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DNA COULD END THE MURDER OF THE OHIO GIRL IN 1989, 10 YEARS
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Detectives hit the wall quite early in the unsolved 1989 murder of Amy Mihaljevic, a 10-year-old schoolgirl from Ohio.
It wasn’t for lack of trying, as generations of investigators banged their heads against the wall trying to solve the heinous crime – until now.
Police say the newly discovered DNA on a blanket and curtain could eventually bring the killer to justice.
On October 27, 1989, she was last seen at a mall in Bay Village and her body was later discovered in a nearby field. She had been stabbed in the neck and had suffered a blow to the head.
“The curtain and a blanket were found about 300 meters from his body. Throughout the 32 years, we weren’t sure what the relevance of those two pieces of evidence was because they were so far from his body, ”Det said. Jay Elish told WJW. “Now we know for a fact that her hair was in that curtain, so that tells us (that) that curtain was somehow wrapped around her or somehow involved in this crime.”
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He added: “It is a very important test.”
Police say a man approached her at the mall and was last seen walking with him through the parking lot.
If he was her killer, he was obsessed.
Pals told police that the man had called Amy several times before she disappeared and promised to take her shopping.
And he was left with some trophies: a turquoise horse earring, black boots, and a leather folder that Amy had at the time of her abduction.
Elish said there is a “person of interest” and a $ 50,000 reward is offered to anyone who provides information leading to an arrest in the case.
JOHN DOE SINCE 1988 FINALLY ID’D
A John Doe who was murdered in Colorado in 1988 finally has his name.
Homicide detectives have positively identified Akram Bada’an, whose body was discovered in Sheridan in late August of that year. He was 36 years old at the time of the murder.
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Investigators are now hoping that someone with information on Bada’an will come forward and provide information that may lead to his murderer.
DNA analysis allowed detectives to locate Bada’an’s relatives in Israel.
FAMILY REQUESTS INFORMATION ON NY MURDER
It’s been 36 years of suffering for the O’Connell family of Minnesota and they are pleading with police in upstate New York to increase pressure to find Kristin O’Connell’s killer.
“I promised my daughter that I would never rest until the person who murdered her was arrested,” her mother Phyllis O’Connell told Fox News. “That has been my challenge for 35 years to try to find out who did this. I will never give up until I die. I want to know who did it, why they did it. I mean, my gosh. She wouldn’t have hurt a fly. “
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In August 1985, she traveled from Minnesota to Ovid, NY in the Finger Lakes to meet a man she met in Florida during spring break. Two days after arriving, he told his mother that he wanted to go home.
Thirteen hours after the call, the man in question, Jim Vermeersch, reported her missing to local police. He claimed that she had left her trailer for a ride, but did not remove her shoes or purse.
Officers found her naked body in a cornfield and bloody clothing nearby. No arrests have ever been made, but neighbors heard screams and never told the police. They later said they saw Kristin talking to two men on the side of the road.
An autopsy revealed that she had been stabbed and beaten, but there were no signs of sexual assault.
COPS BUST ALLEGED KILLER OF COLD CASE OF ’92
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Police in the Chicago suburbs say they have a 29-year-old unsolved murder case.
Helen Cardwell had moved to Niles in 1992 and was temporarily staying at the local YMCA while she waited to start her new job as a nurse at Lutheran General Hospital. At the Y, she was found in her room strangled to death in one of her sweaters.
But detectives got nowhere until last year when they submitted the DNA found on Cardwell’s body to a national database.
One hit led them to suspect Richard Sisto, 72, who now lives in Texas.
Investigators questioned Sisto in August and charged him last week.
“I am very grateful that they have decided to reopen this case,” said Cardwell’s sister, Noca Ervin. “I appreciate everyone’s efforts … and again I want to thank you very much.”
Sisto awaits extradition back to Illinois.
Reference-torontosun.com