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Amanda {*Renee} Tusing
Presented By
Bonnie M. Wells
www.starlightinnerprizes.com
News Bits From Various Sources:
KTHV and KTHV-DT, Little Rock:
Twenty-year-old Amanda Renee Tusing vanished June 14th, 2000. On June 18, 2000, Father's Day, a passing motorist saw what appeared to be a body in the Big Bay Ditch in Lake City, AR, near Twin Bridges. It was Mandy, thirteen miles from her car, a 1992 black Grand Am, Pontiac, which had been found undisturbed alongside Arkansas 18 near Monette.
At the time of her death, Tusing worked for a Blytheville veterinarian.
She was last been seen driving to her home in Dell from her fiance`s home in Jonesboro.
An autopsy showed Tusing died by drowning and that she had a bruise on her head.
The young woman`s mother, Susan Tusing, says she hopes people remember her daughter and that someone will lead police to the killer.
Dell to Blytheville:
Distance: 8.8 miles
Authorities ask that anyone with information regarding the case should contact the Craighead County Sheriff's Department at 870-933-4551.
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Haunting Evidence:
In early March 2006, Court TV came to Northeast Arkansas to film Mandy's story for a new program, -- Haunting Evidence. The show will begin in June. This program uses Carla Baron, psychic, John Oliver, medium, and Patrick Burns, paranormal investigator, to bring new life into Mandy's murder.
At 11:30 pm on June 14, 2000, Mandy left her boyfriend's apartment to drive home to Dell, Arkansas. Highway 18 was the road she traveled. She was in a 1992 black Grand Am, Pontiac.
Jonesboro to Dell:
Distance: 43.9 miles
It was a stormy, rainy night. I awoke about 1:15-1:30 am and realized she had not come home. I talked to her boyfriend. Mandy left Jonesboro at 11:30 pm that night.
After contacting her father and brother, it was decided her boyfriend would drive her route from Jonesboro and her father and brother would drive her route from home toward Jonesboro.
They weren't gone long when her boyfriend called to say he found her car just on the west side of Monette, Arkansas. There was no sign of Mandy. He followed the road all the way into Monette to find her Dad. They went back to the car and then called the sheriff's department.
Jonesboro to Monette:
Distance: 25.2 miles
Monette to Lake City:
Distance: 9.2 miles
Anyone with any information on who kidnapped and killed Mandy should call the Craighead County Sheriff's Department, or their local police department and give the information to them. An email address will also be set up for tips on this case. Please help us solve Mandy's murder. It has been nearly six years.
A killer walks among us; he or she may be walking with you.
If you have any information please come forward. You might be saving someone else's life - maybe your own, a family member, or a friend. Please Help.
Haunting Evidence
I didn't watch the Haunting Evidence program that profiled Amanda Tusing's case, but my friend Sindee did. And then she called me ....
"Bonnie, you have to write to those people and tell them about Wild Bill!"
Sindee informed me of what was said by psychic Carla Baron and medium John Oliver - how they believed Amanda's killer drove a truck; how he may have posed as a policeman, perhaps a state trooper; how he told her "You are so pretty" just before he killed her, and how they believed he took pictures of her.
Well, I did as Sindee asked. I composed a letter and sent it off to ---
The email received no response -- not even a thank you or acknowledgment that my information was received. / So be it.
The Psychic Connection
Although I do some psychic work myself, I cannot say that I've had anything come to me - either personally or from someone else - that pertains to Amanda's case, and none of the information that I sent to law enforcement concerning Amanda's case was psychic.
And none of the following information is psychic either. This is all facts, based upon actual statements and eyewitness accounts:
Wild Bill drove a truck in 2000. His girlfriend was making trips to Blytheville, Arkansas in 2000 to see her son, who was incarcerated in Jonesboro. Wild Bill sometimes went with her.
The woman's ex-husband had custody of her 'twins' while he lived in Blytheville, and she and Wild Bill made several trips to visit the boy and girl while they lived in that area.
I'm told that Wild Bill and his girlfriend traveled on highway 55 in order to reach the area where they stayed in a motel [ and I wonder if that motel is a Budget Inn and is missing a flowered, quilted bed spread!!]
I live on State Route 555 in Washington County, Ohio, just a short distance from the "Twin Bridges". If one looks at the above maps, the last one on this page is of Jonesboro and plainly shows the street "Washington." This too has been a common theme in most of our unsolved cases..... as has been my maiden name 'Martin.'
How Carla Baron came up with the words - "You are so pretty," is anybody's guess. But this is the second time that I have heard the exact words that Wild Bill said to me months or years earlier, repeated in a murder case. That seems a bit much for 'coincidence,' in my opinion.
Perhaps Carla Baron was simply tunning in to the only thing that would eventually attract my attention .... I don't know, and cannot explain it. However, there is one thing I do know .... in the year 2000, Wild Bill was coming into the exact area in which Amanda Tusing was murdered. And, I know that 'coincidental' as it may be deemed, her body represents at least two dozen girls and women who have been murdered while this same man was 'in the neighborhood.'
My condolences to Mandy's family, friends, co-workers and all who knew and loved her.
Sincerely,
Bonnie M. Wells
2008 INFORMATION
I spoke with Wild Bill's ex-wife *Renay on February 25th, 2008, and she told me the following:
Wild Bill once told her about wiring up a light in his vehicle, posing as a police officer and stopping 'girls' that he wanted to meet.
She claims that he told her he saw the girls at various locations, and would wait for them to be out alone, after dark. He would then start tailing them, and if they went out of the city limits or into an area where there wasn't much traffic, he would place the rigged up light on his dash and turn it on.
Renay says that he told her that he would then pull the vehicle with the girl over, walk up to her car, and then he claims he'd 'ask her for a date.'
...... end of report .......
My Comments On Above Information:
Renay divorced 'Wild Bill' in 1990 and has had no further communication with him.
If this man was doing this type of thing when he was in his early twenties [which is the time period he indicated he was doing it] then I can only wonder what else he has done as he has aged.
Since this reminded me of what Carla Baron believes happened to Amanda Tusing, I decided to put this update on Amanda's page. It may also be placed on other pages of my web site as time permits.
In my opinion, this would be a very poor way to 'meet women/girls." If he 'saw' the girls elsewhere, why not introduce himself at that time and ask for a date? Why sneak up on them, pretend to be a cop, and then 'ask for a date?'
This does not sound logical nor reasonable to me, and sounds as if he was bragging about abducting girls as far back as the mid 1970's --- or, he was telling Renay what he planned on doing in the future.
Police Investigate Case Of Man Posing As One Of Their Own
January 15, 2011 - By Justin McIntosh, jmcintosh@mariettatimes.com
A man impersonating a police officer stopped an area woman Thursday, {1-13-11} asking her to step into his car before she got suspicious and drove away.
Marietta Police Chief Brett McKitrick said there was a similar report several months ago, and he's heard of other reports in other cities.
"If it's the same person, I don't know," he said.
According to police, the woman was stopped around 1:30 p.m. Thursday near the Parking Partners lot on Second Street by a vehicle that looked like a West Virginia state police car. It was dark blue, but didn't have a light bar on top. Instead, there was a dash-mounted red and blue light.
There was also no front license plate and the rear plate was dirty, said Police Capt. Jeff Waite.
The woman, 26-year-old Shannon Jones, said the man wasn't wearing a name tag, something she thought was odd. In an interview Friday, Jones said she repeatedly asked his name, and he refused to answer.
"He told me it wasn't a relevant question, and I said it was to me," Jones said.
The man took Jones' license and went to his car, then came back and said she would have to come with him to his car because she could not provide her vehicle registration.
"I told him forget it, you'd better call for backup. ... I'm not getting in your car," she said.
At that point, he handed her back her driver's license, told her to "have a nice day," and drove away.
Jones said it didn't quite sink in that she could have been in danger until she returned to work and told a co-worker what happened. It was then she decided to report the incident to police.
Marietta police say there has just been one official report, and not several as was rumored in Facebook discussions Friday.
The suspect is described as about 5-feet, 8-inches tall, 190 pounds, with brown hair and scruffy facial hair. He's suspected to be about 35 years old, and was seen wearing blue pants and a black, leather-like jacket.
"He also had something on his left arm, like some kind of patch, but she couldn't identify what it was," Waite said.
Waite said Jones reported to police that the suspect told her he pulled her over for stopping too quickly and being in the pedestrian walkway.
"We're very sure it wasn't a legitimate traffic stop," Waite said.
Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks said he has not heard of any similar incidents in the county.
A Reply From Carla Baron
Date received: 6/7/07
Hi, Bonnie -
I just now have discovered your page. In fact, I may not have received this email on the page, or I would have written you sooner. That week, I was in Aruba filming, and I remember losing all my emails shortly thereafter in a rare Windows crash of my system where I had to reformat everything. For several weeks after, I had posted on my contact page for anyone who hadn't received a reply in a timely manner, they should resend. Perhaps you didn't see the message then.
