Phantasm Part 2: Momentum

I think Violet can wait for awhile. It’s been 50 years! What’s a little more time? I thought that it might be fun to play a little word game. A riddle, if you will. And although it is no small task, I would dare to play a Jenny word game; a Jenny-Riddle. Actually, another one. Oh! Did Sylvia have a boy friend?

Q. You say her boyfriend's house - was there a regular boyfriend she would be with more than others?
A. Well, there were the twins.
Q. She was often in their company?
A. You know, she was pretty good friends with their sister.
Q. Did you also have a boyfriend?
A. No, I did not.

The one kid who isn’t a twin dates twins! And what twins? I think she’s playing a game! I wonder how well she knew Marie’s foster-mother. You know, the one who was present during Marie’s first turn on the stand. The one who was described as rather angry after new her charge refused to help put the noose around Gertrude’s neck. No bother! Marie gets a second turn, and what a turn it would turn out to be! Sorry. And who is Marie’s new, albeit temporary, replacement for dear old Mom? Mrs. Simpson. Everybody knows that. I can just feel a quote from the second note, the letter, coming on:

I let Ronnie + Donnie Simpson have intercourse with me. Danny and Jenny knows about it.

In California I was under the covers with Mike Eason. Jenny + Benny seen Mike's pants down. I was trying to get Jenny in trouble with me.

So we have our twins! Very clever, Jenny! Well, not really. In the courtroom in 1966 it was pretty clever! But with the internet, and a not so clever guy can now stare endlessly at your testimony…well, you’ll come up wanting! Are Ronnie and Donnie Simpson real? Name games? I know another one. It involves Denny Wright Jr, aka Baby Denny. That strange little baby who seems to float around a bizarre canonical story-world ethereal sea. Who feeds him? Who bathes him? And it is quite a shame that he suffers from insomnia! Of course, when he finds himself unable to sleep, he hangs around in the bedroom with Stephanie and Gertie. But where does he sleep when he can sleep? Perhaps in the magical third bedroom. The one which is missed when the sleeping arrangements in the house are discussed. Paula’s room. Maybe, he sleeps with her. But! A name game! If you take Denny Wright, and fictionally ship him out for adoption after his I’m-not-so-sure-she-is-his-mother hurtles toward a conviction for first-degree murder, and he fictionally finds out much later in life that he is the son of one of the most infamous madwomen (for Dr. Kebel! Though the Big 4 will be rather testy) in American criminal history, and quite a claim to fame indeed, and it’s not like people have falsely claimed to be people they falsely are not, what would you have? Denny White! Ah, there it is; Denny Wright become Denny White. The fun never stops, even decades and decades later.

And Jenny didn’t have a boyfriend? Isn’t it strange how the two indiscretions that Sylvia supposedly was confessing to in this letter..Now I must confess! In the weird canonical story world I created, I thought that Photo 1 Girl was Sylvia’s twin. At least, like the cleric and poor Nurse Sanders, I was tricked! In another essay I will isolate the little lies that were meant to create that situation as a possible one. But one that is like a worm on the end of the fishhook, waiting for a not so clever fish to chomp down on it, thinking he was far more clever than the fish who didn’t get caught. What the letter is, I feel confident, is a letter that Sylvia was writing to her parents to tell them about what had been happening. It is strange how much time Sylvia spends, in a letter that has been completely re-written, absolving Jenny of blame for various naughty things. Who punched the kid Sylvia was babysitting? And what about Mike Eason? Good Heavens! Sylvia was trying to get me in trouble! But she really did it…just ask…me! And these two Simpson boys, who I’m sure have no relation to the matron-like Mrs. Simpson. Who was that? Oh, yes. Almost as if the person who keeps putting little absolutions for Jenny into the letter, it’s as if Sylvia thought that when she confessed, Lester and Betty would say:

Q. You really did that?

A. Yes!

Q. We don’t believe you! Why would you make false confessions to us? When I was your age I would lie about every…I mean, there are kids who would lie about things..especially kids who don’t know what it means to tell the truth. So we don’t believe you!

