November 22, 2024 • 54 mins
EP 75: The Vanishing of Tammy Belanger: A Dark Anniversary
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the disappearance of 8-year-old Tammy Belanger from Exeter, New Hampshire. Tammy’s story is one that many in Southern New Hampshire know all too well, but the dark truth behind her abduction is still haunting. In this episode, we explore the mystery of what happened to Tammy after she was last seen crossing the street on her usual walk to school on November 13, 1984.
Tammy’s case is eerily linked to another young girl—Christy Luna, an 8-year-old girl from Greenacres, Florida whose circumstances mirrored Tammy’s in disturbing ways. As we dive into the details, I make the case for the main suspect in these crimes, a deviant predator who is believed to be responsible for both disappearances.
Through Tammy’s story, we learn of the lost hours that passed before anyone realized she was missing, and how this case helped shape new protocols in the way schools respond to student absences. In 1984, when Tammy vanished, there were no calls home for missing children, no immediate alerts or search efforts. It wasn’t until hours later, when her mother Pat noticed Tammy was missing, that anyone realized she wasn’t at school, and by then, critical hours were lost.
This episode uncovers the haunting details of that fateful day and examines how a missing child led to critical changes in child safety protocols.
Listener Warning: This episode contains sensitive content and details about child abduction, abuse, and trauma.
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For those of you who've beenlistening to the show for a
period of time, you know that Igrew up here in New England,
largely in Massachusetts, but Idid spend a fair amount of time
in southern New Hampshire.
The stories are close to me,but I did spend a fair amount of
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time in southern New Hampshire.
The stories are close to me.
November 13th marked 40 yearsthat a little girl from Exeter,
new Hampshire, disappearedwithout a trace and her case is
unsolved.
How can that be?
And as I dug into this case, Ihad no idea what I was in for In
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the other 13 active NewHampshire missing children cases
that are in the NamUs database.
This is episode 75.
Tammy Belanger, exeter, newHampshire and New Hampshire's
Missing Children.
There are currently 13 activeNew Hampshire missing children's
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cases in the NamUs database.
Namis database NAMIS, theNational Missing and
Unidentified Persons System, theNational Clearinghouse and
Resource Center for Missing,Unidentified and Unclaimed
Person Cases throughout the USIs that all the children
currently missing from NewHampshire Can't be.
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Namis lists 57 missing personscases in the state.
I checked that against the NewHampshire Missing Persons Report
at nhgov.
That lists the total currentmissing persons cases in the
state at 75.
I looked up what was currentfor the New Hampshire Missing
Persons Report.
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It lists unclassified acrossthe top and the one dated
October 17th 2024 had sevenchildren that I couldn't find on
any other list Children thatcame up in zero searches.
So I hope they're safe.
We know it to be true that notall missing people are entered
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into NamUs.
I see it as an officialdocumentation of that person to
be missing.
There are a number of reasonswhy they may not be entered.
Law enforcement must enter theinformation Family members are
not able to.
If you listen to the recentepisode I did with Nina Innsted,
advocate and host of AlreadyGone podcast.
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We talk about a number ofthings that happen when someone
goes missing and why someone maynot be in a database.
Episode 73, released on October23rd.
New Hampshire Information andAnalysis Center that's NHIAC.
I know there are a lot ofinitialisms.
It's hard to keep up the NHIACMissing Persons Report.
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It is a comprehensive monthlydesigned to provide those
agencies with open missingpersons cases, greater exposure
of those cases.
Data is taken from the NationalCrime Information Center,
that's the NCIC, the NewHampshire State Police Cold Case
Unit, and all case files fromthe investigating agencies.
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Now there are bound to bediscrepancies in reporting and
that is why we need to bediligent for these kids who have
still not been located, nomatter the reason given.
Kids who have still not beenlocated, no matter the reason
given.
And of course, I share thesesource links at
crimeofthetruestkindcom.
On each episode's page I willlist these cases to the best of
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my ability and there is oftennot a lot of information
available, especially for themost recent cases.
When I prepare for each show, Iusually have a direction.
With that I mean I have aselected case and have begun the
research already, and there area lot of cases I'm working on
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all at the same time.
That list continues to growthrough my research.
Often researching one caseleads to another and another,
like what happened for thisepisode.
I was very aware of this case,having lived in New Hampshire
when this disappearance tookplace, and I do recall seeing it
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on the news and in newspapersover the years.
And this month marked 40 yearssince this little girl
disappeared while walking toschool, the same familiar walk
she took almost every day.
Tammy Belanger disappeared fromExeter, new Hampshire.
Let's talk about Exeter, newHampshire, for a minute.
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With a population around about16,000 now, it's a beautiful
small town.
Shops, a bandstand in thecenter, almost every New
Hampshire kid's Las Vegas stripis Hampton Beach.
10 miles away, exeter bordersEpping to the north, where the
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New England Dragway is.
It smells like burnt rubber inseason, doesn't it?
Fremont to the west, west andKingston to the south All small,
quaint New Hampshire villagetowns.
Kingston was home to NancyChampion.
She grew up and worked on herfamily's farm there.
I don't know that her namewould be familiar in this
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context.
She was better known as NancyLanza, mother of Adam Lanza, who
was born in Exeter Hospital in1992.
The Lanza family moved toNewtown, connecticut, in 1998,
when he was six.
I can do math.
I went to school in NewHampshire.
Adam Lanza is the Sandy Hookmass shooter and I imagine some
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of you listening to me now knowthe Lanzas from their time in
New Hampshire and I am verysorry about all of it.
What happened in Newtown hasnothing to do with New Hampshire
.
What happened in Newtown hasnothing to do with New Hampshire
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.
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That's more than some peoplemake in a year.
A co-educational college prepschool with approximately 1,100
boarding and day students,grades 9 through 12.
They've seen much success withan endowment of $1.5 billion,
with a B as of last year, andhave the world's largest high
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school library 160,000 volumesover nine levels with a shelf
capacity of 250,000 volumes.
That's a lot of books.
The world needs a lot of books.
The academy admits students ona need-blind basis and offers
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free tuition to students withfamily incomes under $125,000 a
year.
Its list of notables includesUS President Franklin Pierce
he's got a college.
Us Senator Daniel Webster he'sgot a highway.
Facebook founder MarkZuckerberg we know what he's got
.
Facebook founder MarkZuckerberg we know what he's got
(10:44):
.
Ben ontench musician, producerand keyboardist for Tom Petty
and the Heartbreakers you got it.
Boston locals will recognizethis name Billy Ruane.
He didn't graduate but he wentthere and he made huge
contributions to the Bostonmusic scene.
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Historian Heather CoxRichardson went to Exeter Also
Will and Wynne Butler of theband Arcade Fire.
Look, I learn incredible thingsevery episode that I do of this
.
I hope you learn something too.
(11:24):
Dan Zanes and Warren Zanes areExeter raised.
The Zanes brothers were in oneof Boston's most beloved rock
and roll bands in the 80s calledthe Del Fuegos.
Youngest brother, arren, wrotethe 2015 New York Times
bestselling biography, tom Pettythe Biography I know,
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astounding name.
And in 2023, he released thebook Deliver Me From Nowhere the
Making of Bruce Springsteen'sNebraska.
It was announced earlier thisyear that a film adaptation of
his book is in the works,starring Jeremy Allen White as
Bruce Springsteen.
Yes, chef.
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This month marked 40 years sincea little girl vanished off the
streets of Exeter while she waswalking to school, the same
familiar route she took almostevery day.
Tammy Belanger was eight.
She was shy, she was quiet.
One reporter wrote likable,they're all likable, they're
kids.
I can hear all the motherssaying are you sure?
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I know you love your kids.
You don't always like them,always like them.
Tammy Libalanger was born onFebruary 24th 1976.
The youngest of three wasdescribed as four feet six
inches, that's 54 inches, talland weighed about 70 pounds, and
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because I'm me and I can't seemto help myself, I wanted to
know if that was within thenormal growth average for a
child at that age.
First, at Boston Children'sHospital, I rabbit-holed into
endocrinology and adrenal glandsto find out, and yes, she was
within the normal range, on thetaller side for her age.
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Why, though, asmaller-than-average child would
indicate to me, ruling outgenetics and hormones?
Underdevelopment is also causedby malnutrition.
That could indicate neglect andabuse, but that is not the case
here.
I want to stress that is notthe case with Tammy or the
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Belanger family.
None of the research suggestedanything out of the ordinary.
They were a very normal family.
And boom, I'm an endo and adetective now, yay me.
I think about her photo, oneI've seen hundreds of times on
New Hampshire television.
Those bangs carved and curvedblunt across her forehead.
