Update on Kendall Francois,the NY "House Of Horrors" serial killer of at least 8-9 female hookers
Joe1orbit
Here is a quick update on our new serial killer, 27 year old Kendall Francois
in New York, who is believed to have slaughtered 9 hooker gals, and then
secreted their bodies throughout the INTERIOR of the 3 story house that he
shared with his Mommy, Daddy, and teen-age sister. I like that word a lot,
"secreted". It might not be the best usage of grammer, but I think it's a fine
word to use when talking about where your victims are. I envision a rude and
vulgar police detective, shoving his face near a serial killer and demanding:
"You'd better tell us what you did with the bodies of the people you killed,
you animal!" And the serial killer looks up at the cop, smiles sweetly, and
says: "I secreted those bodies in a location of my choosing, and have no
intention of revealing the location of the secreted bodies to you." :)
Anyway, we learn below that police have now positively identified SIX of the
bodies that they have removed from Kendall's House Of Horrors. Eight different
bodies HAVE already been found, so it is almost 100% certain that Kendall,
acting alone, serially killed at least 8 gals, all during the past 14-18
months. Police THINK there might be a ninth victim. Of the 6 bodies that have
been positively ID'ed, 5 were on the list of local missing gals that police had
compiled, prior to arresting Kendall.
Kendall remains locked in a prison cage, and the arraignment that WAS
scheduled to take place 2 days ago, on Friday, was postponed until this coming
Wednesday. Hopefully the media will get some cool video footage of Kendall
being led into & out of court, on Wednesday.
Police tell us that most of the bodies and body parts were found inside the
house, hidden in the basement, crawlspace, and attic. But at least one body was
BURIED, but it's not clear if it was buried out in the yard, or just directly
underneath the basement. The local police department has brought in two
internationally famous forensic pathologists to try and identify all of the
bodies and body parts. Yup, one lone serial killer can certainly get an entire
city buzzing and busy, creating an entirely unexpected economic drain on
resources, especially if he harvests 8+ gals & keeps the dead bodies in his
house.
As you know, Kendall WAS living with his parents in this House Of Horrors,
and they of course were FORCED to leave their legally owned home, once
authorities started finding & extracting human body parts and skeletons from
Home Sweet Home. They have apparently moved in with another relative, for the
time being. As you might imagine, they are described as being "upset" over this
recent turn of events involving their son-slave. They refuse to be interviewed
by the media, and are letting a cousin act as their spokesperson. The cousin
just says that they are upset, and reaffirms that despite the horrific odor
that eminated throughout the house, the parents just had no idea that their
son-slave was killing hookers & stashing their rotting corpses throughout the
house.
As you might expect, the family members of Kendall are now instant
CELEBRITIES themselves, and have already been invited to appear on numerous
nationwide TV talk/documentary shows, including Oprah and Dateline. So far they
are refusing to appear, If I were them, I'd negotiate an exclusive interview
with a tabloid newspaper, playing off the tabloids against each other, to try
and get as much money as possible for the interview.
In a rather interesting detail, we learn that the Mommy, Paulette, works as a
registered nurse, who works at a psychiatric hospital, as a "career counselor
for youths". The Daddy just works a menial job at a factory.
A few more details about Kendall have also emerged. He was teased and taunted
about being overweight, while in school. His cousin confirms that Kendall was
known to hang around several fast food restaurants from where some of the 8-9
hookers disappeared.
He also was a regular churchgoer. Well, religion is TOXIC in nature.
Hopefully Kendall recognized that religion is nothing more than a farce and a
sham. I hope that he is not now and never becomes addicted to the god myth. It
is VERY pathetic how eagerly the vast majority of Blacks in the USA choose to
embrace the toxic god myth, which is of course blatantly and maliciously used
by society as a way of dominating and appeasing and enslaving the Blacks,
getting them to accept the racism and prejudice that they have always been and
continue to be, subjected to. Hopefully, Kendall, despite being Black, is
enlightened and intelligent enough to recognize the perverse god myth for what
it is: A malevolent tool of enslavement, as well as a total lie, of course.
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of today's United Press International news
wire:
PD ID 6 of 8 corpses found in house
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., Sept. 6 (UPI) Poughkeepsie, N.Y., police have identified
six of the eight bodies discovered in the home of a former middle-school hall
monitor. Twenty-seven-year-old Kendall Francois is accused of killing a number
of prostitutes and hiding their corpses in his Fulton Avenue home. Police
arrested Francois after a woman allegedly escaped from his clutches and
reported the incident. He is being held without bail and will be arraigned on
Wednesday.
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The following appears courtesy of yesterday's Associated Press news wire:
Another woman, not among eight missing, found in alleged killer's
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) - The home of alleged serial killer Kendall Francois
held a surprise for police, who have now identified one of the bodies found
there as a woman not among the eight he is suspected of slaying.
After identifying one of the women on Friday as 34-year-old Audrey Pugliese, of
Westchester County, police admitted that there may be more victims. They are
bringing in sophisticated forensic equipment to search for additional human
remains. Eight bodies have been found so far in the attic, basement and
crawlspace. One was buried.
