The Lynds family cast a suspicious eye on Owen because after the murder a teenager who talked to Tammy’s mother Susan said that Owen hated Tammy. That same friend, according to Susan’s notes, also said that during the original investigation, Owen and another teen close to him told police they believed that Tammy had been molested and killed by her father. They tried to get her Tammy’s friend to go along with this story, but he replied, “No way,” stick his middle finger up at them, and walked away:
He said that at first, Owen just wanted to have sex with Tammy. “You know—fuck her,” he said. “Lay her. Sorry Sue, I didn’t mean to use that word.” But Tammy’s parents didn’t want her to go anywhere with Owen after he visited their home once, when he had illegally “borrowed” the family car, and drove down Lamont street hanging out of the car window with a beer can in his hand:
The youth also said that neighborhood kids used to party at Owen’s house, smoking weed and drinking with his mother:
Bizarrely, on December 5, 1994, Sue wrote that according to a friend of Tammy, Owen claimed his best friend killed Tammy, and he had evidence that this person had committed the murder. But he asserted that if anyone found out, he would destroy the evidence:
According to Susan, Owen let it be known that he would not only get rid of the evidence, but also he would “get” the unknown person who ratted on him once he found out who it was. If accurate, it means Owen knew that police might have suspected him.
It is really strange that Owen announced he would destroy this “evidence.” This makes no sense. The only kind of physical evidence that could implicate a friend in this scenario would be a photo or a phone answering machine message—right? I can’t think of anything else. I guess he could have had an article of clothing from the guy that had Tammy’s blood on it, but I sincerely doubt that. So what are we to make of this?
Anyway, prior to the murder, the Lynds parents forbidding Tammy to see Owen supposedly angered him. After the murder, when the Lynds family went roller skating at Interskate 91 in Wilbraham, Owen tried to skate with Tammy’s sister Allison, and according to Sue’s notes, he attempted to intimidate the girl because the family thought he might have committed the murder:
On December 19, 1994, Susan, Allison, and Tammy’s cousin April went down to the Springfield Police headquarters on Pearl Street with all this information, but they didn’t have an appointment, and Susan claimed they were treated cavalierly. When they presented police with a photo Susan took of Owen speaking to Allison at the skating rink, the officer responded, “Since when is it a crime to talk to someone?”
Owen is the youth described in Part 6 as being visibly nervous when questioned by Detective Burt Garcia. “What’s wrong?” the detective asked. “Are you nervous? Why is your leg shaking?”
“I always do that with my leg,” Owen replied.
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Especially confusing about Susan’s notes is a claim from a friend of Tammy that a person he knew named “Rick” admitted that he was supposed to meet Tammy the night she went missing. Tammy had been intimate with two Ricks—one from near her neighborhood and one who lived in East Springfield. The Rick from Pine Point said there were no arrangement for them to meet that night, but we don’t know about the Rick from Carew Street. Regarding the latter, how would Tammy and Rick meet that night when they both lived so far apart and weren’t old enough to drive?
This is the second reference that we know of in which Tammy was planning to meet a “Rick” that night—one of her friends recently revealed that she planned to run away on the evening of July 21, 1994 and that she intended to go to “Ricky’s house.” The thing is, Rick from Carew Street was away from this area much of the month of July that year—his family was in the process of moving across the country and they were gone to prepare their new home thousands of miles away.
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Here is a letter from “Kim” AKA “Kay” from May 18, 1994 to Tammy and David, her boyfriend. She asks David is “everything better now?” We don’t know what this was in reference to—what was wrong? Kim, by the way, is not in Tammy’s phone directory and wasn’t referenced in the parts of her diary we have.
We know that David had been picked on by Tammy’s neighborhood friends (but apparently not by his Central High School classmates). Is that what this was in reference to? Or was there a problem between Tammy and David? There is a long gap in her diary entries—from March 22 to June 14, 1994—so we don’t know what had transpired. One of Tammy’s friends said that the two “broke up and got back together a few times during the school year.” So was their relationship a stormy one? One would assume so. She did write in her diary on June 14 that she had met David, loved him, wanted to have his baby, and that she was indeed pregnant. Did they break up and reunite? There is no mention of a reconciliation with David in her diary—just that she had met a new boy named David, but doesn’t “know how long it will last.”
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One of Tammy’s friends, who we’ll call “Jack,” described her as very quiet and shy when he first met her, and at the beginning of the 1993-1994 school year, kids on the bus were picking on her and throwing things in her hair. “By the second day on the bus, I had enough,” he said. “I yelled at the one doing it, and told them if they fucked with her they are fucking with me. After that I sat down next to her and introduced myself, and from that point on we were inseparable. In between classes we always found each other. We hung out during lunch and after school. Everybody thought we were dating, but we never did.”
