Summary of Marney Rich Keenan's The Snow Killings

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#1 In 1976, a student at Roseville High School, Cynthia Cadieux, was murdered. Her mother, Wanda Nelem, said she and her stepfather did not expect her home that Thursday night, as they thought she was going to stay with her friend and attend school with her in the morning.

#2 On February 15, 1976, Mark Douglas Stebbins, 12, disappeared while walking home from the American Legion Hall in Ferndale, a working-class neighborhood just south of Birmingham and Franklin. His mother, Ruth, reported him missing.

#3 The autopsy showed that Mark had been suffocated. His wrists and legs bore discoloration and marks indicating he had been bound. There were two small, crusted lacerations on his left rear scalp and blood stains had been found on the hooded portion of his jacket.

#4 On August 7, 1976, the body of 14-year-old Jane Louise Allan was found floating in the Great Miami River in Miamisburg, Ohio. Her hands had been tied behind her back with shreds of a t-shirt. The Ohio coroner’s office believed she had been dead before she was tossed in the river, possibly from carbon monoxide poisoning.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822501713

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 24

Insights from Chapter 25

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In 1976, a student at Roseville High School, Cynthia Cadieux, was murdered. Her mother, Wanda Nelem, said she and her stepfather did not expect her home that Thursday night, as they thought she was going to stay with her friend and attend school with her in the morning.

#2

On February 15, 1976, Mark Douglas Stebbins, 12, disappeared while walking home from the American Legion Hall in Ferndale, a working-class neighborhood just south of Birmingham and Franklin. His mother, Ruth, reported him missing.

#3

The autopsy showed that Mark had been suffocated. His wrists and legs bore discoloration and marks indicating he had been bound. There were two small, crusted lacerations on his left rear scalp and blood stains had been found on the hooded portion of his jacket.

#4

On August 7, 1976, the body of 14-year-old Jane Louise Allan was found floating in the Great Miami River in Miamisburg, Ohio. Her hands had been tied behind her back with shreds of a t-shirt. The Ohio coroner’s office believed she had been dead before she was tossed in the river, possibly from carbon monoxide poisoning.

#5

Karol thought her daughter, Jill, was just being rebellious. But when she asked her to talk, Jill refused. She then asked her daughter to come in for dinner, but she never arrived.

#6

Jill’s body was found on Christmas Day, 1976. She had been killed by a single shotgun blast to the face. According to police, she was carried from a car, placed on the ground by the freeway, and shot once from a range of six to ten inches.

#7

The shotgun pellets were retrieved, but no shell casings were found, making it difficult to determine the make and model of the shotgun. It was determined that it was a 12-gauge shotgun.

#8

The murders of Sheila Srock, Mark Stebbins, Jane Louise Allan, and Jill Robinson were all linked together as symptoms of the times.

#9

The search for Kristine continued, and the police found no trace of her. Her stepfather, Tom Ascroft, was constantly on the lookout for her, and his loaded pistol was ready for any situation.

#10

The case of missing girl Kristine Sidhart was heartbreaking, but it remained open because removing it would have sent a more dire signal. A classmate found Kristine’s shoes in the cloakroom.

#11

The murders of Mark Stebbins, Jill Robinson, and Kristine Mihelich showed a pattern that the other three children