A. I swear I did! I can not tell a lie! I even put it in writing for you!

Q. It is odd, you doing that. After all, it only takes a teaspoon and an open mind to realize that the letter you starting writing has been altered by someone who kind of sounds like the other note, and who doesn’t begin to sound as intelligent as you. Are you lying?

A. No! And since putting it in writing isn’t good enough…Your Honor, I would like to call my sister to the stand!

The Court: Which sister? Not the one who said that she watched you being slowly abused to death because she was afraid that Gertie Wright might be mean to her?

A.  The very same!

The Court: Not the one who ran to the store for lunch meat when you were supposedly being mutilated in Gertrude’s kitchen?

A.  Of course.

The Court: The same sister who put touching words in your mouth to absolve her of any blame?

A.  Which word were those? I can’t remember them all.

The Court: Who could forget! Court Recorder, please read them back.

Court Recorder: “A. Then she got out of the bath tub and Gertrude and Paula and all of them went downstairs. I was in the bathroom. Sylvia told me to get her clothes. I did. She said, "Jenny, I know you don't want me to die but I am going to die, I feel it".

The Court: You remember those words?

A. Absolutely.

The Court: Let her sister take the stand again. And let her be cautioned that she is still under oath; well, for what that means in this trial. Proceed.

Q. Thank you, your honor. Who fooled around with Mike Eason?

A. You did! Just ask me and Benny. And you tried to get me in trouble!

Q. Oh. Who fooled around with the two Simpsons?

A. You did! Me and Danny knew about it!

Q. Who punched the child in the face and…what badly worded interpolation was added by someone other me and, how..do you remember how it goes?

A. Spanked it on the butt.

Q. That’s right. Does that sound like me? There is no neuter form for a human child in the English language, by the way!

A. You spanked it on the butt, not me!

Q. Spanked “him” on the butt, and actually “backside” would be more appropriate. Who got into a car with a married man?

A. You did!

Q. Isn’t it strange how in my letter, getting into a car leads to something nefarious, and in the other note, my getting into a car leads to something even more nefarious….

A. Your Honor, I object!

The Court: Sustained. That answer will go out.

Q. Who’s always faking to get her way?

A. You do!

Q. Please remind the court, how did I supposedly end my supposed confession-letter? The one where two separate hands are clearly visible?

A. “Jenny has been behaving herself!” And I have been! You were the bad girl! You did all those things! And I’ve waited so long to finally hear you say it!

There is one more thing that seems odd. According to Jenny, Gertrude made Sylvia write two notes. The Gang of Boys note, and what clearly is a letter. Elsewhere on this website I have argued that the letter makes no sense as something Gertrude was responsible for. The Gang of Boys note seeks to place blame on someone else; actually someones else. The letter does not do this. So why would Gertrude make Sylvia write a letter confessing to various misdeeds? And then give it to the police? And! How odd it is that Gertrude and Jenny were so close! Gertrude makes Sylvia write a confession letter, and then forces her to add statements absolving Jenny? Why would Gertrude care who fooled around with Mike Eason? Gertrude was concerned that Sylvia take the blame, and that Jenny be cleared? And if Jenny had been behaving herself, why would Gertrude want Sylvia to say it? Why not just tell Lester and Betty herself? No. The purpose of the altered letter is clear, although there does appear to be a shortage of teaspoons and open minds.

So much for notes, letters, and hypothetical testimony. Still, for all those who lack an open mind, and are at a loss to locate a teaspoon, or believe that the best thing a girl in the basement could do with an imposing weapon like a coal shovel was to scrape it on the floor, all I can say is dash-dot-dot-dash..dot-dash..dash-dot-dash..dash-dot-dot…dot-dot-dash..dot-dash-dash-dot! And what does that mean, all shovel scrapers! “More coal!” No! “Wake up!”

Still, a little riddle. Here it goes… “how far away from Gertie Wright’s magical front door is Germany?” You probably think that the answer is 4,400 miles, assuming you’re going to Frankfurt. Even if you don’t want to go to Frankfurt, and maybe want to go to Berlin, it’s still very far away. But you’re wrong! The real answer is…1.4 miles!

I think that’s pretty good! No? I bet Jenny would think so. Is my riddle nonsense? Yes and no. Gertrude was asked what happened to Denny Wright.

