Post by polderman on Jan 28, 2005 18:53:35 GMT -5
August 31,2000 My Mother,Grandmother and Grandfather were all brutally murdered in my Grandparents home. The homicide occurred in Kalamazoo county Michigan. This crime happened in the afternoon sometime after my Mother was last seen at a Meijer store on the surveillance camera around 1:30 pm she also had been to a Sam's store following Meijer according to the time on the receipt that would have her to their house guessing between 2:30 and 3:00 (their scheduled coffee time). We were informed that my mother just happened to be delivering some groceries to them and walked in on the crime in progress. All of them were stabbed,beaten with a baseball bat and their throats were slit with a machete, my Mom was also struck in the head with some sort of pipe with a nut on the end of it which left pieces of her scalp lying on the stairway after my Grandfather and Mother were either taken or pushed down. The police believe this was a robbery that gone bad, they believe a "druggy" just happened to choose their house and things went very wrong, however,they also believe all of this happened in about 15 minutes,they think who ever committed this crime it was the first time taking a life as the crime scene was so chaotic. All of this may be what happened, but nothing was ransacked everything remained in the proper places unmarked money was left in the first drawer in the kitchen, their jewelry remained on them, the air conditioning was turned down to 40 degrees, keys were placed neatly under a chair , a fan was put up in the living room, the scene had been attempted to be cleaned and the door was dead bolted close when the criminal(s) left the scene. The family was brought to the police station and told "we have the guy" to make a long story short none of the evidence has linked this him to the crime and things are going no where, now five years later i'm beginning to question the competancy of the dept.
sorry this is so long but I am very frustrated at this point and need to vent to ones that understand. Karen
sorry this is so long but I am very frustrated at this point and need to vent to ones that understand. Karen