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. [88], Evidence of culpability in remaining cases. Following the state's closing argument, both Neil Fink and Joseph Louisell delivered separate closing arguments on behalf of the defense, describing Collins as a "young victim of circumstances" and dismissing much of the evidence presented as "fuzzy allegations," with Louisell being particularly scornful as to the testimony of Walter Holz, to whose conclusions, he asserted, the prosecution hinged its entire case. "The town collectively went into shock," Fournier said. You need help desperately. [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. But Bundshuh who has a tattoo on his arm that says, unus veritas, Latin for "one truth" noted that throughout their conversations,Collins seemed to have a lot of rehearsed answers, as if he had been thinking aboutwhat to say for years. The tiny hairs in Karen's underwear were a fit to the hairs in the basement. I said 'would you look at these pictures for me' and she said sure. He was polite and handsome, but the boy next door image was a farce. Citing Collins' then-ongoing appeals against his convictions in the state of Michigan as the cause, and their likely resubmittal should any of his Michigan appeals be successful. Collins has been locked up for 50 years - but that doesn't erase the pain. Disappeard: July 18, 1967. [16] In addition, her throat had been slashed, and her miniskirt then tied around her neck. Collins also says he metKalom at an Ann Arbor bar and made a date for Saturday morning to go for a motorcycle ride. On August 17, 1970, John Normans Collins was found guilty. Folklore! Police had noted (and would continue to note) common denominators in the physical characteristics of the victims, and the manner in which they died: all of the victims had been brunette Caucasians; each (excluding Mixer) had been the recipient of extensive violence inflicted with a blunt and/or bladed instrument prior to her murder; each of the victims' bodies had been found within a 15-mile radius of Washtenaw County; and each victim (excluding Mixer) had received knife wounds to the neck. The corpse was badly decomposed, although the pathologist who examined Fleszar's remains was able to determine she had been stabbed approximately 30 times in the chest and abdomen with a knife or other sharp object, that her feet had been severed just above the ankle, the thumb and sections of the fingers of one hand were missing, and that one forearm had been severed from her body (these severed appendages were never found). David Leik, had refused to divulge the blood type(s) of his family to defense attorneys. 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 ? [163], When Kalom's body was found, a distinctive boot print on her skirt was found to be a perfect match to a boot Collins had owned, and although Collins had evidently cleaned his car in an effort to destroy evidence prior to his arrest, investigators would find bloodstains in this vehicle and upon a raincoat he owned which were determined to match Kalom's blood type. In his email to the Free Press, Collins acknowledged he has no control over what people say about him, and that's why he refuses interviews. [61][62] Investigators had publicly claimed prior to Kalom's murder they were satisfied that the third victim initially linked to the Michigan Murderer, Jane Mixer, had been killed by a separate perpetrator; the fact Kalom had also received a gunshot wound to the head led investigators to reconsider the possibility Mixer may have been murdered by the same perpetrator. All the victims had been sexually mutilated. [97], The hairs found upon Beineman's panties and those recovered from the basement of the Leik home were subjected to a detailed forensic neutron analysis[98] to determine whether they had sourced from the same individuals. [145], On August 19, 1970, John Norman Collins was unanimously found guilty of the first-degree murder of Karen Sue Beineman. [107] Albrecht described this individual, whose surname she did not know, as being 5 ft 11 in tall, clean-cut, with dark brown hair and who had described himself as an Eastern Michigan University senior with aspirations to become a teacher. I hope some day it will be corrected; second, I never knew a girl named Karen Sue Beineman; I never had a conversation with her. [166] In addition, prior to his returning to Michigan, Collins is known to have visited a California hospital to receive treatment for poison oak anaphylaxis.[166]. This is all so fascinating.. why do dumb women want to marry inmates ?? He gave her a ride to the wig shop, and thenshe rodewith Collins tohis uncle's house to feed the dog. "They said she was in the basement having lunch so I went down there and talked with her. 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. Now, 40 years later, I find that a close, (unnamed), old girlfriend of mine was one of the last people to speak to Karen alive. 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. In college, he drank beer, joined Theta Chifraternity and dated often. Bundshuhadded that the new information, along with the DNA match, supported that Collins was the "perpetrator in that case." "He had several fraternity brothers that rented an apartment there," Fournier said. She had made arrangements to meet Collins at her home on the evening of June 30, but Collins had never arrived. His nephew, John Norman Collins, had been watching the house. John Norman Collins (John Norman Chapman) an American serial killer who is a suspect in The Michigan Murders, a series of highly publicized killings of young women committed between 1967 and 1969. [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. Everything matched the belt and that swatch, which connected the two," Fournier said. "He said he kept trying and she said she was going to call the police and he SNAPPED and choked her. "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. The testimony of Joan Goshe was further supported by Patricia Spaulding, who testified as to having observed Collins for between three and four minutes as he had waited for Beineman to return to his motorcycle. A vacationing Leik had entrusted Collins to watch over his house while he was away. [23] Prior to enrolling at Eastern Michigan University in the fall of 1966, he had been an honor student and football co-captain at his high school.