Another Cold Case Solved, by jay7777

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A Fairfield man has been arrested in connection with multiple homicides spanning three jurisdictions and more than three decades.

In July of 1980, officers were dispatched to a home in Union City where a woman was found dead inside. The victim was identified as 46-year-old Latrelle Lindsay of Union City. Her cause of death was determined to be asphyxia due to strangulation associated with blunt force injuries. She had also been the victim of sexual assault. At the time, no suspects were identified in this killing. A DNA sample was later sent for entry and search in a law enforcement database, but no match was made.

In March of 1996, a body was discovered by Caltrans in bushes on Highway 780 near Laurel Street in Vallejo. The victim was identified as 46-year-old Winifred Douglas from the Oakland/Berkeley area. Her cause of death was determined to be asphyxia and blunt force trauma to the head and neck and was ruled a homicide. At the time, no suspects were identified in this killing.

In 2003, evidence from the Solano County homicide with possible DNA was sent to the CA Department of Justice for DNA analysis. A single DNA profile was found, but when loaded into the FBI’s DNA database, no match was made. In 2012, the Solano County Sheriff’s Office was informed that the DNA profile from the Solano County homicide matched a piece of evidence from a Union City Police Department homicide from 1980. However, still no suspect was identified.

Earlier this month, Union City PD and the Solano County Sheriff’s Office were notified that the DNA profile identified from their two cases, also matched a sex crime investigated by a North Bay Police Department in 2021. Detectives were able to identify a possible suspect from this newest case.

Ultimately, detectives were able to collect a DNA sample from 76-year-old James Ray Gary from Fairfield. This newly obtained DNA sample was submitted as comparison to the already identified DNA from the three crimes. On July 18, 2022, our office was notified that the submitted DNA sample from Gary matched all three crimes mentioned above. A warrant was obtained for his arrest and to search his home.

Gary was arrested on July 19th and was later booked into Solano County Jail for homicide and is being held without bail. Additional charges are expected to be filed in connection with Union City’s 1980 homicide.

We are grateful for the cooperation between the Union City Police Department, the CA Department of Justice, and the Solano County Sheriff’s Office. We are hopeful that this arrest can help bring some closure to the families and friends that have been seeking justice for as much as 40 years.

This case remains under active investigation. If you have information relating to the 1996 Solano County homicide, please contact Solano Sheriff Investigations at 707-784-7050. If you have information relating to the 1980 Union City homicide, please contact Union City PD Investigations at 510-675-5227.

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Another good one almagata.

All these old murders and serial killers are filling up the prison with old people. Happy they are going there but wish they got caught earlier, to pay up longer.

The news reporter on site of James Ray Gary:

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You know there are more victims out there from him.

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JonBenet Ramsey crime scene DNA could be IDed in hours, cold case researcher says as family pushes for answers
JonBenet Ramsey’s brother is renewing his family’s appeal to Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to allow an independent agency to conduct DNA testing in the unsolved 1996 murder of his sister, who was 6, after a leading genetic investigator claimed she's confident her team could help.

"Hi - @govofco. #Parabon and @cecelmoore is the premier shop in the world to successfully hunt #childkillers," John Andrew Ramsey, JonBenet’s half-brother, tweeted Monday. "Let's get to work! #jonbenet #boulderco."

Parabon NanoLabs, the Virginia-based firm Ramsey mentioned in his tweet, has a track record of using complicated and innovative genetic genealogy research techniques to crack cold case murders.
Moore, Parabon’s chief genetic genealogist, said in an Australian "60 Minutes" interview Sunday that it could take as little as a few hours for her team to identify DNA collected at the crime scene in 1996. Ramsey retweeted the interview in his post.

JONBENET RAMSEY DNA PETITION GETS ‘NO UPDATE’ FROM GOV AS HALF-BROTHER SLAMS BOULDER POLICE ON FATHER'S DAY
"There are people all over the world that want her killer brought to justice, who want to know what happened and who want the answers," Moore told the program.

