Dear Supporters:
In a brief departure from
the mission of the No Parole Peltier
Association, the following is offered:
Brothers and sisters; Chicago, September 17, 1978,
6:00am:
Margaret and her sister, Janice,
finished working all night at a local discotheque, where Margaret was a
waitress and her sister a dancer.* Walking home on the still dark streets as
they had done many times before, they were unaware what evil lurked in a nearby
alley. They were just two young women working to pay the bills.
The Guyon brothers were
going to get some tonight and they could care less who the victims were—Black,
White, Hispanic, Asian. It didn’t matter as long as they were easy prey. They
watched from the car as the girls approached, Melvin behind the wheel at first
with a knife, Michael in back with a gun. The girls approached and were close
enough for Michael to lunge out and force the two into the back seat at
gunpoint. Michael slid behind the wheel as Melvin held the sisters, panicked
and crying in the back seat, now threatening them with a knife. Michael told
them to shut up and then sped off to find some desolate spot, an empty parking
lot near 43rd and Halsted.
Michael, thirty-four, had a
violent past including rapes, and merely three weeks after sexually assaulting
and robbing the sisters, he was arrested for abducting a four-and-a-half-year-old.
Melvin, nineteen, was on his way to creating his own illicit résumé. He was
already a fugitive from two felonies in Cleveland, but had been released on
bond and fled to Chicago.
Michael forced Janice into
the front seat and yelled for her to take off her panties as he ripped open her
dress. Janice pled and offered what she had for him not to hurt her—seven dollars
and some jewelry. Michael then raped Janice, who was still a virgin.
In the backseat, Melvin
raped Margaret and stole what little money she had, about five dollars.
When the horror was over,
the sisters were given thirty cents each for bus fare and then released. As the
sun was rising, the Guyon brothers sped away.
The sisters boarded the
first local bus and at the next stop ran into a restaurant. Janice, terrified
and hysterical, went to the ladies room as Margaret told two Chicago police
officers, who happened to be there, that they had both been kidnapped and raped
by two black men in their twenties driving a blue car that had a box of yellow
Puffs tissues in the back window.
By mid-October the Chicago
investigation developed suspects who were identified by their victims. Local
warrants for assault, rape, and kidnapping were issued for the brothers Guyon.
Also falling under the
Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution statute, and with a request from federal
authorities, a UFAP warrant was issued bringing in additional resources to
locate and apprehend Melvin Guyon, who authorities believed had fled the state.
Melvin Bay Guyon was now a
fugitive being pursued by the FBI. He would return to his native Cleveland and his
girlfriend and their two small children.
Rebutting
the age-old proverb that blood is thicker than water, when it came to the later
rape trial, Melvin did his damnedest to throw his brother under the proverbial
bus. (To be continued.)
August 9, 1979:
On the morning of Thursday,
August 9, 1979 while attempting to arrest violent fugitive, Melvin Bay Guyon,
in an apartment not far from downtown Cleveland, Ohio, FBI Agent Johnnie Oliver
was killed. Agent Oliver, armed with a shotgun, may have hesitated as Guyon
held his own young child as a shield. Guyon escaped and was arrested in
Youngstown, Ohio.
Barely an hour later, FBI
Agents J. Robert Porter and Charles Elmore, were gunned down by James Maloney,
a crazed anti-government loser, in their small satellite office in the Imperial
Valley of southeastern California. Maloney had an appointment to meet with
Agent Porter in the El Centro Resident Agency and was armed with a shotgun and
a handgun. Confronting Agent Porter, a violent struggle ensued and Agent Porter
was shot and killed. Agent Elmore engaged Maloney in the hallway and was also
killed. Maloney, fatally wounded, took the coward’s way out and shot himself.
That date—August 9,1979—38
years ago, marked the worst line-of-duty deaths in a single day in the history
of the FBI. Agents Oliver, Porter and Elmore…will never be forgotten.
“In the Spirit…
Ed Woods
*The above details were taken
from public records. The victim’s names have been changed.
Postscript:
Guyon is serving a life
sentence in the same penitentiary, USP Coleman, as Leonard Peltier who murdered
Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams in Pine Ridge, South Dakota on
June 26, 1975.
