“You just can’t make this shit up!”
Has it been two years since I addressed the Belmont City Council about the missing remains of the Jamke family that were dug up in and moved to the Union Cemetery in 1972…..Or do they say! You have to get a Coroner on this Land Grab Job. I demand to see his report
Here is a draft I made a year ago that is forever enhanced with the discovery of the remains of indigenous people in Twin Pine Park. Did the Jankes know of, and respect the sacred burial ground? Did they make, and plant markers? Were they part of The Tour, when outsiders come to visit JANKE PLAYLAND, which was a hot tourist attraction? Does Belmont work tourists for money? Do they have a jail if a tourist gets drunk, or molests a child? Some reports blame the Jankes for the murder of a child. The Belmont police thuyght thye may have found the bone of
“Forty-two-year-old Ylva Hagner, originally from Sweden, was a marketing employee at IXOS Software who went missing in October 1996, and the case has remained unsolved.”
I’m working on a series called ‘Belmont’. I see room for a musical
‘Where Is Our Bag (Box) of Bones’
I see the Spanish, and the Franciscans doing a dance number, after the Belmont Tribe did a Ghost Dance. Then here come the Belmont Shovel Leaners who are guilty of conflict of interest. For sixty years they held PRE-MEETINGS in a local Bar&Grill to see who gets what,
I trued to get into the series Yellowstone, but, didn’t like how the Indians were set up – every damn time! Why not a documentary..
BROKEN SHOVELS?
I bet you a twenty story condo high-rise is built over the creek and the burial ground. As fate would have it I spoke after the tribe was granted this land, and the first thing I said;
“You’re people are allowed on my ancestral land, anytime!”
Shovel Walker: “My people never go to prison. Never!”
Will Ylva Hagner, show up – and spoil the digs for everyone?”
“Where the hell were you?”
I met a Amazon She-child, named Starfish She convinced to to join the Yeti Cult on Mount Shasta after she read my aura!”
To be continued
John Presco
“Ultimately the FBI supervisor – he kicks us off the project and he said if we didn’t move we would be trespassed, and so they kicked us out all the way to the gate and locked it,” Camarena said.
Later Thursday afternoon, we went back to Twin Pines Park where police and work crews were gone. Lillian Camarena said authorities came out holding this box, of remains they confirmed were indeed, Native American.
“They were more concerned about their own cold case then they were of our concern of it being an ancestor. And with the given resources around you know, the area, it didn’t ring a bell to them and I think that it’s a lack of education. They need a lot of training and cultural sensitivity,” Camarena said.
We reached out to Belmont police and multiple Belmont leaders but did not hear back.
The FBI released this statement to ABC7 News:
“The FBI can confirm the presence of its Evidence Response Team earlier today in the city of Belmont in connection with a joint investigation being conducted with the Belmont Police Department. This activity, which has since concluded, was part of an ongoing investigation. There was no threat to public safety. As this remains an active investigation, we are unable to provide additional details at this time. We appreciate the public’s understanding and cooperation.”
Camerena said there are still remains at the park. She will be back on Friday with the archeologist and osteologist the city is contracting with to find out how they can safely disinter the rest.
Law enforcement investigating discovery made in Belmont park
Discovery at city’s Twin Pines Park was initially thought to be linked to a 29-year-old cold case
- Daily Journal staff report
- Aug 2, 2025 Updated Aug 3, 2025
Belmont Vice Mayor Robin Pang-Maganaris, Mayor Julia Mates, Parks and Recreation commissioners Avery Lyford, Arianna Cunha and Adar Emken break ground Tuesday, June 3, of the Twin Pines Park Belmont Creek Restoration Project to restore the health and resilience of Belmont Creek by reducing erosion, improve flood protection, enhance public access and support native wildlife habitat.
AnnMarie Garci
Belmont law enforcement were called to investigate a discovery made during creek restoration work at Twin Pines Park July 31, initially thought to be linked to a 29-year-old cold case.