Jack looked out for Tammy, and when he began skipping school, she wanted to as well. “She tried to go with me a few times, and I wouldn’t let her skip,” he said. “I didn’t want her to go down that path.”
After Tammy was brutally attacked by a classmate and by the assailant's friends at school, Jack “was not happy about it. I had some words with people and ended up being suspended from school for a while.”
Needless to say, he was profoundly distressed when she went missing and was devastated when she was found dead nearly three months later.
“Tammy was the first female I opened up to about everything,” he said. “She was truly my best friend.”
By all accounts, Tammy had overcome her shyness and was well liked—except, of course, by her attacker at Central High School. By the way, this woman is Facebook friends with a Pine Point person who was heard to say on the Putnam High School bus after the murder, “She got what she deserved.”
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In publishing the entirety of what we have of Tammy’s diary in the last post, a reader pointed out that I had left out two pages of her thoughts, but I assumed it was a school assignment because the document name was “Tammy School Notes” and they were written on lined paper instead of diary pages. But maybe they were mislabeled and they really were private musings, because who would detail a pregnancy scare for a teacher?
The second page of “Tammy’s School Notes’ contains her admission that she, her brother, and her sister “keep secrets between each other and from our parents.” This is especially poignant when you consider that she was apparently keeping a whopper of a secret from everyone: an abusive boyfriend at the time she went missing. This revelation was detailed in the last post.
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Tammy evidently didn’t share with Allison anything about a boyfriend who used to hit her, but Susan did write that the last night she snuck out she had told her sister that the boy she was meeting “that he would be angry if she was late,” which corresponds to what Tammy’s 12-year-old friend had said Tammy was worried about if she wasn’t on time. As mentioned in my last post, Tammy told the 12-year-old that if she were late, he would “act out.”
After 29 years, the question remains: who was Tammy supposed to meet on the night of July 21, 1994? Is he the one who killed her? If he didn’t, who did?
46 comments:
Meoff was one of Tammys best friends. We need more stories.
Who is "Meoff" and why hasn't he commented? Why haven't more people commented? Email me at hellsacres@gmail.com. It's time to step forward. You can remain anonymous. I don't name names, as you can see.
So what happened? If this Rick confessed he was going to meet Tammy that night, what was their plan? Did they meet up?
Was does April remember about all this?
Who is this “Sarah” April talked to? Why are there never any details? It’s always something vague, like they didn’t know what to say next.
Wtf……. you found the other Rick and he was across the country? How did I miss this? What else did he have to say?
This abusive boyfriend allegation didn’t come off as a “revelation” per se, you tossed it in that last blog as almost a side note. Someone commented with a counter to your claim, they think you’re talking about a past relationship.
All of these people were talking at one point, why hasn’t anyone shared anything lately?
Meoff is Jacks last name 😁
What’s going on here ladies and gentlemen? Are we supposed to start guessing? There’s any outlet to talk about this young lady and there are very few people communicating. How bizarre.
I can’t wrap my head around all this. Why did the Lynds wait so long to start that memorial page on Facebook? Why didn’t they share any stories about Tammy on that? What is really going on here?
It’s like no one knew her, the family keeps repeating the same stuff over and over. Why are they being so vague?
Hell’s Acres, how did you get involved with all this? Your first blog was written months after Richard Lynds received that letter about Tammy being added to that website March 2012.
I had always wondered about it, and when I googled it in 2012, Bob Ward’s story from Fox 25 News came up. Unfortunately, his story isn’t online anymore.
Hell’s Acres you asked questions back in 2019 when Richard Lynds wrote comments. Why did you wait so long to start posting those findings? Some of these guys you write about were still alive back then, they might’ve been able to help.
Hell’s Acres, there is also a comment from someone claiming to be Tammy’s sister Allison from 2019, she wrote her comment before her father and she’s saying she wants many people to help. It would appear that Mr Lynds pops out after people speak up about Tammy, then they go silent again. Odd indeed
I didn’t revisit the case until this year. Up until then the only new stuff I had seen was on the Lou Rock videos. Yes I wish I had dug into this more a few years ago, but there is still an opportunity to find out what exactly happened.
Something isn’t right here. Why would that news dude Bob Ward keep posting articles on Holly Piirainen and Molly Bish, but delete Tammy’s investigation and never return to her story?
It’s not like the family reached back out, someone did ask why you haven’t revisited this case sept 2019 comment. That was a perfect opportunity for them to express real interest in solving Tammy’s case.
Why do people keep asking for clarification on the night Tammy went missing? I understand people not knowing her part, trying to brain storm and sort out ideas, but being such a traumatic event, everyone in that house should remember what they did like it was yesterday. Why the lack of communication?
Her father said he doesn't even remember her funeral.
Why on gods green earth would he say something like that?
Can any credible sources confirm or disprove anything that’s been said?
