Post by hi224 on Jul 31, 2019 18:44:19 GMT
www.thecriminalcode.com/index.php/2018/11/27/the-lewis-clark-valley-serial-killer/
Just got done watching the Investigation Discovery series on this one.
From the link (with a few edits and modifications for brevity and clarity):
"In April of 1979, 12-year-old Christina White went missing from Asotin, Washington. She had just been to the annual county fair, but had telephoned her mother at home to say that she wasn’t feeling well. Her mother agreed to pick her up near her friend’s house, but when she arrived, Christina was nowhere to be found.
What is rumored is that Christina phoned her mother from her friend’s home after going there to ask for a wet washcloth to put on her neck. 25-year-old Lance Voss, her friend's stepfather, allegedly answered the door when Christina arrived. Then, after his stepdaughter left, Christina took off on her bicycle, never to be seen again.
"On June 26th of 1981, 22-year-old Kristen David went missing from the Lewiston, ID area. She had been traveling by bicycle to her summer job at a factory when last seen. Several days later, on July 4th, some fishermen near the Red Wolf Crossing Bridge found a black plastic bag floating in the water. Inside they found a woman’s torso and leg. They called the police, who immediately found more plastic bags containing more body parts. The body was that of Kristen David, who had last been seen after stopping to talk to a man in a van.
"On September 12th, 1982, 21-year-old Kristina Nelson and her 18-year-old stepsister, Brandi Miller, also from Lewiston, left home to go to a nearby Safeway grocery store. When neither girl showed up by the next morning, Kristina’s boyfriend called the police and reported them both missing. One year later, two sets of skeletal remains were found at the bottom of a steep ravine near Kendrick, Idaho. They were identified as those of Kristina and Brandi. Their clothing and a piece of severed rope were found nearby.
"Also on September 12th, 1982, 35-year-old Steven Pearsall went missing from the Lewiston Civic Theatre, where he had gone to practice his clarinet and do some of his laundry using the theatre’s machines. Pearsall worked at the theatre as a janitor and set-builder. Notably, Kristina Nelson and Brandi Miller also worked at the theatre part-time, as they both attended college at Lewis-Clark State. (Kristen David reportedly worked there as well). Lance Voss also worked at the theatre, and admitted to being there the night Pearsall and the girls disapeared. Pearsall's remains have never been found."
The ID doc contradicts some info from the linked article. For instance, the article claims (as do some interviewees near the beginning of the doc) that Nelson and Miller would have walked past the theatre on their way to Safeway, but that seems unlikely given the respective locations of the store, the theatre, and the girls' homes. Furthermore, while the initial focus on Voss as a suspect was motivated by the seemingly "too coincidental" connection between Voss, four of the supposed victims, and the theatre, the detective in the doc later concocts a theory that Voss crossed paths with the girls that night in another location entirely.
An FBI profiler interviewed finds it unlikely that Kristen David was killed by the same person as Nelson and Miller - her body having been dismembered, which theirs were not - and this could conceivably further cast doubt on the supposed theatre connection. The detail about David's torso still having one leg attached makes that operation seem a bit lazily carried out to me, however, so I wonder if the killer might not have decided after that that dismembering his victims simply wasn't worth his while. (The dismembered girl's body was found more quickly than any of the others', remember).
So what does everybody think? Is the same killer responsible for all these murders? Is it Lance Voss? Theories welcome!
Just got done watching the Investigation Discovery series on this one.
From the link (with a few edits and modifications for brevity and clarity):
"In April of 1979, 12-year-old Christina White went missing from Asotin, Washington. She had just been to the annual county fair, but had telephoned her mother at home to say that she wasn’t feeling well. Her mother agreed to pick her up near her friend’s house, but when she arrived, Christina was nowhere to be found.
What is rumored is that Christina phoned her mother from her friend’s home after going there to ask for a wet washcloth to put on her neck. 25-year-old Lance Voss, her friend's stepfather, allegedly answered the door when Christina arrived. Then, after his stepdaughter left, Christina took off on her bicycle, never to be seen again.
"On June 26th of 1981, 22-year-old Kristen David went missing from the Lewiston, ID area. She had been traveling by bicycle to her summer job at a factory when last seen. Several days later, on July 4th, some fishermen near the Red Wolf Crossing Bridge found a black plastic bag floating in the water. Inside they found a woman’s torso and leg. They called the police, who immediately found more plastic bags containing more body parts. The body was that of Kristen David, who had last been seen after stopping to talk to a man in a van.
"On September 12th, 1982, 21-year-old Kristina Nelson and her 18-year-old stepsister, Brandi Miller, also from Lewiston, left home to go to a nearby Safeway grocery store. When neither girl showed up by the next morning, Kristina’s boyfriend called the police and reported them both missing. One year later, two sets of skeletal remains were found at the bottom of a steep ravine near Kendrick, Idaho. They were identified as those of Kristina and Brandi. Their clothing and a piece of severed rope were found nearby.
"Also on September 12th, 1982, 35-year-old Steven Pearsall went missing from the Lewiston Civic Theatre, where he had gone to practice his clarinet and do some of his laundry using the theatre’s machines. Pearsall worked at the theatre as a janitor and set-builder. Notably, Kristina Nelson and Brandi Miller also worked at the theatre part-time, as they both attended college at Lewis-Clark State. (Kristen David reportedly worked there as well). Lance Voss also worked at the theatre, and admitted to being there the night Pearsall and the girls disapeared. Pearsall's remains have never been found."
The ID doc contradicts some info from the linked article. For instance, the article claims (as do some interviewees near the beginning of the doc) that Nelson and Miller would have walked past the theatre on their way to Safeway, but that seems unlikely given the respective locations of the store, the theatre, and the girls' homes. Furthermore, while the initial focus on Voss as a suspect was motivated by the seemingly "too coincidental" connection between Voss, four of the supposed victims, and the theatre, the detective in the doc later concocts a theory that Voss crossed paths with the girls that night in another location entirely.
An FBI profiler interviewed finds it unlikely that Kristen David was killed by the same person as Nelson and Miller - her body having been dismembered, which theirs were not - and this could conceivably further cast doubt on the supposed theatre connection. The detail about David's torso still having one leg attached makes that operation seem a bit lazily carried out to me, however, so I wonder if the killer might not have decided after that that dismembering his victims simply wasn't worth his while. (The dismembered girl's body was found more quickly than any of the others', remember).
So what does everybody think? Is the same killer responsible for all these murders? Is it Lance Voss? Theories welcome!