The Man in the Monster by Martha Elliott

Author:Martha Elliott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-07-05T16:00:00+00:00

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CONNECTICUT

JANUARY 1982–JUNE 1984

Seventeen-year-old Tammy Williams was a high-school dropout, a “street kid,” according to the missing person report that was filed after her disappearance. Originally from the area, she had lived with her mother, Norma Deems, in Honolulu, Hawaii, but moved back to live with her father and stepmother in Brooklyn when she was thirteen. According to the police report, “her father did not take any steps to control her and let her do as she pleased; if she did not attend school, he didn’t force her; at times she remained away from home for long periods of time, but would notify her parents of her well-being.” She didn’t have a criminal record other than an arrest for disturbing the peace when she was fighting with another girl. She stayed out of trouble but did what she wanted.

During the holidays in the fall of 1981, Tammy had been hired by King’s Department Store in Danville to work part-time in the camera department. Apparently she had finally found something that she enjoyed; she “showed promise,” according to her supervisor. To her friends, she seemed happy that she had found a job that she liked.

Tammy spent the night on a friend’s couch and then stopped to see her boyfriend, Andy Willett, at his house on Dyer Street in Danielson, Connecticut, at about 9:00 A.M. on January 5, 1982. He was twenty years old, and they had been dating for a year. According to Willett, they chatted for about an hour, and then Tammy left to walk to her apartment on Prince Hill Road. Several people saw her on the way home, including two friends who talked to her when she dropped in at the Brooklyn Bowling Alley. They told police that “she was in a good mood” and told them she had to work that evening and left.

Sometime around 11:00 A.M., as Tammy was walking along Route 6 in Brooklyn, Michael Ross spotted her. He was driving to the satellite farm to prepare it for a batch of baby chicks that were to arrive soon. When he saw Tammy—whom he said he didn’t know even though they lived about a mile apart—Ross pulled off the road behind her. A school bus driver who knew her reported that she saw Tammy walking west on Route 6 and that a white male was following her. Michael also recognized the school bus driver and later worried that she would identify him. Another witness said she saw a white male running through the fields toward Tammy. A third witness driving by a little later reported to police that he had seen Tammy “tussling with a white male, with dark hair, wearing a hip-length coat, dark in color.” The man had his arm around Tammy’s neck, “as if they were playfully wrestling.” But there was nothing playful in the grasp, and Tammy’s five feet two inches and 100 pounds were no match for Michael’s six feet one inch and 165 pounds.

Michael’s report of what happened next is sketchy.

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