"Railroad Track" serial killer Angel Resendiz writes letter to local FL sheriff,claims CREDIT for 1997 double murder of 19 y.o.teen boy & his 16 y.o.gal-pal,provides SUPPRESSED info on exact type of murder weapon used,Angel now likely SK of 11,since 1997
Joe1orbit
Nice to get an update on Angel Maturino Resendiz, the one and only "Railroad
Track" serial killer, PERVERSELY condemned to be legally murdered in TX for the
ONE murder he has already been convicted of, and likely to face SEVERAL more
murder trials, despite a legal murder sentence having already been handed down.
Our media-appreciating Amgel is CONTINUING to CEMENT his place among the serial
killer community of amerikkka, as evidenced by the below update. I can't really
say that I believe his writing to the FL sheriff was a eise thing to do. In
reality, it was tactically foolish. Angel STILL only has ONE conviction and one
legal murder sentence agaist him. He CAN and hopefully WILL vigorously appeal.
So, CHOOSING to implicate himself in OTHER murders, is totally
counter-productive to Angel. I fear he has pretty much RESIGNED himself to
never regaining his freedom.
As we should all know, Angel is very SERIOUSLY linked to NINE murders, in at
least four different states, TX,IL,FL, and KY. In his tactically unwise letter
to the FL sheriff, Angel admits to harvesting TWO teens, and has provided
SPECIFIC information that police say ONLY the killer could know. As fits his
pattern, these two were also harvested RIGHT near railroad tracks. 19 year old
Jesse Howell was found murdered in March of 1997. His younger, 16 year old
female travelling companion was NEVER found, but is presumed dead as well. Wow,
ANOTHER case of Angel apparently taking on TWO ADULTS, or at least close to
being adult, human targets at the SAME time, all by himself, a YOUNG male and
female, JUST like he did in his very FIRST known deadly attack, in KY. THIS
attack occured a few MONTHS before the KY attack, so it would become the FIRST
known fatal attack that Angel committed, IF in fact he did carry it out, as ALL
indications are.
You have to have a LOT of confidence in yourself, to take on TWO adults at
the SAME time, to literally launch an attack on two people, together. MUCH
riskier than just targeting one victim at a time, of course. And for Angel to
target TWO at the same time, in his very FIRST fatal attack, is VERY
impressive. Of course there IS reason to think that Angel HAD already committed
several murders, if not in amerikkka than in his native Mexico, prior to 1997.
I DO believe these two murders are NOT PART of the NINE that Angel has already
been "unofficially" credited with, but I'm NOT 100% sure about that. Would be
GREAT if in fact they serve to RAISE the likely victim toll to 11, and I
believe that is the case. I see ABSOLUTELY no reason to doubt Angel's claims,
and the UNIQUE information he has provided in his letter, information that ONLY
the local pigs would know, gives his claim a HUGE degree of almost irrefutable
credibility.
I sure HOPE 39 year old Angel is COPING well with prison life, and is now at
least letting his lawyers TRY their best, to overturn the outrageous legal
murder sentence that the TX jury of supreme whores & hypocrites, imposed upon
him.
Stay Strong, Angel!
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of today's Associated Press news wire:
Rail Killer Ties Self to Fla. Crime
OCALA, Fla. (AP) - In a letter to a central Florida sheriff, convicted railroad
killer Angel Maturino Resendiz admitted killing two teens in his district three
years ago and gave details about the slayings that investigators said no one
but the killer and investigators would know.
``We cannot say 100 percent he did it,'' Maj. Patti Lumpkin, supervisor of the
Marion County Sheriff's major crimes unit, said in Friday's Ocala Star-Banner.
``Until we have all the facts, interview Resendiz in person, we just cannot say
right now. We do not want to pin a murder on him just because he has been
convicted of another.''
Maturino Resendiz wrote to the Marion County Sheriff's office that the killings
occurred on the railroad tracks between Tampa and Baldwin, which is about 20
miles east of Jacksonville.
The tracks run through Belleview, where 19-year-old Jesse Howell was found
slain on March 23, 1997. His 16-year-old traveling companion, Wendy VonHuben,
was never found.
Investigators have never made public what type of weapon was used to fatally
beat Howell, but Maturino Resendiz correctly identified the weapon in his
letter, officials told the newspaper.
They said Maturino Resendiz provided two maps in his recently received letter
that showed where he says he killed the man and buried the girl, but they said
the maps were not specific enough.
Maturino Resendiz, 39, was sentenced to death in Texas last month for the 1998
rape and murder of a Houston-area doctor. His lawyers have conceded that he
killed eight other people in Texas, Illinois and Kentucky. All were killed at
or near railroad tracks.
Marion investigators have long considered Maturino Resendiz their leading
suspect in Howell's death and VonHuben's disappearance. The day before Howell
was killed, Maturino Resendiz was issued a trespass warning by railroad
officials at a switching station 90 miles north of Belleview.
Marion detectives traveled to Texas in July to interview Maturino Resendiz, but
his lawyers blocked their interview attempt. Investigators did not say when
they will attempt to interview him again.
