William Henry Redmond

Redmond, an Ohio native and former carnival worker, was indicted in 1988 for the 1951 Pennsylvania murder of 8-year-old Jane Marie Althoff.

After serving a sentence for violating the Dwyer Act, Redmond was released from the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, in June 1949.

Authorities discovered a stash of filthy women's underwear inside his home that they thought belonged to young girls.

Two drivers who saw a girl matching her description wandering in a rural area towards a grey vehicle with Pennsylvania licence plates reported seeing her last an eighth of a mile from her home.

On September 24, while harvesting butternuts four miles from Hemlock, 14-year-old Norma Marsden discovered Lynn's body face-down in a ditch 200 yards off Road 15-A.

Lt. William Stevenson of the Batavia State Police told reporters that she had probably been “lured or dragged into an auto, [and] taken out of the car and shot twice as she cringed in a grove of locust trees.

[6] In 1989, after Redmond was finally tracked down and arrested by Pennsylvania police, he was publicly revealed to be a suspect in the murders of several other girls including Joanne Lynn.

An article in the Grand Island Independent reported that; “Robert Montgomery, a New York State Police investigator, wrote in an August 1991 affidavit filed in Hall County Court that his agency’s crime laboratory had established a DNA profile of the killer from samples from [Joanne’s] clothing.” The article further stated that Redmond had been a suspect in the investigation since 1951.

“Redmond worked before and after Joanne Lynn’s death as a Ferris wheel operator and truck driver for various traveling carnivals.

At the time of her death, the Hemlock Fair and Carnival was in progress six miles south of where her body was found.” However, her case remains unsolved.

[7] On April 25, 1951, Jane Marie Althoff (born August 28, 1942), 8, was found murdered shortly after midnight in a pickup truck on the grounds of a Penn-Premier Show carnival south of Philadelphia in Trainer, Pennsylvania.

[8] According to Delaware County District Attorney William Ryan, Redmond ″made a statement to police inculpating himself″ with the crime after fourteen hours of intense interrogation.

District Court Judge George Paige ordered Redmond to be detained in a county jail without posting bond, and he scheduled a preliminary hearing for February 8, 1989.

[4] Beverly Rose Potts (born April 15, 1941), 10, left her residence in the 11300 block of Linnet Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, in the evening hours on August 24, 1951.

When she still had not returned home and their search of the region had turned up nothing, her parents called the police and reported her missing at 10:30 p.m.[10][11][12][13][14] Redmond, a carnival employee, was thought to be involved in Potts' disappearance.

[16][17] Constance Christine "Connie" Smith (born July 11, 1942), 10, was a young girl who disappeared after running away from a summer camp she was attending.

[18] Around a half-mile from Camp Sloane, Connie was seen picking daisies by the side of the road and asking multiple people how to go to Lakeville, Connecticut.

In relation to Smith's case, Redmond passed a polygraph examination, and investigators were unable to pinpoint whether William was in the Connecticut area when Connie vanished.

After interviewing friends and family members, it was determined that Barbara had spoken to a young male neighbour at the intersection of Linnhurst and Gratiot, four blocks from her school.

After thirteen pages of details regarding the murder were sent to the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension System (VICAP) in 1996, Redmond came to light as a suspect.

[22] Maria was last seen by a friend on the corner of Center Cross Street and Archie Place in her neighbourhood with an unidentified male in his early twenties who went by the name "Johnny."

[30][31][32][33][34][35] Solar claimed that Redmond admitted to a fellow prisoner that he had committed a crime resembling the kidnapping and murder of Ridulph.

"[36] Redmond, according to Solar, frequently traveled close to the location where Ridulph was discovered when he was employed as a truck driver in the neighborhood at the time.

Because of this, Solar declared the Ridulph case to be "closed, but not solved," leaving open the chance that a more suitable suspect could be identified in the future.

[30][36] The trial judge disallowed any testimony about Redmond because he was deemed to have not been a plausible suspect when Jack McCullough was later prosecuted in the Ridulph case.