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Oct. 26, 2005 Anyone following the Taylor Behl story is aware that Ben Fawley, alias “Skulz,” has confessed to killing Taylor, that her body was found near the Chesapeake Bay about 70 miles east of Richmond, VA (and about 30 miles from my house), and that Fawley was fingered here as the primary suspect in a prior piece. But having become interested in the cases of missing young women, I have been digging deeper. Returning to the Julie Popovich case, which is still unsolved and, on the surface, going nowhere, some interesting facts have come to light. There have been, over the past several years, some eerily similar disappearances in the Columbus, Ohio, area, and two, especially, were connected to Ohio State University, as was Popovich. 1) Stephanie Hummer, 18 year old OSU freshman, disappeared in 1994 after getting separated from friends going to a party near/off campus. Her body was soon discovered, unclothed, in a field, much as Julie Popovich’s. This case is still unsolved. No one has ever been charged. 2) Stacey Beth Colbert, an OSU grad student was apparently abducted from her apartment north of campus (about 4 miles from Ledo's, the club from which Julie P. vanished) in 1998. It was only last year, 2004, when her remains were discovered near Radnor Ohio, by a hunter looking for a lost dog. No one has ever been charged. Similarities are evident: All these women were around the same age, in the same area, all were brunette, and all are unsolved. There’s more: 3) Kelli Ann Gilliland, 17, missing since December 2004. 4) Mia Losey, 21, missing since December 2002. 5) Ashley Lyn Howley, 20, last seen in June 2004. 6) Patti Adkins vanished after her shift at the Honda plant in Marysville in July 2001. Seven missing, pretty, young women, six of them in a span of 3 years, and one outlier from eleven years ago. All unsolved. Some bodies have been found, others not. One would certainly begin to consider a serial killer, would one not, in the Columbus, Ohio, area? I note that a philanthropist has been pledging rewards of $100,000 and more for clues leading to the solution of the mysteries of Natalee Holloway, Julie Popovich, and some of the other missing persons. Perhaps that will help. If you out there have any thoughts on these disappearances, any knowledge that might help, get in touch with police. ------------ About the author Brooks A. Mick: 63-yr-old physician, still practicing medicine but retired from the US Army. Write just for the fun of it, but working on novel in the vein of Tom Clancy's politico-military genre. Email: brooks15@cox.net ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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