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| Gregor, Ranee October 21,1977; Pennsylvania 15 YO | |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Aug 6 2006, 10:21 AM Post #1 |
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| braveheart | Oct 7 2006, 08:23 PM Post #2 |
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Left: Gregor, circa 1977; Right: Age-progression to age 42 (circa 2003) Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: October 21, 1977 from Robinson Township, Pennsylvania Classification: Endangered Missing Date of Birth: October 30, 1961 Age: 15 years old Height and Weight: 5'5, 120 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Blonde hair, green eyes. Gregor has a scar on her right cheek. Some agencies spell her name "Renee." Details of Disappearance Gregor and her seventeen-year-old boyfriend, John Feeny, left her Robinson Township, Pennsylvania residence in the evening hours of October 21, 1977 to get something to eat. Gregor's father believed they were going to a nearby pizza parlor. They were last seen at 10:00 p.m. that day at a gas station. That same evening, when Gregor did not come home, her parents became concerned and contacted authorities. The following day, Feeny was found murdered at the steering wheel of his van, which was parked with its motor running off of Crescent Road, near an old strip mine in a spot known as a lover's lane. He had been shot once in the right side of his neck at close range with a shotgun. The only sign of Gregor was her blue and white jacket and her purse, which were inside the van. Gregor has never been heard from again and is believed to have been abducted by Feeny's killer(s). Foul play is suspected in her disappearance, which remains unsolved, as does Feeny's murder. Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Robinson Township Police Department 412-788-7111 Source Information The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children The Doe Network Newspaper Archive Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004. Last updated February 4, 2004. Charley Project Home |
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| braveheart | Oct 7 2006, 08:24 PM Post #3 |
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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunerev...d/s_473958.html Hope lives on for abducted children Photo Gallery Nicole Lynn Bryner By Jill King Greenwood TRIBUNE-REVIEW Saturday, October 7, 2006 Though two women who disappeared as children resurfaced recently with stories of being held by their abductors for up to a decade, experts say most missing children are killed within hours. The two cases - one in McKeesport and one overseas - spawned screaming headlines, astonished loved ones who never stopped hoping their children would be found and inspired hope in others who believe they might get a miraculous reunion with their long-missing children. But the case last month of a man charged with killing a South Side toddler who went missing in 1982 represents the more likely outcome of heartache and devastation: Families wait for years for a child to return alive, only to discover he or she is long dead. "The reality is, those cases where a child resurfaces after that long are just not the norm," said Tarentum police Detective Mark Glogowski, who nevertheless periodically looks at the case files on two boys -- ages 10 and 11 -- who disappeared together from Tarentum in 1982. "You might be able to take a child and hold them captive for awhile, but you can only do that for so long before someone around you says something, the child says something to someone, or you trip yourself up. It's just not logical to think that all these kids are still out there, being held hostage somewhere." Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent Al Danna, who for 25 years has investigated crimes against children, said 44 percent of children abducted by strangers are killed within the first hour. The statistic rises to 74 percent within three hours and 91 percent are killed within 24 hours of being abducted. Within a week of a child going missing, 99 percent have been killed by the abductor, Danna said. "Sometimes it's a matter of the abductor knowing they will victimize and kill a child right from the start, or they'll let them go," Danna said. "Or it's a case where the child does something that panics the abductor, or the publicity of the child going missing gets too great, and the abductor kills them to eliminate the witness. But normally it's planned and not a spur-of-the-moment outcome. Abductors rarely hold onto children for years." At the beginning of this year, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children listed 13 children from Western Pennsylvania as missing. The oldest case dates to 1977. Two of those cases recently were solved. One child resurfaced as a woman. Authorities are looking for the remains of the other. Tanya Kach, now 24, disappeared from McKeesport in February 1996 and surfaced in March. She said she was held captive in the home of a former middle-school security guard. The second child, Nicole Lynn Bryner, 3, was reported missing from a South Side grocery store in 1982. On Sept. 26, Pittsburgh police cold-case homicide detectives charged Thomas Widman, 51, of Brookline, in Nicole's slaying. This week, detectives and a cadaver dog scoured heavily wooded, rough terrain in several Brookline locations, looking for Nicole's remains. The other