So is the killer of April Tinsley really smarter than the FBI? The killer has apparently laid down a challenge to the FBI, in essence, catch me if you can. Let's see what we can do to help the FBI. First, a little background. On April 1, 1988, eight year old April Tinsley was playing with her friends in Fort Wayne Indian when she was abducted, raped and killed. The murder was never solved.
In March of 2004, a 5-year-old girl found a note tucked inside a plastic bag in a basket used as a flower pot. The note read,"Hi Honey I Been watching you. I am the same person that kidnapped an Rape an kill Aproil tinsely here is a present foR yo you are my next vitem." A used condom was also found in the bag. Authorities believe that this is not the first clue left by the killer.
He apparently scribbled a message in crayon on a barn in 1990. He also allegedly left four notes for other children in the Fort Wayne area several years later. the notes contained condoms and/or Polaroid photos of the killer's body. The FBI Child Abduction Response Deployment (CARD) team is attempting to reopen the investigation. FBI: April Tinsley: Part 1
FBI: April Tinsley, April Tinsley
DNA evidence from April's body and from the condoms does not match any known suspect to date.The FBI behavioral profile of the killer is as follows: A white male currently in his 40s or 50s who prefers and desires sexual contact with children. The offender likely has "strong ties" to northeast Fort Wayne and Allen County. If you have any information on the Tinsley case, call the Fort Wayne police at (866) 602-7745 or contact your nearest FBI office.
In March of 2004, a 5-year-old girl found a note tucked inside a plastic bag in a basket used as a flower pot. The note read,"Hi Honey I Been watching you. I am the same person that kidnapped an Rape an kill Aproil tinsely here is a present foR yo you are my next vitem." A used condom was also found in the bag. Authorities believe that this is not the first clue left by the killer.
He apparently scribbled a message in crayon on a barn in 1990. He also allegedly left four notes for other children in the Fort Wayne area several years later. the notes contained condoms and/or Polaroid photos of the killer's body. The FBI Child Abduction Response Deployment (CARD) team is attempting to reopen the investigation. FBI: April Tinsley: Part 1
FBI: April Tinsley, April Tinsley
DNA evidence from April's body and from the condoms does not match any known suspect to date.The FBI behavioral profile of the killer is as follows: A white male currently in his 40s or 50s who prefers and desires sexual contact with children. The offender likely has "strong ties" to northeast Fort Wayne and Allen County. If you have any information on the Tinsley case, call the Fort Wayne police at (866) 602-7745 or contact your nearest FBI office.
10-26-09 Update: In the interest of Halloween, a sketch of the killer constructed from hypnosis has been added courtesy of Video Guy. The sketch is not necessarily accurate and is likely out dated.
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Talk about a cold trail...
This is some creepy shit. Talk about terrorism. Maybe they need to monitor things like public pools, waterparks, girls softball games - places where young girls gather - take a lot of photos and look for an older person who is present in several of those places... why the gap since the killing? copycat? person was in jail? person was in military and returned? moved away and back to area? any similar cases elsewhere in US? Hope they catch him soon.
Good questions.
Creepy? If it's the killer, he does it to likely torment the cops. He figures he is too smart for them. Maybe he is right.
Hoosiers aren't scared of child molestors. He strikes again in Fort Wayne and he will likely be shot before he gets one hand on another child.
Crawl back under a rock you cowardly pervert.
String him up Indiana!
I think creepy is the perfect adj.
Someone lurking around preying on our innocent children....thats f***ing CREEPY AND SICK!!!
Do you think the killer reads blogs??
I think headline news said today that the internet is a common tool that pedophiles use to bond and brag about their exploits. So,
Secrets, there is a decent probability that the perpetrator has a computer.
From the note it sounds like the killer is a low tech ignoramous who is not smart enough to turn on a computer.
Seeker
Low educated!
You can call Americas Most Wanted at (800) 274-6388 or Fort Wayne Police (260) 427-1201.
