So this is what I think they did... They were lying in wait in the back of the Avery Auto Salvage, waiting for Steven Avery to leave, and once he left with his mother and nephew, Bryan Dassey, for Crivitz around 6 AM on 11/5, the Motley crew moved in heavy, with everything they needed, including towing capabilities, to move these cars around, just so they could place Teresa Halbach's RAV4, cover it up with all that stuff, and set the stage. All of this was done before Earl Avery, the only Avery sibling who didn't live on the property, even arrived (Chuck Avery had left for Crivitz with Brendan around 8 PM on 11/4; Allan Avery had left on 11/3). Meanwhile, back at Teresa's farmhouse, Ryan Hillegas, LE, and specifically Pam Sturm, are going over the next phase, getting ready for the FIND. You can definitely see bushes or trees on 11/4, and then two cars take their place on 11/5. The blob behind the white SUV/station wagon was definitely replaced. They sped up the playback of the 11/4 flyover video when they made the edited copy: not only are segments missing, it's intentionally sped up to create the crazy footage we see. [Reddit Comments]
Dispatch Call at 26:37: Vicky Siebert, Calling for Her Father, Who is Reporting Activity at the Back Quarry Entrance
Steven Avery’s former neighbor said he saw things around the time
of Teresa Halbach’s murder that raise a lot of questions – and no one
has asked him about it before.
The recent Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer has made
international headlines and raised many questions surrounding the 2005
murder of Teresa Halbach’s in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin and the subsequent
trial that convicted Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey in crimes related
to murder.
Wilmer
Seibert in his backyard. Seibert said he thinks he may have seen
Teresa Halbach’s Toyota Rav4 driving into the back of Avery’s Auto
Salvage via a back quarry road days before a volunteer search party
found it abandoned with blood on it in 2005.
One of the key pieces of evidence in the case was Halbach’s
blue/green Toyota Rav4 discovered by a volunteer search party in the
rear area of Avery Auto Salvage on November 5th, 2005.
On the southeast side of the Avery Auto Salvage, off Jambo Creek road
directly beside the entrance to the quarry behind the yard, lives Wilmer
Seibert, a man in his 70s who considers himself friends with the
Averys.
Seibert said he saw what he thinks might be Teresa Halbach’s Toyota
Rav4 accompanied by another vehicle, a mysterious white Jeep, “days”
before the search party found the Rav4 on the salvage yard.
Seibert said he was just hanging out in his backyard one day when he
saw the Rav4 speeding quickly down the backroad that leads into the
quarry behind the Avery Auto Salvage, and directly behind it was the
white Jeep.
About half an hour later only the Jeep returned he said.
A screenshot showing Seibert’s Jambo Creek Rd. property in relation to the quarry road and Avery’s Auto Salvage.
“It was a white Jeep, just a smaller Jeep, and it looked liked the
paint was peeling off the hood. You could see like an undercoating on
the hood. The Jeep was what I saw come back out but I didn’t see the
(the Rav4 come out),” said Seibert.
Siebert cannot precisely remember the day or time he saw the vehicle
because of how long ago it was now, but he estimates he saw the vehicles
“less than a week,” perhaps “a couple days or three days,” before it was
discovered by the search party.
Seibert said vehicles regularly travel down the quarry road but he
noticed these two particular vehicles because they were driving faster
than usual.
“They must have been going about 40 miles an hour,” said Seibert.
Seibert could not tell who or how many people were in either vehicle.
“Shortly after (the incident he witnesses) the lady found the car
back there,” said Seibert referring to the vehicle’s discovery by Pamela
Sturm as she participated in a volunteer search party.
Seibert
stands on the edge of his property and by the road where he said he
thinks he saw Teresa Halbach’s Rav4 days beforea volunteer search party
did in 2005.
Seibert said he cannot be 100 percent certain it was Halbach’s Rav4
but, because it was the same green/blue color, and because he rarely saw
Rav4s, he’s pretty sure it was.
Seibert said he’s been buying parts from Avery Auto Salvage since
before he moved to the home in the 1970, he also raised questions about
how the search parties could have found the vehicle so quickly.
“I don’t know how (the search party) could find that car that quick
because I needed a gas tank for a truck (once) and they gave me the row
(that it was in) and what kind of truck it was and I didn’t find that
truck in that short of a time,” said Seibert.
Chuck Avery, who is also Steven Avery’s brother, has owned the
salvage yard since the 1990s, and he confirmed that at the time of
Teresa Halbach’s murder the back of the Avery lot could be accessed
from the quarry road, but since that time the rear entrance has been
blocked.
Seibert said he was not questioned by police or lawyers except for
when an FBI agent came to his door shortly after Halbach went missing
and showed him a picture of Halbach and asked if he knew her, which he
didn’t.
Seibert is a quiet family man and he said that because no one asked
him directly about it at the time he never thought to tell anyone.
“I really didn’t want to get involved. I didn’t know for sure what
was going on and how this was going to be handled,” said Seibert.
Seibert said he is not looking for attention and he is only speaking
about it now because Netflix documentary made him ask questions.
Another view of the entrance to the quarry road. Seibert’s property is to the right starting at the fence.
Seibert said during the investigation of Halbach’s murder the police barricaded the quarry road entrance, about 50 feet
from his back steps, and blocked the same section of road that he had
observed the Rav4 and Jeep earlier.
“He said if anyone moves those barricades give me a call, but he never
gave me a number. How would I get ahold of him?” said Seibert.
One evening Siebert said he witnessed Manitowoc County Sherriff’s
Department vehicles driving past the barricade and then going through
the Avery property with lights late into the night.
He said he wanted to report that someone had crossed the barrier but
he didn’t know who to call, so he told his daughter, Victoria Seibert, to
call the local police who then told her that there was nothing to worry
about.
His daughter confirmed this.
Wilmer Seibert said the next day it was announced on television that
they had found Teresa Halbach’s keys on the property but doesn’t make
any claims to what that might mean.
Seibert actually likes the Averys and considers them friends.
He said since buying his house and raising nine children neither him nor
anyone from his family, that he knows of, has ever had a bad dealing with
any of the Avery family.
Seibert had even been on fishing trips with Allen Avery, Steven’s father.
“I can’t really find no fault with them because I never had any
trouble with them. I always thought they were good people. They treated
me fair at least,” he said.
- END ARTICLE -
Google Maps captured an image in September 2009 of a 1999 Isuzu Rodeo in Andy Colborn's driveway. In 2005, in was not uncommon for Wisconsinites to refer to SUVs as "jeeps" or "trucks."
Critics of Siebert's statements have pointed out that the 'white Jeep' might,
in fact, have been a light silver Suzuki owned by the Averys. On Reddit,
where Avery's guilt or innocence continues to be a hot topic, people
have parsed how likely it would be to confuse a Suzuki for a Jeep, and
whether, in certain lighting, silver could be perceived as white." [Rolling Stone, July 8, 2016]
However, in October/November of 2005, Avery's gray Suzuki was parked in his garage and could not be driven because the clutch was out.
He [Edward Wayne Edwards] smelled a rat. He knew they were framing Sad Man [Steven Avery]; that got him involved. It was a new way of playing the game. He is the ultimate framer… how dare they [the prosecution/law enforcement] think that no one is smart enough to notice they’re framing Sad Man [Steven Avery]! He wanted to taunt them. He totally gets off on the “framing” and seeing the players suffer and being so smart that no one figures it out. So when he saw that here the prosecution and police are playing the game he is so good at… he decided to give them a run for their money.
This [Edwards] is a very messed up person. I see basements…torture. I see sick, sick thoughts…I feel them. They make me sick to my stomach. This person leads a complete secret and double life. The things that go on in his head and then the way he presents himself? Two different things. He is a psychopath….sociopath. He has the capability of living in normal environments and people know something is off…but think it is just normal kind of “off-ness.” I know that sounds like an oxymoron….but there is a difference between “that guy is weird” to “that guy holds people prisoner in his basement.” He is the basement. He gets joy out of people’s fear. It turns him on.
I feel the [SiKiKey] letter written in that first picture you sent is connected to him? That is the first flash I get. Him and a connection to that letter. I don’t feel this has to do with Sad Man [Steven Avery]…Sad Man has nothing to do with this letter. At all. I am no handwriting expert or psychologist…but when I look at that letter, I get two things. One, two personalities. One prints, one writes in cursive…it shows a split to me. I also feel that the misspellings are intentional. To make the person(s) reading it to feel it is an uneducated person.
Okay… so I tuned into the word [SiKiKey]… and what I got immediately was the meaning is in the initials KK. Now, I didn’t look at the text you sent me when I got that. It wasn’t until after that I took a second look at the word and saw that the “k”s are written in uppercase. Whatever “KK” stands for is a person, or a place… that is what we need to figure out. What “KK” stands for.
[I promptly told her that the “fat man with the red tie,” who she’d guessed was in law, was named Ken Kratz.]
WTF!?!?! OMG, this is IT. Every hair on my body is standing up!
When asked in 2009 about murdering his foster son, Danny Boy Edwards, in 1996:
"Well -- yeah, I guess I'm a little sorry for him, but if I was that sorry about it I wouldn't have done it in the first place."
The Zodiac killer was a serial killer who used codes in his notes to reveal his identity, but the code wasn't deciphered until July 30, 2010.
Edward Wayne Edwards could have been the Zodiac killer.