The family has endorsed a Change.org petition calling on Polis to take aspects of the case away from Boulder police, who they say have declined to conduct DNA analysis on some evidence, which 25 years after the crime remains untested. The petition has garnered more than 10,000 signatures.

Prosecutors in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, announced last week that Parabon helped crack a brutal cold case murder from 1975.  
PENNSYLVANIA MAN CHARGED IN 1975 COLD CASE KILLING OF TEENAGE WOMAN

Lancaster District Attorney Heather Adams announced charges against David Sinopoli, 68, in the 1975 murder of Lindy Sue Beichler, after police collected DNA from a discarded coffee cup at the Philadelphia International Airport.

Beichler was 19 when her aunt and uncle found her stabbed to death in the apartment she shared with her husband, who police ruled out as a suspect early in the investigation. 

Nothing in the government’s Combined DNA Index System had matched the crime scene DNA.

JONBENET RAMSEY'S FATHER UNVEILS PETITION PRESSING COLORADO GOVERNOR TO ADVANCE DAUGHTER'S MURDER CASE

But at a news conference announcing the arrest, Moore said that through extensive testing of DNA found in semen on Beichler’s panties, she was able to generate a "high-tech tip" that ultimately led police to a suspect who had not been on their radar.
Parabon’s research traced the crime scene DNA sample’s ancestry to a specific region of Italy. Then the team looked into which families had emigrated from there to the Lancaster County area, Moore said during the news conference.

The next step was determining which of those families had males who fell into the right age category. Investigators discovered Sinopoli had also lived in the same apartment complex as Beichler around the time of the murder.

JONBENET RAMSEY'S FATHER CALLS FOR CHILD MURDERS TO BE INVESTIGATED AS FEDERAL OFFENSES

After pulling his coffee cup out of a trash can at the airport, authorities said, they tested the DNA on it and found a match. They arrested Sinopoli on July 17, 46 years after the crime.
"This arrest would not have been possible without the assistance of CeCe Moore and Parabon NanoLabs," Adams, the Lancaster DA, said the following day. "We are incredibly grateful for the work that they do and their commitment to securing justice for victims and their loved ones.

Boulder police and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Michael Ruiz is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [e-mail] and on Twitter: @mikerreports
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Sorry, I am try to get this information on my phone while working so the format is not very good!

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I am hoping this gets solved fast, but we'll see!?

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Jul 25, 2022 21:59:44 GMT Jay7777 said:

JonBenet Ramsey crime scene DNA could be IDed in hours, cold case researcher says as family pushes for answers
JonBenet Ramsey’s brother is renewing his family’s appeal to Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to allow an independent agency to conduct DNA testing in the unsolved 1996 murder of his sister, who was 6, after a leading genetic investigator claimed she's confident her team could help.

"Hi - @govofco. #Parabon and @cecelmoore is the premier shop in the world to successfully hunt #childkillers," John Andrew Ramsey, JonBenet’s half-brother, tweeted Monday. "Let's get to work! #jonbenet #boulderco."

Parabon NanoLabs, the Virginia-based firm Ramsey mentioned in his tweet, has a track record of using complicated and innovative genetic genealogy research techniques to crack cold case murders.
Moore, Parabon’s chief genetic genealogist, said in an Australian "60 Minutes" interview Sunday that it could take as little as a few hours for her team to identify DNA collected at the crime scene in 1996. Ramsey retweeted the interview in his post.

JONBENET RAMSEY DNA PETITION GETS ‘NO UPDATE’ FROM GOV AS HALF-BROTHER SLAMS BOULDER POLICE ON FATHER'S DAY
"There are people all over the world that want her killer brought to justice, who want to know what happened and who want the answers," Moore told the program.

The family has endorsed a Change.org petition calling on Polis to take aspects of the case away from Boulder police, who they say have declined to conduct DNA analysis on some evidence, which 25 years after the crime remains untested. The petition has garnered more than 10,000 signatures.

