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»The
Day After -June 28,2000
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Haunts a Town -July
2000 New York Times (read
more)
»Missing
Molly -June
2001 Today's Parent (read
more)
»Two
Sisters Reflect -June
2002 Today's Parent (read
more)
»Two
Years Later
-July 2002 Court TV (read
more)
»Bish
case gets a fresh look -Feb
2003 Boston Globe (read
more)
»Clue
sparks frantic search: Swimsuit may be Molly's -May 2003
Boston Herald
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more)
»'Intensive'
Bish effort mapped -May
2003 Republican (read
more)
»'We pray every day
for Molly': -May
2003 Boston Herald (read
more)
»Family
grateful, fearful -May
2003 Republican (read
more)
»Haunted:
Bish's parents prepare for worst
-May 2003 Boston
Herald (read
more)
»Predator
is eyed in Bish case -May
2003 Boston Globe (read
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A profilers point of view:
October
2000
“He
did not stumble upon her. He knew his stuff. He was
watching her,” Dr. Kelly said.
“This person is
visually oriented. He enjoys the outdoors, more of a
fisherman, and probably does not work. He'll probably have
a background of female abuse, lewd behavior, has exposed
himself when he was younger and he may be known as a
Peeping Tom.”
-Oct
2000 Worcester Telegram & Gazette
(read
more)
» Search
for Molly resumes
May 2003
The area
where the
bathing suit was found is wooded, not far from the
Nenameseck
Sportsmen's Club on Bacon Road in Palmer
and about 5 miles from where Molly was
last seen. Yesterday, two state police canine units from
Conte's office searched the undisclosed area again, but
found nothing. -May 2003 The
Republican (read
more)
»
Continuation of a profilers point of view
May 2003
The predator who abducted Molly Bish from her
lifeguard stand three years ago was a seasoned criminal who
knows the rolling, wooded hills of this central Massachusetts
town too intimately just to have been passing through, says a
criminal profiler who has been following the case.
''This was a hometown guy, and he knows the
area,'' said John Kelly, a clinical social worker and forensic
examiner who runs a profiling firm.
Last week, he and two other profilers familiar
with the probe, said the abductor's likely
characteristics
include a fondness for hard-core pornography; a rap sheet full
of prior offenses, stalking women or sexual assaults;
an
affinity for hiking or hunting; and an addiction to cigarettes.
The assailant had only a brief opportunity to grab her, the pond is in a remote location, and the suit was found in an even more remote area five miles away. Those factors persuade Kelly that Bish's abductor knew the woods and the area well and planned the kidnapping carefully.
Kelly said he would recommend that investigators search the high ground around where the suit was found because the abductor would want to be able to spot anyone approaching the spot where he was holding Bish.-May 2003 Boston Globe
(read
more)
»Bish
case finding
June 4, 2003
PALMER - Searchers yesterday discovered
a human bone just 500 feet from where a tattered bathing
suit was found, leaving Molly Bish's anguished parents
with little hope their missing daughter is alive.
``Now they know, pretty certain, that
Molly is likely dead,'' said family friend and state Sen.
Stephen Brewer (D-Barre), who met with the emotional
family last night.
The upper arm bone came from a person
between age 14 and 20 and was on its way to a Virginia lab
for DNA testing, Worcester District Attorney John Conte
said last night. Molly was 16 years old when she
disappeared from her lifeguard post at Comins Pond in
Warren three years ago this month.
The bone was discovered about 1 p.m. on
the highest point of a ridge in the woods bordering Warren
and Palmer. The bone was exactly 512 feet from where the
blue bathing suit was found. -June
4, 2003 Boston Herald (read
more)
»
Bishes press DNA reform
June
6, 2003
Yesterday, profiler John Kelly of System
to Apprehend Lethal Killers Inc. in New Jersey, said
he
believes he "knows a lot" about the person who
took Molly. He said that person is probably antisocial and
lives in constant torment.
He urged the perpetrator to come forward
and use the press to tell his story.
"Now's your chance to give yourself
up for abducting Molly," Kelly advised. "This is
your chance, this is your time. Give yourself up before
the Massachusetts police come and get you." -June
6, 2003 the republican (read
more)
»
Bish probe no closer to narrowing suspects
June
9, 2003
``There really isn't (a prime
suspect),'' said one source. ``It's an area where you have
a cast of characters out there. You have to go with the
odds and odds are it's someone from the area rather than
some stranger coming through.'' -June
9, 2003 the Boston Herald (read
more)
»
Parents urge Molly's killer to surrender
June
11, 2003
``The person who placed her in peril
will also be found by the Massachusetts State Police. I'm
confident of that,'' said Molly's father, John Bish.
