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A Labor Day weekend turned into a murder nightmare as a cross-country crime wave terrified the nation. A pair of suspected killers traveled from state to state leaving murder victims in their wake Working against time, the FBI and local authorities pooled their resources to stop him. the murders in a

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ohio community an elderly woman and a teenager disappeared because they disappeared within a few hours of each other the police believe the cases were related but they didn't know how i am jim calstrom former head of the fbi office in new york to the Trail of stolen vehicles and murder victims in seven states led the FBI on the hunt for two serial killers.

Their only hope of stopping them was to anticipate the killer's next move. On August 29, 1994, summer was coming to an end in the

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of Port Washington, Ohio. The peaceful farming community was dotted with isolated rural homes. A 79-year-old widow, Ruth Loader, lived alone. Her family members who lived near her were keeping a close eye on Mrs. Loder since she was battling cancer when she heard footsteps in the kitchen she thought it might be her. Being her granddaughter returning to see her before going to sleep, she discovered strangers the next morning, the Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Office received an urgent call from Mrs.

Loader's sister, as was their routine, the sister and son-in-law Mrs Loader came to check on me. woman ill but Mrs. Loader and her car were found missing Sheriff Walter Wilson a detective lieutenant at the time was the lead investigator the family members had seen Mrs. Loder the night before the morning of her disappearance she was fine at that time At the time we had been told that Mrs. Loader was recovering from cancer surgery and definitely needed medication that was left behind. The family was concerned because Mrs. Loader was so weak that she would become seriously ill if she did not take her medication because of the long marks on the back door and the damage to the door frame.

She indicated that she had been kicked in the forced entry and told the sheriff that the frail woman had not left of her own volition. Mrs. Loader's purse was left behind, but her cash was missing along with the keys to her red Buick. Sheriff Wilson immediately issued a warning. point bulletin for the widow in her car he knew they would have a better chance of finding her alive if they acted quickly I felt from the beginning that Mrs Loader had obviously been kidnapped and we immediately began a massive search for Mrs Loader and her car then that involved to all law enforcement agencies in the area, involved numerous fire department personnel, citizens of the area came out in droves and assisted with the search for Mrs.

Loader, concerned for her fate, the community came together in his search, the command center was formed in the port. Washington fire station where authorities worked with volunteers to plan the urgent search for the alien woman. They had to find Grandma before it was too late. Mrs. Loader was quite well known in that area. She is a very good family. She takes them into account very much. They were all very concerned about her and felt obligated to her and really wanted to try to find her to help her mounted reserve units prepared to comb the most difficult terrain on horseback.

Local police and her neighbors searched her fields and woods for any trace of her or her missing car. Deputies from a neighboring county brought in K-9 units in hopes of resuming the climb. The Ohio State Highway Patrol ordered its planes to scan the roads from above. The exhaustive search revealed no trace of Mrs Loader or her car. Special collections were taken in restaurants and grocery stores. stores to help pay for extra staff officers alerted the media as family members placed leaflets in neighboring

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s hoping to spread the word beyond the local community that afternoon a woman who knew Mrs Loader called to the sheriff's office with information and went for an interview.

She told investigators that she had seen Mrs. Loader's red Buick in town around 11 the previous night. She thought it was strange that the sick woman was driving so late, although the light was dim, she could see that a young man was driving the car. The witness went to great lengths to help a police artist construct a composite sketch from what she could remember of the brief encounter in the area surrounding Port Washington, Ohio. Concern that a criminal might be on the loose spread fear in a community not accustomed to being locked down. At their doors, the police showed the sketch composed in each interview, but no one could identify the man represented in the drawing today ended without new clues the second day of Mrs.

