Rosemary Norris - Nov. 30, 1983 - Citrus Heights resident
Feb 6, 2019 1:28:55 GMT
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Post by CAMFaults on Feb 6, 2019 1:28:55 GMT
Here is another unsolved murder with Sacramento and Placer connections.
Wednesday, November 30, 1983
Rosemary Norris, 39, was last seen by friends at her Castillo Court home in Citrus Heights. That night at 9:30 p.m., a man found her manually strangled, fully clothed body at the end of Cincinnati Avenue, an industrial area between Roseville and Rocklin in Placer County. Placer County Sheriff's Department said the body temperature when found suggested she was only recently deposited there. There was no sexual assault and no identification on the body.
An Auburn Journal article mentioned a pair of yellow-tinted prescription glasses with light brown plastic frames was found at the scene.
The day after the murder, Rosemary's husband, Floyd Norris Jr. (age 45), reported his wife missing to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department. He claimed to have returned that day from an out-of-state business trip. Floyd also reported his 1967 GMC truck missing and a statewide alert went out to law enforcement. Later that day Placer County identified the body. No signs of struggle found at the home. The couple had a teenage son (age 18), but articles do not specify whether he was living in the home.
The Norris truck was discovered by a neighbor. It was parked in the Raley's supermarket parking lot (7847 Lichen Dr., Citrus Heights), 2.8 miles from the Norris residence.
Rosemary was an associate administrative analyst for the State of California Department of Finance. Floyd and Rosemary Norris opened Antiquities Recalled, the first of two antique stores that Floyd managed while Rosemary continued working for the state. The businesses were run out of their residence.
The Norris son was ruled out as a suspect, but not Floyd. A hold was placed on the insurance payout while the case was under investigation. Floyd eventually sued the companies, pocketed the $250,000+ payout, and moved to Reno. Ancestry public record indexes show several Sacramento County addresses where he resided during the 1990s and 2000s. He died in Citrus Heights in 2009.
True crime author Dennis McDougal described Floyd Norris as a "perennially unemployed" man who "had been everything from a truck driver to a property manager to a counter salesman, all with mixed results."
During their investigation, Placer County detectives discover that Floyd frequented prostitutes in the Sacramento area
A strange twist to the story is that Rosemary was a sister of murdering mother Theresa Cross Knorr. In 1993 when Knorr and her two sons were arrested for the murders of her daughters, law enforcement determined she was not involved in the murder of her sister.
More information can be found on my blog:
Wednesday, November 30, 1983
Rosemary Norris, 39, was last seen by friends at her Castillo Court home in Citrus Heights. That night at 9:30 p.m., a man found her manually strangled, fully clothed body at the end of Cincinnati Avenue, an industrial area between Roseville and Rocklin in Placer County. Placer County Sheriff's Department said the body temperature when found suggested she was only recently deposited there. There was no sexual assault and no identification on the body.
An Auburn Journal article mentioned a pair of yellow-tinted prescription glasses with light brown plastic frames was found at the scene.
The day after the murder, Rosemary's husband, Floyd Norris Jr. (age 45), reported his wife missing to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department. He claimed to have returned that day from an out-of-state business trip. Floyd also reported his 1967 GMC truck missing and a statewide alert went out to law enforcement. Later that day Placer County identified the body. No signs of struggle found at the home. The couple had a teenage son (age 18), but articles do not specify whether he was living in the home.
The Norris truck was discovered by a neighbor. It was parked in the Raley's supermarket parking lot (7847 Lichen Dr., Citrus Heights), 2.8 miles from the Norris residence.
Rosemary was an associate administrative analyst for the State of California Department of Finance. Floyd and Rosemary Norris opened Antiquities Recalled, the first of two antique stores that Floyd managed while Rosemary continued working for the state. The businesses were run out of their residence.
The Norris son was ruled out as a suspect, but not Floyd. A hold was placed on the insurance payout while the case was under investigation. Floyd eventually sued the companies, pocketed the $250,000+ payout, and moved to Reno. Ancestry public record indexes show several Sacramento County addresses where he resided during the 1990s and 2000s. He died in Citrus Heights in 2009.
True crime author Dennis McDougal described Floyd Norris as a "perennially unemployed" man who "had been everything from a truck driver to a property manager to a counter salesman, all with mixed results."
During their investigation, Placer County detectives discover that Floyd frequented prostitutes in the Sacramento area
A strange twist to the story is that Rosemary was a sister of murdering mother Theresa Cross Knorr. In 1993 when Knorr and her two sons were arrested for the murders of her daughters, law enforcement determined she was not involved in the murder of her sister.
More information can be found on my blog: