Johnny S. Clarke & Lisa Straub- young Ohio couple murdered

[ToledoNative]

Has anybody thought about the fact that Lisa was more wounded than Johnny?

Usually blood and wounds are a sign of a fight and yet Lisa was the bloody one. Because she fought harder? Nope.

Were the intruders either punishing Johnny (maybe for not paying back a drug debt or snitching or something) by making him watch them hurting, raping, etc. Lisa OR were they doing these things to Lisa to get Johnny to talk and give them information about something (where a safe is, what the combination is, where drugs are, the list could go on and on)?

that's exactly how I think it went down, IF it's true, that Lisa was injured much worse than Johnny. We've heard 3 rumors of what might have happened to Lisa. Raped, hit with a baseball bat, & her tongue being injured in some way ... I think the rumor may very well be true, that Johnny had bragged about a safe being in the home.

Well, we do know for sure that Lisa was bloody and Johnny was not.

[Jane]

Correct me if I am wrong.

The police said there were no injuries other than the smothering.
The neighbor said his friend or neighbor cleaned up the house and there
was blood all over.
Whose blood? And how did it get all over if Lisa and Johnny didnt have
any on them?

Remember there was a dog or pup could have walked through it nothing said about it but it is a thought.Dog could have been injured also but nothing much said about it.

a "local" posted the puppy was found, hiding under the sofa, I believe. I think the local said the puppy was fine, other than being hyper/upset, nipping at people, trying to get it out ?

[wanttoknow]

I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW what SCAM Johnny's parents tried to pull on
the Straubs. Oh, would I love to know.

Another rumor, but I wouldn't be shocked to find out it was true. I don't think Maytee really liked Lisa all that much. Just a feeling. JMO

I think your right. At first she didn't say much about her in her fbs to heaven, but someone must have said something because all of a sudden she started including Lisa.

[Jane]

Has anybody thought about the fact that Lisa was more wounded than Johnny?

Usually blood and wounds are a sign of a fight and yet Lisa was the bloody one. Because she fought harder? Nope.

Were the intruders either punishing Johnny (maybe for not paying back a drug debt or snitching or something) by making him watch them hurting, raping, etc. Lisa OR were they doing these things to Lisa to get Johnny to talk and give them information about something (where a safe is, what the combination is, where drugs are, the list could go on and on)?

that's exactly how I think it went down, IF it's true, that Lisa was injured much worse than Johnny. We've heard 3 rumors of what might have happened to Lisa. Raped, hit with a baseball bat, & her tongue being injured in some way ... I think the rumor may very well be true, that Johnny had bragged about a safe being in the home.

Well, we do know for sure that Lisa was bloody and Johnny was not.

Only from what Maytee has said. She said when her husband ripped the bag off Lisa's head, there was dried blood on the side of her face, & something about a 'pile'/or 'pool' of blood beside her head.

[ToledoNative]

Correct me if I am wrong.

The police said there were no injuries other than the smothering.
The neighbor said his friend or neighbor cleaned up the house and there
was blood all over.
Whose blood? And how did it get all over if Lisa and Johnny didnt have
any on them?

It's been speculated that maybe Johnny injured one of the perps. Maybe cutting that person with a knife ?? I have to believe Johnny put up a hard fight, one way or the other, before he was subdued.

The only way Johnny was able to put up a big fight is if there were only one or two intruders. There could have been, say four, intruders which would mean they could overtake Johnny fairly easily and get his hands and feet all taped up so they can begin using Lisa to get info out of Johnny. That would explain why Johnny's face and head weren't all bloody.

[lawheeze]

Very interesting and new concept.
1. Are you saying that Johnny and Lisa might be bringing home the fresh delivery?

2. Has Tiff's car been picked up for processing? They did say there was alot of blood.

I haven't read anything about Tiff's car being processed.

