They met at 11 or 11:30 a.m., in front of the U-M student union, chatted and went to Burger King for a bite to eat. Collins ends the lettersayingit is the first time he had written down his account of events, and if "I had it to do all over again I'd probably take a different route. Though he was only charged with this final murder, he is considered responsible for six othersincluding that of Mary Terese Fleszar. [162] Although Collins had claimed to police that he had been with his mother in the Detroit suburb of Center Line on the weekend of Schell's disappearance, police had never sought to verify his alibi.[24]. At his uncle's house, they went downstairs. This is the only murder for which Collins would ever stand trial. A woman police officer mentioned her name to someone and that someone "dropped the dime" on Maralynn. [88] Later that evening, Collins informed Davis he had simply decided to "get rid of" the box and its contents. So sadmy twins are at EMU and they were home this weekend and asked me if I knew anything about the serial killer. Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen alive the evening of July 9, 1967. [109] She had been strangled to death and, as with several Michigan victims linked to Collins, one earring was missing. John Norman Collins is a suspect connected to seven young women's vicious and heinous murders. What is the exact address of where Karen was murdered? [87] When Mathewson showed these photographs to both Goshe and her assistant, Patricia Spaulding, both women were adamant the man in the photographs was the same individual with whom Beineman had last been seen alive. 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. [125][110] He was tried in Ann Arbor, before Judge John Conlin. 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. No search warrant had been sought prior to Collins being questioned on this date, and his apartment would only be searched on July 30two days after Arnold Davis had observed Collins hurriedly remove a box of women's clothing and jewelry from his apartment. The girl gave him a picture, which he put in a photo lineup and went to the chocolate shop to look for the employee. On Sunday, July 27, police arrived at the apartment on Emmet Street Collins shared with his roommate, Arnold Davis. "He had several fraternity brothers that rented an apartment there," Fournier said. You want to get him to talk.". He comes out and said 'take him back to jail.' She also orchestrated the evidence locker. In college, he drank beer, joined Theta Chifraternity and dated often. In 1967, John Norman Collins lived in a rental about one block south of EMUs campus. the ironic thing of this is that my mother was very close friends with one of the girls maybe you should talk to her some time, I work with Doug Harvey's grand son Joe whom claims his gradpa solved this case is this not true and he was a botched job ? John Norman Collins "The Co-Ed Killer Information researched and summarized by Jami Lyle, Justin Hanky, & Rex Harrison Department of Psychology . The man who put the cuffs on JNC!!!). Leik acknowledged that the evidence thus far gathered against his nephew was compelling, although in this first interview, he did not advise officers of the items missing from his household, or the paint marks he and his wife had found upon the floor of the family basement; however, the following morning, Leik scraped away some of the black paint which had been sprayed in his basement to reveal a stain which looked ominously like human blood and immediately returned to the police station to report his findings. [42], Little physical evidence existed beyond eyewitness descriptions and forensic reports. [131], Although subject to intense cross-examination by defense attorney Neil Fink as to the credibility of her testimony, Goshe remained insistent in her identification of John Norman Collins as being the individual who had waited for Karen Sue Beineman to return to his motorcycle. Collins and Schell had alighted from Davis's car together, and he (Davis) had not seen his roommate for almost three hours before Collins had returned to their apartment, alone, referring to Schell as a "bitch" and claiming he had "dropped her [Schell] off" in Ann Arbor after being unable to obtain the sexual encounter he had hoped to achieve with her. He also triesto discredit his cousin for disclosing his private letters,suggesting what he wrote ismostly fiction. But they were striking. ", "The thing with my cousin, as much as I hate to say this, is, he is narcissistic," Chapman said. What more do you want? Convicted of one The Michigan Murders, a series of killings that terrorized southeastern Michigan for two years, but is believed to have committed all. The clippings were swept into neat piles when they left. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for this final murder attributed to the Michigan Murderer on August 19, 1970,[4] and is currently incarcerated at G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility. [120] Three weeks after the examination, at a meeting with the family in Judge Conlin's chambers, Ryan summarized its tentative conclusions and suggested a "diminished capacity" plea for an insanity defense. As for Alice Kalom, who disappeared after a party in Ann Arbor, she got on a motorcycle. David Leik. [3], All the victims of the Michigan Murderer were young women between the ages of 13 and 21 who were abducted, raped, beaten and murderedtypically by stabbing or strangulationwith their bodies occasionally mutilated after death before being discarded within a 15-mile radius of Washtenaw County. Smdh. [141], On August 13, both prosecution and defense attorneys delivered their closing arguments to the jury (these arguments concluded the following day). Each testified on August 6. This former girlfriend was able to provide Mathewson with two recent photographs of Collins. John Norman Collins, 22, of Center Line Collins, a 22-year-old Eastern Michigan University student, never fit anyone's image of a killer. [139], Dr. Jervis' conclusions were supported by a private consultant named Auseklis Perkons, and a Massachusetts-based Director of Forensic Research named Samuel Golub. because it didn't happen as you would think it did,"Collins wrote to his cousin, setting him up for a lengthy explanation that revealed he had lied for years. Larry said. "A lot of the girls were beaten about the face, and so on, let alone the stab wounds," Harvey said. Pretty weird at the time how close they came to catching him at different times. [152], Between 1972 and 1976, Collins appealed his murder conviction on four further occasions; citing contentions that the Michigan Murders had received extensive media publicity in Washtenaw County, and that five separate motions for change of venue had been submitted by the defense counsel (two of which had been filed throughout the actual jury selection process) upon the grounds of pretrial publicity minimizing any chance of obtaining an unbiased jury in Washtenaw County. [66][101], On August 1, 1969, John Norman Collins was formally arraigned for the murder of Karen Sue Beineman. Investigators noted strong similarities between this murder and previous killings attributed to the Michigan Murderer, including the fact that a garter belt had been tied around Skelton's neck[35] and her clothes and shoes had been neatly placed beside her body. Detectives recalled that'sabout thesame timewhen they visited Marquette to confront Collins about the new DNA evidence that linked him to Kalomand to try to turn over some new stones. [137], Five independent witnesses were called to testify on behalf of the defense as to Collins' whereabouts on the dates Karen Sue Beineman had disappeared and her body had been found. Davis pointedto the laundry room. Several of these wounds had punctured her lungs, liver and carotid artery, with one additional wound inflicted behind her left ear fracturing her skull. Go back and read Part One here:Michigan Murders: 50 years ago, terror reigned in Ypsilanti, Continue reading Part Three here:Michigan Murders: Close calls, haunting roads - life after a suspected serial killer is arrested, This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Fournier said his frat brothers learned that the hard way when he was thrown out because of theft. In the few days he was in southern California, 17-year-old Roxie Phillips disappeared. And as long as Collins denies he's a killer, he still has control even from prison. "I may be off on the day/time etc. She was last seen alive outside a drive-in restaurant on Washtenaw Avenue two days before her body was discovered (although autopsy reports indicated Skelton had died between 24 and 36 hours before her body was discovered). They took him at his word. 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. 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.". His nephew had stayed at the home: John Norman Collins. And to your new HOME! After a couple of pages, he hints at more. If police in Michigan were doubting Collins as their man, they got more evidence a few thousand miles away. I grew up in YPSI. Eight days later, he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole; he will live out the remainder of his days in the maximum security wing of Marquette Branch Prison. ", Chapman said when he was a teen, he asked Collins for dating advice. Collins was ready to confess, but without a witness, the former sheriff said itmight not stick. I never took her life. Collins' attorneys also alleged these alibi witnesses had been subjected to police harassment, that the tests conducted upon the hair samples found upon Beineman's panties were unreliable, and that Collins' uncle, Sgt. Schell had intended to travel to Ann Arbor to visit her boyfriend, and her roommate had accompanied her to the bus stop. [12], Almost one year