Kane
03-24-2010, 03:39 PM
I came across an article that mentions the Micki Jo West case. The article is actually about a recent police standoff that occurred at that house where the cops successfully cornered a fugitive. You're probably wonder what it has to do with the 1979 disappearance of Micki Jo West. Well, the answer is this: it was the same house where Marvin Irvin was arrested in 1990! Yes, the same Marvin Irvin who was later arrested and charged in the Micki Jo West case.
Micki Jo West is mentioned near the end of the article, which briefly mentions the fact that UM profiled the case.
http://www.stjoenews.net/news/2010/mar/24/inside-look-standoff/?local
Here are the following excerpts from the article:
A house with a history
When police raided the house at 2606 Olive St. on Monday night, it was familiar to several officers because it has a gruesome history.
Back in 1990, that was where police arrested a 41-year-old truck driver and former police officer named Marvin Irvin, said Capt. Kevin Castle.
In November 1990, St. Joseph police unearthed two shallow graves and found the skeletal remains of two local women, Crystal Simmons and Patricia Rose. The field near Highland, Kan., where the remains were found, had been Mr. Irvin’s boyhood home.
Mr. Irvin was sentenced Oct. 3, 1991, after pleading guilty to killing Ms. Simmons, 33, by striking her with a hammer on Oct. 30, 1990; Ms. Rose, 31, by striking her on Sept. 1, 1990, and Micki Jo West, by beating and stabbing her on Sept. 11, 1979. Ms. West’s body has never been found.
Circuit Judge Edwin Smith ordered that Mr. Irvin serve two life sentences without parole on two first-degree murder charges and a consecutive life sentence on a second-degree murder charge.
As part of a deal to avoid the death penalty, Mr. Irvin confessed to killing Miss West, 19, who had been missing since 1979. Her case became the subject of an “Unsolved Mysteries” television episode.
Micki Jo West is mentioned near the end of the article, which briefly mentions the fact that UM profiled the case.
http://www.stjoenews.net/news/2010/mar/24/inside-look-standoff/?local
Here are the following excerpts from the article:
A house with a history
When police raided the house at 2606 Olive St. on Monday night, it was familiar to several officers because it has a gruesome history.
Back in 1990, that was where police arrested a 41-year-old truck driver and former police officer named Marvin Irvin, said Capt. Kevin Castle.
In November 1990, St. Joseph police unearthed two shallow graves and found the skeletal remains of two local women, Crystal Simmons and Patricia Rose. The field near Highland, Kan., where the remains were found, had been Mr. Irvin’s boyhood home.
Mr. Irvin was sentenced Oct. 3, 1991, after pleading guilty to killing Ms. Simmons, 33, by striking her with a hammer on Oct. 30, 1990; Ms. Rose, 31, by striking her on Sept. 1, 1990, and Micki Jo West, by beating and stabbing her on Sept. 11, 1979. Ms. West’s body has never been found.
Circuit Judge Edwin Smith ordered that Mr. Irvin serve two life sentences without parole on two first-degree murder charges and a consecutive life sentence on a second-degree murder charge.
As part of a deal to avoid the death penalty, Mr. Irvin confessed to killing Miss West, 19, who had been missing since 1979. Her case became the subject of an “Unsolved Mysteries” television episode.