The girl in the photo has a freckled face, a smile to match her outgoing nature and her mother's eyes. Her chin-length hair looks brown in the black-and-white image, but it was auburn in real life.
Ann Ellinwood was a popular student and beloved daughter. On April 15, 1978, the 12-year-old joined some friends for the annual March of Dimes walk-a-thon in and around Corvallis.
The course took walkers along a bike path by the Marys River. At about 1 p.m., Ann, complaining that her foot hurt, told her two friends to go on without her; she would head to a checkpoint at Gill Coliseum. She was last seen on the path near the Pioneer Park ball field, just across Highway 34 from the coliseum.
At 5:15 p.m., Ann's parents reported her missing after she failed to return home. She delivered The Gazette-Times (then an evening newspaper) in the afternoon. She never neglected her job. Something was very wrong.
Searchers immediately scoured the area where Ann last was seen; they found nothing.
In the days that followed, an intensive water, land and air search was launched. Dive teams searched the Marys River. Law enforcement agencies and Benton County Search and Rescue members walked the area with tracking dogs. Pilots scanned from the air. Nothing.
"She's just gone," said then-assistant Corvallis police chief Kenneth Burright.
Less than a week after Ann disappeared, Corvallis police began searching for the driver of a red pickup pulling a tear-drop-shaped trailer. It was seen April 15, near where Ann disappeared. Soon, authorities in Salem and Corvallis released information on suspects: In Salem, a boy said he saw a stocky white man in his late 20s with shaggy, light brown hair. The Corvallis suspect was described as a white man with a medium- to stocky build, reddish brown or sandy hair, with a gruff voice and possibly a mustache.
Unconfirmed reports circulated that the man in Corvallis was overheard telling children that he was a police officer.
The Benton County District Attorney, Pete Sandrock, was tight-lipped about the case at the time. But looking back more than 30 years later, he revealed that investigators talked to witnesses who reported hearing a man claim to be either the police chief or a police officer.
A week after Ann's disappearance, search efforts expanded to include western Linn County. More than 700 volunteers turned out on a rainy Saturday to look along country roads and paths. They found nothing.
The Ellinwoods had held a private memorial service for Ann on July 2. On July 31, 1978, authorities announced they had officially ended the search for Ann.
"There simply isn't any place left to look," Sandrock said at the time.
It's now a "cold" case, considered inactive, but open.
I was emailed this case by one of my readers. I realize it is another very cold case but I just couldn't resist taking a look. The information above was emailed to me along with the general case information. When I checked on the internet I could find NOTHING about this case so I am dependant upon my readers for the details. According to them, this information is correct.
This is a beautiful, concise chart. I am going to show you how Astrology often just shouts out the truth. The first chart, as shown, is for the time she was last seen, 1 pm. Notice that Leo is rising and the Sun, which represents Ann, is in the ninth house. This means she is outdoors doing something. We know she was in a walk a thon and was walking outdoors by a river. Notice Mercury right near the Sun. This shows the other kids who were walking with her. And then notice how the Sun is disposed of by Mars in Leo in the twelfth house. At 1 pm, the time of this chart, Ann was complaining that her foot hurt! The twelfth house rules the feet and there is Mars, hovering near the Moon. The Moon in this configuration would indicate that the injury wouldn't be overtly obvious and may have been settled in deep like a thorn or other sharp object (Mars and the Moon). It would also be very painful.
Anyways, the person she came upon after this departure would be represented by the seventh house. This is Aquarius with Uranus in the fourth. This is a person in the neighborhood, in fact, someone who had a home nearby or along the walk a thon route. Uranus is in Scorpio and, interestingly, is disposed of by Mars in Leo in the twelfth house. This implies a connection between Ann's foot problem and this person coming along later. It is possible that he or she saw Ann limping and offered her some help, perhaps a ride or a moment's rest on a chair. Uranus disposed of by Mars in the twelfth also implies that this person was behaving secretly on this day and may even have had ulterior motives from the start.
The Moon co rules Ann in this chart and it is also placed in the twelfth in the last few degrees of Cancer. This is the Moon in her baliwick, she is powerful in Cancer but her position is void of course (meaning she makes no aspect to another planet before leaving the sign Cancer) which strips her of a great deal of that power. The first aspect the Moon makes is on leaving the sign Cancer and entering Leo. It is a conjunction to Mars in Leo, which disposes the rulers of both Ann's and her abductors rulers. I know this seems a little like ring around the rosy but the interactions between these planets are important. In this configuration you are seeing the combining of both rulers through their dispositors. This means, to me, that these two people ended up together by mutual assent. I am of a mind to believe that perhaps Ann went up and knocked on the door of this house, looking for something to lean on. She was perhaps having way too much trouble with her foot to make it back to the checkpoint. Uranus indicates that this was a crime of opportunity. The chart conspires to show that her foot injury provided that opportunity.
