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Nov 2, 2017 · Rose Larner was strangled, slit and cut apart by John Ortiz-Kehoe in an Albion home. He and Billy Brown then burned her body in a fire pit and spread her ashes along the road.
- Criminal Justice Reporter
- Part 1: Who Was Rose?
- Part 2: The Search
- Part 3: The Crime
Lansing teen tested the limits
Rose Larner slumbered all day and roamed all night with a rugged band of buddies on the streets of Lansing's southwest side. Her family called her "The Vampire," a name that fit the wiry 18- year-old l ike her $60 bluejeans. She was a whirlwind with a hair- trigger temper. Rose traipsed about town doing who-knows-what with who-knows-whom. She was mouthy and streetwise, fearless and friendly. The boys liked Rose, and she liked them right back. Diagnosed in her early teens as hyperactive, she s...
Best friends
Rose had other friends and freckle-faced Ginger Bailey ranked highest on the list. Bailey was a third- grader when she met Rose and quickly learned her rough-and-tumble ways. "We had a fight. I don't even know why. Then she came over and said, `Come outside and play hide and seek,'" Bailey said. "She even helped me wash the dishes." Bailey became Rose's best friend, and their relationship included a series of hair-pulling brawls over issues too petty to recall. "We were inseparable. We liked...
Teen-age troubles
The same Rose Larner that gave to the poor had a mouth and an attitude. "Rose Larner didn't care what she said or who she said it to," retired Lansing police Det. John Caudy said. "She had enemies." When Rose was 15, she used a fork to threaten a girl who ticked her off. Markey was away for the weekend. Rose had a party, drank some beer and argued with the girl, who had showed up for the fun. No one was hurt, but Markey was alarmed. She thought counseling might change Rose's difficult ways. T...
'Something was terribly wrong'
Rose Markey was in bed, wide awake and a tangle of nerves when her phone rang. It was just after 8 a.m. that Monday. She grabbed it on the first ring, and Lansing police Detective John Caudy introduced himself. Markey wanted to talk to him about her only daughter, and she needed him to believe her. Rose Larner was missing, and Markey knew she was in peril. "I was afraid he'd think she was a runaway. It was much more than that," Markey said. "Then the more he believed me, the more scared I got...
The search begins
Rose's father, Bill Larner II, got a call in Bath. "Rose said she was missing for 20-some hours. I didn't know where to look so I checked up and down streets - looked in every ditch," Larner said. Markey called Rose's friends, Carla and Charla Cummins, teens she spent much of her time with. They said Rose's childhood friend, Billy Brown, was gone, too. "She's probably with him," they told her. Markey called the Meijer Pizzeria on Pennsylvania Avenue to see when Rose was scheduled to work next...
Hoping for answers
Markey placed a small light signifying hope in her front window and vowed to leave it lighted until Rose was found. Caudy asked questions, visited Billy Brown's house and gathered dental records. Many of Rose's friends thought she might be with Brown, the blond-haired boy she met in grade school at Maplegrove Elementary. Brown's mother, Theresa, said he was with John Ortiz-Kehoe. Kehoe, a local rapper, had ended a relationship with Rose less than two months earlier and was trying hard to esca...
Death, betrayal filled final night
This story contains graphic and unsettling passages that some people might not want to read. The Lansing State Journal, with the support of Rose Larner's mother, has decided the information is necessary for complete telling of her daughter's story. Rose Larner pulled a brush through her wet brown hair and giggled nervously as John Ortiz-Kehoe gently tugged from behind with a cord that caught her strong chin. Thinking her ex-boyfriend was toying, she played along, slipping the line down around...
A gruesome tale
Brown's story begins at his family's home at 2906 Midwood St. around 3 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1993. Rose asked Brown to get ahold of Kehoe that day and arrange for the three to spend the evening together. She and Kehoe dated for a few months that summer, but his interest in her waned and by late October and early November, Kehoe wanted little to do with his tough-acting girlfriend. Police say Rose didn't deal well with the rejection and spent the next month dogging the handsome Albion High School gr...
The coverup
The men loaded the garbage bin into a compact car owned by Kehoe's mother, and the two headed north. They drove 100 miles to Brown's family property on Island Lake in Meredith - a Gladwin County retirement community. "Its far away and secluded. We were going to burn her up until there was nothing left," Brown said. "No body. No crime." The sun was coming up, and their headlights sliced the waning darkness as they arrived in the sleepy northern village dotted with satellite dishes, mobile home...
Apr 25, 2018 · Rose Larner was killed by John Ortiz-Kehoe in 1993, who chopped her body, burned it, and ate some of it. Her friends Billy Brown and Robert Michael Wood helped him dispose of the evidence and face the consequences.
- Mike Mcpadden
Oct 25, 2022 · A detailed account of the 1993 disappearance and murder of Rose Larner, a 18-year-old girl from Lansing, Michigan. Learn how her ex-boyfriend and his friend confessed to killing, dismembering and burning her body.
Nov 12, 2020 · The last time McFarland saw her 18-year-old daughter alive or dead was at 1 a.m. on a cold December morning in 1993. "Love you, Mom," McFarland recalls as the last words Rosie Larner tossed out ...
Aug 17, 2021 · 30. It was December 7th, 1993, weeks away from Christmas when eighteen-year-old Rosie Larner climbed into a car in the cold, early morning hours in Lansing Michigan. She had no reason to be afraid. She was with friends, people she loved and trusted. She did not know she was hours away from breathing her blast breath, and that her brutal murder ...
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Aug 8, 2014 · A photo gallery of the events and people involved in the 1993 murder of Rose Larner, a Michigan State University student. See the suspect, the victim, the family, the trial and the memorial.
