The Bragging Brute

In January 1994 Loretta May Foster was 67 and had lived in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, her whole life. Born Loretta May Halbert on 14 October 1926, one of nine children, she married Charles Leon Foster in 1944 and had one son, Michael. this part of the story is covered for now She weighed 313 pounds and was remembered as generous and nurturing.

details of the account remain covered until revealed By his late twenties he was an alcoholic who had been drinking heavily since about fourteen. His family sent him into the army; he served four years, reenlisted for two more and spent eighteen months in Korea, still drinking. He came home with a girlfriend and a son, but she refused to move to Ohio with him. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

A month or so before the murder he painted Loretta's basement, claiming she had agreed to pay $300 and had paid only $100. this part of the story is covered for now

On 11 January her sister-in-law Norma took her to a doctor's appointment. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He ran into two friends, Brian Baker and Jim Fernando, and told them he had killed someone and was leaving town. He said Loretta owed him $200, and described knocking on her door and claiming he had something from her sister, then attacking her with a tent pole and a rope, hitting her, going through her purse, ripping the telephone out of the wall, tying her up and trying to strangle her. He said he left her naked in the living room with $40 and a blank check. At the Rainbow Bar he added detail. When his friends said they did not believe him, he took them to the house, where they saw her body through the living-room window. Jason went inside with him at about 1.30 a.m. and saw her too.

The next morning Baker and Fernando told Officer Joe Orcine, whose son was a friend, and made statements at the police station. Police found Loretta in her living room, beaten about the head and strangled with a rope, tied up while still alive. Her bra was cut and her top pulled up, and her pants and pantyhose had been rolled down and pulled off. There was blood and a clump of hair by the rear door, broken glasses and an earring in the kitchen, and the other earring and her purse in the dining room. The autopsy found no sperm and no evidence of sexual conduct.

this part of the story is covered for now Police found a camouflage outfit, gloves, a tent pole, white rope, a knife and a blank check. The rope matched the one used to tie and strangle her, hair on it matched Loretta, and blood on the overalls was the same type as hers.

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