Belpre resident Jenifer Lea Barrett-McCrady,

had shoulder length brown hair, wore eyeglasses and had graduated from Belpre High School.....home of the Golden Eagles.

I'd known Jenifer's parents...Tom and Jan Barrett for several years through a professional relationship, as Tom was my veterinarian.

Jackie McCrady and Jenifer Barrett -

first met when they both worked in a restaurant, and at a time when Jackie owned a house on Stella Street in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

Although Jenifer and her family were members of St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Belpre, when it came time for the young couple to marry they discovered St. Ambrose was not quite large enough and their wedding was held at St. Xavier in Parkersburg, on October 14th...

Jackie was a cop in Parkersburg first.

Later, he took the test for the Ohio Highway Patrol, and passed with flying colors.

Everyone said he was so proud of his job, so very proud of that eagle on the side of his cruiser.

It wasn't long before Jackie McCrady was a decorated trooper, and in 1995 he was selected Trooper Of The Year at the Marietta post.

Jackie and Jenifer lived in Circleville, Ohio -

when he first became a trooper. Then in February 1991 the couple was able to transfer to the Belpre area.

By the time Jenifer disappeared on Thursday, September 19, 1996, she was a nurse, working in a Marietta area called Oak Grove, and the mother of two little boys.

The family resided at 996 Dana Road, in a semi-secluded, A-frame house located just off Lee Street, and past the duck pond directly behind where the old Belpre drive-in theater had once stood.

There were many things that -

I wouldn't discover about Jackie and Jenifer McCrady until after Jenifer had been murdered.

Of course I realized her murder was the next Washington County case after we found Sheree Petry in May of 1996. But it would be several months after her death before I learned that Jackie McCrady dated my sister, prior to meeting and marrying Jenifer.

Jenifer's body was discovered in Little Hocking,

just 7/10ths of a mile from the elementary school.....the home of

The Yellow Jackets,... on a hill side, where a gravel road led to oil and gas wells and overlooked Ohio's State Route 7.

A Parkersburg fireman owned the land on which she had been buried, and it was situated directly across township road 298 from the old Watson farm.

Just a few weeks before Jenifer's disappearance, she and Jackie had gone to California to visit an old school friend and for some fun in the sun.

After Jenifer's murder, -

I began looking into the case myself, because not only was there several things that concerned me, but I recognized too many clues that had been sent to Winstanley. Either someone was reading my materials and using them as a guideline, or I was one of the most "psychic" people ever born, and I wanted to find out which it was.

Jenifer was found on my daughter's birthday...

October 1st.....wrapped in a comforter and down inside a sleeping bag with pictures of Mallard Ducks on it.

She was clad in night clothes ....although seasonally unmatched.

The top was reportedly a red, Mickey Mouse, Christmas night shirt, while the pajama bottoms that she wore were pink silk. She wore no bra, but did have on a pair of blue, Fruit of the Loom under panties.

While the search for Jenifer McCrady was still going on .... long before I learned that she was not wearing a bra when she was found ..... I was showing anyone and everyone who stopped by my house a sight that I found very peculiar. A woman's bra that had mysteriously "appeared" on my neighbors barbed wire fence that ran along the road behind my house! The item was plainly visible from my back door or rear deck.

It was stretched out with the straps connected to barbs and the cups facing the road. Very peculiar looking. Looked as if it had been "strategically placed."

Everyone I showed it to thought it a very strange and unusual sight .... "Almost seems like a message," one man remarked after viewing it.

Within a few days after Jenifer was found, the bra disappeared from the fence. I have no idea who put it there or who removed it.

I sure wish it could have been DNA tested.

Jenifer's body had obviously been

transported across the Little Hocking River, and was found outside the Belpre city limits, thus making it a county case. Therefore, Detective Winstanley should have been involved...... But..... Winstanley was about the only county cop who was absent from the McCrady case!

Jenifer's vehicle had been left

at Civitan Park in Belpre, beside the Ohio River, and within a few feet of where 1986 murder victim Marie Blough's body had been found.

I couldn't help but think about how Janet Miller had been murdered the very night we buried my brother Mike, and her body dumped in an old drive-in theater. Now we had a woman who had the same initials as Janet Miller, and who lived behind an old drive-in theater, and who was murdered in the tenth anniversary year, from Janet and Marie's murders.

And I wondered if Winstanley or anyone else at the sheriff's department recognized the "similarities/connections to Janet Miller and Marie Blough cases" as I had predicted well in advance of Jenifer's disappearance. If they noticed, no one acknowledged it to me.

Jenifer was a smoker -

who usually purchased her cigarettes at Rich Oil Service Station in Belpre, and I wondered to myself if all our murdered woman smoked. I knew most of them did.

Jenifer's body had been buried

just 2.2 miles from my own home here in Little Hocking, and even closer to the rental property that I had purchased only a month earlier! Property on which an elderly woman named Martin lived and also on which a woman named Green lived, who was a co-worker of Jenifer's!

It was all a little upsetting, to say the least.

