Over half a decade before Ted Bundy began his one-man war on Washington co-eds, John Norman Collins, the Ypsilanti Ripper, cut a swathe of destruction through Ann Arbor, Michigan, leaving eight females between the ages of 13 and 23 dead. Collins was born in Center Line on June 17, 1947, one of three children of Richard and Loretta Chapman, both Canadian citizens. His father abandoned the family soon after he was born and his mother remarried, but it only lasted a year. Her new husband was an alcoholic who once threw John across a car at his mother. Another time he used the boy to shield himself from a man who waved a gun at him. Loretta then took her family to Detroit and married William Collins, who legally adopted her three children. Unfortunately, Collins was a violent alcoholic who beat all of them. The couple separated in 1956.By the time John celebrated his 9th birthday that summer, he'd had three father figures in his life and experienced a good deal of violence. However, he seemed to handle it well and his peers remembered him as a normal child. He attended Catholic mass with his mother, who labored as a waitress to support her family and re-married yet again. John did well academically. At St. Clement's High in Center Line, he was an honor roll student and participated in sports. He had regular girlfriends and was remembered by most as being polite and soft-spoken, but one girlfriend recalled him as being angry most of the time.
He graduated high school in 1965 and enrolled in Eastern Michigan U, then Central, with the idea of getting a degree in education. While there Collins did athletics and was in the Theta Chi fraternity until being asked to leave over suspected thefts. He became more of a loner after that and preferred to ride his motorcycle rather than socialize. His grades slipped some and by the time he should have graduated in 1969, he was still 24 credits short and didn't try to make them up over summer break. Collins also displayed any number of weird, sociopathic tendencies. He was fascinated by sex but could also be strangely puritanical. A girlfriend remembered once when Collins walked up to her and began to feel her up, only to pull back suddenly and ask her if she was on her period. She said yes she was, whereupon he stalked away and muttered that that was disgusting.One girl remembered a man resembling Collins accosting her from his car and saying he hated women who wore earrings because they defiled their bodies by having pierced ears. He also told her he'd killed a cat once and to make a point, placed his hands around her throat. Collins told a date once that if you had to kill, you had to kill, and that the only way one could get caught committing a crime was if he felt guilty about it. If you never felt any remorse, you would never be caught. One girl remembered that he lost it when he thought she danced too provocatively and ranted that it was against the Bible. Once he caught his then-pregnant sister Gail in the embrace of a man who was not her child's father. He beat the man unconscious and hit his sister until she bled, ranting that she was a "tramp."
July 9, 1967. On that day a 19 year old Eastern Michigan accounting student named Mary Fleszar was last seen walking to her Ypsilanti apartment by a neighbor, who saw a young man in a blue-ish Chevrolet Impala pull up next to Fleszar and say something to her. She shook her head and walked away. On August 7, slightly under a month later, Fleszar's nude body was found by two boys on an abandoned farm in Superior Township and identified through dental records. The body was in poor condition after laying outdoors for weeks in summer temperatures and exposed to scavenging wildlife however the cause of death was determined to be 30 stab wounds to the chest and abdomen. Both feet were amputated just above the ankle. Her right thumb and parts of her right fingers were missing, and the left forearm was also amputated (the missing body parts were never recovered). The chest and torso also had several abrasions, indicating that Fleszar was beaten prior to death. Whether she was raped or not was unknown; any evidence was gone by now.Further, during the weeks between Fleszar's death and the discovery of her body, the killer had apparently returned and moved it three different times. The first location was on top of some discarded cans and bottles, then dragged five feet into a field where it lay out in the open for a few weeks. Just before the body was discovered, the killer came back again and moved it three feet.
After Fleszar's body was identified, a young man claiming to be a friend of the family came to the funeral home where it was being prepared for burial and said he wanted to photograph it as a keepsake for her parents. The funeral home employees told him no. He replied "You mean you can't fix her up enough so I could get just one picture of her?" Again told no, he turned around and stalked out the door without saying a word. The receptionist couldn't provide a good description of the man, only that he was a good-looking white male in his 20s, dark hair, he drove a pewter-colored Impala, and he didn't have any camera with him.July 5, 1968. Almost exactly a year since Mary Fleszar vanished, the decomposed, mutilated remains of Joan Schell, a 20 year old art student, were found by construction workers along the roadside in Ann Arbor. She was raped and stabbed 25 times with an estimated 4" knife blade, puncturing the lungs, liver, and carotid artery, another wound behind the left ear penetrating her skull. Her throat was cut and her miniskirt tied around her neck. She had been dead for an estimated week but her body from the stomach downward was far less decomposed than the upper body. The lower body may been been exposed to cooler conditions than the upper body and it had no injuries to it--open wounds on a dead body will naturally hasten decomposition as well as provide entryways for animal and insect scavengers.
