Richard Grissom Jr.
Classification: Homicide - Murderer
Characteristics: Juvenile (16) - Rape - The bodies of the three young women have never been found
Number of victims: 4 +
Date of murders: 1966 / June 18/26, 1989
Date of arrest: July 7, 1989
Date of birth: 1960
Victims profile: Hazel Meeker (an elderly neighbor woman) / Joan A. Butler, 24; Theresa Brown, 22, and Christine Rusch, 22
Method of murder: Stabbing with knife / ???
Location: Johnson County, Kansas, USA
Status: Sentenced to life in prison on November 20, 1990
In August 1999 a team of scientists, academics and homicide investigators searched a grassy field off of Douglas County Road 458 southeast of Clinton Lake dam. They were looking for the bodies of three women killed by Richard Grissom Jr. They were unsuccessful.
In 1990, even without the bodies, a Johnson County jury found Grissom guilty in the first-degree murder deaths of Joan A. Butler, 24, Overland Park; Theresa Brown, 22, and Christine Rusch, 22, roommates living in a Lenexa apartment.
The women disappeared in the summer of 1989. Grissom, a house painter and maintenance worker, liked to hang out at Lawrence discos. He was found at a Lawrence apartment complex with the car leased by Butler. He ran from a police patrolman trying to question him and then eluded a police search.
Grissom was later tracked to Texas where he was arrested at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
Grissom never admitted his guilt and thus hasn't told police where the women's bodies were hidden. Lenexa Police Lt. Pat Hinkle wonders if he ever will.
"He's just your typical con man," Hinkle said. "He won't say anything unless there's something to be gained for him."
Hinkle led the investigation of the Brown and Rusch murders as well as multiple searches of the field near Clinton Lake. The field was searched because a resident in the area recorded a license tag on a vehicle seen there at the time of the murders. It turned out to be a stolen tag later found to be in Grissom's possession.
"He absolutely has no regard for anybody or anybody's rules," said Hinkle, who also has had visits with Grissom in prison.
Classification: Homicide - Murderer
Characteristics: Juvenile (16) - Rape - The bodies of the three young women have never been found
Number of victims: 4 +
Date of murders: 1966 / June 18/26, 1989
Date of arrest: July 7, 1989
Date of birth: 1960
Victims profile: Hazel Meeker (an elderly neighbor woman) / Joan A. Butler, 24; Theresa Brown, 22, and Christine Rusch, 22
Method of murder: Stabbing with knife / ???
Location: Johnson County, Kansas, USA
Status: Sentenced to life in prison on November 20, 1990
In August 1999 a team of scientists, academics and homicide investigators searched a grassy field off of Douglas County Road 458 southeast of Clinton Lake dam. They were looking for the bodies of three women killed by Richard Grissom Jr. They were unsuccessful.
In 1990, even without the bodies, a Johnson County jury found Grissom guilty in the first-degree murder deaths of Joan A. Butler, 24, Overland Park; Theresa Brown, 22, and Christine Rusch, 22, roommates living in a Lenexa apartment.
The women disappeared in the summer of 1989. Grissom, a house painter and maintenance worker, liked to hang out at Lawrence discos. He was found at a Lawrence apartment complex with the car leased by Butler. He ran from a police patrolman trying to question him and then eluded a police search.
Grissom was later tracked to Texas where he was arrested at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
Grissom never admitted his guilt and thus hasn't told police where the women's bodies were hidden. Lenexa Police Lt. Pat Hinkle wonders if he ever will.
"He's just your typical con man," Hinkle said. "He won't say anything unless there's something to be gained for him."
Hinkle led the investigation of the Brown and Rusch murders as well as multiple searches of the field near Clinton Lake. The field was searched because a resident in the area recorded a license tag on a vehicle seen there at the time of the murders. It turned out to be a stolen tag later found to be in Grissom's possession.
"He absolutely has no regard for anybody or anybody's rules," said Hinkle, who also has had visits with Grissom in prison.