{"id":989580,"date":"2023-09-19T04:24:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T11:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/?p=989580"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:10:50","slug":"who-are-the-true-killers-in-the-1988-murders-of-cathy-sue-swartz-and-christina-y-shelton-in-three-rivers-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/zh-cn\/2023\/09\/19\/%e5%9c%a81988%e5%b9%b4%e7%9a%84%e8%b0%8b%e6%9d%80%e4%b8%ad-%e4%bb%96%e4%bb%ac%e6%89%8d%e6%98%af%e7%9c%9f%e6%ad%a3%e7%9a%84%e6%9d%80%e6%89%8b-%e5%9c%a8%e4%b8%89%e9%81%93%e6%b2%b3%e9%87%8c-%e8%b5%b7\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the true killers in the 1988 murders of Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton in Three Rivers, Michigan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_11428\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vSqKCxGuZEA?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Alleged Police Double Murder Cover-Up: 1988 Cold Case of Cathy Swartz &amp; Christina Shelton\"  src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/vSqKCxGuZEA\/maxresdefault.jpg\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4><em><strong>Currently, our independent news media company is making efforts to run ads for our extensive investigative journalism article we turned into a video that exposes an alleged police double murder coverup that happened in Michigan. We&#8217;re focusing on running the ads in Michigan, the state it happened in. The goal is to open the case to prosecute two suspects, and exonerate an innocent man who suspiciously died in jail while awaiting trial: <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/donations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO HELP!<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<p><strong>THREE RIVERS, MICHIGAN IN ST. JOSEPH COUNTY &#8211;\u00a0 <em>There is reason to allege that former Detective Sergeant Michael (Mike) Mohney and former officer Michael Costello committed the murders, and that Robert Odell Waters was innocent.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joshua Thomas Barnes alleges that when he was 12 years old in 1988, Michael (Mike) Mohney, formerly of the Three Rivers Police Department assaulted him in an unprovoked attack. Barnes had suffered from falling down stairs and fracturing three vertebrae two years prior. There were several witnesses including Mr. Barnes\u2019 childhood friends. It\u2019s alleged that the assault was brutal, that Mohney strangled Barnes with his bare hands and threatened to kill Barnes as Mohney laid on top of him, holding him down, and bending him over backward on the hood of a squad car. It\u2019s alleged that Mohney called Barnes a <strong>\u201clittle\/f***ing fa**ot and a little p**sy,\u201d<\/strong> and screamed profanities and death threats directly into Barnes\u2019 ear with Mohney\u2019s lips touching Barnes. Barnes stated that Mohney was just big enough that he was unable to push him off of him, and the harder he tried to get out from under Mohney, the harder Mohney laughed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_989592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-989592\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-989592\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/michael-mike-mohney-comparison-to-criminal-sketch.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a black coat and plaid scarf gestures outside in winter, with a sketch of a face overlaid on his image. The sketch is labeled with &quot;COLD CASE MURDER OF CATHY SWARTZ.&quot; The image likely relates to the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan, and the investigation into Cathy Sue Swartz.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-989592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael (Mike) Mohney comparison to a sketch by a criminal sketch artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michael (Mike) Mohney\u2019s actions that day subjected Barnes to emotional and psychologically traumatizing torture and damage that still lasts to this day as Mohney tried to get a false confession out of Barnes, insisting that he had spit at or on the squad car. In 1988, Mohney was a White male, and in 1988 he was about 22 years old, standing 5\u2019 2\u201d and weighing around 135 lbs with a stocky build. Mohney had short blonde hair with a long feathered hair style and a fair skin complexion.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 438px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-989580-1\" width=\"438\" height=\"386\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan.mp4\">https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>This is almost identical to the &#8220;woman&#8221; who was seen leaving Cathy Sue Swartz\u2019s Riverside Townhouse apartment around the time she was murdered on December 2, 1988. Mohney lived just north of the Townhouses with his family, just minutes away. Mohney&#8217;s sister went to school with Swartz, and so did his cousins, a couple of girls from Mendon. The incident with Barnes occurred just months before Swartz was strangled and stabbed to death in her apartment. There was also a traumatizing incident inside a police squad car with officer Michael Costello that I will explain later, along with alarming alleged misconduct by Costello.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_989591\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-989591\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-989591 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/28.jpg\" alt=\"Four images: top left, a man in a police hat; top right, a woman's sketched face; bottom left, a man's sketched face; bottom right, a woman's sketched face. Text messages: &quot;Didn't ur dad go into the TRPD to warn them about Mohney putting his hands on you?&quot; followed by &quot;Ah I believe so Why?&quot; and &quot;I think Mohney killed Cathy Sue&quot;.\" width=\"720\" height=\"1600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-989591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barnes witnessed a friend being grabbed by the neck and shoved around for no good reason by Mike Mohney.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;[Mike] Mohney choked me and put his hands on my friend Jason Shutes, and my friend Jeremy Price as well,&#8221; Barnes stated. &#8220;Jeremy&#8217;s the one that Costello took for a rough ride with me,&#8221; he continued to allege. Back in 1988, Michael Mohney was also known to have had a short temper, or \u201cshort fuse,\u201d as previously described in the alleged assault against Joshua Thomas Barnes who has also described a \u201cseriously nasty bare-handed choke-hold and psychopathic tendencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is reason to believe it was very odd that Mohney later became a detective who was in charge of investigating Swartz\u2019s murder right up until his early retirement. Mohney decided to retire early so his wife would be able to follow her dream of working for FedEx, even though numerous people have heard stories of him and Michael Costello&#8217;s involvement in her murder. There was a suspicious fatal car accident that Swartz\u2019s friend and neighbor Christina Y Shelton was involved in less than one hour later, only a few miles away from the apartments where both women resided. Shelton\u2019s car had supposedly veered off the road and into the St. Joseph River for no apparent reason just after noon. The car landed around three to ten feet from the shore in about five to 10 feet of water, depending on which article a person reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">Despite the Riverside Apartments manager falsely claiming Swartz and Shelton lived on opposite sides of the complex and didn\u2019t know each other, there\u2019s the fact that if you were to walk just 200 feet to the left of Swartz\u2019s apartment, you\u2019d be in front of Shelton\u2019s apartment.<\/p>\n<h4><em><strong>Help us run ads in the great state of Michigan for this important social and human rights issue in an effort to get true justice for Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton, and to exonerate Robert Odell Waters: <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/donations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_989588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-989588\" style=\"width: 601px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-989588\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/24.jpg\" alt=\"Rescue workers assisting a cop from a partially submerged car in a possible accident scene, likely related to the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan. A man in a rescue suit restrains a woman, potentially related to the Christina Y Shelton drowning probe.\" width=\"601\" height=\"952\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-989588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Middleton also says Swartz was killed sometime between 5:30 am to 3 p.m. when they KNEW she was killed around 11 to 11:30 a.m. The newspaper covering Christina Shelton&#8217;s fatal car crash left out the Swartz murder that day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was reported at the time that two rescue workers helped a &#8220;Cop&#8221; (Michael Costello?) out of a partially submerged car during the time Shelton drowned.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton was pronounced dead at the Three Rivers Area Hospital at around 2 p.m. Her four-year-old daughter had been hospitalized for some time and suffered from the effects of nearly drowning. However, the daughter miraculously recovered completely with no signs of brain damage after being submerged for more than 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"875\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087383\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-39.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Waneta Truckey is Mike Mohney&#8217;s mother, and when given the opportunity to defend her son, she did not. A woman named Deborah Hallock commented that Christina Shelton who drowned in the river was a witness to the Swartz murder and was run off the road by Michael Costello on her way to the sheriff&#8217;s office because she knew suspect Mike Mohney was a TRPD officer. Lastly the comment says Shelton&#8217;s child was moved out of state for her safety.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than defend her son, Truckey replied with, &#8220;This is not true. The child remained and went to school in Three Rivers.&#8221; But that was all Truckey was contesting, she did not defend her son Mike Mohney.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the locals in Southwest Michigan had reported at the time that a squad car forced Shelton\u2019s vehicle from Schweitzer Road and into the St. Joseph River. Locals thought she was trying to outrun the Three Rivers police to get to Centerville, where the sheriff&#8217;s department is, just a few miles away. It&#8217;s alleged that Shelton witnessed cops entering Swartz\u2019s Riverside Townhouse apartment back in 1988. It&#8217;s alleged Christina Y Shelton had heard Swartz screaming for help as she was being brutally beaten and stabbed repeatedly before her ultimate demise of being strangled to death.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_989585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-989585\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-989585 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/21.jpg\" alt=\"Police and fire personnel rescue a 3-year-old girl from the St. Joseph River after her mother, Christina Shelton, died in a car accident near Three Rivers, Michigan, in 1988. The image shows the child being carried away from the partially submerged car, a tragic scene from the Christina Shelton drowning probe.\" width=\"720\" height=\"679\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-989585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newspaper release from the time of the Christina Shelton drowning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The newspaper covering Christina Shelton&#8217;s fatal car crash left out the Swartz murder that day.<\/p>\n<p>Locals had also reported at the time that Michael Costello was at both scenes immediately upon the call from dispatch. Costello allegedly attempted to get Shelton and her daughter out of the car before the rescue divers were able to arrive on the scene. It\u2019s alleged that Costello had rushed into the water to ensure that Shelton never surfaced so she would not be able to tell anyone anything about what she may have or may not have seen, or heard that day. It\u2019s also alleged that Shelton\u2019s daughter was taken to Ann Harbor for treatment to make it more difficult for local law enforcement to be able to reach her.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1034981\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1034981\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1034981\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/23-1.jpg\" alt=\"A grainy black and white photo of a group of men at a possible crime scene. A man in a hard hat leans against what appears to be a bent metal rail, while other men are in the background. The image seems to be related to the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan, as the blog post suggests.