Karen had left to walk to a wig shop in downtown Ypsilanti, yet she arrived on the back of a motorcycle. More than two years later, Karen Beineman disappeared. The first victim, Mary Fleszar, disappeared in July 1967. "And nobody wanted to say anything to anybody because it was very obvious by that time that there was a serial killer working this area." "The town collectively went into shock," Fournier said. He's believed to be the last person to see the first victim alive. "A lot of the girls were beaten about the face, and so on, let alone the stab wounds," Harvey said.Īuthor Greg Fournier later wrote a book about the killings. Almost all of them had been raped and mutilated, as Washtenaw County Sheriff Doug Harvey explains. They were all shot, strangled, stabbed or subjected to terrible acts. All had been killed and then dumped on back roads. There have been six before her, five in southeast Michigan and one in California - though that one was not connected at the time. Karen was the latest girl in a two-year stretch to go missing. They combed the 100 square miles of side roads between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti for the 18-year-old who was last seen getting on a motorcycle with a stranger in Ypsilanti. Five different police agencies frantically searched for Karen Sue Beineman on July 23, 1969.
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