[89]. Her body was later found with multiple stab wounds, and more grotesquely, no hands or feet on August 7. "She asked me if he was in any trouble and I said 'not that I'm aware of, but if you had a picture I probably could (clear him)'," Larry said. [76] In his opening statement to the jury on July 20, Delhey outlined the prosecution's contention that the evidence to be presented would form a clear pattern indicating that Collins had been in the company of Karen Sue Beineman at the time she was last seen alive by Mrs. Joan Goshe and her assistant; that he had taken her to the home of his own uncle, where he had tortured and beaten the girl before strangling her to death at this location; and that he had then discarded her body, before attempting to persuade his roommate to provide him with a false alibi. Thank you for spending the time and effort to upload your videos and photos. Formal sentencing was scheduled for 8:30a.m. August 28. Triad Animal torture Yes. The first victim, Mary Fleszar, disappeared in July 1967. It sentstate police looking atthe other unsolved cases. As we now know, police make mega mistakes and prosecutors have major egos and will NEVER EVER admit to being wrong. [49], Basom had last been seen alive at 7:30p.m. the previous evening, walking home from a friend's house located barely a mile from her own home. 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. It was a travesty of justice that took place in this courtroom. Collins lived at end of our block on Emmett St and he used to speed by on his motorcycle and wave to us--we thought he was soooooo coolalmost James Dean like! He writeshe ran into Beineman, "she SMILED AT ME and WAVED her hand." Very cool. ", Collins writeshe "got her shorts off, BUTT, no further,"and he "did not have intercourse with her." There was a moment,though, Harvey recalled, he thought Collins would confess. Collins claimed he never killed anyone and he even agreed to take a polygraph test. ". [56] She had also been raped, although the pathologist was unable to determine whether this act had occurred before or after death. JOHN NORMAN COLLINS Born in Windsor, Canada in 1947, John Norman Collins was the youngest of 3 children. How about a private finished attached 2-car garage with overhead storage! The receptionist could not offer any clear description of the man beyond that he was a handsome young white male with dark hair, that he had driven a blue-grey Chevrolet, and that he had not been carrying a camera. A killer is on the loose, five women in southeast Michigan are dead, and a sixthis missing. The two played intramural football. He added the letters appeared to be "a desperate attempt to convince his cousin of his innocence, and the ultimate end game would be to get a Canadian prison transfer.". 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. The man who put the cuffs on JNC!!!). . Several of these wounds had punctured her lungs, liver and carotid artery, with one additional wound inflicted behind her left ear fracturing her skull. In rebuttal to the testimony of Dr. Golub, the defense recalled Dr. Walter Holz on August 12 to testify as to the samples he had himself taken to Dr. Golub for identification; Dr. Holz affirmed that he had taken twenty magnified photographic slides of samples retrieved from Beineman's panties to Dr. Golub's laboratory for analysis, and that they had contained numerous man-made fibrous materials. Memeory is fuzzy it might have been you that let me read it. What is the exact address of where Karen was murdered? With the mounting evidence, Collins was arrested on July 31, 1969. John Norman Collins, now known as John Norman Chapman, continues to maintain his innocence despite this evidence and having been convicted by a jury of his peers. The rented trailer in which Collins and Manuel had traveled to California was located on August 1 in Monterey County, behind the home of Andrew Manuel's grandfather. In 1967, John Norman Collins lived in a rental about one block south of EMU's campus. [43] These factors led police to publicly conclude the same perpetrator was responsible for at least three of the murders thus far committed. She chose the car. "My parents never told me anything about the crimes.". Hewent to Central Michigan University, thentransferred to Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. At a second hearing in September, Collins refused to enter a plea; Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge John Conlin ordered a plea of not guilty entered on his behalf. One neighbor, Dr. Marjorie Barnes, saw Collins leaving State Police Sergeant David Leiks home. [34], These injuries had been inflicted after the victim had been extensively beaten and tortured: her killer had placed a section of her own shirt into her trachea to muffle her screams as she received extensive blunt force trauma to the face, head and body,[34] including several deep lacerations believed to have been inflicted with a leather strap. [86] Upon their return from their vacation, Leik's wife, Sandra, had noted numerous paint marks covering the floor of the family basement, and that