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Mja Inc Investigations

Kansas : Three 1980's Missing Person Cases

Kansas : 1980's Serial Killer

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Missing 24 Year Old : Joan Marie Butler

White Female

Butler went Missing on 6-18-1989 from Overland Park Kansas..

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1342dfks.html

Joan Butler was last seen during the early morning hours of Sunday 6-18-1989..

Evidence at Joan Butler's apartment indicates she made it home & was interrupted...

She and her red Chevrolet Corsica rental car were missing along with the $900 in her bank account...

On 6-25-1989 the rental car was located in a Lenexa Kansas apartment complex...

A man approached the vehicle & opened the trunk...

As he was approached by the police he abruptly closed the trunk & was able to flee & escape apprehension...

The car was processed on 6-26-1989..

Evidence from the interior of the car included fingerprints, belonging to Richard Grissom..

As well as a wallet containing identification for Grissom and his many aliases...

An air pistol, pellets and CO2 cartridges...

In the trunk, a drop of blood, later linked to Miss Butler was found...

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Missing 22 Year Old : Christine Rusch

White Female

Missing since 6-26-1989 from Lenexa Kansas...

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1384dfks.html

Christine Rusch & her roommate, Theresa Brown, vanished on 6-26-1989..

They were last seen in their apartment in Trafalgar Square on Sunday 6-25-1989..

Two days later while looking for a suspect in the disappearance of another local girl, Joan Butler..

The car of Richard Grissom was found parked outside a Grandview apartment...

Evidence was found & collected from Grissom's car along with keys to the apartments of the roommates & Butler...

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Missing 22 Year Old : Theresa Brown

White Female

Missing since 6-26-1989 from Lenexa Kansas..

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1234dfks.html

In suspect Richard Grissom's car evidence was found belonging to the two missing room-mates Christine Rusch & Theresa Brown..

In 1990 Grissom was convicted of the murders of Joan Butler, Christine Rusch, & Theresa Brown...

In 1990, Kansas did not have the death penalty, a fact of which Grissom seemed to be very much aware...

During the investigation he alluded that the women's remains would not be located in Missouri because Missouri had the death penalty...

Despite intensive searching both locally & across the country the women have never been located...

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