Mystery Continues to Cloud Olenchuk Case by Ken Buckley, Bangor Daily News, 08 Sep 1970

Mystery Continues To Cloud Olenchuk Case BY KEN BUCKLEY i concerned an autopsy failed to. Riverhurst estate was located1 KENNEBUNK The Mary! turn UP aQy evidence indicating1' or that it held a large barn. Catherine Olenchuk disap-' 11,31 the child had been sexually The bam is obscured from pearance and murder case was molested. A short piece of rope view by anyone approaching a month-old Monday with the cas found tied tightly around, from Kennebunk un il Rou e 9 is her neck and her death was reached. In a car travelling at 13-year olds, , , a mystery as attributed to strangulation. identity of the slayer as much , ,. D. . , the motive I Access to .the Riverhurst es- Other than checking a pile of ate on Lower BnwroStreet at leads into the strangling of the Kennebunk is blocked by a large cable across the driveway secured by a padlock. But Lt. Bruton not'd that if the girl had been in a car the driver could the posted speed for the area and taking into consideration legislate winding roads the barn would hardly be noticed as its sits close to a quarter of a mile Ho-off the road between trees close to the Mousam River. But some people knew the daughter of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Peter Olenchuk of Ogunquit and Joliet, 111., State Police Lt. Charles R. Bruton said there , was nothing new in the case. have skirted the barrier quite I estate was there and apparently The girl, who disappeared easily. . I vacant. Earlier in the summer Aug. 9 near her summer home! If the girl had been picked hpj months campers pitched their at Ogunquit, was found Aug. 22, 1 Aug. 9 by a man in a maroonf tents near the barn and another 14 -days later, strangled in a!car at Ogunquit, the shortest! building only to be driven off, deserted bam at Kennebunk' route to the barn would have presumably by the caretaker i pieht miles from home been either north on Route 1 The caretakers reportedly Possible motives in the childs' into Kennebunk turning right on checked the estate daily. During death are that she was abducted; Brown Street.. Or, the abductor in protest over ner father's, could have taken an earlier connection with the dumping of! right onto Route 9 and then nerve gas off the Florida coast. turned left on Lower Brown Or that she was the victim of a Street. ... . sex maniac. I If either route had been used But even these motives have the evening of her abduction, it been clouded to some degree by 's doubtful that a person un-a variety of missing links. familiar with the territory Brig. Gen. Olenchuk, who would have known where the commands a n ammunition supply dump at Joliet, 111., supervised the shipment of gas across country. But the family and police did not receive any threatening phone calls or ran-om notes during the operation. As far as the sex angle is anMensTveaTr and ground search for the girl the estate expert-came under close scrutiny. But it wasnt until Aug. 22 that, caretakers detected a strong odor eminating from the barn and made the discovery, leaving detectives with another mys-, tery: How long had she been there?

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Mystery Continues to Cloud Olenchuk Case by Ken Buckley, Bangor Daily News, 08 Sep 1970

Mystery Continues to Cloud Olenchuk Case by Ken Buckley, Bangor Daily News, 08 Sep 1970

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