The killer is not as "low tech" as he would like you to believe. Please look at the writing samples he/she leaves. It "appears" that the alleged killer wants the writing to look uneducated on purpose. Most people have definite ways of forming their letters, whether neat or sloppy. There is a lot of inconsistency in the different letter formations. If you look carefully, sometimes the smaller letters are startig at different points. Some, such as the letter "d" are formed at the top of the "c", swinging around with the line added to complete the "d". Other "d"'s are formed starting at the top and swinging the lower part of the letter around. People usually don't do this many different types of strokes forming the same letters in such a short note. JMO
The killer formulated the note so as to fool the FBI? Could be. Or he could be some barely literate scum who is so sick that he has to picl on little kids. I see this scum bucket as a momma's boy who could never figure out how to have an adult relationship with an adult female.
Tell me it aint so, Momma's boy!
Citizen
I think he used his opposite writing hand and dumbed down his writing skills.
Look at the maps again people, this guy likes to leave evidence near one specific RR track...the same track that runs within blocks of where April was abducted and to the NE where her body was dumped. The barn writing and most of the letters were found within a mile of this SAME RR track owned and maintained by the Norfolk Southern Railway.
BTW...another young girl went missing from the Indiana town of Wabash in 2006, blocks from this same stretch of RR track. Her remains were just recently found 10miles to the SW of Wabash in a rural location, blocks from this same RR track.
If one were to follow the tracks from where April was abducted in Fort Wayne, SW to Wabash and beyond they would pass by all three sites.
If one were to follow this same track to the NE from where April was abducted in Fort Wayne the would pass within blocks of the Barn that was written on and through a town called Grabill where two of the letters were found. Continue to the NE and one would pass within a mile of where Aprils body was found near the town of Spencerville.
Video Guy:
Great observation. So the suspect would likely know his way around this rail road track.
Perhaps employee, perhaps hobo, perhaps train jumper.
Any more observations to share with our readers?
Not a hobo or a train jumper, he needed a vehicle to commit this crime against April and dump her body.
All his activities happen in the spring time, a time they would start maintenance work on the RR tracks...after the winter thaw. Other products that arrive by rail in the spring time are agriculture products...seed, fertilizer, pesticides...ect
This guy is leaving his photos and DNA all over Fort Wayne without care, which leads me to believe he does not reside there and may work there in a seasonal position.
Video guy, How about migrant worker? Where do the tracks lead if you go south?
Rail tie maintenance records? Any one look at who worked on the tracks during the relevant periods?
I have sent my theory to the April Tinsley task force months ago and I'm not sure if they took it seriously or not.
I know they have a prime suspect from the Fort Wayne area and are waiting for the DNA results to clear or arrest him. I do not know what line of work he is in.
A migrant worker is another possibility but remember that Aprils abductor had her body for three days without drawing attention to himself, he must have had a house and was alone over the Easter holiday.
Not sure a migrant worker could afford to rent a house in the area on a temporary basis, where as a RR construction worker could.
These guys (RR const.) do travel to different areas to maintain the tracks for weeks and sometimes months at a time, depending on the project.
Couldn't the girl and/or the body be kept in a car or a trunk for a couple of days?
DNA would be nice. But so would comparing the subjects body to the photos he (or theoretically she) sent to police. What takes so long for DNA evidence?
I read they have some 200 DNA samples to compare, other sites say as many as 500. This will take some time.
I have been informed at a Fort Wayne forum that they have a prime suspect and are waiting for his DNA to be compared.
There are also a dozen people who refuse to give their DNA as well.
To eliminate the prime suspect should not take more than 2 weeks
This supposed #1 suspect was taken in around June 1st. I don't know if he gave his DNA or resisted.
Oh ya...his initials are H.A. and from the River Haven area. He grew up in New Haven and a young 7-8year old girl was found dead a few hundred yards from his home in the late 60's when he was a young teen.
Shouldn't be too tough to get his finger prints. Ironic how some rough finger printing sometimes transfers DNA....