An anonymous letter was found at a Post Office in Green Bay (image below).
On Thursday, 11/10/05, at 1826 hours, I (Dedering) did speak with Officer Fred Laitinen of the Green Bay Police Department. He advised me the Green Bay Post Office pulled a piece of mail off their conveyor and reported it to Green Bay authorities. He indicated the piece of mail consisted of a letter without an envelope, which was folded in thirds. He stated there was no stamp attached. He advised me the note was addressed to Manitowoc Sheriff and had Avery written on it. He indicated to me the note, upon inspection, revealed that the writer indicated a body was burned up in the aluminum smelter at 3:00 a.m. on Friday morning (page 224).
The "S" in SikiKey is a "5"....the "A" in Avery is a backwards 4...
the "y" in Avery is a backwards 7....it looks like scribbling, but it is
scribbled with a purpose.
The number 5 could represent the fifth letter in the alphabet, E, and the number 4 could represent the fourth
letter in the alphabet, D, which spells Ed. The number 7 could represent the 7 letters in Edwards' last name. Also, the "d" in "body" is a combination of the letter "e" and "d", spelling "ed."
The
meaning of iKiK: the 9th letter in the alphabet is "I" and the 11th
letter in the alphabet is "K," so "iK" equals 9-11, the date Avery was released for his wrongful conviction of the
1985 sexual assault of Penny Beernsten.
"Key" is the item planted in Avery's bedroom, the RAV4 key.
Another anonymous letter was sent to the county clerk at Manitowoc County. What was written in the letter ("I seen her") was documented in a report by CASO (page 751) but the actual letter may not have been entered into evidence:
The logo for Winnebago Mental Health Institute is a mirror image of sideways capital Es, which could stand for Edward Edwards [source].
There was a Dr. Siddiqui (Sikikey) who practiced at Winnebago Mental Health Institute during the time period that Teresa went missing [source].
Edwards' code was deciphered
by retired police detective John A. Cameron's friend, Neal Best, both
of Great Falls, Montana, on July 30, 2010, a year after Edwards was
arrested for the 1980 Wisconsin double murder of 19-year-old high school
sweethearts Tim Hack and Kelly Drew (see "Summary of How Edwards Was
Caught" in this blog post).
On June 25th, 1968, a family of six was murdered in their vacation cabin in Good Hart, Michigan. The murders went unsolved. Three years later, on June 28, 1971, detectives received a strange letter signed by "Queen Ester Best." The letter was
hand written in large cursive script, six pages long, although the pages
were marked A through F instead of being numbered. The author of the letter used the exact wording ("I seen") as used in the letter sent to Manitowoc County about the Winnebago Mental Health Institute ("I seen her") on April 25, 2006.
The following is the content of that letter as described by Mardi Link in her book, "When Evil Came to Good Hart." [University of Michigan Press, 2008, page 62].
Edwards tended to write a lowercase "d" in the same way in many of his notes and letters (see coldcasecameron.com and zodiackiller.com/Letters.htm for examples).
Based on Steven Avery's handwriting and signature (image below), it appears that Steven wrote Teresa's phone number and the words on the notepad and the Zander Road address on the backside of the "for sale" sign (trial exhibit 179) [AutoTrader or Teresa had given Avery her cell number sometime prior to October 10th (day 2, page 100)].
On the "for sale" sign it looks like someone was trying to imitate Avery's handwriting, but it's too neat.
On the front side of the "for sale" sign was written "1995 Pontiac Grand Am" (trial exhibit 178), but Avery's Grand Am that he drove as his primary car was a 1993 (page 230 and 886 of CASO file). Was this sign from the Grand Am that Avery listed for sale in AutoTrader in September 2005 (Teresa photographed a Grand Am for Avery on September 19th)?
Sgt. William Tyson, under cross examination by Buting (day 7, page 45),
said he was there when Remiker found the Zander Road sign on Avery's
desk (page 10); he testified that he had no idea of the significance of the sign
(trial exhibits 149, 175 and 177). The Zander Road was found during a search on the first day, Saturday November 5th; Avery's trailer was searched from 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. by Manitowoc County sheriff deputies Lenk, Colborn and Remiker and Calumet County sheriff deputy Tyson (page 9).
Paul Metz, a farmer whose cattle are located at the intersection of Jambo Creek Road and Zander Road, said around 5:30 p.m. on November 1, 2005, while he was feeding his cattle, he heard a big "whoosh," which reminded him of when gasoline or highly volatile substances are poured on a fire (Metz's home address, not the land where his cows are located, is on County Road B, directly north of George Zipperer's). Metz said that approximately 10 minutes later he smelled a very vile smell. He said that his cows had gotten very spooked, damaging fences as he failed to get them back under control.
