John Michael Irmer shocked just about everyone by walking into Portland’s FBI field office with a confession. The 69-year-old calmly took responsibility for the “1979 murder and rape of Pennsylvania native Susan Marcia Rose, who he met at a Boston skating rink.” Nobody is reporting that he also asked “can I have my cell back please?” However, reading between the lines suggests that the “ice-blooded” killer can’t cope with life on the streets of Portland, Oregon, and wants to be back behind bars where it’s safe.
An added bonus confession
Just to make sure that authorities would put him back in a safe, secure cell for the rest of his life, Irmer made a second confession to “killing another person in the South.” That crime is still being confirmed. One thing that police know for certain, “Irmer was convicted in the 1983 robbery and murder of a drug dealer in San Francisco.”
They put him on ice in the mid-eighties and he got released 30 years later. When he hit the street in 2015 or so, he was stunned to see how much things had changed. With the current state of affairs in Portland, he’d apparently rather be back behind bars.
Almost 44 years ago, “a day before Halloween,” the then 25-year-old met redheaded beauty Susan Marcia Rose at a Boston skating rink, he relates in his confession. They hit it off and decided to duck into “a home on Beacon Street, which was under renovation at the time,” to “explore the building.” It was more of an apartment house.
John Michael Irmer walked into an FBI office and confessed to the 1979 cold case murder of Susan Marcia Rose in Boston.
The chilling confession reveals she was bludgeoned with a hammer in an abandoned building. The 68-year-old has been charged with her murder and rape. pic.twitter.com/eNnBPU0PUD
— BoreCure (@CureBore) September 12, 2023
There, he grabbed a convenient hammer “and struck her in the head.” Brutally and repeatedly. As she lay there limp, unconscious and dying, he raped her. The next day, he decided it might be a good idea to move to New York.
Police were certain that they had her killer in custody and put him on trial but the person who was falsely accused “was acquitted during a June 1981 trial.” Since his confession, police have confirmed that his DNA does match up with “samples preserved from the murder scene.”
Irmer appeared for his arraignment on September 11 and “mostly hid behind a wall in court.” The prosecutor didn’t even ask for bond since he turned himself in voluntarily to start with but the judge decided to let him move back in to incarceration now. “He was remanded without bail on charges of murder and aggravated rape.”
There may be more
When Irmer first walked in to the FBI field office, he wanted to give a confession for “several murders.” Since he’d been convicted of the one in San Francisco, it doesn’t count.
The girl in Boston is one and “another person in the South” makes two but that still isn’t “several.” Assistant District Attorney John Verner is carefully looking in to that to follow the loose end.
When his victim’s family got word of the confession, their attorney issued a statement. “Nearly 44 years after losing her at such a young age, the family and friends of Susan Marcia Rose will finally have some answers.”
John Michael Irmer confesses to the 1979 murder of Susan Marcia Rose in Boston, leading to his extradition and charges of first-degree murde…#JohnMichaelIrmer #SusanMarciaRose #ColdCase
https://t.co/eTBpgT6qxk— Neural Times World (@neuraltimeswrld) September 12, 2023
“This was a brutal, ice-blooded murder made worse by the fact that a person was charged and tried—and fortunately, found not guilty—while the real murderer remained silent until now.”
Police could have never cracked the case without his confession.
“No matter how cold cases get resolved, it’s always the answers that are important for those who have lived with grief and loss and so many agonizing questions.“
