playing. leroy and melody bruce remember those days fondly. we used to go out on the pontoon boat. i remember laying on the front of the pontoon boat with my hands out catching leaves and bugs and seeing who could catch the most in the water. melody s stepfather, larry bruce, worked as a driver for roadway trucking. judy was a stay-at-home mom. my mom was kind of introverted. she did not really socialize a lot because of her speech impediment. she had a hard time with people understanding what she was saying. the speech impediment, the result of a cleft palate, made judy self-conscious, but when she had corrective surgery, her life changed. well, she got her driver s license, she had a car, she got a job at mansfield general hospital in housekeeping. she was making friends there. judy loved her job at the
death and killed himself due to his guilt over it. but no one could corroborate larry s claims and the primary focus continued to be on larry bruce. we ultimately made the decision not to press for the indictment at that time because everything we had at that time was circumstantial. time passed, and judy bruce s murder slowly drifted to the bottom of the unsolved case file. i never forgot the case. i would drive by their residence and we would drive by roadway trucking. i remember an alarm went off talking to a dispatcher at roadway trucking. i said what did larry ever say about this case because he worked there for several years after the homicide. and the feedback i would get was that he was the kind of guy that was bragging about it.
the call made to roxanne ellis before her murder originated from the tiki lodge. however, robert acremant had no motive to kill roxanne ellis or her partner, michelle, and he had no criminal record. he d never been charged with any criminal activity. in fact, he ended up going into the air force. he served honorably in the air force. he went on to get a master s degree, and he had a good job, really, working for roadway trucking in california. a credit card check revealed that acremant had been spending a lot of time and money at a strip club in las vegas. he had some money. he headed for vegas and fell for this stripper who he envisioned as his girlfriend. he had run himself into debt, obviously had an addiction to her and to that lifestyle. the stripper s stage name was
focus continued to be on larry bruce. we ultimately made the decision not to press for the indictment at that time because everything we had at that time was circumstantial. time passed, and judy bruce s murder slowly drifted to the bottom of the unsolved case file. i never forgot the case. i would drive by their residence and we would drive by roadway trucking. i remember a an alarm went off talking to a dispatcher at roadway trucking. i said what did larry ever say about this case because he worked there for several years after the homicide. and the feedback i would get was that he was the kind of guy that was bragging about it. he committed the perfect crime. he got away with it.
those days fondly. we used to go out on the pontoon boat. i remember laying on the front of the pontoon boat with my hands out catching leaves and bugs and seeing who could catch the most in the water. melody s stepfather, larry bruce, worked as a driver for roadway trucking. judy was a stay-at-home mom. my mom was kind of introverted. she did not really socialize a lot because of her speech impediment. she had a hard time with people understanding what she was saying. the speech impediment, the result of a cleft palate, made judy self-conscious, but when she had corrective surgery, her life changed. well, she got her driver s license, she had a car, she got a job at mansfield general hospital in housekeeping. she was making friends there. judy loved her job at the hospital, but on the morning of november 2nd, 1978, she was too sick to go to work.