I don´t know where I read or saw this unsolved case, but now can´t find nothing about it, although I do remember that the victim was hated by the people of his town/village/neighborhood, had argument with the people and even got into a fight with a police officer; he was found in his bed, embalmed in a pose, with his fingers chop off.

The main suspect was the brother/boyfriend of a girl that the victim molested, yet, was discarded because the footprints found outside the building seemed to made by a person with force, almost with a domining personality, probably someone that was tall, something that the uspect could do as he was a short, weak chubby man.

My grandfathers brother “James (Jim) Thallman”was murdered in his own home on August 20th late at night or August 21st in the early hours of 1998 in Findlay, Ohio. He was shot in his home and the murderer was never caught but the prime suspects were his wife Shannon and his adopted son. My grandmother was telling me this story that I had never heard of. Yet after all these years she believes that it was cover up due to cops telling her and my grandfather the killer was caught but nothing ever came after that. So I’m still not sure of anything or can I find barely anything on this case from just the internet.

I realize this case has been solved(Husband/Dad did it), but can't find any other place of redditt to ask you smart people who might know the answer to a question I have because I can't find it anywhere on any case transcripts. When the boys were found, weren't there 3 long dark hairs discovered in the vicinity, maybe even on the kids?(Victims were blonds and Chris had very short hair). I thought I remember seeing this somewhere years ago, but now can find nothing on it. Anyone remember this or have a link? Thanks for any help.

Beth Eileen Buege was born on May 16th, 1969 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was actually adopted by the Buege family when she was just five weeks old, and she grew up alongside her older brother, Bruce.

In high school, Beth was a talented gymnast. She graduated from Vincent High School in 1987, and soon thereafter, she started a job at Rogers and Holland Jewelers, where she worked for two years. Beth then worked as a cocktail waitress at Club Marilyn and Tijuana Yacht Club. After those jobs, she took some time to travel around the country before returning to Milwaukee, where she got a job at Fox Jewelers, and was soon on track to work her way up to management.

But on the morning of June 3rd, 1990, around 8:30am, a man saw an unfamiliar red car parked outside of his home on North 49th Street in Milwaukee. He went outside to investigate, and that’s when he saw a woman slumped over in the passenger seat of the car. The man knocked on the window, but received no response. He then pulled on the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked. When he reached over and felt for the woman’s pulse… he felt nothing. Immediately, the man called 911.

Law enforcement arrived within minutes, and discovered the woman’s purse in the car with all of its contents intact and no money stolen. With her driver’s license, they were quickly able to identify the deceased woman as 21 year old Beth Buege.

Beth was found in the passenger seat of her car, slumped over toward the driver’s side with no seatbelt on. She was still fully clothed, the buttons on her jeans still fastened, indicating that there likely was not a sexual assault. She had bruising to both sides of her neck, as well as along the left side of her jaw. There were also small, crescent-shaped abrasions on her neck, which were later determined to be indentations from someone’s fingernails.

Beth’s official cause of death was manual strangulation. The medical examiner determined that Beth was murdered less than four hours before she was found.

Other than Beth’s body, there was no evidence of a struggle in the vehicle. There was also no blood found inside or on the car.

As police canvassed the neighborhood, they spoke with a woman who had witnessed the red car driving past her house sometime between 6 and 6:30 that morning, just two hours before Beth was discovered inside the car. The woman recalled the car making jerky motions as it drove along, as though the driver did not know how to drive a stick shift. The woman also witnessed a man getting out of the driver’s seat of the car, and described him as a white male with brown hair and glasses.

Police received a tip that Beth’s ex-boyfriend had called her family, asking for information about her case. Beth and this ex-boyfriend had broken up six months prior to her murder.

When they investigated further, police learned that on June 2nd, the day before she was discovered, Beth had called this ex-boyfriend from Fox Jewelers, where she worked. That night, Beth left work around 6:30pm.

Around 8pm that night — about 12 hours before she was found deceased — she called her ex-boyfriend again from a pay phone. The ex-boyfriend told police that Beth called him to try to make plans with him for that night, but that he wasn’t able to meet with her.

The ex-boyfriend stated that he had actually driven from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Chicago, Illinois to pick up his girlfriend from her night shift job. He stated that he arrived in Chicago to pick her up at 4am, and did not arrive back in Milwaukee until around 5:30am. When he and his girlfriend arrived home, they both went to bed. The girlfriend corroborated his story.

As it turned out, this ex-boyfriend was also adopted as a child. He and Beth had been working together to track down their birth parents.

Police soon moved on to a new prime suspect.

At the time of her murder, Beth had been dating one of her coworkers at Fox Jewelers for about three weeks.

On the Paula Zahn episode that covered Beth’s case, her boyfriend is referred to only by his first name, Jesse.

On June 2nd, 1990, after she left work and called her ex-boyfriend, she decided to go to her boyfriend’s apartment, where he lived with his mother. The apartment was about 8 minutes away from where Beth was found in her car.

When police arrived at Jesse’s apartment, he was not there, but his mother was. His mother told police that she arrived home from work around 11pm on the night of June 2nd, 1990, and at that time, Beth and Jesse were on the couch watching a movie. His mother claimed that she went to bed almost immediately after arriving home.

His mother further stated that she initially awoke between 6 and 6:30am on June 3rd and heard what sounded like footsteps heading toward the front door. She assumed it was Beth leaving, but she didn’t actually get out of bed to confirm this.

She fell back asleep for a while, and when she awoke again around 8am, she saw that Beth was gone and Jesse was still asleep in bed. She claimed that Jesse got up for work around 9:50am.

