Samuel Legg: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Samuel Legg is an Arizona man accused of being linked to truck stop homicides and rapes in Ohio and Illinois.
heavy.com
Thus far, though, Legg has only been charged in one rape case and in the separate aggravated murder of Sharon Kedzierski. Legg, 49, has worked as a long-haul truck driver, according to the Columbus Dispatch.
Authorities have not named all of the homicide victims, nor has Legg been charged in the cases, but the Ohio Attorney General alleges that he was also linked through DNA to four murders. They did say that three of those deaths were in Ohio and one in Illinois.
Nicole Myers attended one of Legg’s court hearings because she suspects him in the death of her friend Angela Hicks, a 14-year-old cheerleader slain in 1990. Legg was then her stepfather, and he was questioned in the case, the newspaper says, but he was never arrested.
A 2007 story on the case in the Chronicle Telegram reported that Hicks had been with Legg before she disappeared and that there was tension between them.
The murder for which Legg stands charge is of a woman beaten to death at a truck stop – Kedzierski. She died in 1992 in Austintown.
She had disappeared from Miami Lakes, Florida. The Sun Sentinel reported that she “worked as a bookkeeper or in the income tax preparation field,” and was divorced with children. It’s not clear how she ended up in Ohio.
He told the television station he thinks authorities should investigate whether Legg could be connected to 10 murders in Austintown of prostitutes at truck stops (Kedzierski was not one).
WKBN reported that Kedzierski wasn’t identified for 20 years, and authorities didn’t release how they beliee she had encountered Legg.
Authorities say they focused on Samuel Legg because of familial DNA.
That’s a relatively new and controversial method in which authorities attempt to match DNA from criminal suspects to family members – sometimes distant ones. Then, they map out the family tree of the suspect, and use traditional investigative techniques to figure out who within it fits other parameters in the case or cases.
And it appears authorities fucked up the 97 rape that could have/should have broke this thing a long time ago...
State says DNA links former truck driver to rape, four homicides
MEDINA — DNA testing has linked a former long-distance truck driver to a 1997 Medina County rape case and four unsolved homicides, three in Ohio
www.ohio.com
The search led them to the results from a rape kit from the unsolved Medina County rape case, indicating the person responsible was in the same family as the person tied to the murder, Yost said.
rape involved a 17-year-old girl from Lexington who said she was sexually assaulted on Sept. 7, 1997, by a truck driver who gave her a ride when she was hitchhiking back home after visiting her boyfriend in Cleveland. Lexington police did a rape kit and turned it over to the Medina County Sheriff.
Detectives and prosecutors identified Legg, an independent truck driver who worked for a company in Hinckley and drove through Ohio and other states, as a potential suspect but opted not to prosecute. They cited credibility questions, Thompson said.
Interesting. Unless im misunderstanding this or it's a shit article, it seems to me someone else in his family was a suspect in yet another murder, and they busted him thru that other scumbag. This entire family is prob worthless shitstain scum.
Cops really screwed the pooch on this one. Embarrassing. You have a rape kit, you have fucking DNA evidence, yet you decided not to pursue it cuz you didnt believe the victim. Meanwhile this guy has already raped/killed others and who knows how many he did since. If cops had done their job, this woulda been solved long ago.
Read the Kedzierski body was ID'd in 2013. These articles suck and provide almost no info on the actual investigation into her dissappearance. The shit the heavy article cites reportedly says she was NOT a prostitute. He either abducted her out of Florida or she was in fact a whore and had traveled up there.
Gotta wonder how many others he did, especially since he's relocated so far across the country. What's he been up to in Arizona and the surrounding area? Some writer in the early 90s wrote about truckstop murders and came up with 8 in this general area that matched the Kedzierski details(head bashed in with blunt force trauma, dumped by truckstops). This stain wouldnt been in his late teens for half of em however. Has he been killing since he was a kid?
Sucks he's a nutter. Might be hard to put him in a cage.
