses were followed by the individual who had found her body on July 26, and the medical examiner called to the crime scene, Dr. Craig Barlow. Larry said. Questioning of Leik's neighbors yielded additional circumstantial evidence: one neighbor, Marjorie Barnes, recalled having witnessed Collins leaving his uncle's home with a deluxe laundry detergent box prior to the Leik family returning from their vacation; another neighbor informed investigators she had heard the muffled screams of a young female emanating from the Leik household on the evening of Beineman's disappearance. "I would 'NEVER'hurt a CHILDEVER!!!" Like 89.1WEMUonFacebookand follow us onTwitter, Patrick Campion is the WEMUProgram Director. [127], The prosecutors at Collins' trial, William Delhey and Booker Williams, opted to charge Collins only with the murder of Karen Sue Beineman, with the state contending that she had been murdered by Collins in the basement of the Leik household. During the course of the investigation, police determined that she had been killed in the basement of Collins uncles family home in the College Heights neighborhood. "When the doctor and his wife came down here to the end of the street to get the mail, his wife looked down and said 'there's a body down there," Fournier said. He added that he "likedhim and thought well of him," but heard "he was having some HEALTH ISSUES" and asked, "if you ever come in contact with him again kindly tell him that I wish him nothing BUTT Good Health the rest of his retired years.". Karen was the latest girl in a two-year stretch to go missing. . Then come back here for part two. The first victim, Mary Fleszar, disappeared in July 1967. Andunlessauthorities uncover more evidence sometime soon,he just might. [92][n 2]. [48], Investigators found no definite evidence Basom had been subjected to a sexual assault prior to her murder. The first victim, Mary Fleszar was last seen being cut off by a guy in a shiny car just a block from Collins' room. SoHarvey called the prosecutorand Collins' attorney. August 1: Collins is arraigned on murder. He lifted weights and I didn't," Larry said. Each testified on August 6. Christensen further stated that although partial fingerprints had been discovered in the basement of the Leik family,[133] no full fingerprints had been discovered in the basement which had not belonged to any Leik family member. "He knew me, and I knew him. Collins lived at end of our block on Emmett St and he used to speed by on his motorcycle and wave to us--we thought he was soooooo coolalmost James Dean like! Watch where you walk, tell people where you are going, when youre coming back, have pepper spray on your key chain, and don't go to people's houses/take rides with people that you just met. Collins claimed he never killed anyone and he even agreed to take a polygraph test. "[14] Sternly informed a second time he would not be allowed to view the body, the young man had wordlessly exited the funeral home. "I knew we had a good case but it was going to be a lengthy trial. Hurkos accurately predicted that the murderer was a strongly built white male under 25 years of age, who had been born outside the United States, and who rode a motorcycle. Collins last victim was 18-year-old Karen Sue Beineman, another EMU student. I knew he was guilty as sin,' " Harveyrecalled thinking when he read Collins' own words. [67] Although this information proved to be of little help throughout the actual manhunt, Hurkos also predicted that this individual would shortly strike one final time. Kalom, who graduated from the University of Michigan not long before she was killed, was described as a "wholesome-looking girl" with "a vivid imagination." I'm making a documentary about the coed murders, would you or anyone be interested in helping or being interviewed? Collins was "six feet . Moreover, a psychologist retained by the defense had testified as such on April 20, 1970. In part three of our special series, we'll meet the women who had close calls with the killer, including one woman who says he's still luring women into his clutches today, from his prison cell. His mother worked as a waitress and told John and his siblings that their father had abandoned them. Pretty weird at the time how close they came to catching him at different times. Evidently, despite Collins' protestations of innocence and denials of even knowing Karen Sue Beineman, she had been in the basement of Collins' uncle at the time of, shortly before, or shortly after her murder.[68]. "He reveals himself by what he doesn't say, as much as by what he says,"Fournier said of Collins. Moreover, if Collins believes he was wrongly accused, he can request a review. Furthermore, Goshe had identified a photograph shown to her of Collins as being the man she had seen with Beineman. Sheri, I grew up in Farmington and in 1978 Timmy King the last victim of the Oakland county child killer was found a mile from my home SO yes I understand how life was scary MY world stopped that day of my innocents Im still haunted by that.. The following day, Washtenaw County Sheriff Douglas Harvey testified as to the discovery of Beineman's body, her subsequent autopsy, and his obtaining an updated composite drawing of the suspect with whom Beineman had last been seen alive from Mrs. Joan Goshe and her assistant, Patricia Spaulding. Collins sayshe didn't expect the 2013 letters"would become such a 'FOCAL POINT'after 50 years," and accuses Fournier of using his cousinto "dig-up some dirt on me" and garner media attention for himself. Since reading this book I have been assumed by every aspect of what happen.. "He was in with John for about 45 minutes. For those of us who lived here during those years, the palpable fear in the air at the time will always be a strong memory. She chose the car. [19], Kolbe later stated she had attempted to dissuade Schell from entering this vehicle, but that Schell had opted to accept the driver's offer, promising to call her roommate to assure her