\" width=\"720\" height=\"1014\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1034981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early reports stated there were no guardrails on the side of the roads during the Shelton drowning. However, there is clearly what appears to be a bent up guardrail at the scene.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Reports about the Shelton drowning stated there were no guardrails on the side of the roads during the Shelton drowning. However, there is clearly what appears to be a bent up and damaged guardrail at the scene.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_989586\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-989586\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-989586 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22.jpg\" alt=\"Police and fire personnel carry 3-year-old Sara Shelton away from a partially submerged car in the St. Joseph River near Three Rivers, Michigan. Rescue workers prepare to extricate Christina Shelton, the child's mother, after a suspicious car accident in 1988.\" width=\"720\" height=\"697\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-989586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newspaper from the time of the Shelton drowning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">According to Barnes\u2019 uncle, while at the TRPD, he overheard two cops arguing with or about Michael Costello being involved in Shelton\u2019s accident. The uncle said he also heard the cops talking about Cathy Sue Swartz calling and asking about charges against her that she may be facing due to the cops coming and taking her drugs and money, and the police saying they would be back with a warrant. It\u2019s possible that police conducted an unreported drug raid which led to Swartz calling the TRPD. You\u2019d think that the cop who had to break it all up, the same Michigan State Police officer who pulled the uncle over for DUI, would\u2019ve been questioned. As far as we\u2019re aware, nobody contacted Barnes\u2019 uncle about this, not the Michigan State Police, the FBI,\u00a0or Crime Stoppers, even after Barnes had sent in the information.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"146\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087372\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-35.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Christina Y Shelton&#8217;s car crash on December 2, 1988 is not listed in a database search for vehicle and road traffic accidents in Three Rivers, Michigan in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Matt Stark in Three Rivers, Michigan whose father is Earl Stark, the former chief of police, told Barnes that his dad personally threw Costello out of the TRPD back in the early 90s.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been said that Costello lost his job at the TRPD after he showed up at the police station in the middle of the night, off duty, with a 14-year-old girl who had been reported as missing. He said he had found her out wandering the streets.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s been known that Costello was fired after two city commissioners and a couple of detectives held a closed door meeting unlawfully.. The exact outcome has been kept under wraps but that&#8217;s when he was let go from the TRPD with a letter of recommendation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1088652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1088652\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1088652\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/108-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan.jpg\" alt=\"Newspaper article from the South Bend Tribune, &quot;Three Rivers police veteran files suit&quot; discusses a lawsuit filed by Michael Costello. The article mentions the 1988 murders of Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton in Three Rivers, Michigan, and the police department's involvement.\" width=\"720\" height=\"605\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1088652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When Michael Costello sued the TRPD but charges were never brought.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A lawsuit was brought against those involved, and while assistant prosecutor Jeffrey Middleton admitted that there had been wrongdoing with the unlawful closed doors session, he chose not to press the charges.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1034980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1034980\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1034980\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-13-2024-Who-are-the-true-killers-in-the-1988-murders-three-rivers-michigan-4.jpg\" alt=\"Newspaper clipping from December 4, 1998, with the headline &quot;Authorities still hope to find killer of 2 area women.&quot; The article discusses the 1988 murders of Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton in Three Rivers, Michigan, a case that remains under investigation. Keywords: 1988 murders, Three Rivers Michigan.\" width=\"720\" height=\"373\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1034980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is a local newspaper print from 1998, 10 years after the Swartz murder, titled &#8220;Authorities still hope to find killer of 2 area women,&#8221; not just one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is a local newspaper print from 1998, 10 years after the Swartz murder, titled &#8220;Authorities still hope to find killer of 2 area women,&#8221; not just one. A lower article starter title reads, &#8220;Police continue investigation in 1988 stabbing death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 368px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-989580-2\" width=\"368\" height=\"400\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-32.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-32.mp4\">https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-32.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>A bloodstain on a pair of sweat pants in the Swartz residence after the murder that police thought resembled a pair of scissors. After tweaking the colors on the sweat pants, it brought out a pattern on the brown one that matches the blade Mike Mohney was practicing with 20 years after the Swartz murder.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1087358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087358\" style=\"width: 608px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087358\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-33.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of a document with handwritten text, possibly related to the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan. The text includes the numbers &quot;5565-88&quot; and &quot;K3B,&quot; potentially referencing case details or evidence. The image is part of an investigative piece on the 1988 double murder.\" width=\"608\" height=\"663\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A suspect allegedly wiped the blood off in an upwards motion and cleaned the blades before leaving.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A suspect allegedly wiped the blood off in an upwards motion and cleaned the blades before leaving.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_989593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-989593\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-989593\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/27.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Mohney practicing with two large bladed weapons, a suspect in the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan. He is dressed in black, with a mask obscuring his face, against a red background. The image hints at assault allegations related to the 1988 double murder investigation.\" width=\"444\" height=\"281\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-989593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael (Mike) Mohney practicing with two large bladed weapons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div style=\"width: 262px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-989580-3\" width=\"262\" height=\"264\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan.mp4?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan.mp4\">https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>To be noted, Mike Mohney had been seen practicing with two large bladed weapons 20 years after the Swartz murder.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1087550\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087550\" style=\"width: 1440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087550\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-48.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up view of a floor with small, dark spots scattered across a light beige surface, possibly blood stains related to the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan, near a religious icon. The image may relate to the Cathy Sue Swartz or Christina Y Shelton murder investigations.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"720\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blood splatters from the crime scene do not look like they were from a running woman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blood splatters from the crime scene do not look like they were from a running woman. A long-range weapon like blades on a pole can cause blood splatters to look like this, and the long-range weapons would also be able to avoid getting any blood on the attacker. There&#8217;s also the theory that the blood splatters could&#8217;ve been caused by an unconscious Swartz being carried.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"926\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087562\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-51.jpg\" alt=\"Forensic image of a dark stain on a light surface, possibly related to the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan, with a ruler for scale. The stain's shape could be significant to the investigation of Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"718\" height=\"928\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087563\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-52.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up view of evidence from the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan, likely a document or piece of evidence from the Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton case, showing text and a ruler for scale. This could be a key piece of evidence in the murder investigation.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1340\" height=\"657\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087561\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-53.jpg\" alt=\"An infrared image, likely from a forensic investigation, reveals an obscured object or area of interest. The image is predominantly red and orange, suggestive of heat mapping or a similar technique. The image is from a photo-forensics page, possibly related to the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AEGISAlliance\/posts\/pfbid0cLhNPBDo1n5p55RWUgUqAwZoyHeaXEAY1cbvobhnFAV4yCXavYuLX6KAELHr4kBnl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We ran a Facebook ad targeting St. Joseph County, Michigan<\/a>, in the county where the murder(s) happened, and locals came forward, including Cathy Sue Swartz&#8217; own cousin, Mary Wilma. Swartz&#8217;s mother and Mary Wilma&#8217;s father are brother and sister. We had heard rumors before that the TRPD was involved in drug dealing, including cocaine back in 1988. Cathy Sue Swartz&#8217; cousin, Mary Wilma, has stated that Swartz was selling cocaine for the police and she wanted out. She wanted to get married and have a baby, it was her dream.<\/p>\n<p>There is a woman who was living in Three Rivers, Michigan who alleges that in 1988, officer Costello tampered with her breathalyzer test to make her fail it and get sent to jail. Another officer at the scene noticed what Costello had done and stopped him from arresting the woman. The woman wishes to remain anonymous at this time. There are also locals who partied with Costello and Mohney back in the 1980s, and they&#8217;ve described parties filled with alcohol and drugs, including cocaine, and there was often underage use involved at the parties.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AEGISAlliance\/posts\/pfbid0cLhNPBDo1n5p55RWUgUqAwZoyHeaXEAY1cbvobhnFAV4yCXavYuLX6KAELHr4kBnl\" data-width=\"552\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block;\"><\/div>\n<p>Swartz&#8217; cousin Mary Wilma brought up a rumor we&#8217;ve heard before, that Mike Mohney was seen leaving the Swartz apartment dressed as a woman during the time of the murder. Joshua Thomas Barnes has previously alleged that Mohney may have put on Swartz&#8217; clothes when leaving the apartment to disguise himself. This would fit into the description of the &#8220;woman&#8221; who was seen leaving the Swartz residence at the time of the murder. Locals and Joshua Thomas Barnes have alleged previously that drug dealers were selling cocaine for the TRPD back in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes has told us that back in the late 1980s, Mike Mohney was stalking a girl named Shawna Trine who used to date a guy named Sam Spicer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"577\" height=\"875\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1034977\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-13-2024-Who-are-the-true-killers-in-the-1988-murders-three-rivers-michigan-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a South Bend, Michigan <a href=\"https:\/\/wsbt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WSBT-TV Channel 22<\/a> news article from 2013, Mike Mohney stated things about how the murder suspect would need to have some type of shoes or footwear on, and &#8220;So what did you do, did you take the footwear off and change it. Did you use some of Cathy&#8217;s clothes, her boyfriend&#8217;s clothes.