I will keep the following brief so you can watch the YouTube video presented by Detective Ken Mains on his channel Unsolved No More, who was contacted by Cindy Cannella, the sister of Gordon Mark Cannella (17), who went missing along with Bridget Cantrell Sons (19), following a robbery at a Bayou Vista convenience store in Morgan City, Louisiana, and later found murdered on April 27th 1978. Their murders connected to Robert Hohenberger, a sexual sadist, serial rapist. kidnapper and murderer, who has also been tied to the 1978 killings of Judy Adams (15), Bertha Gould (14) and Mary Rodermund (16) by strangulation. It appears that Hohenberger's penchant for kidnapping and victimization began many years earlier. He had kidnapped and raped at least four people in California, before leaving the state.
While living at Eagle Mountain in Riverside County, he was a reserve deputy sheriff, when initially charged with the kidnapping, rape and assault of a young Arizona school teacher in May 1966, who was traveling from Los Angeles back to her home in Phoenix. It is believed he used his official position to carry out attacks on many other young girls and women using knives and guns. However, at the time Cheri Jo Bates was murdered on October 30th 1966, Hohenberger (24) was out on bail and not incarcerated. After losing his unpaid job at the Riverside Sheriff's Department on May 11th 1966, he continued to be employed as a contract laborer at the Kaiser Steel Corporation in Eagle Mountain, who, according to the sister of Gordon Mark Cannella, were contracted to supply materials to the Riverside City College, which was undergoing major renovation to its infrastructure in the mid 1960s.
While living at Eagle Mountain in Riverside County, he was a reserve deputy sheriff, when initially charged with the kidnapping, rape and assault of a young Arizona school teacher in May 1966, who was traveling from Los Angeles back to her home in Phoenix. It is believed he used his official position to carry out attacks on many other young girls and women using knives and guns. However, at the time Cheri Jo Bates was murdered on October 30th 1966, Hohenberger (24) was out on bail and not incarcerated. After losing his unpaid job at the Riverside Sheriff's Department on May 11th 1966, he continued to be employed as a contract laborer at the Kaiser Steel Corporation in Eagle Mountain, who, according to the sister of Gordon Mark Cannella, were contracted to supply materials to the Riverside City College, which was undergoing major renovation to its infrastructure in the mid 1960s.
ROBERT CARL HOHENBERGER In the driveway adjacent to the library---10 feet from the body of Cheri Jo Bates was a Timex watch---believed to have been ripped off her murderer's wrist during the attack. An inspection of the watch revealed a broken wristband and paint specks on its face. Robert Hohenberger, who later worked in Louisiana at the R&M Welding Company (as a sandblaster) under the alias of Frank Henry Green, listed his desired position on the work application as a "painter" and "blaster". On the evening of Cheri's murder, four workmen were observed sitting on a fence opposite Cheri Jo Bates' lime green Volkswagen Beetle by the library entrance, who may have been a few of the many contractors that had access to the storage room where the desktop poem was ultimately found in December 1966. A desktop poem that many researchers believe carried the author's signature of "rh". Ken Mains spoke with a former co-worker of Robert Hohenberger from Louisiana, who just happened to mention that Hohenberger wore sunglasses with the initials "rh" on them.
During the November 14th 1966 police reconstruction of the events surrounding the murder of Cheri Jo Bates, eyewitnesses recalled a "bearded man" and woman being present in the library on October 30th 1966 who, to this day, have never been identified. On the left is a photograph of Robert Hohenberger, whose sister, Linda Hohenberger, was a student at the Riverside City College in 1966. Many researchers believe that Cheri Jo Bates was being led (or forced) away from her disabled Volkswagen Beetle to the perpetrator's vehicle in an attempted kidnapping for sexual purposes. Everything that Robert Carl Hohenberger was known to do before and after the murder of Cheri Jo Bates. He died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound on May 31st 1978 when approached by four undercover officers.
The fingerprints and DNA of Robert Hohenberger are documented, but have they been checked and eliminated to those on the Volkswagen Beetle and the mitochondrial DNA from the four Caucasian hairs found at the base of Cheri Jo Bates' right thumb?
During the November 14th 1966 police reconstruction of the events surrounding the murder of Cheri Jo Bates, eyewitnesses recalled a "bearded man" and woman being present in the library on October 30th 1966 who, to this day, have never been identified. On the left is a photograph of Robert Hohenberger, whose sister, Linda Hohenberger, was a student at the Riverside City College in 1966. Many researchers believe that Cheri Jo Bates was being led (or forced) away from her disabled Volkswagen Beetle to the perpetrator's vehicle in an attempted kidnapping for sexual purposes. Everything that Robert Carl Hohenberger was known to do before and after the murder of Cheri Jo Bates. He died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound on May 31st 1978 when approached by four undercover officers.
The fingerprints and DNA of Robert Hohenberger are documented, but have they been checked and eliminated to those on the Volkswagen Beetle and the mitochondrial DNA from the four Caucasian hairs found at the base of Cheri Jo Bates' right thumb?
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