Since there was no blood in the vicinity of the body, it was inferred that Schnell was killed somewhere else and moved here, perhaps less than 24 hours ago. The killer probably moved the body in his vehicle and hastily tossed some grass over it to conceal it. Since the injuries to Schnell were very similar to those of Fleszar, it was reasonable to assume both were the work of the same individual. Four detectives were assigned full-time to both cases.Joan Schnell was a Plymouth native who'd lately moved into a house on Emmet Street in Ypsilanti; her roommate Susan Kolbe last saw her at a bus stop on Washtenaw Avenue on June 30. She was going to visit her boyfriend in Ann Arbor and her roomie accompanied her to the bus stop. Kolbe later told investigators that Schnell missed the last bus, said that she was going to thumb a ride with someone, and that a two tone red-and-black Pontiac Bonneville with three young white men inside had stopped. The driver asked her if she wanted a ride. He looked to be in his early 20s, clean cut, short, dark, side-parted hair. Kolbe didn't think this was a good idea and tried to talk her friend out of it, but Schnell told her she'd call her on the phone once she was at her boyfriend's place to let her know she was ok. She didn't call, so Kolbe immediately reported her missing.
Detectives went around trying to track down every car in the Great Lake State that fit the description of the vehicle Kolbe had seen, but although they checked some 150 such cars and interrogated numerous young men who resembled the driver of the Pontiac, all their efforts came up short. The case was put on the back burner starting August 18 but remained active and $7,800 was offered for any information leading to the capture of Joan Schnell's killer.In September, two eyewitnesses were produced who said they saw Schnell walking with a young man along Emmet Street on June 30. They weren't totally sure but thought it was John Collins, who was studying education at Eastern Michigan U and lived across the street from the decedent at 619 Emmet, and who physically resembled the man in the composite sketch. Police questioned Collins, who said he didn't know Schnell at all and had spent that weekend with his mother at her place in Center Line, and he was not back in Ypsilanti until July 1. His explanation was accepted and he was released.
March 20, 1969. Jane Mixer, a 23 year old University of Michigan law student, vanished after putting a notice on a bulletin board on campus announcing that she wanted someone to give her a ride to her home town of Muskegon, about 150 miles away, where she was planning to tell her family that she was getting engaged to her fiance and they were planning to move to New York City. Her fully clothed body, covered with her raincoat and a copy of Catch-22 placed next to her, was found the next morning atop a grave in Denton Cemetery in Van Buren Township. Mixer was shot twice in the head with a .22 pistol, then garroted with a stocking that wasn't hers. She had been dead less than 24 hours and had been killed elsewhere and moved to the cemetery. Mixer wasn't raped although it seemed that her killer at least thought about it since her pantyhose were pulled down to mid-thigh length. She had been menstruating and had a sanitary pad in place. Investigators tentatively linked the murder to that of Schnell and Fleszar.
On the 25th, a surveyor found the nude, mutilated remains of a teenage girl on top of a blue coat behind a vacant house in a rural area of Earhart Road, a short distance from where Schnell was found. This individual had been brutalized to a much more extreme level than the previous victim. Chief of police Walter Krasny called it the worst homicide he'd ever seen, and he'd been on the force since FDR was president. Autopsy of the victim found that she'd been beaten all over her head and face with a heavy, blunt object. On top of that, she was tortured prior to death; the killer wadded her own shirt up and stuffed it into her throat to muffle her screams. Her body had several extensive lacerations thought to have been inflicted with a leather strap. Welts on the chest and shoulders suggested she was held in place with some kind of restraints as she was whipped with a leather belt prior to the killer inserting a tree branch 8" into her vagina. Blood splatters and plowed-up soil suggested she was beaten near where her body was found, and she may have tried to escape her killer.The decedent would be identified as 16 year old Maralynn Skelton, a resident of Romulus, who vanished two days earlier while hitchhiking in Ann Arbor. Skelton was last spotted outside a drive-in restaurant on Washtenaw Avenue but was thought to have died between 24 and 36 hours before her body was found. As with previous victims, she had been garroted, in this case with a garter belt, and her clothes and shoes were neatly placed next to her. Working against the teenager's case was the fact that she lived a less-than reputable lifestyle; she was known to sell and use drugs, and had sometimes been a police informant. As Skelton was also younger than the other victims, her murder was thought to be drug-related although Chief Krasny decided that she probably was killed by the same suspect.