&#8221; Then, near the end of the article, David Swartz, father of murder victim Cathy Swartz, stated &#8220;They can tell you the kind of shoe the person wore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1087522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087522\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087522\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-40.jpg\" alt=\"Newspaper clipping from The South Bend Tribune, December 4, 1988, reporting on the fatal stabbing of 19-year-old Cathy Sue Swartz in Three Rivers, Michigan. Police seek her boyfriend in the 1988 murders.\" width=\"720\" height=\"882\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A news report from The South Bend Tribune on December 4, 1988.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Sunday, December 4, 1988, just two days after the Swartz murder, The South Bend Tribune in Indiana reported that police were seeking Swartz&#8217; boyfriend who authorities wouldn&#8217;t identify, and that her body was found by a friend around 3:30 pm that they would not identify.<\/p>\n<p>The area of the South Bend-Mishawaka Metropolitan area is part of both Indiana and Michigan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1087523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087523\" style=\"width: 572px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087523\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-41.jpg\" alt=\"Newspaper article from The South Bend Tribune, dated December 6, 1988, reporting on the &quot;Ex-boyfriend held in slaying&quot; of Cathy Sue Swartz in Three Rivers, Michigan. The article details the arrest of Troy Daniel Schulthies in the 1988 murders.\" width=\"572\" height=\"847\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The South Bend Tribune report from December 6, 1988.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On December 6, 1988, The South Bend Tribune then reported that Swartz&#8217; body was found by an acquaintance instead of a friend, and that Troy Schulthies, who is now being called her &#8220;ex-boyfriend&#8221; instead of the fact that he was her current boyfriend before she died, had been apprehended by police and was in the St. Joseph County Jail. But Schulthies was actually charged on December 2nd, the day of the murder.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087541\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-47.jpg\" alt=\"Court document from 1988, detailing a &quot;HOMICIDE-FELONY MURDER&quot; charge that was later &quot;CHARGE DISMISSED.&quot; The document includes details such as &quot;Entry Date,&quot; &quot;Proceedings,&quot; and &quot;Adjudication Date&quot; from the 1988 Three Rivers, Michigan murder case.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">The TRPD charged Swartz&#8217; boyfriend Troy Schulthies on December 2, 1988, the same day of the murder, before questioning him, and the courthouse closed by 4 pm. It&#8217;s believe that Schulthies never had any serious criminal history, no record of domestic violence between him and Swartz or anything like that. But police still decided to charge him before they even spoke with him. Police arrested Schulthies while still searching his home on the 4th for any evidence that could link him to the murder.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Schulthies was held for 8 more days despite being cleared by exclusionary evidence. This is because the police knew that people were going to be demanding answers in regards to the rumor spreading around about police involvement in the murders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1087526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087526\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087526\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-42.jpg\" alt=\"Newspaper article &quot;Task force presses probe of Swartz murder case&quot; discusses the 1988 murders of Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton in Three Rivers, Michigan, and the police investigation. Article details the stabbing of Swartz and the suspicious car accident of Shelton, who drowned in the St. Joseph River.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1158\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old newspaper from The South Bend Tribune not long after the Decembe 2, 1988 Swartz murder.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In this old newspaper release from The South Bend Tribune not long after the Swartz murder, it states that Swartz&#8217; body was found by a friend. It also says Swartz&#8217; &#8220;former&#8221; boyfriend was later released from custody after being cleared by police. It mentions that TRPD Police Chief James Rifenberg did not rule out a connection between the Swartz murder and Shelton drowning. Also confirms that Shelton&#8217;s daughter, Sara, was taken to a further away Ann Arbor hospital while Shelton was taken to a nearby Three Rivers Area Hospital. The report also shows that Swartz&#8217; time of death was between 11 and 11:30 am.<\/p>\n<p>The paper described Cathy Sue Swartz as a &#8220;gentle, compassionate and happy person who kept her doors locked and stayed home most of the time caring for her young daughter.&#8221; The newspaper also notes that Swartz and Shelton lived in the same apartment complex.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1087529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087529\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087529\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-43.jpg\" alt=\"Newspaper clipping from The South Bend Tribune, March 20, 1989, detailing a ,000 reward for information on the 1988 murder of Cathy Sue Swartz in Three Rivers, Michigan. Headline reads &quot;Rewards top ,000 for tips in slaying.&quot; The article mentions Swartz' semi-clothed body was found by a friend in her apartment, relevant to the investigation of the 1988 murders.\" width=\"720\" height=\"991\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 20, 1989 newspaper report from The South Bend Tribune.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In this March 20, 1989 report from the Tribune months after the Swartz murder, we&#8217;re told that Swartz&#8217; body was found by a &#8220;friend,&#8221; only to turn around and later claim her body was found by her so-called &#8220;fiance&#8221; Michael Leon Warner Jr. upon his return from work at around 3:30 pm (when his work shift ended) and 4 pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodtv.com\/news\/st-joseph-county\/suspects-bloody-fingerprint-found-at-1988-murder-scene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a WOOD TV 8 article from May 5, 2023 by Ken Kolker<\/a>, Warner\u2019s mother is quoted as saying he found Swartz\u2019 baby crying upstairs, that Warner went up there because he couldn\u2019t figure out why baby Courtney would be crying, because her mom should have been there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">However, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodtv.com\/news\/target-8\/left-in-blood-the-cathy-swartz-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a contradicting article also from WOOD TV 8<\/a> and also by Ken Kolker on December 16, 2023, Warner said he didn\u2019t think much of the drops of blood, because he thought Cathy had cut herself. He said there was more blood smeared on the wall as he went up the stairs. Then he says he found baby Courteney standing in her crib in her bedroom, not making a sound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">So, was the baby crying, or was she not making a sound? Could Warner not figure out why the baby was crying, but saw blood on the stair railing, or did he see drops of blood, and blood smeared on the walls? Was the baby crying, or just standing? Was the baby found in her crib as Warner said, or in a playpen as prosecutor Jeffrey Middleton said?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"1600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087555\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-50.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Leon Warner Jr&#8217;s parents got divorced around the time Warner has said him and Cathy Sue Swartz were supposed to have gotten married, which is odd timing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1088171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1088171\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1088171\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/66-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan.jpg\" alt=\"Court records showing 3-B District Court Cases, detailing &quot;WARNER&quot; cases with &quot;MICHAEL&quot; as the first name and a birth year of 1969. The image shows case numbers, statuses, and attorney names, potentially related to the 1988 murders investigation in Three Rivers, Michigan.\" width=\"900\" height=\"609\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1088171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Leon Warner Jr&#8217;s. criminal record in the 3-B public case database for St. Joseph County, Michigan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/courts.stjosephcountymi.org\/3BCases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 3-B District public online criminal case lookup database<\/a> which is for St. Joseph County, Michigan, it shows charges placed on Michael Leon Warner Jr. with a 1969 birth year, including being found guilty of driving while intoxicated with an open container in the vehicle in June of 2000. May include a guilty judgment of driving under the influence of a controlled substance in September of 2000. Not guilty of domestic violence in September of 2000. Not guilty of domestic violence but guilty of assault and battery in September of 2005. Found guilty of cocaine or meth use in May of 2023 while the possession charge was dismissed. Dismissed charge of selling or furnishing alcohol to a minor in August of 2011. Guilty verdict of child abuse in the 4th degree in March of 1997, while the home invasion in the 2nd degree charge was dismissed at that time. A dismissed charge of domestic violence, and a dismissed charge of illegal breaking and entering without owners permission around November of 1998.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1031379\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1031379\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1031379\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-03-2024-who-are-the-true-killers-1988-three-rivers-michingan-murders-2.jpg\" alt=\"News clippings detailing the 1988 murder of Cathy Swartz in Three Rivers, Michigan. One clipping states, &quot;Warner was 18 when he came home from work on Dec. 2, 1988, and discovered Swartz's body. She was 19.&quot; The articles also reference police involvement and the discovery of the body. #1988 murders #Three Rivers Michigan #Cathy Sue Swartz\" width=\"720\" height=\"758\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1031379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">However, an article that was published one week earlier is telling. It states that &#8220;Tom Bringman, who became the Three Rivers police chief in 2007 and retired in 2021, was 14 years into his career when Swartz died. He and fellow officer Mike Mohney were the first to see her body. He said they cleared the home before getting Swartz&#8217;s baby out of the next room.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also uncovered two contradicting news reports from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodtv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WOODTV.com<\/a> channel 8 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The two articles tell a different story about how the still alive baby was found at the scene of the murder. One news report says &#8220;Warner&#8221; was 18 when he came home from work on December 2, 1988 and discovered Swartz&#8217;s body, that Swartz was 19, he called 911 and grabbed her 9-month-old baby daughter from her crib in the adjoining room.<\/p>\n<p>However, an article that was published one week earlier is telling. It states that <strong>&#8220;Tom Bringman, who became the Three Rivers police chief in 2007 and retired in 2021, was 14 years into his career when Swartz died. He and fellow officer Mike Mohney were the first to see her body. He said they cleared the home before getting Swartz&#8217;s baby out of the next room.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_989584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-989584\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-989584\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20.jpg\" alt=\"Newspaper clipping from December 4, 1998, detailing the ongoing investigation into the 1988 murders of two area women, potentially referring to the Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton cases in Three Rivers, Michigan. Includes details about a suspect and their ex-boyfriend.