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(34 of 54)
Jun 5, 2006 9:52 PM
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I just tried posting to this so here goes again...some info on the Keddie Murders, unfortunately nothing already not known but for those who are unfamiliar...
Then came April 11, 1981.
Sometime between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. that day, 15-year-old John Sharp and his buddy, 17-year-old Dana Wingate, were seen hitchhiking from Quincy to Keddie Cabin #28. John had been living there for months with his 36-year-old mother, Glenna Sharp -- and once the two boys walked through the door, police say, the horror began.
A pair of killers either went in with the boys or were waiting with Glenna Sharp, and they tied up all three with duct tape and electrical wire. Soon after, John's 13-year-old sister, Tina, showed up and was bound, too.
What followed was a night of torture.
By the time the killers left 10 hours later, they had used steak knives and a claw hammer to such effect that the victims were barely recognizable.
"Whoever did this stabbed the victims so violently they bent one knife totally double from the force," said Sheriff's Patrol Commander Rod DeCrona. "They stabbed and pounded on everything in sight -- the walls, the people, the furniture. Everything."
He shuddered at the memory of first walking into the murder scene. "There was blood sprayed absolutely everywhere," DeCrona said. "You knew right away we were involved with a psychopath."
The carnage was only discovered the next morning by John's 14-year-old sister, Sheila, who had been at a sleepover next door. To the enduring surprise of police, nobody outside the charnel house had heard a thing.
And the mystery only deepened: Not only was the body of Tina, most likely killed at the scene, missing -- but three near-toddlers sleeping in one bedroom had been amazingly left untouched.
Tina's severed head was found three years later by a bottle-digger, 50 miles downhill at a waterfall. One of the children in the bedroom -- two were Sharp brothers, the other a play-pal -- remembered enough so police could make a sketch of two killers, but the boy was so young the picture's accuracy is considered questionable.
Thousands of leads and suspects have been picked over since then by deputies, the FBI and state investigators -- but nothing panned out, DeCrona said. A timeline of the case dominates three walls of the sheriff's office, tips still come in, and DNA samples were sent to the state crime lab just two months ago, but nobody's holding his breath.
"Usually in a crime like this, the killers get sloppy and leave more behind, " said DeCrona, sighing. "I wish it were that simple. We have no motive, no suspects."
Dana's father, Gary Wingate, thinks there were so many police agencies involved that they "stumbled over each other and fouled up the case." But he tries not to stew about it. He never even calls the Sharp family -- who declined requests through intermediaries to be interviewed.
"Nobody has the faintest idea who killed my son, so I long ago had to let this thing go or it would eat me alive," said Wingate, who lives near Quincy. "I don't think about it, I don't go to that ghost town and I have no idea if ghosts exist there.
"But I do know this. There is evil in this world, and evil was in that house that night."
Ashley Conte and her neighbors think the evil is still there.
People began to shun the resort after the killings, and within a year it was empty. The owners put Keddie up for sale in 1984 for $1.8 million -- and nobody bit.
Over the next decade or so, it rotted into a refuge for squatters and hobos, and the county condemned most of the buildings. But in the past few years longtime owner Gary Mollath has gone on a furious restoration campaign that has the old resort looking pretty much as it did in 1981 -- sans people.
He's rented out a couple of the best cabins, and says he hopes to rehab the rest enough to reopen in a year.
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(33 of 54)
May 24, 2006 6:05 PM
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This case is 25 years old. Is anyone interested it this case? Personally, I think we at cabin28@yahoo.com need some input from you people out there. PLEASE ANSWER MY POST, as I check this board at least twice a day!!
Have a blessed day!
standing tall
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(32 of 54)
May 23, 2006 8:32 AM
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Is anyone using this board anymore? I have'nt read any
posts since my last post on 5-21-06.
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(31 of 54)
May 21, 2006 9:19 PM
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Did you live in Keddie or in Quincy? Did you know my son Justin?
I'm the ex-wife of Marty and lived in Keddie at the time of the murders. It was my son that was a guest at the Sharp house that night. He was pulled out through the bedroom window along with the surviving Sharp boys.
Feel free to ask me questions. I am also on the film that Josh did.
standing tall
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(30 of 54)
May 21, 2006 9:12 PM
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Alta; I'm from the cabin28 board. Am I finally on this one? I've been trying for 2 days now.
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(28 of 54)
Apr 17, 2006 5:23 PM
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I can not log on to keddiemurders.com is there another official web site? Did you live in Keddie/Quincy at the time of the murders? I did and still do.
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(27 of 54)
Apr 17, 2006 3:50 PM
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I was 17 as well and grew up here. I knew Tina Sharp and Dana Wingate. I still live in Quincy. I have been thinking about this case ever since it happened but even more so in the last 6 mo.
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(26 of 54)
Jun 9, 2005 9:56 PM
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Why has no one mentioned anything, that I have seen, about the mother? And what does LE mean? blessings, Iris
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(25 of 54)
Jun 2, 2005 10:54 PM
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yes i did. they were friends of mine. you can check out the web site or just keep posting here will answer any of your questions best i can
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(24 of 54)
May 29, 2005 12:22 PM
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Did you live in Keddie at the time of the murders?
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(23 of 54)
May 2, 2005 5:01 PM
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skybaby did u check out the keddiemurders.com web site? if not please do. thank you. it is horrific the community this happened in was only around 100 people the town of Quincy has a population of less than 5000.. the two boys were my friends.
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(22 of 54)
May 1, 2005 7:07 PM
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You must have missed something if you looked at the discussion board for that crime. Motive has been established, for sure. Now all we have to do is figure out who "Mr. Feel Good" was,
Also, someone showed me a photo of a 288pc offender who could resemble the sketch. AND, he is not currently where he's supposed to be. AND, he just happens to be the brother of someone who has bragged about getting away with it. How's that for "connect the dots?"
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(21 of 54)
May 1, 2005 2:00 AM
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This is a very sad horrific muder.. I hope who ever has done this gets caught.
Rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
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(20 of 54)
Apr 16, 2005 8:09 PM
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K2, good job of playing like you have no clue as to where I came from. At least we can still get the movie in VHS. No, I'm not LE, just learned to ask the right questions.
I notice that "Mutt" didn't respond to my last post about "Sidetrack". I wonder what that means? If push comes to shove, I've been thinking of starting up a Yahoo group to discuss cold cases in all the 11 Western states. It would be set up to posters may hide their e-mail addresses, so that we could have some degree of anonimity.
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