AP-NY-06-09-00
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The following appears courtesy of the 6/9/00 online edition of The Ocala
Star-Banner newspaper:
Resendiz:Two slain in area
Police say suspected killer admits slayings near rails
JOE CALLAHAN
Senior Staff Writer
OCALA — A suspected rail-riding serial killer confessed to a local detective
that he killed a man and a teen-age girl in Florida about three years ago,
about the time a Chicago man was found bludgeoned to death near Belleview and
his female traveling companion had disappeared without a trace.
Dubbed the Railroad Killer, Angel Maturino Resendiz, 39, said in a letter to
the Marion County Sheriff's Office the killings happened along the railroad
tracks between Baldwin and Tampa, which run through Belleview, where Jesse
Howell, 19, was found beaten to death.
Resendiz even provided two maps showing where the man was killed and girl was
buried, but Sheriff's Office investigators say the maps are not specific
enough. Officials have requested an interview with Resendiz in hopes of getting
more detailed information.
Resendiz told investigators what kind of weapon he used to kill the young man
along the tracks. The weapon he described also matched the one investigators
believe was used to strike Howell in the head. Investigators have not publicly
released information on the weapon used to kill Howell.
If investigators officially tie Resendiz to the Howell slaying, it would become
the first known death in the suspected killing spree. Resendiz has been tied to
nine slayings. The first was in Kentucky in August 1997, five months after
Howell was killed.
"We cannot say 100 percent he (Resendiz) did it,'' said Maj. Patti Lumpkin,
Marion sheriff's Major Crimes Unit supervisor.
"Until we have all of facts, interview Resendiz in person, we just cannot say
that right now. We do not want to pin a murder on him just because he has been
convicted of another.''
Marion investigators have named Resendiz as their No. 1 suspect in connection
with the death of Howell, whose body was found in Santos several yards west of
the CSX Transportation tracks on March 23, 1997.
Howell's traveling companion, Wendy VonHuben, 16, has not been seen since.
Though Resendiz offered a chilling confession, he hasn't indicated whether he
knew the names of the people he says he killed.
"We need to talk to him in person and resolve this,'' said Lumpkin. "He hasn't
given us names, so we still have work to do. We must talk to him because he has
provided enough information to indicate he may be the one.''
The day before Howell was killed, Resendiz was issued a trespass warning by CSX
Transportation officials at a Baldwin switching station 90 miles north of where
Howell's body was found.
Two days after the slaying, a Social Security number — very similar to
Resendiz's, with the exception of two digits — was used on a job application in
Fort Pierce. Investigators never found a witness who could place him in Fort
Pierce.
The heavily traveled main track where Howell's body was found runs from Baldwin
through Belleview to Tampa. The Baldwin station is a hub where train hoppers
can catch rides to Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami and other locations.
Lumpkin and Detective Jeff Owens are waiting for their turn to interview
Resendiz, who resides on death row in Texas, in hopes of officially closing the
homicide case and finding VonHuben.
The last time Howell was known to be alive was on March 21, 1997, two days
before his body was found. Howell called his mother in Woodstock, Ill., on that
day from the Flying J Travel Plaza, a truck stop just off Interstate 75 near
Dade City.
David Howell, Jesse Howell's father, who has since moved to California, said
his son had told him he was planning to first stop by his grandmother's home
near Durham, N.C., before making the trip back to Woodstock, N.Y.
Investigators said they believe Jesse Howell and VonHuben then traveled 10
miles to hop a northbound train in Dade City, which travels along U.S. 301 from
Dade City for about 150 miles north through Belleview along U.S. 441 and
eventually connects to Baldwin.
Investigators identified Howell's body after evidence found at the March 23
homicide scene led detectives to a homeless man in Tampa. The man told
investigators the girl went to a Western Union to get money from her father a
few days before the slaying.
That's how authorities learned the girl's name and that she had fled with
Howell to Florida.
Investigators know Howell wasn't killed by the train. And because there are no
scrapes on his body, they are sure he was not tossed from a moving train as it
passed. Detectives said Howell was probably killed by a violent blow to the
head alongside the tracks or in a box car.
Authorities say Howell's body was found by a conductor lying 400 yards east of
U.S. 441 near a side track, designed for a train to leave the main track to
stop and yield to a passing train.
Resendiz is accused of killing some of his victims by bludgeoning them to death
— the same way Howell was slain. Resendiz also has a criminal history in
Florida, dating back into the 1980s, which means he could be familiar with the
region's train routes.
Federal crime experts have linked Resendiz to nine homicides in three other
states — Illinois, Kentucky and Texas. The first of those killings occurred on
Aug. 29, 1997, in Lexington, Ky., authorities said.
In that case, witnesses testified Resendiz emerged from the darkness as a woman
and her boyfriend, fellow University of Kentucky student Christopher Maier, 21,
trekked between fraternity parties near some railroad tracks.
Maier was killed and his girlfriend raped, stabbed and left for dead. But she
survived the attack and testified recently at Resendiz's trial in Texas, where
he was convicted and sentenced to death in connection with the murder of a
Texas doctor.
She was jabbed with a knife and had to listened to Maier drown in his own
blood.
Joe Callahan covers public safety.
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