If you'd like, you may post this letter on my official discussion forum listed below. It is quite compelling, to say the least.
Let me know of any developments with this in the future.
Take care, and stay tuned for Season 2 of "Haunting Evidence" June 20th!
~ Carla Baron
Visit "The Carla Baron Connection" @
It is my opinion that the disappearance of Teresa Butler is directly connected to the disappearance and murder of Amanda Tusing.
Teresa Butler
September 2006: Please go see the new case that I just got posted. I believe it ties in with Amanda's and the common denominator is the same killer: Also see another new case at the following link as I believe it connects to these two cases: And for crying out loud, if anyone out there knows an FBI agent that wants to stop a serial killer, send him these pages! Thanks / Bonnie.
Allison Jackson-Foy
2009 update:
I have recently posted another page that I believe shows even more 'connections' to the Tusing case. I am still working all of my cases, and as things come to me, I get them up so others can see what I've got and determine if it fits with their own information.
The 'Renay/Renee' Girls
2010 INFORMATION
Following is an article concerning serial killer Rodney Alcala. Some of the information in it is interesting and serves to show that serial killers do strange things that the average 'normal' person would never do .... the worst of which is murder people, of course! However, they are also noted for taking 'trophies' and having 'hiding places' where they keep all kinds of things from their victims .... especially pictures of those victims. Here's the article....
Serial Killer May Have King County victim
KOMO-TV STAFF
Rodney Alcala was recently convicted of five murders in California and sentenced to die.
Now, King County detectives believe Alcala, 66, may have killed or abducted a woman from Washington state.
The woman disappeared in 1976, during the time when Alcala was killing. She is one of seven women whose picture may have been found in the local storage locker, according to investigators.
For 30 years, police have been sitting on some 2,000 images of young women, children and a few boys found in a Shoreline storage locker rented decades ago by Alcala, who has been in jail since 1980. No one is saying why the pictures were kept secret, but the pictures have been made public and there are indications some may depict victims.
Local investigators said one pictured woman was reported missing in King County years ago. The sheriff's office had not yet contacted the family, and deputies have asked KOMO News not to show her photo.
"Well, we want to have a real good quality photo to show to them," said Sgt. John Urqhuart. "We don't want to have something that has been posted on a Web site or posted on a computer. We'd rather have a digital copy of that photo that was apparently found in the Shoreline storage locker."
In the 70s, some Washington counties did not always file missing persons report if they suspected the person left voluntarily. However, some relatives convinced a person was really missing filed reports in King County. That means this case may not involve a woman from the Puget Sound area.
Seattle police said they've checked their files and have found no case which might be tied to Alcala.
Three of the women whose photos were found in the storage locker have been linked so far to missing person cases by family members, a police detective said last week.
Also found inside the locker was jewelry linked to two murder victims in California. Detectives are looking into whether any usable DNA could be recovered from the items to help identify additional victims.
"As part of our investigation, we have gotten DNA samples from relatives, and we have given those not only to the federal DNA data base but also the University of North Texas, which keeps a data base of DNA samples as well," Urqhuart said.
Although police may have trace evidence from the local locker, police say DNA is most useful should a body should be recovered.
Found photos pose unanswered questions
The photos found in the storage locker were apparently taken before Alcala's first arrest in 1979. They feature women and girls in candid and posed shots. Some show them naked and engaging in sex acts.
Prosecutors said Alcala, an amateur photographer, UCLA graduate and one-time contestant on "The Dating Game," used his camera to put his victims at ease.
"We'd like to locate the women in these pictures," prosecutor Matt Murphy told the Orange County Register. "Did they simply pose for a serial killer, or did they become victims of his sadistic, murderous pattern?"
Some photos show women posing in remote settings. A few are of young men in sexually suggestive poses.
The photos were released last week. Det. Patrick Ellis of Huntington Beach, Calif. told KOMO News that the photos weren't released earlier due to the investigation and court proceedings.
Since their release, police have received dozens of calls from people who recognize the subjects in the photos.
"The calls are basically along two lines," Ellis said. "No. 1 - yes, that's my photograph - I am alive and well, and giving us details of Mr. Alcala way back when, 30 years ago.
"Or, the calls saying, 'Hey, my sister, mother ... was reported missing back then, and I think her photograph is on the Web site,' and they're providing us with information as far as the person's name, where they were last seen alive," Ellis added. "Some people aren't positive, but they're pretty sure."
