24 years ago TODAY, Laura McBride was murdered

Walking down from her apartment up across the Huron River off Green Road and somehow wound up in Peninsular Park where she was killed. My guess is that since she was stabbed (well there's more to that but I'll spare you the details until it comes out in open court) she was led into the park at knifepoint by her killer, a piece of human shit named Jimmy Eric Green (and Jimmy's parents should be SO PROUD of what they raised), was identified by DNA. They had to look no further than the State Prison in Jackson, MI to find him. He was serving a life sentence for rape and assault.

If anyone knows this case in Ypsilanti it's normally because they have heard the legend of Laura's ghost roaming up by the Hill dorms (ironically enough where Laura Dickinson was recently murdered) during the fall. Hopefully the closure in this case will allow Laura's memory to be that of a kind soul who was also an Air Force vet.

Maybe even perhaps it will release her ghost (which I believe was and is there due to an eyewitness account of a former EMU police officer named 'Joe' who worked there in the late 80's) from it's tortured existence. Who is to say but we do know, the book on one of the most intriguing cases in Ypsilanti's history can now be closed.

Peninsular Park