McCrady insisted the last time he'd

been aware of his wife's presence in their home had been the early morning of September 19th, when he had heard the shower running and assumed she was getting ready for work.

Jenifer was barefoot when she was found. Her purse was missing along with the keys to her vehicle, and she had been shot with a .357 magnum."

Once again, I was reminded of another dead woman. Jill Bohl had been shot with a .357 magnum and had the same initials as Jenifer's before she married McCrady...."J.B."

A trip to the oil access road -

revealed a couple of things that I continue to wonder about.

The first thing I discovered was a gold colored kitten that came to me from the direction of Jenifer's makeshift grave.

Although out in the wild, this kitten was obviously no wild cat, as he had been declawed!

Jenifer's gold nugget necklace was never found, so I named my new kitten Nugget.

I'm convinced that whoever dropped this cat off knew that I would be the one that would gather him up and bring him home. I have the strangest feeling he also knew I'd name him Nugget. I spent months trying to trace the cat to its original owner. No one seemed to know anything about the cat. One of our vets had to declaw that cat. Someone out there knows who the cat belonged to. Why they would not speak up remains a mystery to me.

2007 NOTE: I still have Nugget: Never did find out who had owned him before I 'found' him,[although I did eventually gain some interesting information concerning a 'yellow male kitten' in the Belpre area]; and never did learn which 'local' vet neutered and declawed him ... which, eleven years later, still seems very strange to me.

The next discovery was that of a Ford key.

It was lying right in the center of the access road, and looked like it would fit the trunk or doors of a Ford vehicle.

There just happened to be a Marietta Times news reporter watching me and my grandson as we looked around that day, so I went over to his vehicle and asked him to take some pictures of the key. He did, and he agreed it seemed an odd place to find a key.

The key disappeared after that, and there was never any mention of it by anyone other than me.

In the trial of Jackie McCrady,

there was testimony from many witnesses, one of which was Forensic Scientist Joshua Perper who testified that a mark on Jenifer's cheek should have been DNA tested, because he believed it was possibly a bite mark.

Note: Dr. Perper is from Florida, the state that finally nailed serial killer Ted Bundy!

Other testimony came from a man named Bill, who knew both Jackie and Jenifer quite well, and recognized both their vehicles when he saw them. He testified he'd seen Jenifer's vehicle leaving the house with her driving, after the time that the state insisted she was already dead!

Although Jackie McCrady described

his wife's missing purse as blue and gray, and matching some new luggage they had bought for a trip to California only a month or so before Jenifer disappeared, and part of which was also missing, the purse presented in the court room was a dark maroon color. It contained no paper money but did have 57 cents in loose change.

According to testimony, the luggage in question was never found, and the issue of the color of the purse was never raised by the defense, and all I could do was wonder why.

The wife of the man named "Bill" testified

about a "yard sale" she held, in which the McCrady's had brought over 3 truck and blazer loads of items to be sold. She could not say one way or the other whether the comforter in which Jenifer was found had been among those items. However, the defense maintained that the comforter had been among those items since there was no evidence of the comforter's use within the McCrady household for several years. The only photo evidence was pictures of one of the children when he was just an infant.

Personally, I figured with the amount of money the McCrady's made, they had changed their bed clothing and bought new, perhaps several times over the years. I knew that I certainly was not using the bed spread or blankets that I'd had on my bed five or six years ago.

Since the McCrady's had been looking at new houses and discussing moving, I really wondered if the comforter in question had been sold at that yard sale, along with many other household and clothing items .... possibly including the mis-matched sleepwear that Jenifer was found in.

Mary Dye testified in the trial

as to a dream that she claimed to have had, I had no problem what so ever with the number that Mary Dye said she saw in her dream. It was 298.

{ *** See "The Dream Seeker" for more details:}

Just ten days before Jenifer McCrady disappeared, I had sent John Winstanley a warning ... very plain English ...

I can feel the killer's presence.

He is coming into Little Hocking.

He will strike this (September) month if you don't stop him.

I had no trouble remembering dreams or reality, and I had no trouble recognizing 2 .. 9 .. 8, as Little Hocking's phone prefix is 989....that's two nines and an eight! It was also the 'scrambled' date of a dream I'd been watching ....

*See The Comforter for details:

Georgia Rudolph did not testify

in the McCrady case, although she attended one day of the trial.....and it was that day that she lied to me and told me her name was Gloria.

During the trial, Mary Dye's testimony was very important because of the fact that she claimed to have seen Officer McCrady 'near his wife's grave' a few days before that grave was discovered. The prosecution informed everyone that it was not the 'psychic' information that was important, and in fact he more or less discredited that portion of Dye's testimony himself.

However, I find it interesting that some four years after the conviction of Jackie D. McCrady, Mary Dye, the one and only "eye witness" the state had....the only person who gave a positive id on Jackie McCrady's being near his wife's grave.... is no longer mentioned, but Rudolph has emerged the real 'case solving heroine' of the situation and is now credited with ALL the spiritual or psychic portions of the McCrady case.