Loader's disappearance an officer entered her case in the ncic the national center criminal information computer system uniting fifty-seven thousand law enforcement agencies across the country that same day the sheriff's office received a call from some concerned parents: their 16-year-old high school sophomore had also disappeared from tuscarawas county in the nearby town of Newcomers, three miles from the house where Mrs. Loader disappeared. A concerned father and stepmother told a sheriff's deputy that his son was missing his family and that his former employer had not heard from her for three days. He has a photograph? Yes, I also do something else.

A .22-caliber pistol was also missing from the home. The parents gave authorities a photograph of missing child Eric Elliott. It seemed a little ironic at the time that Mrs. Loader was missing and that we also had a minor reported missing within that short distance. Ohio researchers wondered if there was a connection. between the two disappearances from the same county, just 36 hours after Mrs. Loader's kidnapping, Sheriff Wilson received another call. Hello, 650 miles west in Fulton, Missouri, police found a red Buick stuck in a farmer's muddy field when they ran its Ohio plates through the NCI sea. It was Mrs.

Loader's stolen car. The farmer had not seen who had abandoned it. The car keys were missing but the doors were open. Among the items the officers found inside were a green soda bottle and a sandwich wrapper with the Goshen Dairy Store label. They towed the vehicle to the station for further examination. Lieutenant Timothy Daimler of the Callaway County Sheriff's Office in Fulton Missouri was assigned to lead the investigation. His department's first task was to check the locked trunks of the car. We weren't sure what exactly we were going to find. We had a lady missing. from Ohio and this was his car, so we assumed we could very possibly find a body when we opened the trunk.

Investigators needed to open it without damaging the evidence or injuring the woman if she was unconscious inside a deputy who was a The locksmith was called and discovered the trunk was empty after three days of searching. The hope of finding Mrs. Loader alive was beginning to fade. An FBI evidence recovery team from Kansas City was called on September 1 as the missing woman's car had crossed state lines. The agents worked. As local authorities processed Ms. Loder's car for forensic details, they gathered several sets of footprints and hairs in Ohio. The foreign prints were entered into an automated fingerprint system, but no matches were found.

Sheriff Wilson prepared to travel to Missouri on a hunch. He took a photo. of missing teenager eric elliott at that time there was nothing concrete in terms of connecting mrs loader's disappearance and mr elliot's report on his son's disappearance however i felt that since we are going to calloway county you know that maybe it would have It made no sense to obtain a photograph of the missing child and take it with us. Mrs. Loder's son-in-law joined the sheriff to help in the investigation. The Missouri official did not recognize the photo, but the Ohio sheriff did recognize the sandwich wrapper found in the boy's car. that it was goshen milk a store near Mrs.

Loader's house her son-in-law said the family kept their vehicle clean perhaps eric elliott, who also lived near the store, had left the wrapper in the car they had a photograph of elliott with them and decided to Cover Kingdom City, where they would have exited the Ohio and Missouri Interstate. Investigators checked exits along nearby I-70, a major east-west route in the region. They hoped that someone at the rest stops could confirm that Elliot had been in the area. They spoke with dozens of employees and travelers in the late afternoon, their efforts finally paying off, as they found a person who remembered seeing to the teenager the day before.

Unfortunately, authorities did not find anyone who remembered seeing Mrs. Loader or her car for the first time. They considered Eric Elliott, aged sixteen, a suspect in her kidnapping. Missouri agents also continued to canvass the rural Fulton area asking if neighbors had seen anything unusual at the house closest to the field where Mrs. Loader's car was found. An officer knocked on the door. of an elderly couple, William and Flossy Brewer, heard his dog, but the couple appeared to be outside as their car was not parked outside. The officer continued. Authorities searched dozens of homes but found no one nearby who had seen Eric Elliott or Ms.

Loader. I was on my way home after finishing that, I got a call from the communications center that they wanted me to call them right away. They told me that two bodies had been found on a farm on County Road 147. It was William and Flossie Brewer's house, the house closest to the field where Mrs. Lota's car was found that same day. Authorities believe the two crimes They were probably related Three days after Mrs. Loader's disappearance, sheriff's detectives found the bodies of William Brewer, 86, and his 76-year-old wife, floss in the basement of their home, each with multiple stab wounds. bullet, they were collapsed, they were near the door, her hands were tied behind her back, with what appeared to be a telephone cable and he was on her right, he also collapsed and had his cane.