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Her brown eyes left onewandered out to the side.
I also rabbit-holed someresearch about lazy eyes, but
I'm going to spare you that.
When you see her face, you'llnever forget it.
That is actually what herfather told news reporters in
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the week following herdisappearance, when speaking to
the Boston Globe for a storyprinted on November 24, 1984,
she was missing for 11 days.
Her parents were drained.
Their home was a revolving doorof detectives and media.
There was no peace.
Their two older children, 17and 14, handled it the best they
could.
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Tammy's parents hadn't workedin nearly two weeks that she was
missing and they were facedwith attempting to get back to
normal life when their liveswere anything but normal.
It would be a very steeplearning curve.
Her mom, patricia, worked inadministration at Exeter
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Hospital's emergency room.
Nelson Belanger worked as aproduction supervisor at their
waterworks in the nearby town ofHampton.
Remember New Hampshire kids,our Vegas trip, hampton Beach.
They had the support of theirneighbors and so many of them
turned out to help in the search.
Exeter was smaller in 1984.
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A close-knit community was thephrase that was echoed by many
of the people interviewed aboutTammy's disappearance in the
years that followed.
On.
That chilly Tuesday morning shegot dressed in an aqua shirt
with black and white stripes, apurple sweater, a tan jacket
with blue sleeves, tan corduroypants, tan suede boots and green
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and blue socks.
She was silent that day shecarried a red backpack that had
her name and address on it.
She didn't get a school bus.
She lived too close, under twomiles from the school.
That was the rule at the time.
Tammy set out 8 am for the.8-mile walk from her River
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Street house to the LincolnStreet School.
Google Maps says it is 20minutes.
She wasn't the kind of kid totalk to strangers.
She was shy, no-transcript.
The last known sighting of herwas by a friend and neighbor of
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the Belangers.
Betty Blanchett was the lastperson to see Tammy.
No one else has said otherwise.
She glanced out the window, sawTammy skipping across the
street.
What came next is a mystery,and critical hours passed.
No one knew.
An eight-year-old was snatchedfrom the street.
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At least no one came forwardand schools didn't call home to
check on kids in 1984.
Student absence calls startedas a result of Tammy's abduction
.
I'd like to put this on recordand apologize to Linda, the
secretary at my school, for allof the days that I didn't go and
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she called me and I answeredthe phone and said yeah, linda,
I'm home.
There was no way to know ifcalling home would have made a
difference to what happened toTammy that day.
If it would have changed theoutcome, at least her family
would have had the opportunityto act sooner.
In cases like this, time is ofthe essence.
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It can save otherchildren.
Tammy was due home shortlyafter 3 pm.
When she had not arrived by3.30, her mom, pat, called the
school.
That's when her family foundout that Tammy didn't make it to
school that day.
Seven and a half hours hadpassed.
Tammy was a good girl.
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She did her work, she likedschool, she got good grades.
Her dad spoke about that ininterviews, one with the Boston
Globe.
He talked about her punctuality.
She got up early, she atebreakfast, she left for school
right on time.
There was no dilly-dallying.
Her dad didn't believe that shewould accept a ride from anyone
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, not even a neighbor.
Anxiety, panic, confusion,dread welling up inside her mom.
She called the police and theybegan a search, pursuing every
scenario.
Had Tammy been convinced toskip out?
Unlikely?
They hoped so.
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They were afraid of the otherpossibilities and since Tammy
was discovered missing so latein the day, they were racing
against time and the sun wassetting.
They were losing valuablelight.
Searchers mobilized about 75firefighters, police officers
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and volunteers and with the helpof a Coast Guard helicopter.
They searched by air by boatcopter.
They searched by air by boatand by land With boat access.
They searched along the banksof the Exeter River, which ran
right behind the Belangers' home.
They searched the woods lookingfor disturbed earth.
They scoured the woods.
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They searched backyards andbuildings.
They knocked on doors.
Volunteers searched her school,leaving no stone unturned.
They used every ounce of lightthey could as the sun set.
There was no sign of Tammy.
They recovered nothing thatbelonged to her.
Their daughter was gone.
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As the hours passed, they triednot to let their fears take
over, fear that Tammy was taken,that someone would deliberately
want to harm their child.
Days passed, weeks,thanksgiving came with an empty
seat at the table, christmasgifts waiting for Tammy to open
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when she returned Her ninthbirthday that February, to open
when she returned Her ninthbirthday that February.
And many holidays and specialoccasions blurred through the
years and still no trace ofTammy.
November 10th 1985, nearly oneyear after Tammy went missing, a
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hunter trudging through BearBrook State Park in Allentown,
new Hampshire, came across a55-gallon industrial steel drum.
Inside were the remains of twobodies.
They were past decomposition.
They were skeletonized, wrappedin plastic bags.
That set off a course of hopeand fear for loved ones of
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missing people.
Could it be Tammy?
The remains were examined andit was determined that they had
died between 1977 and 1985.
Autopsies confirmed both haddied of blunt trauma.
They were buried in AllentownCemetery with a headstone that
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read here lies the mortalremains, known only to God, of a
woman aged 23 to 33 and a girlaged 8 to 10.
Their slain bodies were foundon November 10, 1985, in
Bearbrook State Park.
May their souls find peace inGod's loving
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care.
The story of Bearro Brook hasfascinated us, and 15 years
later, on May 9th 2000, a second55-gallon drum was discovered
in the same area.
How did investigators miss it?
Was it there when the first onewas found?
Miss it?
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Was it there when the first onewas found, or did the person or
persons responsible dump themat different times?
The second drum, like the first, contained the mutilated bodies
of two young girls.
Neither of them was Tammy.
The story of Bear Brook StatePark continued to develop over
the years.
Thank you to science, theidentities of three of those
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four victims have been made, thefourth, a child, still unknown.
I often get asked to share thestory of the Bear Brook Four.
It should be told, and itshould be told with the proper
reverence and preparation.
The investigation into Tammy'sdisappearance continued.
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There was the time in 1994where police opened the grave of
a woman who had died inNovember 1984.
It came on a tip but noevidence and no connection to
Tammy was made.
Otis is here Sometimes.
He just wakes up and barks atstuff.
At the time of herdisappearance Tammy had brown
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hair, brown eyes.
Her left eye turns outward froman injury.
She had what is described as aslender build, a fair complexion
.
She would be 48 years old nowand is still considered a
missing person.
Investigators kept at it.
And then there was a suspect,thanks to the Palm Beach Post.
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In its very detailed reporting,investigators made connections
to a New Hampshire man who hadrelocated to Florida they were
looking at him in Tammy'sdisappearance and another
eight-year-old girl whodisappeared just months before
Tammy from her neighborhood inGreen cres, florida, located in
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Palm Beach County.
That little girl is MarjorieChristina Luna.
Her friends and family call herChristy.
She was last seen on theafternoon of Sunday, may 27th
1984.
Her family had spent part ofthat Memorial Day weekend on a
road trip.
Her mom, jenny, was tired fromthe drive.
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Everyone in the house was Heroldest sister, her mom's
companion at the time, a man whohad been in Christy's life
nearly all of it.
So her mom put on a movie forChristy Yellow Submarine by the
Beatles.
Everybody was cooked from thetrip so they took a nap About
2.30 that afternoon.
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Christy concerned about hermama cat who had some kittens
Boo, boo and Skeeter.
She took some bottles forrecycling and walked the 400
feet from her house to Belk'sCorner Store A two-minute walk.
I mapped it.
What I also learned when I waslooking at Google Maps is that
the Palm Beach County Sheriff'sOffice is now directly across
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the street from Belk's.
Was it there in 1984?
A clerk at the store toldinvestigators that Christy
bought a bag of cat food andwent outside as other children
played with fireworks that theyhad
bought.
The Palm Beach Post reportedthat several witnesses told
police they saw someonedescribed as a Hispanic man, 5'6
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to 5'8, medium build, talkingwith her outside the store and
that the man offered her moneyto go inside and buy fireworks.
It might have been sparklers orsomething.
According to police detectiveDennis Conno, that man was
driving a faded blue car.
Media reports through the yearssaid it was a blue sedan with a
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broken taillight with Floridatags.
It was observed by witnesses inthe same
vicinity.
Both girls were last seen theday they disappeared.
Both girls were last seen theday they disappeared.
The description of him is vagueand police got no make or model
for the car, no license platenumber and no one saw Christy
leave with him or anyone else.
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The description of Christy fromthat day four feet tall, 60
pounds, blue eyes, brown hairand a patch of freckles on her
nose and cheeks In last seenwearing a turquoise bodysuit and
no shoes.