It was not until after Skelton's murder that the various police departments where the killings took place decided to form a joint task force, but there wasn't much forensic evidence to go by. All victims were white females 23 and under, all but Mixer subjected to sadistic violence, all found near Washtenaw County, and all but Mixer stabbed in the neck. All had been choked with an article of clothing and all were on their periods when they were killed.April 16. The body of 13 year old Dawn Basom was found off a road in Ypsilanti. She wore only a white blouse and bra, which was pushed around her neck, and she was stabbed in the chest and genitals, had slash wounds to the breasts, buttocks, and stomach, and was strangled with an electrical cord. A handkerchief was stuffed in her mouth, likely to muffle her screams, and she was placed somewhere where she would be easy to spot. However, there was no evidence of rape. Basom was last seen the previous evening walking home from a friend's house barely a mile from her own. She was accompanied part of the way by a friend named Earl Kidd, who told police he and Basom parted company along a road five blocks from her house and she started walking along the railroad tracks close to her home. One eyewitness saw her a few minutes afterward.
Basom's orange sweater was found in an abandoned farmhouse 100 yards from the road. Broken glass bits in the basement were similarr to ones found on the bottom of her shoes. In the basement detectives also found her skirt, an electrical cord similar to the type used to strangle her, and fresh blood, proving that she'd been killed here. About one week later, a detective found a piece of cloth in the basement from her blouse, and an earring that would be traced to Maralynn Skelton. These items were purposely placed here, proving the killer returned to the scene of the crime and that the two murders were definitely linked.On May 13, someone, apparently the killer, came back to the abandoned farmhouse and set it on fire. After the blaze was extinguished, firefighters noticed five lilac blossoms arranged in a row across the driveway, perhaps symbolizing each victim.
On June 9, three teenage boys found a partially undressed young woman's body in a field near another abandoned farmhouse on North Territorial Road. This victim was slashed and stabbed several times, two knife thrusts to the heart, shot in the forehead, and her neck cut all the way through to the spine. Her right thumb was also shot, suggesting she tried to raise her hand to shield herself as the killer shot her at point blank range. The woman was raped, but it could not be said if this happened before or after death. Pieces of her clothes were scattered about, although one shoe was missing. She was quickly identified as Alice Kalom, a 21 year old University of Michigan grad who vanished the previous night while walking home from a party. A gravel pit in Northfield Township had bloodstains and shirt buttons, suggesting Kalom was killed here.By now there was a growing panic in the area, especially among the student population of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, and it was widely believed the killer was a fellow student. Many female students took to carrying knives for their own safety or using a buddy system to walk anywhere. Students began buying tear gas, knives, and safety locks, and most ceased hitchhiking. The reward for information leading to the killer's capture was increased to $42,000. By July, some 1,000 sex criminals were checked into and ruled out, eight hundred tips investigated, and a few thousand persons interviewed. Washtenaw County Sheriff Doug Harvey said that, although they had little forensic evidence and the killer had been "pretty smart" so far, he insisted he'd only gotten away with it so far due to luck, not police ineptitude.
