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Heli PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:41 pm

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Sam and Marilyn Sheppard
Jeffrey and Colette MacDonald
Eric and Pegye Bechler
Michael and Jennifer Blagg
Michael and Kathleen Peterson
Bruce and Jana Koklich
Greg and Kristin deVillers
Scott and Laci Peterson
Mark and Lori Hacking

What do these couples have in common?


Proclaimed by friends and family to be doting lovebirds.

Affluent, professional, well educated and living in nice neighborhoods.

Statistically very low chances for victimization by strange assailants.

The victims were found dead under suspicious circumstances, murdered, or vanished without a trace.

Most of the victims were pregnant at the time of their murder.

The accused or suspected spouse was guilty of major deception, chronic infidelity or was carrying on an extramarital relationship at the time of their spouse’s “disappearance” or murder.

All of the accused staged dramatic scenarios (staged domestic homicides, per FBI parlance) to deflect suspicion.

None of the couples had a history of abuse or domestic violence. The Bechlers and the Koklichs ran businesses together. Most were first marriages where the couple met in college.

In most cases, there were severe financial problems that were not disclosed until after an investigation of the crimes, and large life insurance policies on the missing or murdered spouse.

What were previously close family relationships among in-laws and siblings were irreparably divided by the incidents. The family of the victim tirelessly pursued justice and actively assisted the prosecution.


The Scorecard:

Sheppard – conviction was overturned, accused passed away rather young.
MacDonald – convicted of multiple murders; was eligible for a parole hearing in 1991, still working on an appeal based on DNA evidence, but don’t expect to see him strolling on the beach anytime soon.
Bechler – convicted (without the body of his wife ever being found) - currently serving a life sentence.
Blagg - convicted of murdering his wife, but has not been charged or tried for his daughter's murder.
Michael Peterson – convicted and sentenced to life without parole.
Bruce Koklich – convicted of second degree murder (with no body found), sentenced to 15 years to life.
Kristin Rossum – sentenced to life.
Scott Peterson - convicted of double murder and condemned to death.
Mark Hacking - pled guilty and is serving an inexact amount of time.

Oh yeah, they loved them to death!

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Heli PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:46 pm

November 15, 2006





A week ago, in a bucolic setting near Raleigh, North Carolina, in a neighborhood quieter than Covena Avenue in Modesto, Michelle Marie Young was found lying face down in her bedroom, apparently murdered by blunt force trauma. Michelle was 29 and five months’ pregnant with her second child, a son. Her two-year-old daughter, Cassidy, had tracked blood throughout the house in the approximately 12 hours between the time of the murder and the discovery of Michelle’s body by her sister, Meredith Fisher.

Michelle Young's resemblance to Laci Peterson is uncanny. Will the resemblance end there?

Jason Young, the husband, allegedly left for a business trip rather late on Thursday evening, some three hours before Michelle was murdered. The following day, for whatever reason, he called his sister-in-law, Fisher, to retrieve a fax that had been sent to his house. Why would he call Fisher rather than call his wife? This is just one of several suspicious events in what has become a textbook example of staged domestic homicide.

First, we have the husband creating an “out of town” alibi. Possibly cell phone records or witnesses can corroborate his whereabouts that night. Then, we have him arranging for a third-party discovery of the body, typical of these types of cases. Then, he lawyers up right away and refuses to speak to the press.

Finally, we have the suspect’s family expressing the all-too-familiar outrage over the confiscation of Young’s car and luggage:

McIntyre said he told Jason Young to get a lawyer. He said he was afraid that police would pin the death on his stepson, regardless of evidence.
"I do not want my son to be talking to any type of investigators," he said. "They're not going to be trustworthy when they talk to him."

McIntyre criticized the sheriff's office for not immediately returning the belongings, which included medical prescriptions, purses and cell phones.

How many cell phones? Was one of them Michelle’s? Why would he have a purse with him on a business trip? Is it Michelle’s purse? Was this a murder for hire?

Young has been questioned and fingerprinted by Raleigh police, but officials are giving little information to the neighbors, who, according to news stories, expressed the following:

"What I remember mostly about Michelle is that her smile just lit up the room," said friend Laura Studdard. "She was so nice, and she was so smart and so pretty -- it's just so sad to me, right now."

