"I think she knew too much and they silenced her.". 2021) "Murder in Alabama: Homicides on the rise in 2021 in 4 of the state's 5 biggest cities." The Birmingham News; Robinson, Carol (November 19, 2021) "'We hurt every day': Slain toddler Major Turner's 3rd birthday celebrated with tears, smiles and balloons." He mother received a telephone call from her later that day but never saw her again. Six days after Abbatiello-Smith was reported missing, police responded to a report of a body discovered in a vacant field off Mariposa Street in Denver, not far from where Abbatiello-Smith had lived and worked. The state of Connecticut still has on the books the unsolved case of a teenager who went missing in July 1968. Replies analysing and speculating over the mystery and possible explanations are encouraged. Mark Roberts, Huntsville Police, said, "To us, any unsolved murder is higha lot of cases are hard to proved and it takes a lot of time and effort in each one of these. Garnet Ginn taught home economics at Portland High School in the small town of Portland, Ind. Donald R. Fortson - read more. Kay Ivey has announced a, Reward Increased in 2017 Murder Case of Ladarious Lymon and Javon Banks in Butler County, Governor Ivey Offering $5,000 Rewards for Information in Two Unsolved Dallas County Murders, Butler County Deputies Want Help to Solve Double Murder, Strong/Severe Storms Possible Thursday and Friday, Pay It Forward: Jimmie Ricks of Tallassee, Tallassee Man, Woman Charged with Capital Murder in Death of Woman Found in Macon County, Troy University Closes Its Confucius Institute, Cloudy and Warm Today; Strong to Severe Storms Thur/Fri. She'd been missing for two weeks. On the night of April 21, 1973 Ellis left her residence at Martha Parham Hall and rode a bicycle to a concert being held on the University of Alabama campus. Then, for reasons unknown, Brown returned to campus and parked her car in the driveway of Old Morrison, a college building. According to Alabama's cold case unit, the state's oldest and most unsolved serious crime is the disappearance of Sandra Williams. Reports of child murder were exceptionally rare in the 1950s, and the crime horrified and saddened the Philadelphia area, where reporters took to calling the mysterious individual "America's Unknown Child" and "The Boy in the Box." [googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=216620578170379567419.0004e11ae7d025db5099f&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=34.470335,-86.682129&spn=1.811428,3.4552&z=8&output=embed&w=630&h=400]. No suspect has ever been arrested in this case. On June 11, 1968, shortly after 7 a.m., 15-year-old Joanne Dunham left home in the Raiche Mobile Homes in Charleston, setting out on foot to catch the bus that would take her to school, reports the New Hampshire Department of Justice. The mysterious vanishing of Marvin A. Clark isn't only the oldest active cold case in Oregon, it's the oldest unresolved missing persons matter in the United States, according to The Oregonian. The last activity on the case came in response to a tip in 2008, which ultimately proved fruitless. According to Philadelphia City Paper, police responding to a report called in by a La Salle College student on Feb. 26, 1957, were so incredulous of the incident that they initially didn't think the tip was real. "We're right between Mobile and Pensacola and this area was more rural, places were more isolated back then.". A police investigation revealed no fingerprints or sign of struggle, and Richey's friend was cleared of wrongdoing. Any number of parties could have murdered Allyn, found shot to death in his home in May 1940, ironically while reading a book called The Gun. In 2002, a tip hinted that Price had been shot with a handgun and buried along West Virginia's Route 2, and in 2016, cadaver dogs searched near a gypsum plant along the same roadway. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Vermont state troopers questioned dozens of parties, most of whom claimed to have no knowledge of the murder. In 1986, Olbert Hiett, a deputy U.S. If you have information regarding the murder of this unidentified female or have information about her identity, please call the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit at 205-464-8690, CrimeStoppers at 205-752-STOP or emailHomicide@tuscco.com. Most of the rest of the bodies were never identified, leading police to theorize that the victims were people from the fringes of society, homeless people, and residents of Cleveland's Depression-era shantytown. More than 30 years later, Fisher's estranged wife was charged with first-degree murder. Released the next morning, James's wife, Hattie Brazier, brought James to a Dawson hospital but was refused treatment. Smith and Jones had only been dating