\" width=\"720\" height=\"999\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-989584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This had prosecutor Middleton saying that her ex-boyfriend found her and was later arrested but released. Troy Daniel Schulthies, NOT Michael Warner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jeffrey Middleton was the assistant prosecutor when the Swartz murder happened, and he ended up being the prosecutor. Middleton said that&#8217;s the case he worked the most on and then he ends up being a judge that he still sits as today.<\/p>\n<p>A newspaper release on December 4, 1998 had prosecutor Jeffrey Middleton saying that Swartz&#8217; ex-boyfriend found her and was later arrested, but released.<\/p>\n<p>Middleton also said Cathy Sue Swartz was killed sometime between 5:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. when they KNEW she was murdered at around 11 to 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1087378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087378\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087378\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-38.jpg\" alt=\"Newspaper article about the 1988 murders of Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton in Three Rivers, Michigan. The headline reads, &quot;Task force presses probe of Swartz murder case.&quot; The article details the police investigation, including the search for a young woman seen in the area and the connection between the Swartz and Shelton cases. Keywords: 1988 murders, Three Rivers Michigan, Cathy Sue Swartz, Christina Y Shelton, murder investigation.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1158\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Mohney can be described the same way as the person in the sketch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mike Mohney&#8217;s look in 1988 matched the description of the person in the criminal sketch who police wanted to question about the Swartz murder.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1088653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1088653\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1088653\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/109-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan.jpg\" alt=\"Newspaper clipping from the South Bend Tribune, January 13, 1989, detailing a woman sought for questioning in the slaying of Cathy Sue Swartz in Three Rivers, Michigan. The article describes the 1988 murders and the ongoing murder investigation.\" width=\"640\" height=\"197\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1088653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police sought to question woman from sketch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During Mohney\u2019s 2013 interview with WSBT22\u2019s Kristen Been, a partial sketch of a person is shown, who for some odd reason is not labeled as a suspect during the news story who was witnessed leaving the Swartz residence around the time she was murdered. The detailed physical description that originally accompanied the sketch was completely left out. This may be because 25 years before the sketch was shown during Mohney\u2019s interview, the original version was complete with the long feathered hair style that Mohney had back in 1988 that was used to describe a \u201cwoman\u201d who was seen in the area the same day as the murder. But according to police, this individual from the sketch was not a suspect, but was instead being sought by authorities who hoped &#8220;<strong>she may have heard or seen something that day that could help investigators who were working the case.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 672px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-989580-4\" width=\"672\" height=\"364\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/suspect-comparison-video.mp4?_=4\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/suspect-comparison-video.mp4\">https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/suspect-comparison-video.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_989594\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-989594\" style=\"width: 611px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-989594\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/17.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up view of a person's face, possibly Michael Mohney, one of the suspects in the 1988 murders of Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton in Three Rivers, Michigan. The image is a faded, aged photograph.\" width=\"611\" height=\"696\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-989594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sketch of a person of interest seen leaving the scene of the Swartz murder was placed onto a photo of Michael (Mike) Mohney.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Why would the lead detective in a homicide case (that he was suspected by many locals of being involved in) crop out the feathered style hair from the police sketch before displaying it during his 2013 interview with the media? Perhaps, because in 1988, he matched the description of <strong>\u201cWhite, around 22 years old, standing about 5\u2019 2\u201d tall, weighing about 135 lbs, with a stocky build,<\/strong> just like the individual who witnesses described that day. He also had blonde hair with feathered long hair at the time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1087361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087361\" style=\"width: 715px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087361\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-34.jpg\" alt=\"Newspaper clipping from 1988 detailing the Three Rivers Police Department's statement regarding the Cathy S. Swartz stabbing case. The headline reads, &quot;Police seek to question woman for details in Swartz stabbing.&quot; The text also mentions the 1988 murders and the Three Rivers Police Department.\" width=\"715\" height=\"716\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police sought to question the so-called &#8220;woman&#8221; in the sketch, but then suddenly changed their minds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police sought to question the so-called &#8220;woman&#8221; in the sketch, but then suddenly changed their minds. The whole reason the sketch was created in the first place is because the person was actually meant to be a suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The nerve of this guy Mike Mohney who has repeatedly wrongly reported Mr. Barnes&#8217; content regarding these cases as false news in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/crookedcopsanonymous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Crooked Cops Anonymous Facebook group<\/a>. However, his reports don&#8217;t stand up to scrutiny.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1087532\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087532\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087532\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-44.jpg\" alt=\"Newspaper clippings detailing the 1988 murder of Cathy Sue Swartz in Three Rivers, Michigan, including details of the unsolved murder and a reward for information. Headlines mention &quot;Police seek boyfriend in fatal stabbing&quot; and &quot;Authorities still hope to find killer of 2 area women.\" width=\"720\" height=\"991\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All these articles around the time of the Swartz murder that wanted to identify the Swartz murder suspect and police sketch never actually showed the sketch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All of these news reports around the time of the Swartz murder that wanted to identify the Swartz murder suspect and the person in the police sketch never actually showed the sketch.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1087374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087374\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087374\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-36.jpg\" alt=\"A split-screen news broadcast featuring a male and female anchor. The male anchor wears a suit, while the female anchor wears a black blazer. Text on the screen reads &quot;WSBT 22&quot; and &quot;6:05 16&quot;. The image relates to the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan.\" width=\"720\" height=\"1440\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Locals commented on the WSTV22 special about the Swartz murder. (1)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1087375\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087375\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087375\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-37.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a tan shirt and tie, possibly Detective Michael Mohney, sits in an office, likely discussing the 1988 murders of Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton in Three Rivers, Michigan. The WSBT 22 logo is visible, along with the text &quot;COLD CASE MURDER OF CATHY SWARTZ&quot; on the news banner. The comment section is open, referencing the case.\" width=\"720\" height=\"1440\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Locals commented on the WSTV22 special about the Swartz murder. (2)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During a WSTV22 special video about the Swartz cold case murder, locals commented about what was on their minds. Comments included, &#8220;Wasn&#8217;t it a cop that murdered her? I remember some rumors,&#8221; with a reply to that comment that reads, &#8220;It was Detective Mooney [sic],&#8221; and another comment where one user says, &#8220;Wow the sketch looks just like cop,&#8221; when referring to seeing Mike Mohney in the video.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1088489\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1088489\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1088489\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/103-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot from Project: Cold Case website showing a search for the 1988 murder of Cathy Sue Swartz in Three Rivers, Michigan. The search results return &quot;0 cases found.\" width=\"550\" height=\"924\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1088489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teh Cathy Sue Swartz murder was never entered into the FBI cold case database.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">It appears that the TRPD has closed the Swartz case on a police department investigative level after 35 years because another person was arrested for the murder on April 30, 2023. The Cathy Sue Swartz cold case was never actually submitted to the FBI as the law required. Her case could not be found on any of the government websites that list cold cases. And it was Mike Mohney who was said to be in possession of 20 boxes or so of evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">However, the suspect named Robert Odell Waters supposedly committed suicide while awaiting to be extradited to Michigan. However, there was conveniently no surveillance footage of Waters\u2019 jail cell at the time of his supposed suicide. Waters will also never get a chance to testify in court and try to prove his innocence, how convenient!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_989660\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-989660\" style=\"width: 718px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-989660\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/30.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of a Facebook thread discussing the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan, including comments from Opie Taylor, referencing the TRHS Class of 1988 and the death of Robert Odell Waters in jail. The thread discusses the police coverup and the true killers in the murders.\" width=\"718\" height=\"1010\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-989660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just when and where exactly did Robert Odell Waters move out of state?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Robert Odell Waters had found out that his family was being shunned and harassed from day one. Waters&#8217; daughter <strong>&#8220;swears up and down&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>that both the footprint and fingerprint did not match. Just when and where did Waters move exactly? Waters&#8217; daughter was born in Phoenix, Arizona in January 1989, so Waters had already been living in Arizona for some time before the murder. Sam Smallcombe, now a detective, was investigating the Swartz murder, and he has stated that Waters was not questioned in the initial investigation because he moved to Phoenix, Arizona back in September 1988, before the December murder. Waters was allegedly found in the Three Rivers High School freshman yearbook, but not in any years after that, not in the sophomore, junior, or senior years, according to what Missouri State Trooper Opie Taylor aka Pepper Walker, who was a childhood friend of Joshua Thomas Barnes was told by a woman who went to school with Waters.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that needs to be looked into, is, where Waters filed his first income taxes at.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1087539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087539\" style=\"width: 574px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087539\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-46.jpg\" alt=\"Text from a document discussing the 1988 murders of Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton in Three Rivers, Michigan. The text details findings related to DNA lab results and footprint analysis in the murder investigation, mentioning suspect Robert Odell Waters and police involvement.