A number of reports have alsosaid that she was hearing
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impaired.
Her mom described her as a shychild.
Her parents had divorced whenshe was a baby and her father
was living in Atlanta.
That's all they had to go on inthe days and weeks after
Christy vanished and her mom,jenny she, has not stopped
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looking for her little girl.
As the investigation intoChristy's disappearance wore on,
many in the area were looked atclosely Store clerks, people
Christy had spent time withneighbors, two brothers with
problematic pasts.
Florida detectives would learnabout Tammy's disappearance in
NewHampshire.
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In December 1984, police nameda suspect in Tammy's
disappearance.
A New Hampshire deviant sexoffender with a lengthy record
had been arrested on a paroleviolation.
Victor Winetti, age 41, was inthe custody of New Hampshire
police after he was picked up onNovember 29th in Rye, new
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Hampshire, and they started toput the pieces together.
May of 1984, the suspect wasarrested in the town of Lake
Worth, florida, on a prowlingcharge.
More on that in a moment.
That's where his parents hadmoved from Dover, new Hampshire.
This, I presume, would raisethe flag that their sex offender
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parolee was no longer in theGranite State.
The suspect's parole wasrevoked and he was sent back to
the Concord State Prison and Spafor all the good guys where he
had served only four years of amaximum 15-year term for
felonious sexual assault againsthis wife's 13-year-old daughter
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, abuse that began when thechild was eight years old.
Wait until I tell you what hesaid about that.
Investigators from Greenacreswere on the first plane to New
Hampshire to talk to Wyanettiabout Christy Luna's
disappearance because we wouldlearn he was in the area where
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she disappeared that Mayafternoon.
I'm going to try to condensethis information the best I can.
It may be difficult.
This man had decades of crimesand I'll make their case as to
why he is the prime suspect inthe disappearance of both Tammy
Belanger and Christy Luna Somebackground.
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The suspect had established arelationship with law
enforcement and by that I meanhe was a criminal 1943,.
He was born in Pennsylvania.
He has at least 30 burglaryconvictions from around New
England.
July 27, 1973, the 8-year-olddaughter of a friend first told
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police that the suspect wastouching and then molesting her.
He was charged with childsexual abuse, csa, csa.
His attorney managed to talktheir way around the charges,
saying that this child couldn'tdistinguish fantasy from reality
.
That's a page out of thedefense attorney playbook.
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Also, the child's mother didn'tbelieve her or protect her.
So this is one of thoseearmuffet for me moments.
That's the scene in old schoolwhere Vince Vaughn tells his
little kid to cover his earsbecause he's about to say
something horrible.
In 1974, his defense did theirjob and the state had to drop
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the case against him, and thenhe married that child's mother.
A few months later the manmarries the mother, they live
together, the child is now astepdaughter, he has full access
and the abuse progresses.
It is so vile that this child,at 11 years old, has to go to
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the hospital for treatmentbecause she is physically
injured, she physically recoversand the CSA continues all over
again.
He is routinely raping thischild and this child is deeply
affected by this abuse.
The police chief of Rollinsford, new Hampshire, where they were
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living at the time, spoke ofthe child always at the police
station crying, but he was notable to ever get any information
from her as to what wasbothering her and the mother of
the child.
She said she never knewanything was going on.
Um how?
And the abuse continues.
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In 1977, his parents retire andmove from Dover, new Hampshire,
to a home in Lake Worth,florida, where, incidentally,
guy Fieri and Ghost Man are from.
Wouldn't put those two together.
June 1979, the wife catches himin the act of abusing her now
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13 year old daughter, the girlshe did not believe before, and
the suspect's response to all ofit is sickening, saying she'd
found them many times before andhe stayed with her in the home.
So she did nothing about it.
The wife reported him to police.
Thank you, big babyJesus.
Suspect takes off to Floridawhere his parents are now living
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.
The police arrest him and he issent back to New Hampshire for
trial.
He is so depraved.
The child told investigatorsthat he would photograph her
before, during and after theabuse.
He tried to revenge porn airquotes with these photos to get
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them to drop prosecution of thecase by threatening to release
those photos of a 13-year-oldgirl.
It goes to trial, during whichtime he is mouthing things at
this child I love you andsending her love letters, and I
know what you're thinking.
How is this happening?
How was this child even in thisroom, near this man?
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When asked by the judge whetherhe had anything to say, he
wanted to know why he was beingcrucified for something that
wasn't even a crime.
The judge sent him for a psychevaluation.
One month later, a doctor fromthe New Hampshire State Hospital
wrote the judge Winetti is nota dangerous to the judge, saying
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that he had been railroaded,blaming the child who used him
to get anything she wanted inthat it was all her.
He was just a man and she wasthe evil
seductress.
Sex offenders have a higherprevalence of personality
disorders compared to non-sexoffenders and spending time in
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prison does not rehabilitatethem.
In July 1983, he is paroled,serving just four years for CSA.
You know what I call that?
That's fucking bananas.
The terms of his paroleincluded the provision that he
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remain in the state of NewHampshire.
He left New Hampshire forFlorida without knowledge or
permission.
He is hired to work at a golfcourse as a
groundskeeper.
May 7, 1984.
He is arrested by Palm BeachCounty Sheriff's officers after
an off-duty Lake Worth policesergeant discovered a man
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looking in the windows of a home.
Sergeant Pat Ryan chased himthrough the neighborhood where
he was found crouched in thebushes behind one of the houses.
He said he was looking for alost cat and gave a Dover, new
Hampshire address.
This is not the last time thathe will be caught being a
deviant sex degenerate.
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He was arrested for nightprowling.
He posted $250 bail and wasreleased on May
8th.
May 27th Christy Luna goesmissing from her Green Acres
neighborhood.
It is less than 15 miles awayfrom Lake Worth.
August 23rd the suspect issentenced to 30 days in jail for
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the prowling charge.
November 2nd he returns to NewHampshire.
2nd he returns to New Hampshire, lives in a motel in Rye.
His parole officer gets him ajob at an Exeter body shop.
November 13th, tammy Belangerdisappears on her way to school
inExeter.
November 19th the FBI questionsthe suspect in Tammy's case.
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His car is searched.
And remember, he's a convictedsex offender Prior to 1994, a
federal sex offender registrydidn't exist as we know it today
, the Jacob Wetterling CrimesAgainst Children and Sexually
Violent Offender RegistrationAct is born.
Jacob Wetterling is an11-year-old boy from Minnesota
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who was kidnapped, abused andmurdered by a man nearby.
His case went unsolved foralmost 30 years.
November 29th the suspect isarrested for the parole
violation.
December 27th 1984, victorWonetti is named as the main
suspect in Tammy's disappearance.
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His parole is revoked and he issent back to prison.
He spends 1985, 86, 87, 88, 89,and 90 in the New Hampshire
State Prison in Concord, newHampshire Six years.
In January 1991, he is releasedfrom the State of New Hampshire
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School for Trained Deviants andCriminals and goes back to
Florida.
I kid, I kid, this is darkstuff.
You got to take it when you canget
it.
June 1991, suspect is arrestedafter an intense police sting
that followed and videotaped himprowling around homes and
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looking in the windows atchildren.
All right, earmuff it for meagain.
It's about to get darker.
They had their eyes on this guy.
They knew he was connected totwo missing child cases.
So detectives, many of them,including some from New
Hampshire, put him undersurveillance.
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Investigators watch the now48-year-old sex offender take
opportunities to watch younggirls at playgrounds.
He would slide down low in hiscar and watch at bus stops, mini
golf courses, communityswimming pools that one hurts.
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That's how Andy Puglisi wentmissing.
The suspect was leaving thehouse in Lake Worth that he
lived in with his parents before5 am to drive to Woodhaven
Plaza, park his car and walk toa housing complex To the same
bedroom window.
He was a lurker, a voyeur, adeviant.
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The window looked into thebedroom where three sisters
slept, a nine-year-old andten-year-old twins.
For weeks investigatorsvideotaped his movements with
the hope that he could providethem with more about his crimes
and proclivities.
He returned to that suburbanWest Palm Beach duplex 14 times
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in less than three weeks,masturbating as he looked
through the three-inch gaps inthe window blinds inch gaps in
the window blinds.
We would later learn at trialthat he would often press his
face against the glass, so muchso that his breath would be seen
on thewindow.
Police were running the longgame.
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They had some decent technology, a van, the whole movie
stakeout situation andvideotaped him doing his deviant
shit.
A tracking device was put onhis car, which led them to a
Memorial Day episode in NorthFlorida where he was following
children.
Officers posed as joggers andwatched him creep through
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neighborhoods.
