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By Lisa Church Living Today Editor CLINTON — The Rural Major eee est lenges. The squad, a contingent of law en forcement officers from 15 counties, is my long dame by the try to a 20-year-old Clinton Gionaigts Sant Yoeaestig anes April 4. Hammond is believed to have abducted from a telephone booth near a Clinton supermarket about midnight while she was talking wit her boy is somewhat for the case Sad the Murders are more its mainstay. There's a body, a crime scene and evidence. With a dis appearance, there’s nearly nothing. “We've probably got the best track = hy A squad in Missouri,” said Chief and squad spoke on on ‘Tom Ven Zandt. “But this is different than any case we've every worked on before. ...We don’t have t he Srapa na spa squad's record speaks of calle oper in Ma 1987 to in us with a Within he day of US ng, or incuting Ander wife, Lana, but even murder-for-hire plot. fo Pane Becomme Jone, 8 Se called to in murder Seyearald John Fulbright of Sedalia, who was found beaten death in his home on a Saturday. By Monday, two men had been arrested for the mur der. On May 5, 1988, restaurateur John Wells was found shot to death in his southeast Pettis County home. His wife's body was found later the day in a field. The case called in, and by May 8, Wells’ mate her, Virginia Twenter, had been charged in the deaths. All these cases ended in convictions. With Hammond’s disappearance, however, there’s little evi and few clues to go on. The investigation thus far has focused on the late 1960s or early 70s model Ford pickup that Hammond had described to her boy friend over the phone. The boyfriend, Rob Shafer, told Clinton police he ‘saw the truck that night and had followed it for a while before having car trouble that forced him to quit the chase. The case squad has 300 to 400 dif ferent leads and has logged a lot of miles’ traveling the Henry County countryside, Van Zandt said. we want to know a where abouts, contacts, an to bring it into focus, any said. ad Right rel and ret ot dwn we're trying to get it to the small end.” Van Zandt indicated ae so far has led the Soe uae he cence legless a young woman was dragged from the Missouri River in ae ee said he wondered if it could be her. It was not. “Of course we want to remain opti ee ee ity, he ‘or now, the case will con tinue to follow every i seeking ee ee eee ee miss+ ous oan Veena said. “I've never seen one like it.”
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Sedalia Democrat
Sedalia, Missouri, US
Thu, Apr 18, 1991
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