\" width=\"574\" height=\"1003\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Odell Waters was apparently arrested before the DNA and footprint results even came in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">According to a Watershed Voice news report, Robert Odell Waters was apparently arrested before the DNA and footprint analysis results even came in, after he went in willingly, according to St. Joseph County prosecutor David Marvin who worked the case in 2023.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1087568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087568\" style=\"width: 717px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087568\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-54.jpg\" alt=\"Newspaper clipping details the 1988 murders of Cathy Swartz and Christina Shelton. Headline: &quot;St. Joseph County prosecutor won't drop Cathy Swartz case after suspect's suicide in police custody.&quot; The article mentions a footprint analysis as a crucial piece of evidence in the murder investigation. Keywords: 1988 murders, Cathy Swartz, police custody, Robert Odell Waters.\" width=\"717\" height=\"920\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prosecutor David Marvin was still waiting on &#8220;crucial evidence&#8221; after Robert Odell Waters had died.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Robert Odell Waters was arrested on April 30, 2023, and prosecutor David Marvin filed an authorized complaint on May 1, 2023. On May 6, Waters was found dead in his jail cell, and on May 8, Marvin stated he was still waiting on two out of three &#8220;crucial&#8221; pieces of evidence. The St. Joseph County prosecutor had also said he won&#8217;t drop the Cathy Sue Swartz case after Waters&#8217; death in police custody, however, nothing has come of the case since that time.<\/p>\n<p>Marvin is quoted by Watershed Voice as saying &#8220;It would be terrible if that footprint came back and it was not his, because that means there&#8217;s a third person, and I don&#8217;t know who that is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1068018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1068018\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1068018\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-29.jpg\" alt=\"Text excerpt discussing the 1988 murders. It mentions the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) and the involvement of Det. Michael Mohney, highlighting the bloody fingerprint found on Swartz' phone. Keywords: Cathy Sue Swartz, Michael Mohney, CODIS, 1988 murders.\" width=\"720\" height=\"1440\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1068018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CODIS contacted Det. Sgt. Mike Mohney in 2012 about the fingerprint, no mention of it being bloody at the time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"western\">The Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, became fully operational in 1998. It wasn\u2019t until 2012 that Detective Michael Mohney entered DNA evidence into CODIS that was supposedly found on Swartz\u2019 telephone at the Swartz apartment. Mohney only submitted the DNA evidence after being contacted by the Michigan State Police who suggested that he do so. Mike Mohney said at the time that the fingerprint was just recently found, while the MSP knew about the fingerprint on Swartz\u2019s pink GTE telephone since 1988. The story also changed and evolved over time from saying authorities had blood and footprints, or a fingerprint and blood evidence, or just a footprint, and it changed into being a bloody fingerprint. However, no match was made from the DNA or fingerprint at that time in 2012. It appears that Mohney was seemingly just holding onto that fingerprint for a rainy day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1190\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1088692\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">In fact, there was never any mention on the internet in any online news article about the fingerprint being bloody, until WOOD TV 8 reported on it in May of 2023.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1088656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1088656\" style=\"width: 543px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1088656\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/102-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan.jpg\" alt=\"Text excerpt from a news report about the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan, mentioning fingerprints, blood evidence, and footprints. The text raises questions about the evidence in the Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton case and potential police coverup.\" width=\"543\" height=\"894\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1088656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The story of evidence changed and evolved over time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"western\">MSP officer Ken Laninga said in WOODTV 8\u2019s special called Left in Blood that although some of the evidence had been lost, they STILL had the bloody fingerprint found on Cathy\u2019s telephone and several other fingerprints as well as the blood and water mixture bare footprint from the bathroom floor, so they thought they were going to catch the suspect right away. (To be Noted: The fingerprint was found in Swart\u2019s bedroom with the phone line cut! And the bloody footprint was not Robert Odell Waters\u2019 blood.) Investigators believed the killer had washed up in the bathroom before leaving, yet they left the water running until MSP crime scene investigators arrived on the scene. (To be Noted: The water can be seen running hours later in the MSP video footage of the crime scene.) The drain was pulled as well as the shower curtain, but both of those items disappeared along with hundreds of fingerprints. Laninga went on to say that the Three Rivers Police department became very familiar with the foot printing process, grinning as he explained how odd it was to be using a bare footprint as evidence in a homicide investigation. He then says that the Swartz case was the only case he knew of that a bare footprint was being used in such a manner, prior to or since the Swartz murder.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1068017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1068017\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1068017\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-28.jpg\" alt=\"A blurry, grainy black and white image of a partially submerged car in the St. Joseph River. This image may relate to the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan, including the Christina Y Shelton drowning probe and the car in river incident.\" width=\"294\" height=\"185\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1068017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fingerprint from Cathy Sue Swartz&#8217; telephone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">In 2012, retired Detective Baker was told by Detective Mohney that a bloodstain had been found on \u201cthat same phone.\u201d This leads to basic questions: Why was the bloodstain not found until 2012? Had the phone been kept in a freezer for 24 years, or had it just been lying in a 1988 storage bin until DNA was tested in 2012? Besides that, Waters\u2019 fingerprints were also collected in 2011 when he was arrested in South Carolina that I will show proof of later. The timing of the discovery looks highly suspicious. Robert Odell Waters was also arrested in Arizona in 1989 for a misdemeanor when he would\u2019ve also been fingerprinted. DNA evidence wasn\u2019t gathered in Michigan until 1990, but all of a sudden this happens to pop up 22 years later in 2012? That doesn\u2019t add up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">To contain any DNA after being stored for 24 years, a bloody fingerprint would need to be stored in a cold, dark, dry, and sealed environment with minimal oxygen, no handling, no heat, humidity, light, or air, and at around 39 degrees fahrenheit such as in a laboratory-grade refrigerator or freezer. Without these ideal conditions, the DNA would likely be too degraded for forensic analysis. In fact, storage conditions are well known to have not been optimal when it came to crimes from the 1980s and 1990s when forensic standards were less rigorous.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1034979\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1034979\" style=\"width: 431px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1034979 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-13-2024-Who-are-the-true-killers-in-the-1988-murders-three-rivers-michigan-3.jpg\" alt=\"Text excerpt: &quot;The only time that Mr. Waters was listed was that he moved to Arizona in September before the murders, so...&quot; The text is from an article about the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan, potentially related to Robert Odell Waters' involvement.\" width=\"431\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1034979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detective Sam Smallcombe slips up and says &#8220;murders,&#8221; two murders instead of one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Detective Sam Smallcombe stated in an old news report that, <strong>&#8220;The only time that Mr. Waters was listed was that he moved to Arizona in September before the murders, so I think as far as the original detectives were concerned he moved out of the area before the crime occurred.&#8221;<\/strong> Notice how Smallcombe slipped up and said <strong>&#8220;murders,&#8221;<\/strong> not just one murder, but two when referring to the Swartz murder.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"623\" height=\"929\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1034978\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-13-2024-Who-are-the-true-killers-in-the-1988-murders-three-rivers-michigan-2.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of a text message conversation discussing Julie meeting Rob in Phoenix around 1986 or 1987. The text includes the phrase &quot;Well Julie met Rob in Phoenix..probably about 1986 or 1987..&quot; and is from a conversation about the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joshua Thomas Barnes spoke with Robert Waters&#8217; brother in law who claimed his sister Julie met Waters in Phoenix, Arizona around 1986 or 1987, some time before the 1988 Swartz murder.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1034986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1034986\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1034986\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-13-2024-Who-are-the-true-killers-in-the-1988-murders-three-rivers-michigan-5.jpg\" alt=\"Text from an article about the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan, discussing Robert Waters' involvement in the case. The text claims that Mike Warner knew Robert Waters, and that Waters had shown up to the apartment with a girlfriend about a month prior to Swartz' murder.\" width=\"720\" height=\"1064\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1034986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unusual statements from Mike Warner, a boyfriend of Cathy Sue Swartz.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are a couple of newspaper prints, in one of them, Michael Leon Warner Jr., a supposed boyfriend of Cathy Swartz, claimed that Robert Waters had &#8220;shown up&#8221; to the apartment with a girlfriend about a month prior to the Swartz&#8217; murder. In the other article, Mike Warner claims that he had ran into Waters, who was visiting the area, and invited him over to the apartment!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_989659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-989659\" style=\"width: 719px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-989659\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/29.jpg\" alt=\"Text excerpt detailing the 1988 murders of Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton in Three Rivers, Michigan. The text mentions Robert Odell Waters, his apartment, and the initial investigation. Keywords: 1988 murders, Three Rivers Michigan, Robert Odell Waters, murder investigation.\" width=\"719\" height=\"728\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-989659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just when and where exactly did Robert Odell Waters move out of state?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Warner recalled that Robert Waters had already moved to South Carolina but was visiting Three Rivers, Michigan when he ran into him and invited him over. Warner said after that he never had contact with Robert Waters again. The problem with this is that Robert Waters had permanently moved to Phoenix, Arizona months before the Swartz murder. But wait, if Warner never again had contact with Waters after that visit, then how did he know that Waters was living in South Carolina?<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">Robert Odell Waters had visited the Swartz apartment one month before the murder(s), so it\u2019s very likely that his DNA would have been at the apartment, along with his fingerprint, and this does not make Waters look like the killer.