Feb. 19, 2025
Chapter 93: A New York Mystery-The Murder of Bani Yelverton
In today's chapter, we dive into the murder of a woman that history seems to have forgotten. Not anymore. In December of 1969, Bani Yelverton, a young Black woman with a promising future in modeling, was found murdered in her friend's New York...
In today's chapter, we dive into the murder of a woman that history seems to have forgotten. Not anymore. In December of 1969, Bani Yelverton, a young Black woman with a promising future in modeling, was found murdered in her friend's New York apartment under circumstances that baffled investigators. With no sign of forced entry, few concrete leads, and a city gripped by upheaval, the case soon went cold. Who wanted Bani dead—and why?
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of the Dead. While looking around for cases to cover,
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website I have never used for my research, and while
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perusing it, I came across an article covering a murder
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that I had never heard of. While researching this case,
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I realize that there are very few people that have
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heard of it or this victim. This is the murder
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of a young black woman, a model making a name
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for herself in an era and industry that catered to
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white people, and the publications that did showcase women of
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color tended to feature lighter skinned models. A beautiful woman
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with her deep, rich skin tone and soulful eyes was
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making a name for herself in the industry and was
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on her way to becoming a household name before all
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she worked for was ripped away. This is the murder
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of Bonnie Yelverton. Barbara Yelverton was born in Savannah, Georgia,
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to Beatrice and Aaron Yelverton, on March eleventh, nineteen thirty two.
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Now not very much is known at all about her childhood,
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but when she was a child, her parents moved to
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the family to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to join the International Peace Mission,
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which was led by a man who called himself Father Divine.
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Father Divine himself is a little bit of an enigma.
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There's some ambiguity surrounding who he is. He was possibly
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born George Baker in either Rockville, Maryland, or somewhere in Georgia,
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maybe in eighteen seventy six. What is known is that
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he was a major religious figure during the twentieth century,
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and his full moniker was Reverend Major Jealous Divine, also
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known as the Messenger. His congregation was a conglomeration of
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very religious groups like evangelicalism and pentecostalism, mixed with a
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newer concept for the time called new Thought. The New
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Thought was a movement where people believed they could change
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or alter their reality and circumstances entirely due to positive thinking.
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I suppose you could compare it a bit too manifestation.
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As an additional bit of background on Father Divine, he
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moved his ministry from Sayerville to Harlem, before ultimately settling
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in Philadelphia in nineteen forty to escape financial and legal troubles.
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Some say that he was crazy and a cult leader.
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He was very strict in his rules for his followers.
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He placed a heavy emphasis on celibacy even between married couples,
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and no one was permitted to drink, smoke, or engage
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in any kind of vulgarity. He also maintained a strict
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dress code, proclaimed he was an incarnation of God, changed
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his followers' names, and threatened divine retribution against anyone who
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defied him. On the flip side, though he was also
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considered to be a civil rights hero, he advocated heavily
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for desegregation, implementing it within his ministry, and was vocal
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in protesting lynching. He provided nourishing and reasonably priced food
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to his followers as well as the community, and even
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gave it away to those in need. During the depression,
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he advocated for communal living and resource pooling, and provided
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work training and jobs to the community. He was also
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a big supporter and owner of many small businesses, mostly
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black owned, that focused on providing reasonably priced, in high
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quality goods to community members. Now Aaron Yelverton eventually became
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a preacher with this ministry. In the nineteen fifties, with
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two dollars to call her own, Barbera struck out on
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her own with dreams of being a model. She was
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just a teenager. Now. I'm not sure what her parents
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thought about her going out on her own into the world,
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but regardless of whether they were okay with it or not,
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Barbara did leave. She changed her name to Bonnie and
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headed for New York to make her dreams come true.
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For a while, she stayed with friends, relatives, and in
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hotel rooms before signing on with Grace del Marco modeling
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agency in Harlem. Grace del Marco, according to Emory University,
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was founded by the model Ophelia Devoor and four other
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friends in nineteen forty six, and the agency worked to
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encourage the media to quote portray African Americans in non
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stereotypical ways. While Bonnie was definitely shorter than what would
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be considered the model standard at only five foot six,
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she had quote a distinctive brown skinned, beauty, spelt body,
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and haunting eyes that would get her inside a few doors,
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according to crimereads dot com. In nineteen fifty six, she
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moved into an apartment in the East Village with other
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tenants involved in the arts, and she started booking jobs.
