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I knew a Tattoo Artist named Grimshaw back in 1969. I went to Milton Zeis - The Zeis School of Tattooing, in 1970. Grimshaw Tattoo Machines were Top-Shelf! I owned 4 Of Them. He died about same time as Percy Watters, they had tattooed in WW1 & WW2, I learned in 1970 to Tattoo in the style of 19 https://thezeisstudio.com › milton-zeis milton zeis tattoo from thezeisstudio.com Milton was very open with his knowledge of tattooing by sharing tips and training others how to tattoo. “The Zeis School of Tattooing” included course work ... The Zeis Studio | Vintage Tattoo Memorabilia https://thezeisstudio.com Milton Zeis was one of the first to have a tattoo supply shop in his region and taught many about the craft of tattooing. TATTOO ~OLD SCHOOL~JOHNNY Classic Flipcard Magazine Mosaic Sidebar Snapshot Timeslide Aug 12 John Bernays · Baylor University GRAVE ROBBERS - This is getting to be big business. Some months ago there was a 'teaser' on television for a show featuring well-known artifact dealer Craig Gottlieb which showed him and his group actually digging up artifacts AND bones from fallen German soldiers at battlefields of the Eastern Front. We called him and asked what the hell he was thinking! He told us that he and his group were only recovering the remains to prevent the local grave robbers from desecrating the graves. HUH! We asked him to explain the difference between local grave robbers and his group. He said that he would be back to us in a few days with his explanation. That was more than six months ago - think maybe he forgot? Or maybe his explanation just would not make sense? Anyone's comments on this topic are welcome. Like · Reply · 31 mins Adam Grant I'd buy it. It's amazing... Like · Reply · Dec 27, 2014 2:19pm Ian Dombrowski · Owner at Self-Employed I don't see anything wrong with what this guy is doing. If people want to buy this stuff, why shouldn't he sell it? People will always be fascinated by evil and the artifacts of history that represent it. Like · Reply · 1 · Mar 31, 2014 3:39pm Mike Kimball · Supervisor at Dunn-Edwards Paints I am all for him making money off this. Museums do it all the time Like · Reply · 1 · Mar 30, 2014 3:45pm Lance Woo Museums do not buy nor sell any items so what you said is false they wont even give you a figure on your item because they are not allowed to. Like · Reply · May 22, 2014 1:24am John Bernays · Baylor University Lance Woo Give us a Break. Phony Baloney! Go to the Tax Records of a Museum, Their Books are Public Record. They have Expenditures listed for "procurements." This means Buying Artifacts. Do you "Believe" they get all these Valuable Museum Pieces for Free? Must be a California Public School Education that creates Idiots...thank God I went through school in Texas. Your logical Fallacies are Legion; Jesus said that! Like · Reply · 26 mins Wayne Anthony · Works at Life Is Getting Better Every Day What do collectors actually do with these items ? Wear them ? Worship them ? Put them in glass case's to show proudly to everyone ? Just what do you do with this stuff ? I know I wouldn't ever want to touch any of it .... I know what their history was. I don't need any of their things to remind me of it. Like · Reply · Mar 29, 2014 10:31pm Tyler Perdew Well, me being a collector of German WW2 items. I can tell you it's not about racism or anything like that. It's not just an item to us, it's a story. When I hold my helmets, medals, or uniforms I think to myself " Who wore this? Did they live or die in the war? Was he young or was he old? " it's more than items. We display them in cases to preserve them. We want to preserve history for the future so the children of the future will know of the evils in people. Like · Reply · May 24, 2014 7:36pm John Bernays · Baylor University Tyler Perdew Tell the Truth, they are a Great Investment, They get Great Returns. I worked for a Tattoo Artist in 1971-75 in Lake Geneva, he collected Civil War Antiquities, and in Iowa he was Murdered, Dismembered, and Body Parts spread over 5 States. His head was found in Karney. MO. truck stop, in a Bucket filled with Cement. Serious Murder, for Serious Valuables- Antiques. A notorious Bellevue, Iowa, murder case attracted the attention of another national television network. A production team from "Extreme Forensics," which airs on the Investigation Discovery Network, is in Dubuque and Be...See More Like · Reply · 20 mins NEWS April 18, 2009 May case in spotlight again A notorious Bellevue, Iowa, murder case attracted the attention of another national television network. A production team from "Extreme Forensics," which airs on the Investigation Discovery