One more factor I have to point out is the secondary disposition of Mars by Pluto in the third. Pluto opposes Mercury in the ninth. This person is somehow connected to schools or the school system. He or she dislikes children but keeps this a secret. Notice how Uranus opposes Venus, which is right at the midheaven. He or she may be a teacher. And he or she dislikes little girls the most.
At just around 2 pm, Virgo moves onto the Ascendant. At that same hour, Mercury moves into the eighth house. Saturn has crossed the Ascendant and moved into the twelfth house. Mercury is exactly trine Neptune in the fourth house and part of a larger grand trine including the twelfth house Saturn. This is a death pattern. Neptune now rules the seventh cusp. Uranus is inconjunct to Mercury in the eighth, Uranus opposes Venus which now rules the tenth and Pluto is inconjunct to Venus as well. This child was killed inside this persons house by accident. There was a physical situation which I am not sure about, whether the child was outright attacked, manhandled or reprimanded, but whatever it was it went too far. I do not see sexual implications. The chart does not show her being molested or raped. Mercury, the first house ruler, is trine Neptune, the seventh house ruler, in fire signs. She may have been drugged but I think it looks like she was suffocated or strangled. For sure, damage was done to the head. In all of the charts for this instance Mercury is under the Sun's beams showing clearly that Ann came into harms way and was in grave danger from the start.
Some things stand out for me. Neptune is in Sagittarius so this person was a hunter or a sportsman. He or she may have sporting type items in the home. Whether is it actual participation, shown by trophies, animal skins, fishing or archery gear or the like or whether is armchair participation and the house is full of baseball cards or football jerseys it is just hard to say. There is a chance he or she was a runner or walker. He or she may have had an interest in the walk a thon because of their own involvement in walking or running. Hiking mountains comes to mind. Competitive hunting is another possibility. Entering hunting or fishing contests is yet another. But again, I have to assert that this chart is showing a person involved in the school system, either as a teacher, professor, a member of the school board or the school janitor, et al.. He or she has a job in a school with children. So this is the profile thus far, somebody who works in a school in any capacity who also loves sports and sporting activities.
I beleive, looking at these charts, is the reason they never found Ann is because her body was burned. I am not only saying this because of the grand trine in fire signs but also because both Mercury and the Sun are in Aries in the eighth and disposed of by Mars in Leo. Mars and the Sun are in mutual reception, to boot. Because Saturn is in the twelfth I tend to think that after the body was burned the remains were buried. And I would guess it was buried in a place just outside the back door of this house. And remember, this house is in the same neighborhood as the area where the walk a thon occurred and this person who did this lived in this house.
Another small crumb of information I can garner here is that this person is unusual looking. No doubt dark haired and perhaps even dark skinned (for their race). Uranus in Scorpio in the third makes me think he or she has a "unibrow". That is where the eyebrows run together over the nose. Uranus also opposes Venus so this person would not be considered good looking, he or she would not be "easy on the eyes". There would be a hardness to the features that people find unpleasant. Neptune as the secondary ruler in Sagittarius describes someone thin and even frail looking, although also athletic. I do not get a clear definition of sex; this person could be male or female. At the time, they lived alone and no one else was involved or has information regarding what happened. And here is the thing. Saturn is retrograde in the twelfth so the body will never be found.
Along with this case I was sent the details of a second case that occurred within a short while after Ann disappeared. Many people believed that the two cases were related but some of the police did not. This is the case of Stephanie Newsom. This girls body was found, contrary to the mystery surrounding Ann Ellenwood, so there is a little more data on that one to examine. I am going to post it next. I am going to compare the two cases and see if, in fact, the charts corroborate a tie between the two or if two different people did these awful things. You will see this next chart on the blog within a week or so. Thanks for reading!
Valerie Drew was a 13-year-old girl who left her Wiley Street home with two teenaged boys (14 and 17) at 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 25, 1970. The two boys were planning to hitchhike to Peterborough for the weekend, and Valerie planned to accompany them to Highway 401.
When Valerie did not return, some believed she had also gone to Peterborough. Her family reported her missing the following morning, when it became apparent she didn't make the trip.
A large ground search began the night of Sept. 27. Her body was found obscured by brush and weeds in an area to the south of present-day Conacher Drive.
Valerie's death was immediately ruled a homicide.
