#cold cases

[luciferlaughs]

Mekayla Bali's disappearance on April 12, 2016, from her hometown of Yorkton, Saskatchewan, has remained a haunting mystery, capturing the attention of both law enforcement and the public. The 16-year-old Canadian was last seen at a local bus stop between 1:00 and 1:45 p.m., sparking a frantic search effort that has yet to yield any definitive leads. The day before her diappearance, she visited the bank to have $25 wired to her account. Later, she texted several friends that she was upset and needed help with something, but no further explanation was provided. The day she went missing was marked by a series of perplexing events, adding layers to the enigma surrounding her case. She texted a friend at around 6:41am asking for a ride to the bank again, but the friend declined since the bank was closed. Her grandmother then drove her to school at around 8:10am. Surveillance cameras showed her putting her binder in her locker and then slipping out the back entrance. She hiked all the way to the bank, where she withdrew $55. She then went to a Wendy's/Tim Horton's restaurant, where, for the next hour or so, she exhibited strange behaviour. Footage shows her disassembling her phone and then reassembling it. Multiple times she left the restaurant, wandered around, and then re-entered. She spent much of her time talking on the phone and texting, including a friend whom she asked for help with something, only to follow it up with ''Nevermind I figured it out''. She also asked a random customer for help with renting a hotel room, but was turned down. At around 11am, she went to the bus stop and asked a stranger when the next stop to Regina would be. Since the bus wasn't going to arrive until 5pm, she left without purchasing a ticket and went back to school for the lunch period, where she met with friends and told them she was planning a trip to Regina. At around 12:03pm, she departed from school and went to a Trail Stop Restaurant, which was attached to a bus stop. She ordered food and left about an hour later. She was never seen by eyewitnesses again, nor was she captured on surveillance footage anywhere. Police were able to confirm she did not get on any bus that day, either. Over the years, various theories have emerged regarding Bali's disappearance, ranging from the possibility of her running away to concerns about human trafficking or falling victim to an online predator. Despite reported sightings and extensive police investigations, including the review of hundreds of hours of surveillance footage and interviews with potential witnesses, Bali's whereabouts remain unknown, leaving her family in agonizing uncertainty.

#true crime #murder #killers #crime #luciferlaughs #mysteries #mystery #cold case #cold cases #unsolved case #unsolved cases #unsolved crime #unsolved crimes #canada

[she-is-ovarit]

In true crime cases, it is in 90% of cases always a mother who does not stop searching for her missing son wandering daughter, carrying on a cold case search even after 17 years. When it isn't a mother, it's always the sister, or female best friend. In so many cases they are also the ones that—due to their persistence and intuition—a crime or cold case is solved.

Not that it doesn't happen, but so, so rarely is it ever a father or a brother who never gives up looking for their lost son, daughter, sister, or brother.

#true crime #feminism #cold cases

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

On the morning of the disappearance, Murray informed a nursing school faculty work supervisor via email that she would be away for a week due to a family death. Contrary to her message, her family confirmed that no such death had occurred. Sometime after 7 pm, Murray crashed her car into a tree. Seemingly uninjured, she spoke to a local bus driver moments after the crash. The bus driver offered to call for help. She asked him not to call the police. The bus driver continued home and called the police. His call was received by the Sheriff's Department at 7:43 pm. Just minutes later, the police arrived at the scene. However, to their bewildered the female driver was nowhere to be seen. The police noted that her car had hit a tree on the driver's side of the vehicle, rendering it no longer drivable. Inside the car, the police officer found an empty beer bottle and a damaged box of wine on the rear seat. However, her debit card, credit cards, and cell phone were all missing. Non of which have been used in the years following her disappearance. Initially, police treated Murray as a missing person based on the belief that she may have wanted to disappear voluntarily. In 2019, investigators searched a house and dug up a basement in Haverhill. They had previously searched the property, but had not searched inside the home. The search was prompted by local dogs and a radar scan, which seemed to indicate that the ground had been moved. The search did not bring any further clues as to what might have happened to Maura. As of 2023, Maura Murray is still a missing person and the circumstances surrounding her disappearance remain unresolved.

#Maura Murray #unsolved #cold cases #unsolved mysteries #crime

[gwydpolls]

Suggestions Wanted

A reader suggested a list of unsolved murders along the lines of "Who was Jack the Ripper?"