Network, is in Dubuque and Bellevue this weekend taping an episode about Greg May's gruesome murder in 2001. Friday, the New York-based team taped interviews with Jackson County and state prosecutors and with May's son, Don, who lives in Santa Monica, Calif., and has been actively involved in every aspect of his father's case. The circumstances surrounding Greg May's murder are the stuff of lurid fiction -- a friendship gone sour, a chain saw bought to dismember a body, body parts scattered in a river and along a highway, the victim's head discovered in a bucket of cement, a killer and his girlfriend escaping to the West with the victim's valuable Civil War antiques and turning on each other when cornered. Greg May, 55, shared a house on Bellevue's Riverview Street in 2001 with Doug "Moose" DeBruin and his girlfriend, Julie Ann Miller. In January 2001, DeBruin was convicted of first-degree murder in April 2005 after prosecutors convinced a jury that he killed May one night in the home's kitchen and that he and Miller cut up May's body and scattered the parts. His skull was found at a Kearney, Neb., truck stop a few months later, but was not identified until 2005 when a forensic artist reconstructed the skull. DeBruin is serving his life sentence at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison. Miller, who was sentenced for perjury and theft, is serving in a federal prison in Waseca, Minn. She will be eligible for release in February 2011. "We look for cases where forensics are integral to solving the case. We show the intersection of high-level detective work and cutting-edge forensics and this case has both," said Josh Koffman, a producer with Hoff Productions. Besides scenes in Dubuque and Bellevue, the team is taping in Des Moines, Kearney, Philadelphia and at a New York-area location. In a tiny hotel room Friday, Koffman interviewed Don May on-camera for nearly three hours. Under hot lights and hooked up to microphones, May talked about the case from his father's disappearance and his family's frantic efforts to find him, to the murder trial and his current efforts to see Miller also tried for murder. About DeBruin's life sentence for the murder, May said, "At first I wished Iowa had the death penalty, but now I see that jail is a prolonged living hell and I hope he suffers long and hard." May plans to continue putting pressure on state and Jackson County prosecutors to re-examine Miller's situation. "This was a completely insane, violent crime, so why did she get just a few years for minor crimes and not for murder? This was a team murder and there is as much evidence against her as against him," May said to the camera. Koffman analyzed the tremendous current public interest in forensic science. "It broke the pop culture barrier. It's now a cool technology to be used for purposes of good and the pursuit of justice," he said. CBS network's "48 Hours" aired an episode about the case in January 2006. BACK TO NEWS PAGE The Head in the Bucket: The Murder of Gregory May On August 27, 2001, sitting beneath a trailer at the Kearney Truck Plaza in Kearney, Missouri, a head was discovered encased in hardened concrete by the Plaza’s owner, Steven Rhodes. As the investigation continued a fellow collector notified Police Chief, Lynn Schwager that pieces from May’s civil war collection were coming up for auction at the Rock Island Auction Company in Moline, Illinois. Armed with a list of the stolen items Police Chief, Lynn Schwager and Special Agent Rick Rahn notified Patrick Frances Hogan, the owner of the auction house, that the items were stolen. Schwager arrived with a search warrant to seize the items. The seller of the items was Mary Klar. She said the items were her uncle's. Whenever the auction house tried to contact Mary Klar they always got Julie Johnson who said she was handling the auction for her mother. Julie Johnson in reality was Julie Miller and Mary Klar was her mother. Posted 12th August 2015 by BOXCAR_HOBO_A#1 0 Add a comment Mar 25 Testimony in Greg's Case What a Awful thing the Entire Life of a Very Good Friend & Teacher, Greg & Shelia were Friends to My & Angie, He Taught me how to Tattoo Fast...He was called "Fast Greg" but he liked "Sailor Greg" He was Enamored with JAPANESE TATTOOING, & put a couple of GREAT Back Arm Japaneese Tattoos on me, Chainsaw Murder Vivid Testimony In Bellevue Chainsaw Murder Case Maquoketa, Iowa — The former girlfriend of a man charged with killing antiques dealer Gregory May testified today in vivid detail how May was strangled and then dismembered with a chain saw. Douglas DeBruin, 55, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, is charged with first-degree murder and theft in May’s death at his home in Bellevue. May, DeBruin and Julie Miller, DeBruin’s girlfriend at the time, lived together for a few months in late 2000 and early 2001. May was reported missing in January 2001. Miller, 45, said May was behind her, looking at a tattoo on her back. She heard a noise and turned around to see DeBruin strangling May with a nylon cord. She ran downstairs. Later, she helped DeBruin carry May’s body to the washing machine, where DeBruin cut up the body with a chain saw and knife. ‘‘He made me stay there,’’ she said. ‘‘I don’t recall the specifics. I didn’t use the chain saw. He made me use the knife.’’ She said May’s body parts were put in plastic garbage bags. His torso was tossed over the Sabula-Savanna Bridge. His legs and arms were dumped along the river north of Bellevue. His head was later put in a bucket with cement and water. May’s children and ex-wife sat in the front row of the courtroom and cried as Miller spoke. DeBruin looked at Miller a few times, but otherwise showed no emotion. Miller is serving a three-year sentence in a federal prison in Pekin, Illinois, for transporting stolen property across state lines. After May was killed, Miller said she and DeBruin loaded a truck with May’s collection of Civil War memorabilia, which they sold off as they traveled across the country. The two were arrested in April 2001 in Flagstaff, Arizona. __________________ Posted 25th March 2014 by BOXCAR_HOBO_A#1 0 Add a comment Mar 25 Greg May ,Tattoo Artist Missing Man FROM BELLEVUE, IOWA Was Barely Missed Missing Man Was Barely Missed THE NATION | DISPATCH FROM BELLEVUE, IOWA Mystery: Because he was a newcomer, Greg May's disappearance has stirred little worry in a town of 2,350. July 17, 2001|STEPHANIE SIMON | TIMES STAFF WRITER BELLEVUE, Iowa — This is the small-town America of cliche. Folks leave their cars running when they pop into the drugstore. The city manager makes house calls to fix jammed VCRs. And when locals give directions, it sounds something like this: Turn right where Josie's dad used to live and then go on past the house that Noreen just sold and turn left where Paul's brother used to stay. It's a town, in short, that feels like one big family. So you would think a possible murder mystery unfolding in its midst would jolt Bellevue's very soul. It hasn't. In fact, few residents have taken much note--even though the case has twists aplenty. The reason: The alleged victim was a newcomer. And most folks here can't get all that riled up about his disappearance. That indifference reflects a tension facing small towns across the heartland: With young adults leaving for bigger opportunities, towns are aging and fading fast. In order to survive, they need to grow--and that means attracting outsiders. And outsiders, of course, change the everyone-knows-everyone, no-need-to-lock-the-doors atmosphere many communities pride themselves on. In Bellevue, the outsiders are refugees from cities like Chicago, drawn to the slower pace and quiet beauty of this town of 2,350. In other rural areas, the newcomers are immigrants attracted to factory or meatpacking jobs. But whoever they are, explains Iowa State University sociologist Paul Lasley, their very appearance raises the dilemma: "We want to grow, but we don't want to change." That's just how many here feel. Their ambivalence is reflected in their response to the puzzling case of Greg May, who vanished from Bellevue last winter, a few months before his 56th birthday. May was an intriguing man who "moved between two worlds," said his close friend Christine Zraick, who runs a luxury bed and breakfast here. May, 6 feet tall and distinguished-looking, was conservative in his politics and polite in his manner. He was an antiques dealer with an excellent eye for Civil War artifacts. He was also a tattoo artist. Friends said he spent much of his time prowling antique stores and flea markets for 19th century treasures, stashing his finds in a suitcase so battered that no one would suspect it held a decent shirt, much less a $30,000 Civil War firearm. He earned the money for such purchases by inking tattoos in a thick-with-incense parlor decorated floor to ceiling with naked women, snakes and other sample artwork. A few months after May disappeared, some of his prized antiques began to pop up in odd places. Several Confederate swords and Civil War-era uniforms, valued at $70,000-plus, showed up in an auction house catalog in Illinois. Then two of May's antique documents--letters written to a member of the Jesse James gang--were mailed as donations to Missouri museums. They were accompanied by a handwritten note signed "Greg May." The museum directors accepted the gifts with glee. Yet friends say May would never have donated such cherished items. They suspect a ruse. Bellevue police have subpoenaed the antiques as evidence. Investigators won't call the case a homicide but say they have "at least some possible evidence" of foul play. Yet some locals have questioned whether the case is even worth pursuing. May had lived here only a matter of months. Few in Bellevue knew him even to exchange small talk. If they had heard of him at all, it was in the gossip that whipped through town when May inquired about opening a tattoo parlor--a proposal that was quickly shot down as not in keeping with Bellevue's clean-cut image. "It sounds sort of mean, but he wasn't considered one of us," City Administrator Loras Herrig said. So when the police began to ring up unprecedented expenses to probe May's fate--including out-of-state travel and considerable overtime--Herrig said he began to hear some residents grumble. But after informal consultation, City Council members agreed to press ahead with an all-out investigation. They were swayed in part by pleas from May's ex-wife, who lives in Southern California, and her two grown children. And in part by their innate sense that justice needs serving, even for a Chicago transplant. "Whether we know him or not, he's our neighbor," Mayor Virgil Murray explained. Perched on a bluff above the Mississippi River, Bellevue has attracted many a new neighbor in recent years, mostly big-city burnouts like May. There's great hunting and fishing, the view is spectacular and you can buy a four-bedroom home on the river for $160,000. "We came here as a haven," said Larry Bay, 60, a retired truck driver from Chicago. After three years here with his wife, Carol, he still marvels that the neighbors are so friendly. He's never heard so many "good mornings." Like the Bays, many urban refugees say they feel welcome here--but never entirely embraced. "Bellevue is a town made up of what I call the us-es and the thems. . . . [But] we love it out here so much, we wouldn't give it up for the world," said Mike Cyze, 52, a writer from Chicago who brought his family here a decade ago. The tensions between the newcomers and the old guard are mostly minor matters. An out-of-towner might suggest moving junker cars from the alley only to be told to lay off, those are Bob's cars and he doesn't have the money to take care of them. Longtime locals complain that some newcomers still act as if they're in an anonymous big city: They play their music too loud or let their dogs run loose or turn to City Hall to resolve a property line dispute instead of negotiating over homemade rhubarb pie. Small stuff. But May might well have felt more a misfit than most. With his passions for tattooing and expensive antiques, May stood out. Especially when he strolled Riverview Drive with his friend Douglas DeBruin, a burly ex-con tattooed from arms to thighs who goes by "Moose." May and DeBruin shared a rental house and found jobs in a tattoo parlor across the river in Illinois. They would shoot pool in one of Bellevue's two bars at night and would swing by the Frontier Cafe in the morning for scrambled eggs and sausage patties. Waitresses remember May as a quiet guy, friendly but reserved. DeBruin was the boisterous one, always cracking jokes. They stayed pretty much to themselves. Then sometime last fall, Moose's girlfriend, Julie Johnson, came to town and moved in with them. Waitresses noticed a change in Moose: He would sit alone in a corner with Johnson, looking somber and quiet. A few months after Johnson arrived, Moose was seen loading May's antiques into a yellow van. He told their landlord he and May were breaking their lease and leaving town. Then he and Johnson drove off. May apparently already had vanished. Police say "apparently" because they're not sure when he disappeared. He used to travel the country seeking out Civil War treasures. Plus, he had told friends he was considering moving to Florida; he was tired of the Midwest's bitter winters and fed up with the insularity of Bellevue. So, for a time, no one worried when he didn't show up around town. But when his ex-wife couldn't reach him for weeks on end, she called police. By the end of February, the hunt was on. Detectives got their first--and so far only--break when Johnson allegedly put several dozen items from May's collection up for sale in an Illinois auction. They tracked her to Arizona and arrested her there, charging her with theft. She has pleaded not guilty and is in jail awaiting trial. Moose, meanwhile, was arrested for violating his parole. He is in a Wisconsin prison. But if either has disclosed any information about May, police will not let on. All they will say is that