*** The Torn Teddy *** More Early Clues ****

On June 6th, 1996 one of the dreamer's that I work with reported a dream that I titled The Torn Teddy Bear. I felt that the dream was an indicator of an approaching crime, and therefore wrote the dream down and did an interpretation for it. Both the dream and the interpretation were sent to the Washington County Sheriff's Department, along with other information on June 24th, 1996.

This dream and interpretation appears in its entirety in unit eighteen-b of Pure Coincidence, and therefore will not be repeated at length here. However, I feel it is well worth the time and attention of repeating the main portion of the interpretation of the dream because even now, several years later, the dream and interpretation remain important within the McCrady case:

Interpretation as sent to law enforcement, but not including the full sentences or dream:

*** The Torn Teddy Dream ***

*** Interpretation/Indicators ***

September 19th and death

county case .. not city police

my sister

The color blue around September 19th -

indication of something approaching...

a crime in which a mistake in identity will be made and the wrong man will be arrested

the colors blue and green will be prominent and important

something missing or stolen

a truck / a Toyota truck

money

Greene Street in Marietta

the color charcoal gray

eagle / Native American:

*** Fulfillment of the above predictions ***

Jenifer McCrady disappeared on "September 19th," 1996, and was "dead" when she was found.

Her husband was a state trooper, not a city cop.

Jackie McCrady had formerly dated "my sister" who lived on "Greene Street in Marietta" at the time that Jenifer was murdered.

Jenifer was found inside a "blue" sleeping bag.

Jackie McCrady owned a "green Toyota truck," as well as a "blue" Ford "Mustang" and drove a "charcoal gray" cruiser with an "eagle" on the side of it.

Meanwhile, my sister owned and operated a "Native American" store called The "Eagles" Gift Shop, which was also located on Greene St. in Marietta.

Jenifer's purse was reported "missing" as was some "money." The purse that Jackie McCrady reported missing was "blue and gray" in color.

It appears that the above clues were thoroughly gone through and picked out as strong evidence that Jackie McCrady was the one that had murdered his wife. However, even after all this time, I am absolutely amazed that the biggest clue of all was completely ignored.

And that clue was...... "an approaching crime in which a mistake in identity will be made, and the wrong man will be arrested."

In the past year four pieces of information

have came to me that I felt were of some importance in the McCrady case. Those pieces of information are as follow ....

A bullet exists that may stand a very good chance of matching the one that killed Jenifer McCrady. If it does, then Jackie McCrady could not possibly have killed his wife because this bullet showed up while he was sitting in jail:

May 2004 Note: The above can be forgotten, as the bullet is no longer available. Sorry. I tried, but due to un-preventable circumstances, the bullet is no longer available to me -- although it does still exist.

In the beginning of the McCrady case,

Jackie McCrady believed he could show his innocence by providing the "test" bullet that was on file with the Ohio Highway Patrol.

This turned out to be a false hope on his part because when his attorney went after the bullet, he learned that it had been destroyed! This never set just right with me, because Jackie McCrady's original service revolver, a .357 Magnum had not been destroyed, but had been purchased by him and "retired" from service.

In my opinion, any gun that is still capable of being used should remain in the "active" file and the test bullet should remain on file until the gun is surrendered.

Note / The year 2003: I have recently been informed that shortly after the McCrady case was over, the law or rule was changed and now a test bullet is retained as long as the gun is usable. How sad. How incredibly sad, not to mention strange.

I have attained information that there is yet another way in which a test bullet might yet be found. The company who made the gun....Smith & Wesson. It is my understanding that all guns are test fired by the manufacturer prior to sale and that the test bullet is kept on file. All That is needed is the serial number from the weapon!

2007: ATTENTION INNOCENCE PROJECTS:

A witness has come forward and spoken to me concerning the "sleeping bag with mallard ducks inside of it."

This witness established the time period in which the bag was purchased, where it was purchased, and by whom it was purchased.

The purchaser was not Jackie McCrady:

There were several hairs found on Jenifer McCrady as well as pink carpet fibers. The hairs did not match Jenifer or Jackie McCrady and the carpet fibers never matched anything in their home or vehicles. DNA tests were impossible back in 1996 and 1997 because the hairs did not contain a root system. Recently a new test has been developed which does not require the roots to be on a hair sample!

I was very excited about each and every piece of the above information, and each time I believed the information represented "compelling new evidence."

Over the past few years I have paid close attention to the various cases that have involved DNA testing. I have seen people in prison who were freed because of DNA testing that proved they had not committed the crime for which they were imprisoned. And I have seen cold cases that sat for a dozen years solved due to DNA testing.

2006: Another person has come forward and spoken to me concerning the sleeping bag with mallard ducks inside of it. This person 'saw' such a sleeping bag in the possession of a Belpre man, and it was NOT Jackie McCrady. There are other extremely important details concerning this sleeping bag and events that occurred right at the time of Jenifer's disappearance that were not known at the time of her death or at trial time. In my opinion this information constitutes "new and compelling evidence' and is information that would show reasonable doubt, as well as exposing [and naming] another possible suspect in the murder of Jenifer McCrady. Please see "The Real Dummy" for important details:

The Comforter