"You couldn't imagine anything happening to a nice couple like this," said Martin, the neighbor.

I believe we have heard this song before.

Let’s look at the facts so far:



No sign of forced entry into the home.

Victim found in the couple’s bedroom.

Investigators insist that it was not a “random act of violence” but fail to elaborate.

The house wasn’t ‘tossed’ and nothing was stolen, thus indicating no burglary was in progress.

The couple’s toddler was left unharmed. It is likely she was asleep at the time of the murder, so she did not witness what happened.

Police are reassuring the neighbors “not to worry about their own safety.”


If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…stay tuned. We have a local misfit keeping tabs on this case.

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victims cry PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:58 pm

the resemblance to Laci is really uncanny.
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Heli PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:06 pm

The following was posted on a Comments Board following
a CBS News Online article. Can anyone shed any light on
the portion I've bolded.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/13/earlyshow/main2175238.shtml


I get a feeling about murders like this; usually my feelings are correct. In this case I feel that there are two ways to go:
1. the husband because the fact he was out of town was odd and the fact that he called his sister-in-law to go see about a fax he didn't want his wife to see was also a strange thing. It could just have been a way for his wife's body to be discovered and for his little girl to be found and taken care of.
It is also possible that he wanted his wife's family to find Michelle because he had something against them if he and Michelle were having problems.
2. The other avenue would be to look at the friends with whom Michelle spent her last evening. Was she having an affair with someone at work, (perhaps the same someone who kidnapped and murdered the other girl from her company) and he stayed after the others left then got mad and killed her.
I donno but I'd have to know a little more before I can get a good feel for who did it and why. These folks in NC are VERY closed mouthed and just about leak proof. That's okay in my book but makes it hard for one to get a drift on the real killer.
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ATA PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:31 pm

Heli wrote:
The following was posted on a Comments Board following
a CBS News Online article. Can anyone shed any light on
the portion I've bolded.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/13/earlyshow/main2175238.shtml


I get a feeling about murders like this; usually my feelings are correct. In this case I feel that there are two ways to go:
1. the husband because the fact he was out of town was odd and the fact that he called his sister-in-law to go see about a fax he didn't want his wife to see was also a strange thing. It could just have been a way for his wife's body to be discovered and for his little girl to be found and taken care of.
It is also possible that he wanted his wife's family to find Michelle because he had something against them if he and Michelle were having problems.
2. The other avenue would be to look at the friends with whom Michelle spent her last evening. Was she having an affair with someone at work, (perhaps the same someone who kidnapped and murdered the other girl from her company) and he stayed after the others left then got mad and killed her.
I donno but I'd have to know a little more before I can get a good feel for who did it and why. These folks in NC are VERY closed mouthed and just about leak proof. That's okay in my book but makes it hard for one to get a drift on the real killer.
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A co-worker of Michelle's was murdered (not long ago) but they have that guy in jail.

There is a link i saw it.




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ATA PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:43 pm

Found it Heli!


http://www.newsobserver.com/1330/story/507273.html


Wake County Briefs: Published: Nov 07, 2006 12:30 AM
Modified: Nov 07, 2006 03:10 AM



RALEIGH - Cynthia Moreland, the Progress Energy employee kidnapped from a downtown Raleigh parking deck, may have been strangled to death, according to her recently released autopsy.
Moreland, 48, went missing Aug. 22. Three days later, Antonio Davon Chance, 29, a convicted sex offender, was arrested and charged with kidnapping her. Her body was found Sept. 1 behind an abandoned house in a rural part of Harnett County. Chance is facing the death penalty if convicted.




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Heli PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:22 pm

Thanks ATA. My only question was whether a perp
had been arrested and placed in custody in the earlier
homicide. Back to Jason Wink
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Danse Macabre PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:10 am

victims cry wrote:
the resemblance to Laci is really uncanny.