they have not charged anyone with homicide. And that they are still looking for May, alive or dead. Posted 25th March 2014 by BOXCAR_HOBO_A#1 0 Add a comment May 28 PIX shows GREG MAY tattoos ca: 1973, Jan. milt zeisPhotobucketPhotobucketPhotobucketPhotobucketPhotobucket Posted 28th May 2012 by BOXCAR_HOBO_A#1 0 Add a comment May 3 OKLAHOMA & ARKANSAS, TRAVELLING CARNY, CHICAGO & MILWAUKEE “TATTOO JOHNNY” from 1969!”TRAIN at ROCKFORD SCHOOL OF TATTOOING, MILT ZEIS & PROF. PERCY WATERS: WORKED with "MAC” Buddy MacFall, 600 West Belmont, CHICAGO,"TATS"-THOMAS, GREG MAY, CHICAGO ED PROCHASZKA, Lake Geneva, WI, OWNED SHOP on PARK AVENUE,HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, ARKANSAS (Just 5 Blocks From BILL CLINTON'S HOME at 1011 PARK AVE.) (NOW OWNED by REDBEARD) when ELVIS DIED! OFFICAL TAT-2-R-Tist of the OUTLAWS, GIPSYS, ROAD BARONS, and “RED & WHITE” in 1969-1984, RETIRED from TATTOOING in 1986, after being BURGLARIZED by SPEED FREAKS sent by Lyle Tuttle Tattooing , Old School, Crippled, self employeed, PROUD and OPIONATED. Image and video hosting by TinyPic Posted 3rd May 2012 by BOXCAR_HOBO_A#1 0 Add a comment May 3 TATTOOS on the ROAD Image and video hosting by TinyPic Image and video hosting by TinyPicImage and video hosting by TinyPic Posted 3rd May 2011 by BOXCAR_HOBO_A#1 0 Add a comment May 3 The MURDER of a TATTOO ARTIST The Murder of Gregory May to Dr. Halbert Fillinger, MD, VSM By Frank Bender and Paul Plevakas By Paul Plevakas On August 27, 2001, sitting beneath a trailer at the Kearney Truck Plaza in Kearney, Missouri, a head was discovered encased in hardened concrete by the Plaza’s owner, Steven Rhodes. The police were notified and an autopsy was performed on the head. The medical examiner had hopes that the concrete retained the facial features of the victim. Upon careful removal of the concrete, the medical examiner was disappointed to find out that a hat had been placed over the head before the concrete was poured. This left no recognizable impression in the concrete. The Kearney Police department posted information about the head on their website in hope of identifying the victim. The investigators knew the head was that of Commissioner Wiliam Fleisher, VSM and Mrs. Maggie Fillinger a 40-60 year old man with teeth in good condition and Over one hundred Vidocq Society members along extensive dental work. with their family and friends attended the 2006 annual Continued on Page 4 Winter 2007 The Head in the Bucket: The Murder of Gregory May answering machine picked up. Buman returned from In January, 2001, Don May had not been able to the Frontier Restaurant and heard the sound that contact his father Gregory May. Gregory did not reply "reminded her of drawers banging." She then went to to his son’s telephone calls. It was customary for May the property manager, George Volrath, and asked him to call his son several times a month. Calls to friends of to let her in the house. He declined because she did not his fathers did lead to any information on his father's live at the residence. She called the following Sunday whereabouts. Gregory May had not called his daughter and Julie Miller answered, telling her that Greg May or ex-wife Sheila, as was customary. had gone to Chicago. The following Wednesday, Buman After three weeks of fruitless efforts to learn of their returned to Bellevue and found the house empty the father’s whereabouts Don and his sister Shannon furniture and civil war memorabilia were gone. She traveled to Bellevue, Iowa, to file a missing persons never heard from Greg May again. report with the Bellevue Police Department. On March 1, 2001, Rick Rahn, special agent for the Gregory May, 55 lived in Bellevue, Iowa. He was a Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) was collector of civil war memorabilia and Indian artifacts called into the investigation by the Bellevue police and a tattoo artist. He was divorced with a son and Chief, Lynn Schwager. The investigators found Greg daughter. In January 2001 Gregory May rented his May’s 1996 red Chevrolet Blazer at an impound lot in basement to his best friend of 30 years Douglas DeBruin Aurora, Illinois. It was turned over to criminalists at the and his girlfriend Julie Miller. DCI for analysis. Gregory and Sheila May were married in Kenosha, As the investigation continued a fellow collector Wisconsin, November 1965. They separated in 1976 and notified Police Chief, Lynn Schwager that pieces from were divorced in 1978. The divorce was amicable; there May’s civil war collection were coming up for auction was no custody battle over their two children or struggle at the Rock Island Auction Company in Moline, Illinois. over property. Gregory stayed