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Post by Sandy on Dec 29, 2018 23:51:44 GMT -8
During the 80 and 1990's, the people of Contra Costa County had a serial killer who phoned the Pittsburg police department to tell them where he dumped a body. That body was Andrea Ingersole, she was with my daughter just a few hours before she was killed. Even though the killer told them where to find her body and then told them he was the Zodiac and was responsible for over a dozen females during that time. (That call was ignored)
Some believed that Art Allen was the Zodiac and that he had died, many people in Law enforcement believed Zodiac was dead. So the Pittsburg police felt the person calling had to be just a hoaxer, after all no one had heard from the Zodiac in years. Most of the girls murdered were prostitutes, a few were not.
During that time I took a particular interest in the murder of a waitress named Teresa Brown who lived within a few blocks of me. She and I both being waitresses, worked late at night and drove that same highway to get home. In fact on April 22 1988 the night she was killed , I was on that stretch of the highway with in 15 min of her murder. She was forced off the highway and then stabbed to death.
Other women in Contra Costa County were reporting a man following them late at night in a green car ,they were always women who were driving alone on dark country roads. He would flash his lights at them to try and get them to pull over, a lot like what was done in the Kathleen Johns case. They described him as looking Hispanic. Oddly enough the man who tried many times to force me off of that road also looked Hispanic.
A thread was started about Teresa Brown's case a few years ago at Morf's site. The day before yesterday Teresa's daughter posted there, asking for anyone with information to please help. I had information to share and offered to help.
Meanwhile Zamantha posted a article that I hadn't seen before that is very important. it was about a new Det. who is asking for information about these cold cases. He mentioned sending in DNA, so I am hopeful something could break in these cases!
Zamantha when you have time could you please post that article here? Thanks
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Post by Sandy on Dec 30, 2018 0:13:38 GMT -8
Theresa Brown moved from Lake Tahoe to Antioch a couple of months prior to her murder. She had been working as a waitress in a Walnut Creek hotel for about three weeks.
IN 1988, DARLING GIRL' IS STABBED - AN INVESTIGATOR IS CONVINCED A WOMAN LIVING IN ANTIOCH WAS KILLED BY SOMEONE SHE KNEW. Concord
The sun was just beginning to swell above the hills when the California Highway Patrol officer noticed the black skid marks on eastbound Highway 4 at Willow Pass Road. Peering down into a ravine from the side of the road, he spotted the two-door brown Mercury Montego. It was upright, but facing the wrong direction. When he reached the bottom of the ditch, the officer found the car empty, and the passenger side window broken out. He found the bloody body of a 30-year-old woman in a thicket of bamboo about 15 feet away. Theresa Colleen Brown had been stabbed to death. Nearly 12 years later, her slaying remains unsolved. While investigators have not determined a motive, Contra Costa County sheriff's Sgt. Mark Hale said he does not believe it was a random killing. "We don't feel this is a stranger who did this," he said. "This is not a wandering, hobo hitchhiker who jumped off a train. This was someone in the area." Brown's mother, Loise Proulx of Antioch, remains eager to find out who killed her daughter. "It would mean everything to me," she said. "If I knew who it was and he was executed, I'd be there to watch him. I would want him punished." She even wrote to then-Gov. Pete Wilson asking him to offer a reward for information about her daughter's death but to no avail. Proulx described her daughter as a "darling girl," devoted to her children. Brown liked to go out on Friday nights and loved to laugh. After separating from her husband, Brown left Oregon in January 1988 and moved to her mother's house in Antioch with her youngest, a 4-year-old boy, in tow. Her then-husband, who still lives in Oregon and was living there with their two older children when she died, is not a suspect, Hale said. Their youngest son lives with his father now. At the time of her death, Brown had worked for about two weeks as a cocktail waitress at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel in Walnut Creek. She had a tough facade, but was also described by co-workers as very friendly and outgoing, Hale said. Brown seemed to have made most of her acquaintances in bars, and some of these casual friends were "biker types," Hale said. Brown's sister Mary Knibbe said Brown was "carefree and innocent" but began hanging out with a tough crowd shortly after moving to Antioch. Still, on most nights Brown went straight to the baby sitter's house to pick up her little boy after her work shift ended, Hale said. On the night of her slaying, Brown did not mention that she had other plans, and the baby sitter expected her to pick up her son. She never showed up. Brown was last seen at 2:15 a.m. April 22, 1988, when she left work. Her body was discovered at 6:30 a.m. Other hotel employees told police there had been no problems with customers that night and several had watched Brown get into her car and leave alone, Hale said. He believes she met her killer somewhere later. There were signs that Brown had sexual contact after leaving work, but Hale doesn't know if it was with the killer or someone else. What Hale said he does believe, though, is that before Brown's killer stabbed her, he terrorized the 30-year-old, chasing her down the freeway and running her car off the road. After the crash, the killer hiked down into the ravine after her. Before she was stabbed, Brown had either been dragged out of the car, Hale said, or she was already out of the car and trying to run away. Proulx and Knibbe both said they believe Brown was killed because she knew something the killer didn't want her to know. Hale said this was one of several possible motives detectives have considered. March 19, 2000 Contra Costa Times.wi
Place found (stabbed): Highway 4 at Willow Pass Road
Killing happened two years after Koy Ien Saechao and Choy Fow Salee ('killed by a freeway').
Other cases related to Willow Pass Road: Michael Tan (1998, bludgeoned/drowned), Silvia Valdivia (2007, stabbed).
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Post by Sandy on Dec 30, 2018 0:32:32 GMT -8
I have been looking over some of my z collections and found the article about the " 3" different women who were followed late at night by a man in a green sedan in Marsh creek rd , Vasco rd, and "J 4". The article was in the Contra Costa Times Jan 1st 1994.
The title was "Police warn of man trying to run women off rural roadways" ( Below is what was written in the article)
An unknown man is apparently trying to run women off rural East County roads, warns the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department. The department is warning women driving in that area to be careful and not stop for anyone. In three separate incidents, women driving alone have been threatened by another driver. "We've had about "three" incidents in the past "three" months",said Sheriff's Sgt Ed Johnson. "He comes up from behind, flashes his light and tries to turn them off the road." The most recent incident occurred at 7:20 p.m.Wednesday. A Tracy woman driving on Marsh Creek Road saw a car come from behind and blink its lights. When the woman did not stop, the man driving the other car pulled alongside the woman's car and tried to force her off the road. Similar incidents have occurred on Vasco Road and Route J4, after it splits from "Highway 4". The offending vehicle could be a dark green sedan. However, night vision may have hampered witness descriptions, Johnson said. "It's happened to women who have been riding alone at night,"he said. "Women should try to avoid the area. If they have to go there,they should try to have someone with them." Should they collide with another vehicle, don't stop, Johnson warned. Drive to the nearest public area where there are other people.
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Post by Zamantha on Dec 30, 2018 0:44:14 GMT -8
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