a month when they were killed. McCovery was transported to the hospital where he died of his injuries. According to the cold case crime database Uncovered, the oldest unsolved affair in Washington state dates to March 1, 1951, and concerns the disappearance of Alvin Edwin Matlock. Zachary's wife would later recant her corroboration of her husband's alibi, while the cab driver was arrested and charged with assault in 1957. A few days after writing that note, Mauger headed into the wilderness near Dubois, Wyo., exploring the Togwotee Pass area, where she'd hunted and trapped since childhood. ( NewsNation) The murder clearance rate hit an all-time low in 2020, and data analyzed by a nonprofit shows that trend continued last year. Officers located 62-year-old William Hall lying on the side of the roadway suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. 27-year old Renee Bergernon, a native of Marrero, Louisiana, was discovered by a motorist on the service road of Interstate 10 near Irvington in November 1993. Their arrival, and Evans' tenacity, scared off the man, and he ran away. He submitted to another polygraph test over the Carpenter case, and he passed it before dying in 1984. I was close friends growing up with some of the relatives of the victims (and possible suspects) and one of my close friends in elementary and high school lived in the house where the murders took place. The house belonged to two of the victims, 34-year-old Robert Gierse and 27-year-old Robert Hinson. A police officer who lived near Au and for whom a sexual harassment charge had been filed, was arrested, but prosecutors lacked evidence to pursue an indictment. McGhee was last heard from by her husband and mother at 8 a.m. on March 24 after getting home from working her night shift as a nurse. 1998 - 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved. As night approached, a search party formed and spent many hours searching. Tragically, it would evolve into a homicide case, one that was never conclusively resolved. Unsolved murders of Alabama Erin Edgemon | eedgemon@al.com Charles R. "Dick" Salmon Charles R. "Dick" Salmon, 72, of Auburn was found dead of a gunshot wound at the service station he owned and. In 2018, the Nampa Police Department acted on a longstanding theory that Richey had been killed and her remains concealed in the Nampa School District's administration building, which had laid its foundation around the time of Richey's disappearance. Jerry was found guilty of two counts of first degree perjury for lying to the grand jury about the murders and was sentenced to two life terms in prison; What? When the victims were finally able to get off the highway at Exit 97, they found Bibbs had died. Akey was near a patch of watermelons at Trammell's Market with two friends roughly his same age, and the three were attempting to hitchhike for a ride. Olbert connected the dots and ballistics tests confirmed that the two weapons were in fact the ones used in the Mars Hill Murders. The case was an immediate sensation. He arrived in Dos Palmas on Oct. 9, 1866. The door was open and a clean load of laundry was inside, but Reed Ferguson was nowhere to be found. According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, at the time, the 21-year-old Matlock, a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces (he's in uniform in his handful of publicly released photos) was living in a cabin in the Browne's Mountain neighborhood on the edge of the city of Spokane. A friend of Jeppson's saw him and his dogs, both German shorthair pointers he was training to bird hunt, walk past a Catholic Church on Wasatch Boulevard around 1 p.m., the last and only account of where Jeppson went after he left home that day. Vernon Johnson was eventually charged with the crime and tried in 1981, but was acquitted. At first, her death was ruled a suicide, and the remains were released to a funeral home before the coroner could make a proper assessment. The driver was unable to stop safely before striking Adams at the intersection. In 2011, state forensic anthropologist Dr. Nici Vance sent a sample of the recovered skull to the University of North Texas for DNA analysis. Mont Highley IV. The murderer hadn't fully killed her the party had assaulted and attacked van Zanten, but she'd gotten away at McHugh Creek State Park and ran away, only to fall off a ledge and freeze to death. After more than 30 years, the individual is still referred to in records as "Jane Doe 1983.". She looked through a window and saw both Nick, 82, and Jane, 74, laying on the floor, still wearing their pajamas. Frank Dolezal, a suspect in the so-called "Torso Murders," confessed to the murder of only Polillo but committed suicide before his trial. WAFF 48's Robyn McGlohn takes an in depth