You really think so? I don't think she resembles Laci at all- they both had similar hair color, and maybe a winning smile, but that's about it. Or do you mean the particulars of the case- how everyone thought they were a perfect couple?etc

I get a really bad feeling about the husband when I see him in that pic above- it's not an idea about his guilt or not, they just look sort of mismatched, and that makes me wonder- was something off? It's an entirely baseless opinion based only on a feeling looking at that pic. Don't think I expressed it well, but I know what I am trying to say...
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jacqueline PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 7:03 am

From reading one of the earlier articles that Heli posted when the couple first met it would seem that Michelle was the out going one and Jason was more of a introverted person. It was mentioned that it took Jason awhile to settle on the idea of marriage and Michelle knew just want she wanted, marriage, children, and etc. etc. even though it was mentioned in this article that Jason “itched to have another baby” perhaps everything was moving too quickly for him.

We are all on the outside looking in as we have no idea what their marriage was like, we have no idea if they quarreled a lot, had money issues under a lot of stress. We have no idea; maybe they were just trying to keep up appearances trying to make their marriage work who knows.

But as in the Peterson case I just cannot come to terms that a man could kill his wife that was carrying his child.

Another thing I have a problem with is Jason seemed to love his daughter, there was a long time delay from when Michelle was murdered to when he asked his sister-law to go to the home and retrieve that fax how could he knowingly leave his daughter alone for that length of time and to wake and find her mother covered in blood.

Like you Danse I feel from looking at this pic that both were mismatched one being very outgoing and the other just wanting to be in the background. On second thought maybe someone was tired of always being in the background and they wanted to be first before it came to children, family and friends.
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Heli PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:05 am

What catches my attention in Jason and Michelle's history:

Married October, 2003; Cassidy born in Spring, 2004.
Appears Michelle was pregnant before they married


Jaon was a "late bloomer"; Michelle always seemed to
know what she wanted and that included a family.

Jason recently had a new job in sales with a medical
supply company.

Michelle talked of cutting back to part time work.


** Sounds similar to the Scott and Laci Peterson case :
ambitious wife with plans and a less focused husband
who seems to perhaps have been sucked into a vortex
of marriage and family that ultimately, may have proved
to be critically overwhelming.
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Heli PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:22 am

He Just Couldn't Do Such a Thing


Trotting out the “Constitutionally Incapable” Defense
In the annals of spousal murder cases, the first line of defense from family members or friends of the accused is often, “He couldn’t have done it.” None of us is willing to believe that our loved one is capable of murder; it’s not fathomable to most people that their sons, brothers, friends or priests have a double life or an insane impulse to resort to such a cold-blooded act. Years after a trial, some supporters of convicted murderers persist in defending the innocence of their loved ones. They invest time and resources into appealing convictions, setting up web sites as ad hoc defense cases, petitioning courts, hiring investigators and attorneys, and refusing to accept the verdict. This is not unusual or unexpected.

We naturally resist accepting the evil nature of the human condition, especially in ourselves or someone we love. Despite the barrage of actual crime stories in our midst, and the plethora of crime-related television programs, somehow when it comes to our own family or friends, these dark realities don’t apply. Yet, isn’t it a fact that prominent members of the community: celebrities, sports figures, rabbis, fertilizer salesmen, scout leaders, elders in the church, postal carriers, teachers, scientists, millionaires, and drifters alike have been convicted of murder with no previous history of criminal behavior and, rather, otherwise sterling reputations?

Have we not seen people we would never expect to behave in a manner inconsistent with their values do horrendous and despicable things?

There are cases where the natural suspect was falsely accused and wrongfully convicted, but these are rare. While the court of public opinion may jump to erroneous conclusions and try and convict without the legal standard of reasonable doubt and admissible evidence, criminal courts across the land (arguably) do not. I am the last to claim that our justice system is infallible; however, white middle- or upper-class men usually receive fair trials. It is not the purpose of this blog to be a venue for discussing the justice system. I prefer to look at cases in the context of history, statistics, the psychology of evil, and patterns that appear to recur in staged domestic homicides.