UPDATE JUNE 2017: Attached to Kathleen Zellner's post-conviction petition filed on June 7th, 2017, is a sworn affidavit from Paul Metz. He says that law enforcement misrepresented his statements. The following is from Metz's affidavit (PC exhibit 99):
"Around dusk on October 31, 2005, I heard a loud buzzing sound that reminded me of
electrical wires pulsating. I then smelled what I thought was insulation burning. I
initially thought that the high-power tension wires that run just south of my property were
overloading, causing the buzzing sound and the bad odor.
I did not confuse the smell with that of a burning body. I know what a burning body
smells like from my time as a volunteer firefighter.
I was interviewed by officers from the Manitowoc County Sheriff s Department
("MCSD"). I did not initiate contact with MCSD and I do not know how MCSD learned
about this incident. During the interview, I would not have describe the sound I had
heard as a 'whoosh.' Rather, it was a buzzing sound. I did not tell officers from MCSD
that the sound reminded me of instances when I poured gasoline or other highly volatile
substances on a fire.
I did not tell anyone that I thought the smell was coming from the south or from the
vicinity of the Avery property off of Highway 147."
END UPDATE
Metz's farm at the corner of West Zander Road and Jambo Creek Road is slightly east of 3302 West Zander Road (there are two 40-acre, wooded vacant parcels separating Metz's farm from 3302 West Zander Road). In the image below, Metz's farm at 2530 West Zander Road (parcel number 006-002-012-000.00) is marked on the right with a large, red rectangular-shaped box, and 3302 West Zander Road (parcel number 006-003-015-001.00) is marked on the left with a red box.
Note: According to John A. Cameron, on December 17, 2002, Edwards blogged on Zodiackiller.com as "Zander Kite," challenging them to look to Montana and Deer Lodge Prison for the answer (image below). Edwards left his real name, "ed," separated in the word “refer(r)ed.” Also, he misspelled “Christmass” just like he did in the Zodiac Killer Dear Melvin letter in 1970 (second image below).
At 24:30 in the calls to Manitowoc County dispatch,
turkey hunters at the Richard Drum Forest and the West Twin River bridge on highway 147 saw a
dark or green-colored truck and a guy in waders in the trails below the
bridge on Thursday, November 3rd. The hunters felt it was important
enough to call the sheriff about what they saw. Whatever the turkey hunters saw was more than just a guy in waders and a truck. They're outdoor sportsman, and they know what is normal and what is not when it comes to hunting and fishing. It was something out of the ordinary that prompted them to take the time to call the sheriff about it. The call was forwarded to
Calumet County. Several people, including Steven, referred to the Rav4
as a truck or jeep at times (rather than calling it a SUV), so it's possible
the turkey hunters saw the Rav4 and just called it a truck when
reporting it (Teresa's Rav4 looked blue in photographs but looked
green in person to most people).
Just southwest of the West Twin River bridge on highway 147 in Maribel there is a hunting cabin with a cooker at 7507-7549 W. Main Street (image below). The cooker is used to cook wild game, such as deer and bear, at high temperatures. The secluded cabin with the cooker is only 200 meters south of the bridge and is probably less than a five-minute walk.
Robert Fabian, Earl Avery's brother-in-law, told CASO investigators that around 8:00 a.m. on November 3rd "he observed a green jeep backed all the way up at a parking area on STH 147 by the river." Investigators noted that "Robert described this area as aturnaround" and that "Robert recalls seeing this jeep at 8:00 a.m. because he had seen a male subject talking on TV about a green jeep being in the area" (page 320).
Ervin Koehnke would have been the "male subject" Fabian had seen on TV. Koehnke was interviewed by a local television station and he stated that on the morning of November 3rd, 2005, he saw Teresa's RAV4 in a turnaround on STH 147 east of I-43 (page 221).
UPDATE OCTOBER 4, 2017: Zellner's post-conviction motion had alleged a handful of Brady violations against special prosecutor Ken Kratz, allegations that Kratz withheld or hid from Avery and his original criminal defense lawyers evidence that would have been favorable to the defense. A Brady violation is when prosecutors are found by the court to have withheld exculpatory evidence that is favorable to the defendant and his lawyers.
Since the summer time, Zellner said, she has been contacted by a few people who have signed affidavits, providing information that wasn't known to Avery's trial lawyers Jerry Buting and Dean Strang back in 2006 and 2007, at the time they were preparing for their client's high-profile murder trial.
"We have a Brady witness who reported seeing Teresa's car after the murder partially hidden off of State Highway 147, and he reported it to (Manitowoc County Sheriff's Sgt.) Andrew Colborn in person," Zellner told Patch. "This witness also implicates another person in concealing this information from Brendan Dassey's attorneys."