On consultation with my friends we decided to expand it to disappearances and the occasional murder where we know who did it but because it was so long ago other questions remain.

We brainstormed more than one Time travel poll worth, but not enough for two.

To go on the list:

At least one person needs to have disappeared (with foul play expected. I put Amelia Earhart on a 20th Century list) or been murdered. (I put an early modern case were it's either a serial killing or a mystery animal, which is an edge case, I know).

There needs to be a mystery about it. (Mysteries besides who done it are allowed).

It needs to have happened before 2000. (I would feel like an asshole doing anything more recent.)

Not the Kennedy Assassination. I refuse to do the Kennedy Assassination. Sorry.

#Time Travel #Cold Cases #True Crime #Murder #Serial Killers #Disappearances #Mysteries #History Mysteries

[dailyunsolvedmysteries-movedd]

The Weird Death of Elisa Lam

For her trip to California, Lam travelled alone on Amtrak and intercity buses. She visited the San Diego Zoo and posted photos taken there on social media. On January 26, she arrived in Los Angeles. After two days, she checked into the Cecil Hotel, near downtown’s Skid Row. Lam was initially assigned a shared room on the hotel’s fifth floor; however, her roommates complained about what the hotel’s lawyer would later describe as “certain odd behavior” and Lam was moved to a room of her own after two days.

Lam had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and depression. She had been prescribed four medications – Wellbutrin, Lamictal, Seroquel and Effexor – to treat her disorders. According to her family, who supposedly kept her history of mental illness a secret, Lam had no history of suicidal ideations or attempts, although one report claimed she had previously gone missing for a brief period.

Lam contacted her parents in British Columbia every day while traveling. On February 1, 2013, the day she was scheduled to check out of the Cecil and leave for Santa Cruz, her parents did not hear from her and called the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD); her family flew to Los Angeles to help with the search.

Hotel staff who saw Lam that day said she was alone. Outside the hotel, Katie Orphan, manager of a nearby bookstore, was the only person who recalled seeing her that day. “She was outgoing, very lively, very friendly” while getting gifts to take home to her family.

Police searched the hotel to the extent that they legally could. They searched Lam’s room and had dogs go through the building, including the rooftop, but the dogs were unsuccessful in detecting her scent. “But we didn’t search every room,” Sgt. Rudy Lopez said later, “we could only do that if we had probable cause” to believe a crime had been committed. On February 6, a week after Lam had last been seen, the LAPD decided more help was needed. 

On February 15, after another week with no sign of Lam, the LAPD released a video of the last known sighting of her taken in one of the Cecil’s elevators by a video surveillance camera on February 1. In approximately two and a half minutes of footage, Lam, alone, makes unusual moves and gestures, leaving the elevator at one point while its doors remain open, even after she appears to have pressed every button. When the doors fail to close after she returns, she leaves; the doors close later.

The video drew worldwide interest in the case due to Lam’s strange behavior, and has been extensively analyzed and discussed. It was reposted widely, including on the Chinese video-sharing site Youku, where it got 3 million views and 40,000 comments in its first 10 days. Many of the commentators found it unsettling to watch.

Several theories evolved to explain her actions. One was that Lam was trying to get the elevator car to move in order to escape from someone who was pursuing her. Others suggested that she might be under the influence of ecstasy or some other party drug, but none was detected in her body. When her bipolar disorder became known, the theory that she was having a psychotic episode also emerged.

Other viewers argued that the video had been tampered with before being made public. Besides the obscuring of the timestamp, they claimed, parts had been slowed down and nearly a minute of footage had been removed. This could have been done to protect the identity of someone who otherwise would be in the video, either related or not to the disappearance.

During the search for Lam, guests at the hotel began complaining about low water pressure. Some later claimed their water was colored black and had an unusual taste. On the morning of February 19, Santiago Lopez, a hotel maintenance worker, found Lam’s body in one of four 1,000-gallon (3,785 L) tanks located on the roof providing water to guest rooms, a kitchen, and a coffee shop. Through the open hatch he saw Lam lying face-up in the water. The tank was drained and cut open since its maintenance hatch was too small to accommodate equipment needed to remove Lam’s body.

On February 21, the Los Angeles coroner’s office issued a finding of accidental drowning, with bipolar disorder as a significant factor. The full coroner’s report, released in June, stated that Lam’s body had been found naked;  clothing similar to what she was wearing in the elevator video was floating in the water, coated with a “sand-like particulate”. Her watch and room key were also found with her.

