Could the Murder of April Tinsley be related to unsolved murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German?

April Marie Tinsley

She was born March 18, 1980.

She was a member of the children's choir at the Faith United Methodist Church, and a first-grader attending Fairfield Elementary School.

April 1, 1988, she was playing with two of her friends and they were moving between houses.

Around 3:00 p.m., Tinsley went back to get her umbrella and then disappeared.

Her mother reported her missing to the police when she did not arrive home for dinner that night.
125 A witness later reported seeing a white man in his 30s forcing a girl believed to be Tinsley into his blue pickup truck.
A jogger found her body on April 4, 1988 in a ditch just west of Spencerville, Indiana.
Investigators found one of Tinsley's shoes, and a sex toy in a shopping bag.
A motorist later reported seeing a blue pickup truck near this site.
Tinsley's autopsy report suggested she had been sexually assaulted and then strangled to death.
The report determined that she had been dead for about one or two days before she was discovered.
It also stated that she had been placed in the ditch four hours before this discovery.
Tinsley's memorial service was held on April 8, 1988 at the Faith United Methodist Church.

The police investigation led authorities to a 34-year-old suspect, who was charged with child molestation in a separate case.

He was acquitted of those charges the next month.

May 21, 1990, police found a message on a St. Joseph Township barn saying "I kill 8 year old April M Tinsley. Did you find the other shoe haha I will kill again."

The message was written with crayons which were found near the barn.

Memorial Day weekend in 2004, four notes were found in the Fort Wayne area that are believed to have written by Tinsley's murderer.

Three of the notes were left on girls' bicycles, and another one was left in a mailbox.

They were placed in bags along with Polaroid pictures of what was believed to be the killer's lower body, and used condoms with DNA.

The DNA from the condoms matched the DNA found on Tinsley's underwear.

One of these notes read, "Hi honey... I been watching you....I am the same person that kidnapped an rape an kill april tinsley, ... You are my next victim....if you don't report this to police an if I don't see this in the paper tomorrow or on the local news...I will blow up your house." 

Soon after the murder, police released a composite sketch of the suspect based on the account of a person who said they saw Tinsley's kidnapper.

The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit described the murder as a "Preferential Child Sex Offender",  that he has a long-term and persistent sexual desire for children.

The murder profile was described as a white male, then in his 40s through 50s, living or working in northeast Fort Wayne/Allen County with a low to medium income.

May 2018, Police Department detective sent a sample of the suspect's DNA to the forensics company Parabon Nanolabs,

It used the genealogy website GEDmatch to identify the suspect's relatives.

July 2, 2018, the genealogist CeCe Moore narrowed down the list of suspects to two brothers, including John D. Miller of Grabill, Indiana.

His neighbors described him as secluded and often angry.

The police found used condoms in Miller's trash, and collected DNA that matched the suspect's DNA.
July 15, 2018, detectives asked him to come talk with them at the police office. 

After advising him on his rights, investigators asked him if he knew why they wanted to talk to him. 

He replied "April Tinsley".

At the police office, he allegedly confessed to the murder during the interview.

He said that he abducted Tinsley, raped her, choked her to death in his trailer, sodomized her body, and dumped it.

He is charged with murder, child molestation, and confinement; and plead not guilty in a court hearing on July 19, 2018.

He is scheduled to go on trial on February 11, 2019.

Feb. 14, 2017, Libby German, 14, and Abby Williams, 13, were killed while biking on trails near Delphi, which is close to Indiana.
Investigators working on the Delphi case are now looking at every tactic available to track down Williams' and German’s killer.

The police said that they are using information from the 1988 Tinsley case to help solve any other cases that they have.

“Are we using it in this specific case?

 I’m not going to say one way or another,” 

Indiana State Police Sgt. Kim Riley stated.

There is still people missing and towns totally gone 13 years after Hurricane Katrina...

Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane.

It struck the Gulf Coast of the United States in August 2005.

It caused catastrophic damage from central Florida to eastern Texas. 

Flooding, that was largely as a result engineering flaws in the flood protection system around the city of New Orleans, caused most of the loss of lives. 