UPDATE OCTOBER 23, 2017: Kathleen Zellner filed a new motion on October 23rd, 2017. The following is a screen shot from the motion as it pertains to a new witness (who didn't know his information was important until he watched Making A Murderer) coming forward to claim he saw Teresa Halbach's RAV4 on November 3rd and 4th, 2005, at a turnaround on highway 147, near the East Twin River in Mishicot.
Kevin Rahmlow saw Teresa's RAV4 parked in a turnaround by the East Twin River on November 3rd and 4th, 2005 (image above was captured on December 31, 2004). This is the same area on highway 147 (Main Street) where Jill Rhein saw a suspicious car on November 1st.
"On November 3 and 4, 2005, I was in Mishicot. I saw Teresa Halbach's vehicle by the East Twin River dam in Mishicot at the turnabout [by] the bridge, as I drove west on Highway 147. Around midday on November 4, 2005, I stopped at the Cenex gas station at the intersection of Highway 147 and State Street in Mishicot. While there, I saw and read a missing person poster for Teresa Halbach. I remember that the poster had a picture of Teresa Halbach and written descriptions of Teresa Halbach and the car she was driving. I recognized the poster attached as Exhibit A to this affidavit as a copy of the one I saw at the Cenex station on November 4, 2005. I recognized that the written description of the vehicle on the poster matched the car I saw at the turnaround by the dam.
"While I was in the Cenex station, a Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department officer came into the station. I immediately told the officer that I had seen a car that matched the description of the car on Teresa Halbach's missing person poster at the turnaround by the dam. In December 2016, I watched Making a Murderer. In the series, I recognized the officer who I talked to at the Cenex station on November 4, 2005. A photograph of this officer is attached as exhibit B to this affidavit. Having watched Making a Murderer, I now know that his name is Andy Colborn."
END UPDATES
Two people who lived on or near Twin Bridge Road in Mishicot contacted the sheriff's office to report a suspicious vehicle parked for three consecutive days at Kruger Road and Twin Bridge Road, an area about two miles north of Avery Salvage Yard (see image below). The car was parked there during the day but was always gone in the evening. This was early in the week that Teresa went missing. The one witness described it as a black, four-door van (at the time of his arrest in 2009, Edwards drove a "specially equipped van," which police used to transport Edwards from Kentucky to Wisconsin). She also said that, during the first part of the week that Teresa went missing, her dog outside in the pen barked for a solid 20 minutes and she was unable to settle it down.
On November 11th, 2005, Jill J. Rhein stopped at Avery Salvage Yard to tell investigators that on November 1st she saw a suspicious car across the street from 3405 Main Street/Highway 147 in Mishicot. This is near the intersection of Ridge Road and STH 147 where a cellphone was found:
Deputy Craig Wendling of Calumet County was accompanied by
Manitowoc County Sgt. Andy Colborn and Lt. Jim Lenk, who collected the
evidence (tag no. 8451), which was a Audiovox phone, silver in color, Model CDM8815UT STAR CAM.
It was found on the side of the road, the north ditch along the gravel
line, of STH 147 just east of Ridge Road. The item was found by a John
J. Campion, owner of Chiller's Bar & Grill (page 185), who was searching with
Pam Sturm (page 234) on November 6th, although she testified that she couldn't recall the day that it was found.
Rhein's statement was noted in the Calumet County (CASO) log on page 79 (image below), but there was no follow up (no report by investigators in the CASO file).
The perpetrator could have forced Teresa off the road or lured her out of her vehicle. The perpetrator could have forced Teresa to stop or pullover, perhaps by causing her to rear-end his vehicle or running her off the road (this would explain the damage to the front end of the Rav4). Then, using a gun, he could have forced her to drive him in her Rav4 to a nearby location that he pre-selected, leaving his vehicle behind to later retrieve (he would have walked in the dead of night to come back to get it).
This is what psychics say the perpetrator did in the August 1st, 1999 murder of two 17-year-old girls in Ozark, Alabama (watch the videos titled "Haunted Evidence" in "Summary of Edward Wayne Edwards' Crimes").
In his autobiography, Edwards described how he purposely caused auto accidents in a 1959 scam to collect insurance money (page 261).
Alternatively, in the Zodiac killer's 1970 abduction of 23-year-old Kathleen Johns in California, she noticed a car on her tail, flashing its headlights, indicating for her to pull over. A man exited the vehicle, which he had parked to the rear of her car, and approached, claiming that he noticed one of her wheels was wobbling and offered to rectify the fault. If Edwards used this ploy on Teresa, she could have gotten out of her SUV to get the lug wrench from the rear cargo area. After handing the lug wrench to Edwards, he could have struck her in the head (which would explain the blood on the inside of the rear cargo door and frame), knocking her unconscious or killing her on the spot, and putting her body in the back of her vehicle and then driving it to another location.