later, on July 5, 1968, the partially decomposed, mutilated body of a 20-year-old art student named Joan Elspeth Schell[15] was found by construction workers on an Ann Arbor roadside. From his second floor window he would have been able to see the very women he chose as some of his victims. And when twonow-retired Michigan State Police detectives questioned Collins face-to-face, his denials began to unravel. Her underwear had been inserted into the area of her vagina - which police say was one of the killer's signatures. A state prosecutor charged Collins with the first-degree premeditated murder of 18-year-old Karen Sue Beineman, a student at Eastern Michigan University. The following day, following a consultation with opposing counsels, Judge John Conlin allowed Davis to testify as to having observed Collins hurriedly remove a laundry box containing women's clothing and jewelry from his apartment and place this box in the trunk of his car two days prior to his arrest. [81] Reportedly, Beineman herself insisted Goshe observe the man with whom she had accepted a ride, stating that she had made two foolish errors in her life: purchasing a wig; and accepting a ride from a stranger,[82] before stating: "I've got to be either the bravest or the dumbest girl alive, because I've just accepted a ride from this guy." On August 17, 1970, John Normans Collins was found guilty. Enjoy dual pane vinyl windows, high 9' ceilings top & bottom floors, a spacious loft 10' x 10' that can be used as a bedroom or game room, a 10' x 5' Harry Potter closet previously used as an office, hand-carved lightly distressed maple hardwood flooring-Ponto . The 619 Emmet house is actually a sorority house, not a fraternity house. [88], Police had already established that Collins was a known motorcycle enthusiast[89] who owned several motorcycles, including a blue Triumph Bonneville. Despite repeatedly challenging the overturning of the 1981 decision to transfer him to a Canadian prison, a federal appellate court ruled in May 1988 that Chapman should remain incarcerated at Marquette Branch Prison. In 1967, John Norman Collins lived in a rental about one block south of EMU's campus. Beineman, she said, went in the store,purchased a brown hairpiece, and left with Collins on his motorcycle. Collins rented a room on the second floor of a Ypsilanti building on Emmet Street. This individual had asked for permission to take a photograph of the body as it lay in the coffin as a keepsake for her parents. Although police theorized that Fleszar had been raped, the advanced state of decomposition of the corpse had erased any conclusive evidence of sexual assault. Moreover, this search had also uncovered small bloodstains in nine areas of the basement. Formal sentencing was scheduled for 8:30a.m. August 28. While DNA matched in Kalom's case, no DNA was found on evidence connected to Basom of Ypsilanti or Fleszar, 19, of Willis. On October 14, Judge Conlin rejected defense motions to dismiss the case, or suppress any evidence obtained; ruling Collins' arrest had been on the reasonable grounds he had committed a felony. They wanted to see whether they could find aDNA match with other victims. Her body was found two days later in a field. The first witness to testify was the head of the Michigan Health Department's Crime Detective Laboratory, Walter Holz, who testified as to the human hair clippings found inside Karen Sue Beineman's panties being an exact match to those recovered from the basement of Sgt. I also know someone who was a graduate student working on a project with Alice at the time she disappeared--she was absolutely horrified to find out that she had been murdered. Fournier said Karen was the only one to get on the bike. "He suggested they had met within a day or so before she was murdered, and they had gone out scrambling on a motorcycle," Bundshuh said. Fournier deniedCollins' accusations, noting that the Free Press asked him for the letters. ICK!!! I said 'would you look at these pictures for me' and she said sure. 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. CHAPTER 3: 'Handsome' EMU student was unlikely serial killer suspect. Goshe then observed Beineman climb onto the motorcycle before the young man with whom she had accepted the ride drove away. Thank You for this wonderful site. She said that the girl was an informant. [32] A subsequent autopsy revealed the victim had died of numerous fractures covering one-third of her skull and one side of her face,[33] all of which had been inflicted with a heavy blunt instrument. [49] Many female students opted to arm themselves with knives, with others adopting a "buddy system" whereby they would refuse to walk anywhere unless in the company of a trusted male friend or at least three other girls. A low-maintenance backyard with irrigation is the perfect place to relax and entertain guests. Still, in interviews with detectives,Collins described meetingKalom, 