According to a city news release, the discovery is no longer believed to be associated with the 1996 Ylva Hagner missing person case, and the city continues to work closely with “cultural resource specialists and designated tribal representatives.”
Forty-two-year-old Ylva Hagner, originally from Sweden, was a marketing employee at IXOS Software who went missing in October 1996, and the case has remained unsolved.
City spokesperson Elizabeth Tsachres said she could not confirm whether the discovery involved human remains and the “specific nature of the discovery will not be disclosed to protect the site and prevent unauthorized access,” the release said.
The Belmont Creek construction is part of a broader effort to address erosion and mitigate increasingly intense stormwater flooding over the last several years, both within the city of Belmont and the nearby Harbor Industrial Area, which has seen some of the worst effects of the area’s most severe storms. The nearby Belmont Creek serves as a primary storm collector that feeds into the San Francisco Bay, and while its design capacity was meant for severe weather anticipated every 10 years, “more intense events currently exceed the capacity of the system downstream,” according to city reports.
The current phase of the project involves removing invasive vegetation and stabilizing the eroded creek banks.
During the construction phase, the Redwood Picnic Area will be closed, as well as the trail between Ralston Avenue and the playground.
[Update][Unresolved Disappearance] Renewed activity in 1996 disappearance of 42-year-old Ylva Hagner from Belmont, CA
Ylva Hagner, a Swedish immigrant to the US, disappeared from the small Bay Area suburb of Belmont, CA on October 14th, 1996. She was last seen at her software company’s office finishing up work late that night. Her 1992 Honda Civic was found abandoned in the neighboring town of San Carlos, with no trace of Ylva to be found.
A few days ago, police have announced that they are searching the home of Ylva’s boyfriend, Thomas Pressburger, in the nearby town of Redwood City. A portion of park directly behind the house, was also closed for the investigation, which reportedly surfaced “nearly a dozen evidence bags”. This was not the first home of Pressburger’s that has been searched, although as far as I am aware he is not and was never named a formal suspect in the disappearance.
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One other suspicious figure in this case is a University professor, Bob Collins, who had been sexually harrassing Ylva, and was angered that she spurned his advances towards sex and marriage. The harrassment continued after her disappearance, when Collins spread flyers calling Ylva psychologically distressed, and claimed that she was living amongst the homeless community while also launching his own “investigation”. It is worth noting that Collins has also never been named as a formal suspect of person of interest. The actual contents of the harrassing emails that Collins sent to Ylva have not been released, so all we have to go off of are the statements by Ylva’s family.
I made a post about this 5 years ago, as it is from my hometown and seemed to fly relatively under the radar for a while as I had never heard of it before doing this research. More info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/6d4x2i/unresolved_disappearance_ylva_annika_hagner_was/
The Trace Evidence podcast did a great deep dive on this case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMhWk9zO_Q
Archive of Ylva’s family’s website (English/Swedish)
My Dead Have Been Taken Hostage
Posted on October 11, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
To: The City of Belmont
October10, 2023
My name is John Presco. I am President of Royal Rosamond Press ‘A newspaper for the Arts. Several months ago I tried to speak at the council meeting held to discuss Stanford buying Notre Dame de Namur, but my voice could not be heard after I was called upon due to technical difficulty.. I tried to speak at the last meeting, but it was canceled. For two weeks I have been working on a vision for the future of Twin Pines Park – knowing when Stanford moves in – they are going to want more land. I have more land to give them, on the condition I am on the team who designs a Inner City Park and Bohemian Mercantile Mecca – that will be a showcase to other city all over the world!.
I am the great grandson of Carl Janke the co-founder of Belmont. whose remains were dug up in the middle of the night and put in a mass grave in the Union Cemetery. I am asking the Mayor and City Council to help me get more information on how this could have happened. On August 27th. I became a Odd Fellow so I can honor my ancestors, who were dug up from their final resting place in the Oddfellow Cemetery in San Francisco. After the initiation ceremony, a brother told me there was a fight over the Oddfellow Cemetery next to the University of Oregon, that bid lawmakers to pass Bills so they could dig up more dead people and move them elsewhere. Those Bills – failed!