While police were at the apartment conducting their initial interview, Jesse’s mother told them that he was at work, at Fox Jewelers. Police planned to go to his workplace and catch him while he was there, and his mother insisted that she accompany them.

But when police arrived at the jewelry store, Jesse was not there. A coworker informed them that just a few minutes before they arrived, Jesse had received a phone call about Beth’s murder, and that he left the store. The coworker stated that Jesse seemed angry when he left.

However, police were soon able to talk to Jesse, and they quickly noted that he matched the description of the man seen abandoning Beth’s car on the morning of June 3rd.

Jesse told police that Beth arrived at his apartment around 8:45pm the night before she was found. He claimed that they started a movie around 10:30pm and that they both fell asleep shortly after 11pm.

According to Jesse, he woke up around 6:30am and saw Beth preparing to leave. He stayed in bed and went back to sleep.

Police noticed during the interview that Jesse had a few abrasions on his hands.

Something to note about Jesse and his mother’s apartment is that underneath their apartment was the small restaurant where Jesse’s mother worked as a manager.

Police began questioning other employees of the restaurant. They started with a baker, who arrived to work at 4:45am, and recalled seeing Beth’s red car still in the parking lot. The baker also told police that around 6am, they heard a loud noise coming from a back door of the building. That back door provided access to the upstairs apartment where Jesse and his mother lived. The baker then saw Jesse’s mother outside around 7am.

Between 8:30 and 9am, the baker recalled seeing Jesse’s mother in the basement of the building doing her laundry. She appeared to be washing bedding. It should be noted that during a cursory search of the apartment, police noticed that Jesse’s bed was stripped of its sheets.

A custodian at the restaurant recalled seeing Beth’s car still in the parking lot around 6am.

A newspaper delivery man noted that between 6:45am and 7, there was no longer a red car in the parking lot.

Despite not having forensic evidence tying Jesse to the murder, police believed they had enough circumstantial evidence to make an arrest.

On June 4th, 1990, Jesse was arrested and charged with the murder of Beth Buege.

Jesse’s mother quickly hired an attorney, and just a few hours after his arrest, Jesse’s bail was paid and he was released. The $25,000 bail was paid by the manager of the restaurant where Jesse’s mother worked.

All charges against Jesse were later dropped due to a lack of physical evidence.

While five of Beth’s ex-boyfriends offered to be pallbearers at her funeral, Jesse did not attend her funeral and Beth’s family has not heard from him since Beth’s murder.

In 1991, Beth’s family received a letter from the restaurant owner who had paid Jesse’s bail. In the letter, the man apologized to the family, expressing deep regret that he had helped Jesse. He also stated that it was his belief that if he had not paid the bail so quickly, Jesse would have cracked under the pressure and faced justice.

Today, nearly 34 years later, Beth Buege’s murder remains unsolved.

Sources:

https://www.cbs58.com/news/young-beautiful-and-murdered-the-mystery-of-beth-buege

https://archive.jsonline.com/news/crime/95479204.html/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53202188/beth-eileen-buege

On the Case with Paula Zahn. Season 24, Episode 5. “FLRT 12.”

• Molly Young died on the morning of March 24th, 2012 in Carbondale, Illinois.
• She was found on the bedroom floor of her ex-boyfriend's apartment.
• The only named Suspect, her ex-boyfriend, worked as a Dispatcher for the Carbondale Illinois Police Department.
• The Suspect's mother and father were both in local law enforcement.
• The Suspect reported the death as an overdose in an initial 911 call and that Molly "bled out through the nose." (9:03am)
• In actuality, Molly had a single gun shot wound to her the LEFT frontal scalp (not left temple).
• Molly was right-handed.
• the wound was described by paramedics, a pathologist, and multiple investigators as "obvious" and "large." Crime scene photos confirm that no normal-sighted adult would confuse the wound for anything other than what it was.
• Suspect called back 7 mins later (9:10am) to report Molly had actually shot herself and that he found the gun underneath her when he attempted CPR (on someone he already reported as dead).
• The gun was a 0.45 caliber handgun, which belonged to the Suspect.
• The Suspect claims he was passed out drunk and didn't hear the single gun-shot 4 feet from his bed.
• By all accounts, Molly hated guns and had never even handled one.
• 19 forensic facts support that the Suspect committed the homicide. (Among them: GSR and backspatter on Suspect's pajamas, GSR on shorts Suspect changed into before going to the Police Department.)
• 0 forensic facts support that Molly took her own life.
• Suspect had 2 six-inch long scratches running from underneath his right scapula to his right oblique.
• Molly had 3 male DNA types under her nails. The Suspect's DNA was confirmed as the dominant source.
• Suspect told police that he must have gotten the scratches while performing CPR (on a dead person).
• Scene was obviously staged with an empty pill bottle (of the antibiotic amoxicillin) placed at Molly's feet, cardboard placed under the body, and a gun that miraculously stayed underneath the body, unseen by the Suspect and his roommate despite admitting to moving the body (again, to supposedly do CPR after she was dead).

By all rights, this should have been an open and shut case, but Carbondale Police Department and Illinois State Police and the County Coroner managed to obfuscate enough facts and conceal the most incriminating of evidence, to keep the family and media at bay. There is a documented trail of systemic misinformation in Investigative Reports and blatantly bogus logic that carried all the way up to the States Attorney's office.

Molly should have celebrated her 34th birthday last week (April 15th); instead, her murderer walks the streets of St. Louis as a corrupt and/or paralyzed system has never brought the case to Grand Jury or criminal trial.

learn more at r/JusticeForMolly