07-29-2012, 07:01 PM
(07-29-2012, 06:19 PM)NightOwl Wrote: From The Blade "Several of Clarke's friends said that Clarke was known to brag about money when he had it, and other things that he had."
This testimony from the trial Toledo Blade above, I see no mention of a safe and I believe the Blade wouldn't leave that part out.
I'm trying to find more info on the safe.
http://www.truecrimereport.com/2011/02/j...aub_fo.php
UPDATE IV: Relatives believe the killers were looking for a safe.
"There's a lot of work involved in this. That's not random. That's targeted," Doyle Burke, a retired Dayton homicide detective, told the Toledo Blade. "The average burglar or robber is armed, but they're not walking around with duct tape and plastic bags."
That has led some to believe that the perpetrators knew the victims, and that this was personal. Slowly suffocating the couple to death would indicate they wanted Johnny and Lisa to die slowly -- and painfully.
But Jim Jim Verbosky, Lisa's uncle, believes the bad guys knew Lisa's parents, Jeff and Mary Beth Straub, were out of town for their anniversary. He also says they were looking for a safe that didn't exist.
"There is a kitchen with an island and an open eating area that went into an open family room," he told the Blade. "That was not ransacked, but you could tell there was a fight that ensued there. Plants were knocked over. Things were broken and knocked over, but upstairs, Mary Beth and Jeff's room was ransacked to the point where it looked like a TV show. All the drawers were out, and they had punched holes in the walk-in closet looking for a safe that never existed. There was no safe."
All that was stolen was $84 in cash from a change jar. Valuables like jewelry, TVs and computers were left behind.
http://www.toledoblade.com/Courts/2012/0...-jail.html
Samuel Williams wasn't very open about his case with fellow inmates at the Lucas County jail until one night when he shared insight about events inside a Springfield Township home in January, 2011, said a Toledo man who testified Tuesday in Lucas County Pleas Court.
"One of the things [Williams] said was that he'll never forget how the bag made a crinkle noise when Lisa [Straub] breathed in," said Erik Yingling, who was incarcerated at the jail in December, 2011, with Williams. " … They were trying to torture them, for lack of a better word, to try to get Johnny [Clarke] to tell where the safe and money was."