In a recent article about the Young murder, investigators are said to be looking at a peculiar car accident the couple was in prior to Michelle Young’s murder. Armchair sleuths on crime forums are speculating that this was a possible attempted murder that went awry. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. A man in California was convicted recently for murdering his wife and children by driving his car off a cliff into the ocean where his wife and child drowned as he resurfaced unharmed. It’s a crazy way to kill someone, but it’s not unprecedented. As the saying goes, “There is nothing new under the sun.”

Still, they are examining every aspect of the couple's life together, including a May 29, 2005, car accident in Transylvania County when Jason Young drove off a road down a 100-foot embankment into the French Broad River. Neither he nor Michelle Young were seriously injured.
"They just wanted to know the circumstances and if I saw anything unusual with the wreck, which I did not," said sate Highway Patrol trooper David Hicks, who investigated the crash.



The couple’s house is still an “active crime scene”, but Jason Young has not been declared a suspect. Neither has anyone else:

Over the course of the investigation, they have taken fingerprints from any person who has had access to the house, including Young's husband, Jason Young, who gave his fingerprints under a court order.
Investigators have also interviewed and collected fingerprint evidence from other people, although they have declined to say how many and whom.

Statistically, the longer the crime goes unsolved, the more difficult it becomes. If there were compelling evidence that this murder was committed by a stranger, a neighbor who didn’t belong in the house, a “goth” teenager copycatting Scott Dyleski, or a serial killer who had stalked Mrs. Young and knew her husband would be out of town that night, I suspect there would have been some hint of this from police. As it stands, or until more information points to a different conclusion, Occam’s Razor must apply.


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jacqueline PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:33 am

Heli wrote:
What catches my attention in Jason and Michelle's history:

Married October, 2003; Cassidy born in Spring, 2004.
Appears Michelle was pregnant before they married


Jaon was a "late bloomer"; Michelle always seemed to
know what she wanted and that included a family.

Jason recently had a new job in sales with a medical
supply company.

Michelle talked of cutting back to part time work.


** Sounds similar to the Scott and Laci Peterson case :
ambitious wife with plans and a less focused husband
who seems to perhaps have been sucked into a vortex
of marriage and family that ultimately, may have proved
to be critically overwhelming.


Yes it does seem similar Heli could have become very overwhelming.


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pausebreak PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:45 pm

egads! Loretta, the biggest narcissist on the internet!! LOL
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Heli PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:58 pm

I've always rather enjoyed reading Loretta's blog. Always
some good fodder to ruminate on at least.
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pausebreak PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:05 pm

Heli wrote:
I've always rather enjoyed reading Loretta's blog. Always
some good fodder to ruminate on at least.


Obviously she has never been my cup of tea, but I thought she was pretty vicious especially towards all men. BTW, whatever happened after she had been charged with attacking a pregnant woman? I can remember years ago she was always asking people to donate to her for some cause or another. I guess people can change though. I thought she had gone off into oblivion and found Jesus or something.
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victims cry PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:06 pm

I am really interested in teh autopsy results and what was on that fax. There are many similarities to Laci Scott but also things that make me wonder. Including the fact there was apparently a neighbor teen with issues re Michelle. The contents of the fax would tell us a lot. If it was "we recieved your order for 500 pads with your name as the heading, or "confirmed purchase of a 2 carat diamond ring with "i love you michelle" as the inscription. One would be odd for him to not want her to see, the other obvious.

I am on the fence here but soo curious
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Heli PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:23 pm

pausebreak wrote:
Heli wrote:
I've always rather enjoyed reading Loretta's blog. Always
some good fodder to ruminate on at least.


Obviously she has never been my cup of tea, but I thought she was pretty vicious especially towards all men. BTW, whatever happened after she had been charged with attacking a pregnant woman? I can remember years ago she was always asking people to donate to her for some cause or another. I guess people can change though. I thought she had gone off into oblivion and found Jesus or something.


I have to admit I haven't been to her blog for a long time, probably
not since the last of the Peterson case.

I don't know that much about her, but I did find her writing good
basis for dicussion in the Peterson case.
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Fu-Gee-La PostPosted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:37 pm

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Police on Tuesday issued a warrant charging a Garner man with murder in the death of a Wendell woman whose body was found last week after she had been missing for 10 days.

