Chalkboard Thoughts

    Washington, Indiana   In 1971 Burndette Baker, 50, worked at the Gas Company as a Secretary. On April 14th Burndette was bludgeoned and strangled with a piece of wire in her garage. There was evidence of a struggle. Her empty purse was found in the driveway.      Her husband Roy Baker woke up from a nap and realized his wife wasn’t home yet. He went out to the garage and found her body.  He called the police and reported the murder to the police. He was later convicted of the murder.     If you were going to kill your spouse in a small town; wouldn’t you come up with a better plan to get away with it?     The murder looked like a robbery. But it also appears to be the work of a cold blooded killer. Mrs. Baker was hit on the head with a blunt object and had multiple lacerations to her skull. Wire was twisted around her neck in order to strangle her, maybe to silence her.   ...

       Arletta Sue White was born September 4th 1949 to Fern and William White. She had an older sister. Arletta married William Dale Remley in 1968.   In 1970 her husband was serving in the Army in Korea and so Arletta was staying at the home of her half sister, Mrs. Carlos Larsen.    Arletta Sue Remley left a friend’s house on Thursday October 22, 1970 to walk to a nearby shopping center. She intended to buy a pair of pants. She disappeared that evening.    Her body was found in an overgrown orchard in Connersville, Indiana just west of the Grandview Shopping Center.  She was stabbed 12 times in the chest and strangled. She was described as “nearly nude”. Her underwear was stuffed into her mouth. A shopping bag nearby contained the pants she went to buy.    Since she was taken from a shopping center it seems like a stranger abduction to me.  She might have been forced or coerced into a car....

         Christine Rose McWeeny was 18. She was born in 1955 to Thomas and Marilyn McWeeny. She had an older brother and a younger sister. They lived at 3537 West 48th Street in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended St. Boniface Elementary and was a graduate of Erieview Catholic High School in Cleveland. She worked for Ohio Bell Telephone as a Secretary. On Wednesday October 24th she went with a friend to see a folk singer who was a friend of theirs.  They wanted to be in the audience and support that friend at a little pub gig. It was a weeknight and Christine had to get up the next day but she was there for her friend.    The next morning, on Thursday October 25th 1973 Christine was on her way to work. She had about a ten minute walk to catch the downtown bus each morning. But she never made it onto the bus on October 25th 1973.     A neighbor, Mrs. Oxley, heard a scream at about 6:55 that morning from what she thought wa...

        On Thursday, November 20th 1975, She went to the Lawson Milk Company shop for milk. Melissa Hinke was 8 years old. She had taken two Pepsi bottles with her to turn in for the deposit. She planned to buy a little candy with the deposit bottle refund.     Melissa lived at 2245 West 67th Street in Cleveland,Ohio.  She was born on the 7th of January in 1967. Her route to the store was only 3 blocks.     Searches were launched. People in the neighborhood were questioned and tips were coming in. But the wait was agonizing.     Two days later three teen boys were deer hunting and found her body about 60 feet off a trail at Rocky River Reservation, a large park that is part of the Cleveland Metroparks system.  It’s a few miles west of where Melissa was taken.     Melissa had been raped, strangled and stabbed multiple times.  A piece of fabric was still tightly wrapped ar...