of her safety once she reached her boyfriend's Ann Arbor residence. The perpetrator, John Norman Chapman (then known as John Norman Collins) was arrested one week after the final murder. Collins was subsequently taken into police custody but denied any involvement whatsoever in the killing. [88], Police had already established that Collins was a known motorcycle enthusiast[89] who owned several motorcycles, including a blue Triumph Bonneville. In addition, the "outstanding similarities" between the wounds inflicted upon her body and those inflicted upon Fleszar the previous year led investigators to establish a definite connection between both murders, and four detectives were assigned to work full-time on both cases. [34] However, the dramatic increase in savagery exhibited against the victim and the fact that Skelton was a known drug user, dealer and occasional police informant[38] as opposed to a university student[24] led some junior investigators to speculate her murder may have been drug-related. [11], A detailed examination of the crime scene revealed that the body had been moved three times throughout the month it had lain undiscovered:[12] initially, the body had lain upon a pile of bottles and cans obscured from view by elder trees, before being dragged five feet from this location into a field, where it had remained exposed throughout much of the time it had lain undiscovered. The letter was mailed so they knew she got that far. Welcome to Lakeside. Sherry and Mike (my bro and sis) went down to babysit some kids whose parents who'd rented the house afterwards, and actually saw the bloodstains!!! He wrestled, played basketball, baseball, football and skied. "Her and the daughter both had miniskirts on and with the boots, all the way up, and long, dangly earrings. On August 18, investigators announced that all significant leads had been exhausted, and that the number of officers assigned to investigate the case had been reduced. ", After her last prison visit, Chapman said, his aunt told the rest of the family her son confessed to killingBeineman,and aftershe died, left instructions in her will to give Collins nothing "for reasons that John is all too well aware of. Following her identification of a photograph of Collins, police further questioned the proprietor of the wig shop in which Beineman had last been seen alive, asking her to identify the man she had seen with Beineman in a police lineup. Bundshuhadded that the new information, along with the DNA match, supported that Collins was the "perpetrator in that case." Butin 2005, when DNA and other evidenceconvicted Gary Leitermanof killing 23-year-old Jane Mixer, itcleared Collins of suspicion in that case. He was a letterman at the Catholic High School and was a sports hero. I hope some day it will be corrected; second, I never knew a girl named Karen Sue Beineman; I never had a conversation with her. Larry was still a senior in college and, though he may not have known his name, he recognized his face. That house still has a bad feeling to it, when I go by it!!! Prosecutor William F. Delhey agreed to a proviso that the test be conducted off the record and its results remain confidential. You can contact Patrick at734.487.3363, on twitter@WEMUPC, or email him atpcampion@emich.edu, Serving Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County, MI, PublishedOctober 30, 2017 at 6:55 AM EDT, Credit Lisa Powers (image on left) / https://lisapowers2020.smugmug.com/, Credit Lisa Powers / https://lisapowers2020.smugmug.com/, Credit Lisa Powers (image on right) / lisapowers2020.smugmug.com/, In our daily drives this time of year, we frequently encounter cyclists on the paths and roadways around town. On July 23, 1969, she was last seen alive at a wig shop in downtown Ypsilanti. Very nice job!!! It seemed,Schroeder said, as if Collins was describing what "he had done himself. Author Greg Fournier later wrote a book about the killings. [74]), The forensic examination of Beineman's body further revealed she had been raped prior to her murder, and that her torn panties had been forcefully placed inside her vagina; these panties revealed the presence of human semen and 509[75] human hair clippings measuring less than three-eights of an inch upon the material. They saw a clean-cut man sitting on a Triumph motorcycle and got a good look at him before he turned away. "A lot of the girls were beaten about the face, and so on, let alone the stab wounds," Harvey said. [86] When questioned as to the source of these clippings, Leik (who had not been informed of the discovery of the hair clippings found upon Beineman's panties) informed investigators that his wife regularly cut their children's hair in this basement, and that she had done so shortly before the family had embarked upon their vacation. [34], These injuries had been inflicted after the victim had been extensively beaten and tortured: her killer had placed a section of her own shirt into her trachea to muffle her screams as she received extensive blunt force trauma to the face, head and body,[34] including several deep lacerations believed to have been inflicted with a leather strap. Sowhen DNA matching Collins turned up on Alice Kalom's clothing, it was significant. David Leik. There was a door with steps from the basement into the garage that had been covered over. Collins says he vomited in the laundry tub. His nephew, John Norman Collins, had been watching the house. "What you have to remember is he had denied everything about this,knowing her before that.". The timing of these four witnesses' recollections as to when Collins had actually entered the motorcycle shop varied slightly, although consensus among three of these men was that he had entered the premises as they were eating lunch, which they typically did anytime between 1 and 2p.m.