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In nineteen fifty seven, she appeared on the album cover
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for New Orleans Blues, and she was part of a
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campaign for photographer Erwin Blumenfeld in Look magazine. She was
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the only non white model in the spread, standing out
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at the end of a row of five women in
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a lavender dress and blue eyeshadow. She was paid about
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forty dollars an hour for the shoot, which in today's
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economy would have been around four hundred and forty seven dollars,
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so not too bad really for a day's work. The
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small bio attached to the shoot for Bonnie would say,
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quote Bonnie's looks and personality embody, the charms, sadness and
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compassion of a blue singer. While this shoot should have
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been something to catapult her onto the map, the modeling
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industry was not kind to black models. Publications like Vogue,
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Harper's Bazaar, and Vanity Fair cater to white people, and
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it would be another nine years before England featured a
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black woman on the cover of their edition of Vogue,
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featuring Donielle Luna in March of nineteen sixty six, and
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it would be seventeen years before America got with the
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program and featured Beverly Johnson in the August nineteen seventy
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four edition. In nineteen fifty eight, Bonnie was featured on
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another album cover, and she modeled for three days in
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a live window ad for a Harlem department store. New
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York Age columnist Clyde Reid wrote of the ad quote
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for three days, one of New York's top Sepia models
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adorned Bloomstein's window on West one twenty fifth Street in
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a demonstration for a mattress. Incidentally, she looked lovely in
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bedroom slippers. In addition to her modeling work, Bonnie was
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working other odd jobs to supplement her income. She worked
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with a friend that sold customs jewelry and learned how
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to make and sell her own, and she did waitress
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jobs at the village itch on Hudson Street. Bonnie was
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known to surround herself with beauty in her daily life
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and among her friend group she spent a lot of
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time going out with them to various bars and restaurants. However,
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Bonnie was fairly private. She didn't share much about herself
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and never brought anyone to her apartment, which she grew
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increasingly reluctant to return to. She lived on the fourth floor,
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and while it had started out nice, the neighborhood began
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to change and decline as drugs made their way in.
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Some shady characters began hanging around, and there were a
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few break ins, so she usually came home just to
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shower and change her clothes, opting to sleep elsewhere. In
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December of nineteen sixty nine, Bonnie is thirty five years
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old and is staying at her friend Jack Frolick's apartment
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while he is out of the country in Haiti for
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a vacation. Jack's apartment was a luxury three hundred dollars
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a month unit at one Washington Square Village. According to
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the Daily News, a far cry from Bonnie's small apartment
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on the Lower east Side. Jack and Bonnie had known
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each other for about six years at this point, and
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she was the perfect person to house sit for him,
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especially while she was having her apartment redone. On January sixth,
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nineteen seventy, Jack returns to Manhattan from his trip and
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heads to his apartment. When he gets to the eleventh floor,
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he's surprised that the apartment is very chilly. It's about
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twenty degrees outside, so for a window to be left
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open is strange. He soon notices the balcony door was
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left open, and feet away, to his horror is Bonnie's body,
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face down on the living room floor. She was nude
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except for a pair of underwear around her ankles. The
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Buffalo News reported that her throat had been cut and
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there was a clear sign of a struggle throughout the apartment.
