CRIME HUNTER: A child sex murder; Jane Doe no more; missing brothers

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Every day I take notes, email myself, and copy links to stories that I find interesting—it's impossible to go through them all.

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Here are a few things I've cleared out over the past few weeks. They range from an incident before I was born to an incident that chilled me to the bone when I was a teenager.

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KILLER RECOGNIZED IN REPORTED CHILD MURDER CASE

If a child screamed, sex monster William Schrader knew he was drowned. So, after the rape of a nine-year-old girl Carol Ann Dougherty On October 22, 1962, he strangled a girl at St. Mark's Church in suburban Philadelphia.

The grisly murder of a child was lost in the mists of time and ended up in an evidence box in a cold case room in a building in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Schroeder was in the picture from the very beginning.

Going back to the fall of 1962, the little girl was last seen riding her bicycle to the library. But candy and soda came first!

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She did not return home, and her concerned father found her body in St. Mark's Roman Catholic Church.

Police say Schrader was a factory worker at the time and lived near the church. He was questioned, provided a hair sample, and failed a polygraph. Detectives determined that “he lied about his alibi, having a time sheet showing that he was not at work on the day of the murder.”

And then he fled first to Florida, then to Texas, before finally settling in Louisiana.

Schrader died in 2002. There is no extradition treaty with hell.

“COMPLETION AND TRUTH”

“Our family lived without answers, and the uncertainty surrounding Carol's death became part of who we were,” said her sister Kay Dougherty Talanca. “After so many decades of ignorance, this discovery finally brings closure and truth to a wound that has never healed.”

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Schrader admitted to his stepson that he “had to kill a girl in Bristol to keep her from talking.”

The killer “practised violence and sexual abuse, especially against young, prepubescent and teenage women.” His criminal history spanned several states, including a conviction in Louisiana in 1985 for the grisly death of 12-year-old Katherine Smith. The child died after Schroeder “intentionally set fire to her home, knowing she and other family members were inside.”

More? He also “sexually abused nearly every female girl he lived with or had access to, including his own biological daughter and granddaughters,” mostly between the ages of six and 13. “The psychopath… had a deviant sexual arousal for prepubescent victims… incredibly impulsive, little or no self-control, and comfortable with the high risks associated with these crimes.”

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DEATH IN A CORN FIELD

I've known Tammy Jo Alexander since the day the terrified teenager was found executed on November 9, 1979. For years I knew her only as Jane Doe, then as Jane Doe of Caledonia.

We grew up across Lake Ontario and Rochester, listening to their radio stations, watching the local news, and could tell you that yes, the House of Guitars is on Titus Avenue.

The dead teen was found unidentified in a rain-soaked Livingston County cornfield, reports said. Does anyone know her?

Unfortunately, no one did this. It will take 36 years.

Sheriff Thomas Dougherty said on the 46th anniversary that deputies never lacked leads, but not THE lead. Her killer remains unknown.

“It is not too late to provide closure for her family as other similar cases have been uncovered during the course of this investigation,” Dougherty said in a recent address.

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TEENAGER'S ESCAPE

Alexander, who would have turned 62 on November 2, was killed on Route 20 in a rural area. She was shot in the head and back and left for dead to be found by the farmer who owned the field.

That same year, a petite teenage girl ran away from her home in Florida.

WHERE ARE THE SKELETON BROTHERS?

Parents who steal their children can see it in their eyes. They glow with the confidence of a third-year arts student, carrying a banner and doing things that would once have gotten them punched in the face.

Only THEY know what is best for their children. Everyone else, damn it.

John Skelton, 53, fits into this tidy space. His three young sons have not been seen since 2010. He was found guilty of illegally detaining them. Now he is about to be released from prison, according to Detroit News.

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CHARGED WITH MURDER

Sullivan failed to return the boys — Andrew, 9, Alexander, 7, and Tanner, 5 — to his ex-wife after Thanksgiving 2010.

In an interview in 2018 VdivHe said he told police he transferred all three to an “underground hideout” in Ohio because he felt his ex-wife was a “danger” to them.

The brothers were never seen again and were pronounced dead by their grief-stricken mother Tanya Zuvers in March. She also tried to get a judge to find Skelton responsible for their deaths, but was denied.

In 2018, Sullivan said a van arrived on Thanksgiving night and took the boys to an “underground hideout” operated by two women and a man in his 60s.

The cops never found any evidence to support this claim, and before the weekend was over, he tried to kill himself. Over the past 15 years, it has constantly changed its story.

Sullivan was scheduled to be released from prison in Michigan on November 29. Instead, he was charged Wednesday with three counts of open murder and tampering with evidence.

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