[138], Upon cross-examination, the time factor of these witnesses as to when they had actually seen Collins expanded to between noon and 2p.m. Two of these employees had signed statements affirming the time Collins had entered their premises was approximately 2p.m., although one of these witnesses stated he had been repeatedly harassed by an Ann Arbor Police Sergeant as to the actual time he had seen Collins. "[116][n 3], A formal indictment would later be served against Collins for the first-degree murder of Roxie Ann Phillips in April 1970, although the evidence surrounding this indictment was ordered to be sealed until after the trial of Collins for the murder of Karen Sue Beineman had concluded. Collins was then informed by Judge Conlin that if the jurors' verdict was wrong, the error would be corrected in due course. The assistant DA was a friend of my Dad's! Several of these wounds had punctured her lungs, liver and carotid artery, with one additional wound inflicted behind her left ear fracturing her skull. That seems tocorrelatewith a memory Collins describes in his longletters. [61][62] Investigators had publicly claimed prior to Kalom's murder they were satisfied that the third victim initially linked to the Michigan Murderer, Jane Mixer, had been killed by a separate perpetrator; the fact Kalom had also received a gunshot wound to the head led investigators to reconsider the possibility Mixer may have been murdered by the same perpetrator. Three days later it was discovered, and this set a strange sequence of events into effect that would eventually lead to the capture of who many had dubbed the "Ypsilanti Ripper.". ", Collins and Beineman chatted, and then they "started making out. These motions were repeatedly contested by Collins' attorney, Neil Fink, who opposed and successfully delayed his client's extradition upon the grounds of due process. Davis wrapped the gun in a blanket and tossed them both into a garbage bin. Its even harder for those who may not have the support they need.In our, Hidden In Plain Sight: Pedaling To Greater Independence, Hidden In Plain Sight: Ann Arbor Family Shoe Business Covering Feet With Care & Comfort For 75 Years, Hidden In Plain Sight: Support For New Moms And Young Adults Just Around The Corner In Ypsilanti. My name is C and I have been doing some research about the co ed killer. (FOX 2) - By July 23, 1969, panic is in the hot, muggy, southeast Michigan air. Living with Mom, and then moved into the basement of his uncle's house. Secondary full [139], Dr. Jervis' conclusions were supported by a private consultant named Auseklis Perkons, and a Massachusetts-based Director of Forensic Research named Samuel Golub. She had been slashed across the throat,shot in the head and stabbed in the heart. Loretta Chapman, an American, then moved with her three children across the Detroit River. Although forensic experts would deduce later that morning that the stains covered by the black paint had actually been varnish stains, one of the investigators discovered numerous hair clippingsmany measuring less than three-eights of an inchbeside the family washing machine. He was held without bond. When informed his request was impossible,[3] the young man had replied: "You mean you can't fix her up enough so I could just get one picture of her? Investigators also ascertained Collins had either been acquainted with most of the victims, had currently or previously lived close to their place of residence, or had likely established possible prior contact prior to their murders. Goshe recalled Beineman visiting her store to purchase a $20 headpiece in the early afternoon of July 23. Thanks for the reply. In 1969.my family had a coney island in Annarbor.across from the Michigan theater..we all remember it well.I read the book and took the same tour.but at that time the old farm house was still standing.my brother and I went there late at night, and we walked the property.when U drive up the short driveway..when U reach leavel.that's were the lilac plums were placed togather..one extra flower to indicate there is an other death comming soon ! ", THE EVIDENCE LOCKER: What police discovered at 7 Michigan murder crime scenes, CHAPTER 1: Never-before-published letters, interviews offer clues in infamous Michigan murders, CHAPTER 2: Murders of Michigan women still unsolved 50 years later but cops had eye on 1 man. Upon questioning Collins' co-workers, investigators learned that Collins had repeatedly taken delight in describing, in graphic detail, details of the injuries inflicted upon each successive victim linked to the Michigan Murderer to his female colleagues;[19] he had claimed these details had been provided to him by an uncle of his named David Leik, who served as a sergeant in the police force. When Mathewson questioned Collins on July 25 as to his movements two days earlier, he admitted that on the date in question he had been riding his Triumph Bonneville in the vicinity, and that he had stopped to converse with a former girlfriend of his while doing so (the point at which Mathewson had observed him). The seven. Although Collins burst into tears when informed the stains on the floor covered with paint had been varnish, he quickly regained his composure and continued to deny any knowledge of Karen Sue Beineman. [76] These hair clippings were predominantly blond, and as such did not belong to the victim, whose own hair color had been dark brown. "I looked at her for a moment. [47] A handkerchief found stuffed in her mouth had likely been placed there to muffle her cries throughout her torture, and her murderer had placed her body in a location where rapid discovery was assured. Upon tracing Collins' movements in relation to the dates of the disappearance and murder of the seven murder victims linked to the Michigan Murderer (which then included Jane Mixer), police discovered that, on June 21,[105] Collins and his roommate, Andrew Manuel, had traveled to Monterey in Collins' Oldsmobile Cutlass, which the pair used to tow a camper-trailer they had rented under false names, and had paid for with a stolen check, for the vacation.
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