Julie Jenkins, 73, has been married to Greenwell for nearly 20 years – and completely blinded by Tuesday’s multi-agency press conference, in which she named her husband, who died in 2013, as the killer of at least three women at the border Kentucky-Indiana. late 1980s. “One thing that goes through my mind is, I guess, I’m lucky to be alive,” Jenkins, a grandmother who now lives in Minnesota, told The Independent, adding that she had a relationship with a man in the past. who was “abusive and almost killed me, and then [Greenwell] decided he was going to kill other people. That’s horrible. “ She says she feels “quite dizzy”. “I keep thinking about our life together and he was … kind, he cared. He had a temperament [but] this is not unusual. I do not think you’re killing people because you’re angry with them – no … strangers. I do not know what to think about many of these, except that I feel horrible for the families who have endured it for so many years – and I know there is nothing I can do about it. “Sorry. I had no idea.” Asked about authorities’ suspicions that her husband could have more casualties, Ms Jenkins said: “It’s definitely a possibility. When you know what you’re doing with serial killers, they generally do not just stop – so I hope, no, I pray, that there are no more victims with whom it is associated. “But I’m afraid there is a real possibility.” He added: “I feel sorry for these people too – it makes me not trust my judgment.” Authorities say Greenwell – who was 68 at the time of his death – was identified by genealogical research into all three deaths along the Indiana-Kentucky border. “This technique involves uploading a crime scene DNA profile to one or more genetic genealogy databases in an effort to locate a criminal’s genetic relatives and locate the perpetrator in their family tree,” Indiana State Police said in a statement. on Tuesday. “Using this process, a match was made at Greenwell with a close family member. “Through this fight, it was determined that the probability of Greenwell being responsible for the attacks was over 99.99 percent”. Harry Edward Greenwell appears in an undated booking photo (AP) The first woman known to be the victim of the I-65 killer was Vicki Heath, a 41-year-old mother of two who was recently engaged before she was found dead next to rubbish bins behind the Super 8 Motel in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. on February 21, 1987. He had been attacked and shot twice in the head with a 38-caliber pistol. The second and third victims of the murder were both killed on the same day: March 3, 1989. Mary “Peggy” Gill, 24, a night watchman at a Days Inn motel in Merrillville, Indiana, was found dead in the building’s parking lot by a passing driver. Jeanne Gilbert, 34, a mother of two who also worked as a part-time inspector at the Remington Days Inn, was also shot dead with the same 0.22 caliber gun. The perpetrator had robbed both facilities, making a total of $ 426. A fourth woman who worked night shifts at a Days Inn motel in Columbus, Indiana, was sexually assaulted and stabbed in 1990 but managed to escape the scene. This woman, known only as Jane Doe, gave the police a complex sketch, depicting a man with greasy gray hair, a lazy green eye and a beard. This sketch was the only indication for decades until DNA evidence linked Greenwell to the crimes. An I-65 Killer police sketch of a serial killer watching the Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio highways in the late 1980s (FBI) When Jenkins died in 2013, his obituary gave no indication of his supposedly disastrous past. He described him as a family man, a farmer, a more ambitious and generous soul after his death in Iowa after a battle with cancer – writing that he had “many friends who loved his straightforwardness and his willingness to help anyone. “His spirit will survive in many ways with the good deeds he has offered,” he continued – years before he was named serial killer. Born in Louisville and one-half of his brothers – several of whom have also died – Greenwell worked for the Canadian Pacific Rail “providing public safety for 30 years” before retiring in 2010, the obituary said. “Harry enjoyed organic gardening, selling his organic produce at the local Farmers Market, traveling, reading, literature, college sports fanatics and picking purebred horses.” At the time of his death, he was married to Mrs. Jenkins, who had three adult children of her own. Greenwell had his own son and daughter, in addition to living siblings, nieces, nephews, nieces and nephews. “He liked to work in the garden. “He spent hours in his garden,” Jenkins told The Independent. “And he picked everything up and took it to New Albin [Iowa] “Some days I sold it to people – and I always thought that the biggest reason he went to the farmers market was to visit it with everyone who came there.” He says that “he sold everything he cultivated … tomatoes, onions, carrots, beets, squash”. Prior to his death in 2013, he says, about 300 people lived in a three-bedroom farmhouse outside an Iowa town – and the house overlooked a state highway. Ms Jenkins said she had contacted an FBI agent earlier this year about Greenwell – who had told her he had previously been convicted of robbery. She says she was completely surprised by any suspicion that he had been involved in the murders of women. “I could not imagine it for Harry,” he told the Independent. “And I said, ‘You know, he’s been dead for so long. What would it mean now? ” in the settlement of old cases. “And he said, ‘Do you not think that families have a right to know?’ And they certainly do. I was not even thinking about them at the time. “I can not imagine what all these years have passed, something that is horrible in itself.” He says he told the FBI where to find Greenwell’s biological son. The alleged serial killer had been married twice before, adopting one wife’s daughter and having a son with the other. His first wife died in a house fire before Mrs. Jenkins met him at a Minnesota bar. “I was very suspicious at first, coming from an abusive relationship – but that reassured me [the death of his ex-wife] “It was not like that,” said Ms Jenkins. “And of course I believed him. I’m probably still doing it. “He left his job on a railroad, I think he ended up in Wisconsin… when it happened. She was in Wisconsin too, but as far as I can remember, they were all over the state. I think it was accidental or negligent on her part. “ She had no reason, she says, to be wary of Greenwell. He was supportive in her fight against breast cancer and love for her family. Despite his criminal record, he says: “You just told me it existed and, you know, I thought it was okay … people change – and so you just give people a second chance, and okay, robbery is not nice, but it paid off. his time “. Peggy Gill, Jeanne Gilbert and Vicki Heath were all victims of the I-65 or Days Inn, Killer. Their cases remained unresolved for decades (Indiana State Police) Greenwell, who was four years older than his third wife, seemed remorseful as he was dying of lung cancer, he says – although he had no idea what exactly. When she was in the hostel, “she asked for a priest and a priest came,” said Jenkins, who, unlike her husband, is not a Catholic. “I assumed it was for confession, but I doubt he did.” He says, “I just assumed the priest would be obliged to tell someone that he did this, if he did” – although Catholic priests are not actually allowed to share anything that is said to them during the sacrament of Confession. “My other thought [since learning of the serial killing allegations] was: If he did not confess, what was the point of confessing something else? “Because that would have surpassed everything,” said Ms Jenkins. Ms Jenkins says she did not hear from her late husband’s alleged crimes after her initial contact with the FBI – until this week’s press conference. “My son, in fact, knew it first,” he told the Independent. “He called me home from work and opened the door for me to attend the press conference – and I feel horrible for those poor families who lost their mothers, their sisters, their children. “If I knew something, if I had an idea, I certainly would not have kept quiet about it – but I did not.” Authorities have released a timeline showing the criminal record of I-65 assassin Harry Edward Greenwell. (FBI) He adds: “It’s scary and my kids feel the same way. I mean, I left them alone with him when I was at work … I live with my son and his family and I have a grandchild that Harry thought was very special. They had a relationship. “ She says her 17-year-old granddaughter is “quite devastated by this”. “I told her last night,” Jenkins told the Independent. “With the Internet, you can no longer protect children – that’s how I realized he had to hear it from me, rather than from anyone else.” Friends and family have been adequately shocked, he adds, although he has not yet spoken to Greenwell’s son, siblings or extended family. “I expect to communicate and discuss it with them as much as they want, but yesterday I did not have the energy,” he says. In addition to being upset by the news, her main focus is on the families of the victims, she added. “He was a kind of sucker when the FBI contacted me,” he said. “I thought, ‘Well, that may not be true.’ This may not be … but then this [agent] The family in question has a right to know – and I thought, …
