By Guy Page
Authorities appear to be zeroing in on three unsolved murders of young, out-of-state men – including a 17-year-old – in rural Vermont.
One murder occurred in Danby two years ago last Saturday, February 3. The other two murders took place at the same time and location in Albany or Eden October 26, 2023. Both incidents have drug-crime related connections.
The Vermont State Police announced Friday, Feb. 2 they have arrested two suspects on charges related to the homicide of 17-year-old Isiah Rodriguez of Springfield, MA in Danby nearly two years ago. Additional arrests are expected as this investigation continues.
On Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, members of the state police arrested 32-year-old Ashley Wicks and 28-year-old Shawn Bulson, both of Bennington, on charges of being accessories after the fact to the fatal shooting. Wicks also was charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Both suspects were arraigned Tuesday morning, Jan. 30, in the Criminal Division of Vermont Superior Court in Bennington.
Through a complex, lengthy investigation that began after Rodriguez’s body was found early Feb. 3, 2022, on Danby Mountain Road, state police detectives determined the homicide arose from a dispute among a group of people regarding drug trafficking and stolen firearms.
Former Stowe man ‘person of interest’ in twin-killing of MA men – Mike Donoghue of Vermont News First reports in the Berkshire Eagle that federal authorities are holding Theodore Bland, 28, a former Stowe man with a drug crime arrest record, as a ‘person of interest’ in the homicide deaths of two young Massachusetts men with lengthy criminal records and police interactions.
The medical examiner determined that the cause of death for Jahim Solomon, 21, of Pittsfield was multiple gunshot wounds to the head, and the manner of death is a homicide. The cause of death for Eric White, 21, of Chicopee was determined to be a gunshot wound to the head, and the manner of death is a homicide.
Police located the bodies along the Albany-Eden Road on Tuesday, Oct. 24, and Wednesday, Oct. 25. Tuesday afternoon, a game warden with the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife located evidence that appeared suspicious several dozen feet off the road in the town of Eden.
Bland is being held without bail on an unrelated federal drug and firearms charge, according to authorities.
Bland was initially charged in state court for aggravated assault and reckless endangerment over a March 17 incident outside a convenience store in South Burlington. But authorities said a federal charge was added in that case as they attempted to find out who shot Solomon and White in October and left their bodies off a road in Eden, in central Vermont.
On Oct. 15, Solomon’s and White’s families reported them as missing to Vermont police. The men’s phone records showed they had been in several Vermont towns since arriving in the state.
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You mean this is not part of Vermont’s assisted suicide tourism effort?
If you want to dance, you gotta pay the fiddler…
They say behind every kilo of coke sold, is a dead man, so looking at these drug related murders, prolificating in Vermont, it appears there is a lot of truth to that saying.
It makes one wonder at how many bodies are buried in the backwoods throughout the state…I’d bet heaps.
Just more big city trash in Vermont, all you need to know is if you don’t play by their rules………………. well it’s not going to end well !!
Drug dealers don’t like competition, so thinning the herd happens all the time, just part of doing business, illegal as it is ……………………………………
Ted Bland sure looks like a happy-go-lucky OR deranged individual. I guess he hasn’t heard that Vermont prosecutors only extend their usual courtesy of not prosecuting drug dealers or murderers unless the perp is “of color” or a member of some other imaginary persecuted group. So, Ted, looks like you might be plum outta luck.
As we now know, if you are lacking in melanin or other indicators of supposedly- disadvantaged status and are searching for a victimhood niche, dont despair, you still have many options. You can claim to be a member of a sexual minority with a corresponding letter of the alphabet. You can become addicted to the substance of your choice (except nicotine) and claim you suffer from substance use disorder. You can claim that you hear voices in your head and that undisproveable status qualifies you as having a mental disability. You can claim you are homeless and have nowhere to go. Use your imagination!
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