As for the delivery, yes that's what I'm wondering:
- they knew in advance when they would have the home to themselves
- people friending up on FB about 2 weeks prior
- JC might have picked up whatever it was on his way from the Pro Bowl party to pick up LS
- the LOCZ might have taken this as a territorial intrusion
- LS asking Tiff for "diggies" which could mean digital scales
- Tiff shopping with AP/AG after the murders
- VD gone for the week after the murders, reappearing without a phone
- MJ saying some ominous things in the latter part of January about snitching

All complete speculation.

[ToledoNative]

I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW what SCAM Johnny's parents tried to pull on
the Straubs. Oh, would I love to know.

Another rumor, but I wouldn't be shocked to find out it was true. I don't think Maytee really liked Lisa all that much. Just a feeling. JMO

I think your right. At first she didn't say much about her in her fbs to heaven, but someone must have said something because all of a sudden she started including Lisa.

I completely agree, 100%.

Maytee clearly has some jealousy/resentment towards Lisa. Let's not forget what Maytee said in the Nancy Grace interview. She said she thinks it was all because of Lisa, not Johnny. That it was someone who knew Lisa's parents. UMMMMM...OKAY.

[Jane]

I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW what SCAM Johnny's parents tried to pull on
the Straubs. Oh, would I love to know.

if true.
there was a civil suit i think, but i cannot substantiate it.

aaaaah, interesting

If writers were to sit down and fabricate a story I doubt if they
would ever get all these variables. It is astounding. Or I have
lived a too sheltered life. :O:O

I don't doubt Maytee's a con artist. JMO

[purplepegasus]

I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW what SCAM Johnny's parents tried to pull on
the Straubs. Oh, would I love to know.

Another rumor, but I wouldn't be shocked to find out it was true. I don't think Maytee really liked Lisa all that much. Just a feeling. JMO

Agreed. I've had this feeling from the get go. Lisa was always kind of an afterthought.

[BlueTiki]

they could overtake Johnny fairly easily and get his hands and feet all taped up so they can begin using Lisa to get info out of Johnny. That would explain why Johnny's face and head weren't all bloody.

And without blood on him, that might indicate he sang like a canary.

Perhaps to save himself a beat-down.

[lawheeze]

Very interesting and new concept.
1. Are you saying that Johnny and Lisa might be bringing home the fresh delivery?

2. Has Tiff's car been picked up for processing? They did say there was alot of blood.

I haven't read anything about Tiff's car being processed.

As for the delivery, yes that's what I'm wondering:
- they knew in advance when they would have the home to themselves
- people friending up on FB about 2 weeks prior
- JC might have picked up whatever it was on his way from the Pro Bowl party to pick up LS
- the LOCZ might have taken this as a territorial intrusion
- LS asking Tiff for "diggies" which could mean digital scales
- Tiff shopping with AP/AG after the murders
- VD gone for the week after the murders, reappearing without a phone
- MJ saying some ominous things in the latter part of January about snitching

All complete speculation.

Also, if this is what was going on and Maytee knew Johnny was organizing this with Tiffany's assistance, it could explain (1) why Maytee immediately jumped to kidnapping and assault theories on 911 and (2) why she immediately accused Tiff of setting Johnny up.

[ToledoNative]

I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW what SCAM Johnny's parents tried to pull on
the Straubs. Oh, would I love to know.

if true.
there was a civil suit i think, but i cannot substantiate it.

aaaaah, interesting

If writers were to sit down and fabricate a story I doubt if they
would ever get all these variables. It is astounding. Or I have
lived a too sheltered life. :O:O

I don't doubt Maytee's a con artist. JMO

A con artist?

Let's think about that. Someone posted (actually I think it might have been on a thread from one of the new articles) that Maytee is a psychic and their friends have used her before. Really?

Then why can't she use her magical powers to solve the crime?

Yes, a con artist, indeed.

[ToledoNative]

if true.
there was a civil suit i think, but i cannot substantiate it.

aaaaah, interesting

If writers were to sit down and fabricate a story I doubt if they
would ever get all these variables. It is astounding. Or I have
lived a too sheltered life. :O:O

I don't doubt Maytee's a con artist. JMO

A con artist?