several itemsincluding a bottle of ammonia, a box of laundry detergent, and a canister of black spray paintwere missing from the household. He was then sentenced to serve a term of life imprisonment with hard labor, in solitary confinement, at Southern Michigan Prison. After Kalom's body was found, Collins writes, Davis"admitted to killing her.". "I was on patrol the afternoon of the 23rd of July, and turned the corner down by Sill Hall on the campus and there was John Collins. If police in Michigan were doubting Collins as their man, they got more evidence a few thousand miles away. Corporal David Leik had just returned from vacation when he noticed things were amiss in the basement. Sheriff Harvey said, just before the test, John met in private with his attorney. Arnold Davis also informed police Collins had been in the company of victim Alice Kalom on the evening of her disappearance. Location: Near an old farmhouse in a field in Superior Township, two miles north of Ypsilanti. This summer, as Bundshuh prepared to retire, he gathered the more-than-50-year-old files that he had become familiar with so he could ship them to the Michigan State Police headquarters in Dimondale so the state candigitize them. "Okay John, let me give you a little prelude to the 'STORY'that ended with me in here for the past 45 yrs. She also hintedhe had another side: Collins was moody and seemed "mad most of the time.". John Norman Collins, who was dubbed the "Ypsilanti Ripper," continued his spree until his arrest in 1969, just seven days after killing Karen Sue Beineman. Welcome to Lakeside. Randy, bloodstains.c'mon! The address has been changed to "College Place" to try to thwart groupies, but at the end of the name list on the Mailbox, we put "John Norman Collins" as a joke. They saw a clean-cut man sitting on a Triumph motorcycle and got a good look at him before he turned away. They had set up a task force at an old seminary. Delhey also stated the prosecution's intent to prove that Collins had had sole access to his uncle's home and basement on the afternoon of Beineman's disappearance, and although he had made concerted efforts to remove physical evidence from the crime scene, blood samples recovered from this location were a match for the blood type of the victim. According to Davis, he had heard Collins and Kalom arguing behind closed doors, before Kalom had run out of his (Collins') apartment, with Collins chasing after her. 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.". they didn't clean well enough??!! [66] Having led investigators to the precise location where each of the victims' bodies had been discovered, Hurkos also revealed details of the murders to investigators which had not been released to the press. But Collins wasn't all that he seemed. Found: August 7, 1967. "Her and the daughter both had miniskirts on and with the boots, all the way up, and long, dangly earrings. He shares the nickname The Co-Ed Killer with murderer Edmund Kemper. Collins also wrote two letters in 2013 that gave specific accounts of how two of the victims Kalom and Beineman died, and his involvement with them. [n 4], The defense contended that although the murder of Beineman was a "vicious, sadistic attack" which had degraded her body "almost beyond human comprehension,"[102] the prosecution's case that Collins was the perpetrator of the crime was a weak one at best. She said that the girl was an informant. [107], Phillips' nude, battered body had been found in a ravine in Carmel Highlands on July 13,[108] with the belt belonging to her culotte dress knotted around her neck. The failed sting caused Harvey substantialpublic embarrassment, and bringing it up again, Harvey said, was Collins' way of mocking him, as if heweresaying: "Ha. Collins ends his email, with a request: "You can say whatever you want about me" butleave "my Dear Mother" out. dear retrokimmer & brother, I dearly love that you did this memorial to the poor victims of that sadistic monster,My father & I were going to do this very thing, but Then I got very badly injured,and couldn't finish our memorial, (there;s next year) fine job thank you for remembering the girls !!!!! "I would 'NEVER'hurt a CHILDEVER!!!" [72], Beineman had died of strangulation, although the pathologist noted the blunt force injuries inflicted to her skull and brain had been so extensive they would likely have proven fatal. Then come back here for part two. John Collins, by most accounts,grew up to bea good student and a great athlete. I asked him what was wrong and he just said something like, 'Come and see.' 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. Defense attorneys Neil Fink and Joseph Louisell, in their opening statement, labeled the eyewitnesses' identification of both Collins and his motorcycle as flawed and unreliable, and stated their intentions to introduce several witnesses who would provide an alibi for their client in the early afternoon hours the prosecution contended Karen Sue Beineman had been abducted and murdered. I grew up in YPSI. [9] Her nude body was found by two 15-year-old boys on an abandoned farm at Superior Township on August 7, and was formally identified via dental records the following day. He has been connected by physical and circumstantial evidence to other victims, including the June 1969 murder of Roxie Ann Phillips in Monterey, California, but those cases were never pursued after his initial conviction. On top of that, Collins, in two 2013 letters to his cousinJohn Chapman, revealed inhis own words what he said "really happened" all those years ago, confirming details from the cases and recanting his claim that he never knew his victim. All-American boy John Norman Collins was . 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