Williams charged in Malic’s murder
She was murdered on March twenty second and today the man who was a suspect from the day she disappeared was charged with her death. Michael Williams was formally charged this afternoon with the murder of twelve year old Jackie Fern Malic. At a press conference at the Raccoon Street Police Station, Commissioner Ornel Brooks outlined the evidence, both circumstantial and forensic, that the police have gathered during the investigation the commissioner characterized as “tireless.” He says the detectives have been able to establish a close relationship between Williams and Malic’s family, in particular with the grandmother and Jackie and her younger sister; that Mike Williams frequently had contact with the two girls in the morning hours when they would be heading to school and that he had in fact offered the two a ride on the morning Jackie disappeared. This information was no surprise since much of it was revealed early in the investigation and had already been made public, but there were some new, very frightening revelations today.
Ornel Brooks, Commissioner of Police
“We have also established the presence of the deceased Jackie Malic in Williams’ car around 12 p.m. midday on the day of the 22nd – the same day of the disappearance. We have established through continuous investigation that some weeks perhaps two weeks prior to the disappearance of Jackie Malic Williams had endeavored to purchase what we refer to as a “knockout” drug to put down a child between the age of 12 and 13. His alibi for purchase was that there were young people going into his garage stealing his food stuff and his drink supply in his absence.
He contacted more than one pharmacists and endeavored to buy a particular drug having this type of knockout effect for a couple of hours in a kid between the ages of 12 and 13. He did not from our investigation receive such a drug. However, what we were also able to establish is that one pharmacist did a concoction of rum and some other liquid material which was given to Williams purporting that mixture would have had a sleeping effect on a young person. However, we were told by that pharmacist that he knew that that was not so; perhaps it would have only had a drunking effect. Nonetheless that mixture was given to him.
We have confirmed from more than one pharmacists that just prior to the disappearance of Jackie Malic Williams was desperately trying to purchase a large quantity of Valium. We believe that he indeed made a purchase; we have not been able to establish precisely from which pharmacist but we have some very good leads at this point in time.
We have also been able to establish a witness that on Tuesday the 23rd after Williams was released from his first pickup by the police, he was seen in the immediate vicinity in a dodging manner near to where the body of Jackie Malic was discovered. And this is a very important and critical point here because just prior to his release workmen who worked in the same location left the site and there were no sightings of the body of Jackie Malic until the following day. This is a critical observation.”