Lam’s body was moderately decomposed and bloated. It was mostly greenish, with some marbling evident on the abdomen and skin separation evident. There was no evidence of physical trauma, sexual assault, or suicide. Toxicology tests showed traces consistent with prescription medication found among her belongings, plus non-prescription drugs such as Sinutab and ibuprofen. A very small quantity of alcohol (about 0.02 g%) was present, but no other recreational drugs. Investigators and experts have however noted that the concentration of her prescription drugs in her system indicated that she was under-medicating or had stopped taking her medications recently.

The investigation had determined how Lam died, but did not initially offer an explanation as to how she got into the tank in the first place. Doors and stairs that access the hotel’s roof are locked, with only staff having the passcodes and keys, and any attempt to force them would supposedly have triggered an alarm. The hotel’s fire escape could have allowed her to bypass those security measures; her scent trail was lost near a window that connected to it. A video posted to the Internet after Lam’s death showed that the hotel’s roof was easily accessible via the fire escape and that two of the lids of the water tanks were open.

Apart from the question of how she got on the roof, others asked if she could have gotten into the tank by herself. All four tanks were 4-by-8-foot (1.2 by 2.4 m) cylinders propped up on concrete blocks;  there was no fixed access to them and hotel workers had to use a ladder to look at the water. They were protected by heavy lids that would be difficult to replace from within. The hotel employee who found the body said that the lid was open at the time, removing the issue of how she could have closed the lid from inside. Police dogs that searched through the hotel for Lam, even on the roof, shortly after her disappearance was noted, did not find any trace of her.

Theories arose pertaining to the elevator video. Some argued that she was attempting to hide from a pursuer, perhaps someone ultimately responsible for her death, while others said she was merely frustrated with the elevator’s apparent malfunction. Some proponents of the theory that she was under the influence of illicit drugs are not dissuaded by their absence from the toxicology screen, suggesting that they might have broken down during the period of time her body decomposed in the tank or that she might have taken rare cocktails of such drugs that a normal screen would not detect. The very low level of her prescription drugs in her system, and the amount of pills left in her prescription bottle, suggested she was under-medicating or had recently stopped taking her medication for bipolar disorder, which might have led to a psychotic episode.

The autopsy report and its conclusions were also questioned based on the incomplete information. For instance, it does not say what the results of the rape kit and fingernail kit were or even if they were processed. It also records subcutaneous pooling of blood in Lam’s anal area, which some observers suggested was a sign of sexual abuse; one pathologist noted it could also have resulted from bloating in the course of the body’s decomposition, and her rectum was also prolapsed. Even the coroner’s pathologists appeared to be ambivalent about their conclusion that Lam’s death was accidental.

Since her death, her Tumblr blog was updated, presumably through Tumblr’s Queue option that allows posts to automatically publish themselves when the user is away. Her phone was not found either with her body or in her hotel room; it has been assumed to have been stolen at some time around her death. Whether the continued updates to her blog were facilitated by the theft of her phone, the work of a hacker, or through the Queue, is not known; nor is it known whether the updates are related to her death.

#Elisa Lam #cecil hotel #creepy #unsolved #cold cases

[gwydionmisha]

#Gay Activist #Anthony Adams #Murder #Utah Police #Utah #Cold Cases #Queer History

[halogalopaghost]

Do you like true crime? How about solving cold cases? Here's one way to help.

The Doe Project is a non-profit volunteer organization founded and run by Todd Matthews, one of the individuals who helped create NamUs, the national missing person's database. They have assisted in solving more than 100 cases nationwide, three of which were just this year. The website is completely open and free for anyone to use. If you fancy yourself an armchair detective, I absolutely recommend checking it out.

What I REALLY want to highlight is that the organization is asking for donations to keep the website updated and running.

The campaign has been running for a year, and as you can see, there have only been 56 donors. That's barely half of the amount of cases they've solved. This website and the work of its volunteers has without a doubt affected far more lives than that, and it should be allowed to continue to grow and thrive. If you want less funding to police, more support for missing persons and cold cases, and a more community-driven approach to crime solving and prevention, you need to be looking out for things like this.

You can use this QR code to donate directly to the cause, or click on this link to get to the page shown above.

