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| Hamilton, Linda 09/20/77; Beaver Township, OH | |
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| burnsjl2003 | Jun 27 2007, 08:55 AM Post #1 |
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The Doe Network: Case File 2225DFOH Linda Hamilton Missing since September 20, 1977 from Beaver Township, Mahoning County, Ohio Classification: Endangered Missing -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vital Statistics Age at Time of Disappearance: 28 years old Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair. Glasses. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Circumstances of Disappearance Linda Hamilton was last seen on September 20, 1977 in Beaver Township, Ohio. On the morning of September 21, 1977, her children discovered their father dead on the kitchen's floor. He had been hit by three bullets one in the back of the head and one in each shoulder. They ran to the neighbors who called the police. No trace of Linda was found. Neighbors told police they heard what sounded like strong, rapid strokes of a hammer at 12.45 am. Some neighbors also later remembered having seen a man walking down the road from the direction of the truck stop. The couple's car was found near the entrance of a closed strip mine in view of the truck stop where Linda worked. Prints of a man's boots and Linda's bare feet, led from the driver's side. For years the cases remained unsolved until serial killer Edward A. Surratt confessed to their murder in February 2007 while in jail in Florida. He also confessed to the murder of Ranee Gregor. He declared in an interview that Linda Hamilton's and Ranee Gregor's bodies were "unrecoverable by anybody's standards". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Investigators If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Beaver Township Police Department 330-549-5338 NCIC Number: (not listed) Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case. Source Information: The Examiner Beaver County Times http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2225dfoh.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associated with Doe Network Case # 652DFPA, Ranee Gregor http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/652dfpa.html "Seriel killer Edward A. Surratt...also confessed to the murder of Ranee Gregor. He declared in an interview that Linda Hamilton's and Ranee Gregor's bodies were "unrecoverable by anybody's standards". http://z10.invisionfree.com/usedtobedoe/in...?showtopic=7698 |
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Lisa “Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.” (On a plaque at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.) | |
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| burnsjl2003 | Jun 27 2007, 08:58 AM Post #2 |
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Serial killer admits to 2 Findlay deaths in 1977 Tuesday, February 27, 2007 By Chico Harlan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Having just received his first paycheck from a busboy job at a nearby fast-food restaurant, John Feeny, 17, decided to take his girlfriend, Ranee Gregor, days shy of 16, on a date. He left with her in his family's rusted yellow van. They headed to a remote area of Findlay called lovers' lane. Hours later, on Oct. 22, 1977, the boy was shotgunned to death. The girl was missing. Edward Surratt They became two victims connected -- for years, only by widespread suspicion -- to serial killer Edward Surratt. Now, almost 30 years later, Mr. Surratt has admitted to six unsolved murders, including the pair of teenagers, Beaver Township, Ohio, Police Chief Carl Frost said yesterday. Mr. Surratt, currently serving multiple life sentences in Florida, was long suspected by police to have committed at least 18 murders, most of them in Ohio and Pennsylvania. During the fall and winter of 1977-78, Mr. Surratt pulled the region into a panic, most often by entering homes, shooting the male and often raping and killing the female. Mr. Surratt also admitted, Chief Frost said, to the 1977 murders of David A. Hamilton and his wife, Linda; and John J. Davis and his wife, Mary. Those were the four unsolved cases in Mr. Frost's township. He received a reminder of that following last year's county fair, when somebody -- he doesn't know who -- wrote the names of the Davis couple atop a photograph, posted at the fair, of the area police department. After a series of phone calls, Chief Frost arranged for two investigators in Florida -- one representing the Bal Harbour, Fla., police and one representing "America's Most Wanted" -- to question Mr. Surratt. For his cooperation, Mr. Surratt wanted a transfer to a prison in South Carolina, where in 1978 he'd been convicted of killing a man with a baseball bat. He has been told prisons in that state have spring mattresses and air conditioning. Florida is willing to cooperate with the move, Chief Frost said, "because they're interested in getting rid of him anyway. He has been a pain." Mr. Surratt, 65, a Marine Corps veteran and a former Aliquippa truck driver, agreed to speak only with the "America's Most Wanted" representative, Joe Matthews, a former homicide detective. He told Mr. Matthews that the bodies of both Linda Hamilton and Ranee Gregor, never found, were "unrecoverable." Other details, Chief Frost said, were vague. "He didn't sit down and say, 'I went in this door and I shot him when he said this.' He didn't give us the full admissions," Chief Frost said. Police now want more details about the six murders and admissions to other unsolved cases. Chief Frost plans, perhaps within the next month, to travel to Florida to assist with the process. After Ranee Gregor's disappearance, her parents kept the girl's room exactly as she'd left it. On the night of his date, John Feeny had been instructed to return the van to his parents by 10 p.m., so his mother -- who worked nights -- could drive to work. Rita Feeny, John's mother, says the loss "is still raw." "I'd like my son back," she said. "That's not going to happen ... and I have to face that reality. If you have to be blunt, my son bled to death in our car; the fancy medical term is exsanguinate. But ... it's still there. You think about that on birthdays. There's a hole in all of your holidays. In everything. And it comes to the surface every so often, when you think about what would have happened if he'd had a chance to grow up." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Chico Harlan can be reached at aharlan@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1227. ) http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07058/765229-85.stm |
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