Contact: Kingston police (613) 549-4660
Looking for information about this case I went to a large number of websites. There were so many cases in the same area that have gone unsolved that it made my head spin. As I have said many times, the number of unsolved murders and abductions is unacceptable. I have no idea how to right this wrong but I think something needs to be tried. While our government spends tons of money fighting wars against people who are unlikely to harm any of us, we are being picked off by the dozens by our neighbors. Money and effort must be directed at this and not just written off the way it is: ie, "she was in a bad part of town so what did she expect?" sort of rational that keeps people thinking it only happens to stupid or "sleazy" people and won't happen to them. As long as so many people think they are above it and won't suffer for it because somehow they are special or different, then way too many more people are going to die and their killers are going to roam free. We have to come together as a community and not as a group of people who are looking for reasons why this won't happen to "me". I truly believe this. I don't think it will come to grips any other way.
Anyways, every website I went to kept repeating the same police fact sheet. This is what I provided above. There was just nothing more. I searched around on forums and still found nothing more enlightening. So this is all I have. If anyone has any more information about the details of the case and would like to share it with my readers, please post it to the comments section.
Valerie was just leaving home between 4 and 4:30 pm. At 4pm Capricorn rules the first cusp and Saturn is just at the nadir. In a few minutes, Saturn backs out of the fourth house into the third, showing her in the neighborhood, probably on foot. The seventh house ruler, which marks the person she is next to meet, is Cancer with Moon in Leo in the seventh. The Moon, in turn is disposed of by the Sun in Libra. There is an interesting stellium of planets in the eighth house, two of which co rule the midheaven.
Within only the first half hour, Aquarius moves onto the ascendant and Uranus is placed in the eighth house. It is right alongside, almost conjoined, the Sun, which now rules the seventh. This person was right there, nearby, in the neighborhood as she walked along. Also in the chart, you can see the two boys she was with, Mercury and Mars in the seventh. They are walking ahead of her, being best friends and not paying any attention to her at all. The dominant boy, the younger one (Mercury is dignity in Virgo, is holding the attentions of the older boy as they walk along. At the same time, I note that the Sun, in 2 degrees of Libra, is sinister to a conjunction with Uranus. This man is coming upon her as she walks behind the boys. Notice that Pluto is nearby, in an out of sign conjunction with the Sun, and that both Pluto and Uranus are under the Sun's beams.
The north node in the first house speaks volumes. This is a sort of destiny, in a way, a plan that hatched earlier. I am not sure from this that he picked Valerie out or that she was just a chance opportunity, but it looks a lot like a plan where he might have picked her out. This would mean he knew her. With these planets hanging out in the eighth house, the energies are there for sexual intentions. He may well have singled her out for this. But the two boys are still there, not far enough away for this person to snatch Valerie without getting attention, I would assume, so he follows along. At 5:00 and 5:30 pm, the markers are all moving into the seventh house, showing that they are sort of together in a group. This does not say for sure that the boys had any interaction with this man, just that he followed them along, perhaps talking to Valerie. It is possible they saw him but also possible that they did not.
The intervention of Pluto along with his marker, the Sun, between Valerie's marker and the boys indicates that he paid no attention to the boys, focusing on Valerie alone and it is likely the boys never noticed him. They may well have dismissed Valerie, too, thinking, perhaps, that she had gone back home or wandered off. I cannot be completely sure of this but the charts seem to indicate this as a possibility. With that, I must add one more observation. The tightly knit conjunction between Mercury and Mars, in the sign Virgo at this time, shows the boys involved in their own discussion and being so close, they just ignored everyone else. This, combined with the fast approaching sinister conjunction from the Sun to Uranus, shows the closing in between Valerie and her abductor. I believe it was a hidden act of violence that separated the group; Pluto created opportunity through the sextile to Neptune, which rules the first. This was able to be done unnoticed.
The north node in the twelfth house hovering over the ascendant while creating an inconjunction with both the Sun and Uranus, I believe it was a mistake in judgment that allowed this man to snatch the girl. Either she followed him off for some reason or she slipped and fell in a hole or some other mishap, I just cannot be sure but the inconjunction points to an error in judgment while the node hints at kismet. As you must know by now I am a believer in kismet; it's up to you to decide if it makes sense in your world. The node speaks of mass consciousness, evolution, changes in destiny and grand plans. On a personal level, in a forensic chart like this, it whispers about plots, schemes and machinations. He finagled her because he chose her and took her when he could, just as he had planned.
The tenth house ruler, Jupiter, is in the eighth, trine the node and square to the Moon in Leo. This marks her kidnapping as a public event; it would make the news. The authorities spent hours looking for her body (Jupiter conjoined Venus in the eighth) and they found her in a small, woodsy area not far from her home (Saturn in Taurus in the second house). At 6:30, the charts seem to show her death. If this is the case, then it was swift. Neptune, the chart ruler, has slipped into the eighth house where it is sextile to Pluto, which, in turn, disposes of it. Notice also that Neptune is disposed of by Mars, which is now conjoined the new seventh house ruler, Mercury. Did he hit her over the head? This is what it looks like. He hit her in the head and at the same time, killed her. She died quickly. Now, I do not have privy to the details of her death or her TOD but this is just what the charts seem to say.
