Mishap or Murder?: True tales of mysterious deaths and disappearances (Dark Webs True Crime) by Eileen Ormsby

Author:Eileen Ormsby [Ormsby, Eileen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Webs True crime
Published: 2021-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

Valma

In the early 1970s, Helen and Russell befriended a girl by the name of Valma, who was around eighteen years old and lived nearby. She visited often and sometimes watched the children while the couple were out.

Helen had had many complications with her pregnancies, and would be admitted to hospital for several months at a time. While she was in hospital to have Stephen, Valma moved into the house and began an affair with Russell, which Helen discovered when Russell failed to pick her up after the birth. From then on, Russell went back and forth between the two women.

Valma fell pregnant and gave birth to a little girl in September 1972. It was an open secret around town that Russell was the father. Over the next couple of years, Russell would periodically move out of the house he shared with Helen and their children to move in with Valma and her daughter. He would stay for a couple of weeks and then go back to his other family.

He seemed to enjoy playing the two women off against each other. At one stage he made plans with Valma to leave his family and run off with her and their daughter. Valma sold her car and collected her possessions from her mother’s house in preparation for the move, but then Russell told her he had changed his mind.

Russell was very jealous and possessive about both Helen and Valma and couldn’t deal with any other men paying them attention. Valma recalled one incident when they were out and she danced with another man. Russell later viciously assaulted the man in the parking lot outside the venue.

The two women knew about each other, but neither was in a position to complain. Helen would later tell police: “I can remember one day he brought Val Collins in, which she probably would have told you, and belted the livin’ daylights out of me in front of her.”

Helen would also say: “I felt sorry for the man, because he’d had a bastard of the life as a kid. I mean, he been belted and bashed, and bloody sleep with his mother in the bed, while his mother’s with other… other blokes. And he’s grown up with this hatred in his mind of all women, we’re going to do the same thing.”

At some point, Helen claimed she took out an intervention order against Russell. In a statement she said: “That was after he’d thrown me out of the house in Bennett Street in the middle of the night. And I went and got this house around in Ligar Street, not far from the one we lived in, couple of doors down, and he kept coming around there too, annoying me, at all hours of the night and morning, so I had an intervention order, and I went to court. I honestly don’t know what kind, all I know it was an intervention order. That day he was delivered with the intervention order, he arrived at my place

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