Prosecutors in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, announced last week that Parabon helped crack a brutal cold case murder from 1975.  
PENNSYLVANIA MAN CHARGED IN 1975 COLD CASE KILLING OF TEENAGE WOMAN

Lancaster District Attorney Heather Adams announced charges against David Sinopoli, 68, in the 1975 murder of Lindy Sue Beichler, after police collected DNA from a discarded coffee cup at the Philadelphia International Airport.

Beichler was 19 when her aunt and uncle found her stabbed to death in the apartment she shared with her husband, who police ruled out as a suspect early in the investigation. 

Nothing in the government’s Combined DNA Index System had matched the crime scene DNA.

JONBENET RAMSEY'S FATHER UNVEILS PETITION PRESSING COLORADO GOVERNOR TO ADVANCE DAUGHTER'S MURDER CASE

But at a news conference announcing the arrest, Moore said that through extensive testing of DNA found in semen on Beichler’s panties, she was able to generate a "high-tech tip" that ultimately led police to a suspect who had not been on their radar.
Parabon’s research traced the crime scene DNA sample’s ancestry to a specific region of Italy. Then the team looked into which families had emigrated from there to the Lancaster County area, Moore said during the news conference.

The next step was determining which of those families had males who fell into the right age category. Investigators discovered Sinopoli had also lived in the same apartment complex as Beichler around the time of the murder.

JONBENET RAMSEY'S FATHER CALLS FOR CHILD MURDERS TO BE INVESTIGATED AS FEDERAL OFFENSES

After pulling his coffee cup out of a trash can at the airport, authorities said, they tested the DNA on it and found a match. They arrested Sinopoli on July 17, 46 years after the crime.
"This arrest would not have been possible without the assistance of CeCe Moore and Parabon NanoLabs," Adams, the Lancaster DA, said the following day. "We are incredibly grateful for the work that they do and their commitment to securing justice for victims and their loved ones.

Boulder police and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Michael Ruiz is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [e-mail] and on Twitter: @mikerreports
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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If they have DNA from and unknown male, they need to pursue familial DNA. 

I still think JonBenet's murder is related to John Ramey's company acquisition by the defense industry.  There have been a number of murders over the years of people tied to companies with defense ties.  

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Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer

Two Orange County Cold Case Murders Solved Through Multi-Agency Effort Using Investigative Genetic Genealogy
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Orange County, Calif. – The cold case murders of two Orange County women have been solved as a result of a joint investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) investigation by the Garden Grove Police Department, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. This is the second Garden Grove cold case murder that has been solved with the help of the Orange County District Attorney’s Investigative Genetic Genealogy unit in the last year.
On May 21, 1987, Shannon Rose Lloyd, 23-years-old, was found deceased in a bedroom she rented in the city of Garden Grove. An autopsy revealed that Lloyd was sexually assaulted and died by means of strangulation. All leads were pursued, but the case went cold.
In 2003, the Orange County Crime Lab linked Lloyd’s homicide with a 1989 Orange County Sheriff’s Department cold case homicide. The body of Renee Cuevas, 27-years-old, was found along Lambert Road near the El Toro Marine base in the morning hours of February 19, 1989. Detectives refused to give up the search for the killer.
It wasn’t until 2021 that the Orange County District Attorney’s Investigative Genetic Genealogy team identified a possible suspect – Reuben J. Smith, a Las Vegas man who had committed suicide in 1999 at the age of 39. A year before committing suicide, in July 1998, Smith was arrested in Las Vegas for sexual assault and attempting to kill a third woman. DNA evidence from Smith’s arrest and the DNA profile found at the crime scenes of Lloyd and Cuevas’s homicides were a positive match.
“The evil in him. I know if I didn’t fight, I was going to die” said the surviving victim from the 1998 attack. The victim, who did not want her identity disclosed, said “It was horrible. The things that he did, the things that he said. He told me he was going to kill me.” She fought back and was able to escape, but this attack still haunts her to this day.
Tom Lloyd, who is Shannon’s older brother, described Shannon by saying “she was tough. She wasn’t scared of much.” Tom added, “It’s hard for me to fathom how anyone can take another person’s life and just discard them.” Tom is grateful for all the hard work by everyone involved in the solving of his sister’s murder.
“The advancements in DNA science and the work of the IGG Unit has been instrumental in solving our second cold case homicide within the past twelve months,” said Garden Grove Police Chief Tom DaRé. “I know with our continued partnership with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, we will be able to solve many more cold cases and bring closure to the family members of these victims.”
“The outcome of these cases reflects Orange County law enforcement’s dedication to seeking answers and solving complex crimes,” said Don Barnes, Orange County Sheriff-Corner. “It reinforces our commitment to the community that no matter how much times passes, we remain steadfast in our pursuit of justice and the work to bring closure to the victims’ families.”
“The loved ones of Renee Cuevas and Shannon Lloyd have the answers to the question they have been asking for more than three decades,” said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. “The justice that every victim deserves was hidden away in DNA, but with advances in IGG technology combined with the relentless dedication of generations of detectives and the talented prosecutors and forensic scientists at the District Attorney’s Office, we now know who killed Renee and Shannon. Justice does not have an expiration date. Whether a crime happened forty years ago or four minutes ago, the residents of Orange County can have confidence that the law enforcement in this county will not rest until justice is served.”
Reuben J. Smith lived in Orange County in the 1980’s before moving to the Las Vegas area. Anyone with additional information about Smith’s activities when he was living in Orange County is asked to call Garden Grove Police Detective T. Ramirez at 714-741-5839 or Orange County Crime Stoppers at 1-855-TIP-OCCS.
Mario Martinez, Lieutenant
[e-mail]
Desk: 714.741.5786
W/C: 714.741.5871
Garden Grove Police Department
Orange County Sheriff's Department, CA

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with Othram to Identify the 1989 Murderer of Mary Hague Kelly

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Advanced DNA testing has revealed 53-year-old David Rojas as the suspect in Mary's assault and murder

Summary

In January 1989, Dallas Police Department Patrol Officers were dispatched to 411 North Frances Street in Oak Cliff. Upon their arrival they were met by several people, including a family member of Mary Hague Kelly, who had stopped by Mary's home to check on her. When he was unable to get Mary to answer the door, he feared that she might be sick or injured so he used his personal key to enter the residence. After entering the residence, he discovered Mary unresponsive. The Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office, conducted an autopsy and ruled the death a homicide due to strangulation. Detectives also determined there were several items missing from Mary's home which indicated burglary took place in addition to a homicide, however there were no signs of forced entry.

Several persons of interest were interviewed and prints were submitted for comparison. Ultimately the comparisons revealed no one matched the evidence at the crime scene. The case information was submitted to the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP) system in hopes of finding any other possibly related cases. Pawn shops were contacted throughout the city to check for stolen items missing from Mary's home.

Without witnesses to the crime and with all leads exhausted, the case eventually went cold. In November 2021, the Dallas County District Attorney's Office teamed with Othram to see if advanced DNA testing could provide new leads in the 1989 case. Forensic DNA evidence from the crime scene was sent to Othram and Othram scientists used Forensic-Grade Genome Sequencing® to develop a genealogical profile from DNA evidence. Othram's in-house genealogy team used the DNA profile to perform a genealogical search and were able to produce investigative leads that were submitted back to the Dallas County District Attorney's Office.

The Dallas County District Attorney's Office, working with the Dallas Police Department continued the investigation and eventually identified 53-year-old David Rojas as the suspect in the murder of Mary Hague Kelly. In July 2022, he was arrested and charged with capital murder.

The funding for Othram's DNA testing and genealogical research was generously provided through a grant from Season of Justice. The Season of Justice grant was awarded to Leighton D'Antoni from the Dallas County District Attorney's Office. We are grateful for ongoing support from Season of Justice.