A psychic named Peter Hurkos was summoned; he said the killer was a well-built white man in his early 20s, not born a US citizen, and that he drove a motorcycle. He also knew things about the murders which police had not made public. None of Hurkos's info would prove especially useful in the end, but he believed the suspect would kill one more before he was caught.And he was right. On July 23, eighteen year old Karen Beineman, an Eastern Michigan student, disappeared and was reported missing by her roomie Sherri Green. Police learned that Beineman was last seen just after noon heading to a wig store downtown. Three days later, her nude body was found face-down in a wooded gully along the Huron River parkway. Beineman was badly beaten about the face and body, with some wounds so severe as to peel off portions of her skin. She had major skull and brain injuries, was forced to swallow a caustic substance, and the same substance was also used to inflict burns to her neck, shoulders, breasts, and nipples. Again a piece of cloth was stuffed in her mouth to muffle her screams. The ultimate cause of death was strangulation, although the head trauma probably would have been fatal anyway. She was also raped and her torn panties wedged in her vagina; on them was semen and a large mass of tiny hair clippings, mostly blonde, while Beineman was a brunette.Since the killer had revisited the victims before, perhaps in a ritualistic behavior, police believed he would also return to this victim. Therefore they would avoid making the news of Beineman's discovery public in the hope that he'd come back to the area where she was found and they'd catch him there (earlier attempts to keep the news of Basom and Kalom's bodies secret had not worked out). A mannequin was placed in the location of the body with undercover cops monitoring it.
They didn't have wait long. At a little after midnight on the 24th, in the middle of a pouring summer rainstorm, one officer saw a young man running out of the gully. However, the bad weather conditions prevented the officer from taking any action; he was soaking wet and suffering from mosquito bites and could not get a good sighting of the suspect. His radio also quit working due to the rain and he was unable to contact his colleagues.Retracing Beineman's movements on July 23, police spoke to the owner of the wig store she'd been in, one Diana Goshe. Ms. Goshe said that Beineman came into the store to buy a $20 headpiece and she also saw a young man with short, side-parted dark hair in a horizontal striped sweater seated on a blue motorcycle outside while Beineman shopped. In a bit of self-awareness and perhaps fatal last words, Beineman remarked to Goshe "I've made two big mistakes in my life--buying this wig and accepting a ride from a stranger." She went on to say "I've gotta be either the bravest or the dumbest girl alive because I've just accepted a ride from this guy." Beineman asked Goshe to watch the man closely as she got on the bike and they sped off. Goshe thought the bike was a Honda 350, but a store clerk next door said it was a Triumph.Goshe's description of the man was radioed to a patrolman named Larry Mathewson who suspected him to be John Collins, whom police had interviewed before but ruled out as a suspect. He had also been witnessed by Mathewson riding his bike along the Eastern Michigan campus on the 23rd. When Mathewson questioned Collins two days later about where he'd been on 7/23, he said he was riding his Triumph Bonneville and stopped to chat with an ex of his, which was when the officer saw him. The ex-girlfriend gave Mathewson two recent photos of Collins and Diana Goshe and her assistant Pat Spaulding were both positive it was the same man they saw.
It was known that Collins was an avid biker and had a couple different motorcycles, including a Triumph Bonneville. He worked part-time at a car parts factory and was studying to be an elementary school teacher at Eastern Michigan, which he had attended for the last three years. At the car parts plant, co-workers remembered that Collins would almost joyously describe the recent murder victims and their injuries to female co-workers, claiming that his uncle, a police sergeant named David Leik, had told him about this stuff. Collins's descriptions of the victims were accurate but his uncle said he'd never told him anything about them. Further, Collins had known most of the victims, lived near them, or may have met them. He did live next to Fleszar and Schell and that two years ago Collins worked in a campus office just across the hallway from Fleszar's office. Further, one of his exes lived near Dawn Basom, Collins visited her apartment regularly, and he could well have met Basom during this time.Diana Goshe was next asked to identify Collins in a police lineup and she made a positive identification. Seven different persons would remember seeing him in the vicinity of Goshe's shop on July 23 and three young women had been offered rides on his motorcycle. On the 27th, police came to the apartment Collins shared with his roomie Arnold Davis. He maintained he was innocent and not the man the witnesses thought they saw, but he also would not agree to a polygraph test. The next evening, Collins emerged from his room with a blanket covered box. Davis opened the door so he could go out and noticed that the box contained a purple women's shoe, a purse, and rolled up cloth. He came back later and told Davis it was some junk he was disposing of.