<\/p>\n<p>Gerald Warner was a decorated officer in 1988, uncle of Michael Warner, who were possibly assisting in covering up the murders together.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1087553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087553\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087553\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-49.jpg\" alt=\"A silver lock pick gun with a curved handle and trigger, accompanied by three thin black lock picks and a tension wrench. This could be related to the 1988 murders investigation in Three Rivers, Michigan, potentially used to access a location during the case.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A police-issued lockpick gun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There was no sign of forced entry at the Swartz home, which is common knowledge, and cops often carry lockpicks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1087536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087536\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087536\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-45.jpg\" alt=\"Text excerpt discussing the 1988 murders, DNA evidence, and the involvement of St. Joseph County couple in the investigation. Mentions &quot;bloody fingerprint&quot; and forensic genetic genealogy tests of DNA, relevant to the 1988 murders investigation in Three Rivers, Michigan.\" width=\"518\" height=\"967\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Questions about why police were looking for both DNA genders of suspects if they already knew which DNA gender the suspect was.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It would seem like a waste of time and resources to fingerprint both men and women if police already knew the DNA gender of the suspect who left the bloody fingerprint, then to not say which DNA gender the suspect was. If everyone, men and women both were being not only fingerprinted, but footprinted too, as Michael Leon Warner Jr.&#8217;s sister once said, did they all have the same size feet then? Or did police collect footprints in a particular size range? Such as anyone with a foot between size 6 to size 15 in men&#8217;s or size 7 and a half to 16 and a half in women&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_989665\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-989665\" style=\"width: 711px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-989665\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/31.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of a document from Othram, a biotechnology company, detailing the 1988 murder of Cathy Sue Swartz in Three Rivers, Michigan, where the company assisted in the investigation. The document mentions Robert Odell Waters, who was identified as the prime suspect in the Swartz case. The document also mentions Beaufort County, South Carolina, and the Beaufort County Detention Center.\" width=\"711\" height=\"1149\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-989665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There was no sign of forced entry at the Swartz home, which is common knowledge. Robert Odell Waters was never held at the Beaufort County Jail, he was at the Beaufort County Detention Center, a privately owned prison.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Robert Odell Waters was never held at the Beaufort County Jail, he was at the Beaufort County Detention Center, a privately owned prison.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"1021\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1088210\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/94-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan.jpg\" alt=\"Booking information for Robert Odell Waters, showing his booking date of April 30, 2023, and an arrest date of May 1, 2023, related to the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan. The image also shows his mugshot.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Waters was booked into jail at 6:24 pm on Sunday, April 30th, 2023, but he wasn&#8217;t arrested until Monday, May 1st, 2023. He had a hearing scheduled for 8 am on May 1st, but it doesn&#8217;t show a completion date. We wonder what time he was arrested on May 1, 2023, if he had a bond hearing set for 8 am that same day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1059473\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059473\" style=\"width: 1429px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1059473\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-19.jpg\" alt=\"Waters Plumbing Of The Low Country Inc. business information displayed on a white background, including contact information and service hours.\" width=\"1429\" height=\"502\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1059473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Odell Waters plumbling company is listed as licensed and insured on Angi.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Robert Odell Waters owned a plumbing company in Beaufort County, South Carolina called Waters Plumbing of the Low Country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.angi.com\/companylist\/us\/sc\/beaufort\/waters-plumbing-of-the-low-country-inc-reviews-6483795.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Angi.com lists the company as licensed and insured<\/a>. In South Carolina, all residential licensed contractors are required to have their fingerprints taken when applying for the license. The fingerprints are then ran through the FBI&#8217;s criminal database, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.sc.gov\/879\/Fingerprinting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to South Carolina&#8217;s Department of Insurance<\/a>. This means the authorities failed to notice that Waters&#8217; fingerprints had already been on record for quite some time, in plain sight.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1059008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059008\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1059008\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-10.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of a public index search for Robert Odell Waters, showing case number 45899CJ filed 07\/18\/2003, case status disposed, disposition date 08\/12\/2003, and type traffic. The search results are from the Beaufort Magistrate court agency. The search is related to the 1988 murders.\" width=\"720\" height=\"438\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1059008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When authorities were investigating Robert Odell Waters, they claimed he had no criminal record, but these records from South Carolina say otherwise. Therefore, Waters should have already been fingerprinted, and the authorities wouldn&#8217;t have needed to fingerprint him because of the stated reason that had no criminal record.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When authorities were investigating Robert Odell Waters, they claimed he had no criminal record, but these records from Beaufort County, South Carolina prove otherwise. Waters&#8217; boat was seized in August, 2011 in a criminal-traffic type of violation. Therefore, Waters was arrested in 2011 and should have already been fingerprinted. The authorities would have needed to fingerprint him because of the stated reason that he had no criminal record. It is concerning that authorities overlooked this fact.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1059013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059013\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1059013\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-11-1.jpg\" alt=\"Court document showing case details, including the name Robert Odell Waters, and a Meta AI chat response stating the document suggests a criminal history, contradicting initial claims. Relevant to the 1988 murders investigation and the potential exoneration of Robert Odell Waters.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1059013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This shows that Robert Odell Waters had indeed been arrested in 2011 at the time his boat was seized for a criminal-traffic violation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This shows that Robert Odell Waters had indeed been arrested in 2011 at the time his boat was seized for a criminal-traffic violation. We spoke with an official in Beaufort County, South Carolina who told us Waters would&#8217;ve definitely been fingerprinted at the time of being arrested and charged.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1068019\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1068019\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1068019\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-30.jpg\" alt=\"Police records detailing the name Robert O Waters, source state AZ, and other identifying information. The document is related to the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan.\" width=\"720\" height=\"1313\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1068019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Odell Waters misdemeanor arrest in 1989 in Arizona.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Robert Odell Waters was also arrested in Arizona in 1989 and would&#8217;ve had his fingerprints taken at the time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1068020\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1068020\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1068020\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-31.jpg\" alt=\"Police record for Robert O Waters, including physical description and address. The document relates to the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan. The record provides details relevant to the investigation of Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton.\" width=\"720\" height=\"990\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1068020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waters&#8217; warrant in Maricopa County, Arizona.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Waters even had a warrant out for his arrest in Maricopa County, Arizona after he moved into the state, which once again makes the case for his fingerprints already being taken.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1059010\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059010\" style=\"width: 708px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1059010\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-12.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue shirt is arrested for the murder of Kathy, as stated on the screen. A mugshot of the man with a serious expression. The image includes the date and time of the arrest: April 30, 2023, at 17:30:15. This image is related to the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan.\" width=\"708\" height=\"836\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1059010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Odell Waters&#8217; mug shot was taken 15 minutes before he was arrested for the Cathy Sue Swartz murder. This raises questions and concerns about standard operating procedure. Authorities would&#8217;ve needed high confidence he committed the murder in order to take a mug shot before he was even arrested, which is unlikely. Or if this was due to a technical error in the times on the recording and photohraph devices, which seems unlikely.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">Robert Odell Waters\u2019 mug shot was taken 15 minutes before he was arrested for the Cathy Sue Swartz murder. This raises questions and concerns about standard operating procedure. Authorities would\u2019ve needed high confidence he committed the murder in order to take a mug shot before he was even arrested, which is unlikely due to only having an alleged fingerprint and unconfirmed DNA evidence with nothing else to go by. Or if this was due to a technical error in the times on the recording and photograph devices, which seems unlikely.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"451\" class=\"wp-image-1061248 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-26.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"169\" class=\"wp-image-1061249 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-27.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Raymond Walter Phegley is <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.sc.gov\/released-inmate-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the only inmate death<\/a> listed in Beaufort County, South Carolina <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews4.com\/news\/local\/beaufort-county-detention-center-inmate-commits-suicide-south-carolina-law-enforcement-division-sled-death-investigation-wciv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the same day as Robert Odell Waters was supposed to have died there<\/a> on May 6, 2023. The screenshots above are <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.sc.gov\/released-inmate-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a search of released inmates<\/a> from April 30, 2023 to May 10, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Next I am going to show you five screenshots from the official investigation into Robert Odell Waters&#8217; untimely death, and explain the contradicting discrepancies found in them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1059020\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059020\" style=\"width: 1344px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1059020\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-13.jpg\" alt=\"Text from a document describes the discovery of I\/M Waters in cell A240 with a sheet around his neck. Corrections Officer Bradley found him slumped over and called for a &quot;code blue&quot; medical emergency. The document details the events surrounding the 1988 murders.