Antonio Davon Chance, 29, already had been charged with kidnapping in connection with the disappearance of Cynthia Moreland. Police said their investigation hasn't produced indications that anyone else was involved in the crimes.

Wake County prosecutors already have filed notice that they plan to seek the death penalty in the case.

Moreland, 48, was last seen early on Aug. 22, when she dropped her husband off at work. She drove to a downtown Raleigh parking garage but never reported to work at Progress Energy.

Her abandoned car was found the next day in southeast Raleigh.

Chance was arrested on Aug. 24 and charged with kidnapping. Police said a surveillance tape from a Raleigh discount store showed him trying to use Moreland's debit card shortly after her disappearance. Investigators also traced Moreland's cell phone back to Chance.

Moreland's body was found last Friday behind an abandoned barn in rural Harnett County. No cause of death has been released.

"The break in the case was, unfortunately, the finding of those remains on Friday, and that helped put a lot of pieces together," said Jim Sughrue, spokesman for the Raleigh Police Department.

Police declined to say what evidence links Chance to the slaying. But they noted he was convicted of a sex crime in 1994, the year the state started requiring sex offenders to submit a DNA sample for a state database.

WRAL knows of only one eyewitness in the case.
Police said she saw a vehicle that looked like Moreland's being driven by a black male with a woman in the front passenger seat. It's the only witness police have publicly discussed.
http://www.wral.com/news/9788986/detail.html

Okay, so he was found with her stuff. Does that mean that he killed her?
Is he really THAT dumb???
One witness says that they saw the two together?
This doesn't sound right to me.
I will see what else I can find.
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Mia PostPosted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:13 pm

The Michelle Young is not as similar to the Laci Peterson case as one I saw on TV the other day.

Actully the Laci Peterson case is similar to the one I mention rather then the other way around as this case happened first.

I can't recall the couples names now. I was half watching as I worked.

This was a young married couple.
She was 6 months pregnant.
She went missing.
Hubby went on TV to ask for her return etc.

No where near the media coverage the Peterson case got but huge for its time.

Hubby had recently purchased a boat from a friend and had it hidden behind a neighbours barn. (This boat was very much like the one Scott had in appearance and size)

Hubby didn't tell LE about the boat but they found out about and impounded it. They were unable to find any evidence of foul play but noted some stange marks on the seat.

Over a year goes by. The police are following hubby everywhere. Sometimes in secret and sometimes in the open.

A body was found by accident bound up and in a bag on the edge of a river.
I think it was the Hudson but am not 100% sure on this.
The bag had been weighted with rocks.

It was the missing wife.

It was noted by LE that the bag had and unusal stripe pattern on the bottom and othey remembered the strange marks on the boat.

They matched and hubby now resides in jail for life. I don't think he got death but could also be wrong on this point .

I wish I could remember this couples names. Sheesh this is so annoying. He was dark haired and she had long blond hair.

The wife and child (boy) are buried together.

His dad was very much like Lee Peterson in attitude and action.

I saw this on one of those CI type shows.

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Fu-Gee-La PostPosted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:17 pm

Chance's sister who did not want to be identified said, "Right now you all are seeing him on TV and his face is a monster but the boy that we know, I know he's not a monster. I know he loves people."

Chance was identified by detectives as the individual shown in a surveillance video. Moreland is still missing.

She disappeared on her way to the Progress Energy building in downtown Raleigh where she worked. Her family and friends reported her missing when she never showed up for work although her Progress Energy card had been swiped at the company's parking deck.

Raleigh Police Department spokesman Jim Sughrue says investigators believe Chance acted alone and did not have a previous link to the victim.
http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=89795&SecID=2

Progress Energy has handed over a surveillance tape to investigators looking for Moreland. The operator of the parking deck also is helping by providing police with Moreland's previous parking records.

Moreland is a 25-year employee at Progress Energy. Co-workers are worried about their friend.

"She designs power distribution centers for subdivisions," said Progress Energy spokesman Mike Hughes. "Her work has touched many customers, whether they knew it or not."
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=local&id=4488854

I haven't read anything about a card being used to exit the parking garage. I wonder if that is necessary- to swipe it on exit.
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