Obviously if you can't afford to donate, then don't! Just reblog this post so that others can see it, and maybe the next person can donate enough for the both of you. I'll be donating as soon as I've finished making this post.

If you'd like to learn more about Todd Matthews and how he identified his first cold-case victim that launched his career as a missing persons' advocate, listen to episode four of What Remains, a podcast all about the science and procedure behind solving cold cases.

#true crime #crime junkie #what remains #wondery podcasts #the ghost speaks #missing persons #cold cases

[misteria247]

Nothing will ever make me break out into goosebumps of fear faster than anything involving ghosts who haunt places and who had been Nuns during their lives.

There's just something so incredibly unnerving about something that's supposed to be holy in nature and symbolic for God in some way, becoming something so incredibly evil and hostile. Like I can deal with ghosts and abandoned buildings and stories involving serial killers or unsolved cold cases or horrific urban legends, but as soon as anything religious enters the playing field I'm like fucking out bruh.

#oli talks #ooc #muns ramblings #mindless ramblings of a madman #garrett watts #mr. nightmare #lazy masquerade #mr. ballen #ghost files #watcher #watcher entertainment #ryan bergara #shane madej #horror #horror stories #urban legends #religion #religious horror #cold cases #unsolved cases #unsolved crimes #Saint Ignatius hospital #as soon as Garrett and Andrew went up into the Nuns quarters and I saw the decaying pictures and images of Christianity/Catholicism #my skin literally crawled you like have no idea bro #it's so unsettling fr fr #i love stories and paranormal stuff and it's a guarantee that anything religious in these hauntings will make me lowkey scream

[hillbroski]

i think an underrated time travel use would be solving cold cases/weird historical mysteries. Like the first thing im doing with a time machine is posting up in the dyaltlov pass to see if it really was an avalanche.

#time travel #shit post #but legit #i have a love hate relationship with unsolved mysteries cause on the one hand - fascinating and the other - horrible for not having all the #answers like wtf give me answrrs #cold cases #unsolved mysteries

[jesperfahey]

y'all if you do anything today - please go check out this article

one of canada's biggest cold cases and the man who did it has been buried in a west virginia cemetery for 40 years.

the work my coworker put into this story is insane and it's amazing.

#cold cases #sharron prior #please read and share

[luciferlaughs]

12-year-old Lynne Harper came from a Canadian Air Force family and was used to frequently relocating all across the map in Canada. In the summer of 1957, the family settled into the Permanent Married Quarters--the PMQ, as many called them--in RCAF Station Clinton, which was once an air force base south of Clinton, Ontario, roughly 20 kilometres away from Lake Huron. All of the kids living on base attended the same school, swam in the same RCAF pool, and frolicked at the same playground. 

On June 9th, 1957, Lynne came home for dinner and asked her parents if either one of them could take her to the local RCAF pool. All children were required to be accompanied by an adult when attending the pool for a swim. However, both of them objected, causing much of a fuss on Lynne’s end. Lynne left to go to the pool by herself, but was turned away by the pool’s supervisor. She then returned home and begrudgingly helped with some chores before leaving  the house again without telling anyone where she was going. 

Lynne found herself at the local playground, where she approached 14-year-old Steven Truscott. The two were classmates but never really interacted. Steven was your average 8th grader who was physically active and never got himself into trouble. Lynne asked if he could give her a lift on his bike to Highway 8, and he agreed to do so. On the way there, Lynne mentioned her intention to visit Mr. Lawson’s barn on Highway 8 to see the ponies. 

As per her request, he dropped Lynne off at the intersection of a country road and Highway 8. On the way back to Clinton, Steven would later claim he looked over his shoulder to see Lynne getting into a mysterious vehicle. 

Lynne never came home that night. The next morning, she was still missing. Lynne’s parents notified police and an investigation ensued. On June 11, two days after Lynne’s disappearance, her body was found close to a bush on Lawson’s property. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled with her own blouse. 

The following day, Steven was arrested for her murder, as he was the last person to be seen with her. During the trial, the defense and Crown brought on many witnesses, plenty of which were children. One female classmate claimed that Steven had repeatedly invited her to meet him at Lawson’s barn. When she finally went there, he never showed up. The following day at school, she confronted him about it, and he responded by shrugging his shoulders. 

The defense and Crown argued endlessly about the timeline of the murder. But ultimately, Steven was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging, making him the youngest person in Canada to face execution. 

