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Suicide now Murder

Started by groomporter, January 29, 2009, 01:54:18 PM

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groomporter

Wow ???
Don't know how many of you had heard that Pam Sjogren was thought to have committed suicide back in October.  She handled all the entertainment contracts at MNRF for a few years. (She was also the ex wife of John Sjogren of the bands Bedlam and the Tim Malloys, She was Pam Silver before their marriage)

http://www.startribune.com/bios/10644586.html Star Tribune:

Last update: January 29, 2009 - 5:03 AM

Calling from Texas five days ago, John M. King told Minneapolis police he
had committed the perfect murder.In October, he and his new girlfriend,
51-year-old Pam Sjogren, got in a fight because she wouldn't deal with some
personal issues. He claimed she poked him in the eye, which angered him to
the point that he put her in a "full nelson'' sleeper hold for 40 seconds
until she passed out. King told police he believed he broke her neck.Because
Sjogren had threatened suicide in the past, King left her body hanging from
a rope in her garage, a wooden stepladder kicked out from her feet,
according to charges detailing the crime. The Hennepin County medical
examiner ruled it a suicide.Police speculate a guilty conscience may be the
reason King decided to confess. In a statement to police, he said he didn't
want Sjogren's children to think she had killed herself. On Monday, King,
50, who is described as a drifter, turned himself into the Texas Rangers in
Dallas. He is now charged with second-degree murder and is awaiting
extradition to Minnesota."It's an unusual case to have somebody come in
three months later and confess to the crime, but he felt guilty and wanted
to do the right thing," said Lt. Richard Zimmerman, head of the Minneapolis
homicide unit. Even though charges have been filed, Zimmerman said police
and the medical examiner will continue their investigations. Investigators
have evidence to corroborate King's story, he said.Police informed Sjogren's
son Robert Silver about the charges against King. He couldn't be reached for
comment.Christian Hallanger, who said he had lived across the street from
Sjogren's duplex for 10 years, said neighbors "were always surprised that
she killed herself because she was a strong and assertive woman."Sjogren's
daughter and grandchildren lived in the downstairs portion of the duplex and
the children played with his kids, Hallanger said Wednesday. He described
Sjogren as a "very nice, very sharp woman.'' He said she often worked in her
yard and that they had watched several of the presidential debates this fall
together.The charges against King give these details about the killing:
Silver, Sjogren's son, reported her apparent suicide to police Oct. 25, when
he found her hanging in the garage of the duplex in the 3500 block of 19th
Avenue S. Officers believed she had been dead for several days, and the last
time relatives had contact with her was Oct. 21. Her children said she a new
boyfriend, but they didn't know his name. They told police the couple argued
regularly.An obituary notice in the Star Tribune said there was a memorial
service for Sjogren in Bad Manor at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival and
that she was survived by a son, two daughters and two granddaughters.On
Saturday, an officer at the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct
received a call from an anonymous man in Texas who confessed to a murder and
wanted to turn himself in, the charges said. He eventually identified
himself as John King and told the officer he had killed Pam Sjogren.King
described the argument that ended in her death and that he made it look like
a suicide. He knew she was suicidal in the past, but she did not commit
suicide, the charges said. King then asked where he should turn himself
in.Later that day, a homicide detective called King's Texas number that
appeared on caller ID at the precinct. King repeated the details of
Sjogren's death and said he would give himself up Monday at the Dallas field
office of the Texas Rangers.When King showed up, he was met by two
Minneapolis detectives. He gave a statement detailing the death and his
decision to stage it as a suicide after he found a rope in the garage that
already had a slipknot.He even described exactly what she was wearing the
day she died: a white long-sleeve knit sweater, blue jeans, brown shoes and
a ring.King even told police about a book of Sjogren's he left behind in the
garage. It was titled, "Pop-Up Book of Phobias."
When you die can you donate your body to pseudo-science?

Muffin

Wow!!!

How very sad, but hopefully now she can rest in peace...
A Captains Wench

It's always Beer:30 here....

*sigh* So many kilts, so little time......

Ette

renren

Sad, indeed.
But, the truth will out.
Renren
Wench  #  3783
Treasure Guardian and giggling interrogator of the "Feisty Lady"

Guppy # 32 ROoL