Q. Now, the father of all those children is who?
A. The father of the oldest children is John S. Baniszewski, Sr.
Q. Yes?
A. Dennis Lee's father is Dennis Lee Wright.
Q. Where is Dennis Lee Wright at the present time?
A. I would not have any idea.

Oh, so Mrs. Wright doesn’t know where Mr. Wright is? I think Gertie’s wrong about Mr. Wright. Enough. John Sr. was asked the same question:

Q. Let me ask you this. Do you know a Dennis Wright?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. How long have you known him? Just roughly, a year, two years, three years?
A. About three years.
Q. How old was he at that time?
A. Twenty.
Q. He will be twenty-three now?
A. Yes.
Q. Do you know where he is now?
A. No, just what I hear.
Q. What do you hear?
MR. ERBECKER: We object.
THE COURT: Sustained.

Why object? Why sustain? It could be hearsay! True. But it depends on who John hears say the hearsay. What if it was from Gertrude? Odd, the same question:

Q. Now, when you first went to Mrs. Baniszewski's house, did she tell you her name?
A. She said it was Gertrude Wright.
Q. Did she say anything about her husband?
A. She said something about him being in Germany.
Q. Did she say who the father of Dennis was?
A. She said Denny Wright.
Q. In other words, the baby was Dennis Jr., is that correct?
A. Yes.

Why was Jenny allowed to answer the question, but not John? After all, if he was told what became of the elusive, but not so elusive, Mr. Wright, I would have thought that it was Gertrude. Alas! We don’t get to find out.

So Denny went to Germany. Gertrude doesn’t seem to know where he went. I think he went to Germany. That depends on how you define Germany. It could be defined as, say, that nation-state that exists within the borders recognized by the international community. Which one? Deutschland. That would be correct. But what if you went to a Little Germany, say in, Kansas City? It’s not really Germany, but it’s called that. Why? Because there are Germans there. So in this case, if I lived in Kansas City, and I went to Little Germany, then I never really left Kansas City! I wonder whether Denny Wright really left Indianapolis when it was said he did. It would be strange if he were still there in 1972, and say, got married, only to get divorced in 1975. And that’s not a long marriage!

So who were Denny Wright’s parents? There is plenty on that, along with all kinds of Black Ops misinformation, available on the internet. However, it would appear that we could start the story in 1958, when James M Wright, a tool designer for USN Avionics, along with his wife Alta Marie Wright, were living at 1212 N. LaSalle. North LaSalle! Yes! That street name will surface during the trial. But there are lots of people with the name Wright, just like there are lots of people with the name Moeller in Germany! In 1960, Alta Wright is living by herself at 1210 N. LaSalle..next door. The Wrights aren’t there in 1959, and 1210 N. LaSalle was inhabited by John Richardson, while 1212 N. LaSalle was inhabited by William Rogers. So! The Wrights disappear, only to have Alta Wright basically end up where she started..without her better half. In 1961, Alta has moved as far as 1212 N. LaSalle. So Alta Wright doesn’t like to move around very much. She kind of reminds me of…Molly Vanfossan! But more on her later; it’s Alta’s turn! Then we find James M Wright and Dennis L Wright living at 4301 N. Kittley. Dennis is said to be a student. Oh-oh! Trouble in paradise. Mom and Dad split, and Denny is living with Dad. Then in 1963, 1212 N. LaSalle, you guessed it, the home of Alta Wright, is also suddenly the home of Dennis L. Wright, an assembler at Peerless Pumps. But there is another inhabitant of 1212 N. LaSalle and its…not…Gertie! No! She and John live at 60 S. 1rst Avenue. That is about 5.5 miles from the abode of Alta Wright. It’s a whopping 11.1 miles from 4301 N. Kittley. But as we shall see, I think we can do something about those 11.1 miles.

What about 1965! There’s that year! We know that around May or so, Gertie moved to the house with the magical front door. That’s the same year that Lester and Betty moved to East New York Street only to find themselves having to skip town fast ahead of whoever was onto them. Off to California, then come back. But not to East New York Street..Lebanon. Until, that is, Betty splits and goes to Indianapolis. Then she gets recognized, and then…time to skip town fast again. But in 1964, Gertrude Baniszewski, although I suspect she had been using a different name for a long time, not Gutherie, and not Wright until 1964…suddenly has taken up house as the purported wife of Denny L Wright, described as still working for Peerless Pumps. And where do they live?