He was standing there right next to her, the detective also found the couple's dog faith

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y guarding their lifeless bodies. An autopsy later determined that both Mr. and Mrs. Brewer had each been shot three times in the head with a .22 caliber gun of the same caliber that disappeared from Eric Elliot's home. The sixteen-year-old suspect in Mrs Loader's disappearance has now become a suspect in the double homicide. There was no indication that the suspect spent much time in the house before this occurred, so from the evidence it indicated to us that it relatively happened. Investigators quickly found no signs of forced entry in the basement.

The door leading to the outside was covered in cobwebs, indicating that it had not been opened. Investigators spoke with the brewer's son. He said the couple's old cell phone was missing along with several rifles the sun added that his mother's quilt The technicians were also missing. Technicians worked at the scene until 5 a.m. on the floor near the main entrance. Investigators found two different sets of prints from outside the house, one appeared to be a tennis shoe and the other a hiking boot. Investigators suspected that the double homicide was probably related to that of Mrs. Loader. disappearance, what they didn't know was whether sixteen-year-old Eric Elliott and a partner had become serial killers on September 2, 1994.

Four and a half days had passed since the sick Ruth Loader was forced to leave her home in Ohio without his medication. She has been missing and presumed dead since her stolen car was found abandoned in Missouri 150 yards from where police discovered an elderly couple murdered. Authorities suspected an Ohio teenager named Eric Elliott and at least one companion were responsible for the crimes, but they had no direct evidence. Lieutenant Timothy Daimler. of the calloway county missouri sheriff's department recalled that the citizens of the surrounding areas were stunned, these are people who live in the rural community, they are used to leaving their doors open, they know everyone and I think they somehow me realized that unfortunately even though you live in a rural community where you still have to lock your doors and pay attention when there are strangers in your neighborhood with two confirmed homicides and the probable third in its many days, local authorities went to the FBI looking for help, special agent peter.

TOKrist, from the FBI's Ohio Resident Agency, was assigned to the case to catch up with the alleged killer and his partner. They needed an idea of ​​where Eric Elliott might be headed, so we were trying to get as much background information as possible. We were searching. For relatives, uncles, aunts, cousins, friends, we were convinced that they were headed across the country and we just needed to know that everyone knew there was a chance they would stop and visit us, whether to say hello or get some kind of financial or moral support. He asked one of Eric Elliott's friends to come question him.

The friend told them that Elliot had recently become very close to a young ex-convict named Louis Gilbert. He said Gilbert and Elliott had spent a lot of time together over the past few weeks. he had been complaining about how boring life was in the small town and that there was no reason for them to stay. Gilbert was separated from his wife and son and Elliot wanted to visit his biological mother in California. The friend added that the couple mentioned that they wanted to do something that would make them history and planned to start by stealing a car.

They mentioned that we were drinking and the last time he saw them was five days ago when Gilbert and Elliot were walking along the train tracks behind from Mrs. Loader's house because Elliott was a troubled teenage agent, Chris believed that he probably admired 22-year-old Louis Gilbert, since Gilbert seemed to do whatever he wanted. By the time Gilbert became friends with Elliott, there was Having been released from jail two weeks earlier, he had a criminal record. He had a history of getting into trouble and at the time we felt that maybe Mr. Elliott was in awe of or in love with Mr.

Gilbert because he had that kind of criminal record. Investigators delved into the past of 22-year-old Lewis Gilbert. He had served time for stealing a boat and for burglary. He had also been convicted of physically abusing his three-month-old son. Although the agents still lacked concrete evidence that Gilbert and Elliot were traveling together, they needed to find them as soon as possible to prevent more murders. Our biggest concern at this point is that we suspected that these two in Mrs. Loader's disappearance were strong suspects in the murders and double homicide in Missouri and we were very concerned that this type of activity would continue throughout the country.