As investigators continued to pull corpses from his garbage-filled home Friday,
Francois, 27, was indicted on a single count of second-degree murder. That
charge alleges he strangled 25-year-old Catina Newmaster.
"We are not certain that the eight bodies we believe were inside the home are
indeed the missing women police have been searching for," Dutchess County
District Attorney William Grady said.
"Until the remaining bodies are identified we cannot speculate or surmise what
may be the case," Grady said when asked whether there were more victims inside
the two-story green home where Francois lived with his mother, a registered
nurse, as well as his father and younger sister.
Police also said Friday that four of the eight bodies found had been identified
through forensic tests. Three were among the women police had been searching
for. Ms. Newmaster, Catherine Marsh and Gina Barone have been positively
identified by authorities.
Police released few details about the fourth woman, Ms. Pugliese, at a news
conference Friday, but they said she had lived in Poughkeepsie for the last six
month and was last seen three weeks ago. Authorities said she had an arrest
record, but they had no details on the charges or the place of arrest.
The eight missing women vanished from the Reservoir Square neighborhood of
Poughkeepsie over the last two years. All had histories of prostitution and
drug use.
MonRay Francois, Kendall Francois' soft-spoken cousin, said he had cut Ms.
Pugliese's hair in May at the Poughkeepsie hair salon where he works.
"I'm angry at him," Francois said of his cousin Kendall. "I really got upset
about that last lady Audrey. She was a customer of mine."
Meanwhile, police said of the eight bodies investigators had located throughout
the house, six had been removed late Friday. The others were expected to
removed by today.
Within the next few days, Grady said investigators will bring in radar-like
forensic equipment to search for human remains police may not yet have
discovered in and around the home.
Additionally, Grady said two "internationally renowned" forensic pathologists,
Drs. Lowell Levine and Thomas Holland, are being brought in to help identify
the remains, many of which are in skeletal form.
The discovery of Miss Pugliese raised questions Friday about whether one of the
eight missing women was not among the eight bodies found, or whether there were
more than eight victims.
The brother of Kathleen Hurley, one of the missing women who had not been among
the bodies yet identified, called the news Friday "a slight ray of hope."
"But I'm pretty well resigned to the fact that she's probably dead. Finding
that out for sure would give some closure," James DeSalvo said.
A preliminary hearing in Town of Poughkeepsie Court had been scheduled for
Friday afternoon, but the murder indictment handed up by a grand jury removed
the case from town jurisdiction, Grady said.
Francois, who is being held without bail at Dutchess County jail, is expected
to be arraigned on the murder charge Wednesday in state Supreme Court in
Poughkeepsie.
AP-ES-09-05-98
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The following appears courtesy of the 9/4/98 Associated Press news wire:
Cousin describes distraught family of alleged serial killer
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) - Kendall Francois' parents have been distraught and in
seclusion since police arrested their son and started hauling decomposed bodies
out of their home, a cousin said on Friday.
"I went to see how they were doing, they were crying a lot," MonRay Francois
said.
Francois' parents, McKinley and Paulette, and his younger sister, Kyrsten, have
been staying at an undisclosed location, refusing to give interviews, while
police search their Poughkeepsie home for the corpses of eight women. Six
bodies had been removed by Friday afternoon.
Many have questioned how the family could have lived at the home and not have
noticed the stench of decomposing bodies.
"It needed a cleaning," MonRay Francois said of the house. "All I know is they
had nothing to do with it."
Paulette Francois is a registered nurse, according to state records. She worked
as a career counselor for youths at Hudson River Psychiatric Center in
Poughkeepsie and McKinley Francois worked in a factory, MonRay Francois said.
An official at the psychiatric center refused to confirm that she was employed
there.
Kendall Francois, who now weighs over 300 pounds and is 6-feet-4, was
apparently teased in school because he was overweight, but had several
girlfriends. He was portrayed Friday as a regular church-goer who liked to play
cards and video games.
Kendall Francois also used to hang out at late hours at a Dunkin Donuts and
McDonalds, near where the prostitutes disappeared from, his cousin said.
MonRay Francois, a softspoken hairdresser who wears a blue skullcap and baggy
jeans, said the family was bothered by all the media attention being directed
their way.
"Dateline (NBC) on my answering machine, give me a break," he said. "Oprah will
call me next."
AP-ES-09-04-98
Peggi Hsu
The following are parts of the original post:
> Police tell us that most of the bodies and body parts were found inside the
>house, hidden in the basement, crawlspace, and attic. But at least one body
>was
>BURIED, but it's not clear if it was buried out in the yard, or just directly
>underneath the basement.
I wonder if the body parts mentioned were due to natural decomposition or were
they dismembered?
>
..............
> As you might expect, the family members of Kendall are now instant
>CELEBRITIES themselves, and have already been invited to appear on numerous
>nationwide TV talk/documentary shows, including Oprah and Dateline. So far
>they
>are refusing to appear, If I were them, I'd negotiate an exclusive interview
>with a tabloid newspaper, playing off the tabloids against each other, to try
>and get as much money as possible for the interview.