I was going to postpone my request due to the horrific news being name in Israel and the Gaza Strip, but I began to hear plea after plea for the return of bodies, some of them mutilated, so they can be buried, so the families of the dead can find closure. I have no closure, and I feel my dead have been taken hostage.
When I contacted the Belmont Historical Society, I was hoping to begin a genealogical-historical research that would lead me own more information about the Turnverein Jews who formed a bond with the Turnverein Gentiles in the City of Berlin, where my Stuttmeister ancestors have a magnificent monument in a cemetery. They were Evangelicals who sailed to all parts of the world. They may have known German Templers who founded colonies in Israel. My great grandfather married Augusta Janke at Ralston Hall and took a stage to Santa Cruz for their honeymoon. The Janke family owned that stage?
“Dr. and Mrs. Stuttmeister left Thursday morning for Santa Cruz and Monterey, where they will spend the honeymoon. On their return they will make their home in Belmont.”
.Four Generations of the Carl Janke Family were dug up from their final resting place – and put somewhere else. This is a Forty-niner Family. Dorothy Janke’s mother was born on the island of Heligoland, that means Holy Land. Heinrich Mutter may be her father. There should be a brass plaque on this island telling Dorothy’s People she was part of the Gold Rush, and was a California Pioneer. Did the Heligolandians pool their money together to go West and secure more land for future generations? People all over the world heard the gold was just lying there – in the streets! If the Belmont City Planners and Government – had not respected the dead for all those years – then there would not have been free land to grab and make a city park! Shall we title this….The Second Gold Rush….considering the price of real estate? Let us pray all the caring offspring of Carl and Dorothea – are dead – and don’t show up out of the blue to reclaim what is rightfully theirs to enjoy.
Help me complete the Janke Family Dream. Bring Carl and Dorette Catherine Janke – back home, so they can be honored in the way the Belmont City of Ol – agreed to honor them. If everything meets to my specifications, then I will give written permission for Belmont and Stanford to exand their vision onto Sacred Ground, in the most honorable, and respectful way possible.
John Presco
President :Belmont Soda Works
I just found a letters I wrote to Mr. White, the President of Namur College. Scroll down.
Dear Mr. White; My name is John Presco and I am the great, great grandson of Carl Janke, who brought six portable houses around the Cape in 1849. It appears that one of these portable houses is inside Ralston Hall – that was built around the small houses that Count Cipriani allegedly had shipped from Italy. I doubt this is true. I would conduct a study by archeological historians who can test the wood – that may not be cut from foreign trees? How about the screws that put this house together?
Three days before Memorial Day I discovered Carl Janke, his wife, and his mother-in-law were dug up from their graves in the middle of the night, and put in the same hole in Redwood City. This was done in 1972. I wonder if this religious activity is recorded in the archives of ND? The sacred ground reserved for the Jankes was located in Twin Pines Park that is next to ND – that might have purchased some of the original land owned by Carl. Can you check? You have a team of scholars and researchers at your disposal. Do you teach local history, or, is your main field – psychology? If so, then an analysis of City Planner’s is called for, being, Stanford purchased ND and is going to make big changes. Can we rest assured new planners – won’t do something crazy? There are rules and laws for exhuming the dead – and reburying them. Would you like to be thrown in a grave with your mother-in-law?
(What would Freud say about this – recurring nightmare?)