The first step was to see if anyone had seen Gilbert with Elliot at the Goshen Dairy Store near Mrs. Loader's home in Ohio, Missouri. Investigators had found a sandwich wrapper from the store in Ms. Loader's abandoned vehicle. Does it look familiar to you? Yes, one of our rappers. The employee identified the rapper. He also remembered selling the sandwich and some soda to Gilbert and Elliot right after Mrs. Loader disappeared. Authorities now had confirmation that the young people were traveling together. Thank you, but it had already been five days since the assassins began their journey across the country. rampage The FBI quickly obtained arrest warrants for kidnapping and robbery in the disappearance of Ruth Loader, although agents believe the couple was also responsible for the double homicide in Missouri.

Authorities still lacked evidence to formally charge them with those crimes. The agents were not willing to wait for anyone. to call in anticipation of gilbert and elliot's westward movement the fbi visited gilbert's mother in taliqua oklahoma on september 3, 1994 the agent warned her that her son and his friend were armed fugitives suspected of driving a stolen oldsmobile with license plates from missouri it was possible that the couple visit her for help we need to know if you have seen them recently oh, they left this morning the FBI had lost them. Gilbert and Elliot had arrived at 2 am the previous day.

Gilbert claimed the old car they were driving belonged to a friend. She said they were headed to California, the couple spent the day and left a few hours before the agent arrived cooperating with the FBI, she described the clothes the couple was wearing and gave the agents the addresses of other family members, authorities They feared that if they didn't catch up with them soon the killers would attack again, that was one of the most frustrating things about this entire investigation. It seemed like we were always half a day or a day behind them and that's probably one of the most frustrating things that we just couldn't. get ahead of them because eric elliott was a minor investigators needed court permission to distribute his photo they got the go-ahead 36 hours after the double homicide in missouri lieutenant daimler added it to the national bulletins for fugitives he was afraid to see where they would end up finish next and who they were going to kill next and I wanted to do everything I could to help get those people off the street because it was clear to me that they didn't care who they killed despite the best efforts of authorities, the urgent search of the alleged killers lasted into its sixth day, on September 4, 1994, 165 miles west of Gilbert's mother's home in Oklahoma, a motorcyclist was riding the rural trails around Draper Lake, on the outskirts of the Oklahoma City.

His trip was cut short when he discovered. the body of a woman in the trees as she ran to call the police drove around an oldsmobile with missouri plates almost a week after the kidnapping of Mrs. Loader in Ohio the national search for two suspected murderers would continue on September 4, 1994 Six days had passed in the FBI's massive nationwide search for a pair of suspected spree killers. Louis Gilbert and Eric Elliott were wanted for a possible murder in Ohio and a confirmed double homicide in Missouri. The fugitives were last seen in Oklahoma Heading West That same day Oklahoma City Police responded to a call from a motorcyclist who had discovered the body of a woman near Draper Lake.

Officers secured the crime scene and then called homicide detectives. They interviewed the motorcyclist who had made the discovery. Homicide Inspector Bob Bemo of the Oklahoma City Police Department was assigned to the case once we reached the conclusion. Immediately at the place where the body was, I observed that the young woman was leaning backwards and trapped between a tree. The victim was a white woman in her 30s. Investigators did not find any identification on or near the body, but they did find a manager at a nearby establishment. Marina later identified her as her missing employee, Roxy Rutter, as part of our investigation, another vehicle had been found a short distance from where the victim had been located and we did not know if this was part of the crime or not, although it was We knew it. secure the area around this vehicle when detectives ran the oldsmobile's missouri plates with the ncic and discovered the car had been reported stolen from the brewers missouri oklahoma double homicide victims investigators immediately notified eastern authorities to tuscarawas county sheriff walter wilson in ohio it looked like gilbert and elliot had struck again they had recovered the stolen vehicle from missouri and they also had another murder victim it's just another terrible feeling that's really hard to describe that obviously this tragedy continued oklahoma police criminal technicians gathered evidence from the vehicle recovered several unused 22 caliber bullets a pawn shop receipt from a local oklahoma city store was also found.