Avery's attorney, Kathleen Zellner, wrote in her August 26, 2016 motion (page 20) for post conviction scientific testing that the lug wrench in Teresa's RAV4 appeared to have been moved from its original place in the cargo area, and the storage compartment covers for the rear cargo area, where the wrench would have been stored, were missing.
If Teresa's routine was to go to Avery's as her last appointment in Manitowoc County on Mondays (when Avery was on her appointment sheet) and then head home to the village of St. John's near Hilbert, she could have taken highway 147 to Maribel, south on "T" to Kellnersville, right (west) on "K" to WI-32, left (south) on 32 to County "B," and right (west) on "B", or she could have taken County "Q" or "T" to 310/10. If Edwards' plan was to force her off the road or to flag her down for help, he could have been lying in wait along highway 147.
To get home from Avery's (12930 Avery Road, Two Rivers), Teresa would have taken 147 to Maribel, south
on "T" to Kellnersville, right (west) on "K" to WI-32, left (south) on
32 to County "B," and right (west) on "B," which is where she lived. Every
theory put forth as to her route is just that, a theory. I am, however,
a native of Manitowoc and know that area like the back of my hand. It
is the most efficient and quickest route from Avery's back to her home
on County B near St. John. If George Zipperer was her last stop (4433 County Road B, Manitowoc), she
would have taken US-10 west to Forest Junction, south on WI-32, and west
on "B." US-10 sucks: You have to go through a few communities, there is
significant truck and farm traffic, and, because of the terrain, it's
hard to pass. There are fatal crashes every year on the short stretch of
highway. If you are a local, you avoid 10 whenever there are
alternative routes available. Counties have been installing rotary
intersections (roundabouts) hoping to improve some of the most dangerous
intersections, but they don't solve the bigger problem, which is the
fact that US-10, a two lane highway, is the only direct route from
Manitowoc to the Fox Cities. [knowjustice, Reddit, July 19, 2016]
If Edwards was the Zodiac killer, and if Edwards framed Steven Avery for Teresa Halbach's murder, his plan could have been foiled if Teresa went to Zipperer's after Avery's: instead of staying on highway 147 after turning left from Avery Road, she would have turned left onto County Road Q to go to Zipperer's. Edwards would have had to alter his plan at the last minute, which means he would have had to catch up to Teresa on whichever route she chose to drive that day. He would have had to: (1) get in front of her, or pull out in front of her, and then stop short to cause a collision and force her to stop; or (2) lie in wait and flag her down for help along a quiet section of the road with no other traffic. The mud and damage on the Rav4 all point to this being a critical component of Teresa's disappearance.
Cell tower
records could provide answers to Teresa's movements. Kathleen Zellner, Avery's attorney, tweeted on March 6th, 2016 that "cellphone tower records of Avery and Halbach provide an airtight alibi for him: she left property, he didn't." And Zeller told Newsweek on March 29th, 2016: "It’s absolutely shocking to see cellphone records that were part of the discovery that were turned over to the defense [which] document her route leaving the property. She goes back the same way she came, she’s 12 miles from the property on the last ping. They screwed it up.”
Why would the Zodiac killer frame Avery?
Paul Avery was a reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle
that wrote many articles about the Zodiac killer, including an article
claiming the Zodiac killer was responsible for the 1966 murder of
Riverside City College student Cheri Jo Bates (the Zodiac killer denied this murder).
The Zodiac killer gave reporter Paul Avery a Halloween card in 1970. In it he described how he kills by knife, gun, rope and fire. He could have left his "Z" at the crime scene on the Zander Road sign.
Teresa Halbach lived in St. Johns, Wisconsin and went to Avery Salvage Yard to photograph on a regular basis. She knew Steve Avery. She was a member of St. John’s Catholic Parish. Teresa was also a coach at St. John’s Parochial School. Edwards targeted Catholics to kill his entire life. He could have met her at the salvage yard or the church prior to her murder. Edwards would have appeared to be a harmless old man to Teresa. Edwards
may have attended her church prior to the murder so she would be
familiar with his face. That was his M.O. throughout life. Edwards groomed his way into his victims’ lives so his face would be
familiar when he was about to kill them. They never saw it coming in
most instances.
Teresa Halbach was a freelance photographer working for a major publication, Auto Trader Magazine. Paul Avery, who chased “The Zodiac Killer,” was also a reporter and freelance photographer for the San Francisco Chronicle. Edwards targeted people that worked in journalism and magazines throughout life. He also targeted names that tied back to his past, like the name Avery.
