Inside Detective - Jan 1969 - Cheri Jo Bates article

[doranchak]

I got a copy of the January 1969 issue of Inside Detective so I could get better scans of the Cheri Jo Bates article:








Full resolution PDF of the article:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx2Zx ... XhhazhoRFU

And here is the entire January 1969 issue of the Inside Detective magazine --

Part 1:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx2Zx ... 3FFSThBZmM
Part 2:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx2Zx ... 2ViZmpRcW8

[Quicktrader]

Ew...just flew over it...do we know who those two persons were?

QT

[sandiland]

Concerning the timex watch found. It appears the killer had a small wrist judging by the number of holes in the strap where it was done up. Well as far as I could tell. Also the time on the watch shows approx 12:20 ish. Wonder if the watch stopped time when she grabbed it off him? Also if she left the library before 6:30, (witnesses who were acquainted with her, were at the library said they
were there 6:30 - 6:40 & said she wasn’t there then) and time of death was approx 10:30, where was Cheri Jo for approx 4 hours?

[sandiland]

Edit: Or did I miss something?

[sandiland]

As well if I might add, this article said that Cheri Jo cooked and ate roast beef
“before” leaving home that afternoon. Right after that it said the food had been digested 2-4 hours at time of death.
Well the 2-4 hour time frame from time of death (approx 10:30), would be 6:30 (4) hours before or 8:30 (2) hours before.
Doesn’t make sense? She wasn’t supposed to be home either of those times. Her killer waited & watched for her to leave the library and supposedly took her as soon as she left it which was around 6:30 (or before). So is someone just a tad bit off on the timing here ?? Was actually thinking that she may have brought some of that roast with her when she left for the library to meet up with someone for somewhat of a dinner date ? As she never made it back home.

[sandiland]

But I guess if she did that, then it would have been said that food containers would have been found somewhere ?

[sandiland]

Sorry for the multiple posts. I just read that she was studying in the library maybe for some time. First I was thinking she just waited for it to open, immediately checked out the books and left. Can’t anyone determine how long she was at the library?

I thought back then there were some sort of punch card with date & time also which books you were borrowing.
Even if she stayed up to 9pm closing then there’s still about 90 minutes before her death.

[Dag MacLugh]

i have a had time accepting the word of someone who "heard a horrible scream," and checked what time it was, but then didn't bother to phone the police. Might the caller have been Zodiac or a confederate seeking to establish an alibi?

[Fisherman'sFriend]

I will murder again and again...

Don't you just love journalists?

[Khys]

A few things always come to mind when I reread this.

1. Whoever wrote this article was extremely informed. They did their homework.

2. The article says RPD have a tuft of hair and the watch. Surely they have DNA from one of those sources. It seemed from the tv miniseries on history that that wasn't the case and I'm not sure I understand why.

3. Who was the patient at Patton who thought they killed Cheri Jo? It was obviously credible enough that there were "exhaustive interviews". Since RPD seems unwilling to ever completely release their info I've often wondered if the article writer is still alive or if somewhere there is an archive for the magazine that has the name of that patient in it. I am very curious to know who that was.

4. Who was the "Mexican American Student" with a good memory? He can remember that she was writing in ballpoint pen which is oddly specific.

5. Sacramento narrowed down where the watch was from to a certain base. This is information that seems important that doesn't get talked about a lot. How reliable is that prognosis? Did RPD decide the watch wasn't from the killer and moved on?

6. Cheri Jo clearly checked out books yet not one person on the library staff remembers her being in there. Surely one of them had to check her out. That seems odd to me.