While all this was going on, David Leik was off on a family vacation and only came back on the 29th. While he was away, his nephew was staying over at his place to feed the dog. When the Leiks came back, David's wife Sandy found several paint marks covering the basement floor and a bunch of stuff including a bottle of ammonia, a container of detergent, and a can of spray paint, were missing. Leik was then told that his nephew was a possible murder suspect. He admitted that the evidence was compelling but did not then tell colleagues about the unusual discoveries in his house. But the next morning, he scraped away some of the paint in the basement to find what looked like a bloodstain. He dashed to the police station to report this find.Detectives were soon all over Leik's basement. The "blood" under the paint turned out to just be varnish stains but one of them found a mass of small hair clippings behind the washing machine. Leik, who did not know about the hairs found on Beineman's panties, said that was his kids' hair and his wife had given them a haircut down here just before their vacation. They also found small bloodstains in several areas, two of which were type A, Beineman's blood type. The hairs found in the basement and those found on Beineman's panties were analyzed and matched precisely. Although Collins swore he didn't know Beineman and had never met her before, the evidence showed she had been in Leik's basement at some point. Marge Barnes, a neighbor of the Leiks, remembered that Collins was seen leaving the house with a box of detergent and another neighbor said she heard a woman's screams coming from the house on July 23.
Collins was confronted with this evidence. He began crying when told the bloodstains were just varnish but quickly regained his composure and continued to insist he didn't know Beineman. After the news came back from the crime lab about the hair and blood matches, he was arrested on suspicion of murder and his apartment and vehicle searched. In the apartment was a variety of stolen items and Arnold Davis reported that Collins often committed burglaries with an ex-roomie named Andrew Manuel, but nothing found in there could be linked to Beineman's murder despite Davis's report of Collins moving the box of women's apparel items outside.On August 1, Collins was arraigned for first degree murder and held without bail. Salinas, California detectives then contacted the Ypsilanti PD to announce their suspicion that he killed a 17 year old named Roxie Phillips on June 30. Two Washtenaw detectives made the 2,000 mile journey to Salinas to review information. They found that Phillips told a friend that she'd just met an Eastern Michigan student named John who drove a gray Oldsmobile Cutlass and was staying with a friend in a camper. The investigation would find that Collins and Andrew Manuel had departed Michigan on June 21 and drove down to Monterey in Collins's Cutlass, which they used to tow a camper they rented under false names and paid for with a stolen check. Collins went back to Michigan by himself while Manuel turned up in Arizona. Phillips did not know Collins's surname and only referred to him as "John from Michigan." Her friend Nancy Albrecht provided a physical description of him and how he was studying to be a teacher. She was herself going to meet Collins at her home on June 30, but he never showed up.
Roxie Phillips's battered, nude body was found July 13 in a ravine in Carmel Highlands with the belt from her dress tied around her neck. She was strangled and one earring taken. Some of her belongings were found scattered along State Route 68. The trailer that Collins and Manuel used was found in Monterey County, behind Manuel's grandfather's house. All fingerprints had been methodically cleaned from it. The grandfather said that Andrew and his friend John Collins had stayed in the trailer in June-July before leaving it there and going back to Michigan. All said, it was safe to connect Phillips's murder to those of the other victims. Manuel was caught by FBI agents in Phoenix on August 6. He was extensively grilled for anything he knew and submitted to a polygraph test. Nothing could be tied to Manuel and he was cleared as a suspect on December 18. He was no murderer, merely a thief, and he pled guilty to the theft of the trailer and of burglarizing a Michigan apartment.
Collins was formally indicted in April 1970 for the murder of Roxanne Phillips, but the evidence here was to be sealed until the trial for murdering Beineman was finished. The previous September, he remained silent when Washtenaw judge John Conlin asked how he would plead. Conlin said that his silence was to be interpreted as a not guilty plea. Collins's public defender Richard Ryan believed the evidence was improperly collected and the case should be tossed. Ryan also did not know if he would ask for a change of venue in the interest of a fair trial. Judge Conlin ruled that the evidence collection was proper and dismissed Ryan's request to toss the case. In November, Ryan also convinced Collins to undergo a private polygraph exam on condition its results remain confidential. Ryan decided the results could be used to cop an insanity plea but Collins's mother was insulted at that idea and had him fired from the case. In January, two prominent Detroit attorneys, Neil Fink and Joseph Louisell, announced that they would agree to represent Collins and his mother took out a second mortage on her home to pay for their services. The trial was set to open June 1.