1,833 people were killed.

There is still over 100 people missing.

The storm was the third major hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.

It was the third most intense tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in the United States, behind only the 1935 Labor Day hurricane and Hurricane Camille in 1969.

6:10 a.m., Monday, August 29, 2005

Hurricane Katrina made its second landfall as a  Category 3 hurricane between Grand Isle, Louisiana, and the mouth of the Mississippi River.

It has sustained winds of more than 125 mph.

Katrina continued north into St. Bernard Parish, crossed Lake Borgne, and made its final landfall near the mouth of the Pearl River on the Louisiana/Mississippi border.

8:00 a.m., in New Orleans, water begins rising on both sides of the Industrial Canal.

9:00 a.m., there was now 6–8 feet of water in the Lower Ninth Ward.

10:00 AM, Katrina makes its third landfall near Pearlington, Mississippi and Slidell, Louisiana,with sustained winds of 120 mph.

11:00 AM, there was 10 feet of water in St. Bernard Parish and much more in other places.

Many rooftops could not be seen because they were submerged in water. 

2:00 PM, New Orleans officials confirmed a breach of the 17th Street Canal levee as well as two other canals.

3:00 PM, New Orleans Homeland Security Director Terry Ebbertt stated 

"Everybody who had a way or wanted to get out of the way of this storm was able to. 

For some that didn't, it was their last night on this earth."

Police were fanning out across the city to assess damage, rescue people, and get a good look at the situation before nightfall. 

The hardest-hit areas of the city were the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans East, Gentilly, Lakeview, St. Bernard parish, and Plaquemines parish.

Governor Blanco ordered 68 school buses into New Orleans from surrounding parishes to begin evacuating any survivors.

6908 Army National Guard and 933 Air National Guard were deployed. 

Governor Blanco and the National Guard stated that they could "handle it". 

FEMA Director Michael Brown also urged local fire and rescue departments outside Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi not to send trucks or emergency workers into disaster areas without an explicit request for help from state or local governments. 

Brown sought the approval five hours after landfall to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security workers into the region. 

He described Katrina as a, "near catastrophic event."

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

12:00 PM,Governorla Blanco ordered that all of New Orleans, including, be evacuated due to the flooding of the city. 

She commandeered hundreds of buses from across Louisiana.

Those buses eventually evacuated more than 15,000 people that were stranded in the city to the Superdome by Thursday, September 1.

There were many instances of looting, including looting by police officers.

Governor Blanco also said that she will request President Bush send federal troops to help restore law and order in New Orleans. 9,668 Army National Guard and 956 Air National Guard were deployed. 

USCG helicopters rescue 350 people off roof tops

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Hurricane Katrina is downgraded to a tropical depression.
At 10:00 PM At the time, 85% of New Orleans was underwater.
The USS Bataan was positioned off the coast of Gulfport, Mississippi to support the relief efforts.

 The United States Navy moved additional ships and helicopters into the region at the request of FEMA.

President Bush flies low over the Gulf Coast so that he can view the devastation in Air Force One. 
Mayor Nagin ordered almost the entire New Orleans' police force to abandon search and rescue missions and turn their attention toward controlling the widespread looting and a curfew is placed in effect.
State workers began work at closing the 17th Street Canal breach, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers adds additional resources to the task.
USCG helicopters rescued 1,259 more people off house roof tops to total of 1,609.

Thursday, September 1, 2005

President Bush appeared on Good Morning America, and said 

"I fully understand people wanting things to have happened yesterday.

I understand the anxiety of people on the ground. … 

So there is frustration.

But I want people to know there's a lot of help coming." 

A 50-member Canadian search-and-rescue team from Vancouver, British Columbia reached a flooded New Orleans suburb to help save trapped residents.
National Guardsmen accompanied by 475 buses and supply trucks begin to arrive at the Superdome.
A day after the National Guard began delivering food, water and ice in New Orleans, the National President of the American Red Cross, Marsha Evans, requested to set up a shelter in New Orleans to pass out food and water. 