If there is one pit, could there be more? That’s a pretty forested area. It would almost serve to have a decoy pit, people would stop looking once they think they found what they’re looking for.
Yes, he said this. I remember very little from my parents’ funerals, graveside services etc. The beginnings, the ends I recall. The rest is a blur from lack of sleep and other stuff. This family is an easy target to bash, so feel free to unload smh.
Who is bashing anyone? maybe things happened that the father was unaware of? Ever think of that? Maybe someone else could speak up, not the person in question or his obedient lackey?
What a load of 💩, he said this??? Give me a break. 🙄 What about all the other important questions about the night his daughter went missing? Wtf 🤬 how does he skip around the most important night of this case.
Regardless of how people feel, what happened between Tammy and her family that last evening is as mysterious as what happened to her, right to before she ended up behind that log.
This is not one of those times where you get to eat your cake and have it too. What’s more important, keeping your secrets or solving this case?
Apparently you can’t have both. Someone should flip a coin. Heads you talk, tails you don’t. 🪙
Can you guys say something better than the evidence is missing?
I think it's amazing that after all these years so many ppl have ensured that the memory of this girl will always be remembered. I didn't have many freinds either wen I was young and living in pine point. Let's all continue to keep her memory alive and make sure she is never forgotten. She can live on forever in our hearts and minds. It's such a trip tho looking back.. I'm thankful my fam and I got out wen we did bc I had no idea the horrors that were present all around our neighborhood back then. I've been in az since 96 and have always longed to move back to my boyhood stomping grounds but still have made it back. My point is how very that it blows my mind to learn of all the monsters lurking among our neighbors UN no ticed.. I was a very independent small kid who was constantly adventuring in and out of all those woods either solo or with buddies but to think how many times I may have came close to dangers unimaginable all around me and never even knew it. I could have so easily become another lonely set of skeletal remains out in the woods jst like so many others. I hope Tammy gets the the closure she deserves by her killer getting exposed someday soon. #justicefortammy
Something isn’t right here. You set up the perfect opportunity for someone anonymous to say they were supposed to meet up with Tammy in the middle of the night and she never showed up. No one has lied for attention. No one has claimed to hear any stories about her sneaking out. The family won’t even give a detailed description of the night she left. It’s almost like she never had any plans to sneak out. Maybe she was trying to Escape?
I know hub caps used to be expensive. Do you think someone could have placed that there to draw attention to her body? What happened to the hubcap after that father and son found it? What other trash was found in that area?
It’s 29 year anniversary of her body being found today. People were talking about her previous years. Why did all the old people get quiet this year?
Can anyone explain how this day unfolded in 1994?
What time was her body found and reported? Officers weren’t at the scene long, so this shouldn’t be hard to figure out. Why wasn’t this guys son in school?
Are there any pictures or video of the crime scene?
I don’t understand why so many people have been quiet lately. There was a group of people who were contributing. Are you gathering answers Hells Acres?
You guys making a video for the next blog? Were you one of the people down on Fox rd today Hells?
Wasn’t me. It was the 29th anniversary today, so I guess somebody’s making a video. Did it look like a big production? How many people?
I only saw 3 people. You could tell they were recording something. Figured it was you guys. Maybe new interested parties?
More attention on this is a very good thing indeed.
Hoping some major news outlet is looking at this. This is the time to get answers .
Hoping some major news network is gonna pick this up 🙏 . Everyone say a prayer to get some closure here . I know this is painful but what’s required is all hands on deck . Everyone’s cooperation .I would like to know who is involved ? Are the police involved? If Spfld PD lost a file the State Cops need to step in!
No news network will pick up this case. People are to well connected. That’s why I was making a new video down on Fox rd. My movie will be called.
Dancing with Death in the Pale Moon Light: the Tammy Lynns story
I will let everyone know what really happened, I will succeed where law enforcement has failed.
So you are intentionally spelling her name wrong to avoid litigation in your movie “project?”
Naw… far more simple explanation. I don’t pay much attention or get easily confused, I really thought it was Lynns for years. It was never in the news and no one ever talks about her. I only found your blog cause it had fox rd and murder in it. I’m such a putz
No worries. Thought you were one of the many people fucking with me (which you actually are) lol. In reality, the people videoing were probably from the city because there’s going to be a Tammy memorial built. Stay tuned here!
Fucking with you? This is a way better end to my story than a lingering question left for all.
We may never know what happened to her, but now we’re going to have a memorial to remember her.
Incorrect about no major new network picking this up ! You should stay tuned !
I can’t believe the comment above . How unfortunate that people see this as an opportunity to make” their movie” . How stupid . You could be helpful or quiet that’s really not at all amusing . I find it rude and disrespectful to her memory as so many of these unnecessary comments are . Come forth with something worth while !
Having any news network with their resources and investigative methods would make a huge difference. There’s a lot here.
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