Detectives felt he was lookingfor an opportunity for a young
child in a vulnerable state,like walking alone.
A detective wrote afterfollowing the suspect's car
through the town of Wellingtonon May 23, 1991, that it was
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evidence that he was keepingwatch on these two developments.
They sensed he might act andthey wanted to be right there
when he did.
Weeks of surveillance with 40officers came to an end on the
morning of June 4th 1991, whenEddie was arrested walking back
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to his car at the WoodhavenPlaza after his morning deviance
.
He had no idea they werewatching
him.
The state's attorney's officefiled seven counts of burglary
in possession of burglary tools,and prosecutors intended to try
him as a habitual offender,which meant that if convicted he
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could be sentenced to 30 yearsfor each burglary.
The chief assistant prosecutorat the time, ken Selvig, rarely
tried cases but intended onhandling this one when Eddie, in
his disordered thinking, wrotethe judge a letter, like he did
in New Hampshire, railing aboutlaw enforcement's blind
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obsession with him.
Oh, that's rich.
They found trophies he hadcollected, including girls'
underwear class photos stolenfrom homes.
He had a collection ofchildren's underwear
advertisements cut out from saleflyers.
He had scrapbooks with imagesof girls like Soleil Moon Frye,
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who was Punky Brewster at thetime, brooke Shields, and there
were Polaroids taken outside ofbedroom
windows.
An inmate from New HampshireState Prison told Exeter police
the suspect would gratifyhimself in jail while watching
Sesame Street.
His former friends had anickname for him Chester the
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Molester.
We know investigators had put atracking device on his car, a
blue Oldsmobile.
They looked through his trash,they tapped his phone, they
monitored his mail.
They even set up in anapartment in a complex that he
frequented.
They knew him, but did theyknow him enough to say
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unequivocally that he wouldsteal a child off the
street?
Tammy Belanger and Christy Lunaboth eight disappeared within
six months of each other.
He denied any involvement.
Evidence leaking him to eachabduction is circumstantial, but
Buonetti showed signs.
His parole officer found him ajob in Exeter stripping paint
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from cars at Brad's Auto Body.
Brad is Brad Bissell, the ownerwho said Buonetti hadn't missed
a day of work until November13th 1984.
The day Tammy Belanger walkedfrom her River Street home,
around the corner from the bodyshop at 69 Main Street.
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She never made it to school andhe never made it to work.
He was supposed to be at workat 7 am to work.
He was supposed to be at workat 7 am that day.
He called in sick but the callcame in around noon.
His boss thought he had a latenight out and was sleeping it
off.
Two days after Tammy vanished,Winnetti's parole officer
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notified the local police thatthe convicted sex offender was
working in Exeter.
The police didn't know.
They had no idea.
Detectives called Brad Bisselland told him to report to them
on a daily basis how Winnettiwas behaving.
Bissell told the Palm BeachHerald that the day after
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Tammy's disappearance he was ina world of his own.
During lunch he just stood byhimself rubbing his key against
the hood of his car.
The manager of the Rye MotorInn where he was living
remembers watching a news reporton TV about Tammy and asked him
do you think they'll ever findthat girl?
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Not now, they won't, was hisreply.
An FBI agent showed up at thebody shop, searched his car.
In the trunk they found a sextoy, a patch of carpet, a
chainsaw, stolen stereoequipment and other items.
That's when he went back to themotor room and told the manager
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to say that she saw his blue1975 Oldsmobile in the motel lot
.
All morning on November 13thPolice searched his room at the
inn, the grounds around thebuilding, the dumpster, the
trash.
He was that big talking kind ofguy who would say he knew how
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to dispose of a body where noone would ever find
it.
After all of this, and a bluecar being seen in the vicinity
of Christy Luna and Tammy, thisCSA conviction, the absolute
brutality of all of it, thepiles of materials of children.
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This guy was never charged ineither disappearance.
I find many similarities inthis case to Andy Puglisi's
Because there are so manyplayers, reprehensible, horrible
human beings.
He would face two trials, thefirst for the West Palm Beach
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family, the second for theWellington incidents.
When he was charged with ninecounts of burglary, ten counts
of trespass, seven counts ofindecent exposure and one count
of possession of burglary tools,a bond was set at $750,000.
His freedom was short-lived.
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He was facing decades in prisonon those
charges.
But the jury would not hear thefull story, nothing about the
unrelented abuses he forced uponthat little girl, not the
revolting fixation on children,the deviance, the voyeurism.
They didn't hear his nickname.
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The guys had for him Chesterthe Molester.
They didn't find out about hisjailhouse confession to raping
and killing two eight-year-oldgirls in 1984.
He was convicted of burglaryand indecent exposure in two
trials.
Family members of the twovictimized families were there
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the West Palm Beach mom of thethree little girls targeted, who
stayed at a hotel to allowpolice to move into their house.
They hugged after sentencingand said it was worth it.
And you bet Jenny Luna,christy's mom, was there for it.
She believes he is the oneresponsible for her daughter's
disappearance.
It all adds up toher.
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The suspect was unrepentant, asone headline read.
He wasn't sorry, blaming all ofit on an obsession by the
police, a setup.
He cried interruption.
The judge handed down a 75-yearsentence.
It was the lack of remorse andthere were 23 prior convictions.
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That included aggravatedfelonious sexual assault of a
child.
The judge said it he was adanger to society and gave him a
harsher sentence under thehabitual offender provision.
From the courtroom Christy'smother yelled I know you killed
her.
What did you do with mydaughter?
Victor Winnetti was the mainsuspect in Tammy Belander's
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disappearance.
Jenny Luna knew he took herlittle girl.
That surveillance footageshowed his deviance.
Searches uncovered hisdiabolical mind.
But somehow he was releasedfrom prison in April 2012 and
died eight monthslater.
Tammy's disappearance remainsopen, as does Christy Luna's.
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They would be 48 years old now.
Tammy's parents eventuallydivorced.
It's unclear where Mom Pat istoday.
Tammy's father, nelson, passedaway in 2017.
He was 74.
He was remarried at the time ofhis passing.
He is survived by his wife,mercedes Belanger, and his
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children from his formermarriage Tammy's sister Anne,
brother Brian, fourgrandchildren, kayla, aiden,
caitlin and Owen, pre-deceasedby his daughter, tammy Lynn.
I get a little choked up atthis last line.
The last line of his obituaryreads donations may be made to
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the National Center for Missingand Exploited Children in memory
of Tammy Lynn Belanger.
Nelson Belanger died neverknowing what happened to his
little girl.
Christy's mom, jenny, remarried.
She is Jenny Johnson now andshe has never stopped looking
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for her daughter.
Her older daughter, allie, whowas 11 when Christy disappeared,
is now the mom of five of herown children.
Jenny still lives in theirGreenerker's home, two minutes
from Belk'sdoor.
According to NamUs, there are13 open missing child cases in
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New Hampshire.
According to the NationalCenter for Missing and Exploded
Children, nemic, there are 11open cases of missing children
from New Hampshire Janice Taylor, 15, missing from Concord on
January 9, 1968.
Patricia Wood, age 4, missingfrom Swansea October 12, 1976.
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Rachel Garden, 15.
Missing from Newton March 22,1980.
Lorene Rahn, 14.
Missing from Manchester April27, 1980.
Shirley Tippie McBride, 15.
Missing from Concord July 13,1984.
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Tammy Belanger, age 8, missingfrom Exeter November 13, 1984.
William Vosler, age 2, missingfrom Rochester October 9, 1986.
Brother Charles, age 3, missingfrom Rochester October 9th
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1986.
Julian Bulleris, 18, missingfrom Swansea July 30th 1994.
Nicholas Foster, 18, missingfrom Winchester.
Missing from Winchester March10, 1998.
Bethany Sinclair, 15, missingfrom West Chesterfield February
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3, 2001.
Harmony Montgomery, age 5,missing from Manchester October
1, 2019.
Thaddeus Sear, 17, missing fromBedford February 15, 2023.
Amira Witherspoon, age 17,missing from Salem, new
Hampshire, october 13, 2024.
Joseph Jones, 17,ing fromNashua October 13,
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2024.
There are a number of reasonswhy people go missing.
There are a number of reasonswhy children go missing.
They're abducted, custodydisputes, one parent takes the
children away from anotherparent.
Some children run away.
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For some children it's anoutside influence, oftentimes a
dangerous one.
For some children it's identitya biological family and an
adoptive one.
For some children, being awayfrom their home is safer than
being in their home.
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Some children are harmed by thepeople who are supposed to love
them.
Whatever these circumstancesare surrounding the
disappearance of any of thesechildren and any of the children
on any of the missing lists.