Due to the ongoing military rescue operations in the city at the time, the Red Cross was asked to wait for 24 hours. 

Meanwhile, conditions at the Superdome, as well as the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, continued worsen. Food and potable water were unavailable.

Few buses were arriving to evacuate the survivors. 

About 5,000 refugees made it by bus to Reliant Astrodome.

There were only about 2,000 cots available.

Secretary Chertoff announced that 4,200 National Guard troops trained as military police would be deployed to New Orleans over the next three days. 

Governor Blanco requested the mobilization of an additional 40,000 National Guard troops. 14,284 Army National Guard and 972 Air National Guard were currently deployed.
California swift water rescue crew units deployed to the area rescued hundreds in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish. 

FEMA later halted the swift water rescue crews from conducting further rescues, citing safety concerns.
Sealing of the 17th Street Canal from Lake Pontchartrain with sheet pilings begins, while closing the breach continues.
Gretna seals the Crescent City Connection bridge across the Mississippi River, turning back fleeing flood victims at gunpoint. Evacuees blamed the incident on racism, but the chief of police stated that the city was in lockdown and was not equipped to handle evacuees from New Orleans.
USCG helicopters rescue 2,859 people off roof tops for a total of 4,468

Friday, September 2, 2005

USCG operated 48 helicopters in the greater New Orleans area Medevacing all sick and injured people from the Superdome, rescues 6,500+ people from roof tops, and 2,500+ people by boat.

Saturday, September 3, 2005

Coast Guard air operations have saved 1,245 lives and conducted 385 sorties in the past 24 hours.

Sunday, September 4, 2005

The evacuation of the Superdome has been completed.  

USCG helicopters rescue 1,037 people from roof tops. 

USCG air & surface units assist with the evacuation of 9,400+ patients and staff from hospitals in the greater New Orleans area.

Monday, September 5, 2005

The 17th Street Canal levee breach was closed with truckloads of rock and sandbags. 

The canal reopened so that it could be used to pump water out of the city. 
USCG Air Operations conducted 650 sorties rescuing 6,900 people. USCG Surface Operations conducted 31 sorties rescuing 10,950 people.

There are places and whole towns still dilapidated or abandoned.

Jacob Caldwell Found Safe!:-)

Jacob Caldwell witnessed his father's murder.
On August 21, last year, he went missing from his bed.
He was found safe on Monday night in south Dayton.

He had been living in a basement.

No word yet on if the adults living in the home are going to be charged.

He was not abducted and was allowed to move around of his own free will.

He did not go outside at all.

He is ok, but seems to be traumatized.

FEMA released their report on the chaos after the Las Vegas Massacare

FEMA released a 61 page report on the emergency responses after the Las Vegas Massacare.

In the report it says that the Clark County Fire Department was not even aware that the Route 91 Harvest festival was occurring.

The festival medical tent was not prepared to handle a mass casualty event.

There were only seven cots and the staff was overwhelmed.

There wasn't adequate security in the medical tent and a staff member was assaulted while he was trying to take care of patients.

There was problems with communication with the Mandalay bay and emergency responders.

This is just many of the problems in the report.

Hopefully this tragedity was at least a lesson, so if something terrible like this happens again, maybe more people could be saved.

As Labor day weekend creeps closer, think of Jabez Spann

Jabez Spann witnessed a murder last year and then went missing.
He was at a funeral for his friend that he witnessed murdered.
It was September 4, labor day of last year.
If you were on  22nd Street and Palamadelia Avenue in Sarasota, Florida and saw him, or maybe took any pictures around there on that date, please notify the police.

Could there be a break in the JonBenet Ramsey case?

Glenn Meyer's widow came forward claiming her ex husband killed JonBenet Ramsey
Charlotte Hey said that her ex husband was obsessed with JonBenet.
"When I asked him if he murdered her, he would just smile at me. He wouldn’t deny it.”

At the time of her murder, Meyer was secretly living in the basement of a home across the street from the Ramseys.

Later built a shrine to her using pictures and newspaper clippings.

