Part ~ 20 Like A Puzzle The Chilling Pieces Start Falling Into Place

We learned more about these two young men. More then I cared to, but needed to. They had worked here  in Marine City, Michigan at a Pizzeria affiliate of the same Pizzeria as the one here in New Baltimore, Michigan. They had left Michigan in early August of  2000 with 15,000. - 20,000. dollars, that they embezzled from the pizzeria, in Marine City. Leaving letters to their parents saying how they wanted to start a new life. First they headed to Ohio to 'Cedar Point'. Then went on to Virginia.

In Virginia they went to Bristol. Where they cased and then robbed a Gun shop. One of them at one point went inside and spoke to the clerk. Then at closing they both went in. One asked the clerk about a knife in the showcase. When the clerk bent down to get it, one surprised him and stuck a knife in his throat. He held him til he stopped moving and died. Basically till the poor man bled to death. He was a 63 year old grand father. They dragged him to the back of the store. Then filled their back pack with 14 guns, ammo, and the new knife. They then left and went to a motel and ordered a pizza.

Next they headed to Florida. Where they got off the highway and went to a gas station with a 'Subway Sandwich Shop'. There a 22 year old young man was working late and alone. Again it was around closing time. One went into the cash register while the other took the young man to the walk in cooler and shot him in the back of the head, execution style. They were caught on surveillance cameras but had been wearing masks. They  fled on foot to their vehicle which was not caught on tape. They got away. This is the very story we had taken to our lawyers back before we had ever heard of these two or knew they even existed.

There had been a young man here who supposedly knew these two, he had worked with the boy who was slain in Michigan. But had gotten fired shortly before. This young man went to school with my daughter and my son's girlfriend. He used to follow them in the hallways at school. And say stupid things them and harass them. One day he said to one of them that he was a part of cult that the two down south were in and they all had a tattoo on the upper arm of an Egyptian Ankh. So I asked the officer if either of the two men they arrested had any tattoos or marks? He looked at me and said yes. They both had a strange Egyptian cross. I asked him if he could draw it and he drew it in my notebook. It was an Egyptian Ankh. Again chills ran down my spine.

We then learned that the police in Kentucky thought they may have robbed a bank during their cross country spree. There were bank bags and money wrappers found in their car.

There was a bank robbery here in Michigan around the time of their disappearance. There had been two robbers who fled on foot and got away. The highway was not far from the bank. This was the same M.O. if you will, of the two down south. The robbers of  the bank had worn masks. They were caught with masks in their car. If they had been doing 3 -5 grams of coke a day as they had written in their letters. Then they would need a lot of money. It was all mind boggling but like a puzzle the pieces were going into place.

They had  robbed and killed at places off the highway. Parking their car away from the targets and then fleeing on foot to the vehicle and getting back on the highway. And fleeing fast from the town they were and got away.

Before we said our good byes to the officer he told us again how frustrated he and his fellow officers were at the attitude of the Michigan authorities, he wished us luck on our trip and back home. Then he told us he would testify to what he told us if Subpoenaed. We thanked him and left, amazed at what we had just learned.