Prints taken from the inside and outside of the car matched those of Gilbert and Elliot. Oklahoma medical examiners determined that Ruttle's death had occurred within the last day or two, as there was little decomposition. The death had been inflicted by a .22 caliber gun, detectives notified the woman's devastated husband, he informed them that his two-tone pickup truck was also missing. Investigators listed her as stolen and added her information to the growing NCIC report on Gilbert and Elliot. Detectives also took the receipt found. in the brewery's car to the Oklahoma City pawn shop that delivered two video games and a set of socket wrenches had been pawned the day before the woman was found murdered, they showed the receipt to a vaguely gilbert and elliot's employee, but he had something else that might be stronger than memory the pawn shop was equipped with a 24 hour surveillance camera the videotape confirmed his story september 3 was the last confirmed sighting of gilbert and elliot the fbi issued two more warrants for the alleged killers of illegal interstate flight agent peter crist and his team were frustrated that after six days, four victims and thousands of hours of work, the killers were still half a day ahead of the fbi , many things were going through my mind, number one, we didn't want another double homicide and we didn't do it.

I want another murder anywhere and we were I guess I kept thinking about what I haven't done. What haven't I done? get ahead of these guys instead of trailing them for half a day or a day the nationwide search for gilbert and elliot intensified law enforcement agencies mobilized additional helicopters to search for roxy ruggle's two-tone van on the routes they target west of long-haul trucks Drivers were also notified to report any sightings on the highway or at rest stops. Hundreds of calls came to police in Oklahoma, Missouri and Ohio, but none led to the immediate whereabouts of the fugitives.

Every time the phone rang, I was very worried that it was another body and it's a terrible feeling when you work a case like this, when you know what has happened up to that point and the worst thing you imagine would happen in your mind is if this continued, so every time the phone rang and someone said it was for me that that was my biggest fear, that was the first thing that came to my mind oh, we found another body, the two alleged murderers had chosen elderly people and women as prey and the FBI did not know where or to whom The next attack would be on September 5, 1994, after a week of searching in the FBI and local authorities were no closer to finding two suspects in a wave of murders that It spanned three states.

Officers believed 22-year-old Louis Gilbert and sixteen-year-old Eric. elliott were headed to elliott's mother's house in california driving a stolen two-color pickup truck with oklahoma plates. lieutenant timothy daimler of missouri feared the murder suspects would kill again if they decided to steal another car while traveling west he wasn't thinking serial killer at the time, I guess what was going through my mind at the time was that these guys didn't care who they killed and I was thinking we had to catch these people, the news reports and bulletins were warning to people in the western states that the suspected killers were coming toward them armed and dangerous in New Mexico State Police Criminal Agent Daniel Becker first heard about the fugitives through the media.

My initial thought was that the chances of them being detained in New Mexico were extremely slim due to the wide open spaces we had. we have and a relatively small amount of law enforcement we have across the state the same day reports started appearing on the news in New Mexico, Gilbert and Elliot stopped at the rural home of an older couple 15 miles north south of Santa Fe and stated that the stolen two-color truck had little gas. The couple agreed to help the fugitives. They said they were on their way to California, but the woman was suspicious and did not see any luggage in the truck.

They seemed nervous and left. In a hurry, when they heard the noise of nearby construction, the woman reported the signature to New Mexico State Police, but when units arrived to investigate, the two young men were nowhere to be seen. The next morning, on September 6, a New Mexico man reported another sighting. To the police he claimed to have seen Gilbert and Elliot the night before. The man told the officer that he first encountered them while he was driving on Highway 599 outside of Santa Fe. The drivers saw two young hitchhikers and stopped to pick them up. How is it going?, they said.

