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Rushville Indiana
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Mar 30, 2008 8:05 PM
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I need all the info I can get on this... Im from the next town over and My parents knew Denise. Im very interested in any new details.
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Connersville Indiana
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8/13/07
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Aug 13, 2007 8:02 PM
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Denise Pflum is one of many unsolved case's in or near Connersville, Indiana
#1. JASON DALE BOLTON AGE 16, MURDERED AUGUST 21, 1991 UNEXPLAINED/UNSOLVED MURDER COVER UP TODAY.
SOMEONE KNOWS"
#2. MELVIN GILLESPIE SUSPICIOUS DEATH 2005, UNSOLVED TODAY, CONNERSVILLE INDIANA.
"SOMEONE KNOWS"
#3. LULA GILLIESPIE LATE 1960's EARLY 1970's BEATEN AND THROWN OVER A BRIDGE. SHE TOLD HER MOTHER AND AUNT WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HER. A FEW DAYS AFTER, SHE VANISHED! CASE STILL UNSOLVED TODAY.
"SOMEONE KNOWS"
#4. BRUCE BOYER AGE 17, MURDERED, CHRISTMAS 1970 IN METAMORA, INDIANA. FRANKLIN COUNTY INDIANA FOUND BODY IN A CANAL, CASE STILL UNSOLVED TODAY.
"SOMEONE KNOWS"
#5. MARK ARIANS FOUND SHOT WITH 3 GUN SHOT WOUNDS TO HIS HEAD. EARLY 1980's NO ONE WAS EVER CHARGED WITH THIS MURDER. CASE UNSOLVED TODAY.
"SOMEONE KNOWS"
#6. DENISE PfLUM MISSNG SINCE MARCH 28, 1986 FROM CONNERSVILLE, INDIANA. FAYETTE COUNTY UNSOLVED COLD CASE.
"SOMEONE KNOWS"
#7. Darlene Russel Muredered 1983 Unsolved Today!
There is NO such thing as an Innocent by stander. If you were there in person and saw or heard anything, please come forward today and be someone's HERO! STEP UP TO THE PLATE, AND TELL WHAT YOU KNOW TO BE THE TRUTH TODAY!
THANK YOU EACH AND EVERYONE, AND GOD BLESS.
Searching for Justice http://myspace.com/JusticeForJason
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Edited by Searching For Justice at 08/13/2007 5:04 PM
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Montgomery County, Ohio
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8/8/07
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Aug 8, 2007 1:16 AM
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There was a story in the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News Aug. 6 about a Jane Doe dumped 26 miles from the Indiana line on I-70. I am a contributing reporter who worked on this story and I got a call that this might be Denise.
www.daytondailynews.com
Search byline "Jim DeBrosse" and subject "Jane Doe"
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6/18/07
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Jun 18, 2007 11:18 PM
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Denise Pflum has not been seen or heard from since that day. While there is much speculation in the community as to who may have been involved local law enforcement has yet to make any arrest or even locate Denise twenty one years after she disappeared
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Illinois
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3/27/07
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Mar 27, 2007 4:05 PM
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A single fingerprint taken from the door of a broken-down car could connect Gregory Bowman to the rape and murder almost 30 years ago of an Indiana University student.
Hers is only one of several slayings in which Bowman is the suspected killer.
Former Indiana State Police investigator Maurice “Bud” Allcron investigated the slaying of Ann Louise Harmeier for nearly 30 years. He said Friday he will ask a detective to compare the fingerprint taken from the car with Bowman’s fingerprints, saying Bowman could be a suspect.
“Bowman’s M.O. is compatible with the murder of Harmeier,” said Allcron, who retired from the Indiana State Police and now works for the Indiana Inspector General’s Office. “Of particular interest is the use of the victim’s clothing (shoe strings) for bondage and/or strangulation.”
Allcron asked police to compare the fingerprint taken from Harmeier’s car to Bowman’s fingerprints.
“There’s enough interesting stuff here to take a look at it,” he said.
Bowman is charged with three young women’s murders. Police believe but can’t prove a fourth and are looking at other cold cases from February 1977 to July 1978 in Missouri, Indiana and Illinois. Bowman was imprisoned before and after those dates.
He maintains he is innocent of any murders.
Harmeier left her Cambridge City, Ind., home on Sept. 12, 1977 — a Monday — to return to college in Bloomington, Ind. The thermostat on her car malfunctioned between 9 and 10 a.m. on the busy four-lane Highway 37 near Martinsville, Ind. It was the last day she was seen.