It doesn't matter.
If they are missing, they couldbe unsafe and in need of our
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help.
I don't accept they're arunaway.
Why bother?
Because they're children and weshould always bother
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Information, links, sources andmore detail about these missing
children cases atCrimeOfTheTruestKind.
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It's happening on a Saturday.
I've heard from some of youthat have said I can't make it
on a Thursday night.
We're going to try Saturday,January 25th.
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It is a restaurant that hostslive music and events.
Those of you who are local toMassachusetts and New England
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On Saturday, january 25th inLowell, we are going to talk
about crimes of the MerrimackValley.
If there is a case that you'dlike me to include, please let
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For those of you who've beenlistening to the show for a
period of time, you know that Igrew up here in New England,
largely in Massachusetts, but Idid spend a fair amount of time
in southern New Hampshire.
The stories are close to me,but I did spend a fair amount of
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time in southern New Hampshire.
The stories are close to me.
November 13th marked 40 yearsthat a little girl from Exeter,
new Hampshire, disappearedwithout a trace and her case is
unsolved.
How can that be?
And as I dug into this case, Ihad no idea what I was in for In
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the other 13 active NewHampshire missing children cases
that are in the NamUs database.
This is episode 75.
Tammy Belanger, exeter, newHampshire and New Hampshire's
Missing Children.
There are currently 13 activeNew Hampshire missing children's
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cases in the NamUs database.
Namis database NAMIS, theNational Missing and
Unidentified Persons System, theNational Clearinghouse and
Resource Center for Missing,Unidentified and Unclaimed
Person Cases throughout the USIs that all the children
currently missing from NewHampshire Can't be.
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Namis lists 57 missing personscases in the state.
I checked that against the NewHampshire Missing Persons Report
at nhgov.
That lists the total currentmissing persons cases in the
state at 75.
I looked up what was currentfor the New Hampshire Missing
Persons Report.
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It lists unclassified acrossthe top and the one dated
October 17th 2024 had sevenchildren that I couldn't find on
any other list Children thatcame up in zero searches.
So I hope they're safe.
We know it to be true that notall missing people are entered
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into NamUs.
I see it as an officialdocumentation of that person to
be missing.
There are a number of reasonswhy they may not be entered.
Law enforcement must enter theinformation Family members are
not able to.
If you listen to the recentepisode I did with Nina Innsted,
advocate and host of AlreadyGone podcast.
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We talk about a number ofthings that happen when someone
goes missing and why someone maynot be in a database.
Episode 73, released on October23rd.
New Hampshire Information andAnalysis Center that's NHIAC.
I know there are a lot ofinitialisms.
It's hard to keep up the NHIACMissing Persons Report.
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It is a comprehensive monthlydesigned to provide those
agencies with open missingpersons cases, greater exposure
of those cases.
Data is taken from the NationalCrime Information Center,
that's the NCIC, the NewHampshire State Police Cold Case
Unit, and all case files fromthe investigating agencies.
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Now there are bound to bediscrepancies in reporting and
that is why we need to bediligent for these kids who have
still not been located, nomatter the reason given.
Kids who have still not beenlocated, no matter the reason
given.
And of course, I share thesesource links at
crimeofthetruestkindcom.
On each episode's page I willlist these cases to the best of
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my ability and there is oftennot a lot of information
available, especially for themost recent cases.
When I prepare for each show, Iusually have a direction.
With that I mean I have aselected case and have begun the
research already, and there area lot of cases I'm working on
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all at the same time.
That list continues to growthrough my research.
Often researching one caseleads to another and another,
like what happened for thisepisode.
I was very aware of this case,having lived in New Hampshire
when this disappearance tookplace, and I do recall seeing it
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on the news and in newspapersover the years.
And this month marked 40 yearssince this little girl
disappeared while walking toschool, the same familiar walk
she took almost every day.
Tammy Belanger disappeared fromExeter, new Hampshire.
Let's talk about Exeter, newHampshire, for a minute.
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With a population around about16,000 now, it's a beautiful
small town.
Shops, a bandstand in thecenter, almost every New
Hampshire kid's Las Vegas stripis Hampton Beach.
10 miles away, exeter bordersEpping to the north, where the
(08:00):
New England Dragway is.
It smells like burnt rubber inseason, doesn't it?
Fremont to the west, west andKingston to the south All small,
quaint New Hampshire villagetowns.
Kingston was home to NancyChampion.
She grew up and worked on herfamily's farm there.
I don't know that her namewould be familiar in this
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context.
She was better known as NancyLanza, mother of Adam Lanza, who
was born in Exeter Hospital in1992.
The Lanza family moved toNewtown, connecticut, in 1998,
when he was six.
I can do math.
I went to school in NewHampshire.
Adam Lanza is the Sandy Hookmass shooter and I imagine some
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of you listening to me now knowthe Lanzas from their time in
New Hampshire and I am verysorry about all of it.
What happened in Newtown hasnothing to do with New Hampshire
.
What happened in Newtown hasnothing to do with New Hampshire
(09:09):
.
No-transcript.
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That's more than some peoplemake in a year.
A co-educational college prepschool with approximately 1,100
boarding and day students,grades 9 through 12.
They've seen much success withan endowment of $1.5 billion,
with a B as of last year, andhave the world's largest high
(10:02):
school library 160,000 volumesover nine levels with a shelf
capacity of 250,000 volumes.
That's a lot of books.
The world needs a lot of books.
The academy admits students ona need-blind basis and offers
(10:22):
free tuition to students withfamily incomes under $125,000 a
year.
Its list of notables includesUS President Franklin Pierce
he's got a college.
Us Senator Daniel Webster he'sgot a highway.
Facebook founder MarkZuckerberg we know what he's got
.
Facebook founder MarkZuckerberg we know what he's got
(10:44):
.
Ben ontench musician, producerand keyboardist for Tom Petty
and the Heartbreakers you got it.
Boston locals will recognizethis name Billy Ruane.
He didn't graduate but he wentthere and he made huge
contributions to the Bostonmusic scene.
(11:04):
Historian Heather CoxRichardson went to Exeter Also
Will and Wynne Butler of theband Arcade Fire.
Look, I learn incredible thingsevery episode that I do of this
.
I hope you learn something too.
(11:24):
Dan Zanes and Warren Zanes areExeter raised.
The Zanes brothers were in oneof Boston's most beloved rock
and roll bands in the 80s calledthe Del Fuegos.
Youngest brother, arren, wrotethe 2015 New York Times
bestselling biography, tom Pettythe Biography I know,
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astounding name.
And in 2023, he released thebook Deliver Me From Nowhere the
Making of Bruce Springsteen'sNebraska.
It was announced earlier thisyear that a film adaptation of
his book is in the works,starring Jeremy Allen White as
Bruce Springsteen.
Yes, chef.
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This month marked 40 years sincea little girl vanished off the
streets of Exeter while she waswalking to school, the same
familiar route she took almostevery day.
Tammy Belanger was eight.
She was shy, she was quiet.
One reporter wrote likable,they're all likable, they're
kids.
I can hear all the motherssaying are you sure?
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I know you love your kids.
You don't always like them,always like them.
Tammy Libalanger was born onFebruary 24th 1976.
The youngest of three wasdescribed as four feet six
inches, that's 54 inches, talland weighed about 70 pounds, and
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because I'm me and I can't seemto help myself, I wanted to
know if that was within thenormal growth average for a
child at that age.
First, at Boston Children'sHospital, I rabbit-holed into
endocrinology and adrenal glandsto find out, and yes, she was
within the normal range, on thetaller side for her age.
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Why, though, asmaller-than-average child would
indicate to me, ruling outgenetics and hormones?
Underdevelopment is also causedby malnutrition.
That could indicate neglect andabuse, but that is not the case
here.
I want to stress that is notthe case with Tammy or the
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Belanger family.
None of the research suggestedanything out of the ordinary.
They were a very normal family.
And boom, I'm an endo and adetective now, yay me.
I think about her photo, oneI've seen hundreds of times on
New Hampshire television.
Those bangs carved and curvedblunt across her forehead.
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Her brown eyes left onewandered out to the side.
I also rabbit-holed someresearch about lazy eyes, but
I'm going to spare you that.
When you see her face, you'llnever forget it.
That is actually what herfather told news reporters in
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the week following herdisappearance, when speaking to
the Boston Globe for a storyprinted on November 24, 1984,
she was missing for 11 days.
Her parents were drained.
Their home was a revolving doorof detectives and media.
There was no peace.
Their two older children, 17and 14, handled it the best they
could.
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Tammy's parents hadn't workedin nearly two weeks that she was
missing and they were facedwith attempting to get back to
normal life when their liveswere anything but normal.
