We Have, Apparently, Not Seen The Last of Amy Mihaljevic

This is not a picture. It is a still frame from a video taken in the summer of 1989. I hope to have more for you Friday.

It is still okay to hope.

Meet James Schnitzler

Here's another creep to look into a bit.

A source close to James L. Schnitzler suggested recently that authorities look into his background. Schnitzler is currently is prison for myriad convictions from 1994, including Gross Sexual Imposition, Rape, and other savage crimes.

In 1989, he was apparently living out of his car--which somewhat matches the description of the car seen parked at Burns' garage behind the plaza where Amy was taken. He may have been working at a YMCA in or near Bay Village. He has some connection to Polk, Ohio, as well.

Don't know how I feel about him. I don't see him dressed as nicely as the man described by witnesses. Obviously he's a psychopath. At the very least, he needs to be vetted and ruled out.

Another Girl Stalked, Another Link to Runkle

I found this included in an email sent to my hotmail account a couple days ago:

I grew up in New London, OH.  I can't remember exact dates but at least a couple years prior to Amy's murder, I was receiving calls by an older man. He would call regularly and at late times of the night.  He would try to have general conversation and acted like he knew me. He knew what I looked like and how I walked home from school. After a bit on the phone, he would start to talk very vulgar. This is usually when I would hang up as I had not heard things like that before.  The only reason I would stay on the phone for a while is to try to figure out who he was.  Because in New London, everyone knows everybody.

And then this reply, following questions from me:

I lived in town. North end of town. I went to New London School. I have no idea if anyone I knew had a connection to Bay Village. There are a lot of people in our town who would go to Cleveland area for things. I was not involved in horseback riding. I had a few friends that did. Sometimes, I would go to the horse shows at the NL Recreation Park.

Well, my family knows the Runkles.

All the girls who received calls but who did not visit the Nature Center are connected to Runkle through proximity. It's getting kind of laughable at this point.

All roads lead back to New London.

Who Was Ted Lamborgine?

I didn't like this guy for Amy's murder. I thought they were making Ted Lamborgine into a Boogeyman and looking to blame him for every murder committed in Michigan and Ohio in the last 25 years. But I'm beginning to wonder.

Lamborgine, as you may know, worked at the Ford plant in Brookpark. When authorities caught up with him in 2007, he admitted to being a serial pederast, responsible for ruining the lives of countless young boys in Oakland County, Michigan, where a series of 4 murders of girls and boys took place in 1976 and 1977. The murders were similar to Amy's in many ways.

The more that is revealed about the Oakland County murders, it seems that the murderer must have been a member of a small group of sickos, including Lamborgine, who operated a kiddie-porn ring out of a Michigan bicycle shop. While I don't feel Lamborgine was responsible for Amy's murder (his flavor was boys) I'm beginning to wonder if one of his friends may be responsible.

And I'm beginning to wonder if one of his friends might be this Arthur Nelson Ream, who was just recently convicted of a murder very similar to Amy's (lured a young girl to an ice cream shop) that occurred very near the epicenter of the Oakland County cases.

On top of this, last week I received a tip from a reliable source who worked at the Ford plant in Lorain. He says he believes he met Arthur Nelson Ream--that we was introduced to Arthur by a man named Henry "Hank" Cowhick, who worked with him and Lamborgine at Ford. Cowhick happens to live on County Rd. 40, just a mile or so from where Amy's body was found. He had access to a cabin.

This info has been forwarded to police and FBI. As far as I know, the name of this man from Ford is new to everybody.

UPDATE: An astute reader picked up a mistake in an earlier draft. Lamborgine worked at Ford in Brookpark (or did when he was arrested). I'm not sure how often employees working for one plant would switch to another.

Who Was the Other Caller?

There's yet another odd fact about this case I haven't revealed since two former investigators told me details about this in 2005. I didn't want to identify them and they assured me it wasn't important. Enough time has gone by now that I feel okay talking about this.

Shortly after Amy's abducted in 1989, the FBI conducted a sting operation on an obscene caller targeting young females in the Bay Village area. An FBI agent posed as a young girl on the telephone and at a meeting location. The man was arrested.

But, apparently, this man had a good alibi for Amy's murder.

Anyone know who this man was? I'd like to talk to him eventually.

Does this Art Nelson thing have legs?

According to an Ashland resident, police detectives were in the neighborhood, asking questions about "Art Nelson" at the local fire station. Still trying to confirm.

New Twist Debunked

Word came from a pretty high source last week that as the killer fled Bay Village with Amy in his car, Amy either managed to jump out or was pushed from the car on the West side of town. I was told the police found blood evidence just off the road there.

Word today from a source more familiar with the investigation claims the rumor was either misunderstood information or "misinformation".

Sorry folks. That one appears to have been another goose chase.