I am a descendent of Matthias Chitwood, so I went to check out those articles you posted. Then I decided to Google for a picture and found another one about Michael Chitwood. His father is Michael Chitwood, Sr.
Chitwood's father, Mike Sr., worked as a Philly cop from 1964 to 1983, including stints in the city's hostage negotiation and homicide units. He's now chief of police in Portland, Maine. With this move to Oklahoma, Jr. will follow in Sr.'s footsteps yet again.
Father and son both rank among the most commended officers in Philadelphia history-and the most controversial.
Apparantly Chitwood, Sr. was the one that arrested Einhorn and the Chitwood in this article is his son, although the article that I read was talking about him moving to Oklahoma. Maybe he changed his mind.
One thing I found interesting, the picture of Chitwood, Sr. looks a whole lot like my brother.
This is too confusing! :-)
Hmmm...
In the article from Upper Darby posted for this thread, the Chitwood mentioned is "Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood". According to this article from 2005...
Michael Chitwood, 61, police chief in Portland, Maine, said today he's negotiating with Upper Darby officials, who are looking for a leader when current Superintendent Vincent J. Ficchi retires in the fall.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/12114414.htm
So it looks like the senior Chitwood is
1. the same as the one who was working in Portland, ME
2. the one mentioned in the thread article, and
3. The one who found Holly Maddux (mentioned at the above link).
Now if a junior chitwood is chitting wood in this same chitwood neighborhood, how much chit would a junior chitwood chit if a...
Ah heck, it's getting late...
Could we, should we, would we go ahead and just blame Matthias Chitwood? :-O