It would be a very steeplearning curve.
Her mom, patricia, worked inadministration at Exeter
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Hospital's emergency room.
Nelson Belanger worked as aproduction supervisor at their
waterworks in the nearby town ofHampton.
Remember New Hampshire kids,our Vegas trip, hampton Beach.
They had the support of theirneighbors and so many of them
turned out to help in the search.
Exeter was smaller in 1984.
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A close-knit community was thephrase that was echoed by many
of the people interviewed aboutTammy's disappearance in the
years that followed.
On.
That chilly Tuesday morning shegot dressed in an aqua shirt
with black and white stripes, apurple sweater, a tan jacket
with blue sleeves, tan corduroypants, tan suede boots and green
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and blue socks.
She was silent that day shecarried a red backpack that had
her name and address on it.
She didn't get a school bus.
She lived too close, under twomiles from the school.
That was the rule at the time.
Tammy set out 8 am for the.8-mile walk from her River
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Street house to the LincolnStreet School.
Google Maps says it is 20minutes.
She wasn't the kind of kid totalk to strangers.
She was shy, no-transcript.
The last known sighting of herwas by a friend and neighbor of
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the Belangers.
Betty Blanchett was the lastperson to see Tammy.
No one else has said otherwise.
She glanced out the window, sawTammy skipping across the
street.
What came next is a mystery,and critical hours passed.
No one knew.
An eight-year-old was snatchedfrom the street.
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At least no one came forwardand schools didn't call home to
check on kids in 1984.
Student absence calls startedas a result of Tammy's abduction
.
I'd like to put this on recordand apologize to Linda, the
secretary at my school, for allof the days that I didn't go and
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she called me and I answeredthe phone and said yeah, linda,
I'm home.
There was no way to know ifcalling home would have made a
difference to what happened toTammy that day.
If it would have changed theoutcome, at least her family
would have had the opportunityto act sooner.
In cases like this, time is ofthe essence.
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It can save otherchildren.
Tammy was due home shortlyafter 3 pm.
When she had not arrived by3.30, her mom, pat, called the
school.
That's when her family foundout that Tammy didn't make it to
school that day.
Seven and a half hours hadpassed.
Tammy was a good girl.
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She did her work, she likedschool, she got good grades.
Her dad spoke about that ininterviews, one with the Boston
Globe.
He talked about her punctuality.
She got up early, she atebreakfast, she left for school
right on time.
There was no dilly-dallying.
Her dad didn't believe that shewould accept a ride from anyone
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, not even a neighbor.
Anxiety, panic, confusion,dread welling up inside her mom.
She called the police and theybegan a search, pursuing every
scenario.
Had Tammy been convinced toskip out?
Unlikely?
They hoped so.
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They were afraid of the otherpossibilities and since Tammy
was discovered missing so latein the day, they were racing
against time and the sun wassetting.
They were losing valuablelight.
Searchers mobilized about 75firefighters, police officers
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and volunteers and with the helpof a Coast Guard helicopter.
They searched by air by boatcopter.
They searched by air by boatand by land With boat access.
They searched along the banksof the Exeter River, which ran
right behind the Belangers' home.
They searched the woods lookingfor disturbed earth.
They scoured the woods.
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They searched backyards andbuildings.
They knocked on doors.
Volunteers searched her school,leaving no stone unturned.
They used every ounce of lightthey could as the sun set.
There was no sign of Tammy.
They recovered nothing thatbelonged to her.
Their daughter was gone.
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As the hours passed, they triednot to let their fears take
over, fear that Tammy was taken,that someone would deliberately
want to harm their child.
Days passed, weeks,thanksgiving came with an empty
seat at the table, christmasgifts waiting for Tammy to open
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when she returned Her ninthbirthday that February, to open
when she returned Her ninthbirthday that February.
And many holidays and specialoccasions blurred through the
years and still no trace ofTammy.
November 10th 1985, nearly oneyear after Tammy went missing, a
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hunter trudging through BearBrook State Park in Allentown,
new Hampshire, came across a55-gallon industrial steel drum.
Inside were the remains of twobodies.
They were past decomposition.
They were skeletonized, wrappedin plastic bags.
That set off a course of hopeand fear for loved ones of
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missing people.
Could it be Tammy?
The remains were examined andit was determined that they had
died between 1977 and 1985.
Autopsies confirmed both haddied of blunt trauma.
They were buried in AllentownCemetery with a headstone that
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read here lies the mortalremains, known only to God, of a
woman aged 23 to 33 and a girlaged 8 to 10.
Their slain bodies were foundon November 10, 1985, in
Bearbrook State Park.
May their souls find peace inGod's loving
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care.
The story of Bearro Brook hasfascinated us, and 15 years
later, on May 9th 2000, a second55-gallon drum was discovered
in the same area.
How did investigators miss it?
Was it there when the first onewas found?
Miss it?
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Was it there when the first onewas found, or did the person or
persons responsible dump themat different times?
The second drum, like the first, contained the mutilated bodies
of two young girls.
Neither of them was Tammy.
The story of Bear Brook StatePark continued to develop over
the years.
Thank you to science, theidentities of three of those
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four victims have been made, thefourth, a child, still unknown.
I often get asked to share thestory of the Bear Brook Four.
It should be told, and itshould be told with the proper
reverence and preparation.
The investigation into Tammy'sdisappearance continued.
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There was the time in 1994where police opened the grave of
a woman who had died inNovember 1984.
It came on a tip but noevidence and no connection to
Tammy was made.
Otis is here Sometimes.
He just wakes up and barks atstuff.
At the time of herdisappearance Tammy had brown
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hair, brown eyes.
Her left eye turns outward froman injury.
She had what is described as aslender build, a fair complexion
.
She would be 48 years old nowand is still considered a
missing person.
Investigators kept at it.
And then there was a suspect,thanks to the Palm Beach Post.
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In its very detailed reporting,investigators made connections
to a New Hampshire man who hadrelocated to Florida they were
looking at him in Tammy'sdisappearance and another
eight-year-old girl whodisappeared just months before
Tammy from her neighborhood inGreen cres, florida, located in
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Palm Beach County.
That little girl is MarjorieChristina Luna.
Her friends and family call herChristy.
She was last seen on theafternoon of Sunday, may 27th
1984.
Her family had spent part ofthat Memorial Day weekend on a
road trip.
Her mom, jenny, was tired fromthe drive.
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Everyone in the house was Heroldest sister, her mom's
companion at the time, a man whohad been in Christy's life
nearly all of it.
So her mom put on a movie forChristy Yellow Submarine by the
Beatles.
Everybody was cooked from thetrip so they took a nap About
2.30 that afternoon.
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Christy concerned about hermama cat who had some kittens
Boo, boo and Skeeter.
She took some bottles forrecycling and walked the 400
feet from her house to Belk'sCorner Store A two-minute walk.
I mapped it.
What I also learned when I waslooking at Google Maps is that
the Palm Beach County Sheriff'sOffice is now directly across
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the street from Belk's.
Was it there in 1984?
A clerk at the store toldinvestigators that Christy
bought a bag of cat food andwent outside as other children
played with fireworks that theyhad
bought.
The Palm Beach Post reportedthat several witnesses told
police they saw someonedescribed as a Hispanic man, 5'6
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to 5'8, medium build, talkingwith her outside the store and
that the man offered her moneyto go inside and buy fireworks.
It might have been sparklers orsomething.
According to police detectiveDennis Conno, that man was
driving a faded blue car.
Media reports through the yearssaid it was a blue sedan with a
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broken taillight with Floridatags.
It was observed by witnesses inthe same
vicinity.
Both girls were last seen theday they disappeared.
Both girls were last seen theday they disappeared.
The description of him is vagueand police got no make or model
for the car, no license platenumber and no one saw Christy
leave with him or anyone else.
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The description of Christy fromthat day four feet tall, 60
pounds, blue eyes, brown hairand a patch of freckles on her
nose and cheeks In last seenwearing a turquoise bodysuit and
no shoes.
A number of reports have alsosaid that she was hearing
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impaired.
Her mom described her as a shychild.
Her parents had divorced whenshe was a baby and her father
was living in Atlanta.
That's all they had to go on inthe days and weeks after
Christy vanished and her mom,jenny she, has not stopped
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looking for her little girl.
As the investigation intoChristy's disappearance wore on,
many in the area were looked atclosely Store clerks, people
Christy had spent time withneighbors, two brothers with
problematic pasts.
Florida detectives would learnabout Tammy's disappearance in
NewHampshire.
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In December 1984, police nameda suspect in Tammy's
disappearance.