Leighton D'Antoni, Assistant District Attorney, Dallas County DA's Office:

"My job is to aggressively pursue justice in a responsible and ethical manner. Sometimes that requires us to go outside traditional investigative methods to solve our most difficult cold cases. As soon as we discovered the investigative breakthrough potentials FGG offered, working with Othram and Season of Justice became a no-brainer. Their results across the country speak for themselves.

In the last 33 years, countless people have put in hundreds of hours of investigative work on the Mary Kelly cold case murder. But at the end of the day, it was Othram that solved this difficult case. Othram performed the necessary forensic testing and was able to put those results to work identifying our suspect. This case does not get solved without them."

The investigation is ongoing and we will provide more details and updates about the case as they become available.

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Forensic DNA tracks another killer.
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So much time had passed that Karen Stitt’s father died never knowing. Her older sister died never knowing.

But last week, her aunt received a call from Sunnyvale police Det. Matt Hutchison. He had traveled to the Hawaiian island of Maui and just arrested a man he believes abducted Karen from a bus stop on the El Camino Real when she was just 15, then brutally killed her.

The aunt had waited 40 years for the news.

“Thank you,” Robin Stitt Morris said over and over, breaking down on the phone from her home in Tampa. “Thank you for not giving up.”

Santa Clara County cold-case investigators say they have solved one of their most vexing murders using DNA technology linked to family tree genealogy, the same kind of modern police work that led to the arrest and guilty plea of the Golden State Killer in 2018. Hutchison pursued a multi-state hunt until finally last week he came face-to-face with a 75-year-old man with a bad hip who appeared so shocked he could say little more than, “Oh my gosh.”

Last week, the 38-year-old detective, who had followed the case since he was a child growing up in Sunnyvale, tracked Gary Gene Ramirez to a guest house on Maui and secured the handcuffs himself. In all his years, Ramirez racked up no criminal record, police say, not so much as a shoplifting. His 79-year-old brother, Rudy Ramirez, who also lives in Maui, can’t imagine that his younger brother — a sometime-waiter and retired bug exterminator — would be capable of such a horrific crime.

“I’ve never seen him violent or get angry ever,” Ramirez’s brother said. “He wouldn’t hurt a fly.”

But police say Gary Ramirez’s DNA matched the blood from Karen’s leather jacket and the 4-foot cinder block wall next to the old Woolworth Garden Center near Wolfe Road where the killer had left her for dead. The suspect had raped her and stabbed her 59 times in the early morning hours of Sept. 3, 1982. Ramirez remains incarcerated in a Maui jail awaiting an extradition hearing Wednesday to bring him to California.

At this point, the case relies almost solely on the DNA evidence, which Rob Baker, the cold case prosecutor for the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office, says is “overwhelming.”

Baker and Hutchison, who worked together on the case, say that Ramirez spent time in the Bay Area in the 1980s when Karen was killed. Still, they are seeking more information — and are hoping for tips — to further corroborate the case. In particular, they would like to know if anyone has information about a white paneled truck with a stripe that a witness had spotted near the crime scene.

The case was the first to be featured on the county website in 2014 when District Attorney Jeff Rosen resurrected the cold case unit. It explained that Karen had recently moved from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to California to live with her father and brother and attend Palo Alto High. She regularly traveled by bus, and on the evening of Sept. 2, 1982, met her boyfriend at 7-Eleven before heading to nearby Golfland, then a stroll to nearby Ponderosa Elementary school. Around midnight, police say, the boyfriend walked her toward the bus stop before they separated.

The next morning, a delivery truck driver discovered her body 100 yards away from the bus stop. She had been dumped at the base of the wall, police say, naked in the bushes. Her wrists were bound with her own striped shirt. Her jacket was tied around her left ankle.

The boyfriend, David Woods, now in his late 50s, had been a suspect for two decades until DNA technology ruled him out in the early 2000s. He has lived with the anguish of leaving her alone, rushing home to make curfew.