in touch with his ex-wife Armed with a list of the stolen items Police Chief, Lynn by telephone and would visit her on holidays. Sheila Schwager and Special Agent Rick Rahn notified Patrick last saw Gregory on Christmas 1999. That is when he Frances Hogan, the owner of the auction house, that the told her he had moved to Bellevue. items were stolen. Schwager arrived with a search A police investigation found that Douglas DeBruin warrant to seize the items. and his girlfriend Julie Miller were the last people to The seller of the items was Mary Klar. She said the see Gregory May. DeBruin and Miller were seen packing items were her uncle's. Whenever the auction house tried May’s civil war memorabilia collection into a used Ford to contact Mary Klar they always got Julie Johnson who F750 Ryder truck Debruin had purchased. They had also said she was handling the auction for her mother. Julie gave away some of May’s furniture to a Bellevue Johnson in reality was Julie Miller and Mary Klar was resident, Jackie Cram. her mother. Investigators spoke with Jan Buman who had been Debruin and Miller were arrested in Flagstaff, dating Gregory May since July 2000. She knew Douglas Arizona in April 2001 on outstanding warrants. Debruin DeBruin and his girlfriend Julie Miller as May’s friends. was still driving the Ryder truck. Investigators searched The night of May’s murder, Buman was suppose to the vehicle for evidence and found a weigh station ticket meet May at his house at 8 p.m. She went to the back that put them in close proximity to Kearney, Missouri door and rang the doorbell, then tried the door with no where the head was found. reply. She peered through the window and through a Evidence against Debruin and Miller mounted. space below the shade she was able to see the lower DeBruin was charged with first-degree murder and first- half of Greg May sitting in a kitchen chair motionless degree theft. Miller was charged with transporting stolen and Julie Miller wiping something off the floor. She property across state lines. went to the Frontier restaurant and called the house. The The Vidocq Society Journal Winter 2007 Page 5 The Head in the Bucket: The Murder of Gregory May During DeBruin’s trial Miller testified for the prosecution that DeBruin had strangled May with a yellow nylon rope on January 11, 2001. Calmly she recalled the murder and subsequent dismemberment of May: After he was killed, May’s body was carried to the basement. The throat was cut draining the blood into the laundry tub. May’s body was then cut up with a knife and electric chainsaw. The body parts were wrapped in plastic. The torso was weighted down and thrown off the Savanna-Sabula Bridge in Illinois. The other body parts were scattered north of Bellevue along Highway 52. The head was placed in a five-gallon bucket. DeBruin covered the head with his knit cap and poured cement into the bucket and inserted a blue Frank Bender's Bust Photo of Gregory May reflector in the cement. Miller admitted participating in the dismemberment using a knife she would later discard with the body parts. DeBruin testified in his own defense claiming that Continued from page 1 Miller had killed May. His memory of the dismember- Vidocq Society Annual Dinner Dedicated ment was “gray” and he could not recall the details of to Dr. Halbert Fillinger, MD, VSM what took place. After deliberating for two hours and 15 minutes the as the Montgomery County Coroner working there since jury returned a verdict of guilty in the murder of Gregory 1992. He was an assistant professor at Temple University May. DeBruin was convicted of first-degree murder and teaching criminalistics. first-degree theft. Miller is serving a three-year sentence During the presentation colleagues reminisced of in federal prison for transporting stolen property across his fortitude and bearing in standing up to attorneys who state lines. attempted to discredit him during his testimony as an The identity of the skull found at Kearney Truck expert witness. The opportunities he provided, giving Plaza, in Kearney, Missouri remained a mystery. The Frank Bender his first chance to create a forensic tie between the murder of Gregory May and the skull sculpture and the freedom for which he shared his was not made until four years after his murder. Famed knowledge in forensic pathology. forensic sculptor Frank Bender of Philadelphia, The memory of Dr. Halbert Fillinger will remain Pennsylvania was asked to create a likeness from the with us all, for those he has worked with, those he has skull in the hopes of identifying the victim. The bust taught, and for those who have not met but know of his that Bender created was placed on the Doe Network