Let me begin my proposal this way….I want your assistance in returning my great grandparents to their original burying grounds, and installing me as a professor and theologian in residence. My kindred, Dominica Wieneke founded Briarcliff College. Other family members became a priest and nuns in the Oder of Saint Francis. My alleged ancestor, Godeschalk Rosemondt, was the Master of Louvain and the Falcon Art College in Holland. He was Pope Adrien executor, and found the Pope’s College for poor boys. My kin commissioned the artist Hieronymus Bosch, whose art should be taught at NM, as well as Artificial Intelligence in the World of Art, a course I will design. I would like to found a school of spies and augurs, in Ralston Hall where my great grandfather, William Stuttmeister, got married to Augustus Janke, the daughters of Carl, I am kin to John Fremont, the first to emancipate slaves. I became a Nazarite in 1987, and am steeped in Biblical knowledge. I alone figured out what Jesus wrote in the dust. I can teach a course in religion – that will change Christianity as we know it.
I am seventy six years of age, and do not feel safe where I am. I believe you should follow religious traditions, and have me be The Monk in Residence until it is time for me to go to a just reward. My blog, Royal Rosamond Press may be the largest blog in the world, and should be archived. Today is Father’s Day. Any books that come out of this Journey to The Past will be donated to an Art Program for poor children. I taught my late sister how to paint and she became the famous artist ‘Rosamond’. She is a great granddaughter of Carl Janke, and married into the Benton family.. We are kin to John Fremont who emancipated slaves. Carl built two Turnverien Halls and may be a Fourty-Eighter. Our history has much to do with the celebration of Juneteenth. This was not the first time members of the Janke family were dug out of their graves. Four of them were removed from the Oddfellows graveyard in SF. Member of the LDS church offered to help me research the Janke family. I went to their event.. I believe my Civil Liberties are being violated considering the classes you offer to minorities, where discovering their past – is vital! Freedom of religion involves – our dead! Jesus, and other Jews, raised people from the dead. I declared my self Nazarite in 1987.
Last night I researched getting a Getty Grant. There is a residency program attached to the Getty Villa. My late brother-in-law did the murals here. He and Christina Rosamond Benton were friends of Ann and Gordon Getty and did a mural in their home. Consider all the great murals in churches. I believe I am the exception. I was forced to drop out of high school. A watercolor I did toured the world in a Red Cross show. I believe I am a National Treasure and will say so in my message to Gavin Newsom who has been close the the Getty family his whole life.
I ran for Governor of Oregon last year and and am a Republican Candidate for President. For years I have ordered the Evangelical Politicians who subscribe to the false teaching of John Darby and Tim LaHaye – to get out of my families party! I figured out why Jesus said;
“I’ve come for the sinner – and not the righteous!”
The author Damon Knight did a study of Bosch and found to figures in The Wedding Feast at Cana – that were removed – and replaced with a dancing dog. I believe those men are Pope Adrien and Godeschalk Rosemondt. The other figures are members of the Swan Brethren. Everyone and everything is pointing to the foundation of the Brotherhood of the Swan at Notre Dame de Namur.
Sincereley
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Art
Falcon Art College Of Belmont
Posted on October 7, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
It is 4:38 A.M. in Springfield Oregon. I just woke from the most arduous dream of my life where I was REBORN, into the flesh, into the spirit, into the plan God made for me. On this day I found The Falcon Art College At Belmont. I will write a letter to Pope Saint Francis and asking him for his blessing and support in the fulfilment of a Prophecy.
Today is October 7, 2020. I believe it is God’s will that the Falcon Art College of Belmont be located inside Ralston Hall, that I believe is one of the portable buildings brought around the Cape on a Clipper Ship by my great grandfather, Carl Janke, the founder of a soda works in Belmont, and a German Theme park. The Ralston house was a portable house put together by 5,000 screws. I am now convinced that Gottschalk Rosemondt is my great ancestor, and appeared in a Bosch painting with his best friend, Pope Adrian. I believe it is the Fair Lady of the Swan Brethren who is my guardian angel and angelic guide.