Her body was found by a farmer on Oct. 18, 1977.
Harmeier was raped and strangled with a piece of her clothing, Allcron said. Her pants were pulled down and her shirt and bra were pulled up around her neck.
Bowman lived near the Indiana border in Bellmont and had traveled to sell lamps in Illinois and western Indiana.
Allcron didn’t think any DNA evidence existed in the Harmeier murder, but there was that single fingerprint taken from just above the driver’s side window.
“I contacted Indiana State Police First Sgt. Jeff Hearon and informed him of the information, with the possibility of examining a latent scene print (by comparing it) to Bowman’s print,” he said.
Three months before Harmeier’s murder, 16-year-old Velda Joy Rumfelt was found near Eureka, Mo. She had been strangled and raped. Her shoelaces were wrapped around her neck and her bra stuffed in her mouth. DNA taken from Rumfelt’s underwear matched Bowman’s DNA in a 5 trillion-to-one match.
Harmeier’s body was found a week before Sharrey Case was last seen alive when her parents dropped her off at her boyfriend’s trailer near Centreville. Case’s body was found six weeks later under a pile of construction debris near Belleville.
She was strangled with a wire and a sock was stuffed in her mouth. Bowman told another prisoner in 1979 about another victim who investigators believe could have been Case. He told the prisoner he let his victims get dressed after raping them so they’d think he was letting them go.
Police exhumed Case’s body in 2005 but were unable to recover DNA linking Bowman to her death.
Bowman was convicted of the 1978 murders of Elizabeth West, 14, and Ruth Ann Jany, 21, who were abducted from Belleville streets. West was raped and strangled with her bra. Jany was too decomposed to determine a cause of death or whether she was raped.
All five women were clothed when they were found. All five were believed strangled or asphyxiated with a piece of their own clothing. There was evidence of sexual assault in three of the cases.
Bowman, 55, confessed to killing Jany and West, but 20 years later, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporters raised questions about how the confession was obtained, which led a St. Clair County judge in 2001 to order a new trial.
At the time of the confession in 1979, Bowman was being held in the St. Clair County Jail in the abduction of Jeanne Taylor from a Belleville coin laundry. She escaped from Bowman, who later pleaded guilty to the abduction and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
According to the Post-Dispatch, Bowman was tricked by a St. Clair County sheriff's deputy into falsely confessing to the murders in order to delay being sent back to the Menard Correctional Center in Chester, where he had served a sentence for attacking a young girl in 1972 in Danville. He wanted the delay so he could escape from jail.
Bowman was eligible for bail in 2001 but his father did not post the $15,000 in cash to secure his release until Jan. 26. He was arrested one week later after a DNA match was returned on the Rumfelt case.
Former Belleville Police Chief Jim Rokita was the original investigator on the West and Jany murders and was instrumental in getting Missouri police to look at Bowman for the Rumfelt killing.
Bowman remains in the St. Louis County Jail without bond. His next court date on the Rumfelt case is Monday morning in Clayton, Mo.
Contact reporter Beth Hundsdorfer at bhundsdorfer@bnd.com or 239-2570.
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From:
USA
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5/31/06
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Jun 10, 2006 4:37 PM
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Uhoh. That's around the time of the Larry Eyler serial killings along Highway 41, Evansville to Chicago, both in IL and IN, and the Herb Bermeister serial murders. Both killers were primarily interested in male victims, but not necessarily gay ones...and Eyler named an accomplice who may have included some female victims to lead investigators away from an obvious lead, particularly after Eyler had been jailed.
Some of the Indiana male victims were recovered in Ohio, as was the body of Pixie Grismore, missing since November 1978 then found on 03 May '78 in Whitehall, OH in her car trunk, in a hotel parking lot near the Columbus OH airport.
20-year-old Ann Harmeier went missing from her car left along a highway north of Bloomington in September 1977. Her body wasn't found until Oct. 18, 1977, in a cornfield near Martinsville. That case is still open too.
I think there are a couple of other unsolved Indiana cases in which a murdered female victim involving an anandoned car is a factor; I'll see what I can find from my own old files.
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Sep 18, 2005 1:50 PM
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Missing since March 28, 1986 from Connersville, Fayette County, Indiana
Pflum left her family's home in Connersville, Indiana on March 28, 1986. She was going to retrieve a purse she thought she may have left at a party the previous night. Pflum's car was found abandoned by the side of the road later that day.
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