case of a long-missing child who later resurfaced involved Natascha Kampusch, 18, who escaped from a man she said kidnapped her in 1998, when she was 10, and kept her captive in a basement in Vienna, Austria. Kampusch was reunited with her shocked parents days after she ran from the man's driveway and banged on a neighbor's door. For Glogowski, investigating the Jan. 14, 1982, disappearances of Jon Dabkowski, 11, and Gabriel Minarcin, 10, has been difficult. Glogowski was the same age as Minarcin when the children disappeared, so when he became an investigator for Tarentum police, he was forced to review old case files. Investigators and bloodhounds traced the boys' footprints to the frozen Allegheny River. There are three case books -- each more than 4 inches thick -- containing interviews and information about the boys, who disappeared after they left Jon's house in Tarentum at 5:30 p.m. to walk three doors to Gabriel's home. Leah Keeney gets emotional when she sees the reports of long-missing children who resurface alive or hears that detectives are using cadaver dogs to search for Nicole's remains. Keeney's little sister, Toni McNatt-Chiapetta, 14, vanished from a Clairton intersection in 1981. Keeney said she'll always harbor hope that her sister -- who would be 39 -- will walk through the front door with an amazing story of living somewhere, possibly under another name, for 24 years. "You want to believe that they're alive and OK out there, because you've seen these other cases where they were," said Keeney, of McKeesport. "But even though I try to keep the hope alive, I know in my heart that she's dead and she's an angel in heaven. You just want answers either way, no matter how devastating the truth might be. You just want to have a grave to go visit." Robinson police Chief Dale Vietmeier checks a few times a year on the case of Ranee Gregor, 16, who disappeared in October 1977, nine days before her birthday. Vietmeier said investigators long have believed Gregor is dead. She was last seen on Oct. 21, 1977, at a gas station's parking lot with her boyfriend, who was found dead the next day in his car in Findlay. Gregor hasn't been found. "It's an open case for us, but really, it's a dead one," Vietmeier said. "But it will remain open until we find out what happened to her, who did it and where she is now." Jill King Greenwood can be reached at jgreenwood@tribweb.com or 412-321-2160. http://z13.invisionfree.com/PorchlightUSA/...opic=4956&st=0& |
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| braveheart | Oct 7 2006, 08:31 PM Post #4 |
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RANEE GREGOR Missing Oct 21, 1977 ROBINSON TOWNSHIP PA Ranee's photo is shown age-progressed to 42 years. On the evening of October 21, 1977 Ranee and her boyfriend left her residence to go get something to eat. They were last seen around 10 p.m. at a gas station. The next morning Ranee's boyfriend was found murdered in his vehicle and Ranee was discovered missing. She has not been seen or heard from since. She has a scar on her right cheek. http://www.angelfire.com/ak/403/pa4.html |
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| braveheart | Oct 7 2006, 08:39 PM Post #5 |
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| monkalup | Dec 31 2006, 07:45 PM Post #6 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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| burnsjl2003 | Jun 27 2007, 08:39 AM Post #7 |
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post-gazette.com Pittsburgh, PA 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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| ~*Mia*~ | Dec 29 2007, 05:55 PM Post #8 |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Jun 18 2012, 12:06 PM Post #9 |
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012 Unsolved Cases: Ranee Ann Gregor Ranee Gregor Moon Patch - PA, USA Unsolved Cases: Ranee Ann Gregor In 2007, a serial killer confessed to killing the Robinson Township teen, missing since 1977—and claimed her body is 'unrecoverable.' By Zandy Dudiak Email the author June 9, 2012 Ranee Ann Gregor was just nine days away from turning "sweet 16" the evening of Oct 21, 1977 when she and boyfriend John Feeny left her residence on Clever Road in Robinson Township and were believed to be headed for a pizza parlor. They made it as far as a gas station, where they were last seen about 10 p.m. But they never made it home. The next morning, John, a 17-year-old who lived on Maple Street in Coraopolis, was found slumped over the armrest of the rear seat of his blood-splattered van. He had been shot once in the neck at close range with a shotgun. The vehicle, with its engine still running, was parked on a secluded dirt road known as a lovers' lane, off Crescent Drive near the airport in Findlay Township. Ranee, 15, a Montour High School junior, was missing, but her blue jacket and purse were still in the rusted yellow van. She was never seen or heard from again. More than 400 volunteers, mostly from the Findlay, Moon, North Fayette and Crafton fire departments, as well as Pittsburgh police, conducted a ground search near the scene. At one point, after someone in a police helicopter spotted an object in the nearby Massaros Lake, members of Groveton Fire Department dragged the lake, according to the Beaver County Times. (more...) http://unsolveditn.blogspot.com/2012/06/un...ann-gregor.html |
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