Rednour’s older brother, Eddie Dean Rednour, 53, and his sister, Kathleen Rednour, 44, were both convicted in 2004 in the slaying of a Tipp City man. Eddie Dean Rednour is serving a 15-year-to-life sentence for the murder, according to Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. Kathleen Rednour is serving eight years for involuntary manslaughter.
Charles Rednour, 47, will finish out a 3-year sentence next month for burglary, auto theft and drug possession. Shelby Rednour, 45, is serving a 5-year term for rape.
“I raised all my sons and my daughter in the church,” Pattie Rednour, their father, said Tuesday, Sept. 7. “They know the difference between right and wrong. After they came of age, they got into things I didn’t approve of.”
Gary Rednour was arrested after DNA found on Paradiso’s body matched his DNA. Her body was discovered by a group of young boys March 14 behind a vacant house in the Riverdale neighborhood. The Montgomery County Coroner determined the cause of death was strangulation.
Sgt. Gary White, head of the homicide squad, said Gary Rednour and Paradiso, 47, were acquaintances.
Gary Rednour denied to reporters killing Paradiso.
He was convicted in 1992 of second-degree murder and two counts of evidence tampering, according to New Mexico court records, in the death of a 30-year-old dancer whose body was found dumped in the Sandia Mountains outside of Albuquerque.
Pattie Rednour of Harrison Twp. said his son was skilled at several trades and worked for a local contractor for several years after getting out of prison and returning to the Miami Valley about 2003.
White said police are looking to see if Gary Rednour is linked with any other homicides. “We entered his DNA into the national DNA database. Our concerns are obvious,” White said.
A relative concerned about personal safety said Gary Rednour often threatened family members. “ ‘You don’t want to cross me,’ he’d say. ‘There is more than one person out there who won’t be found,’ ” the relative said.
Pattie Rednour said he prays every night: “ ‘Thank you, Lord, they are not in the graveyard.’ At least they’ll have a chance when they get out. They have no chance in a graveyard.”
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