The trial for the murder of Karen Beineman began June 2, 1970 in Washtenaw County Court Building. Fink and Louisell both advised Collins not to take the stand in his own defense. He was only charged with Beineman's murder as this was the one with the most substantial physical evidence linking him to it and prosecutors believed he killed her in his uncle's basement. Prosecutor William Delhey stated that the evidence was clear--Collins had taken Beineman to the basement of his uncle's house and brutally beat and strangled her down there and that he deserved life without parole, the maximum sentence Michigan could give him (the Great Lake State has never used capital punishment in its entire history of statehood). The defense, while not denying the brutality of the murder, maintained that the evidence of Collins's guilt was weak and the forensic evidence flawed.A total of 47 witnesses for the prosecution and defense testified in the trial and both sides delivered their closing arguments August 13. Judge Conlin told the jury that they would have to render a verdict of either guilty of first degree murder or not guilty. The jury took three days of deliberation. On August 19, the jury found Collins guilty of the murder of Karen Beineman. He displayed no emotion on hearing the verdict although his mother and sister left the courtroom in tears. He was sentenced on the 28th to life without parole. As a final statement, Collins said he did not get a fair trial and hoped to appeal his conviction, and he denied ever meeting Beineman or anything else. The judge replied that if he was really innocent, the sentence could eventually be overturned or appealed. Until then, he would begin serving his sentence at Southern Michigan Prison. At age 23, Collins was the youngest inmate at that particular prison to have a life without parole sentence. His attorneys almost immediately announced that they would appeal his conviction.
There was also the matter of Roxie Phillips and there was more evidence proving Collins's guilt in her murder than any of the other Michigan victims. California prosecutors tried to get him extradicted to stand trial there but Neil Fink argued that his 5th Amendment rights would be violated. The effort was finally abandoned in January 1972 on the grounds that Collins was already serving a life sentence in Michigan and even if he was tried and found guilty in California, he would have to serve out his sentence in Michigan anyway.Collins's mother and siblings broke off contact with the Leiks and refused to speak with them again. He himself granted no interviews until 1976 when he spoke with The Ann Arbor News and maintained his innocence and said that he'd not gotten a fair trial and the forensic evidence was faulty. In the fall of 1977, he was transferred to Marquette Branch Prison due to his continued drug trafficking within Southern Michigan Prison and an abortive escape attempt, which failed because he broke his foot although a fellow prisoner he conspired with did escape. In Marquette Branch, Collins and six other inmates plotted an escape on January 31, 1979 which was foiled and they were moved to a higher security cell block.In 1980, Collins legally changed his surname to Chapman, that of his biological father, and the year after that asked if he might serve out his sentence in Canada, which he was still a citizen of, in the hope that he might get out early as Canadian law would have allowed him parole in just nine years. However, the resultant public outcry caused this plan to be dropped. In 1988, Chapman agreed to an interview with the talk show Kelly & Company in which he again maintained his innocence. In August 1990, he was moved to Ionia Correctional Facility for his continued bad behavior in Marquette Branch but he would later be transferred back.
In 2005, it was proven that Chapman had not in fact killed Jane Mixer and that murder was linked to Gary Leiterman, a 62 year old ex-nurse. Back in early 1969, then 25 year old Leiterman lived 20 miles from the University of Michigan campus and had never been a suspect in any of the murders. The case was reopened in 2001 and DNA analysis from Mixer's pantyhose, the towel, and garrote would link him to the long-ago murder. Leiterman was sentenced to life without parole.As of 2024, John Chapman is 77 years old and continues to serve his sentence at G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility. He still maintains his innocence.
>>17422140>>17422146>>17422150Guy was a leaf, of course some psychopathy was to be expected.
>>17422179That's a tranny.
why were boomers so addicxted to killing people?
Michigan has a lot of spoopy crime stories but you hear less about them than other states because they don't have the death penalty.
>>17422140This thread would get a lot more replies if he was black.
this dude was a jerk tbqh
>>17422347Their parents were fucked up mentally by war and the Great Depression and took it out on their kids. Most just became selfish dicks but the mentally unstable became lunatics
>>17422244California had the death penalty and Michigan did not but by the time they could have gotten him to trial it would be suspended by Furman v. Georgia.
