Delayed Justice

Thanks to a reader I here is news on some recent justice: the killers of young Crystal and Robert Rainey–their mother and her boyfriend–have been found guilty of their murder. Krysta McFadden and Clint Dunning were found guilty by juries of two counts each of first-degree murder in the Nov. 29, 1992 deaths. You can read about it in mlive in this story by Emily Monacelli.

Keith Robinson, Van Buren County chief assistant prosecuting attorney and the prosecutor on the case, noted that the work of Michigan State Police Det. Kyle Gotham was instrumental in solving the case. Gotham had worked the case since 2011.

Met this morning with Detective Steve McCarthy, CFEI. CFI, Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department. The topic at hand was further information on the murder of an unidentified woman known in the department as “Matilda.” She was found between Marne and Coopersville.

It strikes me as amazing that our brains recognize faces in the most unusual places and configurations. Here is a look as what rabbit hunters saw tucked underneath brush and small logs:

Detective McCarthy says that if he is able to identify this woman it will go a long way to helping to solve the case. He’s looking through missing person reports from around the area and thinks that maybe she came from Detroit or Chicago. She was somebody’s caught, maybe somebody’s sister, and maybe somebody’s mother. She was somebody.