>
.....................
I'm not suprised they are refusing. Worse than the question, "why do you think
you son did this?" is the question, didn't you notice the smell and why didn't
you do anything about it?"
> In a rather interesting detail, we learn that the Mommy, Paulette, works as
>a registered nurse, who works at a psychiatric hospital, as a "career
counselor
>for youths".
................
I would think an RN would recognize the smell of death!
This is a fascinating story, I can't wait for the book!!!
---- Peggi
Joe1orbit
>Thanx for the update.
Hello Peggi,
You're very welcome. Wish I could find a detailed update today, but the
online newspapers as well as the nationwide media in general, are just not
covering this case as well as they should be.
>The following are parts of the original post:
Joe1...@aol.com Wrote:
>> Police tell us that most of the bodies and body parts were found inside
>the
>>house, hidden in the basement, crawlspace, and attic. But at least one body
>>was
>>BURIED, but it's not clear if it was buried out in the yard, or just
>directly
>>underneath the basement.
>I wonder if the body parts mentioned were due to natural decomposition or
>were
>they dismembered?
That is a VERY good question. Several of the news items that I've read
specifically stated that "body parts" and
"skeletal remains" have been found inside the home of Kendall. But I do NOT
recall reading anything in which it is suggested that Kendall may have
dismembered the victims.
>..............
>> As you might expect, the family members of Kendall are now instant
>>CELEBRITIES themselves, and have already been invited to appear on numerous
>>nationwide TV talk/documentary shows, including Oprah and Dateline. So far
>>they
>>are refusing to appear, If I were them, I'd negotiate an exclusive interview
>>with a tabloid newspaper, playing off the tabloids against each other, to
>try
>>and get as much money as possible for the interview.
>.....................
>I'm not suprised they are refusing.
I'm a little surprised, and I do predict that sooner or later the parents, or
the cousin who is acting as a spokesperson for the family, or some other close
family relative, will decide to cash in on the monetary opportunities given to
them by their serial killing relative, good old Kendall
> Worse than the question, "why do you
>think
>you son did this?" is the question, didn't you notice the smell and why
>didn't
>you do anything about it?"
It's easy enough to come up with a plausible answer, like: "We thought it was
a dead animal underneath the house", etc.... It's especially easy to come up
with a lie when you are being paid tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars,
just to sit and talk on some TV show for 30-60 minutes.
>> In a rather interesting detail, we learn that the Mommy, Paulette, works
>as
>>a registered nurse, who works at a psychiatric hospital, as a "career
>counselor
>>for youths".
>................
>
>I would think an RN would recognize the smell of death!
You would think so, although it sounds like Mommy Paulette did NOT work in
the type of environment that involved many humans dying in her presence. During
her training to become a nurse, I would certainly think that she was exposed to
the smell of dead bodies.
>This is a fascinating story, I can't wait for the book!!!
Neither can I! I just HOPE that some talented true crime author does decide
to write a biography of Kendall. Not all serial killers get books written about
them. Kendall killed 8 or more, which is a big plus in terms of getting a book
written about him, but his victims were all hookers, which is a slight
negative. I think there's probably an.....80-90% that within the next 5 years,
somebody will write and publish a book devoted solely to Kendall. But it's
certainly not a sure thing.
Below is a brief update on Kendall and his killings, that I managed to find.
Authorities say they have NOT found any additional bodies, beyond the eight
that they located a few days ago. They have however, made positive ID's on ALL
EIGHT of the bodies they have found. Only one of the ID's was 'surprising'. All
seven of the other identified bodies were on the existing list of MISSING local
gals that police had compiled PRIOR to arresting Kendall. This means that ONE
of the gals on the original list of missing gals is STILL missing and
unaccounted for. It is NOT clear whether Kendall has indicated to police that
he killed this one unaccounted-for gal, or not.
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of the 9/8/98 online edition of The New York
Daily News newspaper:
Two More Bodies ID'd
By RAPHAEL SUGARMAN
Daily News Staff Writer
Investigators have identified bodies of two more women pulled from the
Poughkeepsie home of alleged serial killer Kendall Francois, authorities said
yesterday.
The body of Kathleen Hurley, 47, was identified yesterday, while Mary Giaccone,
29, was identified Sunday, detectives said.
Eight bodies have been found in Francois' two-story frame house on Fulton Ave.
The decomposing corpses were discovered in the attic, buried in the basement
and in a crawlspace adjacent to the basement.
"The forensic examination of the house and property will continue in an effort
to gather evidence as well as to insure that there are no more bodies remaining
on the premises," Poughkeepsie Detective Lt. William Siegrist said.
The victims already identified are Catina Newmaster, 25; Catherine Marsh, 29;
Gina Barone, 29; Wendy Myers, 28,; Sandra French, 51, and Audrey Pugliese, 34.
Original Publication Date: 09/08/1998
>---- Peggi