I thought it was odd that John Sr. got so many Dennis Wright questions. You might think that he was the wrong person to answer Wright questions. But in the end, I think he was the second best! The first best, if that’s even an expression, wasn’t going to testify! I think I will let John play a little Dennis Wright game!

Q. Your last conversation with him - do you recall what month and year that was?
A. The last part of July 1963.
Q. That was your last conversation with him?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Who is Dennis Wright?
MR. ERBECKER: We object.
THE COURT: Sustained.
Q. Where did this conversation you had with him in 1965 take place?
MR. ERBECKER: We object.
THE COURT: Did he say '65?
Q. '63, I am sorry.
THE COURT: Objection sustained.
Q. Did you have any conversation with him in 1964?
MR. ERBECKER: We object.
THE COURT: Overruled, yes or no.
A. Yes.
Q. Where was that?
A. At a house on LaSalle and 13th.
Q. Who lived there?
A. My ex-wife.
Q. And who else?
A. Dennis Wright.

Notice the games! When was his last conversation with the Peerless Pumps guy? The last part of July 1963. It was? Yes, sir. Where did this conversation you had with him in 1965 take place? You mean 1963! Ah, it was worth a try. Did you have any conversation with him 1964? Yes. So!

July 1963: last conversation with Dennis Wright

1965: the year in which the last conversation, which was in July 1963, occurred

1964: the year in which the last conversation, which was in July 1963, occurred

Yes! Chronology is just like conjugating verbs! And counting the number of your brothers! Or counting the number of non-existent dogs! And I won’t mention counting payments, Gertie Wright’s kids, the height of non-existent friendly police dogs, well, I mentioned them anyway, but who could blame me? So July 1963 happened in 1965…no wait, it happened in 1964…and being as not-clever as me, I thought it happened in July 1963. Shows what I know. Still. Where did this conversation happen?

A. At a house on LaSalle and 13th.

So what? What do you mean so what? One should be reminded of that very sage advice provided W.C. Fields when he so fictionally gave hypothetical testimony. Especially if you’re Gertrude! Watch her make a serious blunder:

Q. Mrs. Baniszewski, what is the date of John's birth?
A. The 23rd of February, I believe.
Q. The 23rd of February?
A. Yes.
Q. What year?
A. 1955, I think. He is thirteen.
Q. Thirteen?
A. Yes.
Q. Was he thirteen this past February?
A. Yes, he was, sir.

Wow! Shirley was born in 1955. Johnny was born in 1952! She’s three years off! She thinks he was born February 23..she believes so. She knows he’s 13 years old, but gives the year of his birth as 1955. You might think that it would have been easy to subtract 13 from 1966, and count back two months, but that’s math..and that’s hard. Actually, there is a strange explanation for what just happened. She is trying to remember her cover story. Johnny is supposed to be her son, along with the other kids. Wait, what other kids? Let’s ask Mrs. Wright!

Q. How many children do you have, Gertrude?
A. Seven.
Q. Names and ages?
A. Paula Marie Baniszewski, age eighteen; Stephanie Kay Baniszewski, age fifteen; John Stephan Baniszewski, age thirteen; Marie Susanne Baniszewski, eleven; Shirley Ann, ten; Dennis Lee, two years.

That’s six kids:

1. Paula
2. Stephanie
3. Johnny
4. Marie
5. Shirley
6. Dennis

Won’t James be upset when he finds out his mother doesn’t remember him. You know, the boy who was supposedly there to see everything, and was only 1 year younger than ultra-violent Shirley! The one who is there, but not there, the one that Shirley says stays with Mike Monroe a lot. Why doesn’t he testify? Don’t charge him, but he can tell us what he saw! Unless he was never there. Gertrude forgets James, and can’t remember the year of Johnny’s birth. Could it be that neither are her sons? She is trying to remember her cover story, but there are too many kids in that cover story to remember them all. Then she gets part of Johnny’s information right, but then assigns him the year of Shirley’s birth. I think that she will have more trouble:

Q. When did you move out on New York Street?
A. June of 1965.
Q. Did you and Mr. Baniszewski get a divorce?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. When?
A. I don't know the exact year. It has been about four years ago.