greatness through the memories of those he has touched. website. The Doe network is an organization of volunteers dedicated to helping law enforcement connect missing persons with John/Jane cases. A volunteer from the organization helped connect Frank “veritas EST veritas” Bender’s sculpture with a photograph of Gregory May. The identity was confirmed through a comparison of truth IS truth dental records. Posted 3rd May 2011 by BOXCAR_HOBO_A#1 0 Add a comment May 3 MURDERED TATTOO ARY=TIST The Murder of Gregory May to Dr. Halbert Fillinger, MD, VSM By Frank Bender and Paul Plevakas By Paul Plevakas On August 27, 2001, sitting beneath a trailer at the Kearney Truck Plaza in Kearney, Missouri, a head was discovered encased in hardened concrete by the Plaza’s owner, Steven Rhodes. The police were notified and an autopsy was performed on the head. The medical examiner had hopes that the concrete retained the facial features of the victim. Upon careful removal of the concrete, the medical examiner was disappointed to find out that a hat had been placed over the head before the concrete was poured. This left no recognizable impression in the concrete. The Kearney Police department posted information about the head on their website in hope of identifying the victim. The investigators knew the head was that of Commissioner Wiliam Fleisher, VSM and Mrs. Maggie Fillinger a 40-60 year old man with teeth in good condition and Over one hundred Vidocq Society members along extensive dental work. with their family and friends attended the 2006 annual Continued on The Head in the Bucket: The Murder of Gregory May answering machine picked up. Buman returned from In January, 2001, Don May had not been able to the Frontier Restaurant and heard the sound that contact his father Gregory May. Gregory did not reply "reminded her of drawers banging." She then went to to his son’s telephone calls. It was customary for May the property manager, George Volrath, and asked him to call his son several times a month. Calls to friends of to let her in the house. He declined because she did not his fathers did lead to any information on his father's live at the residence. She called the following Sunday whereabouts. Gregory May had not called his daughter and Julie Miller answered, telling her that Greg May or ex-wife Sheila, as was customary. had gone to Chicago. The following Wednesday, Buman After three weeks of fruitless efforts to learn of their returned to Bellevue and found the house empty the father’s whereabouts Don and his sister Shannon furniture and civil war memorabilia were gone. She traveled to Bellevue, Iowa, to file a missing persons never heard from Greg May again. report with the Bellevue Police Department. On March 1, 2001, Rick Rahn, special agent for the Gregory May, 55 lived in Bellevue, Iowa. He was a Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) was collector of civil war memorabilia and Indian artifacts called into the investigation by the Bellevue police and a tattoo artist. He was divorced with a son and Chief, Lynn Schwager. The investigators found Greg daughter. In January 2001 Gregory May rented his May’s 1996 red Chevrolet Blazer at an impound lot in basement to his best friend of 30 years Douglas DeBruin Aurora, Illinois. It was turned over to criminalists at the and his girlfriend Julie Miller. DCI for analysis. Gregory and Sheila May were married in Kenosha, As the investigation continued a fellow collector Wisconsin, November 1965. They separated in 1976 and notified Police Chief, Lynn Schwager that pieces from were divorced in 1978. The divorce was amicable; there May’s civil war collection were coming up for auction was no custody battle over their two children or struggle at the Rock Island Auction Company in Moline, Illinois. over property. Gregory stayed in touch with his ex-wife Armed with a list of the stolen items Police Chief, Lynn by telephone and would visit her on holidays. Sheila Schwager and Special Agent Rick Rahn notified Patrick last saw Gregory on Christmas 1999. That is when he Frances Hogan, the owner of the auction house, that the told her he had moved to Bellevue. items were stolen. Schwager arrived with a search A police investigation found that Douglas DeBruin warrant to seize the items. and his girlfriend Julie Miller were the last people to The seller of the items was Mary Klar. She said the see Gregory May. DeBruin and Miller were seen packing items were her uncle's. Whenever the auction house tried May’s civil war memorabilia collection into a used Ford to contact Mary Klar they always got Julie Johnson who F750 Ryder truck Debruin had purchased. They had also said she was handling the auction for her mother. Julie