``We will now turn to helping them in
every way we can to pursue this individual,'' John Bish
said. ``We would ask that person to turn himself in now.''
-June 11, 2003 the Boston Herald (read
more)
»
At cabin in woods, a mention of Molly
June
13, 2003
Two Warren teenagers said yesterday that
in the summer of 2000 they found a cabin in the woods with
sexually explicit magazines and videos inside, and a
handwritten note tacked to the outside door that mentioned
Molly Bish soon after she disappeared. -June
13, 2003 the Boston Globe (read
more)
»
Seven men now focus of Bish probe
June
20, 2003
 Sturbridge police chief Thomas Button
confirmed yesterday that investigators in the Bish case
have asked for the file of John Robert Allen, 60, who
admitted to the attempted kidnapping of a 12-year-old girl
five years ago, and who was interviewed in connection with
the murders of
Holly Piirainen and
Sarah Pryor.
''They are unequivocally aware of him,''
Button said. ''That name and information has been turned
over.'' Allen was arrested in Sturbridge in 1998 after he
offered a 12-year-old $25 to get into his pickup truck at
a bus stop in Dudley. Allen told the girl that he was
looking for a ''12- or 13-year-old blond-headed girl named
Molly'' who had a dimple like Marilyn Monroe, according to
court documents reviewed in 1998 by the Globe.
Police later found him at a boat dock,
Button said. A search of his vehicle turned up
pornographic magazines, liquor, rope, a book on tying
knots, a paper with the word ''blonde'' written on it, and
maps of towns in the area. -June
20, 2003 the Boston Globe (read
more)
»
Finding Molly's Killer would beat the odds
June
29, 2003
Firth there was the tip, shortly after Molly Bish disappeared, of a stench coming from a freshly dug hole in a trailer park. But days of digging only turned up buried crab shells. Then, there was a call from a mechanic who had found a known sex offender's car soaked with blood. But tests showed the blood was from an animal.
Then, there was the file on a man who had admitted to trying to kidnap a girl in a nearby town. But he turned out to have an alibi for the day that Bish, a 16-year-old lifeguard from Warren, disappeared: He had been in a psychiatric ward.
-July,
2003 the Boston Globe (read
more)
»
Police, school officials discuss sex offender
July
3, 2003
TEMPLETON-
A
registered sex offender whose name surfaced in two high
profile unsolved deaths is living at a residential
treatment center near Narragansett Regional Middle/High
School.
John R. Allen, 61, who went to jail for the 1998 attempted
abduction of a schoolgirl in Dudley, was questioned in the
1995 disappearance of Holly
Piirainen. His name also had been linked to the
investigation into the murder of Warren lifeguard Molly
Ann Bish. -July,
2003 the Telegram & Gazette (read
more)
»Legal tiff over evidence in Molly case
August 7, 2003
...a
scrap of blue bathing suit in Molly's case found on
Whiskey Hill in Palmer after state police had completed a
search of the area; and a subpoena for a CBS film crew's
videotape of the possible additional evidence.
_____________________________
As for similarities between the cases, Mr.
McGuigan stated, "In both cases you have a person smart
enough to leave no evidence at the crime scene. You have a
victim that's consistent in appearance, despite the age
difference, and profilers will tell you that many times, as
a predator ages, his victims are older as well."
Continuing, he said, "In both cases, the bodies of the
victims were found within five miles of the point where they
were abducted. The person or persons who committed these
crimes didn't want to be seen and certainly didn't want the
victims to be seen, so on instinct each was taken to a
wooded area, indicating a person who is comfortable in the
woods."
-August,
2003 the Telegram & Gazette
(read
more)
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Elusive
hope does indeed exist
The Boston Herald |
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by
Beverly Beckham
Hope is like a flower
that grows through shale, or above the tundra, or
flourishes in sand or blooms in a crack in the sidewalk.
Impossible things, all of them.
But
there they are. That's what stands out. Something bright
in the gloom. Hope that refuses to quit.
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» National
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» Details
of the Morning Molly Disappeared
» DA
Says New Leads in Bish Case
» TV
Show Brings New Leads
» Without
a Trace May 22, 2002
» Bish
family speaks out May
31, 2003
»
Bish
Family Interview
Taken from
The Republican
DA
subpoenas tape -
August 4, 2003
CBS film
features Timothy S. McGuigan, and Ricky J. Boudreau
walking in woods, where Bouderau finds a piece of a
bathing suit.