Let's think about that. Someone posted (actually I think it might have been on a thread from one of the new articles) that Maytee is a psychic and their friends have used her before. Really?

Then why can't she use her magical powers to solve the crime?

Yes, a con artist, indeed.

that was supposed to say "on a thread from one of the NEWS articles.

[TotallyCurious]

I wonder if someone advised Tiff that Johnny and Lisa were
tied with bags over their heads and that if Maytee wanted
her mama's boy. she should get there and save him? That
might explain her terror and her immediate need for
someone to enter the house. But SHE was not willing to break in
at that point, so she must have thought they were either
still safe. breathing, or she knew they were deceased and
wanted the police to be the first on the scene.

John, the dad, is really the only one who took immediate
control, though where was he between Maytee's first
in car phone to police and second in car phone?

[DCTim]

Blade this morning:

A reward for information leading to an arrest in the slayings of a Springfield Township couple has increased to $16,000, a spokesman for victim Lisa Straub’s family said Monday.


Ms. Straub, 20, and Johnny Clarke, 21, were found asphyxiated in Ms. Straub’s parents’ Longacre Lane home in Springfield Township Jan. 31. Both had plastic bags over their heads and their hands were bound with duct tape.

Jim Verbosky, Ms. Straub’s uncle, said the family is continuing to solicit donations for the Lisa Straub Benefit Fund, which was set up at Fifth Third Bank to be used as a reward for the arrest and conviction of those responsible.

Mr. Verbosky also said a benefit planned at T.G.I.Fridays, 1334 Bernath Pkwy., has been reset for noon to 10 p.m. Thursday. Proceeds will benefit the reward fund. Ms. Straub was a server at the restaurant.

How'd I miss that? I checked The Blade's site this am (and again just now) and didn't/don't see it. Link please?

[Lady Cop]

http://beta.toledoblade.com/local/2011/0...eased.html

[DCTim]

Talked to my brother again today. He says the FBI contacted his boss to get info on a newly former employee. (I won't give the name unless I have permission to) BUT I looked up this person on FB. He's a 20 yr old male, looks like he joined FB at the end of January & right on the top of his FB friends is AG/AP.

FB, was it you has the bartender brother who got that info about rape?


Also, can you put that FB link in the private forum link?

Since you also asked for a way to view R.P. & M.P. on FB I sent you a PM (Sorry I now we aren't suppose to whisper) I feel like I'm talking in some kinda weird code with all these initials LOL Would pig latin be ok?

Hi Freshbait78,

Could you please PM me with those links.

Thanks zero

Okay, maybe I'm reaching here - and if so, tell me, by all means - but in reading RPs FB page, does anyone else think its a bit strange that he makes NO mention of his best friend's and his girlfriend's horrible deaths? But a mere two days later, he's looking to "im thinkin bout going to get a bottle to stay warm so i can go sleding " IDK, as much as so many of these players post so much of their personal biz online, I would've expected to at least read a mention of it...

[Freshbait78]

[/quote]

Okay, maybe I'm reaching here - and if so, tell me, by all means - but in reading RPs FB page, does anyone else think its a bit strange that he makes NO mention of his best friend's and his girlfriend's horrible deaths? But a mere two days later, he's looking to "im thinkin bout going to get a bottle to stay warm so i can go sleding " IDK, as much as so many of these players post so much of their personal biz online, I would've expected to at least read a mention of it...
[/quote]

Exactly the reason why I thought I had the wrong guy, well that & the fact that he doesn't provide the missing link to "Sharita"

[Red_velvet71]

DITTO...and let's not forget the fact you find it okay for your husband to catch a ride from someone you're going to accuse set your son up for murder not a half hour later....pleaaazzzzeeee

This is really baffling .... Tiff supposedly called Johnny's best friend's girlfriend first (Sherita/Shareda/Sharita/?), who wouldn't give her Maytee's number - can that be true? and if it is, why wouldn't she give her the number? Tiff can't be given the number for some unknown reason so Maytee has to find out from someone else indirectly, yet John Sr asks Tiff to drive him to the house. Why did he do that? How did he know her friend's mom would be home from work by then and she would have access to a car? Doesn't he have a car himself? How well did Tiff and Johnny's parents know each other? And how did they know each other? Were they friends, or only casual acquaintances - if so, how? Also, who was Johnny's best friend? I thought Ruben or Reuben was his name, but why hasn't his name come up again since?

