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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Jaroslaw
"Jerry"
Ambrozuk
(Michael Lee Smith)
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Race: White |
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Age Now: 45 |
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Height: 6'1" |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Blond |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Blue |
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Wanted for :
Negligent Homicide, Flathead County, MT;
Aug 22, 1982
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Plano, TX
Ambrozuk was living in Plano, working as a self-employed software programmer. |
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Possible Location : Plano, TX |
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Last Known : Plano, TX
A $274k home in Russell Creek Estates |
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Traits |
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Case Story |
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High-Flying Love Birds Take A Plunge? |
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Jaroslaw Ambrozuk, 19, and his girlfriend Dorothy Babcock, 18, were both young, in love and just dying to be with one another. That's why cops can't figure out why Ambrozuk would deliberately crash a plane... a crash that killed the woman he claimed to love.
Some think it was a harebrained scheme to run away to America and elope with Babcock. But no one knows for sure why he rented a Cessna 150 for what was supposed to be a flight between two Canadian cities. Sometime during their trip on Aug. 22, 1982, Ambrozuk veered off course, ditching the plane in the Little Bitterroot Lake near Marion, Montana.
What happened next is open to speculation. Maybe he and Babcock really did collaborate to engineer their elaborate if shortsighted disappearance, and the crash was just an unfortunate accident. Or maybe he manipulated Babcock, planning all along to kill her and stage a cover up. At any rate, cops say he was able to swim out of the wreckage. But Babcock didn't make it out alive.
When vops later found the small plane in 220 feet of water, Dianne's body was still inside. Someone had put some of her clothes in waterproof bags and withdrawn all her savings, also possible signs that what happened was somehow premeditated.
Some cash and other items were missing from the plane. Cops found a sealed, waterproof garbage bag full of clothes on the lake shore.
Investigators say Ambrozuk dried out in front of a campfire that night, burning up electronic communication equipment from the plane in an attempt to hide evidence. |
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Livin' Large In the Heart of Texas |
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Ambrozuk fled without saying a word to police or his family. He made his way to New York a few days later.
Shortly thereafter, cops say Ambrozuk called a friend in Canada and told him he had managed to escape from the plane, but was unable to free Babcock because her seatbelt got jammed (according to the police who recovered Babcock's body, her seatbelt showed no signs of malfunction).
Police say Ambrozuk told his friend that he felt like a murderer, and was very depressed because he couldn't get her out.
Apparantly, not so depressed that he couldn't start a brand new life down in Texas.
Ambrozuk made a lot of money working as a software developer near Dallas, and it showed. Neighbors say he was a serial bachelor who liked to have wild, all night pool parties at his $270k home in an upscale neighborhood, Ross Creek Estates. He drove around in a pricey Dodge Viper, which he was always tinkering with in his garage. |
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Ambrozuk Changes His Plea -- Again! |
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Upon his arrest in August 2006, Ambrozuk was charged with negligent homicide for the 1982 death of his 18-year-old girlfriend. He claimed his innocence up until a Feb. 1 hearing when he changed his plea to "no contest" -- a plea that claims neither innocence nor guilt. The plea change allowed for authorities to skip a trial and move directly to sentencing the Canadian-native fugitive. Prosecutors decided on an agreement that recommended that Ambrozuk have 10 years of probation.
Now, a month after Ambrozuk pleaded "no contest," he has reinstated his plea of innocence. The judge overseeing the case has allowed for a plea change after authorities discovered that Ambrozuk was living illegally in the United States. He now faces charges in Texas for passport fraud and will most likely be deported back to Canada. Because the US has no jurisdiction in Canada, there would be no way to enforce Ambrozuk's sentencing and there would be no supervision. The district judge also said that the plea agreement suggested an "inappropriate" sentence. Ambrozuk should not get off that easily. Prosecutors later said that they did not realize that he would not be supervised in Canada. This second plea change means that Ambrozuk will go to trial -- which will hopefully be scheduled within the next 80 days.
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