The day before...
One June 26, 2000 Magi Bish dropped Molly Bish off for her 7th day working as a lifeguard at Comings pond in Warren, Ma. This was her first day working alone. Molly had gotten this job because her brother had worked as a lifeguard at the same pond in the 3 summers prior to her disappearance. He trained her for the job the week before, before going to work on construction during his summer vacation. Though this was the day before Molly would go missing, it is a day that her mother would come back to over and over again in the years after she was abducted. That day, when Magi was dropping Molly off at the pond, she noticed a man in a white car (later described as a mid 1980s Buick.) Sitting in his car smoking, and seeming to watch them. Magi was so unnerved by this man, she waited in the parking lot until he left.
Magi called it mother's intuition. She knew that something was off. Magi would later give the description of this man to a sketch artist, and his image would eventually be plastered everywhere.
Also on June 26th, 2000 one of Molly friends would get hit by a car. Though I have tried, I have failed to find the name of this person or what might have happened to them. Does this have anything at all to do with the abduction and murder of Molly Bish? I am not sure. If you had asked my 20 years ago, I would have dismissed this, with the at least 3 other people that died surrounding this case I have to say that at the very least is a valid question. Which I will get into more after I get through the timeline.
June 27th 2000
From what I understand, Molly was pushing her mother because she didn’t want to be late. They stopped at the gas station in town, at about 9:50 am, to get water. (There is a short video clip of this.) Then the police department to get the two-way radio, and Magi dropped Molly at off at the pond for her shift.
Sandra Woodworth would show up to the pond about 20 minutes later with her kids. Only to find Molly’s beach chair, sandals, backpack and two-way radio. Ed Fett, the Warren parks commissioner at the time and Molly’s boss, showed up to Comins pond around 11 am. He found out from Sandra Woodworth that Molly hadn’t been there for her whole shift. He would stay at the pond for 45 minutes before driving over to the police department to report that Molly had never showed up at work.
Let’s talk a little more about where Ed Fett was that day before we keep going because it is significant to what happens years later.
That morning, Ed Fett had met 3 boys in Cutter Park in Warren at 9 :00 am so that they could perform community service. From what one of the boys said, Ed Fett was already at the park with brushes and paint. Sometime between 9:20 am and 11 am that morning, Ed Fett would leave Cutter Park. Supposedly by chance he had run into John Bish Jr, Molly’s brother and his former employee at the West Brookfield hardware store. According to Heather Bish on the Missing Maura Murray podcast, ED Fett was buying rope and duct tape that morning. This all happening before meeting Susan Woodworth at the park at 11:00am. Again, staying there for 45 minutes before going to the police department to report her Molly missing.
At 12:30 the 3 boys would be picked up at Cutter park by Ed Fett and brought out to lunch at Mona’s Pizza, (which was right in the center of Warren) with Warren Police Chief Ronald Syriac. From what I understand, none of the boys were not told that Molly was missing, even though Ed Fett had already reported her missing. Molly’s mother Magi would find out by a phone call at 1pm.
The following days and months, a lot of the focus would be placed on the guy in the white car that Magi had seen the day before on June 26th. With all the attention this case received over 20 plus years, it is hard not to think that the guy who was just sitting there in that white car had something to do with it. I mean, if not, why not help the police out and just tell them who you are and stop them from looking for you?
3 Years later.
June 9th, 2003 Some of Molly’s remains were found near the Palmer Ware line. On top of a steep incline called Whiskey Hill. Which is now a speedway. They were located by a hunter sometime before they were reported because the person had not made the connection. It wasn’t until he was talking to a friend that he mentioned seeing a blue bikini in the woods, and his friend talked him into reporting it. This triggered one of the largest grid searches ever done in Massachusetts state police history. Finding only 26 bones and some of her hair and teeth.
Two days later on June 11th, 2003 Peter Rambiszewski would die in the second car accident that he had that day, which were only spaced a few hours apart. Most of the reports that I have read question whether or not Peter had killed himself over the grief of what happened to Molly. Sighting they were friends, and that he was deeply effected by her going missing. It was also reported that he had recently worked at Mona’s Pizza.
Years down the road.
June 18th, 2007 John Bish (sr.) has a massive stroke and spends some time in critical care before being released.
On October 19th 2007, Attorney Richard L. Greco Assistant DA who lead the grand jury investigation into Molly Bish died at his home of a thoracic aneurysm. (Stroke.)
On October 13th 2008 Steven Lukas, Boyfriend of Molly Bish, would get into a high speed single car accident on Fuller Road in Palmer. Dying from his injuries a short time later.
On May 18th, 2012 Kennith Tatro passed away in Florida. He testified to the grand jury in 2006 that there was a man seen in a White Chevy Corsica staring at Molly in the days leading up to her disappearance. Kennith would make a deal with Assistant DA over missing court dates while serving in Iraq specifically to testify in the Grand Jury that he was leading about Molly Bish.
On May 15th 2018 Gerard Tatro, Kennith’s younger brother would die. Gerard had worked for the Warren Parks department the year that Molly went missing. From what I have read, both brothers knew Molly, and Kennith had even dated one of Molly’s friends.
While I wouldn’t go as far as to say that these deaths all have to do with some conspiracy surrounding Molly’s abduction and murder, I can at least say in my own lay persons' opinion that this is eyebrow raising. To know that at the very least the parks' commissioner, who was Molly’s boss and had already reported her missing, was sitting with the chief of police and neither of them were talking about a town employee being missing is pretty strange.
If you are looking for more information on this, I would suggest the articles that were written on the website Medium about this case are rather informative. I also got a lot of information from what Heather Bish, sister of Molly Bish, when she did the then podcast Missing Maura Murray, which is now just MissingCSM. It is run by Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna. Heather gives a detailed account about what happened to her and her family that day. If you take the time to listen to her interview I want to point out a couple of things that I noticed. Pay close attention to what she says about the Warren Parks Commissioner, who is Ed Fett. The information is rather shocking.
Also, I wanted to point out what Heather says about sharing information between departments. While I don’t know all the in’s and out’s of the laws, what I gather is that there is obligation to share information between departments. Which is interesting when you consider where Molly’s body was found. Which was almost directly on the Palmer/Ware border.
Part of what makes all of this information interesting is what happened not too far away at UMASS Amherst in 2004. When Maura Murray was to go missing. While I won’t go into the details of that case, there are a few things that I wanted to point out. One is that Maura Murray was supposedly in two single car accidents on jurisdictional lines. Which makes it difficult when departments argue about who has jurisdiction. One of the more recent developments in Maura Murray’s case was the FBI releasing a ViCAP. Which one of its objectives was the sharing of information between departments.
I would further look into what Heather has said about the investigation into her sister's case as a whole. The DNA evidence is a strange thing in this case. I think that part of the reason for that is that the family’s private investigator was the person to find the shorts with the DNA on it, on Whiskey Hill, in a bag, after the major search by Massachusetts Law Enforcement looking for more of her remains. What I have found remarkable about this is Law Enforcement told Heather Bish that they would no longer be talking to her about the DNA.
Anyway. Thank you for reading and keeping awareness up for this case. Have a great rest of your day!
Phoenix.
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