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Post by HeadMarshal on Apr 13, 2014 2:29:21 GMT -5
 Authorities are trying to identify a serial killer that was active in the early 90s. AMW and Unsolved Mysteries aired this case in the early-mid 90s and it was also featured on AMW: Final Justice. From Apr 8 to May 7, 1992, an unidentified man would shoot and kill six people in stores alongside Interstate 70. 26-year old Robin Fuldauer was the first victim inside the Indianapolis store where she worked. Three days later, the man killed 23-year old Patricia Smith and 32-year old Patricia Magers at a bridal shop in Wichita, Kansas. 40-year old Michael McCown was killed on Apr 27 at a Terre Haute, Indiana ceramics store, he may have been targeted because he may have been mistaken for a woman. On May 3, 24-year old Nancy Kitzmiller was killed in the St. Charles, Missouri boot store she managed. On May 7, 37-year old Sarah Blessing was killed at a shopping center in Raytown, Missouri. A grocery store clerk saw the killer climb an embankment to an I-70 access road, and vanish. In the next two years after the 1992 murder spree, investigators believe the serial killer shot three shopkeepers in Texas, killing two of them. The only clues in this case are the murder weapon being a .22 caliber pistol and the description of the serial killer. He was a young, slender white male who in 1992 was 5'7 to 5'9, with sandy or red hair. Interestingly, after the killer committed the double homicide of the two Wichita bridal shop employees, he confronted a man who was picking up something for his tuxedo, he let the man leave without injury. Donald Albin Blom is a possible suspect in the murders. He was convicted of murdering a woman and owned a .22 caliber weapon, investigators also believe he's serial killer. ---- Thoughts? This is one of the few cold case US serial killers that was never identified. For whatever reason, AMW didn't air this case after probably the mid 90s, not even during the 2011 serial killer episode. I feel this is a really underrated case. As for the serial killer's motives. Due to the fact that most of his confirmed victims were women and the only man he killed may have been mistaken for a woman, we're probably dealing with someone who really hates women. Perhaps he abused his girlfriends/wives, maybe he even raped women at some point in his life. There's little DNA evidence to test so if the killer was arrested at some point for another crime and his DNA is in the national system, authorities would not know about it. It is possible that Blom could be the serial killer, but I haven't read anything to really suggest that he would be. Admin Note #1: According to online articles, anyone with additional information on this case is asked to call St. Charles Police Department at 636-949-3300 or 1-800-800-3510. Information can be submitted anonymously at 636-949-3333 or via e-mail at www.stcharlescrimestoppers.org.Admin Note #2: If you have any news-related updates on this case, please contact us here: amwfans.com/thread/1662/website-contact-formarchive.ksdk.com/news/crime/article/318449/147/Police-release-new-information-on-I-70-killer-www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/answers-remain-elusive-years-after-st-charles-murder-part-of/article_1b8d603e-3c82-51de-91d4-9bb54965fb25.htmlen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Blom |
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Post by Scumhunter on Apr 13, 2014 11:17:31 GMT -5
The problem with the killer being Donald Blom is you think police would have had SOMETHING to connect him to these cases. I am sure they gathered a ton of evidence and with better technology throughout the decades, could have seen something that would match up.
Also, the MO of the I-70 killer seems a bit different here. As horrific as these murders are, they were over with relatively quickly. Blom's crimes seemed more drawn out, he would allegedly kidnap and sexually assault his victims. I don't believe I've read anything about the I-70 killer sexually assaulting his victims.
Also, Blom's crimes were in Minnesota, and although Indiana, Kansas, and Missouri are close enough, it does seem like a lot for him to be at all these places at once in a limited time span.
Anyway, I agree with you this killer probably has a deep-seated anger towards women, seeing how most of his victims were. I wouldn't be surprised if he had a few volatile relationships that ended in divorce (hopefully not worse). And in his bitterness, he resorted to these crimes as "revenge."
