To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. I married my high school sweetheart in 1975 and traveled around the world with him for the next 22 years while he served our country in the United States Army. She walked with a limp, brought on by a bout with rheumatic fever at age 4 that left her right leg shorter than her left. All I have to say about this is that the man who killed my little girl should be killed himself," Singleton said the day her body was found.

The woman told police her husband had driven with her to the pine grove near Doster on the day Jeannie's body was found and in subsequent years would drive by the Singleton's house on Blakeslee. On day nine, June 1, 1955, five children engaged in a game of hide-and-seek at their favorite play spot, a pine-covered hill about 15 miles north of Kalamazoo, found Jeannie's body. Yeah, actually confessed to attempted kidnapping," said author Heather Du Shane, who wrote "One Silent Voice" about Jeannie's death. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Teachers and principals were instructed not to let children loiter after school or accept rides from anyone they didn't know.Police found faint footprints believed to have been left by a man and a child leading to where Jeannie was found. However, police, family, and many in the community are convinced they know who did it and got away with it. Spring notes that in the 1950s investigators lacked the type of science and forensic tools detectives have at their disposal today. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 4/4/2023), Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 12/31/2023). Christensen said last year he believes they were face to face with Jeannie's killer during the 2012 interview.

A dirt road led back to the grove, a desolate spot near Doster in extreme southeastern Allegan County that police concluded could be found only by someone familiar with the area. There were several different girls a suspect tried to pick up in that area," said Michigan State Police Detective Sergeant Mike Spring. Chuck Christensen interviewed "a very, very good candidate" as a suspect in 2012 but never had enough evidence to present a case to a prosecutor. You’ll only have to do this once—after your accounts are connected, you can sign in using your Ancestry sign in or your Find a Grave sign in. Every local police agency, Michigan State Police, the Civil Air Patrol, Michigan National Guard and U.Bielorrusia, Brasil, Federación Rusa, Guadalupe, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana Francesa, Irak, Israel, Liberia, Libia, Martinica, Nigeria, Nueva Caledonia, Polinesia Francesa, Protectorados de EE.

His passion for the paranormal was sparked by the fact that he grew up in a house in Portage, Michigan where seeing the specters of Indians roaming about in the basement was almost a daily occurrence for him.It was a pleasant spring afternoon in Kalamazoo, Michigan, when 8-year-old Jeannie Singleton was walking home from school. Is there is something that interferes with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals? Jeannie was spotted resting her legs not too far away from her home, but Jeannie never arrived in time for dinner. I started out working at the Oconee County Primary School and then moved on to work here at North Oconee High School where I have been ever since. When our daughter started kindergarten in 1999, I was blessed to be able to start working for the Oconee County School System.