\" width=\"1344\" height=\"672\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1059020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contradicting discrepancies in the official Cathy Sue Swartz murder investigation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1059021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059021\" style=\"width: 1344px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1059021\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-14.jpg\" alt=\"Document excerpt from an investigative report detailing the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan, focusing on the discovery of I\/M Waters hanging from a bunk bed. The text highlights the &quot;code black situation&quot; (Suicide) and the actions of C\/O Shaw.\" width=\"1344\" height=\"672\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1059021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contradicting discrepancies in the official Cathy Sue Swartz murder investigation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1059022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059022\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1059022\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-15.jpg\" alt=\"Text from a police report details the 1988 murder investigation. The report describes the actions of Sergeant Black, including observing I\/M Waters with a sheet around his neck. Keywords: 1988 murders, Police coverup, Robert Odell Waters.\" width=\"720\" height=\"542\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1059022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contradicting discrepancies in the official Cathy Sue Swartz murder investigation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1059023\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059023\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1059023\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-16.jpg\" alt=\"Page 7 of an investigative report regarding the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan. The text details the events of May 6, 2023, including CPR administered and EMS involvement related to I\/M Waters, possibly connected to the 1988 double murder investigation.\" width=\"550\" height=\"807\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1059023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contradicting discrepancies in the official Cathy Sue Swartz murder investigation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1059024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059024\" style=\"width: 551px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1059024\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-17.jpg\" alt=\"A detailed investigative report page from August 23, 2023, detailing events from May 6, 2023, including a &quot;code blue&quot; incident, CPR, and the involvement of Nurse Fleming and I\/M Waters. Keywords: 1988 murders, Police coverup, Murder investigation.\" width=\"551\" height=\"807\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1059024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contradicting discrepancies in the official Cathy Sue Swartz murder investigation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Did C\/O Larry Shaw cut the sheet off from around Robert Odell Waters&#8217; neck, or did he loosen the knot in the sheet? Was Waters found sitting on the floor, or hanging by the top bunk bed? Or was Waters found &#8220;sitting with his back against the bunk and a sheet around his neck.&#8221; And &#8220;sitting on his butt with his legs stretched out in front of him.&#8221; Which one was it? Was Waters&#8217; dead body &#8220;medium warm&#8221; as nurse Banks stated or &#8220;cold to the touch&#8221; like emergency medical services (EMS) may have said? Someone is lying in these accounts of that day. However, we believe that EMS would have no reason to lie. These are concerning contradicting discrepancies in the official investigation into Waters&#8217; death. Also, according to Joshua Thomas Barnes, in the report, one person said when Waters was found he was blue, while another person said he was red.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1059026\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059026\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1059026\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-18.jpg\" alt=\"Text from a forensic science resource explains Rigor Mortis, a key element in determining the time of death. The text highlights how body temperature and stiffness correlate with the time since death, crucial in murder investigations like the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan. The text includes the following: If the body is cold and not stiff, death occurred more than 36 hours earlier.\" width=\"720\" height=\"1440\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1059026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contradicting discrepancies in the official Cathy Sue Swartz murder investigation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Waters corpse being &#8220;medium warm&#8221; would mean he may have died 3 to 8 hours prior to being discovered. However, a cold corpse would mean he died 8 to 36 hours or even longer before being discovered. Another contradicting discrepancy in Waters&#8217; death.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1060413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1060413\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1060413\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-25.jpg\" alt=\"A white garment, possibly a robe or sheet, hangs draped over a dark surface, possibly a bed, inside a room. The image is grainy and low-lit, suggesting a crime scene or an important clue in the 1988 murders in Three Rivers, Michigan. This could be related to the Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton investigation.\" width=\"720\" height=\"795\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1060413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bedsheet Robert Odell Waters supposedly hung himself with, but it wasn&#8217;t cut like C\/O Shaw said he did.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That&#8217;s a photo of the bedsheet from Robert Odell Waters&#8217; jail cell that he supposedly hung himself with, but it wasn&#8217;t cut like C\/O Shaw said he did to it so he could free Waters from it. However, there is a tear in the bedsheet, but that could&#8217;ve been from a struggle. More of, or the whole sheet would&#8217;ve needed to be cut in order to free someone from it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"719\" height=\"728\" class=\"size-full wp-image-989666\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/32.jpg\" alt=\"Document excerpt stating &quot;Robert Waters parents were IN FACT JAMES HURLEN WATERS and his wife Judith Dangerfield.&quot; Further text details FGG testing identifying a family in Michigan: the children of John and Judith Waters. The document also lists Robert Odell Waters AKA: N\/A with his mother Judith Dangerfield and father James Waters.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Robert Odell Waters&#8217; death certification which was available on May 11, 2023, shows his parents were James Hurlen Waters and Judith Dangerfield, not John and Judith Waters as Smallcombe would have everyone believe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"1112\" class=\"size-full wp-image-989711\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/34.jpg\" alt=\"Death certificate for Robert Odell Waters, whose cause of death was asphyxia due to hanging. The certificate includes the date of death (May 6, 2023), and indicates the manner of death as suicide. This document is crucial to understanding the 1988 murders and the suspicious death of Waters while in jail.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><strong>\u201cI would like to live long enough to see Swartz and Shelton\u2019s families get justice. Mohney and Costello need to be polygraphed,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Joshua Thomas Barnes told us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">Barnes also had something to say about Costello\u00a0<strong>\u201cIn elementary school, I was a safety patrol officer and the next year a crossing guard. <\/strong><strong>Costello stopped my<\/strong><strong> friend Jeremy Price and I <\/strong><strong>while we were walking from Price\u2019s mother\u2019s house, so we<\/strong><strong> climbed into the back of Officer Costello\u2019s squad car. <\/strong><strong>W<\/strong><strong>e did it solely because he said that he \u2018needed our help\u2019 and that \u2018it would only take a couple minutes.\u2019 He then held us all day and into the night, repeatedly going from Mr. Good Cop to Mr. Bad Cop. He insisted that we were lying to him, demanding that we \u2018just look at their faces\u2019 as he stalked people while grumbling hateful comments as he passed them slow enough that they would walk up to the car and try to see who was in the backseat.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><strong>\u201c\u2018Is this what you guys want in your city?\u2019 He asked while becoming more and more frustrated as the day went on. \u2018Why would we look at their faces when we don\u2019t buy drugs from ANYONE?\u2019 I asked to no response. I told my friend Jeremy Price not to point at anyone, because at 12 years old, I already knew what crazy looked like, and that cop, Michael Costello, was terrifying. My friend was an hour in looking at their faces because the psychopath wearing the badge was driving us around locked inside his squad car and kept telling him to, telling us to.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1088667\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1088667\" style=\"width: 1386px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1088667\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/105-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan.jpg\" alt=\"Map showing walking directions via E Broadway St in Three Rivers, Michigan, from 8th St &amp; E Broadway St to 509 Spring St, a 24-minute walk.\" width=\"1386\" height=\"744\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1088667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The walk Joshua Thomas Barnes alleges Costello made him and his friend Jeremy Price at 12 years old in the middle of the night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">Michael Costello had dropped the boys off at midnight on 8th Street by Broadway. Near the end of the rough ride, Costello told the boys to \u201cpick a door any door,\u201d while they were right in front of Cathy Sue Swartz\u2019 house. The boys didn\u2019t pick any door, so Costello ended up dropping them off on 8th Street after slamming on his brakes and sending them crashing into the divider between the front and back seats of the squad car, causing the boys to slide down under their knees and onto the vehicle floorboard, then Costello went off on them, raging at the boys like a psychopath. Costello made the boys walk back home from 8th Street by Broadway at midnight. Costello made two young boys take a 24 minute walk for 1.1 miles across town in the dead of night, while Jeremy Price had to walk the rest of the way all alone to his house that was 10 more minutes away than Barnes\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">Barnes says that the whole time they were walking home, they thought every headlight was Costello and that he was going to kill them. Barnes also says that Costello threw McDonald&#8217;s food at him and Jeremy Price while they were in the back seat of the cop car.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes added that, <strong>\u201cOfficer Michael Costello&#8217;s behavior while working for the TRPD during the summer of 1988 was unprofessional and unlawful. He stopped us while walking from Price&#8217;s mother&#8217;s apartment to my parent&#8217;s house as we were headed there for lunch. Assuring us that we had done nothing wrong, he convinced us to get into the back of his squad car where he held us for many hours, into the night, before taking us to Swartz\u2019s apartment.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I know who supplied cocaine to all the rich people and cops around Three Rivers. I have a friend who used to hear all about Costello regularly from her dealer&#8230; Costello owed the drug dealer money.&#8221; <\/strong>Barnes noted.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Thomas Barnes has met the woman who was Michael Costello&#8217;s cocaine dealer, and she&#8217;s still alive.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;rough ride&#8221; in the squad car that Barnes and his friend Jeremy Price were taken on with Costello was illegal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_989590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-989590\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-989590\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/26.jpg\" alt=\"Law enforcement agencies consider giving a suspect &quot;a rough ride&quot; and &quot;bringing them upfront&quot; forms of torture. These practices are illegal and can have serious consequences. Text on image: Yes, law enforcement agencies generally consider giving a suspect &quot;a&quot;.