“For 40 years I have suffered heartache from the horrific loss of a beautiful girl whom I was falling in love with,” Woods said in an email, adding that he has been hyper-focused on security and safety for his family and friends ever since. “I hope this brings some closure for her family, myself and her other loved ones.”

In Maui, Rudy Ramirez said in an interview with the Bay Area News Group that police showed up at his door shortly after his brother was arrested last Tuesday.

He and Gary were two of four brothers who grew up in what he called a middle class “dysfunctional family” in Fresno, where their father worked as a heavy equipment operator for the county. Gary was the favorite son, he said.

“He wasn’t like some violent kid or dysfunctional juvenile delinquent,” said Rudy, who moved to Maui when he was 18.

Gary, four years younger, joined the Air Force. Rudy says he lost track of his brother in the 1980s, when Gary was in his 30s and Karen Stitt was murdered. Gary was staying with his mother in Fresno in the late 1980s when his older brother convinced him to join him in Maui.

Gary married twice, fathered two daughters and has been living there ever since. With hip trouble that is almost crippling, Rudy said, Gary lived on disability for a time and painted landscapes. As a young man, Gary had stood about 5-foot-11 with an average build, his brother said, but has shrunk about five inches in his older age.

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NEWS RELEASE: SUSPECT IDENTIFIED FOR THE 1970 HOMICIDE OF NANCY BENNALLACK
On October 26, 1970, Nancy Bennallack, a 28-year-old Sacramento court reporter, was found brutally stabbed to death in her Bell Street apartment. A friend of the victim and the apartment manager found Nancy deceased in her bedroom after she failed to come in to work that morning. Miss Bennellack was engaged to marry Chief Public Defender Farris Salamy the following month.
Miss Bennallack and Mr. Salamy were together on the evening of October 25th. At approximately 11:30 pm, Mr. Salamy left Bennallack’s apartment to return to his own residence. According to Mr. Salamy, when he left the Bell Street apartment, the victim was in bed and the sliding glass door, which opened to the second story balcony, was slightly ajar to allow Nancy’s cat to go outside.
Sometime between 11:30 pm on October 25th and the early morning hours of October 26th, the suspect made entry into the victim’s apartment by climbing up the second story balcony and through the open slider. The suspect stabbed the victim over 30 times and nearly decapitated her. When investigators arrived and began processing the crime scene, they located a blood trail which began on the balcony, continued to the sidewalk below, around the apartment complex buildings, ending at the parking lot. The investigators determined the suspect cut himself during the murder and possibly left the scene in a vehicle.
The case was investigated thoroughly at the time of the crime; however, no suspect was identified. In 2004, a forensic DNA profile was developed from the blood drops found at the scene. The unknown, male profile was uploaded to the state and national CODIS data bases but there was no match to an offender.
In November of 2019, investigators from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case team and the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office began their Forensic Genetic Genealogy investigation. On July 21, 2022 investigators identified the suspect as Richard John Davis (27 years-old at the time of the murder). Davis died in Sacramento County November 2, 1997. Davis lived in the same apartment complex where Nancy Bennallack was murdered.

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Aug 10, 2022 22:12:19 GMT almagata said:

