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

[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.