Ellis said more investigation is needed before it can be confirmed whether the three women identified so far are victims of foul play.
"Until we talk to the victims' families, get other photographs for comparison purposes and more details on where their bodies were recovered - if they were recovered at all - we can't really say at this point," he said.
2010 INFORMATION
I'm sure I've told this information elsewhere on this web site, but I feel it belongs on this page too, so here goes ....
My friend Sindee lived most of her life in a little town called Dart, Ohio. It is about 15 miles north of Marietta, Ohio, and is farming territory.
By 2005, Sindee, her boyfriend Jason Evans, and their child had moved to Jackson, Ohio, where Jason worked as a correction officer in the sheriff's department.
Prior to this move, Jason worked as a security guard for Crowl Investigations in Marietta. During this time period Sindee and Jason ordered a few items from a police catalogue.
Two of the items they ordered were hats like a state trooper would wear.
Jason worked in Jackson, Ohio during the week and went back to Dart on the week-ends, or his days off.
Sindee's mother Shirley lived right next door to Sindee and Jason. Since she never drove a vehicle, Sindee was usually the one who took Shirley to town to do her grocery shopping, etc. They tried to get this chore out of the way before Jason came in from Jackson.
There were several times {one of which Jason was actually home, but in bed asleep!} when Sindee and Shirley returned from their 'town' trip to discover someone had been in one or the other {and sometimes both} of their houses while they were away. No one could ever figure out how this person {or these persons} gained entrance to either house because both were always locked. {Personally, I always had an opinion on this matter. My opinion was based upon a dream that I had one time. It's on this web site and is titled, 'Something Borrowed, Something Blue,' and can be found on the Mary Badaracco story.}
During one of these town trips, someone entered Sindee's house and instead of taking anything, they left her a present. It was a necklace, a small, rope braided necklace with some pearl looking stones in it. Something that might be seen on a teenage girl. {I was working the Molly Bish case back at that time, and was corresponding with a news reporter from Molly's area. Things were going along pretty well until I wrote and asked if Molly had a necklace like the one Sindee found. That was the end of that correspondence!! And by the way, yes, I found a picture of Molly wearing a necklace such as describbed! I posted that picture on Molly's page. Of course, that case has never been solved either. Hummmm, I wonder why.}
Now that I've ran everyone around in a big circle, from Massachuttes to Ohio and on down to Arkansas, I'd better get to the point of this story!
One of the items stolen from Sindee's house during one of her and Shirley's town trips was one of those ** state trooper type hats! {See my June 14, 2010 update!}
Since Renay told me about Wild Bill admitting to her that he posed as a cop and pulled young women over, I thought this piece of information belonged on Amanda's page. It may be important, and it may be nothing at all. I honestly don't know. Either way, it's now been added to this page, and if authorities find it important, they are welcome to contact me, as I am certain Renay, Sindee, Shirley or anyone else involved would be willing to speak with authorities.
Sincerely,
Bonnie M. Wells
June 12th, 2010, Sindee and her daughter spent the night with Sindee's mother Shirley.
In the early morning hours of June 13th, Sindee awoke from a dream in which she thought her home was on fire. She immediately woke her mother and daughter and told them to get dressed because they were all going across town to her home to make sure everything was alright. {Yes, we do listen to our dreams - especially warning dreams!}
There was no sign of a fire at home, and Sindee breathed a sigh of relief.
In the past few weeks Sindee has been cleaning out closets and sorting through clothing -- discarding things that her daughter has outgrown; things she hasn't worn; etc. and packing up fall and winter clothing. The storage boxes are stacked in the back bed room directly under the window, and beside the bed.
I spoke to Sindee on the phone around midnight on June 13th into June 14th. Sindee had gone to the grocery store a little earlier and was still unpacking things and putting them away when I called. We hung up and I went to bed around 3 a.m.
June 14, 2010, 5:00 a.m. I was awakened by the ringing of my cell phone. It was Sindee. She had just found a 'trooper's hat' sitting on the stack of boxes in the bedroom! She believes it is the same one that disappeared from Dart when they were living up there. I figure it is. Questions remain .... who brought it back, and when? How did they gain entrance into Sindee's home?
Is it symbolic that the hat was returned on June 14th - the 10th anniversary of Amanda' Tusing's disappearance?
I think it was to remind Sindee and me. We didn't need reminding .... we never forget .... nor shall we ever.
Amanda Tusing Analysis
The Renay/Renee Girls
2010 Case:
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Bonnie M. Wells
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