NEWS RELEASE: SUSPECT IDENTIFIED FOR THE 1970 HOMICIDE OF NANCY BENNALLACK
On October 26, 1970, Nancy Bennallack, a 28-year-old Sacramento court reporter, was found brutally stabbed to death in her Bell Street apartment. A friend of the victim and the apartment manager found Nancy deceased in her bedroom after she failed to come in to work that morning. Miss Bennellack was engaged to marry Chief Public Defender Farris Salamy the following month.
Miss Bennallack and Mr. Salamy were together on the evening of October 25th. At approximately 11:30 pm, Mr. Salamy left Bennallack’s apartment to return to his own residence. According to Mr. Salamy, when he left the Bell Street apartment, the victim was in bed and the sliding glass door, which opened to the second story balcony, was slightly ajar to allow Nancy’s cat to go outside.
Sometime between 11:30 pm on October 25th and the early morning hours of October 26th, the suspect made entry into the victim’s apartment by climbing up the second story balcony and through the open slider. The suspect stabbed the victim over 30 times and nearly decapitated her. When investigators arrived and began processing the crime scene, they located a blood trail which began on the balcony, continued to the sidewalk below, around the apartment complex buildings, ending at the parking lot. The investigators determined the suspect cut himself during the murder and possibly left the scene in a vehicle.
The case was investigated thoroughly at the time of the crime; however, no suspect was identified. In 2004, a forensic DNA profile was developed from the blood drops found at the scene. The unknown, male profile was uploaded to the state and national CODIS data bases but there was no match to an offender.
In November of 2019, investigators from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case team and the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office began their Forensic Genetic Genealogy investigation. On July 21, 2022 investigators identified the suspect as Richard John Davis (27 years-old at the time of the murder). Davis died in Sacramento County November 2, 1997. Davis lived in the same apartment complex where Nancy Bennallack was murdered.

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Figures Richard John Davis died in 1997: Sacramento NBC affiliate KCRA said Davis is believed to have died from conditions related to alcoholism.

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DNA cracks 1982 murder case: Man arrested in case of teen girl stabbed 59 times, police say

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A Hawaii man was arrested and charged in the 1982 rape and stabbing death of a 15-year-old California girl after authorities say DNA from a relative led to police identifying the suspect.

On the night of Sept. 2, 1982, Karen Stitt was last seen with her boyfriend as the two walked toward a bus stop in Sunnyvale in the Bay Area, according to a criminal complaint. Her boyfriend left her, later telling police he felt bad for doing so but wanted to get home so he wouldn't get in trouble for being out late.

The next morning, a truck driver noticed a body in bushes while making a delivery and notified police, the complaint read. Police identified the body as Stitt after it was found 100 yards from the bus stop. It was determined she had been sexually assaulted and stabbed 59 times.

perm samples and a bloodstain on top of a cinderblock wall near where Stitt's body was found were collected.

In 2000, a DNA profile of the suspect ruled out Stitt's boyfriend, but again with no leads. It wasn't until 2021 that Sunnyvale Police Detective Matt Hutchison said he received a tip that one of four brothers from Fresno was the likely suspect.

Over the course of the next year, Hutchinson said in the complaint, he was able to rule out two of the brothers and was unable to "conclusively eliminate" another, leaving Gary Ramirez, 75, who was in the U.S. Air Force in the 1970s.

The detective was able to locate Ramirez's child and took a DNA sample, which showed "very strong statistical support" the DNA from the crime scene came from Ramirez. Sunnyvale police arrested Ramirez at his home in Maui on Aug. 2.

Ramirez was in jail in Maui awaiting an extradition hearing Wednesday to bring him to California, where he will face kidnapping, murder and rape charges.

"Behind every old murder file in every major police department, there is a person, heartbreak, and a mystery," Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement. "The mystery of Karen Stitt’s death has been solved thanks to advances in forensic science and a detective that would never, ever give up."

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3 Men Charged 16 Years After Woman's Body Was Found in Washington

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Authorities have arrested three men for murdering a 33-year-old woman whose headless body was pulled from Puget Sound in Washington state more than 15 years ago.

The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office worked with law enforcement in three states to apprehend the three suspects responsible for killing Shanan Lynn Read.

A fourth suspect has been identified but is deceased.

According to a statement, Brian Anderson Bourquard, 39, was arrested on Monday in Philadelphia for first-degree murder while Brandon Michael Reeve, 42, was detained Tuesday in Sarasota, Florida, for second-degree murder. Also on Tuesday, Oscar Cash Gonzales, 43, was arrested in Riverside, California and charged with first-degree murder.

All three are being held on $10 million bail in the states where they were apprehended.

