This is where you'll learn about a journey that has taken 49 years thus far to trek...and it's far from over. To honor those that lost their lives to the selfishness of others, to call to task those that bashed the life out of innocent victims...this is why I will write this tale of a murder that took place in 1950...how it will forever be linked to another horrendous bloody murder that took place in small town America in the summer of 2008...both in the idyllic setting and rolling hills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The land of shoo-fly pies and horse and buggies, the Green Dragon and the tractor pulls at The Buck .... smiling Amish children licking the melting ice cream off of their suntanned fingers...the large, shiny SUV's circling in front of the expansive abodes on Country Club Lane...among these vastly different segments of "the County" two young women lost their lives. One met her death at the hands of a college student, in a never explained rage..the other, a smiling young mother, beaten so severely by her new inground pool in her family backyard, so viciously that the killer would never have had to toss her limp body into the water to finish the evil deed.
Marian Louise Baker and Jan Roseboro are both in the ground. They lie under headstones that can never tell their stories.
One killed by a man she knew little about. The other killed by a husband of nineteen years. Also a man that poor woman apparently, in the end, knew very little about.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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