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Cyaland's avatar

At one time he called it his project. And it was all about getting rich quick. So i don,t see William Thoresen having had anything to do with the three boy,s But what you wrote about Matlick makes it very clear that he did the crime with money being the motive. 13,000 was huge in the 50,s

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Steel particles were found on the boys' remains, in one case two types of steel, one uncommon. Thoresen worked at his father's business, a steel distributor. The smudges that were on their bodies are reasons to believe they had been placed into steel cans, which is what was done with Judith Anderson. The cans in her case contained chemicals used in steelmaking. Another reason to suspect it was Thoresen is the boys went missing from the North Side and he was from the North Suburbs. Both cases also have connections to Montrose Avenue. Brach went missing in 1977, not the fifties. But, if I recall correctly, 13 thousand dollars then would be in the neighborhood of 65 thousand today.

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Cyaland's avatar

Thanks i meant 1977 in a case with solid evidence. These other cases were early cases with William Thoresen and the steel drum was solid evidence. There was, someone in a fishing boat who saw it being dumper by one guy. Did they have stronger evidence in the case with the boys? And was there a motive to connect with the suspect.

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It's circumstantial in the boy's case, what's been mentioned plus the murders ending the month before WT left Illinois. Given that the rarity of double and triple homicides and documentary evidence that he first travelled to Southern CA the year at least one Zodiac researcher said was the first Zodiac murder was in that state plus two known and two suspected Zodiac attacks sounding a lot like the murders of the boys and at Starved rock. Bailey and Hansen being charged at the same time with no evidence just stories that sound a lot like the one the FBI planted in '73 regarding the Percy case, ones involving dead characters with criminal or rumored criminal ties. Hard to believe this is just coincidental.

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