FORMER POLITICAL CANDIDATE NAMES HIMSELF A PERSON OF INTEREST IN A MURDER CASE

[Mike 03]

This is extremely bizarre! (Sorry for the caps--that is a cut and paste)

CBS News
March 26 2021

The strange behavior of Steven Pankey, who twice ran for governor of Idaho, makes him a suspect in the murder of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews.

Last Updated Mar 28, 2021 2:10 AM EDT

On October 12, 2020 Steven Pankey was arrested for the nearly 35-year-old kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews. Just five months prior to his arrest, Pankey was a candidate for sheriff in Twin Falls County, Idaho. It was the last of several strange attempts to hold office in the state of Idaho. In all, Pankey attempted seven runs for office. There were two campaigns for governor, one for municipal council, one for lieutenant governor and three runs for county sheriff. Now, Pankey is awaiting trial on charges of kidnapping and first-degree murder.

The case against Pankey and how police came to charge him after three-and-a-half decades is reported by "48 Hours" correspondent Richard Schlesinger in his exclusive report, "The Kidnapping of Jonelle Matthews."

It was December 1984, just days before Christmas, when 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews disappeared from her family home in Greeley, Colorado. The night she vanished, Jonelle sang in a Christmas choir concert that her parents were unable to attend. After the concert, a close friend and her father dropped Jonelle at home and watched her enter the house. She was alone. About an hour later, her father Jim Matthews was telling police that he had arrived home to find that Jonelle was missing.

In an interview for "48 Hours," Schlesinger asked Jim Matthews, "Did it occur to you that maybe she had run away? "No," said Matthews "because I know my daughter well enough that number one, it's Christmas time … She just loves the whole festivities of Christmas."

Read more here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jonelle-matthews-murder-steve-pankey-person-of-interest/

Honestly, this is just incredibly strange.

[rpannier]

1. Very weird

and interesting

[secondwind]

2. If nobody knew about the rake except for the parents and the police................

how did Pankey know about it... hmm..

This case is not cold.. not yet

[Nay]

3. You would be shocked at how much info leaks out of police departments. IMO, Pankey

could have gotten the rake info from the next door neighbor he called to inquire about the abduction.

Remember when Ted Bundy killed 4 women in Tallahassee, FL? I was there. Everyone was terrified. I went to my very public job two days later and got a bunch of inside info about the condition of the bodies from two cop wives whom I did not personally know. That's how leaky it was.

It's a bit better now, but all sorts of info was flying around about everything back then. Nobody could keep their mouths shut.