petrina
August 11th, 2008, 12:26 PM
Andy Beckmann, 37, of St. Charles Missouri (a booming suburban parasite of St.Louis) went missing. On July 26 he left his local watering hole, the Baha Rock Club, at 11 pm and has not been seen alive since.
He did call his girlfriend 90 minutes later to tell her he was headed to downtown St. Louis in his brown Chevy Blazer and that he could see the Gateway Arch. She called him again at 3 am and the call went straight to voicemail, though police later investigated and this call pinged an East St. Louis cell tower (a crumbling suburban parasite of St. Louis).
Andy’s family and friends have been worried sick and have been scouring the brush around the countless industrial zones and dilapidated neighborhoods that make up the area surrounding where they believe he was last. They say he liked to frequent an establishment called “Pop’s”, where you can get a drink, flirt with a scank, and listen to a Heavy Metal cover band at almost any time of day.
They offered a $5,000 reward for information. Nothing. The St. Charles police couldn’t even locate the Blazer – which is usually the first thing you find in such a case.
Cut to August 9 at the North End Missionary Baptist Church in East St. Louis where church members are gathered to clean the grounds of their sanctuary. It’s hot, and they smell a foul smell coming from a brushy area in the left corner of the church property.
Assuming it was a dead animal, a few congregants amble over to investigate the smell and get the nasty business of dead animal removal over with so they can get to the promised lunch and fellowship. Imagine their surprise when they found a human body instead. Yes you guessed it, Andy Bethmann was lost but now he is found.
Oh yeah, did I mention he was dismembered?
Police are not yet releasing an official cause of death or a motive, and are still looking for his Blazer. They are looking at ties to Andy’s murder and other crimes in the Goose Hill neighborhood of East St. Louis. Yes, most crimes in this area are related to drugs.
The debate on the St. Louis news boards is – did he go to Pop’s and get carjacked? Or was he looking for drugs. The police do say that he has acquaintances that live in the neighborhood where he was found and he frequented that area. The site where his dismembered body was dumped is 4.75 miles, or 9 minutes away from Pop’s.
Either is plausible. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. Either way, it ain’t right.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stcharles/story/897D0AB877E0D2468625749F000FF397?OpenDocument
you have to watch the video to hear that he was dismembered. It is not in print anywhere I found.
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=151831&provider=top
He did call his girlfriend 90 minutes later to tell her he was headed to downtown St. Louis in his brown Chevy Blazer and that he could see the Gateway Arch. She called him again at 3 am and the call went straight to voicemail, though police later investigated and this call pinged an East St. Louis cell tower (a crumbling suburban parasite of St. Louis).
Andy’s family and friends have been worried sick and have been scouring the brush around the countless industrial zones and dilapidated neighborhoods that make up the area surrounding where they believe he was last. They say he liked to frequent an establishment called “Pop’s”, where you can get a drink, flirt with a scank, and listen to a Heavy Metal cover band at almost any time of day.
They offered a $5,000 reward for information. Nothing. The St. Charles police couldn’t even locate the Blazer – which is usually the first thing you find in such a case.
Cut to August 9 at the North End Missionary Baptist Church in East St. Louis where church members are gathered to clean the grounds of their sanctuary. It’s hot, and they smell a foul smell coming from a brushy area in the left corner of the church property.
Assuming it was a dead animal, a few congregants amble over to investigate the smell and get the nasty business of dead animal removal over with so they can get to the promised lunch and fellowship. Imagine their surprise when they found a human body instead. Yes you guessed it, Andy Bethmann was lost but now he is found.
Oh yeah, did I mention he was dismembered?
Police are not yet releasing an official cause of death or a motive, and are still looking for his Blazer. They are looking at ties to Andy’s murder and other crimes in the Goose Hill neighborhood of East St. Louis. Yes, most crimes in this area are related to drugs.
The debate on the St. Louis news boards is – did he go to Pop’s and get carjacked? Or was he looking for drugs. The police do say that he has acquaintances that live in the neighborhood where he was found and he frequented that area. The site where his dismembered body was dumped is 4.75 miles, or 9 minutes away from Pop’s.
Either is plausible. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. Either way, it ain’t right.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stcharles/story/897D0AB877E0D2468625749F000FF397?OpenDocument
you have to watch the video to hear that he was dismembered. It is not in print anywhere I found.
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=151831&provider=top