4 years ago? Are you sure? That would make it 1962. So why do you and John live as man and wife at 60 S. 1rst Avenue in 1963? John said this:

A. The final hearing was approximately September 17, 1963.

So something went wrong fast. Maybe something went Wright fast! I have found the supposed date of the birth of the supposed Denny Lee Wright Jr…i.e. Baby Denny. And it is surrounding the immediate years involving the Gertie Wright cover story that I think the most intense Black Ops disinformation occurs. But I will take May 1964 on supposition. This would suggest that the woman who gave birth to the child that would be called Denny Wright Jr became pregnant approximately in April 1963. So the final divorce hearing took place roughly when the expectant mother was six months pregnant. John said this:

Q. In the course of time did Paula Baniszewski, since the divorce, ever stay with you at your house for any period of time?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. For how long a period of time was this and when?
A. On May 22, 1964, all six kids came to the house. I was not married at that time.

So! 18 days after Baby Denny is born, all the kids leave Gertie and make for their father’s house. John says that he wasn’t married at the time. Depending on what is part of a cover story and what is not, his purported marriage to Violet took place on November 22, 1964. It seems odd that he would remember the day all his kids came to the house so precisely. Not “I think in May” or “May 1964.” Instead he throws out a specific, rock-solid date. In fact, it’s too precise for what he is remembering. And such timing! You don’t divorce your pregnant wife until she’s six months pregnant, relatively speaking. Then after the baby is born, all the kids go to live with you. Why leave them with the mother in the late stages of pregnancy, then take them home with you about 3 weeks later? Is it 9 months or 10 months anyway? Was the baby on time, early or late? Still, and it may just be me, but the chronology is odd.

Q. Did these children also come by to visit you in your home?

A. Not for about six months after the divorce.

Q. In the course of time did Paula Baniszewski, since the divorce, ever stay with you at your house for any period of time?

A. Yes, sir.
Q. For how long a period of time was this and when?
A. On May 22, 1964, all six kids came to the house. I was not married at that time.
Q. How long did they stay at that time, Mr. Baniszewski?

A. They stayed approximately two months and three of them went back - the three youngest ones went back and the three oldest ones remained with me and a few weeks later, approximately two weeks or three, Stephanie went back and Paula and John remained with me.

Q. How long did they remain with you?
A. Approximately to September 27, 1964 when John was removed back up to her and Paula remained with me.

Interesting. John has 6 kids, which includes a Little Jimmy, but not a Baby Denny. Gertrude has 6 kids, which includes a Baby Denny, but not a Little Jimmy. And why does Paula stay so long? Why longer than any of the others? And it is even more strange when we hear what Barbara Sanders said as she recalled a conversation she had with Paula:

Q. Did you speak to Paula?

A. Yes, I talked to Paula. The main conversation I had with Paula, at the same time, she also expressed her great dislike - I guess you would say, or hate - for her and said she had called her names and so forth, and she went on to tell me how awful she was. We talked further about her father, Mrs. Wright's ex-husband, and how he did not pay support all the time and how she had troubles financially. We talked about this a little bit and her husband in service, Mr. Wright, that he did not pay support all the time either and she had a pretty difficult time financially and so forth and Paula went on to say how her own father, how she disliked him.

Why was Paula so angry at her father? Could it have something to do with the actual events that played out in 1963-1964? Paula is one of the kids who is brought to live with John on the very precise date of May 22, 1964, a couple of weeks after Denny is born. Then! He forces her to stay with him longer than the others. And in 1965, she has a rather strong anger directed against him. If the other kids went to join their mother, then Dennis Wright was living there. If so, John did not want Paula where Dennis Wright was living. But! Taking nothing for granted, and realizing that the lies are like threads that are intricately woven to form a bizarre tapestry, I think another possibility, hypothetical of course, and merely for the sake of being thorough, i.e. Gertrude was living on 34th Street by herself. If so, then why would Paula be forced to stay with her father. I think that it was this situation that caused Paula to be angry and resentful at her father. That is just a hypothesis; only Paula knows for sure. But! How odd are the sleeping arrangements in the house! Stephanie leaves Paula unaccounted for, but we know that there were three bedrooms, and Stephanie tells us that Baby Denny sleeps with herself and Gertrude when he can’t sleep. So who sleeps in the third bedroom? Where does Baby Denny sleep when he isn’t suffering from insomnia? Paula?