In fact, the charts seem to say that he wanted her dead. I know that necrophilia is a sticky subject to address but the charts seem to show him wanting her for sex but wanting her dead first. Again, I don't know what the police found but this seems to be the way the aspects are heading. The charts do not show them traveling by car or taking a bus or anything. In fact, they seriously look as if he killed her by striking her right then and there, where he was left with her after the boys went off. He attacked her almost immediately. Perhaps to keep her from resisting or screaming or whatnot. He then moved her to another location where he spent time with her dead body. In fact, the chart for 7 pm shows her marker with Mercury in the sixth and the Moon in the fifth. This indicates he took her where there were other children or, perhaps, to a place where he had taken other children in the past. It would be like a playground, playroom, game room or even a child's bedroom in a home. The Moon seems to say it's a place with stuffed animals. This man is obviously very sick. The presence of his marker conjoined Jupiter in the seventh also indicates that he had help from others; accomplices, perhaps, or maybe just a tolerant partner. He had done this before and would be doing this again, all with the compliance of another person. This other person may even participate in the sex (markers in Scorpio). Now, I do not know if Valerie was raped or actually penetrated but I can say, from these charts, that she was, at the very least, fondled or molested.
In order to get a bit more information, I am going to look at the discovery chart for enlightenment. Her body was discovered on September 27, 1970, at around 10:30 pm. Notice how the node was rising to the tenth cusp. Interesting. This seems to be saying that the authorities would find her and the public would be made aware of the find. Doesn't this feel like that this is what the abductor wanted? He wanted to make an impact? Saturn is in the twelfth, which of course shows a dead body. It is in the sign Taurus, as I noted earlier, which means she was found in a small, woodsy area with small animals nearby (like squirrels, turtles or raccoons). She would have been close to the earth (Taurus) if not partially buried then, at the least, covered with weeds or grasses. It would be a dry area and not near any water. Saturn opposes Neptune so he tried to hide her but it wasn't good enough. Scorpio shows "investigators" finding her. The Moon is in the fourth house near Mars and Mercury so it was immediately obvious that she had been hit in the head. Also, the fourth house shows that she was near to her own home as well as to the abductors. In fact, he lived close by, near to the place where he left her body. Notice also that Jupiter, the seventh house marker, is in Scorpio, in the fifth. He was already out looking for another child or may have, indeed, found one. With Uranus ruling the tenth and also placed in the fifth, he was probably watching kids in some public place like a movie theater or game room.
On to what I think he may have looked or acted like. This is not that hard for me, making these predictions, it's just sad that they never seem to help and often seem inaccurate. But that won't keep me from trying. I'm daring! So here we go. He is of the nature of the Sun in Libra with a dash of Jupiter in Scorpio thrown in. Oh, I know that sounds confusing but I will do the blending. With the Sun in Libra, he was (or is) likely married or, at the least, involved with another adult. He had a charming personality that made him seem harmless. With Jupiter and Venus in Scorpio involving his personal third and ninth houses, he was and is a big fan of horror movies and books. He may even write scary stories or like to tell scary stories to kids. He liked/s an emphasis on the supernatural or unexplained and this could be a hobby that others around him are aware of. Religion has had a part to play in his private scenarios and he liked/s religious ceremonies and music. He may even attend funerals for people in his neighborhood, whether they were friends of his or not. He seems to be genuinely concerned with the loss of others, when, in truth, he is vicariously enjoying the death experience. He has dabbled in various religions, even the occult ones like Santeria or Voodoo. In fact, he would be attracted to black magic. This is not saying that he is or was a practicing satanist or magician but just a hobbyist; I sincerely doubt that he has taken it to any other level beyond fantasy. Still, people around him would be aware of his ongoing interest in the dark side.
On the physical level, he would be easy on the eyes. He would probably have dark, curly hair and a dimple somewhere on his face. People find him attractive and charming but he is way too shy to be a "player" with women. In fact, he is interested in children so if he was or still is married, it would be a celibate affair. His wife may believe him to be like a "priest" of some sort; he has likely convinced her of it. She would never suspect him of raping or killing a child. There is a strong possibility that he is even a minister or pastor in some church in the area. A minister with a secret dark fetish. This is possible. But none the less, this is an emotional man with deep, dark feelings. He has strong emotions but he is shy about expressing them, preferring a more superficial, intellectual form of discourse. He is privately very selfish and possessive. These children are his to do with as he pleases. He is also jealous and mean tempered at times, causing him to act out in rash ways. He always does this privately so very few around him are aware of it. In sex, he is over indulgent and immature.
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