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Bloodstains to be found all over the room, on the walls, floor,
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and furniture. According to court records, police while processing the
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scene recovered red ceramic particles from her parent clothing, matching
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the pieces of two red ceramic pots that had been
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found in the apartment. Doctor Elliot Gross, associate medical examiner,
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performed the autopsy the next day, and he determined that
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she had been severely beaten and stabbed in the neck
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before the cut of her throat. He also confirmed that
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sexual assault had taken place. Doctor Gross determined that Bonnie
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had been dead for nine days upon her discovery, meaning
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that her date of death was sometime on the twenty
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eighth of December. During the police investigation, detectives pretty quickly
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determined that Bonnie knew her attacker detected. Charles Zambrie told
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the Daily News quote she was known not to associate
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with strangers. Police interviewed Bonnie's friends, one of which was
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a man named Robert W. Johnson. He was forty six
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years old and the owner of the Village Itch where
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Bonnie worked as a waitress. He was actually interviewed twice,
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once on January seventh, the day after the discovery of
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Bonnie's murder, and on January sixteenth, nine days later. He
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told them that he had known Bonnie for about six
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years and she worked a shift on December twenty seventh.
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stay at her apartment as she was staying at Jack's because,
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according to the Daily News, Robert had recently lost his
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and was currently separated from his wife. He temporarily moved
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into Bonnie's apartment and brought some clothing with him. Court
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records confirmed that Robert and Bonnie had worked together at
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the village Itch on the twenty seventh, and they leapt
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together early in the morning on the twenty eighth. They
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shared a cab to sixth Avenue, where they separated and
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Robert had it to her apartment on Third Street alone.
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He claims that that was the last time he saw her. However,
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according to those same court records, Robert also positively identified
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a pair of shoes belonging to him that were found
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at Bonnie's apartment. On the soles of these shoes were
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particles of bread ceramic, which the medical examiner concluded came
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from the same face as the particles found on Bonnie.
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Police also determined that Robert had been lying about where
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he had been. Later on in the day of December
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twenty eighth, Robert claimed that he had stopped at a
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specific store to pick up some ingredients for the restaurant,
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but when police looked into this, they found that the
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shop had been closed for the whole day. Additionally, Robert
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had been subjected to a polygraph test, which he failed
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after positively identifying the shoes as his. Robert was arrested
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for Bonnie's murder on January sixteenth. One month later, on
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February seventeenth, the grand jury declined an indictment and the
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charges were dismissed. Robert was free to go, and I
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couldn't tell you why. My only assumption is that maybe
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the particles weren't enough to prove that he was the
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one to murder Bonnie. As far as I could tell,
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they never found the knife used, and even if there
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was DNA from the sexual assault, they were a very
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long way of being able to properly test it. To
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this day, no one else has ever been arrested for
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Bonnie's murder, and her case remains unsolved. Now. Robert did
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end upsuing the City of New York, citing damages and
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alleging false imprisonment and malicious persecution. This was actually ruled
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in favor of New York on the basis that the
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courts found Robert's argument baseless. Quote. A distinct and essential
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element of the cause of action is malice, which must
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be proved as an independent fact in order for the
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claimant to sustain his action. Plaintiff's proof here completely lacks
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even a suggestion of improper motive by the police or
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prosecutors in arresting and attempted to indict him. The plaintiff
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argues that defendants have not shown any motive for the murder,
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and emphasizes that the grand jury did not return an
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indictment against him. However, the law does not require that
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defendants prove motive, only reasonable cause for arrest, and certainly
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the fact that plaintiff was not indicted does not establish
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false arrest and imprisonment. We add that the plaintiff's testimony
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at trial was weak, shabby, and totally unconvincing. So in essence,
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the courts determined that there was no malice, there was
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no false imprisonment, They had probable cause to place him
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under arrest, and they also did not need a motive
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to arrest him. Now, as for whether I think he's guilty,
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I think it's certainly possible. The particles on his shoes
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proved that he was in the apartment either during or
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write after the murder, and he didn't have an alibi However,
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to my knowledge, as I said, they never found the
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knife used, and they couldn't determine a motive as to
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why he would kill her. It's possible that maybe he
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made an advancement towards her and Bonnie rejected him given
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the sexual assault, or it could have been from some
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other reason. Considering police were led to him pretty quickly
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also makes me believe that there's definitely a chance that
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he could be guilty. They just didn't have enough evidence
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to support that. Now, Bonnie Elverton was a vibrant and
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beautiful woman and very cautious. I just don't see a
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stranger doing this, and I covered her case because I
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think it's terrible that so few people know about her.
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