by NavnDansk » Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:43 pm
I thought of it when I first read that the judge in the Franklin Coverup daughter had been murdered a few years previous to his assignment to the case. This judge locked up the children for years for daring to accuse George Bush and other prominent people of involvement in the pedophile ring.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/valerie_percy/index.html">www.crimelibrary.com/noto...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>=Nothing was missing from the house. Jewelry and a wallet the woman's dresser lay undisturbed, and the killer seemed to have navigated through the 17-room Tudor villa directly to the victim's bedroom.<br><br>=Dr. Edward Kelliher, a crime psychiatrist in Chicago, told reporters, "The facts so far revealed indicate that the murderer knew Valerie and that he went to her home for the purpose of murdering her." He said the vicious nature of the slaying showed "the murderer wanted to attack her personally."<br><br>--Everyone expected a rapid resolution to the homicide, given Valerie Percy's pedigree. She was the daughter of Charles Percy, and murder is not supposed to foul the lives of families of such stature. Chuck Percy, as everyone knew him, was a self-made Mr. America. The wunderkind businessman had been a millionaire CEO before age 30, a protégé of a president by 35, a United States senator at 47. Many believed he was destined for the White House.<br><br>-No Ordinary Investigation<br><br>Richard Nixon attended Valerie's funeral, and J. Edgar Hoover took a personal interest in bringing the murderer to justice. A battalion of federal, state and city investigators were assigned to help the Kenilworth police solve the case.<br><br>-Detectives looked for spurned lovers, jealous boyfriends, or resentful romantic third wheels. They found none. Immediate family members were questioned and judged to be beyond suspicion. The family's two servants, Frederick Millington and Henry Witting, were scrutinized but cleared.<br><br>-By then, Sharon was in love with Jay Rockefeller, scion of the wealthy family of American industrialists and politicians. Valerie was unattached, although she had plenty of admirers.<br><br>----Later, Hohf would marvel at the family's composure in the face of such horror."They were marvelously controlled," he said. "They accepted. Then they tried to organize themselves for doing the many things that must be done. They withheld their great grief. They did not, through that long day, impose their grief on others."<br><br>--But the leads gradually began to dry up, and cops assigned to the Percy task force were pulled off for more pressing matters. As the 18-month anniversary of the homicide approached and no solid suspect had turned up, Ill. Gov. Otto Kerner called a press conference to announce that jurisdiction for the investigation was being taken from Kenilworth police and given to the state police.<br><br>--Two weeks after the murder, Chuck Percy announced that his family would get on with its life. He called a press conference together to say he would resume his Senate <br>campaign.<br><br>-Percy went on to become a singular figure in the world of business and politics. He was a liberal-to-moderate Republican. During 20 years in Congress, he became a <br>leader in international affairs as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<br><br>--According to an often-repeated detail, authorities tracked down the pants but were unable to confirm whether the blood was human or animal—which seems absurd, even for 1967 crime forensics.<br><br>--The sources of information and their motivations—the reward, freedom from jail, grudges—highlight the frustration of trying to discern fact from fiction in the Malchow saga.And then there is the story of his demise, which is nearly as mysterious as the murder in which he was implicated. -While on the run, Malchow was crossing a railroad trestle over the Schuylkill River when he jumped or was pushed. The water was shallow and the river bottom rocky, and he died in the fall. By some accounts, he died as police were closing in. But a local newspaper clip reported that his corpse was found two days after the fall.<br><br>According to Malchow's family, the body was quickly cremated and the remains shipped to a bogus address in Chicago. After relatives inquired, the ashes were located and shipped two weeks later to Buffalo, where they were interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery.<br><br>--"My brother was what you'd call a cat burglar. There are hundreds of cities in the United States, and every one of them has its nice areas," Malchow said. "That's where he'd go, the nice areas, and he had a knack for picking out the really good houses. He'd get inside, go upstairs and find the diamonds and jewels. And they all had 'em. These people can buy a $20,000 diamond like you and I can buy an ice cream cone."<br><br>-Sharon Percy Rockefeller played the role of political wife as her husband served as governor of West Virginia for a decade before moving to the U.S. Senate in 1984. The couple raised four children—three sons and a daughter they named Valerie in memory of her slain twin.<br><br>-Chuck Percy, meanwhile, had a run at the White House.<br><br>In 1968, his name was mentioned prominently as a possible running mate of Richard Nixon. That ended when Percy decided to support Nelson Rockefeller, uncle of his son-in-law, for the Republican presidential nomination that year. Percy later became a Nixon enemy by criticizing America's continued involvement in Vietnam.<br><br>In the mid-1970s, Percy put together an exploratory committee for a run at the White House in 1976, but he pulled out when Gerald Ford, who filled Nixon's 2nd term after Nixon's resignation, decided to run for election.<br><br>--Percy lost his Illinois Senate seat to Paul Simon in 1984, but he has continued to be an important behind-the-scenes player in Washington as president of Charles Percy and Associates Inc. and as a member of the influential Council on Foreign Relations."<br><br>The Sun-Times Did More Than Just Report," by Don Hayner and Tom McNamee, Chicago Sun-Times, Aug. 9, 1998<br><br>Percy has traveled to Asia frequently. His firm has specialized in locating technology parks in developing nations, including India. Now 85, he is said to be fit and active.<br>Wikipedia<br><br>--Percy's first foray into electoral politics was a run for governor of Illinois in 1964, which Percy lost to Democratic incumbent Otto Kerner. His second attempt, a run for senator from Illinois, succeeded two years later, with Percy upsetting incumbent Democratic senator Paul Douglas (a former professor of Percy's at the University of Chicago). During that campaign, his daughter Valerie was murdered at the family home under mysterious circumstances, and campaigning was suspended for two weeks, but then continued. Valerie Percy's murder has never been solved, despite a long investigation. [1]<br><br>Percy served in the Senate until 1984, when he was defeated for re-election by Paul Simon, in a campaign in which Percy was attacked for an "anti-Israel" stance because he supported the sale of AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia. Speaking in Toronto in 1984, AIPAC's Executive Director Tom Dine boasted: "All the Jews, from coast to coast, gathered to oust Percy. And the American politicians—those who hold public positions now, and those who aspire—got the message." [2]<br><br>===<br>The murder of Percy's daughter was just before Percy became a Senator. <p></p><i></i>
