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Page 6All-Aisaka Weekly, April 8,1983■ i. V•*-Continued from page 5even ater significance with him so that he could troopers had focused on Police authorities begsOn Sept. 2, 1981 the when an Air Force captain be eliminated as a suspect himbody of Lori King wasfound near 10 Mile, John son Road by hunters search ing for rabbits. Ms. King,who was passing by the spot about the time shefrom further consideration.All along the OSI had beenconcerned. Theydidn’t seeconnection*. ' . *v / ■£ t .. - X ^ Ji-. ’ ’t ’X ' • i » ’... V‘ ^ i ' - ' ' .jSt \But despite wide pub- giving troopers informationserialdisappeared said he saw licity given to the sketch, on any suspicious activity on their ham s, bu th small blue-green or tur- despite the fact that it at the base. Many people realizes they had it lejasMs. Peters and Ms. quoise vehicle pull out was publicized in local wereseeingWilson, had been strangled and received a shotguthree females in the Fair-Yfiarof the location at high newspapers and shown on pie do weird things. In banks area speed on the day in ques- local television stations, no April the OSI office turned and a half time frameblast to the head. She, tlontoo, was fully clothed when found and had not beenandJune 13, between*** one ever came forward to in a routine report that that were dead or missing.clear up the mystery of three individuals from the They rei ly began to getBoth the Oehring boy the man Doris Oehring basewereengagedinworried on March 5 whensexually assaulted. She was ^ the Air Force captain had talked with two days strange activityexhibit- Wendy Wilson disappearedidentified through dental were put under hypnosis before she disappeared on ing inappropriate behavior.and her body was foundrecords.:oras. to aid in remembering — a nigmy traveled roaa inShortly thereafter anoth- in order for an artist 3 broad daylight at the most the th ?e.highlytraveled road in Thomas Bunday was one three days later. She hasameer massive volunteer search make up sketches of the highly traveled time ofJohnson suspect. But the observa- the day.According to the report, as Glenda Sodemann, morewas made in Road area in an attempttions in both cases werebrief.Theto find the body of Doris extremely Oehrinj . But no trace was Oehring boy only talkedBunday was exhibiting a very callous disregard forhis female co-workers, thatyearAnd,coursetime, the entire communityfound.Chapter IVto the military man about 45 seconds and the captainChapter V Police Reort To U se of Psychicscrude and rude of Fairbanks wereghtto them, that they were in a reign of terror. Youngafraid of him. In general girls were warned aboutThomas Bunday’s NameFirst EmergesThomas Richard Bun-day’s name first emergedin July of 1980. It wason a list of owners ofdriving along the road about In July and August of he was engendering bad hitchhiking.^ Parents would45 miles an hour only got 1980, police frustrated in feelings amongst his fe-not even allow theirabout a one or two second glimpse of the man driving the vehicle.Tom Oehring’s description of the military man,vehicle license plate num-bers supplied by the Eielson of course, was much moreAir Force Base Security detailedPolice to Alaska StateT roopers.The list was suppliedin response to ation putcaptain. He described him as being a white male,67 to 68 incites tall, 170descrip- 1° 180 lbs., with reddishout by troopers hair cut in G.I. fashion,of the vehicle of a possible having a light mousi *he,abductor of Doris Oehring. Southern accent, wearingTwo days before she disappeared on June 13, shehad stopped to talk briefly to a military manfatiguan insignia of the U.S. Air Force enlisted rankwas ______ who andhaving trouble with boots.militaryhis small blue-green vehicle The captain who gotat 9 3/4 Mile, Badger Road, only a fleeting glance ofThe young girl was bicy- the person leaving the scenecling at the time — on her said he was wearing darkway to swimming lessonsat the Wescott Pool inNorth Pole. Her brother, dark moustache. Tom, also bicycling, wasglasses, appeared to be of More thin 300 propfe jammed into a North Pole school for a meeting in late May, 1981 regarding theSpanish descent and had a wavc { 1 h had hit the ledger Road, North Pole, Eielson, Salcha areas.