Murder Bones Mystery

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He met Janet, who was born in 1952, and they married on Christmas Eve 1974. this part of the story is covered for now Janet worked as a school nurse at John Marshall High School. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Seiling residents regarded him as a fence thief who kept to himself; Oklahoma City neighbours thought him a devoted father and a helpful neighbour.

The marriage ended on July 25th, 1990. this part of the story is covered for now She began seeing Jim Umbenhauer, a serviceman, and by December had a social life again. On Friday December 7th, 1990, she had dinner with the children and they decorated the house for Christmas. Tad, Todd and Julie went to bed about 9.30 that night; Janet stayed up.

On the morning of Saturday December 8th Tad woke for a wrestling match, heard his mother's alarm, and found her bed made with the pillows under the blankets, her toiletries gone from the vanity and her 1989 Chevrolet Blazer gone from the garage. He waited half an hour, then telephoned his father at the ranch. details of the account remain covered until revealed She never came back. By nightfall the family called the Oklahoma City police, who suggested she would probably return over the weekend and told them to call again on Monday.

On Monday the police began interviewing her friends and family, and searched the house without finding blood, a body or any sign of a struggle. Her purse, car and toiletries were gone, and her calendar was full of plans for the coming week, including a friend's birthday party, which convinced everyone she had not left voluntarily. She was five feet seven inches tall, 157 pounds, with brown hair, brown eyes and dark-rimmed glasses. Her father, Arthur Olsen, said she would never abandon the children and told police about the new boyfriend. Her cousin Tina Bloomer said the family knew something had happened.

Janet's Blazer was found in the parking lot at Will Rogers Airport with its boot full of toys, apparently Christmas presents. While detectives examined it, Umbenhauer drove up, although the discovery had not been made public. He said he had been driving around car parks looking for her car. He had also obtained a key from her father after she vanished and searched her house alone, explaining that he wanted to retrieve love letters to keep their relationship private; he handed the police a box of letters. He admitted frequently staying overnight and giving her a ring, but lied about another woman he was living with. He failed a polygraph after a six-hour interview, then passed a second one and was cleared.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it His first polygraph was inconclusive and he refused another, citing heart problems. A witness said his truck was outside Janet's house at about seven that evening, and another said she helped him pack Janet's clothes into boxes on the Monday and put them in the attic. Two months later a neighbour corrected her account of a large fire on the ranch: it had been the morning after Janet disappeared, not the day before, with black smoke and flames 30 to 40 feet above the trees. On January 14th, 1991, after a two-month search, Undersheriff Jerry Jones found burned bone fragments in four burn piles of cedar about a quarter mile south-east of the ranch house. Four teeth and a five-inch piece of gold chain, the sort of necklace Janet always wore, were with them. Dental records identified her.

this part of the story is covered for now The children were taken from school into state care; Tad ran away for a day, and a juvenile court gave temporary custody to the great aunt Mary Bloomer. His attorney, Ervin Box, said he denied any knowledge of the death or of how the bones came to be on his ranch. Prosecutors alleged he had crept into the house, abducted Janet, left her at a house he owned nearby, drove her car to the airport, took a taxi back for his own car and then killed her at the ranch with a blow to the head before burning the body, though no blood or struggle was ever found anywhere. The remains were examined by the anthropologist Clyde Snow, who reconstructed a charred skull and found an indentation at the back with signs of bleeding, suggesting a blow before burning. No cause of death could be established.

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Tad, then 13, testified in tears that his father had told them the bones were a possum and that he and Todd had thrown them at each other, and identified his mother's necklace in a photograph. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now