gave away some of May’s furniture to a Bellevue Johnson in reality was Julie Miller and Mary Klar was resident, Jackie Cram. her mother. Investigators spoke with Jan Buman who had been Debruin and Miller were arrested in Flagstaff, dating Gregory May since July 2000. She knew Douglas Arizona in April 2001 on outstanding warrants. Debruin DeBruin and his girlfriend Julie Miller as May’s friends. was still driving the Ryder truck. Investigators searched The night of May’s murder, Buman was suppose to the vehicle for evidence and found a weigh station ticket meet May at his house at 8 p.m. She went to the back that put them in close proximity to Kearney, Missouri door and rang the doorbell, then tried the door with no where the head was found. reply. She peered through the window and through a Evidence against Debruin and Miller mounted. space below the shade she was able to see the lower DeBruin was charged with first-degree murder and first- half of Greg May sitting in a kitchen chair motionless degree theft. Miller was charged with transporting stolen and Julie Miller wiping something off the floor. She property across state lines. went to the Frontier restaurant and called the house. The The Vidocq Society Journal Winter 2007 Page 5 The Head in the Bucket: The Murder of Gregory May During DeBruin’s trial Miller testified for the prosecution that DeBruin had strangled May with a yellow nylon rope on January 11, 2001. Calmly she recalled the murder and subsequent dismemberment of May: After he was killed, May’s body was carried to the basement. The throat was cut draining the blood into the laundry tub. May’s body was then cut up with a knife and electric chainsaw. The body parts were wrapped in plastic. The torso was weighted down and thrown off the Savanna-Sabula Bridge in Illinois. The other body parts were scattered north of Bellevue along Highway 52. The head was placed in a five-gallon bucket. DeBruin covered the head with his knit cap and poured cement into the bucket and inserted a blue Frank Bender's Bust Photo of Gregory May reflector in the cement. Miller admitted participating in the dismemberment using a knife she would later discard with the body parts. DeBruin testified in his own defense claiming that Continued from page 1 Miller had killed May. His memory of the dismember- Vidocq Society Annual Dinner Dedicated ment was “gray” and he could not recall the details of to Dr. Halbert Fillinger, MD, VSM what took place. After deliberating for two hours and 15 minutes the as the Montgomery County Coroner working there since jury returned a verdict of guilty in the murder of Gregory 1992. He was an assistant professor at Temple University May. DeBruin was convicted of first-degree murder and teaching criminalistics. first-degree theft. Miller is serving a three-year sentence During the presentation colleagues reminisced of in federal prison for transporting stolen property across his fortitude and bearing in standing up to attorneys who state lines. attempted to discredit him during his testimony as an The identity of the skull found at Kearney Truck expert witness. The opportunities he provided, giving Plaza, in Kearney, Missouri remained a mystery. The Frank Bender his first chance to create a forensic tie between the murder of Gregory May and the skull sculpture and the freedom for which he shared his was not made until four years after his murder. Famed knowledge in forensic pathology. forensic sculptor Frank Bender of Philadelphia, The memory of Dr. Halbert Fillinger will remain Pennsylvania was asked to create a likeness from the with us all, for those he has worked with, those he has skull in the hopes of identifying the victim. The bust taught, and for those who have not met but know of his that Bender created was placed on the Doe Network greatness through the memories of those he has touched. website. The Doe network is an organization of volunteers dedicated to helping law enforcement connect missing persons with John/Jane cases. A volunteer from the organization helped connect Frank “veritas EST veritas” Bender’s sculpture with a photograph of Gregory May. The identity was confirmed through a comparison of truth IS truth dental records. The Vidocq Society Journal The Vidocq Society Post Office Box 40285 Continental Station Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 Vidocq Society Journal Winter 2007 The Vidocq Society Journal Posted 3rd May 2011 by BOXCAR_HOBO_A#1 3 View comments May 3 Image and video hosting by TinyPicImage and video hosting by TinyPic Posted 3rd May 2011 by BOXCAR_HOBO_A#1 0 Add a comment Loading Dynamic Views theme. Powered by Blogger.

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