Steven has maintained his innocence for years and believed he was given an unfair trial. Many people advocated on his behalf and fought for his conviction to be overturned. In 1960, Steven’s death sentence was commuted to a life sentence. In 2007, his conviction was overturned and he was exonerated as it was argued that the forensic evidence presented at his trial was weak and circumstantial. 

To this day, Lynne Harper’s death remains unsolved, with Canadians divided on their beliefs about whether Steven was truly the culprit. 

#true crime #canada #lynne harper #steven truscott #murder #ontario #crime #homicide #cold case #unsolved case #unsolved cases #unsolved crime #unsolved crimes #cold cases

[acrylicalchemy]

The Cold Case of Deanne Hastings

For coming up on 8 years, I have used whatever platform I have to fight for my missing friend, Deanne Hastings. I can tell you that her case has been reclassified and I have worked with the Cold Case Foundation to officially launch the Deanne Hastings Memorial Fund, which will go to support her case and similar cold cases of other missing persons. These people deserve to be remembered and have someone fight for them. Any contributions you would consider making are greatly appreciated.

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#missing #missing person #cold case #true crime #deanne hastings #cold cases #unsolved #unsolved mysteries #missing mother #missing daughter

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

Cleveland Torso Murderer

The official number of murders attributed to the Cleveland Torso Murderer is twelve, although recent research has shown there could have been as many as twenty or more The twelve known victims were killed between 1935 and 1938. Some investigators, including lead detective Peter Merylo, believed that there may have been thirteen or more victims in the Cleveland, Youngstown and Pittsburgh areas between the 1920s and 1950s. Two strong candidates for addition to the "official" list are the unknown victim nicknamed the "Lady of the Lake," found on September 5, 1934, and Robert Robertson, found on July 22, 1950. The victims of the Torso Murderer were usually drifters whose identities were never determined, although there were a few exceptions. Victims numbers 2, 3 and 8 were identified as Edward Andrassy, Florence Polillo and possibly Rose Wallace, respectively.[6] Andrassy and Polillo were both identified by their fingerprints, while Wallace was tentatively identified via her dental records. The victims appeared to be lower class individuals–easy prey during the Great Depression. Many were known as "working poor", who had nowhere else to live but the ramshackle shanty towns, or "Hoovervilles", in the area known as the Cleveland Flats. The Torso Murderer always beheaded and often dismembered their victims, occasionally severing the victim's torso in half or severing their appendages.[8] In many cases the cause of death was the decapitation or dismemberment itself. Most of the male victims were castrated. Some victims showed evidence of chemical treatment being applied to their bodies, which caused the skin to become red, tough and leathery. Many were found after a considerable period of time following their deaths, occasionally in excess of a year. In an era when forensic science was largely in its infancy, these factors further complicated identification, especially since the heads were often undiscovered. During the time of the "official" murders, Eliot Ness, leader of The Untouchables, was serving as Cleveland's Public Safety Director, a position with authority over the police department and ancillary services, including the fire department. Ness contributed to the arrest and interrogation of one of the prime suspects, Dr. Francis Sweeney, and personally conducted raids into shantytowns and eventually burned them down. Ness's reasoning for doing so was to catalogue fingerprints to easily identify any new victims, and to get possible victims out of the area in an attempt to stop the murders. Four days after the burning, on August 22, 1938, Ness launched an equally draconian operation where he personally dispatched six two-man search teams on a large area of Cleveland, stretching from the Cuyahoga River to East 55th Street to Prospect Avenue, under the guise of conducting city fire inspections. While the search never turned up any new or incriminating information that could lead to the arrest and conviction of the Torso Murderer, it did serve to focus renewed public attention on the inadequate and unsanitary living conditions in the downtown area. Teams uncovered hundreds of families living in hazardous fire traps without toilets or running water. The interests of social reform did ultimately come to light even if those of law enforcement did not. At one point in time, the Torso Murderer taunted Ness by placing the remains of two victims in full view of his office in City Hall. The man who Ness believed to be the killer would later also provoke him by sending postcards.

#Cleveland Torso Murderer #true crime #cold cases #unsolved mysteries #unsolved

[truecrimemusingsblog]

The Disappearance of Asha Degree

Asha Degree disappeared in the early morning hours of February 14th, 2000 from Shelby, North Carolina. What happened after she seemingly ran away?

