KILLER FOOLS COPS BUT CAN'T FOOL HIS OWN CONSCIENCE
John Michael King got away with murder — but couldn’t escape his own conscience.
He pulled off the “perfect crime,” but after three months of regret and personal torment, police were stunned when he turned himself in and made a full confession.
“I’ve never heard of this before,” marveled Sgt. William Palmer of the Minneapolis police. “It’s incredible.”
The bizarre saga began last October when King got into a fight with his new girlfriend, 51-year-old grandmother Pam Sjogren. He says she poked him in the eye, prompting him to grab her in a fury and put her in a “full nelson” until she passed out.
“I think I broke her neck,” he confessed to police.
Because Pam had threatened to take her life in the past, King decided to stage a suicide. He found a rope in her garage and slipped it around her neck.
Then he hung her from the ceiling — with a wooden stepladder, seemingly kicked away, below her feet.
Pam’s son Robert Silver found her body several days later on Oct. 25. He said the last time she had been in contact with her family was Oct. 21. The Hennepin County medical examiner ruled her death a suicide — and it appeared King would get away scot-free.
Pam’s children, however, knew she’d had a bumpy relationship with King and that they argued frequently.
King disappeared but surfaced three months later in Dallas, Texas. Out of the blue on Jan. 24, an officer at the Minneapolis Police Department received a call from an anonymous man in Texas who confessed to a murder and wanted to turn himself in.
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Published on: 06/03/2009
