Strange Emails From the Distant Past

[jamesq]

Long time readers may remember this post that alludes to a murder in my neighborhood when I was a child. Today I got the following email:

While looking for some very old information from 1980 on the murder of "Kimberly Thompson" I came across your blog. In this entry you said you wondered what had become of the murderer of Kimberly Thompson. If your prepared for the answer I have it for you...

If you do not wish to be contacted further please reply stating this and I will never bother you again.

I think I will sleep on this.

Comments

[mallt.livejournal.com]

Did you mean for the said post to show up again today... or is it just a spooky coincidence that it showed up right before you started talking about it? I read it not even realizing it was dated 2004.

[jamesq]

The post wasn't originally in LJ - it was on my old website. I moved it to LJ (part of a long term plan of mine to move everything from my old blog to here) this morning, but forgot to back-date it.

[mallt.livejournal.com]

ok... confusion ended... I'll have you know that it's not difficult to confuse me... ;)

[laughingmagpie.livejournal.com]

I am spooked out by this email you got - I can well imagine how you might feel the need to sleep on it.

And having just read your original post - heavy stuff. Wow. I know I can't really feel what that must have been like for all involved (thank heaven) but it sure made me feel anxious nevertheless. And relieved for Dylan. I think I might have grown a grey hair or two just reading about it.

[jamesq]

The email does have a cloak-and-dagger feel to it that makes me anxious.

The significance of what happened in my neighborhood in 1980 didn't really sink in until i was much older. I simply didn't have the mental tools necessary to comprehend all the implications of a child abduction/murder back then. Now it's the sort of thing that makes me thankful I don't have kids. I'd lock them in the basement to keep the world away - and that's not a good solution either.

[snooness2]

I did some google-fu with the U of A library database and got an article about the perps name if you want it.

[snooness2]

And his conviction and the length... not surprisingly based on other crimes it was a life sentence... I haven't found out about about his parole status.

It seems that both a Calgary Herald journalist (based on the number of recent references to the case in the articles she's written) and a play write in Toronto (based on a google search) have interest/memories of the case.

I've got the two Calgary Herald articles with the most info copied to my in box.... I'm having a hurry up and wait type day, so I'm amusing myself with a mystery.

[jamesq]

I'd like to see anything you've dug up about this. It would save me having to talk to an unknown internet alien.

[snooness2]

I understand completely - I wouldn't want to contact an INA (InterNet Alien) about this either - that's why I google-fu-ed it.
:)
I sent the articles to your gmail account... but noticed as I was sending them that the journalist's name and the date of the herald article did not copy over from the archive when I emailed it to myself... I'll re look the articles and email you the citations. Most science articles keep the citation info when you post from the databases so I hadn't thought to check.

[snooness2]

Okay citations now sent too. The articles have disturbing info in them, or at least I found it disturbing.
;)

[jamesq]

I checked my gmail account. Didn't find anything in either my inbox or spam. Could you resend it to my hotmail account instead?

[snooness2]

gmail, shaw, but no hotmail.
If you have my yahoo account email me.

[jamesq]

Done. I suspect you sent it to my abandoned gmail account (lost the password and the cadvision account it was attached to).

[snooness2]

Resent
:)

[ladyerwyn.livejournal.com]

When I was 13 and in 8th grade two girls went missing in my town. Michelle and Melissa Urban. One was 14 and the other 15. They were in 9th and 10th grade, they were in the high school and I was still in the middle school. They were missing for weeks I believe.

This happened in the early 90's. Everybody had theories as to what had happened to them. My mom thought they ran away and joined the circus. Who runs away and joins the circus these days? Anyway I was really into Nancy Drew at the time and thought that if I were on the case I could solve it.

Later on they found their bodies in shallow graves in the "Oakwood" cemetery. They'd been raped and murdered by Leslie Allan Williams. I don't remember how much time went by before they caught him, or how they knew it was him. He was caught when somebody saw him trying to force another woman to go with him.

I don't know what sentence he got. My Mother-in-Law used to work for the "Flint Journal" and actually interviewed him.

It was really creepy and the stories of it still creep people out around here.