1. why wouldn't she give her the number? I've had people call me & ask for a someones #. I don't give it out until I check with the the person who's # is being requested.

2. yet John Sr asks Tiff to drive him to the house. Why did he do that? Per Tiffanys testimony, after sharita calls Maytee, John Sr. calls Tiffany. Tiffany rehashes the story, tells John Sr she's going back by there & asks if he wants a ride. He accepts.

3. How did he know her friend's mom would be home from work by then and she would have access to a car? She was already out driving around. Per Tiffanys testimony, she had already been over to the Straubs to check out the scene before calling anyone to alert them of anything.

4. Doesn't he have a car himself? I cannot confirm nor deny that I've heard something about them having a van somewhere in this thread... I don't know where.

5. How well did Tiff and Johnny's parents know each other? And how did they know each other? Were they friends, or only casual acquaintances - if so, how? It sounded to me as if they did not know eachother prior to this incident.

6. who was Johnny's best friend? I've heard Rueben. I tried to look him up on FB after Ruebens mom posted on JCs online funeral registry but did not find any match. Apparently not everyone in the city has a FB. Same goes for a Sharita, nothing. I also used various spellings.

Freshbait, got a question i would like your input on. I feel tiff is in a "a few good men" logic loop. As a reminder of the movie nicholson's character says the victim was in danger, and that men take matters into their own hands, then later says that no one would defy his own order to not touch the victim. Applying this to our case here we have two options:

1) If we believe tiff heard johnny yelling and fighting with someone while she was on the phone then why go over there like shes going to save the day (wonder woman?) and why wait 2 fucking hours to get some real help about it.

2) if we believe tiff heard johnny casually say "I will call you back" then why the need to panick. they arent answering phones, so what.! so your going to drive 20 minutes to see why.? maybe they just decided to do something else and didn't want to include her. They arent answering the door, again so what. they didn't go back to your house, so what. these things don't then require someone to raise the alarm and wake everyone up to go over there and kick in doors. these things alone aren't indicators of foul play. hence why cops didn't enter the residence. Everyone starts to panick b/c a call isn't answered in the middle of the night.? shit they could have just been sleeping and turned off the ringer/ phone.

This goes back to my first gut reaction, someone who was trying to get help for the victims knew of a real danger, something beyond just missed phone calls, something beyond what was on the surface, to start reacting to a phone call ignored. my question is, what could that real know imminent danger be? or is it all a bs set up with fake phone calls etc.

Thus the bullshit logic loop. It doesn't seem it can really be option 1 or 2. it doesn't seem to make a bit of logical sense and when you go back and forth between options 1 and 2 you realize that at some point in this narrative there is a point where the story crumbles. your thought?

My thoughts are this: I don't believe the phone call happened the way it's been said that it did. So in my mind, the whole "Who are you?" "What are you doing?" "What do you want?" With or without "bro" thrown in there, is irrelevant. I do believe there was a phone call, I do believe this was a set up which took multiple people to carry out. This is kinda how I see it played out, in my mind. I'm don't mean to implicate anyone as of yet. This is just MY THEORY:

