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Have any of you looked up some of the names in this music video? Most of them are STILL missing from when I was a little kid. It's sad as hell! I would hate to be the parent of them. I couldn't even IMAGINE the pain they have felt over the years. I would have so much hate that if I found the kidnappers/killers I would leave nothing left to even recognize their bodies. Fuck sadistic motherfuckers!!!! :( I hope they suffer forever!

http://new.music.yahoo.com/videos/--2147531

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Confession may solve old murder case

June 21, 2008 - 7:27 PM

Robbyn Brooks

Daily News

FORT WALTON BEACH - It could be the confession Ronda Lynn Taylor's family has waited nearly 18 years to hear, or it could just be another heartbreaking dead end.

Convicted killer Mark Riebe has confessed to Taylor's 1990 brutal murder. In fact, he's admitted to enough murders to be considered one of the area's few "serial killers."

Investigators with the Bay County Sheriff's Office believe through confessions and other evidence that Riebe is responsible for three unsolved cases in the Panhandle, including Taylor's.

"I'm shaking," said Taylor's cousin, Crystal Anthony. "I've got tears in my eyes. I mean, after all this time, I never thought ..."

Emotion overcame her and she paused Tuesday morning after hearing of Riebe's confession.

"If this is true, it would somehow ease the hurt a little," she said.

Riebe, now 48, is already serving a life sentence at the Gulf County Correctional Institute for the Aug. 6, 1989, abduction and killing of a Santa Rosa County convenience store clerk. Donna Callahan was a 29-year-old mother and four months pregnant when she was kidnapped at work, killed and put in a trunk for two days before being dumped on a farm in DeFuniak Springs.

Losing Taylor was difficult, Anthony said, but the way her cousin's body was cast aside made dealing with her murder even harder to accept.

Taylor, 23, was found at about noon Saturday, July 7. Ronald Browning had picked up his paycheck and was walking home down Tupelo Avenue in Fort Walton Beach. It was the first day of his vacation. He passed by a silver Buick and glanced in the window.

"I thought it was a blow-up, a balloon doll," Browning recalled. "For some reason, I went back to check. I couldn't believe it. I ran into the nursing home and told them to call the police."

Taylor's nude body was found "crumpled" in the backseat of her car, according to investigators' statements made in 1990. Her head was against the rear seat, just below window level. Her throat had been cut and she had stab wounds on her hands and arms. There were also scratches on her legs.

Her wounds led Fort Walton Beach police to believe she tried to fight off her attacker.

There wasn't much evidence to go on, just a few strands of hair that might have belonged to Taylor's killer and 15 names scribbled on paper found in her purse. Police weren't able to find a definite connection between that evidence and a suspect.

Both Anthony and Taylor's mother, Claudette Taylor, remember Riebe's name mentioned early on by investigators. However, there never seemed to be enough evidence to pursue that lead vigorously.

"As far as I know, Ronda didn't know him," said Claudette Taylor, not ready to fully believe Riebe is her daughter's killer. "I just don't know yet. It's never really over until it's over."

Investigators have the same mindset.

"I'd say he's a suspect," said Fort Walton Beach Police Chief Ted Litschauer. "Sometimes people confess out of a sense of guilt. Sometimes it's a fantasy. You have to have corroborating evidence."

Investigators with the Bay County Sheriff's Department are hoping Riebe's confessions are truthful. They believe he's confessed to murders he didn't commit, but one confession would close an unsolved homicide in Panama City Beach, as well.

In 1992, Pamela Ray, 36, disappeared from a motel parking lot. Her car was locked with her purse and her two young children inside. Her body has never been recovered.

"I believe that he did do multiple murders," said Bay County Sheriff's Investigator Mitch Pitts. "I think he exaggerated at some point the number of murders he did, and that makes it difficult to prove which ones he's being truthful about."

Investigators from Fort Walton Beach and Bay County are optimistic DNA evidence from lab tests will provide enough evidence to prove Riebe's confession is true. Fort Walton Beach Detective Stephen Spinella has been on the Taylor case since 1990. He was the first detective on scene after her body was discovered.

"It's still a very active investigation," Spinella said. "It's very possible, but we're still trying to put it all together. No investigator likes to have unsolved homicides on their record." Although Riebe's confession doesn't definitively mean he was Ronda Taylor's killer, her family said they really want to bring some finality to her death. Then they could simply remember the good things about her.

"She loved holidays, even St. Patrick's Day," Claudette Taylor said. "It doesn't get easier; you just learn to tolerate it more."

"She was so giving," Anthony said. "She would help anybody. She loved little kids. She would play with them constantly. I have grandchildren of my own, now. I think about her and how happy she'd be with us."

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