Missing since February 14, 2000 from Shelby, North Carolina Sex: Female Race: Black Hair Color: black Eye Color: brown Date of Birth: August 5, 1990 Age: 9 (at the time of her disappearance) Height: 4’6″ Weight: 60 pounds Clothing: possibly a white nightshirt with a teddy bear on it, acid wash or white jeans, and white size 3 Nike sneakers, as well as a Tweety bird purse and a black…

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#Asha Degree #cold cases #disappearance of Asha degree #missing kids #True Crime #Unsolved Disappearances #Unsolved Mysteries

[dailyunsolvedmysteries-movedd]

Mystery of Somerton Man SOLVED after 73 years as DNA finally identifies body

For decades, authorities, academics and the public alike have traded theories about the identity of the mysterious Somerton Man, whose body was found on a beach outside of Adelaide, Australia, on December 1, 1948. He was a Russian spy. A jilted lover poisoned by his paramour. A smuggler!?

The truth, however, is seemingly more mundane. A new DNA analysis suggests the Somerton Man is Carl “Charles” Webb, an electrical engineer from Melbourne who vanished from the public record in April 1947.

Colleen Fitzpatrick, a forensic genealogist who specializes in using DNA to solve cold cases, identified the Somerton Man using hairs caught in his death mask.  To narrow down the pool of potential candidates, Fitzpatrick plugged the Somerton man’s DNA into the genealogical research database GEDmatch. After finding a match to a distant cousin, the researchers constructed a family tree of some 4,000 people. They then used archival records to search for individuals whose biographies mirrored what was known about the Somerton Man. Webb, who was born in the Australian state of Victoria in 1905, fit the bill.

On the matter of how he died city coroner said; “There was no indication of violence, and I am compelled to the finding that death resulted from poison, But I cannot say whether it was administered by the deceased himself or by some other person.”

Authorities in Adelaide exhumed the Somerton Man’s body last May and are currently conducting genetic testing on the remains. The last mention of Webb in the historical record dates to April 1947, when he left his wife. In October 1951, three years after the Somerton Man’s death, Dorothy placed a notice in the Age newspaper stating that she had begun divorce proceedings against Webb on the grounds of desertion. By then, Dorothy had moved from Melbourne to Bute, a town 89 miles northeast of Adelaide.

Records showed that Webb enjoyed reading and writing poetry, as well as betting on horse races. He had a sister who lived in Melbourne and was married to a man named Thomas Keane—likely the T. Keane whose name appears on the clothing in the Somerton Man’s suitcase. (As for the American origins of the attire, Abbott speculates that Keane bought the clothing second-hand from a G.I. stationed in Australia.)

Plenty of questions surrounding the case remain: Why did Webb come to Somerton Beach? What was his cause of death? Did he die by suicide? Was he murdered? These answers still remain and being looked into still.

There’s almost a sequel film here, not of ‘who is Somerton man?’, but now it’s ‘the mysterious case of Charles Webb’.”

#somerton man #carl webb #unsolved #unsolved mysteries #cold cases

[follow-up-news]

Three decades ago, 12-year-old Jennifer Renee Odom stepped off a school bus near her home in rural Pasco County and waved goodbye to her friends. The bus stop was roughly 200 yards from her home, but she never arrived. Six days later, her body was found in a Hernando County orange grove. The medical examiner ruled her death a homicide caused by blunt force trauma to the head. Detectives said she likely died there in the woods, not long after her abduction. Over the years, the case garnered national attention and haunted the Tampa Bay region. Thousands of dollars in reward money offered for tips went unclaimed. Detectives logged tens of thousands of hours chasing leads. Jennifer’s family waited for news as the years turned to decades. On Thursday, a month shy of what would have been Jennifer’s 43rd birthday, officials announced they they had finally made an arrest in the case, and that prosecutors would seek the death penalty against the man accused of kidnapping, raping and murdering Jennifer. A few hours later, Jeffrey Norman Crum, 61, made his first appearance in front of a judge. Crum is already serving two life sentences for another decades-old rape case in Pasco County that was solved in 2015. It was Crum’s arrest in that case, authorities said, that made him a person of interest, reinvigorating an investigation that would yield enough evidence to persuade a grand jury this week to indict him in Jennifer’s death.

#florida #cold cases