Johnny is at VDs house with BA just before he has to leave to get Lisa from work. They had just started hanging out again from what VD has stated publicly. Johnny leaves to get Lisa, a phone call is made that he has left & where he's headed. Tiffany calls Johnny at around 11. We know this, what we don't know for fact is what was said on the phone call. I believe the phone call was made to find out his exact location & what exactly he was doing. There may have also been some stalling. Maybe the 1^st time Tiffany called he wasn't home yet so she called back again to find out if he was home yet. (In her version this would have been when she called him back to tell him she was going to the store, this is also why I don't think it was ever intended for Johnny to pick her up) I believe who ever was to do the invasion was with Tiffany that night prior to the invasion. I think it's possible they were dropped off there at the Straubs. I think it's possible that Tiffany went to pick them up when it was done. This would account for Tiffany being there. For anyone who says Why didn't anyone see Tiffany there picking up a group of people: If this was a 3 car garage maybe she pulled into one of the spots in the gargae to load up her passangers? Also Tiffany states that she drove back by her house to see if they had left to pick her up. This could be when Tiffany drops off the people involved. While making her stop at home she calls Sherita and says "OMG I think somethings happened to Johnny I heard XYZ so I went over to the house & saw XYZ... do you think I should call his Mom?" This covers her on why she made the initial phone call to Johnny twice & why she was at the house ringing the door bell (Which could have also been a que to let the perps know it was her there to pick them up. Kinda like I'll ring the door bell 5 times & knock twice) They would not want to use cell phones knowing that they can be traced with pings & call logs. This wasn't for robbery, I think it was staged to look that way OR if it was for robbery it was secondary & it was drugs they wanted or if I really want to stretch it I could even say that the drug periphenalia found was planted. How hard is it to carry little pieces of platic bag in your pocket?

That's about all I've got so far & I may even tweek it a little here & there but I think everyone gets my idea.

+ 1 totally possible theory.

[Snoopy]

DITTO...and let's not forget the fact you find it okay for your husband to catch a ride from someone you're going to accuse set your son up for murder not a half hour later....pleaaazzzzeeee

This is really baffling .... Tiff supposedly called Johnny's best friend's girlfriend first (Sherita/Shareda/Sharita/?), who wouldn't give her Maytee's number - can that be true? and if it is, why wouldn't she give her the number? Tiff can't be given the number for some unknown reason so Maytee has to find out from someone else indirectly, yet John Sr asks Tiff to drive him to the house. Why did he do that? How did he know her friend's mom would be home from work by then and she would have access to a car? Doesn't he have a car himself? How well did Tiff and Johnny's parents know each other? And how did they know each other? Were they friends, or only casual acquaintances - if so, how? Also, who was Johnny's best friend? I thought Ruben or Reuben was his name, but why hasn't his name come up again since?

1. why wouldn't she give her the number? I've had people call me & ask for a someones #. I don't give it out until I check with the the person who's # is being requested.

2. yet John Sr asks Tiff to drive him to the house. Why did he do that? Per Tiffanys testimony, after sharita calls Maytee, John Sr. calls Tiffany. Tiffany rehashes the story, tells John Sr she's going back by there & asks if he wants a ride. He accepts.

3. How did he know her friend's mom would be home from work by then and she would have access to a car? She was already out driving around. Per Tiffanys testimony, she had already been over to the Straubs to check out the scene before calling anyone to alert them of anything.

4. Doesn't he have a car himself? I cannot confirm nor deny that I've heard something about them having a van somewhere in this thread... I don't know where.

5. How well did Tiff and Johnny's parents know each other? And how did they know each other? Were they friends, or only casual acquaintances - if so, how? It sounded to me as if they did not know eachother prior to this incident.

6. who was Johnny's best friend? I've heard Rueben. I tried to look him up on FB after Ruebens mom posted on JCs online funeral registry but did not find any match. Apparently not everyone in the city has a FB. Same goes for a Sharita, nothing. I also used various spellings.

Re: #5 - I don't recall any mention of a relationship between Tiffany's parents (God knows who her dad is) and Johnny's parents.

Re: #6 - I have not looked for Ruben. If people can't find him then I would doubt Tiffany's claim that he was Johnny's "best friend". If he were, wouldn't he showing on Maytee's memorial pages or the Legacy link? So far, people can't find Ruben or Sharita. Something doesn't add up there.

There is a Ruben that Posted on Johnny's online obituary page- his mother did too. Ruben is on page 6, Ruben's mother posted, and it follows his post, on the same page.