A New Hampshire deviant sexoffender with a lengthy record
had been arrested on a paroleviolation.
Victor Winetti, age 41, was inthe custody of New Hampshire
police after he was picked up onNovember 29th in Rye, new
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Hampshire, and they started toput the pieces together.
May of 1984, the suspect wasarrested in the town of Lake
Worth, florida, on a prowlingcharge.
More on that in a moment.
That's where his parents hadmoved from Dover, new Hampshire.
This, I presume, would raisethe flag that their sex offender
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parolee was no longer in theGranite State.
The suspect's parole wasrevoked and he was sent back to
the Concord State Prison and Spafor all the good guys where he
had served only four years of amaximum 15-year term for
felonious sexual assault againsthis wife's 13-year-old daughter
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, abuse that began when thechild was eight years old.
Wait until I tell you what hesaid about that.
Investigators from Greenacreswere on the first plane to New
Hampshire to talk to Wyanettiabout Christy Luna's
disappearance because we wouldlearn he was in the area where
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she disappeared that Mayafternoon.
I'm going to try to condensethis information the best I can.
It may be difficult.
This man had decades of crimesand I'll make their case as to
why he is the prime suspect inthe disappearance of both Tammy
Belanger and Christy Luna Somebackground.
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The suspect had established arelationship with law
enforcement and by that I meanhe was a criminal 1943,.
He was born in Pennsylvania.
He has at least 30 burglaryconvictions from around New
England.
July 27, 1973, the 8-year-olddaughter of a friend first told
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police that the suspect wastouching and then molesting her.
He was charged with childsexual abuse, csa, csa.
His attorney managed to talktheir way around the charges,
saying that this child couldn'tdistinguish fantasy from reality
.
That's a page out of thedefense attorney playbook.
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Also, the child's mother didn'tbelieve her or protect her.
So this is one of thoseearmuffet for me moments.
That's the scene in old schoolwhere Vince Vaughn tells his
little kid to cover his earsbecause he's about to say
something horrible.
In 1974, his defense did theirjob and the state had to drop
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the case against him, and thenhe married that child's mother.
A few months later the manmarries the mother, they live
together, the child is now astepdaughter, he has full access
and the abuse progresses.
It is so vile that this child,at 11 years old, has to go to
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the hospital for treatmentbecause she is physically
injured, she physically recoversand the CSA continues all over
again.
He is routinely raping thischild and this child is deeply
affected by this abuse.
The police chief of Rollinsford, new Hampshire, where they were
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living at the time, spoke ofthe child always at the police
station crying, but he was notable to ever get any information
from her as to what wasbothering her and the mother of
the child.
She said she never knewanything was going on.
Um how?
And the abuse continues.
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In 1977, his parents retire andmove from Dover, new Hampshire,
to a home in Lake Worth,florida, where, incidentally,
guy Fieri and Ghost Man are from.
Wouldn't put those two together.
June 1979, the wife catches himin the act of abusing her now
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13 year old daughter, the girlshe did not believe before, and
the suspect's response to all ofit is sickening, saying she'd
found them many times before andhe stayed with her in the home.
So she did nothing about it.
The wife reported him to police.
Thank you, big babyJesus.
Suspect takes off to Floridawhere his parents are now living
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.
The police arrest him and he issent back to New Hampshire for
trial.
He is so depraved.
The child told investigatorsthat he would photograph her
before, during and after theabuse.
He tried to revenge porn airquotes with these photos to get
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them to drop prosecution of thecase by threatening to release
those photos of a 13-year-oldgirl.
It goes to trial, during whichtime he is mouthing things at
this child I love you andsending her love letters, and I
know what you're thinking.
How is this happening?
How was this child even in thisroom, near this man?
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When asked by the judge whetherhe had anything to say, he
wanted to know why he was beingcrucified for something that
wasn't even a crime.
The judge sent him for a psychevaluation.
One month later, a doctor fromthe New Hampshire State Hospital
wrote the judge Winetti is nota dangerous to the judge, saying
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that he had been railroaded,blaming the child who used him
to get anything she wanted inthat it was all her.
He was just a man and she wasthe evil
seductress.
Sex offenders have a higherprevalence of personality
disorders compared to non-sexoffenders and spending time in
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prison does not rehabilitatethem.
In July 1983, he is paroled,serving just four years for CSA.
You know what I call that?
That's fucking bananas.
The terms of his paroleincluded the provision that he
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remain in the state of NewHampshire.
He left New Hampshire forFlorida without knowledge or
permission.
He is hired to work at a golfcourse as a
groundskeeper.
May 7, 1984.
He is arrested by Palm BeachCounty Sheriff's officers after
an off-duty Lake Worth policesergeant discovered a man
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looking in the windows of a home.
Sergeant Pat Ryan chased himthrough the neighborhood where
he was found crouched in thebushes behind one of the houses.
He said he was looking for alost cat and gave a Dover, new
Hampshire address.
This is not the last time thathe will be caught being a
deviant sex degenerate.
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He was arrested for nightprowling.
He posted $250 bail and wasreleased on May
8th.
May 27th Christy Luna goesmissing from her Green Acres
neighborhood.
It is less than 15 miles awayfrom Lake Worth.
August 23rd the suspect issentenced to 30 days in jail for
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the prowling charge.
November 2nd he returns to NewHampshire.
2nd he returns to New Hampshire, lives in a motel in Rye.
His parole officer gets him ajob at an Exeter body shop.
November 13th, tammy Belangerdisappears on her way to school
inExeter.
November 19th the FBI questionsthe suspect in Tammy's case.
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His car is searched.
And remember, he's a convictedsex offender Prior to 1994, a
federal sex offender registrydidn't exist as we know it today
, the Jacob Wetterling CrimesAgainst Children and Sexually
Violent Offender RegistrationAct is born.
Jacob Wetterling is an11-year-old boy from Minnesota
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who was kidnapped, abused andmurdered by a man nearby.
His case went unsolved foralmost 30 years.
November 29th the suspect isarrested for the parole
violation.
December 27th 1984, victorWonetti is named as the main
suspect in Tammy's disappearance.
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His parole is revoked and he issent back to prison.
He spends 1985, 86, 87, 88, 89,and 90 in the New Hampshire
State Prison in Concord, newHampshire Six years.
In January 1991, he is releasedfrom the State of New Hampshire
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School for Trained Deviants andCriminals and goes back to
Florida.
I kid, I kid, this is darkstuff.
You got to take it when you canget
it.
June 1991, suspect is arrestedafter an intense police sting
that followed and videotaped himprowling around homes and
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looking in the windows atchildren.
All right, earmuff it for meagain.
It's about to get darker.
They had their eyes on this guy.
They knew he was connected totwo missing child cases.
So detectives, many of them,including some from New
Hampshire, put him undersurveillance.
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Investigators watch the now48-year-old sex offender take
opportunities to watch younggirls at playgrounds.
He would slide down low in hiscar and watch at bus stops, mini
golf courses, communityswimming pools that one hurts.
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That's how Andy Puglisi wentmissing.
The suspect was leaving thehouse in Lake Worth that he
lived in with his parents before5 am to drive to Woodhaven
Plaza, park his car and walk toa housing complex To the same
bedroom window.
He was a lurker, a voyeur, adeviant.
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The window looked into thebedroom where three sisters
slept, a nine-year-old andten-year-old twins.
For weeks investigatorsvideotaped his movements with
the hope that he could providethem with more about his crimes
and proclivities.
He returned to that suburbanWest Palm Beach duplex 14 times
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in less than three weeks,masturbating as he looked
through the three-inch gaps inthe window blinds inch gaps in
the window blinds.
We would later learn at trialthat he would often press his
face against the glass, so muchso that his breath would be seen
on thewindow.
Police were running the longgame.
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They had some decent technology, a van, the whole movie
stakeout situation andvideotaped him doing his deviant
shit.
A tracking device was put onhis car, which led them to a
Memorial Day episode in NorthFlorida where he was following
children.
Officers posed as joggers andwatched him creep through
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neighborhoods.
Detectives felt he was lookingfor an opportunity for a young
child in a vulnerable state,like walking alone.
A detective wrote afterfollowing the suspect's car
through the town of Wellingtonon May 23, 1991, that it was
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evidence that he was keepingwatch on these two developments.
They sensed he might act andthey wanted to be right there
when he did.
Weeks of surveillance with 40officers came to an end on the
morning of June 4th 1991, whenEddie was arrested walking back
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to his car at the WoodhavenPlaza after his morning deviance
.
He had no idea they werewatching
him.