-Colleen Redman Photodren to walk alone on thetheir attempts to locate male co-workers.Tw T The security personnel Doris Oehring or come up But this negative report ~~V” ------a couple hundred yards at both Eielson and Ft i i a* n j *-n streets or roads. Meetingsu... } at Dotn ™ 'son «na . with any meaningful leads, regarding Bunday stdl _ . M ^behind her.a nwright phys y went resorted to the use of didn’t finger himWhen Tom Oehring pull- through their posts and pSyChics.as aed up to the scene the wrote down the licenseprime suspectAs chiefwere held by law enforcement officials to answer questions of alarmed citi-A famous psychic, Doro- detective in the case Sam ’ n . „ .. . f. An:-— n______j zens io auay ineir iears.man in military attire had plates of any vehicles that th Allison, of New Jersey, Barnard put it, “We were the hood ud and was came close to the descrip- Beverly Jaegers, of Missouri, dealing with people thatandtinkering with his car’s tion. Eielson had 550 ofengine. He was asking Doris them and Bunday’s vehicle, ,reed fo try to help.and an Anchorage psychic were exhibitir far moreOehring if she would tele- an American Motors Con-phone his wife on the base, cord AMC, 2-door, tur- woJdsbizarre behavior than that. Allison said she saw We were investigating allThere was a feeling that there was a “Jack the Rip-killer on the loose, he had killed before,perthattell her he was having car trouble and ask herquoifce thatwater, and moun- kinds of weirdnessin color, was in ^ajns^ but 8he did not give pie who had ----1 here weregroupa specific location. Thepeo-prior sex offenses, people who hadto bring the family truck another 300 vehicles meet- .k A. . ^ . • * j r.i_ . i »* .. , other two psychics gave been convicted of mur-to that location. J-------—Tom Oehring told his Wainwright.ing that description on ^ same general direction, der.”sister to go onsosheabout 30 miles from Fair-would not be late for her as owning a similar vehicle ^That Bunday was listed banks Troo rs said at trooperg/A I a f i nr « i n i i I m* t / a \ i / k I a% * IAt that point in timewere filing allswimming lesson he would give whateverand to that of a man who hadtime, however, they the data they received indid not find the informa- the case manually. Eachand probably would killagain.On May 16, 1981 LoriKing disappeared. And two days later on May 18,troopers found the body ofPeters. She had met thesame type death as the other two girls. It wastalked to Doris Oehring ^ frQm the hics par. of th(j murde(.assistance was required. The two days before she dis- tieularlv usefuln f i mr% I r a / k a\ n Wl / k ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ - . - k „ I - - Jcasesmilitary man tinkered some appeared or to a vehiclemore with the vehicle, fi- that was seen leaving thenally got it started, and scene; about the time; shewent on his way.volumes and volumes ofhad ^len trooPers knew theyhad a problem — a majorThe first murder in the reports, lists of license plate Pr°blem*series occurred almost a numbers and so on. Manu-year previously in 1979. ally, Barnes says, it wasThat was the summerof 1981 and it was then. . , , disappeared was not con- Qn A 29 1979 Glenda human, im ibl’e to ick that the biggest effort wasTwo days later when sidered particularly .mpor- Armstrong Sodemann dis- up the connections in the fxPended the case.Doris Oehring disappeared tant on the day of her final time.troopers at thtupappeared and she was later cases, found to have been shotChapter VINoless than five detectives worked on the case fullswimming lesson, troopers Trooper Chief Investiga- through the head. Her mur- Police Sense Serial Murders time, not to mention thtquestioned Tom xtensively abouttor Roger McCoy explained, j r wag considered an in-In February of 1981,countless others who work-in distributing the sketch dependent ease as was the however, police authorities on ** part-time.vious incident. It was rea- by the; Oehring boy, that Oehring disappearance. Atsoned that thetheman in question wasan to sense a connec-man might have been feign- a suspect only in the sense ing engine trouble and had that they wanted to talkcome back to the spot to him, maybe he had two days later to abduct some information thatfirst there was no eonnec- tion. In 1979 Glenda Arm-tion drawn by police to strong Sodemann had beenthe two cases.“We knew we had a killeron the streets and we hadneverwitha massmurdered; in June of 1980 murder sitl.lation bt‘fore’the young girl.The incidentonwould be helpful, and that they were anxious to talkThomas Richard Bun- Doris Oehring had disap-day’s name came up again peared, then on Jan. 31,in April of 1982. In fact, 1981 Marlene Peters cameit as the first timeup missingsaid Barnard.Chapter VIIBarnard Visits Atlanta-Continued on page 7
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