look in this report. It's a sad and unfortunate fact of life, both today and throughout the past, that some criminals completely get away with their transgression against society and their fellow humans, taking the secret of their reprehensible acts to the grave. Murdered. She was found not guilty in 2015. Alton Adams, 60, was hit by a vehicle on Dec. 13 at 5:43 p.m, Mobile Police said the driver was traveling north on Dr. Martin Luther King Avenue when Adams exited Gaston Street on a bicycle. In 2007, it was discovered that some information was missing from the case file, stallingfurther investigation. The McRae case occurred 9 months prior to the Worthy case. Jackson says he hopes the, Investigators in Butler County are searching for new leads in a double murder investigation. There were no signs of forced entry and the assailant was able to enter the home despite the presence of a dog so vicious that investigators had to have it removed. Best friends, high school classmates and coworkers John Self, III and Gregory Eadie were found slain in their Azalea Road apartment in 1982. But no matter what, solving the unsolved murders in the city of Huntsville is a must. The Minnehaha County sheriff's office determined that Cheney had been killed by a powerful blow to the head with a blunt item as she walked, her body abandoned not far from the site of her death. Ridulph's murder remains unsolved. AC Worthy served as an officer at the local VFW post Bessemer. Investigators said an SUV, maybe a Nissan Pathfinder, approached the Focus with its high beams on, passed their car then deliberately slowed down. Blount County After 3 a.m., a police officer noticed her driving around and broke the news that Betty Gail had been discovered dead in her vehicle. Williams' wife long attested that law enforcement had something to do with the death, and an investigation was re-opened in 2018 after the passage of Tennessee's Civil Rights Crimes Cold Case Law, which sought to find justice for unpunished murders of Black men and women in the civil rights movement era. The department reported 59 unsolved homicide cases at year's end. On Sept. 24, 1971, 16-year-old Moulton was preparing for a YMCA dance that evening and asked her parents if she could head into downtown Portland, Maine, to buy a new pair of tights. From crime scene evidence, police were able to determine the killer's shoe size, hair length, and hair color, and from that, put together a list of 15 suspects. When she didn't show up for work the next day, friends and associates got worried. After returning home from church services with his family he lived near Emigration Canyon in Salt Lake City he fed his two dogs and then decided to take them out for a long walk. According to All That's Interesting, Tucson financial manager Chuck Morgan left for work on the morning of March 22, 1977 and then didn't come home for three days. Police believe the two vehicles passed each other several times before they ended up parallel to one another on the interstate. Wasilewski, who also went by the name of Carolyn Wells, didn't reach the trailer park or the school. Relatives and authorities had little to work off of beyond speculation, like the rumor that Matlock had quietly moved to Alaska, or that he'd been shot to death by the jealous husband of a married woman with whom he'd been romantically involved. Officers located the victim, 70-year-old Kerry Muzzey, deceased inside the residence. Officers located 32-year-old Keith Washingtonlying on the side of the road suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. Cold Case: Huntsville man's murder still unsolved after nearly 11 years. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. On July 18, 1999 at approximately 1:30am, unknown suspects entered the home of Serafin Maldonado located in the 12000 block of Bone Camp Road (Northport) in Tuscaloosa County. He had very little identifying characteristics police cited buck teeth and that he was wearing a cowboy-style shirt with faux pearl snaps and blue jeans, whose pockets contained a mixture of American and Canadian coinage. Kelly Lynn Albright was only 12 years old on Sept. 17, 1970, the day she vanished from the home she shared with her mother and stepfather in Reno County, Kan., according to The Hutchinson News. Colorado Springs, Colorado - Female was sexually attacked by a male who responded to an ad for a wedding dress being sold by the victim. At the time, Clearwater police officers theorized that the Jeatrans had startled a burglar mid-crime, prompting the violent attack the assailant struck both of them in the head with a blunt object before he made off with jewelry. Published: Jun. and was found with a .38, the other weapon used in the murder, it probably wasn't hard to put two and two together. The cause of the fire was determined to be petroleum based products inside the building. Rogers was shot in the shoulder and the eye (which he permanently lost the use of) but radioed in a description of the vehicle it was a dark-colored truck bearing a Confederate flag. Today, on the three-year anniversary of the murder, the reward remains unclaimed. Both homicides occurred in Selma. At the time of Rogers' murder, Hoff was a 20-year-old Army man and lived in the same neighborhood as the young girl. In Alabama that charge is a class C felony, has been since 1977. The murder remains the oldest unsolved homicide in Nebraska history. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. According to KFOR, Fishermen working on the North Canadian River, about 20 miles outside of Oklahoma City, made a grisly discovery on April 18, 1980, spotting on a bank the body of a woman. The MPD is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case. Initial investigation revealed that both victims were shot and killed when they returned home from a Sunday night church service where Mrs. Worthy served as choir director. On Feb. 28, 1983, authorities in St. Louis responded to a call of a small body found in an abandoned and uninhabited building. Cherry was a member of United Klans of America. The National Read Across America Day takes place every year on March 2, Geisels birthday. On Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 11:23 p.m. officers responded to the area of Airport Blvd at I-65 for a report of one shot. According to the gossip that went around at the time, his wife did it. Johnson, who has studied every note in Davis homicide file, says its his mission to put this cold case to bed. The MCSO suspects his body had been at the location for several days. Why did Olbert Hiett take his brothers gun and how were the dots connected? There should've been an "a" before the "whole", whoops. Hey there, fellow Alabamian! On January 29, 1989 Robert F. McRae, Sr. age 72 and his wife, Katherine P. McRae, age 70 were found murdered in their residence in Graceville Florida. Authorities determined that the woman had in fact been murdered, the body abandoned. When she didn't report to work one day in February 1950, authorities were called. For instance, it's commonly known that Roy Harris was tortured profusely before he was executed and dumped in the river. The body of Julie Speerschneider, who left a campus bar in March 1979, was discovered in the Yahara River in 1981. Over a 14-year period, seven women were killed in what became known as the Capital City Killings, according to Madison.com. Butler would make headlines years after his death. It has been called Dr. Seuss Day because of this. If Akey was murdered, evidence of such didn't manifest for nearly six years. The case was eventually closed although reopened in 1983 when a hunter in rural Maine found remains matching that of a teen girl in early 70s clothing. That round of testing didn't offer up many more clues, and while the investigation is still open, the cold case investigation organization the Vidocq Societytook it upon itself to solve the mystery. On the morning of Sept. 11, 1980, the body of Williams, 20 years old, was found in a cul-de-sac in Mobile, with police quickly ruling the cause of death to be murder by stabbing. Delaware's oldest unsolved crime is a murder case, and the violent, unnatural way in which the victim died is about the only thing authorities can confidently assert, even after more than 40 years, reports Crimestoppers. The death of Orville Gibson remains unofficially unsolved more than 60 years after the fact, although local legend and conjecture in Newbury, Vt., suggest that the community knows exactly what happened. He stated that he was going to a Hispanic nightclub in west Birmingham. A newspaper delivery driver later reported that about 2:30 a.m. the night of Au's disappearance, she saw a man drive by with a female passenger who appeared unconscious. Instead, Baldwin County Sheriff's deputies opted to interview patrons and employees at bars he frequented. In 1993, Tessier's mother, Eileen, recanted her backup of the alibi and told daughter Janet that John had been responsible for Ridulph's death. Thumbing a ride was much more common in the 70s than it is today, and it's a practice Schlais engaged in often, according to her family. Two people, Tony Lewis and Leila Baldwin were found dead inside their homes after a house fire on February 17th. One month after the murders, investigators were contacted by an agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement concerning a double homicide of an elderly couple in Graceville Florida in January of that same year. She'd been stabbed and also strangled. 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