The state's attorney's officefiled seven counts of burglary
in possession of burglary tools,and prosecutors intended to try
him as a habitual offender,which meant that if convicted he
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could be sentenced to 30 yearsfor each burglary.
The chief assistant prosecutorat the time, ken Selvig, rarely
tried cases but intended onhandling this one when Eddie, in
his disordered thinking, wrotethe judge a letter, like he did
in New Hampshire, railing aboutlaw enforcement's blind
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obsession with him.
Oh, that's rich.
They found trophies he hadcollected, including girls'
underwear class photos stolenfrom homes.
He had a collection ofchildren's underwear
advertisements cut out from saleflyers.
He had scrapbooks with imagesof girls like Soleil Moon Frye,
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who was Punky Brewster at thetime, brooke Shields, and there
were Polaroids taken outside ofbedroom
windows.
An inmate from New HampshireState Prison told Exeter police
the suspect would gratifyhimself in jail while watching
Sesame Street.
His former friends had anickname for him Chester the
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Molester.
We know investigators had put atracking device on his car, a
blue Oldsmobile.
They looked through his trash,they tapped his phone, they
monitored his mail.
They even set up in anapartment in a complex that he
frequented.
They knew him, but did theyknow him enough to say
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unequivocally that he wouldsteal a child off the
street?
Tammy Belanger and Christy Lunaboth eight disappeared within
six months of each other.
He denied any involvement.
Evidence leaking him to eachabduction is circumstantial, but
Buonetti showed signs.
His parole officer found him ajob in Exeter stripping paint
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from cars at Brad's Auto Body.
Brad is Brad Bissell, the ownerwho said Buonetti hadn't missed
a day of work until November13th 1984.
The day Tammy Belanger walkedfrom her River Street home,
around the corner from the bodyshop at 69 Main Street.
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She never made it to school andhe never made it to work.
He was supposed to be at workat 7 am to work.
He was supposed to be at workat 7 am that day.
He called in sick but the callcame in around noon.
His boss thought he had a latenight out and was sleeping it
off.
Two days after Tammy vanished,Winnetti's parole officer
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notified the local police thatthe convicted sex offender was
working in Exeter.
The police didn't know.
They had no idea.
Detectives called Brad Bisselland told him to report to them
on a daily basis how Winnettiwas behaving.
Bissell told the Palm BeachHerald that the day after
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Tammy's disappearance he was ina world of his own.
During lunch he just stood byhimself rubbing his key against
the hood of his car.
The manager of the Rye MotorInn where he was living
remembers watching a news reporton TV about Tammy and asked him
do you think they'll ever findthat girl?
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Not now, they won't, was hisreply.
An FBI agent showed up at thebody shop, searched his car.
In the trunk they found a sextoy, a patch of carpet, a
chainsaw, stolen stereoequipment and other items.
That's when he went back to themotor room and told the manager
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to say that she saw his blue1975 Oldsmobile in the motel lot
.
All morning on November 13thPolice searched his room at the
inn, the grounds around thebuilding, the dumpster, the
trash.
He was that big talking kind ofguy who would say he knew how
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to dispose of a body where noone would ever find
it.
After all of this, and a bluecar being seen in the vicinity
of Christy Luna and Tammy, thisCSA conviction, the absolute
brutality of all of it, thepiles of materials of children.
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This guy was never charged ineither disappearance.
I find many similarities inthis case to Andy Puglisi's
Because there are so manyplayers, reprehensible, horrible
human beings.
He would face two trials, thefirst for the West Palm Beach
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family, the second for theWellington incidents.
When he was charged with ninecounts of burglary, ten counts
of trespass, seven counts ofindecent exposure and one count
of possession of burglary tools,a bond was set at $750,000.
His freedom was short-lived.
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He was facing decades in prisonon those
charges.
But the jury would not hear thefull story, nothing about the
unrelented abuses he forced uponthat little girl, not the
revolting fixation on children,the deviance, the voyeurism.
They didn't hear his nickname.
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The guys had for him Chesterthe Molester.
They didn't find out about hisjailhouse confession to raping
and killing two eight-year-oldgirls in 1984.
He was convicted of burglaryand indecent exposure in two
trials.
Family members of the twovictimized families were there
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the West Palm Beach mom of thethree little girls targeted, who
stayed at a hotel to allowpolice to move into their house.
They hugged after sentencingand said it was worth it.
And you bet Jenny Luna,christy's mom, was there for it.
She believes he is the oneresponsible for her daughter's
disappearance.
It all adds up toher.
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The suspect was unrepentant, asone headline read.
He wasn't sorry, blaming all ofit on an obsession by the
police, a setup.
He cried interruption.
The judge handed down a 75-yearsentence.
It was the lack of remorse andthere were 23 prior convictions.
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That included aggravatedfelonious sexual assault of a
child.
The judge said it he was adanger to society and gave him a
harsher sentence under thehabitual offender provision.
From the courtroom Christy'smother yelled I know you killed
her.
What did you do with mydaughter?
Victor Winnetti was the mainsuspect in Tammy Belander's
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disappearance.
Jenny Luna knew he took herlittle girl.
That surveillance footageshowed his deviance.
Searches uncovered hisdiabolical mind.
But somehow he was releasedfrom prison in April 2012 and
died eight monthslater.
Tammy's disappearance remainsopen, as does Christy Luna's.
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They would be 48 years old now.
Tammy's parents eventuallydivorced.
It's unclear where Mom Pat istoday.
Tammy's father, nelson, passedaway in 2017.
He was 74.
He was remarried at the time ofhis passing.
He is survived by his wife,mercedes Belanger, and his
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children from his formermarriage Tammy's sister Anne,
brother Brian, fourgrandchildren, kayla, aiden,
caitlin and Owen, pre-deceasedby his daughter, tammy Lynn.
I get a little choked up atthis last line.
The last line of his obituaryreads donations may be made to
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the National Center for Missingand Exploited Children in memory
of Tammy Lynn Belanger.
Nelson Belanger died neverknowing what happened to his
little girl.
Christy's mom, jenny, remarried.
She is Jenny Johnson now andshe has never stopped looking
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for her daughter.
Her older daughter, allie, whowas 11 when Christy disappeared,
is now the mom of five of herown children.
Jenny still lives in theirGreenerker's home, two minutes
from Belk'sdoor.
According to NamUs, there are13 open missing child cases in
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New Hampshire.
According to the NationalCenter for Missing and Exploded
Children, nemic, there are 11open cases of missing children
from New Hampshire Janice Taylor, 15, missing from Concord on
January 9, 1968.
Patricia Wood, age 4, missingfrom Swansea October 12, 1976.
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Rachel Garden, 15.
Missing from Newton March 22,1980.
Lorene Rahn, 14.
Missing from Manchester April27, 1980.
Shirley Tippie McBride, 15.
Missing from Concord July 13,1984.
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Tammy Belanger, age 8, missingfrom Exeter November 13, 1984.
William Vosler, age 2, missingfrom Rochester October 9, 1986.
Brother Charles, age 3, missingfrom Rochester October 9th
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1986.
Julian Bulleris, 18, missingfrom Swansea July 30th 1994.
Nicholas Foster, 18, missingfrom Winchester.
Missing from Winchester March10, 1998.
Bethany Sinclair, 15, missingfrom West Chesterfield February
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3, 2001.
Harmony Montgomery, age 5,missing from Manchester October
1, 2019.
Thaddeus Sear, 17, missing fromBedford February 15, 2023.
Amira Witherspoon, age 17,missing from Salem, new
Hampshire, october 13, 2024.
Joseph Jones, 17,ing fromNashua October 13,
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2024.
There are a number of reasonswhy people go missing.
There are a number of reasonswhy children go missing.
They're abducted, custodydisputes, one parent takes the
children away from anotherparent.
Some children run away.
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For some children it's anoutside influence, oftentimes a
dangerous one.
For some children it's identitya biological family and an
adoptive one.
For some children, being awayfrom their home is safer than
being in their home.
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Some children are harmed by thepeople who are supposed to love
them.
Whatever these circumstancesare surrounding the
disappearance of any of thesechildren and any of the children
on any of the missing lists.
It doesn't matter.
If they are missing, they couldbe unsafe and in need of our
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help.
I don't accept they're arunaway.
Why bother?
Because they're children and weshould always bother
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Information, links, sources andmore detail about these missing
children cases atCrimeOfTheTruestKind.
com.
Thank you for listening.
My name is Angelle Wood.
This is Crime of the TruestKind Massachusetts and New
England crime stories, regionalhistory, advocacy and, yeah, a
little snark too.
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Saturday this time, january 25th, at Kodo in Lowell.
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I am grateful for all of youwho have stuck with me.
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