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Post by pakman on Apr 15, 2014 15:20:01 GMT -5
The theory that his crimes were motivated by a possible hatred of women can also be validated by one seemingly innocuous incident; during the bridal shop murders, when the male customer came in the store, the suspect just let him go. If AMW's reenactment is to be believed, the man walked in, had the gun pointed at him, explained why he was there, and the suspect just turned around and left. Why on earth would the suspect not care that this witness saw him unmasked? Is it because he was male?
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Post by profiler24 on Jun 9, 2014 17:48:25 GMT -5
so has anyone ever confirmed the suspect's sketch? has he ever been apprehended?
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Post by HeadMarshal on Nov 14, 2016 17:09:01 GMT -5
According to a Wichita, Kansas newspaper report on NewsLibrary, the I-70 serial killer was first aired around on August 07, 1992.
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Post by eal22 on Nov 24, 2016 23:16:49 GMT -5
This case has always interested me, although most of them do I guess! So little to go on. How did he flee the area so quickly? No one ever saw him get into a car as far as I know.
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Post by Scumhunter on Nov 25, 2016 9:47:29 GMT -5
It is a great question as to how after each murder, he was able to flee with no one noticing him. If he did have a car waiting for him, he was very fast. Possible accomplice maybe?
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Post by eal22 on Nov 28, 2016 19:49:27 GMT -5
Someone like him wouldn't be the sort for an accomplice I don't think. I reckon he was a loner, and may in fact be in jail for other crimes he was caught for. What are the chances he did these few murders and then stopped? Maybe he killed himself?
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Post by Scumhunter on Nov 28, 2016 19:57:54 GMT -5
Jail or death is possible in my opinion. I think it is plausible he killed himself since we haven't heard of any more known murders since his crime spree, but I also feel that is more likely if he hadn't been alive for at least two years since his spree started. (the three shopkeepers in Texas). Usually if you're on some sort of suicide mission, I'd assume you'd kill as many people as possible in a much shorter period and then kill yourself. (Although you never know, maybe one day he got spooked because he thought a cop car's sirens and thought they were headed for him or something like that).
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Post by eal22 on Nov 30, 2016 21:26:30 GMT -5
This really must be one of the coldest cases out there, as far as serial killers go. It seems that the police really have no potential suspects at all.
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Post by Scumhunter on Nov 30, 2016 21:32:28 GMT -5
Donald Blom has been the only known person discussed as a possible suspect, but you'd think after 24 years if they had anything on him, he'd be named the killer by now.
Sometimes police know more than they're letting on, but if they have any suspects, they haven't released those names to the public.
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Post by profiler24 on Dec 30, 2016 16:42:16 GMT -5
Let's do it with the Robert Ironside method.
Queries:
-Was there any bullets identification done by the ballistics lab to see if they match a handgun used in other unsolved crimes?
-Were there any witness who reported to have seen and clearly identify the man involved in the murders?
-Why wasn't a sketch distributed all across the US to all police department or sheriffs offices in order to apprehend and arrest this man?
-If Donald Albin Blom matches the suspect description and that the grooves of bullet shots from his pistol are the same that the ones that killed his victims why isn't he behind bars.
-If he has a car, was it ever identified?
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Post by HeadMarshal on Oct 3, 2017 13:41:50 GMT -5
In case anyone's interested, according to newspapers.com, the I-70 serial killer was profiled on Sept 20, 1992 series premiere of Prime Suspect. Prime Suspect was a syndicated TV series similar to AMW that ran from 1992 to 1995.
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Post by Scumhunter on Dec 10, 2017 5:03:20 GMT -5
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Post by Maddog on Oct 8, 2018 21:01:24 GMT -5
I have always believed the killer was from Indiana. Think about it: it is where his first killing occurred, and he came back there at some point and killed again in Terre Haute.
I have been stumped as to how this case has never been solved. There was an eyewitness who (from the accounts I read, argued with the killer for several minutes before he was allowed to leave - this being the male customer who went to pick up part of his tuxedo at the bridal shop) managed to get a VERY good look at the killer, and the best sketch artist in the Country, Lois Gibson, was even brought in. I don’t think they have any suspects, either. One of the witnesses to the strip mall killing in MO noted that police had shown him various photos over the years of suspects, but to no avail.
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