Beverly Jarosz:1964, Garfield Heights, Ohio
Beverly Jarosz was the sixteen year old daughter of Eleanor and Thaddeus F. Jarosz. Beverly was a student at Marymount High School. The Jarosz family lived in Garfield Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio.
Beverly and her younger sister Carol had visited their grandmother that morning. Her twelve year old sister stayed at their grandmother’s house but Beverly returned home. She had made plans with a friend.
Her mother said she was cautious and wouldn’t even open the door for the gas meter reader.
Beverly’s friend, Barbara Klonowski, arrived at the house around 1:15 to 1:20. She knocked but got no answer. She could hear a radio playing. She went to another door. She knocked there. She heard a thump. She described the noise as a sort of struggle. Barbara left and went home. She later went to another friend’s house. They were concerned and called other friends looking for Beverly. Eventually, enough people were concerned that they called Beverly’s Dad, Thaddeus. He went home to check on Beverly. Sadly, He found her there in her bedroom.
On Wednesday, December 28th 1964 at approximately 1:40 p.m. Beverly Jarosz had been strangled and stabbed over 40 times. The killing was happening while Barbara was knocking at the door.
The killer seems to have used a type of cord similar to clothesline but more tightly woven. Investigators thought it seemed like the kind found in old window frames. The old wood framed windows used to have cord and sash weights to help lift the window when you opened it. The cord was 66 inches long. The killer strangled Beverly with this cord while raping her. He then stabbed her around 40 times and in doing so slashed the cord as well.
Beverly’s bedroom was upstairs. The roofline and floor plan created a cozy atmosphere. It also meant that the ceiling was lower and angled over the bed. The killer knocked chunks of plaster out as he brought the knife up in his stabbing frenzy.
I think this killer also killed Jessica Minter six months earlier in Lawrenceville near Springfield. I think he had six months to think about what went wrong in his plan to rape Jessica. I believe that in Beverly’s murder the killer was trying out these new tactics.
If there’s anything to test, they should look closely at Eugene William Gall Jr.
I absolutely think this killer is Eugene William Gall Jr. He had been in the Army in 1964 stationed in North Carolina. I think he was home on leave on June 30th 1964 when Jessica Minter was killed. He was no longer in the Army on December 28th, 1964. He had been discharged. The Army felt his “peeping tom” problem was not something they could overlook. They had even sent him to spend some time in custody. This indicates to me that he was probably doing more than “peeping”.
Gall’s father was a mailman in Hillsboro, Ohio. What if he borrowed his dad‘s spare uniform? What if he did this regularly? What if Eugene William Gall Jr. used this disguise to knock on the homes of these girls that he picked out. I believe he did. I think the uniform gave a feeling of safety and trust. I think he knocked on the door saying he had a package they needed to sign for. I think that’s why these girls opened the door for him. He could even carry the weapons in the mail bag. He could carry a second spare uniform in there if he wanted.
Beverly might have been hesitant to let the gas meter reader in, but opening the door to a “mailman” in an authentic uniform might have been a different story. What if he said there was a package that she had to sign for?
I think in 1965-1966, Gall is responsible for a series of rapes and murders of middle aged and elderly women in the Cincinnati area. Alice Hochhausler, Marian Wells and Sylvia Jones are among those victims. I see Gall as struggling with his dark impulses at that time. I think he rationalized these 1965-1966 rapes and murders by telling himself these older women were close to death anyway.
I think he’s also responsible for the 1969 murder of Jennifer Judy in Cincinnati and the 1970 murder of Jeanne Marie Melville in Darke County, Ohio.
Six years after the murder of Beverly Jarosz. Eugene William Gall Jr. would be arrested, tried and convicted for a series of abductions, rapes, and armed robberies in the Lima, Ohio area. He had become known there as “The Friday Night Rapist”. He was married with a child then but that did not stop him from committing crimes.
He was sentenced to 10-30 years for those crimes. On April 12th 1977; a judge who apparently thought that abductions armed robberies and rapes were no big deal, paroled Eugene William Gall Jr.
In October of 1977 he abducted 14 year old Beth Ann Mote off the street in Dayton. He raped and stabbed her to death. He had driven an elderly neighbor to a doctor’s appointment that day. He used the wait time after dropping off his elderly friend to accomplish this heinous murder.
I think he abducted, raped and murdered Nancy Theobald from a Cincinnati street on November 16th 1977.
He was finally captured in 1978. On April 5th, 1978 Gall abducted 13 year old Lisa Janson as she walked to school in Cincinnati. He took her to Kentucky where he raped and murdered her. He robbed a store at gunpoint. This wasn’t a store with a lonely clerk. He also robbed customers of their personal cash and items that day. His capture occurred after a shootout with police in which Gall shot and killed a police officer.
Eugene William Gall Jr. is serving a life sentence in Ohio.
The ease of that armed robbery makes me think he was no stranger to armed robbery. I think over the years that is probably how he financed all the driving from place to place and stalking his victims. I think Gall did not commit crimes in the towns that he lived in. He purposely went elsewhere in order to throw off investigators.
When I look at the things he was actually convicted of; it doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility that he started raping, robbing and killing as a young man and never really stopped. He had periods where he tried to stop or do things “better” to his thinking. But, I don’t think he ever stopped.
Beverly Jarosz had her whole life ahead of her before it was stolen. She deserves Justice.
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