3 Haunting Deathbed Confessions
3 Haunting Deathbed Confessions 3. Russell Smrekar In 1975, 20 year-old Michael Mansfield was attending Lincoln College in Lincoln, Illinois. For Christmas break, he returned to his family's Rolling Meadows, Illinois home. On New Year's Eve, Mansfield received a call, and he told his parents that he was going to meet a friend who lived in Arlington Heights. Sadly he never returned home. Six months later on June 2nd, 1976, 51-year-old Ruth Martin of Lincoln, Illinois, didn't show up for work. On the floor of her garage, the police found blood and a 22 caliber bullet. Her car was found abandoned two days later in a hotel parking lot in Bloomington, Illinois. In the trunk there was a lot of blood; the blood was tested, and it was the same blood type as Martin's. The police searched for her, but she was nowhere to be found Several months later the investigations into both disappearances were at a standstill. At the time, the police had no reason to believe that the cri