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Terror in Ypsilanti: John Norman Collins Unmasked Paperback - August 1, 2016 by Gregory A. Fournier (Author) 236 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $6.95 Read with Our Free App Audiobook $0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback $22.95 12 Used from $12.59 15 New from $16.50 Audio CD $30.54 2 New from $28.44 [158] Just six months later, in January 1972, Monterey County District Attorney William Curtis formally announced, via a spokesman, the intention of California authorities to waive all extradition proceedings against Collins for Phillips' murder. This is all so fascinating.. why do dumb women want to marry inmates ?? He spilleda drink on the seat, reached for something to clean it up and grabbed a cloth wrapped around the .22 caliber pistol that "we had been shooting the day before. SoHarvey called the prosecutorand Collins' attorney. 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? (I said) 'the polygraph is sitting over here'. Police had noted (and would continue to note) common denominators in the physical characteristics of the victims, and the manner in which they died: all of the victims had been brunette Caucasians; each (excluding Mixer) had been the recipient of extensive violence inflicted with a blunt and/or bladed instrument prior to her murder; each of the victims' bodies had been found within a 15-mile radius of Washtenaw County; and each victim (excluding Mixer) had received knife wounds to the neck. On the day Karen disappeared, Larry said John was sitting on a motorcycle, flirting with pretty college girls. Great Job! dear retrokimmer & brother, I dearly love that you did this memorial to the poor victims of that sadistic monster,My father & I were going to do this very thing, but Then I got very badly injured,and couldn't finish our memorial, (there;s next year) fine job thank you for remembering the girls !!!!! CHECK THE DNA. if what you say is true.why doesn't JNC insist on DNA testing to prove his innocence? The rookie cop soon found out his football fraternity's rival: it was John Norman Collins. By '69, he was a senior at Eastern Michigan University, studying to be a teacher. [114] No hard evidence would ever arise suggesting his involvement in any murders, and the Washtenaw County prosecutor's office would publicly announce on December 18 their satisfaction that Manuel had "no knowledge of the murders. "[93] before angrily walking out of her apartment. JOHN NORMAN COLLINS Born in Windsor, Canada in 1947, John Norman Collins was the youngest of 3 children. Enjoy your days sitting under the private pergola, listening to the elegant turquoise Her body was found two days later in a field. In an email to the Free Press sent this week, Collins maintainshe is innocent. Victims like Mary Terese Fleszar, a 19-year-old EMU accounting major and Joan Elspetch Schell, a 20-year-old art student. Fournier said Karen was the only one to get on the bike. News articles described John Collinsas a square-jawed,"handsomeAll-American who seemed to be leading a textbook college career." [75], The 47th and final witness to appear for the prosecution at Collins' trial was a University of California chemistry professor named Dr. Vincent P. Guinn, who testified on August 5 as to his conclusions that the hair samples retrieved from Beineman's panties bore "a remarkable similarity" to those retrieved from the Leik household and that, upon statistical calculations he had begun the previous month, the odds of erroneous matching of the hair samples earlier testified to by Walter Holz were quite low. But as Leik walked into the basement, he found a mess of the hair and there was blood on the basement floor. True story, but I will protect my lady friend's privacy and withold her name. Best wishes! In this lineup, Goshe positively identified the man she had seen with Karen Sue Beineman as John Norman Collins. [84], On July 27, Arnold Davis testified as to his being in the company of Collins throughout the late afternoon and evening of July 23, 1969 (hours after Beineman had last been seen alive). She chose the car. 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.". [118] At this hearing, Collins' court-appointed attorney, Richard Ryan, challenged the validity of the physical evidence and the credibility of the circumstantial evidence before formally requesting the case against his client be dismissed and the evidence seized from his rooming house and vehicle suppressed upon the grounds Collins had not consented to a police search of his property. The moment for a confession, Harvey said, had passed. Bundshuh recalled during interviews with the Free Pressat his Adrian home. Eric Schroeder, 54, said inextensive interviews with the Free Press. [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. A 3 Bedroom, 2.5 Bathroom, 2 story condo in a highly sought community RIVERVIEW Courts. And as long as Collins denies he's a killer, he still has control even from prison. [16] In addition, her throat had been slashed, and her miniskirt then tied around her neck. [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. Very cool. 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. Collins, now known as John Chapman, proclaims his innocence to this day. William Milliken promised to leave "no stone unturned" to find herkiller. Investigators had long suspected John Norman Collins of killing young women and girls in the Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor areas in the late1960s. The receptionist could not offer any clear description of the man beyond that he was a handsome young white male with dark hair, that he had driven a blue-grey Chevrolet, and that he had not been carrying a camera. Wow, Kim, this does bring back memories. John Norman Collins is a suspect connected to seven young women's vicious and heinous murders. Fournier deniedCollins' accusations, noting that the Free Press asked him for the letters. Letters, interviews reveal dark side. [28][n 1], Four days after the discovery of Mixer's body, on March 25, a surveyor discovered the nude, mutilated body of a teenage girl lying upon a blue jacket behind a vacant house on a remote, rural section of