21, of Portage, and taking her on a motorcycle-riding date just before she was slain. Three days prior to Collins' July 30 arrest, in direct breach of a Washtenaw County Prosecutor order,[167] two young Ann Arbor detectives had arrived at the Emmet Street apartment Collins shared with his roommate to question him as to the circumstantial evidence then-obtained against him. [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. [126], Initial jury selection began on this date, and would continue until July 9. [144] The jury then retired to consider their verdict, and would deliberate for over 27 hours over a period of three days, with an additional five-and-a-half hours devoted to their re-reading portions of testimony, before announcing they had reached their verdict. Yet, investigators added, as Collins and any other potential suspects age, the window of time is closing on whether the casescan be prosecuted tobring justice and resolution for the victims and their families. She also hintedhe had another side: Collins was moody and seemed "mad most of the time.". 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. Glass particles found within this basement were of a similar consistency to those found upon the soles of Basom's shoes. Collins also says he metKalom at an Ann Arbor bar and made a date for Saturday morning to go for a motorcycle ride. Delhey formally closed his opening statement to the jury by requesting they return a verdict of life imprisonment with no possibility of parole. "He reveals himself by what he doesn't say, as much as by what he says,"Fournier said of Collins. Kennard Christensen, testified as to the results of forensic tests conducted in the Leik family basement: the results of these tests confirmed evidence of bloodstains in four separate areas. [157], The state of California postponed their requests to extradite Collins to face charges relating to Phillips' murder in June 1971. John Norman Collins committed the "Michigan Murders" as it was named by media and locals, between 1967 and 1969, during this period of time he committed eight murders of women ranging from 13 to 23 years old. "We were trying to figure out not just on the Kalom casebut all the cases was, was he to the point he wanted to talk?" Next, they went to "a really PRETTY SPOT that was on the outskirts of campus," which "led to sex.". [121] Mrs. Collins reportedly remortgaged her home to secure their services. The moment passed and they continued their ride uneventfully. Despite exuding confidence, evidence was overwhelming. She was reported missing by her roommate, Sherri Green, when she failed to return to her dormitory after curfew. Instead, theyput the body in the trunk,rolled it into a ravine, and returned to the house to clean up. By July 24, every cop in Washtenaw County was issued a Be On the Lookout (BOLO) for the bike and biker. Questioned by police, Collins flatly denied even knowing Schell, and insisted he had spent the weekend of June 2930 with his mother at her house in the Detroit suburb of Center Line, and had not returned to Ypsilanti until the morning of July 1. Collins had returned to their shared apartment shortly thereafter and asked Davis to hide a knife for him. ", But, a "cop car pulled through the driveway and he got nervous.". On this weeks "Hidden in Plain Sight,"WEMUs Patrick Campion meets up with Terror in Ypsilanti author Gregory Fournier to take us on a tour of some of the sites and sounds associated with the Michigan Murderer who preyed on Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti co-eds for two years. Although this officer attempted to radio this sighting to his colleagues, the rain had rendered his radio inoperable. His nephew, John Norman Collins, had been watching the house. [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. [132]), Also to testify at the trial on behalf of the prosecution was Marjorie Barnes, who testified on July 30 to having observed Collins leaving his uncle's home carrying a laundry box covered with a blanket on either July 24 or 25, 1969. I saw your video you did on the location of where the girls went missing and where they were found.. That was haunting to me and very disturbing .. After I saw in the video the home you lived in and how you lived next door this man It had to be haunting to you to know you could of been one of his victims After watching the KELLY AND COMPANY VIDEO that i saw I have to question myself if I truly believed he could of murder these women .. After I read the book there was no doubt in my mind.. Well I just want to let you know much I had enjoy the video you had done it just put everything in perspective . "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. 