Name List For Suspected Cannibal May Grow
Jan. 3 -- Police say the man accused of killing and cannibalizing a missing 10-year-old Montana boy may have killed at least two dozen more people in his native Massachusetts, based on a list uncovered by investigators.
Police say they are trying to pinpoint the whereabouts of 27 people who are on a list, recently found in suspect Nathaniel Bar-Jonah’s Montana home. Labeled “Lake Webster” — where Bar-Jonah grew up as a child — the list includes, among others, the names of three Massachusetts boys Bar-Jonah was convicted of assaulting between 1975 and 1977. According to the lead investigator on the case, Great Falls police Sgt. John Cameron, the majority of the people on the list are boys. The list includes the people’s ages, which range from 5 to 17.
Cameron said investigators are focusing on Webster, Mass., in their search, but they also believe some of the people may have lived in parts of Pennsylvania. So far, he said, in addition to the three Massachusetts males Bar-Jonah was previously convicted of assaulting, detectives have found three people on the list. But he stressed that police are trying to locate the others and that they should not be referred to as victims.
“There is a list with names, and we’re trying to find out where they are,” Cameron said. “We’re being careful not to call them victims yet because we’re trying to locate their whereabouts. But the list could mean something.”
Recipe of a Gruesome Slaying
Bar-Jonah, 43, was charged last month with kidnapping and murder in the 1996 disappearance of Zachary Ramsay. The child disappeared on February 6, 1996, apparently on his way to school. Some witnesses have told police they saw Bar-Jonah near Ramsay or at least standing along the normal route the child walked to school.
Ramsay never showed up at school that morning. Police were stumped by his case until Bar-Jonah was arrested in Dec. 1999 for allegedly impersonating a police officer while walking by an elementary school. [In his previous assaults in Massachusetts, Bar-Jonah had dressed as a police officer to lure boys into his car.] On the day of his arrest, police searched his home and found 28 boxes of potential evidence that they say appear to link him to Ramsay’s disappearance.
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