His truck had gotten stuck in the mud, he didn't realize who they were until he saw their photos on the news the next morning, describing them as suspected murderers, the witness said he took them to the store where they bought food and later That night, he saw them again and took them back to the place where they had first met. It was a desolate part of the road. The officer needed a reference point to estimate where the motorist had dropped off the fugitives. The man said he was near a small overpass on the off chance that the fugitives were still in the area, he alerted all authorities in the area.

The New Mexico State Police knew thatThey had to move fast. Two units rushed to the scene to conduct a search for any trace of the alleged murderers they found. the overpass in a remote area reports had warned that the men from Ohio were armed. Gilbert and Elliot would be tired and desperate after running and hiding for seven days with little money. give him the signal if the fugitives were still in the area, they had miles of bushes and hills they could hide behind and target anyone who approached, just wait there exactly, the officers were instructed to use extreme caution, the team wanted to bring them in back alive.

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y approached one of the six culverts beneath the road, moving forward to look further. Up close, an officer saw two men lying on the ground inside. apparently sleeping, hey please put your hands up, let me see your hands. One of the surprised men appeared to be searching for his gun in the dark. In the next split second, officers had to decide if they needed to use deadly force to apprehend the suspected killers. On September 6, 1994, New Mexico State Police stood within a few feet of murder suspects Lewis Gilbert and Eric Elliott.

The fugitives took up their weapons but decided not to die after a murder spree that claimed the lives of four victims in less than a week. He was arrested without a fight The 1800 mile chase was over FBI Special Agent Peter Crist received the news of his arrest in Ohio My reaction of course when I received that news was a tremendous sigh of relief The first thing I wanted to know was after they had been captured. Were there corpses? There were unsolved homicides near where they were. They were arrested, of course, the answer was no, just a tremendous sigh of relief that this is all finally over.

Officers recovered a .22 pistol and a green soda bottle in At the campsite where they detained the couple, they also found the quilt that belonged to the murdered Mrs. Brewer. State police found Roxy Ruttle's stolen truck two miles away, near a race track in Santa Fe, like her other two stolen vehicles, the truck was stuck in the mud for fingerprints. Crime scene and lab investigators matched the personal items to those of the woman murdered in Oklahoma City. Investigators also found another green silver bottle of the same brand they had found under the sewer and in Ruth Loader's car, Eric Elliott and Louis Gilbert were taken to the New Mexico State Police district. office in santa fe if they could pit one against the other their prosecutor's office would be safe sixteen year old eric elliott made a phone call to his father in ohio and refused to say anything about the murders now that it was lewis gilbert's turn the ex- The convict waived his rights and agreed to be interviewed.

New Mexico State Police Criminal Agent Daniel Becker had little time to prepare. Gilbert revealed very little during the first hour of our interview about these murders. A couple of times he mentioned that I asked him if he had done this for any justifiable reason or if he is a cold blooded murderer and he responded by saying one of those gilberta claimed he didn't remember what had happened in the last five days he refused to say anything about the murders or the disappearance of Mrs. Loader frustrated the investigator left the room a few moments alone was all Gilbert needed after we took our first break Gilbert began to open up to me a little more and actually admitted that he had killed between one and five people and when I asked him why he had killed people, he said that for stupid reasons, Gilbert started by telling the day he met the woman in Oklahoma, he said he and Elliot struck up a conversation with Roxy Rubble when they found her fishing alone in a secluded area. from Draper Lake near Oklahoma City.