Supposedly his handwriting matched the ransom note found in the Ramsey home, and cops considered him a suspect.

John Ramsey, said that Meyer turned up at his house uninvited when the family hosted a party on Dec. 23, 1996.

A new witness made a deathbed confession.

She said that she saw Meyer on the Ramsey property on the night of JonBenét’s murder.

Meyer battled mental illness.

Meyer was arrested for a 1991 assault in a domestic violence case, and was ordered to attend anger counseling courses.

In August 1995, he was sued for owing more than $24,000.

“He was violent with my little girl.

She was in the fourth grade and he gave her such a horrible spanking,

I told him to stop but he wouldn’t.
A lot of times he was cruel to my kids.
They were afraid of him.
I was scared of him!”

Charlotte recalled.

Somehow he ends up living in the basement of JonBenét’s elderly babysitters, Joe and Betty Barnhill.

Investigators want to exhume Glenn Meyer's body to see if they can solve this cold case once and for all.

What Really Happened to Laci Peterson

This is my opinion on what happened to Laci Peterson.
First of all, Scott claims he couldn't have killed Laci that morning, because he was logged into his work computer the time same people think that he supposedly killed Laci.
Well, he didn't kill her on the 24th.. he killed her the 23rd.
Her body was wearing the same pants her sister had seen her in the night before.
I think that after Laci talked to her mother on the phone, she went upstairs to bed.
Sometime after that Scott put his hands around Laci's neck and knelt on her chest.
He choked the life out of her.

Scott put her body in a blanket or tarp and put her in his vehicle before the sun came up.
He got ready for work and cleaned up.
Either let the dog out with the leash on it, or took the dog with him and let it out somewhere.

Then he went to his office.
He sent some emails, so it would look like he had an alibi.
He put her on is boat with the anchors and such, went out onto the lake and dumped her body.
He took the boat back to his office, cleaned it up the best he could and doused it with gasoline.

Scott goes home, about the same time he did everyday.
He gets cleaned up again and makes sure he didn't miss anything.
Then he informs the in laws Laci is missing.

Some people think that the robbery across the street had something to do with Laci's disappearance and ultimate death.
The burglary happened between 4 and 7 am, so... nope.

Some people say they saw someone they thought was Laci, walking her dog after 10 a.m.
This could be true, but it could also be false.
Police found another woman, that looked a lot like Laci, walking a dog that looked similar to hers.

What do you think happened to Laci?
Do you think Scott is guilty?

Amber Alert for Tiara Blankenship

A statewide alert has been issued for a missing 14-year-old girl from Kissimmee, Florida.

She has been missing since August 6. 

She was last seen in the 4900 block of Dunmore Lane.

She is described as a white female, with brown hair and green eyes. She is 5 feet tall and weighs 130 pounds.

Anyone who sees Blankenship or has any information is asked to call 911 or the Osceola County Sheriff's Office at (407) 348-2222.

Have you seen Kiera Bergman?

Kiera Bergman vanished three weeks ago and Phoenix police are saying they suspect foul play in her disappearance.

Bergman, 19, she was reportedly upset and left work early on the morning of Aug. 4.

She was last seen that day at her Phoenix apartment and has not been heard from since. 

She moved to Arizona from the San Diego area in March to live with her boyfriend, 23-year-old Jon-Christopher Clark.

She moved in with a friend a few weeks later after breaking up with Clark. 

Clark says he then moved in with the two in mid-June after reconciling with Bergman. 

Clark, says he was the last person to see Bergman.

He was arrested Aug. 17 on suspicion of identity theft and forgery and was released a week later.

Clark has said that he was questioned by police in the disappearance, but that he was not involved and just wants her to come home. 

Bergman's parents, have said they believe he may have had something to do with their daughter's disappearance. 

The day she vanished was Clark's birthday, and Clark says she asked him to pick her up from work in the morning. 

He says they later argued because he was sad they weren't doing anything for his birthday and she left the apartment upset.

She left without her money, purse, or car. 

Who Is The Killer? Gainsville1990 Pt. 4

Danny Rolling was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, on May 26, 1954.