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. I wasn't until our LAST VISIT together that I told her the WHOLE STORY. His female friends described him as aggressive and short tempered. [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. In the case of California victim Roxie Ann Phillips, police had discovered that, prior to her murder, the victim had told a close friend she had met an Eastern Michigan University student named John, who owned a silver Oldsmobile Cutlass and several motorcycles; her nude, strangled body was found discarded in a patch of poison oak on July 13,[164] with the distinctive red-and-white floral patterned belt from her culotte dress knotted around her neck. [84] He held a part-time job as an inspector at a firm which manufactured drum brakes,[66] and was currently majoring in elementary education at Eastern Michigan University. Maryann Struman is Freep Now director at the Detroit Free Press and project leader. Collins claimed he never killed anyone and he even agreed to take a polygraph test. She worked across the hall from where Collins had a student job," Fournier said. That same month, on the 26th, 16-year-old Maralynn Skelton was also found dead, beaten and bludgeoned extensively. 5 Harry Potter closet previously used as an office, hand-carved lightly distressed maple hardwood flooring-Ponto Beach on the first level, and simple times carpet on the second level, open concept gourmet kitchen with overside white quartz island 8 x 4 Collins then offers a similar account, but in more detail, that he gave the detectives. I was in prison for seven years. In this cross-examination, Sheriff Harvey admitted to having driven Mrs. Goshe and her assistant to East Lansing to view the updated composite drawing of the suspect in Beineman's murder, and that he had shown photographs of various suspects, including Collins, to Goshe prior to her formally identifying Collins in a lineup. 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. Thanks for the reply. It seemed,Schroeder said, as if Collins was describing what "he had done himself. The first victim, Mary Fleszar was last seen being cut off by a guy in a shiny car just a block from Collins' room. Has it been 40 years?!? Social work, she wrote in her application, would help her better understand social relationships. 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. They were all shot, strangled, stabbed or subjected to terrible acts. Davis put thepanties which, from Collins' account, had his DNA on them inside Beineman's body. "I would 'NEVER'hurt a CHILDEVER!!!" [142] Prosecuting attorney William Delhey argued first, recounting the evidence the state had presented and Collins' conscious efforts to destroy physical evidence at the Leik household before telling the jury that their collective application of common sense could only dictate a guilty verdict.[143]. He writeshe ran into Beineman, "she SMILED AT ME and WAVED her hand." 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. Very nice job!!! ". [147] In response, Collins rose from his chair and made the following speech:[148]. Both letters begin,"Hello John, =: )," and Collins ends one calling Chapman "the Best Little Brother ever! LOL!! Although earlier attempts to enforce news blackouts as to the discovery of Basom and Kalom had proven unsuccessful,[60] on this occasion, police successfully ordered a news blackout relating to the discovery of this latest victim. [36], The victim was identified as a 16-year-old Romulus[37] high school student named Maralynn Skelton, who had disappeared while hitchhiking in Ann Arbor. The circumstances surrounding this case prevented me from getting a fair trial. [137] On this date, Collins was formally sentenced to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole. Chapman's theory: Collins wasunhappy with his mother's marriage choices, blamed her for taking him away from his father, and took out his hatred for his mom on women like her: attractive, brunette, smart, independent and who rejected him. Decades later, Fournier showed the former sheriffCollins'letters. Wow, Kim, this does bring back memories. About three weeks later Dawn Basom, just 13, was found dead after disappearing the previous evening. 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. 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. Her murderer had likely driven to the location to dispose of her body, before making rudimentary efforts to conceal the body with clumps of grass. ButCollins says Davis did somethingthat would "lead right back to me.". [69] Upon questioning both of Beineman's roommates, police were informed that she (Beineman) had last been seen shortly after noon on her way to a downtown wig shop. Living with Mom, and then moved into the basement of his uncle's house. Before they left for vacation, Leik's wife gave his kids haircuts in the basement. Right after Alice Kalom was killed in June '69, Collins and a friends took a road trip to Salinas, California. [39] Nonetheless, Ann Arbor Police Chief Walter Krasny formally linked Skelton's murder to the series.

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