The deceased suspect's name was Anthony Marou Martinez.

A citizen reported finding Read's remains on Jan. 15, 2006, floating in a plastic container between Manchester and Blake Island. Her head surfaced in the same area of Puget Sound more than two months later.

Early on, detectives identified the four suspects, but failed to connect the men to the murder until 10 months ago.

Investigators determined Read was killed in August of 2005 after being struck in the head with a metal baton while at a Seattle apartment.

"Afterwards, she was placed in the plastic container and taken to a cabin in Port Orchard owned by one of the suspect's family, where she ultimately died," reads the statement.

Read's body remained there for many weeks "while two of the suspects returned frequently and poured chemicals onto her body to speed up the decomposition process," the statement adds.

According to police, a separate individual was recruited to help dispose of the body.

The statement claims that person — Michael Thomason — "was later convicted of unlawful disposal of human remains." It does not elaborate on when Thomason was arrested or convicted, and PEOPLE was unable to locate court records for that case.

None of the three men has entered pleas yet. Lawyer information for them was not available Friday.

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Remains of Missing Army Vet Navajo Woman Missing for Two Years Identified; Boyfriend Charged with First-Degree Murder

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FARMINGTON, N.M. — Two years after she was listed as missing, a Navajo woman’s body was identified through DNA testing on June 30, 2021. The remains of Cecelia Barber Finona, 59, were discovered in Clark County, Nevada in February 2021.

Finona, a 31-year retired veteran, had not been seen since the night of May 30, 2019 at her residence east of Farmington, N.M. She was reported missing the next day on June 1.

The story of Finona’s disappearance made national news when it was featured in Dateline NBC’s “Missing in America” in July of 2019.

Days later Finona was reported missing, her boyfriend, Jerry Jay, 59, of Farmington, N.M. was arrested in Las Vegas on charges of possession of a credit card without owner’s consent and fraudulent use of a credit card, according to a police report. Jay allegedly used Fionona’s debit card to withdraw more than $1,200 in Farmington, Window Rock and Kingman, Ariz. and Las Vegas.

At the time of her disappearance, Finona and Jay lived together in a residence where she served as the caretaker of her elderly mother.

Jay had been detained in Clark County in Nevada since his July 2019 arrest.

On Friday, July 2, 2021, Jay was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping and tampering with evidence.

Farmington Police Chief Steve Hebbe issued the following statement on July 2 regarding the additional charges againt Jay.

“Today we have very mixed feelings,” Chief Hebbe said in a statement. “This marks the ending of two years of searching, and we’re deeply saddened at the outcome. We will continue working as we have since the day she disappeared to ensure the person responsible for this is held accountable. We offer our most heartfelt condolences to Cecelia’s family and friends.”

After Finona’s remains were identified, the Missing & Murdered Diné Relatives task released a statement:

“Cecelia was a mother, grandmother, auntie, sister, and relative to many people who loved and cherished her. She was a U.S. Army veteran and community leader who believed in the importance of protecting her homeland and helping people.

"I would like to send my deepest heartfelt condolences to the family of Cecelia Barber Finona. Her family never gave up looking. They found strength in each other and received support from so many. Thank you to all who supported Cecelia's family through all their hardships. Now let there be justice for Cecelia and her loved ones. They will always be in our thoughts and prayers." – Meskee Yatsayte, MMDR Task Force member and Founder/Advocate of Navajo Missing Persons Updates

“My love and support goes out to the family of Cecelia Finona. The last two years have been hard for her daughter Julietta Faria and many others, and I commend them for never giving up. At this time, I would call on community to help carry Cecelia’s family through this grief through healing prayers and strength. We will continue to advocate for justice for Cecelia.” – Council Delegate Amber Kanazbah Crotty, 24th Navajo Nation Council

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Too offend, Native American women cases never get the attention they deserve and most go unsolved, so it is about time this issue get more attention, as they get abused and murdered at such a high rate.