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An Arkansas woman has allegedly confessed to authorities that her late husband murdered a mother and son who have been missing for nearly two decades.
Barbara Krusen told FBI agents during a post-polygraph interview this month that her now-dead husband, Clarence, killed Angela Mack Cox, 20, and her 4-year-old son Thomas Michael Rettew. Authorities believe Clarence Krusen incinerated their remains at Cox s Alton, Missouri farm in December 2002. [Clarence] had done away with both Angela Mack Cox and Thomas Michael Rettew by killing them and destroying their bodies in a furnace that they had attached to their farmhouse,” Fulton County Sheriff Al Roork said in a news release. She stated when they moved from the farmhouse, he told her the furnace had to go because of what it had been used for.”
Police in Missouri have solved a 20-year-old cold case after a woman told officers her husband had murdered both victims and burned their bodies.
Barbara Krusen told the FBI her husband had killed Angela Mack Cox and her four-year-old son Thomas Michael Rettew (Mikey) and disposed of their bodies in a furnace attached to their farmhouse.
She told authorities she had not come forward with the shocking information before because she feared for her life.
The grisly murders are believed to have taken place at the Krusen s farm in Alton, Missouri, in December 2002.
Police in Missouri have solved a 20-year-old cold case after a woman told officers her husband had murdered Angela Mack Cox and her four-year-old son Thomas Michael Rettew (Mikey) and burned their bodies
Cold Case Solved: Widow Says Her Late Husband Killed and Incinerated Mother and Child in 2002 Colin Kalmbacher
Angela Mack-Cox and her four-year-old son
Thomas Michael “Mikey” Rettew were killed and disappeared in 2002. The case now appears to have finally been solved – but the killer can’t go to jail.
According to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office in Arkansas, the mother and child were murdered in late 2002 or early 2003 before being placed in a furnace and burned away into nothing.
Even the farmhouse furnace used to remove their bodies from the earth along with all evidence of the crime is no longer available.
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Widow confesses late husband murdered missing woman, child By Region 8 Newsdesk | April 9, 2021 at 11:52 AM CDT - Updated April 9 at 7:39 PM
FULTON COUNTY, Ark. (KAIT) - More than 18 years ago, a Fulton County woman and her young son disappeared.
Now, investigators say a manâs widow has confessed he killed them and destroyed their bodies in an outdoor furnace.
On Sept. 1, 2002, Sheriff Al Roork was the Salem police chief when Tommy Rettew reported his 4-year-old son, Thomas Michael Rettew, was missing.
The boyâs mother, Angela Mack Cox, had also disappeared.
According to an April 9, 2021, news release, sheriffâs investigator Dale Weaver interviewed several of her friends.