A Letter to True Detective Magazine, 1989
Added 2021-03-12 17:27:11 +0000 UTC"Our agency is investigating a homicide that occurred in May of 1975 in which a 12 year old girl was murdered. Her body was disposed of in a river and never recovered. Based upon the killer's recent confession, he claimed he drowned the victim in a motel room bathtub before disposing of the body. This method of death was not a customary means used by this person in previous and subsequent killings. He alluded to being an avid reader of True Detective Magazine. The subject was recently executed, so we have no means to obtain further information from him.
The purpose of this correspondence is to inquire as to whether you maintain back issues of True Detective Magazine for the months of January, February, March, April, and May, 1975. If you do, I would request that you assist us by having an employee research the articles in those issues to ascertain for us if they included any articles where victims of foul play were put to death by drowning in a bathtub."
I've uploaded the covers from the Jan-May issues of True Detective magazine... nothing featuring a bathtub drowning as far as I can see.
Comments
How do I go about asking you for permission to post this letter on my page? Also, from speaking extensively with Lynnette's older sister, she did not have a truancy problem and she has no idea how this rumor got started.
Crystal
2021-05-04 06:09:31 +0000 UTCPossible. Whenever I think of the case. it also makes me wonder why he decided to change his MO so drastically in this case. Getting drowned is a horrible death by the way.
Joanna Marek
2021-03-19 22:06:03 +0000 UTCIt makes me wonder whether he said something specifically about True Detective magazine contributing to that particular m.o. which we aren't privy to.
Tiffany J.
2021-03-17 22:06:31 +0000 UTCI wonder why they needed to give credence to Ted´s version. He had already given them details that only Lynette knew (e.g. her truancy problem that even her parents were unaware of at that time) and I also can´t imagine how the magazine covers could have made the bathtub story more reliable in their eyes. I get the impression that the investigators were fumbling around in the dark.
Joanna Marek
2021-03-17 20:46:56 +0000 UTCAmazing post!
Vince Lahey
2021-03-12 17:40:04 +0000 UTC