Teresa was born March 22, 1980, which is the 10-year anniversary of Ed Edwards (as the Zodiac killer) kidnapping and terrorizing a woman named Kathleen Johns in 1970. Edwards used a ruse on Johns to get her to pull her car over to the side of the road, just as he would have done to Teresa Halbach. Edwards terrorized Kathleen Johns for several hours and then left Johns and her baby alive to describe him. He wanted to be “recognized.” He then blew her car up with a bomb, like he did to Teresa’s Halbach’s remains. Edwards sent a letter in the Johns' case, taunting the police with his smarts as he did in most of his cases.
Edwards, a ritualistic killer, killed repeatedly, decade after decade on
birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Solstice, full moons, New Year's, July
4th, October 12 (Aleister Crowley’s birthday), Columbus Day, Halloween,
April 1st, June 14th and August in every decade. Edwards’ M.O. was to kill
and steer the evidence towards the innocent: parents, husbands,
boyfriends, wife cheaters, etc.
Using the media to create hysteria,
Edwards manipulated the justice system for decades. If the press and
public destroyed an innocent person for one of his murders, Edwards
would return and kill again.
In 1980, he killed a Wisconsin couple on the anniversary of his mother’s death and funeral, August 8-10th. (On the third day he rises again.)
Edwards had three days with Teresa’s body and car without anyone knowing. On November 4th the Averys left town and that is when Edwards would have planted evidence. He stated in an anonymous letter to the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Office that Friday at 3:00 a.m. is when Teresa was burned; however, it really was the day the evidence was planted.
Steven Avery's wrongful conviction case was high profile. He was released on September 11th, 2003. Teresa was chosen because, beginning on June 20th, 2005, she regularly came to Avery's and happened to be there on Halloween, a day that had historical significance for Edwards, not just for his feud with Paul Avery, but it was the day he killed newspaper editor Kent Heitholt in Columbia, Missouri, in 2001 (Ryan Ferguson and his friend were wrongfully convicted for the crime after police received a tip that a man named Charles Erickson could not
remember the evening of the murder and was concerned that he may have
been involved with the murder; Ferguson's conviction was vacated in 2013 and his attorney was Kathleen Zellner, who also is Steven Avery's attorney for his latest court filings).
If Edwards was the Zodiac killer, and if Edwards framed Steven Avery for Teresa Halbach's murder, then the prosecution team falsified other evidence to put Teresa at Avery's after 2:45 p.m. on October 31st (and the prosecution team planted the bullet months later to "put Teresa in the garage"). The timeline had to be altered, meaning evidence was tampered with, in order to put Teresa at Zipperer's before Avery's.
The Zodiac killer wrote that he altered his style of writing over the years to fool experts.
In the images below, compare the Sikikey letter to letters in the Brown and Coleman murders, particularly the lowercase "m" and the lowercase "e".
It is worth noting that Pam Sturm testified that there was a man on the ridge or hill around the Rav4 at the time she discovered it at Avery's Salvage Yard on the morning of November 5th. Could this man have been Edward Edwards (Pam found the Rav4 on a 40-acre property within 25 minutes)? Was Edwards standing there while she was searching, and is that how she found it so quickly? She could not identify him or give a description.
The following is part of Pam Sturm's testimony during cross examination (page 241).
Q. And you mentioned a man up on the ridge, or not on the ridge, but up on the hill, kind of back towards the buildings, when you were sitting there waiting for 20 minutes?
A. Correct.
Q. And Steven Avery wasn't that man either, was he?
A. I don't know for sure.
Q. Well, who was that man; do you know?
A. I don't know.
Q. Do you have any description of him?
A. No, sir.
Q. Was it the same -- Was it Earl Avery?
A. It could have been. It's just too far away to see.
Q. So you just -- wasn't anything in particular about that man, or what he was doing, that caused you concern; it was just the overall feeling you had that maybe this wasn't the safest place to be; is that fair?
A. That's fair, yes.
In March 2009, Edwards’ daughter, April Edwards Balascio, age 40, called police after seeing a special cold case report by Dana Brueck on NBC15 News and recalling her father taking her and her brothers when they were very young to a cornfield that was the scene of a double murder in Jefferson County, Wisconsin in August 1980. The decomposed bodies of the victims, Tim Hack and Kelly Drew, were found by hunters 72 days after they went missing: Hack at the
edge of a woods and Drew in a cornfield along Hustisford Road south of Highway 16
between Watertown and Ixonia, Wisconsin. The Associated Pressreported: "An aging Kentucky con man's
child told police he killed two teenage sweethearts in Wisconsin nearly
30 years ago. Jefferson County Sheriff's Detective Chard Garcia
tells The Associated Press one of Edward Edwards' children contacted
him in 2009 and said Edwards told his family investigators would find the bodies of Tim Hack and Kelly Drew in a field. The child said Edwards was
very controlling and abusive, once stabbing his wife. Garcia says detectives had developed a DNA
profile from semen found on Drew's body and were in the processing of
using it to eliminate dozens of suspects when the child came forward.