John Gregory Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press and Falcon Art College at Belmont
Copyright 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Pioneer_Cemetery
The Jealous Historical Society
Posted on February 28, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Dear Mr. Mayor;
Someone on the Belmont Historical Society suggested I have violated their copyright, by posting an image of William Janke, who may be in a family photograph this is posted on their facebook page. About twelve of my posts have been removed, which alarms me, because I offer NEW family information – that could be used without my permission! Being related this famous family does not rate with this clic who are described as “we”. To be invited by an origination connected with the City of Belmont, to contribute your family history, then be treated like you are a outsider and parasite – is outrageous! This goes against the tradition of other Historical Societies – who encourage descendant of famous people to contribute – because there is no telling what they have, or, if they are going to put that Society in their will. I demand a full investigation. I would like to see your bi-laws.
Wolf Stuttmeister Comes To Belmont
Posted on March 3, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
“Dr. and Mrs. Stuttmeister left Thursday morning for Santa Cruz and Monterey, where they will spend the honeymoon. On their return they will make their home in Belmont.”
When I awoke from my Old Man Nap yesterday, I wept when I saw the words I composed to my friend, Ed Howard, as to why our quest to get funding for the preservation of the History of Black Oakland – was sabotaged – by white citizens of Belmont, who loved my families White History, but hated my White Integrated History, especially my Turnverein Forty-Eighter History. I have been looking at the real possibility Rudolph Stuttmeister was a Berlin Turnverein, and he fled to the New World before the Revolution of 1948? This very wealthy family saw what was coming. Were they conservatives who took the side of the radicals? Germans were killing Germans.
Name:Rudolph Stuttmeister Arrival Date:12 Jul 1843 Age:27 Gender:M (Male) Port of Arrival: New York Port of Departure: Hamburg, Germany Place of Origin: Deutschland Ship: Stephani
(52) Revolutions of 1848 in the German States (Part 3 of 5) – YouTube
Historic Solutions For Stanford
Posted on May 30, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
Three Flags – One Grave
Posted on May 27, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
It is 8:33 A.M. May 27, 2023 – and I am still in shock having discovered my grandparents are buried in the same grave! I saw TWO flags put on one gravestone. That was a half hour ago. THEN – I see another flag! There are three of my ancestors buried in the same grave! WHY? Did the caretakers conclude this was a very poor family? William Stuttmeister knew they were Belmont before he died. At great expense to himself, he moved the Jankes to Colma after they were evicted from the Odd Fellow cemetery – at great expense! This was a wealthy pioneer family whose graves keep being defiled! They were moved to the Union cemetery i 1972?
I found Carl and Dorothea (also and Doretta) are buried at the Union Cemetary in Redwood City.
Carl_August_Janke
Names Listed on the Marker:
Janke, Carl August
Janke, Dorette Catherine
Janke, Mutter Heinrich
Inscription:
— From the 1937 headstone survey —
Carl August Janke, born in Dresden, Germany Oct. 1806, died Belmont, Calif. Sept. 2, 1881
Dorette Catherine, wife of Carl August Janke, born in Hamburg, Germany, July 21, 1813, died in Belmont, California, Feb 16, 1877
Mutter Heinrich, mother of Dorette Catherine Janke, born in Island of Heligoland, Germany, 1781 died in Belmont, California 1876
NOTE: In 1937 the Daughters of the American Revolution recorded all the headstones.
Up in the Air
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Students happily mill past cemetery markers, while buildings rise high above the graves. This surreal scene appears in drawings from 1963 showing a proposed addition to the University of Oregon campus: structures sitting on pilings over the Pioneer Cemetery.
The idyllic sketches make the cemetery on the south edge of campus look almost parklike beneath the edifices, with the long-buried dead a minor afterthought to the aspirations of higher education.
It’s sketches like these, as reported in the Daily Emerald back in the 1960s as well as a couple of student theses on the topic, that allowed Eugene Weekly to piece together the University of Oregon’s buried history with the Pioneer Cemetery — a moment when the UO decided it was a good idea to erect buildings over the dead.