To H.A: I sincerely hope you submitted your DNA and that you are cleared. IF you are not cleared, thank God that you will get a fair trial. Indiana is fair, but JUST to those who are found guilty.
I'm told this guy DID give his DNA back in the beginning of June. Been a month and I would guess they put a rush on his test so the odds are HA is not their man.
It may be time they gave my theory some serious thought.
HA is NOT likely the killer. That was just a witch hunt!
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(HA is NOT likely the killer. That was just a witch hunt!)
I don't know...I'm sure they had good reason to suspect him but there has been nothing more said about him and I would think they had the DNA back by now...thats all I'm saying.
Prime-time crime show “America’s Most Wanted” will air a second segment on the abduction, molestation and murder of 8-year-old April Marie Tinsley on Saturday.
After a command center was set up following the first “America’s Most Wanted” airing, workers fielded dozens of calls per day.
That lasted just a week, however, before the tips and the call center fizzled out, said FBI Supervisory Special Agent Bob Ramsey.
The center, which employs only FBI personnel now, answers few calls now.
“Nothing’s breaking, there’s nothing new,” said Ramsey.
Thanks video guy!
Your updates are helpful. Cops ought to hitch the old line and speak to a few transits. Someone knows.
Oh god... his messages are scary.
The killer is a chicken sht. Try hurting some one your own size and see who winds up pushing daiseys.
they've sent 150 to 200 samples taken in our area to the Indiana State Police Lab. It takes four to six weeks to get results back. They haven't gotten back any results so far.
Come on Nikki, it's been over 6 weeks. If they had something, it would have come back as a probable and then further analysis would be done after they tried to get a confession.
Most likely, they got nothing.,,
They got nothing,,,and I'll tell you why! This guy is not a permanent resident of Fort Wayne. Or he would not be spreading his DNA and photos all around town laughing at the police...he lives elsewhere, and works for the railroad for a sub contractor...they have blue trucks!
kcoz,
Have to agree that your theory is much more sound than the theory it was a local. Follow the tracks, follow the repair log and ask for volunteers to give DNA. The ones that won't volunteer should be investigated further...
this is nasty and sick
Yup, murdering pedophiles are nasty sick COWARDS!
I think the killer is a doctor. Here is my reasoning:
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
Statistics courtesy of U.S... Dept of Health and Human Services.
Guns
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S... is 80,000,000.
(Yes, that's 80 million)
(B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.
(C) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .000188.
Statistics courtesy of FBI
So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. So remember, 'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.
Jester
I don't believe it was a Doctor. If you look at records of child molesters in the area where April lived..blocks after blocks are red dots!! Meaning molesters are all over. I don't know about 1988 in that area but the molesters convictions range from 1985 till now. Some were convicted of it 2 & 3 times. This man lives or lived near. He went all over throwing off the FBI leaving notes & what not but I believe he is a low life scum bag that planned what he did.
you may be right, but the doctor statistics were funnier...
Psychic picks up Tinsley case
Robbie Thomas is coming to Fort Wayne in October as part of the American Paranormal Conference held at the Scottish Rite on October 12th. Thomas is hoping to work with local police on the Tinsley case
Twenty-one years of investigation, including a trail of evidence, and a long list of ruled out people of interest hasn't lead to the man who raped and killed 8-year old April Tinsley in 1988.
After the renewed effort Fort Wayne Police collected more than 200 DNA samples from local people trying to look into anything that could offer some insight.
"I'll be doing whatever the [Fort Wayne] detective wishes me to do," said Thomas in a phone interview on Friday. "Visiting the crime scene would help."
Despite Thomas, and Stone saying they've talked to Fort Wayne Police, and that detectives are on board, the department's stance is they are not working with psychics on this case.
Apparently all the local DNA samples they have taken are not a match...
During my continued research I have found other girls that have been murdered over the years suspiciously close to the Norfolk Southern Railroad system...one of them in Wabash Indiana along the exact same track that runs through Fort Wayne, past Aprils house and past the barn writing, three of the letters, and near where Aprils body was discovered.
