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Sharon and Eddie Herring:1973, Dayton, Ohio

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  Eddie Herring was a popular nightclub singer in Dayton in 1973. He had been a member of The Dominoes, a doo wop group. (If you’ve heard the song “Sixty Minute Man” from the 1950’s, then you’re familiar with The Dominoes.) He was married to Sharon Herring and the couple had a young daughter at home, named Denise. Eddie Herring    On February 3, 1973 someone entered the home of the Herring family during the daylight hours. They murdered Eddie Herring and his wife Sharon with a shotgun.   Sharon and her daughter were in a back bedroom. They didn’t hear any sounds of an argument or a fight. They did hear the shotgun blast that killed Eddie. Sharon attempted then to hold the bedroom door closed as the killer was trying to enter. Sharon yelled at her daughter to try to go out the window, but her daughter was curled up in a corner too terrified to move.    Denise, thankfully, was not killed in this terrible home invasion. When the killer fled the ...
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Lena Marie Phetteplace Buckles: 1977, Lebanon, Indiana

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         In late March of 1977 a high school student in rural Boone County, found the body of a young woman by the roadside about 4 miles west of Lebanon, Indiana. The woman was wearing a yellow nylon windbreaker jacket, a light colored shirt and jeans. She had been killed by shotgun wounds to the right side of her head and neck. She apparently wasn’t a local woman and had no I.D. in her pockets. Police in Indiana asked the FBI for help.     Once she was finally identified it was found that she was actually from Atlanta. How did this young woman end up murdered in rural Indiana?     Lena Marie Phetteplace was born on May 31st 1945 to Elizabeth (Gibson) Phetteplace and David M. Phetteplace. Her father, David, had joined the Navy in 1939 and served in WW2, Korea and Vietnam. She grew up in Pensacola, Florida. Lena had five brothers.     Her parent’s marriage ended at some point early on in Lena...
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Rita Dianna Patterson:1963, Daleville, Indiana

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       Rita Dianna Patterson was born March 17th, 1957 to Virgil Patterson and Josephine Crull. (Josephine Crull was actually the wife of Virgil’s cousin.) Rita had an older sister named Patricia. The two were born 13 months apart. They were very close. (I could not find a photo of Rita Dianna Patterson. It may be that there are no existing photos of her.)   The sisters lived in Daleville, Indiana in 1963 with their father, Virgil, and their stepmother Rowena Jean Patterson and her children from a previous relationship.    On Friday morning August 30th, 1963, Rita supposedly died after a fall down the stairs. Her 27 year old stepmother, Rowena, told neighbors and later told police that the six year old had been fighting with her older sister and then she tripped over a toy.    Rowena Patterson stuck to that story for years. Virgil and she went on to have more children together.    In 1983, Patricia Patter...
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