Earhart Road,[30] just a few hundred yards from where the body of Joan Schell had been discovered eight months previously. She was never seen alive again. Butback then, Harvey, 88, saidthere was no DNA profiling and just not enough clues for charges. [76] In his opening statement to the jury on July 20, Delhey outlined the prosecution's contention that the evidence to be presented would form a clear pattern indicating that Collins had been in the company of Karen Sue Beineman at the time she was last seen alive by Mrs. Joan Goshe and her assistant; that he had taken her to the home of his own uncle, where he had tortured and beaten the girl before strangling her to death at this location; and that he had then discarded her body, before attempting to persuade his roommate to provide him with a false alibi. As such, he may have become acquainted with Basom throughout the time he frequented his girlfriend. Prosecutor William F. Delhey agreed to a proviso that the test be conducted off the record and its results remain confidential. I lived on Leforge at the time and know the area well. The following year, he formally requested transfer to a Canadian prison, in the belief this would facilitate his prospects of eventual release. Former Washtenaw County Sheriff Doug Harveysaid he wishes that he could have solved the other homicide cases. [145], On August 19, 1970, John Norman Collins was unanimously found guilty of the first-degree murder of Karen Sue Beineman. Melanie Maxwell has been a picture editor at the Free Press since 2018. [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. I remember being quite scared myself at the time and I still think of those girls as I pass the landmarks involved in the case. [88], Police had already established that Collins was a known motorcycle enthusiast[89] who owned several motorcycles, including a blue Triumph Bonneville. Thetyped,single-spaced letters Collins wrote to his cousin are sprinkled with words in all caps, perhaps for emphasis, andidiosyncratically misspelled words. Collins criticizes former sheriff Harvey, accusing him of having an obsession with hismother. John Norman Collins "The Co-Ed Killer Information researched and summarized by Jami Lyle, Justin Hanky, & Rex Harrison Department of Psychology . Chapman said he is convinced of his cousin'sguilt, and in his last letters,hewas"confessing by not really confessing. I was only 5 and 6 yrs old when the murders happened so never heard about them.. Sowhen DNA matching Collins turned up on Alice Kalom's clothing, it was significant. Shemarried William Collins. Following the state's closing argument, both Neil Fink and Joseph Louisell delivered separate closing arguments on behalf of the defense, describing Collins as a "young victim of circumstances" and dismissing much of the evidence presented as "fuzzy allegations," with Louisell being particularly scornful as to the testimony of Walter Holz, to whose conclusions, he asserted, the prosecution hinged its entire case. 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. [48], Investigators found no definite evidence Basom had been subjected to a sexual assault prior to her murder. [80], Upon retracing Beineman's movements on the day of her disappearance, police questioned the proprietor of the wig shop Beineman had visited immediately prior to her disappearance, Diana Joan Goshe. The first victim, Mary Fleszar, disappeared in July 1967. The Michigan Murders by Edward Keyes | Goodreads [162] Nonetheless, the decision of the prosecution at his 1970 trial was to try Collins solely with the murder of Karen Sue Beineman. In a final address to the jury on August 14, Judge Conlin informed the panel they had two choices in the verdict they could render: Guilty of first-degree murder, or not guilty. Fournier said Collins'cousin, John Chapman, gave him the letters, but he decided against including them inhis 2016 book. Though he was only charged with this final murder, he is considered responsible for six othersincluding that of Mary Terese Fleszar. It was July 23rd, 1969. 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. I remember the day they began to extract evidence from Collins apartment and car just down the streetvery, very spooky Geez! And she looked at them and I don't know, the third or fourth picture was Collins and when she saw it she just dropped her sandwich in her lap and said 'oh shit, that's him!'" "Mary worked at the university. They focused on Kalom, who, like Mixer, also was shot; Basom, the youngest of the cases,and Mary Fleszar, the first woman slain. Between the summers of 1967 through 1969, before the term serial killer was coined, a predatory killer stalked the campuses of Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan seeking prey until he made the arrogant mistake of killing his last victim in the basement of his uncle's home. Almost one year later on July 6, 1968, student Joan Schell was found dead in Ann Arbor with 47 stab wounds. Thank you for doing this.I read a book called Michigan Murders, I think, in 1977 and I was shocked this happened.This really gives visuals to the descriptions the book gave and its interesting & sad to see where they were found, where they were last seen, where all the locations were.To this day, some 33 years after reading the book, it still haunts me. I understand they still have DNA, perhaps if the local press would get off this guys back and allow fairness to take place you might find out the culprit was someone else. On July 23, 1969, she was last seen alive at a wig shop in downtown Ypsilanti. I grew up in Ypsilanti although I was not even born at this time my grandmother had sixteen kids born and raised in Ypsilanti so i have heard about it. The next year, hestarted tutoringinmates on how to pass theGED exam, the test for ahigh-school equivalency diploma. The prosecution was therefore limited to questioning Davis with regards to whether the contents of this box included women's clothing and jewelry, without specifically describing any particular item. [147] In response, Collins rose from his chair and made the following speech:[148]. Retro Kimmer'S Blog: the Michigan Coed Murders 40 Years Later

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