Also included in my research was an education about the RR construction business. Many projects are subed out to contractors from other states that specialize in specific repairs and inspections. When such sub-contractors win a bid they sent their own crews to the area/state to do the work, sometimes spending months and months at location....I now feel Aprils killer works for one of these contractors. There is one in particular out of Pittsburgh, PA. that has caught my attention. They work in several states including Fort Wayne, IN. and in 1995 a 8-year-old girl disappeared in PA near a privet RR track connected to the Norfolk Southern track system there in PA.
Anyone know how I can research construction projects this company was involved with in Fort Wayne?
(in 1995 a 8-year-old girl disappeared in PA near a privet RR track connected to the Norfolk Southern track system there in PA.)
This should read "1985" and her name is Cherri Ann Mahan. search her name and read her story, than look at maps of where she was abducted and compare them to the system map of the Norfolk Southern Railroad.
Video Guy. I think you may be on to something. I suggest that you author a letter to the FBI agent in charge (CARD Unit), to Supervisory Special Agent William "Rocky" Donaldson with the Quantico, Va.-based Behavioral Analysis Unit, and the county prosecutor in Allen County and suggest they subpoena the records. All three have the means to get the records if you write a compelling letter.
I suspect the rail road will cooperate. Once they get the records, it seems likely that it may show the connection to the point that interviews are warranted.
I have studied this case and I do agree Video Guy has an excellent theory regarding the RR Tracks, I
look at the string of events in the N.E. section of Indiana and lately I get the impression more and more that the perp had or still possibly has a delivery route of sorts, I just wonder when the note was found in the mail box was there a flyer or newspaper with it, newspaper delivery would help this guy blend into the community and to see him on a daily basis would not alarm residents, the barn note was composed predawn in other words before sunrise, flyer and or newspaper delivery in started in the early morning hours,he knew little girls lived in the houses when he left the notes.
My sentiments exactly I have noted this information on another thread, I truly believe this perp had or has a delivery route in the North Eastern part of Indiana,he is most likely known and even familier with community folk and their little girls, I would closely watch delivery vehicles passing through, he insisted in one of his notes that the note be reported to the police and the LOCAL NEWSPAPER why not just the local news the word PAPER is what grabbed me, is it because he delivers papers and wants to read about himself to satisfy his need for attention and cut out publications about the case to add to his collection? Sometimes we tend to overlook the obvious, just speculation but it makes total sense.
All of these theories are good. I only hope law enforcement takes them seriously. All of the time and effort placed into coverage and investigation will be worth it if the killer is brought to justice.
Follow this link to a composite drawing created in 1988 of the suspect involved in the murder of April Tinsley:
http://s795.photobucket.com/albums/yy239/illustrator55/?action=view¤t=Tinsleysuspect.jpg
I have been informed that this drawing was created byway of hypnosis. Any one who knows anything about hypnosis will tell you that one has to be very careful about how information is gathered thru hypnosis for risk of creating a FALSE memory. Not every annalist with a psychology degree is qualified to hypnotize an individual with successful results.
I now know what the police have figured out…they have been chasing a ghost for the past twenty years.
Just why is the barn writing case so hard to solve? Have the FBI spent to much time trying to track down the image in the scetch as opposed to following up on rail road workers and subcontractors who work along the tracks?
Actually they do not use the sketch at the website and I think they believe this is a dead end or it would have been used with age enhancement.
We have no clue as to what the FBI is up to... Hopefully they are still running down leads.
Someone is harassing me at my youtube channel in regards to this case and it is not Aprils father as they claim.
Go ahead and post your Youtube site if you want contacts from this site. I would think the FBI would welcome your input. I certainly find your theories a breath of fresh air.
Thanks Legal but I already have...they know of my youtube channel, my theory's, and the forum I post in.
What they are doing with this info I do not know...I only hope that all of this is not wasting their time...this killer needs to be caught, tried, and if found guilty...executed.
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