»
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»
12/02 '48
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»
10/01 DNA
Expansion close to reality
»
08/04
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»
08/04 Bish
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» 08/04 Remembering
Molly
» 08/03 Slain
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» 08/03 Doubts
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» 08/03 Sorrow
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»
07/27 Life
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»
06/30 Ride
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»
06/28 Family,
friends remember molly
»
06/21
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»
06/18 Bish
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»
06/17 Woodlands
search coming to an end
»
06/14 Ground
search, tips Bish focus
»
06/13 Sex
offenders fear backlash
»
06/12 Officials
hope to learn from search
»
06/12 Sate
debates expansion of DNA database
»
06/11 Bishes
turn thoughts to killer
»
06/10 Molly
has come home
»
06/10 Remains
identified as Bish
»
06/08 Searchers
uncovering more
»
06/08 Publicity
keeps public on alert
»
06/07 Bish
search uncovers more
»
06/06 Bish
family urges DNA reforms
»
06/05 Search
yields more bones
»
06/04 Searchers
find arm bone
»
06/03 Search
moving to site of swimsuit find
»
06/01 Hair
clump, tie possible clues to Bish
»
05/31 Search
continues in Bish case
»
05/30 DA
set to fight for DNA samples
»
05/29 Swimsuit
is Molly's, father says
»
05/29 Missing
children remembered
»
05/28 Search
delayed, Bish tip studied
»
05/27 Bish
probers return to woods
»
05/24 Family
grateful, fearful
»
05/22 'Intensive'
Bish effort mapped
»
05/21 Bish
search resumes today
»
05/20 Bish,
breakthrough possible
»
05/01 Bush
signs child-safety bill amid Bishes and Smarts
»
03/24 Friends
and family of Molly Bish mark 1,000 days with cranes of
hope
»
03/14 Bish
case featured on 48 Hours
»
03/13 Bish:
Family of missing teen overjoyed for Smarts
»
03/10 Vigil
to mark teens disappearance-1000
days
»
01/31 Bish:
Case to receive new look
2002
Stories
»
12/24 Bish
case priority for new chief
»
11/14 Boston
Celtics Honor Bishes
»
07/22 Molly
Bish Foundation offers hope
»
07/01
Bikers
take to road in Bish fund-raiser
»
06/28
Families
remember the missing
»
06/27
'
Whispers' reach out to Molly
»
06/26
After
2 sad years, they await Molly
»
05/24
Discovery
reopen wounds for Bishes
»
05/23
Bish's
parents hold onto hope
»
05/20
Ham
radio voices call out for missing
»
04/20
Bish
probe heats up; 'Unsolved' crew films
2001
Stories
»
12/06
Aerosmith
joins search for Molly
»
12/03 Child
safety program today
»
11/01 Bishes
mark 500th day of absence
» 10/02
Ludlow
man sentenced to 6-8 years
»
08/26
Other
missing women just as important as Levy
»
08/21
Defense
pushes Bish angle in kidnap trial
» 08/04
Cyclist's
ride leaves impression
» 08/02
Mother's
poem remembers Molly
» 08/01
White
car tested for tie to Bish
» 07/29 Bikers
gather in 2nd ride for Molly
»
07/18
Molly
Bish picture on cover of People
»
06/28
Hundreds
attend Molly vigil
» 06/27
Year
after disappearance, family prays, wonders
» 06/22
Enhanced
safety measures in place at Comins Pond
» 06/20 Ludlow
man ordered held for 90 days
»
06/13 Kidnap-try
suspect held as public risk
» 06/03 Shadow
of Molly touches graduates
» 05/24 White
balloons call attention to state's missing children
» 05/15 Comins
Pond beach spending plan sought
» 05/07 Missing
teen talk of ham radio
» 05/06 Bish
case fills sites, time on Net for concerned users
» 05/03 Bar
patrons quiet about 2 suspects
» 05/02
Man
questioned in Bish case, Monson incident denied bail
» 05/01 State
probe of Bish case continues
» 04/30 Ludlow
man questioned in Bish case
»
04/30
Investigators
pursuing all leads
»
04/28 Kidnap
suspect had been asked about Bish
» 04/12 90
million to get Molly photo
»
03/20 Sketch
impresses investigators
» 03/13 Famed
artist puts new face on suspect
» 03/09 Selectmen
may keep Comins Pond closed
» 02/26 Missing
girl's family seeks help of artist
2000
Stories
» 12/30 Donor
in Bish case goes public
» 12/27 Holidays
quiet at Bish home
» 11/29 Molly
Bish absent, but not forgotten
» 10/31 Donor
adds $60,000 to reward fund
» 10/23 Bishes
continue efforts
» 10/19 Search
for missing girl renewed
» 09/26 Bish
family aiding Tauton search
» 09/21 Growing
reward fails to yield new tips
» 09/11 Hundreds
of bikers ride for Bish family
» 09/06 Motorcyclists
plan 'Ride for Molly'
» 09/03 Molly
not forgotten at Fourth celebration
» 09/01 Disappearance
casts shadow
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