His father James Rolling, was a Shreveport police officer.

He told Danny that he was unwanted from birth and abused his mother, Claudia, and his brother, Kevin. 

Danny's mother went to the hospital after claiming her husband tried to make her cut herself with a razor blade. 

She repeatedly attempted to leave her husband, but always came back.

One day Danny's dad pinned Danny to the ground, handcuffed him, then had police take his son away because he was embarrassed by him.
As a teenager and young adult, he was arrested several times for robberies in Georgia.

He was also caught spying on a female getting dressed. 

May 1990, he attempted to kill his father during a family argument in which his father lost an eye and an ear.

Investigators look for any armed robberies in Gainesville around the times of the murders.

The First Union Bank near Christa Hoyt's apartment, the morning her body was found.

Deputies chased a suspect into the woods that day, but the gunman escaped.

About a week after the bank robbery, a Ocala grocery store was held up, 40 miles from Gainesville.

September 7, 1990

Rolling was arrested in Ocala on a burglary charge of the grocery store.

His tools were matched to marks left at the Gainesville murder scenes.

The small camp where he was living was in a wooded area located near the apartment complexes frequented by students.

They discover a ski mask which fibers match that found on duct tape at one of the crime scenes.

Blood on a pair of Rolling's pants matches that of Taboada.

One of Christa Hoyt's hairs was found in his sleeping bag.

Investigators discovered recordings Rolling had made of himself singing country songs that he had composed and audio diaries alluding to the crimes.

Feb. 8, 1991

Rolling is charged with robbing a Tampa Save 'N' Pack grocery store on Sept. 2, 1990. 

He also faces charges in three burglaries committed about the same time in Tampa. 

After breaking into one home, he called his mother in Shreveport.

May 31, 1991

The task force identifies Rolling as its prime suspect after DNA evidence links him to the crime scenes.

July 10, 1991

Federal grand jury in Tallahassee indicts Rolling on charges of robbing a Gainesville bank on Aug. 27, 1990. 

This places him in Gainesville at the time of the killings.

Sept. 18, 1991

Rolling is sentenced to life in prison for an Ocala Winn-Dixie robbery.

Oct. 18, 1991

Rolling is sentenced to three life terms plus 170 years for robbery, assault and burglary charges related to the Tampa crimes in September 1990.

Nov. 15, 1991

Gainesville grand jury indicts Rolling on charges of first-degree murder, burglary and sexual assault in the Gainesville killings.

May 21, 1992 

Rolling is sentenced to life in prison for the Gainesville bank robbery. 

Later he is resentenced to 32 years.

June 1, 1992

Rolling attempts to hang himself with a bed sheet in his cell.

June 7, 1992

At his arraignment, he pleads not guilty to the five killings, three rapes and three burglaries in Gainesville.

Feb. 9, 1993

Investigators search deer pens for the military knife and gloves believed used by the killer. 

The search ends Feb. 13 without success.

Feb. 10, 1994

Days before his trial is scheduled to begin, Rolling agrees to plead guilty to the Gainesville killings, rapes and burglaries. 

He asks for no leniency. 

Prosecutors, judge and defense lawyer keep this a secret.

Rollings claimed his motive was to become a "superstar" similar to Ted Bundy. 

Feb. 15, 1994

The guilty plea is announced in open court. 

The judge and lawyers agree to return the next day to select a jury that will recommend whether Rolling should be sentenced to life in prison or death.

Court TV conducted an interview with Rolling's mother from her home, during which his father could be heard shouting off-camera. 

April 20, 1994

Rolling was sentenced to death on all counts.

Rolling was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder and paraphilia(sexual perversion or sexual deviation).

Rolling was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison on October 25, 2006.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch appeal.

He was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m.

Rolling sang a gospel hymn, but made no statement immediately prior to his execution, which was witnessed by many of his victims' relatives.

In a written statement made shortly before his execution, Rolling confessed to the murders of the Grissom family in Shreveport.

The movie Scream, was based on the killings

REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS