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Post by Admin Horan on Nov 19, 2019 5:08:41 GMT -6
Talk about a dangerous character. And he may--MAY--be connected to Justin Eason and his father. A brutal multiple homicide gets committed in a little logging town; there are no leads or suspects; no one thinks to question THIS guy???
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Post by camfaults on Nov 19, 2019 23:50:35 GMT -6
Talk about a dangerous character. And he may--MAY--be connected to Justin Eason and his father. A brutal multiple homicide gets committed in a little logging town; there are no leads or suspects; no one thinks to question THIS guy??? Thank you for starting this thread, Professor Horan! I have attached a cropped image of the Justice Court cases as listed in the June 18, 1980, issue of Quincy's Feather River Bulletin. Please note the yellow arrow and the four individuals who were arrested for hitch hiking on May 10.  |
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Post by camfaults on Nov 20, 2019 0:03:41 GMT -6
John Henry Lee Jr. has a number of mentions in the Feather River Bulletin for traffic citations, hitch hiking, etc. On Monday, April 6, 1981, Lee assaulted a man with a straight razor. The article, published on Wednesday, April 8, states he was being held in jail. Was he released before the Keddie murders?  |
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Post by camfaults on Nov 20, 2019 0:10:04 GMT -6
John Henry Lee Jr. inflicted "major stab wounds" to the neck of a man attempting to protect a woman from Lee's rape attempt. I cannot find a follow-up article to this arrest. Surely he must have served some hard time for a rape attempt and assault with a deadly weapon? Gamberg should be asked about this guy.  |
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Post by kmik on Nov 20, 2019 6:55:46 GMT -6
Wonder if he's related to the Rod Lee mentioned on the PON list?
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Post by camfaults on Nov 20, 2019 12:17:15 GMT -6
Wonder if he's related to the Rod Lee mentioned on the PON list?
Just checked and yes that's his brother. I was trying to check into the family. I found an African American family with a father and son who share the same name. I also found a white man born in 1933, living in Butte County on the 1940 census. The African American John Henry Lee Jr. is a registered sex offender registered in Quincy. linkHis father passed away in 2014, and his obituary also lists a Rodney son: link |
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Post by jdub on Nov 20, 2019 14:50:23 GMT -6
Oroville P.D. (Det. Jack Lee)
hobo camp checked...furnished train schedule.
-Shanks
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Post by snoho17 on Nov 21, 2019 20:37:04 GMT -6
Talk about a dangerous character. And he may--MAY--be connected to Justin Eason and his father. A brutal multiple homicide gets committed in a little logging town; there are no leads or suspects; no one thinks to question THIS guy??? Thank you for starting this thread, Professor Horan! I have attached a cropped image of the Justice Court cases as listed in the June 18, 1980, issue of Quincy's Feather River Bulletin. Please note the yellow arrow and the four individuals who were arrested for hitch hiking on May 10. View Attachment I nearly fell off my chair. Oh my goodness! |
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Post by snoho17 on Nov 21, 2019 21:06:22 GMT -6
"GRUEBERT, JOHN
Seen Keddie area 4/12/81, stop to get beer enroute Taylorsville & see what's happening, knew John & Dana through Richard Meeks, FRC & Mary Bell's on 4/11/81
<THOMAS>/<CRIM> So 3/4 hitchhiking that day are PONs. I'm sure Lee must have been spoken to at one point. Maybe he could prove he was 1000 miles away. But I'm excited because this is the Type of person I see committing a crime like this.
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Post by camfaults on Nov 22, 2019 1:26:54 GMT -6
"GRUEBERT, JOHN Seen Keddie area 4/12/81, stop to get beer enroute Taylorsville & see what's happening, knew John & Dana through Richard Meeks, FRC & Mary Bell's on 4/11/81 <THOMAS>/<CRIM> So 3/4 hitchhiking that day are PONs. I'm sure Lee must have been spoken to at one point. Maybe he could prove he was 1000 miles away. But I'm excited because this is the Type of person I see committing a crime like this. From the articles posted above, John Henry Lee Jr. definitely sounds like the violent offender that could be responsible/involved in these murders. I want to know what the outcomes were for these arrests. If the crime and arrest was published, why no follow-up articles? Did these assaults go to trial? Why was this violent offender not in prison? I'm still trying to determine whether the current Plumas County registered sex offender John Henry Lee Jr. is the same man from these 1980s articles. Do any of the reports related to the Keddie Murders investigation mention an African American man being seen with any of the PONs? |
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Post by Admin Horan on Nov 22, 2019 8:27:40 GMT -6
I'll jump in and point out that this John Henry Lee, Jr is ALSO the same kind of "person" who turns informant--and that's the single most common reason for (some) local police to ignore him, and even cover for him, as a suspect in various other crimes. There is a pretty detailed account somewhere by a retired Plumas deputy that the Hells Angels basically used PCSO to bust up rival pot growing and distributing operators in Plumas County. Gamberg, who has told me with a straight face that "There has never been any HA activity in this county" also happens to be in the opposite political camp from the deputy who claimed that the HAs were in cahoots with certain other deputies. It's also pretty obvious to me that Gamberg was "running" Dana as his own informant. Which might have gotten Dana and his friend killed. Most likely by ANOTHER informant. And here's this John Henry Lee, Jr. who fits that pigeon stool to a T. And nobody ever mentioned him until now.
Funny, that.
PS Hitchhiking was the only way half the "people" in this county got to work, church, the doctor, the store. And their dealer. Picking up THOSE FOUR PUNKS for hitchhiking on THAT OCCASION is no doubt a case of "The four subjects were observed by Reporting Officer hitchhiking back and forth and back and forth and back and forth between the Exxon gas station and the park. On suspicion of possible drug dealing, they were detained by Reporting Officer and booked on a charge of unlawful hitchhiking pending further investigation." More or less. And whether one of the little rats turned rat or not, it's 99 percent likely that 99 percent of the little rats ASSUMED that at least one of them had turned rat. Guess which one was on "probation" the night he got his chicken choked?
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Post by snoho17 on Nov 22, 2019 21:28:19 GMT -6
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Post by Admin Horan on Nov 23, 2019 13:57:42 GMT -6
Hmmmmmmm...they must have meant "sentences suspended." which means that if they keep their noses clean until the end of the sentence (prolly 30 days for hitchhiking) then they don't have to actually spend the 30 days actually in jail, or even on parole or probation. Just stay out of trouble. Or better yet, out of town...
...Uuuuhhh...don't ask me how I know....
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Post by snoho17 on Dec 27, 2019 20:46:31 GMT -6
Talk about a dangerous character. And he may--MAY--be connected to Justin Eason and his father. A brutal multiple homicide gets committed in a little logging town; there are no leads or suspects; no one thinks to question THIS guy??? I assumed your referring to Justin's bio father? That's interesting... can you explain? |
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Post by Admin Horan on Dec 28, 2019 6:14:00 GMT -6
Well, he's from the same neck of the woods in Montana as Justin's father.
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