Q. Did you move in February 1965?
A. No, sir.
Q. You did not?
A. No, sir.
Q. Anytime about that time in the winter?
A. It was March.
Q. March?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Where did you move from and to in March?
A. We moved from 34th Street over on Kitley.
Q. From 34th Street?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Where is that now?
A. Dearborn and 34th.
Q. To where?
A. Kitley - out at Windsor Village.

Kitley? I know that name. Hey! 4301 N. Kittley! That’s where Dennis Wright and his father lived! I found this to be of immense importance. Why? Because Kittley is 11.1 miles from S. 60th street. How would Gertie have met Dennis? How would Paula have met Dennis? Now I know. I think another observation can be made before closing Part 2. It was one of the questions that John was asked about Dennis Wright. Despite the attempts to confuse the dates…and why did they play the “dates game?” It might have something to do with the implications of the Wright date! Stop doing that! He said this:

Q. Your last conversation with him - do you recall what month and year that was?
A. The last part of July 1963.
Q. That was your last conversation with him?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Who is Dennis Wright?
A. At a house on LaSalle and 13th.
Q. Who lived there?
A. My ex-wife.
Q. And who else?
A. Dennis Wright.

Ok, disclaimer. The above quote has been redacted. I removed all the..1964? 1965? nonsense. I think, for that’s worth, that the quote above is how the actual testimony should have gone. And perhaps John is playing a date-game of his own. Is there a little Jenny or Stephanie joke here? Not a joke; perhaps a game where you answer a question with a very important clue that everyone misses. How’s that? What house is at the corner of Lasalle and 13th Street? Wait for it…wait for it…1212 N. Lasalle. Who lives there? Alta Wright, soon to be Alta Schlick. And Dennis after he moved from Kittley. So! In July 1963, John speaks with Dennis Wright at his mother’s house. July 1963? The mother of Baby Dennis became pregnant around May 1963. Why does John go to Alta Wright’s home to confront, and I think “angrily confront” Dennis Wright? Why is Paula the only kid that John won’t allow to leave his house? Who sleeps in the third bedroom? Why does Shirley forget that she has a brother named Dennis? Or should I call her aunt Shirley? Gertrude lived at this house? Gertrude lived with Alta Wright? Call me skeptical. What about 1210 N. Lasalle? Eugene Henson lived there in 1963 and 1964, and Ernest Enochs lived there in 1965. Perhaps John’s testimony is an allusion to the truth. Of course, if Gertrude wasn’t the mother of Baby Denny, and that would result in a very serious situation for Mr. Wright if we were to examine ages, that situation could be remedied, and actually provide an opportunity that would be an incredible case of serendipity. The real mother would be protected if the baby were claimed by Gertrude. And! Gertie gets a new identity…Mrs. Wright. I would quote John’s testimony again:

Q. That was your last conversation with him?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Who is Dennis Wright?
 

Why ask this question? That’s already been answered. He was Gertie’s young paramour. Gertie doesn’t know where he is. Jenny said that he was in Germany. And! Barbara says that Paula said that he was in the service. If I were the attorney, and it’s just an opinion, I would ask that question if I doubted the information that had been given about him. Could all the nonsense about Wright be wrong? Why won’t the court, that ever justice-serving and unassailable court, not let John say where he heard that Dennis was?  Hearsay, I would think. But is it hearsay if he heard Gertrude say it? It wasn’t hearsay when Jenny was allowed to say what she heard from Gertie. Maybe, John was about to give the Wright answer. Who’s telling the truth about the not-so-mysterious Peerless Pumps man? In Germany? In the service? Or Gertie, who says that she doesn’t know where he is? Maybe…none of them! Wait, I take that back, maybe Jenny is right. Does “in the service” mean military service in Germany? If we want to reconcile the nonsense answers in the hope getting to the truth, then sure. The old Tectonicus would. So would the old Tektonikus, two troublesome trolls and interlopers if there ever were any. I don’t know what they would do in the canonical story world..I mean the old one. Well, mine as well, and the attorney did an excellent job with the testimony when I took the stand. What little joke? I mean, the little Jenny-joke, or Jenny-clue…Hey! Jenny and John allude to the same thing? Where is Germany? Here it goes…If Alta and Dennis Wright lived at 1212 N. Lasalle, and Alta married George Schlick, so 1212 N. Lasalle was the home of the Schlicks…where would Germany be? 1212 N. Lasalle! Another one…if Dennis Wright went to live with the Schlicks, then where would he be? Germany! After the events of 1965-1966, how easy would it have been to temporarily use the name Dennis Schlick! The son of George and Alta Schlick. If that were me, so I speak only for me, I could start using my real name again after a couple of years. Maybe by 1972, and say, got married, only to get divorced in 1975. How many Dennis Lee Wrights were there in Indianapolis? That is not the introduction to another annoying, and hopelessly bad, joke. And here I only make an observation. I might marry Jule Sanders in 1972. Jule? I would have thought Jewell, but obviously, that thought would be wrong. But if her name was Jewel, then we’d have a Jewel and a Violet, so at least things are getting prettier. And it sure beats more fictional animals, so it might be fitting indeed if I ask someone to watch me like a hawk so that I don’t…Well, I might then divorce her in 1975. Maybe. If, however, this were the case, then I might find myself in a serious quandary. Why? Jule was considerably older than Dennis Wright, if that Dennis Wright were our Dennis Wright. Dennis likes older women like Gertrude? Like Jule? That would take us back to Gertrude being the mother of Dennis Wright. If so, then why did John go to Germany…sorry…1212 N. Lasalle? Could all the allusions to Gertrude not being the mother, that someone else in the family is the mother, be part of the Great Lie? Another dead-end? Quite possibly. Possibilities were explored earlier. What about another hypothetical possibility? If Gertrude needed a new identity…i.e. not Baniszewski; not Guthrie; and not whatever name or names she had been using, how incredibly convenient and fortuitous was this whole Dennis Wright thing! Especially in the surely-hated-by-Occam-and serving-only-to-dull-his-razor possible reconstruction above. Perhaps it is hearsay, but I can quote a source, albeit from a realm that I am hesitant to quote from, where one user stated that he had seen an article in which Paula supposedly stated that her boyfriend was in Germany. Not surprisingly, he had difficulty finding this article again and uploading it to the canonical story world. Oh, not mine. So yet another Sylvia Likenism! Still, I was amazed at how this observation, and the thread woven into it, agreed with considerations discussed above. If Gertrude needed a new identity, then could the whole Dennis Wright situation have been engineered? Then Dennis Wright Jr doesn’t belong to Paula. Or Gertrude. That would be a clever way to turn Gertie B into Gertie W. Of course, after moving to East New York Street, there would be problems with the neighbor, Mr. Handlon. So a horribly confusing situation would become even more so. Maybe. Nonetheless, can it be possible that Dennis Lee Wright did leave Indianapolis just in time? Perhaps he did go into the service, and did pass through Germany on the way to the Nam. Then he was back by 1972, when it was safe to use his own name again. Oh well. And! Why was Denny Jr shipped out for adoption? I find that confusing. Why wouldn’t his grandmother have a good claim for custody? Why is it that Baby Denny can’t go and live in Germany, I mean in Schlick-land? There is no indication whatsoever that Alta (Wright) Schlick was involved in the trial in any way. Why Denny White, and not Denny Schlick? And how did the supposed Denny Wright Jr know that his mother was Gertrude? It seems difficult to believe that when placing a child of an infamous murderess with adopted parents, that you would tell the parents who the mother was. Really? He’s who’s son? Media time! Wait, perhaps there’s too much momentum at this point. Why be a White, when you can be a Schlick, or you can be a…Wright? Why couldn’t his father claim custody? After all, he didn’t do anything wrong. Well, perhaps one thing. And too much momentum is a good way to get Burns’d. Sorry. Of course, slowing things down does present a few problems.