\" width=\"610\" height=\"1008\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-989590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">middle The &#8220;rough ride&#8221; in the squad car that Barnes and his friend took with Costello was illegal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>&#8220;My uncle was being fingerprinted at the TRPD in 1991 when a fight broke out amongst the officers in the lobby. He said he heard them physically fighting, and that they were arguing with or about Costello being involved in Christina Y Shelton&#8217;s car crash.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;My uncle also heard them saying that Swartz had called the station shortly before being murdered to ask about charges she may be facing due to the drugs and money seized from her apartment by members of The TRPD. She was killed before they could take her official statement,&#8221; <\/strong>Barnes concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes&#8217; childhood friend John Maxon alleges that Michael Costello would pick him up and drive him around in his squad car before dropping him off by the Peeler Street Bridge with a couple of cigarettes, knowing that Maxon was reported as a runaway. Maxon would get into Costello&#8217;s cop car voluntarily.<\/p>\n<p>John Maxon also alleges that Costello approached him while on duty and asked him if he ever sold crack, when he told Costello no, Costello just shrugged his shoulders like &#8220;oh okay,&#8221; and walked off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"884\" class=\"wp-image-989583 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A young woman at the time in 1988 named Michele Nelson used to play poker in uptown all the time above the Marina that was pretty much a whorehouse in a bad neighborhood back then. Costello used to play poker there too, down near South Main, where presently there is a Boost Mobile store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">A young woman at the time in 1988 named Michele Nelson used to play poker in uptown all the time above the Marina that was pretty much a whorehouse in a bad neighborhood back then. Costello used to play poker there too, down near South Main, where presently there is a Boost Mobile store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">TRPD officer Michael Costello showed up unannounced and uninvited one evening at Michele Nelson\u2019s Riverside Apartment. Costello asked her to drive him down East Main, he had a bottle of wine in his car and said they could go drink down by the river at the cemetery. Nelson told Costello she had just got a DUI a few months earlier, and also told him her friend Bob knew she was with him. Michele Nelson used to go fishing \u201cevery day\u201d with her friend Bob, and Costello would show up and flirt with her all the time. Costello was angered that Nelson didn\u2019t tell him about the DUI before she drove the car for him. Costello told her never to tell anyone, this was just two weeks before Cathy Sue Swartz was murdered.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087339\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-30-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1 is the Riverside Apartments<br \/>\n2 is Paul&#8217;s Pantry Liquor that used to be Duff&#8217;s<br \/>\n3 is the Marina<br \/>\n4 is a Cemetery<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"719\" height=\"285\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087340\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Who-are-the-true-killers-1988-murders-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-Christina-Y-Shelton-Three-Rivers-Michigan-31-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Costello then allegedly dropped her off and made Michele Nelson walk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/Paul%E2%80%99s+Pantry+Liquor,+261+E+Michigan+Ave,+Three+Rivers,+MI+49093\/1229+Lockport+Drive,+Three+Rivers,+MI\/@41.9500009,-85.6239046,1354m\/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x8817071264047e63:0x2b55570c0d53a097!2m2!1d-85.6253002!2d41.9445127!1m5!1m1!1s0x88170782ae302801:0xe1b78091880cc9fa!2m2!1d-85.6122061!2d41.9555438?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDUwNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from the former Duff&#8217;s Liquor store at point two, back to the Riverside Apartments at point one<\/a>, after picking her up at point one and making her take him to the cemetery so he could drink some wine. Michael Costello allegedly made Michele Nelson, a young adult woman in 1988, take a 29 minute-long walk across town for 1.3 miles while alone in the dark of night. Nelson said she was driving his car, and we wonder if that was a police squad car or if he was in uniform. Michele Nelson says she&#8217;s always had a feeling that Costello was involved in the murders.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Michele Nelson didn&#8217;t live at the Riverside Apartments, she lived at apartments about 0.2 miles away from there. A 1.1 mile walk alone at night instead of the 1.3 miles that Costello made her walk.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1087341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087341\" style=\"width: 1353px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1087341\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-maps-pauls-pantry-liquor-store-to-riverside-apartments-in-three-rivers-michigan.jpg\" alt=\"A Google Maps view showing directions from Paul's Pantry Liquor to 1229 Lockport Dr in Three Rivers, Michigan. The route, marked in blue, travels via M-60 E and is estimated to take 3 minutes. The map highlights locations relevant to the 1988 murders investigation, including the starting point near E Michigan Ave and the destination in Three Rivers. Key locations include the St. Joseph River where Christina Y Shelton was found.\" width=\"1353\" height=\"759\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">google maps pauls pantry liquor store to riverside apartments in three rivers michigan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now ask yourself, who are the true 1988 murderers of Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton in Three Rivers, Michigan?<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Barnes\u2019 statement about the polygraph tests, while we understand that they aren\u2019t 100% accurate, the odds are still favorable to be accurate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">Joshua Thomas Barnes has experienced emotional and psychological trauma and damage to this day as a result of the incidents with Mohney and Costello in 1988 when he was only 12 years old. Barnes has an instinctual fear of law enforcement that lasts to this day. Barnes\u2019 mother was in a terrible car accident in December of 1989 that caused him to black all of these events out for a couple of years of his life until he quit drinking. That\u2019s when Barnes started having nightmares, and was fighting and talking about police in his sleep. Barnes\u2019 mother survived the car accident, but she was in a coma for a long time, and family had to teach her to learn their names and things again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">Barnes asked Jeremy Price if he remembered Costello picking them up, and he remembered it the same way. Jeremy Price was also there when Barnes was being attacked by Mohney. This trauma and damage have affected Barnes\u2019 mental well-being and life decisions negatively. We need justice for the families of Swartz and Shelton, and for Waters to be exonerated, which will also give Barnes some peace of mind and ease the trauma and damage that he has suffered from for all these years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Earl Stark was a good man, a nice guy who I thought was a great chief of police. And he was a good friend of David Swartz, Cathy&#8217;s (Cathy Sue Swartz) father. The men and women working for the TRPD today are a decent bunch, nothing like the two men (Mohney and Costello) who did those things to me,&#8221;<\/strong> Joshua Thomas Barnes said, praising former TRPD police chief Earl Stark and the current TRPD.<\/p>\n<h4><em><strong>Help us run ads in the great state of Michigan for this important social and human rights issue in an effort to get true justice for Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton, and to exonerate Robert Odell Waters: <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/donations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"auto\"><strong>Victim: Joshua Thomas Barnes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\"><strong>Murder victims: Cathy Sue Swartz, Christina Y Shelton<\/strong><\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\"><strong>Suspects: Former Det. Sgt. Michael Mohney, Officer Michael Costello<\/strong><\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\"><strong>Location: Three Rivers, Michigan in 1988<\/strong><\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\"><strong>Evidence download:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Downloads\/9-16-2023-Who-are-true-murderers-of-Cathy-Sue-Swartz-and-Christina-Y-Shelton.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\"><em><strong>Included in the evidence is a video of the &#8220;woman&#8221; who was seen leaving the scene of the Swartz murder compared to Michael (Mike) Mohney. There are also notes with additional information about the images. A rough draft of this article is included as well.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\"><em>Official account and unanswered questions: The investigation above presents our own findings and a theory that conflicts with the official narrative, which we believe does not withstand scrutiny. According to the Three Rivers Police Department and the Michigan State Police, the Cathy Sue Swartz case was investigated using forensic genetic genealogy under a Michigan State Police cold-case grant; authorities have said DNA recovered from the crime scene narrowed the suspect pool to a single family and that they then identified Robert Odell Waters as their suspect after obtaining and matching his DNA. Waters was arrested in Beaufort County, South Carolina, on April 30, 2023, and less than a week later, on May 6, 2023, he was found dead in his jail cell, with investigators stating his injuries appeared to be self-inflicted. Because Waters died before trial, no evidence was ever tested in open court. Notably, the &#8220;bloody fingerprint&#8221; authorities pointed to as the genealogy source in 2023 does not appear in any earlier public account of this case; for roughly 35 years the recovered fingerprint was never described as bloody, and that characterization surfaced only once the genealogy narrative was introduced \u2014 exactly the kind of discrepancy our investigation above raises. We do not treat the police account as a settled or final answer. We stand by the questions raised in our reporting and maintain that the families of Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y Shelton deserve a full and transparent accounting; readers seeking the official version of events should consult the Three Rivers Police Department, the Michigan State Police, and contemporaneous court and news records directly.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Where the case sits now<\/h2>\n<p>Western Michigan University&#8217;s Cold Case Program still lists Cathy Sue Swartz as a December 2, 1988 Three Rivers homicide and still names Robert Odell Waters as the DNA match who died in a Beaufort County, South Carolina jail before he could be extradited. No Michigan jury ever heard the evidence. No public charges have been filed against former Detective Sergeant Michael Mohney or former officer Michael Costello. The official file treats Waters&#8217; death as the end of the prosecution. The AEGIS Alliance investigation does not. The families of Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y. Shelton still have no day in court. Readers who want the police version should consult the Three Rivers Police Department, the Michigan State Police, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/wmich.edu\/coldcase\/cases\/cathy-swartz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WMU Cold Case Program page<\/a>. Readers who want the unanswered questions should start at the top of this article.<\/p>\n<p>Related AEGIS investigations into alleged police cover-ups: <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2019\/04\/23\/anonymous-exposes-nh-double-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anonymous exposes an NH double murder<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2017\/07\/28\/nh-double-murder-exposed-anonymous-aegis-alliance-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NH double murder exposed, part 2<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2017\/07\/24\/attempting-clear-misconceptions-anonymous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attempting to clear misconceptions about Anonymous<\/a>. Support the work at <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/donations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the donations page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AEGIS Alliance investigation into the 1988 Three Rivers, Michigan murders of Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y. 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