Analysts then matched the DNA sample to Edwards."
Edwards would go on to confess to that murder and another double murder, William Lavaco and Judith Straub, in Ohio in 1977. He also confessed to killing his foster son, Dannie Boy, in Ohio in 1996 and asked for the death sentence, which Ohio has but Wisconsin doesn't. Edwards murdered Danny Boy to collect $250,000 in life insurance. In March 2011, he was sentenced to death for this crime, but died in prison in Ohio of natural causes on April 11th, 2011, four months before his scheduled execution.
Edwards moved his family every few years and is known to have lived in Florida, Arizona, California, Colorado, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Oklahoma and Kentucky. He admitted in a letter to the FBI on July 9th, 1993 that he had committed crimes in the following cities or that he was there long enough to have an FBI file on himself (the letter was provided to coldcasecameron.com by Edwards' daughter April):
On John A. Cameron's timeline there are about 120 murders that he asserts were committed by Edward Wayne Edwards.
Cameron, a former police officer, believes that Edwards also committed the "Lipstick Murders" in Chicago in 1945-46 and murdered Elizabeth Short, known as "The Black Dalia," in Los Angeles in 1947:
June 5, 1945, Chicago Illinois: Josephine Ross.
December 11, 1945, Chicago, Illinois: Frances Brown.
January 6-7, 1946, Chicago, Illinois: Suzanne Degnan.
January 15, 1947, Los Angeles, California: Elizabeth Short, known as The Black Dahlia.
According to Edwards NCIC
records, he used two different dates of birth: the first was May
30th, 1928, and the second was June 14th, 1933, a five-year difference. If Edwards' year of birth is 1928 rather than 1934, then it would be believable that Edwards murdered Short and the others, since he would have been 17-18 years old, and not 12-13, at the time of the murders.
However, in Edwards' autobiography, he included psychological evaluations from his childhood, and the reports list his birth date as June 14, 1933 (pages 430-435). The reports appear to be legitimate, which means he was 12 1/2 years old when Josephine Ross, France Brown and Suzanne Degnan were murdered in Chicago ("the lipstick murders") and 13 1/2 years old when Elizabeth Short was murdered in Los Angeles ("The Black Dahlia murder").
In December 1935, Edwards' mother died (his father was not in the picture).
In 1937, Edwards' foster mother was told she had multiple sclerosis (she would die on October 3, 1945).
In 1940 Edwards was sent to the Parmadale orphanage in Parma, Ohio.
Over the next four years he made 15 attempts to escape, so the orphanage told his grandmother that they couldn't keep him any longer.
Around March 1945 he went to live with his grandmother in Akron and started to attend public school.
When he was in sixth grade, 1945-46, he was accused of vandalizing a church and tearing out pages of a Bible, and he was regularly stealing bicycles in Akron.
In 1946, when he was 13, his set a dry cleaning truck on fire in his Akron neighborhood.
On October 21, 1946, he was voluntarily admitted to the Bureau of Juvenile Research in Akron for a period of observation and examination; a report was written about him by the Bureau on December 11, 1946. It is unclear how long he was at the Bureau and if or when he returned to Akron to live with his grandmother and continue in public school. Therefore, there is no account in his book of his activity in 1947.
In January 1948, he was sent to reform school, the Philadelphia Protectory for Boys, in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, where he stayed until March 1950.
Why and how would a 12 or 13-year-old travel to Chicago or Los Angeles to commit random murders? Why would a 22-year-old woman be hanging out with a 13-year-old boy? It's not plausible. The photo of Short with Edwards in a photo booth must be fake or it is not Edwards in the photo (the nose does not match Edwards' nose, which is sharp and pointed, and there isn't a distinctive mole on the left side of his face, near the nose, like Edwards had in photos of himself around that age).
If anything, Edwards was obsessed with the "Lipstick Murders" and "The Black Dahlia" murder, was spurred on by these crimes to commit murder, and became a copycat killer, as well as the Zodiac Killer.
A. I think the site's gross manipulation of photos--alterting Elizabeth Short's eyes and mouth, for example--is disturbing. The writing style is virtually unreadable, so it's hard to get through, but what I've read is dysfunctional and demented.
Using the same logic (that Elizabeth Short's body was a "pointer" to Degnan Boulevard in reference to the Suzanne Degnan murder), one could say that the killer was "Gene Rayburn" because the next street over is "Grayburn." It's lunacy.
And I wish the author, whoever he is, would stop sending me things under the phony name of "Jack Pico" from his mail drop in San Diego because I never read them. And for the record, there was no Ed Burns.
According to Redditers WeKnowWhooh and imaxfli, Cameron is now in Hollywood making a pilot for cable TV, or Cameron is now in Los Angeles producing a docudrama, about Edward Wayne Edwards.