They told him that her car was stuck in the mud and they needed a ride back to the city. She offered. to help and pack his gear his truck was parked just up the hill when her back was turned gilbert pulled out the .22 pistol that elliott had taken from his parents ohio then gilbert told elliott to tie Rubble's hands gilbert said ruttle he cried and asked them not to do it he hurt his elliot he stayed behind while gilbert marched ruddle into the woods he told him to sit at the foot of a tree then he shot roxy rotten now that gilbert had admitted to murder the agent pressed him on The others asked the confessed killer to describe what had happened in Missouri the day before arriving in Oklahoma.

Gilbert informed me that they had been traveling through the state of Missouri and the night before the murders they had parked the stolen vehicle they had obtained in ohio in the place where they took me They thought it was a field and in the end they had slept in the vehicle overnight and the next morning or afternoon, when they were about to leave, they realized that the vehicle was stuck, so They needed to get another vehicle, as Missouri investigators believed Gilbert and Elliot had simply walked. I went to the nearest house and saw a car in the driveway, it was Mr. and Mrs.

Brewer's house. Gilbert decided they had asked to use the phone to request a tow truck. Hello how are you? Very good. Thank you so much. Eager to help brewers. They let the young men in, once inside they found out that they did not have a phone book, so they could not find a number to call a wrecker and it was at that moment that Gilbert told me that he had decided or they decided that they were going to kill the brewers they took grandpa and grandma to the basement and then executed them there was one more crime gilbert hadn't talked about eric we're walking along some railroad tracks the old cancer patient from ohio Mrs.

Loader was still missing and Supposedly dead on the night of August 29, 1994, Louis Gilbert and Eric Elliott approached Mrs. Loader's home in Port Washington to steal her car. Since no one answered when they knocked, they believed the house was empty afterward. After 10 minutes they still hadn't found the keys as they rummaged through the living room and were surprised when Mrs. Loader suddenly appeared. She claimed Mrs Loader was still alive when she locked her in the boot of her car and sped off. They got about four miles out of town in a wooded area and they pulled up next to a guardrail and parked and got out.

Gilbert told me that he opened the trunk and took Mrs. Loader out of the trunk and they took her off the road near the guardrail about five feet from the side of the road Gilbert said he forced Mrs. Loader to move away from the car and said he shot her with the same .22 that had killed the others. We drove around a bit and Gilbert had finished his description of the murders, but he hadn't told the agent where the murdered Ohio woman could be found. He knew that it was crucial to find Mrs. Loader's body as evidence so that this murder could be prosecuted and also simply as closure for her family so that they could find her and make proper arrangements for a funeral.

Gilbert instructed authorities to find Mrs. Loader. Loader's remains 50 people from the FBI and 12 different police and volunteer groups followed Gilbert's instructions. They searched for the dead woman in fields, forests and hills for days, but the 79-year-old widow and mother of four was never found. Sheriff Walter Wilson continues you work a cold case when you work a murder case you almost become part of the family, so to speak, because your goal is obviously to solve the crime to help the victims and the surviving victims as much as you can. , is something that will obviously never happen. to be forgotten uh I have great respect for the Loader family having gotten to know them very well I feel bad to this day that we still have not been able to recover the remains of Mrs.

Loader Sixteen-year-old Eric Elliott was tried as an adult in Oklahoma Elliot was convicted of first-degree murder for his role in the murder of Roxy Rudd. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole in Missouri after 57 years of marriage. The Brewers were buried, unlike Ruth Loader's family. The Brewers family was buried. Able to have closure for his tragic loss after being sentenced to death for the murder of Roxy Ruttle in Oklahoma Lewis Gilman was extradited to Missouri where he stood trial for the murders of William and Flossie Brewer Lewis Where's the Roof? where is the lady from the first one? route lewis gave her family a break remained silent about the whereabouts of ruth loader's remains as the ohio woman has not yet been recovered no trial date has been set to answer for her kidnapping and murder of her family and friends the actions of gilbert and elliot are inconceivable.

I have often thought about what is going on in their minds or what causes them to do that and it is really difficult to understand or think what they are thinking, other than that they obviously have to be very evil people.