Roxi Thoren, associate professor and department head of Landscape Architecture at the UO, sheds light on the architectural thinking. She says, cemetery aside, the idea of an elevated building was “standard architecture of the time.”
She says the idea comes from French architect and modern architecture pioneer Le Corbusier’s idea of a tower in the park. It’s “supposed to be a continuous horizontal green plane, and the city will be this expansive garden,” she says.
She calls the thinking of the time progressive and technocratic. “It’s about technology freeing us from the vicissitudes of nature,” Thoren says.
But looking back, the plans look strangely out of touch.
Although a bit weird, the university’s aspirations probably don’t shock anyone familiar with the “University of Nike.” Even before being flooded with Phil Knight’s money, the UO was ambitious. The university in 1963 was doing exactly what it’s doing now: casting its gaze on nearby land, seeking to acquire real estate and build not only new academic buildings, but its reputation as well.
In 1963, the architecture firm Lutes and Amundson created five plans for the UO to expand onto the land occupied by the Pioneer Cemetery. The most ambitious — and most unbelievable — was an idea to construct buildings over existing graves, presumably without disturbing them.
Thoren says the tower-in-a-park idea is a nice one, but she calls some of the unbuilt design examples, such as the plan for the cemetery, a bit extreme. “A tower in a park is one thing,” she says. “A tower in a cemetery is another.”
She adds that architects of the period often did not think about the world as it existed around them. They saw their desire to build as something paramount to the needs and limitations of the space it would inhabit.
The non-engagement with pre-existing conditions seems to have been at play with Lutes and Amundson and the UO. The plan depicts a landscaped graveyard with footpaths for students to walk on. Above them are buildings vaulted and supported by beams. Skybridges direct students from other areas of campus to their over-the-cemetery classrooms.
Basically, the UO wanted so badly to expand that it was willing to put buildings on stilts over a graveyard.
“That is shocking,” says Ocean Howell, associate professor of architectural history at the University of Oregon Clark Honors College, looking at the architectural drawings. He’s shocked not only by the premise of the plans themselves, but also by the fact that they were seriously considered in 1963.
Whose Cemetery?
Long before plans were made for grand buildings and skybridges above the cemetery, quieter plans arose to challenge the governing body of the Pioneer Cemetery. A fracture within the Odd Fellows Cemetery Association led to more than a decade of disputes over the land, many of them involving the university. The Odd Fellows Lodge owned the cemetery at the time.
The association split into two groups: the Odd Fellows Cemetery Association and the Pioneer Memorial Park Association. The Odd Fellows believed the new Pioneer Association wanted to hand over rights to the university.
Down the line the Odd Fellows changed the name of their association to the Eugene Pioneer Cemetery Association in hopes of disassociating with the Lodge and getting the rights to the property back.
The two groups went to court and, at one point, the Eugene Pioneer Cemetery Association argued that the Pioneer Memorial Park Association had allowed the cemetery to become so overgrown that it “constituted a fire hazard besides having an unsightly appearance.”
The five plans created by Lutes and Amundson called for the university to convert the cemetery into usable academic space. The strangest of them was the Le Corbusier-esque tower-in-the-cemetery idea.
This idea was backed by state Rep. Ed Elder and was known as Elder’s Compromise.
The plan included utility tunnels and vehicular circulation that “could be located within 30 feet of roadways where excavation without disturbing graves would be possible.” The plans also say “some ground floor service areas and stairways could be located in vacant grave areas.”
Howell told EW that it would, in fact, not be possible to construct to this scale above a cemetery without disturbing graves.
Much of the record over the debate comes fromthe Daily Emerald’s assiduous reporting on the university’s interest in the cemetery for several months.
In 1969, a bill was introduced in the Legislature that would allow for the cemetery to be condemned, then absorbed into the university and built over. It was not the first bill of its kind and, like the others, the bill did not pass.
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