>>17422246>In 2005, it was proven that Chapman had not in fact killed Jane Mixer and that murder was linked to Gary Leiterman, a 62 year old ex-nurse. Back in early 1969, then 25 year old Leiterman lived 20 miles from the University of Michigan campus and had never been a suspect in any of the murders. The case was reopened in 2001 and DNA analysis from Mixer's pantyhose, the towel, and garrote would link him to the long-ago murder. Leiterman was sentenced to life without parole.i bet that guy never imagined he'd be caught after 35 years of getting away with it. he must have been totally dumbfounded when they told him "aiyyo you're in a lot of trouble, fucker."
>>17422189>All victims were white females 23 and under, all but Mixer subjected to sadistic violence, all found near Washtenaw County, and all but Mixer stabbed in the neck. All had been choked with an article of clothing and all were on their periods when they were killed.One wonders how he knew all of them were menstruating. It's not like you just see a random bitch walking down the street and know that from looking at her.
>>17422548In 2022 they convicted a guy of murdering a 19 year old woman in San Diego in 1969. It was one of the oldest cold cases in California. Due to the laws as they existed in '69 however he could be eligible for parole in 7 years although he would be in his 80s by that point.
>>17422140>>17422146From a psychology standpoint it seems he had an anger against women probably connected to his mother, whom he must have resented for being married a few times and forcing him to be raised by abusive stepdads.
>>17422162>>17422158Some bad typos here. Her name was Schell not Schnell.
>>17422244>In Marquette Branch, Collins and six other inmates plotted an escape on January 31, 1979 which was foiled and they were moved to a higher security cell block.I don't think I'd want to make a prison break in Michigan in January. You guys might wanna retry the attempt in May, especially since you might need to hide out and live outdoors for a while.
>>17422532>Their parents were fucked up mentally by war and the Great Depression and took it out on their kidsSome boomers also themselves served in Vietnam and became fucked up and psychotic.
>>17422140>is father abandoned the family soon after he was born and his mother remarried, but it only lasted a year. Her new husband was an alcoholic who once threw John across a car at his mother. Another time he used the boy to shield himself from a man who waved a gun at him. Loretta then took her family to Detroit and married William Collins, who legally adopted her three children. Unfortunately, Collins was a violent alcoholic who beat all of them. The couple separated in 1956.this always happens because no men will date a divorced mother of three except the absolute most extreme alcoholic trailer trash who can't do any better.
https://mdocweb.state.mi.us/otis2/otis2profile.aspx?mdocNumber=126833Here's a recent photo of Collins. He looks quite good for his age and spending more than half a century in prison.
Awlright, let's crank up "I Wanna Be Your Dog" to get into the vibe of that era and especially the Michigan vibe of that era.
>>17422203>Retracing Beineman's movements on July 23, police spoke to the owner of the wig store she'd been in, one Diana Goshe. Ms. Goshe said that Beineman came into the store to buy a $20 headpiece and she also saw a young man with short, side-parted dark hair in a horizontal striped sweater seated on a blue motorcycle outside while Beineman shopped. In a bit of self-awareness and perhaps fatal last words, Beineman remarked to Goshe "I've made two big mistakes in my life--buying this wig and accepting a ride from a stranger." She went on to say "I've gotta be either the bravest or the dumbest girl alive because I've just accepted a ride from this guy." Beineman asked Goshe to watch the man closely as she got on the bike and they sped off.she wanted to die, didn't she?
>>17422192ack, it's the Ghoul Haunted Woodland of Weir!
Michigan really sucks, please don't come here.
this was when the golden age of serial killers was just beginning
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>>17422867why can't you actually link the posts, dum dum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duhjKn4aGIA>0:45Expected there to be at least one late 60s tune used in there somewhere.
>>17422941>26:48Nice fucking gay softcore photo, John. You truly are something else.
>>17422941https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tb_o6CkvHYYes.
>>17422941Ha ha, they said his mom and sister showed up to the trial in miniskirts. No wonder he hated those fucking hos and resolved to kill any women who resembled them.
>>17422246>In 2005, it was proven that Chapman had not in fact killed Jane Mixer and that murder was linked to Gary Leiterman, a 62 year old ex-nurse.https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/leiterman-gary.htm>A bald, big-bellied Civil War buff and former school board member, he had had a 27-year marriage and had helped raise the two children of his Filipino wife.>Police made a creepy discovery while searching Leiterman's home. They found concealed in his study two Polaroid photos of a 16-year-old South Korean girl who had lived with the Leitermans as a foreign exchange student.>The images showed the girl - drugged unconscious - lying on Leiterman's bed with her clothing pulled back to expose her genitals. Authorities said the pose was an eerie echo of Jane Mixer's corpse.Why are WMAFags like this?
>>17423194It seems like a kind of flimsy case against this guy.>car seen speeding away from where Mixer was found did not match the vehicle Leiterman owned back then>his prints not actually found on the victim
>>17423194>Meanwhile, prosecutor Steve Hiller believes justice was served. "Gary Leiterman deserves to pay the price for what he has done. And he’ll do that."this dude sounds like a ginormous faggot btw
>>17423194>guy had to give up DNA sample when he was convicted of a prescription drug theft which was a nonviolent offense>charged with CP for pic of 16 year old (16 is not a "child")>convicted on sketchy 36 year old DNA sample that could have been contaminated during that timewow, this is what Amerifat "justice" is like?
>>17423400I agree Michigan is probably retarded. The law there required anyone convicted of a felony to submit a DNA sample in the interest of solving unsolved murders, but yeah if you weren't accused of an actually violent offense I don't think you should have to do that. It's not like stealing some pills means you're a serial killer. That's just stupid.
>>17423400>charged with CP for pic of 16 year old (16 is not a "child")Yeah, I’m sure you’d be happy if you sent your 16 year old daughter to study abroad and her host drugged her, sexually assaulted her, and took pictures of her while she was unconscious. You’re very edgy and cool awesomesauce 4chan moment my dude!!!
>>17423400That CP charge is in line with what laws like that were meant to prevent: people sexually abusing minors and making media of it.
>>17423472>>17423427the laws usually recognize different tiers of CP and this would not be considered on the same level as hardcore preteen rape pics. however Lieterman apparently said the girl's boyfriend took the pic, not him. if true however he shouldn't have pled guilty to it, that was dumb of him.
>>17423325He's not gonna admit he botched the case and ruin his career. Most people won't admit to even harmless mistakes let alone career ending ones.
>>17422923You can't link more than 5 posts or 4chan filters it as spam.
>>17422240>As a final statement, Collins said he did not get a fair trial and hoped to appeal his conviction, and he denied ever meeting Beineman or anything else. The judge replied that if he was really innocent, the sentence could eventually be overturned or appealed.The fact that he's never apparently tried to appeal his conviction in all this time should be proof of his guilt.
>>17422140le heckin wholesomearino 1950s childhood, just like my based Coca Cola ads
>>17423405I mean they did find his DNA so it ended up working out in the end
>>17424149reread thread. they had a sketchy DNA sample that might have been in not very good condition after more than 30 years and worse it showed that there was also the DNA of a guy who was 4 years old in 1969.
>>17422651Some. Nowhere near as many.
>>17422660lol my mother did this, I was the baby used to trap husband number two. Boy that was fun growing up as the redundant trap baby whose father raped the older half siblings.
>>17423673Sometimes it's better to admit your mistake if it's that egregious. There's instances of that in law.
So much for DNA being a magic bullet guaranteed to prove one and all unsolved murders when they end up getting supposed DNA from an "accomplice" who was 4 years old when the murder happened.
>>17424403You're black, aren't you?
>>17422941Look at the lush forests there. Michigan is really fucking humid due to all the moisture from the Great Lakes.
feminists voted for this
>>17422941>27:29>So I went and put on my little hippie outfit and...that's women for you. even when they are old they still have to brag about how good looking and hot they were back in the day.
>>17422192they found broken glass embedded in her knees. they believed she tried to crawl out of the basement to escape.
This one is easy to figure out.>hates his mom and sister and considers them whores so he decides to kill any women who resembles them
>>17422146B-based...
>>17422200>>17422234Only of these girls that was above a 5/10
>attractive young white females die>all the stops will be pulled finding the scum who did this if you're watching this, buddy, we will find youyou can bet if he killed black girls nobody would even care; the cops wouldn't even bother investigating.
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>>17422185>16 year old>hitchhikingwtf
>>17426931Boomers lived in a different time.
>>17422203>he was soaking wet and suffering from mosquito bites and could not get a good sighting of the suspect"Lisowski, what the hell happened?! You shoulda nailed that bum!""It was the mosquito bites, chief! Damned things just wouldn't stop itching!"
>>17423427>>17423472The age of consent in MI is 16 tho.
