Nigga's Caught By White Man's Voodoo! DNA/Cold Case

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DNA match leads to arrest in 2016 cold case murder, MCSO says
Posted Apr 27, 2020

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PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - After 3 and a half years of investigating, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said deputies have arrested a man for the murder of a woman found shot to death thanks to a DNA match. Tony Tyrone Reed, 60, was taken into custody on Friday.

It all started on Nov. 9, 2016, when deputies found the body of 39-year-old Sabrina Rollins in the area of 107th and Southern avenues. Deputies said she was shot and killed less than two days after she was released from the Lower Buckeye Jail. Investigators did a sexual assault kit and developed a DNA profile but no suspect was identified at the time.

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Fast forward to April 2019, when MCSO asked the Arizona Department of Public Safety for help. DPS' crime lab did a DNA search in its database of those arrested and those convicted of crimes for a possible relative of the DNA found in the sexual assault kit. In November of 2019, the results came back and they led investigators to Reed. When deputies first talked to Reed, they said he denied being involved in Rollins' murder. Days later, investigators got a warrant for Reed's DNA to compare it to the DNA recovered from the victim. Based on that comparison, Reed was identified as the suspect and was arrested. Investigators didn't say what led up to the murder or release a possible motive.
 
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/05/05/florida-man-arrested-charged-1984-motel-rape-murder/


Florida Man Arrested, Charged In 1984 Motel Rape, Murder
May 5, 2020 at 6:00 am

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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A Florida man has been charged in connection with the 1984 fatal shooting of a man at a Lennox-area motel.

Manuel Fraga-Madan, 66, of Hialeah, Florida, was arrested May 1 in Florida
. His arraignment will be scheduled for a later date.

DNA evidence tied Fraga-Madan to the July 12, 1984 murder of Johnny Williams, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Authorities say Fraga-Madan and an unidentified man forced their way into a motel room where Williams and others were staying.

Both men are accused of raping a 23-year-old woman at gunpoint in front of her 1-year-old child as they waited for Williams to return.
When Williams came back to the motel room, the two men demanded money and drugs from him. When he said he had neither, Williams was shot and killed.

Fraga-Mada has been charged with a count of murder with the special circumstance allegations of robbery, rape, burglary, lying in wait and torture, making him eligible for the death penalty. Prosecutors say a decision on whether to seek capital punishment will be made at a later date.
 
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West Seattle man charged with second-degree murder, 5 years after 29-year-old woman found dead
May 24, 2020 at 7:02 pm

When 29-year-old Devan Schmidt was found dead in her bedroom in Seattle’s Central District just over five years ago, the King County Medical Examiner’s Office determined she had a large amount of drugs in her system that couldn’t be explained and noted homicidal violence and strangulation could not be ruled out as her cause of death
, according to King County prosecutors.

Eric Sims, whose criminal convictions date to the early 1990s, was arrested Thursday at his West Seattle apartment on investigation of homicide and was charged the next day with second-degree murder in connection with Schmidt’s death, court records show. Sims, 47, remains jailed in lieu of $2 million bail, according to jail records.

“The Defendant viciously assaulted and killed Devan Schmidt on May 2, 2015. He then shamelessly and boldly provided false information to police and others for the months and years afterward,” Senior Deputy Prosecutor Adrienne McCoy wrote in charging papers. “After serving a prison sentence for unrelated crimes, including domestic violence against his then-wife, he returned to the Seattle area confident he had gotten away with murder.”

Though the charges don’t say when Sims was released from prison, McCoy wrote he was convicted in 2017 of malicious mischief, witness tampering and two counts of violating a domestic-violence protection order after dousing his wife’s clothes with chemicals and setting them on fire, then calling her from jail and attempting to get her to recant her statement to police. That same year, he was convicted of committing two burglaries, McCoy wrote.

According to the murder charge filed Friday:

Schmidt and her boyfriend rented a room in a house in the 2800 block of Denny Way, where they lived with a roommate.

At 10:45 a.m. on May 2, 2015, the roommate found Schmidt dead on her bedroom floor, dressed only in a bra and tank top. Her room was in disarray and a pair of sweatpants with women’s underwear inside was found bunched up on the bed. The roommate called 911.

Schmidt, who had been dead for at least an hour when police arrived, had bruises consistent with someone lying or sitting on top of her as she was facedown on the floor. She also had cuts and bruises around her mouth and hemorrhages to the cartilage inside her neck.


During the investigation, Seattle police detectives learned Schmidt had invited two close friends over to her house around 2:30 a.m. on the day she died and her friends brought along Sims, who had met Schmidt once before. They drank wine and used cocaine provided by Sims. Around 4:30 a.m., Schmidt and Sims left to buy cigarettes and when they returned, Schmidt said she’d gone swimming and changed into a tank top and sweatpants, say the charges.

Her two friends later told police Schmidt was in a good mood, was singing and dancing, and did not appear especially high or intoxicated.

Around 7 a.m., the friends left together in Schmidt’s boyfriend’s pickup and Sims left in his own vehicle. But as the friends were driving home, Schmidt texted one of them, writing, “Your boy is here what’s the best way to get rid of him?” the charges say of the apparent reference to Sims. The friends offered to drive back to Schmidt’s house but she told them she could handle it.

The friends tried to call Sims but their calls went unanswered.

Police say Sims told detectives he and Schmidt had used cocaine on their way to buy cigarettes and Schmidt’s drugs were better than the cocaine he had provided earlier — and he claimed he later returned to her house to learn the source of her cocaine, adding he wasn’t very experienced with the drug. When she didn’t respond to his phone calls, police say Sims said he returned home to North Seattle.

However, Sims’ cellphone records show he remained at Schmidt’s house until 8:20 a.m. The charges also say Sims misrepresented his cocaine experience to police and note he was convicted seven times of felony drug charges between 1991 and 2003.

A toxicology report showed Schmidt had swallowed a lethal dose of cocaine and had high doses of an antidepressant and a sleeping aid in her system. But police didn’t find her prescription bottles or any cocaine, aside from residue, at the scene.

DNA tests excluded Schmidt’s boyfriend and roommate as possible suspects, the charges say. But saliva containing Sims’ DNA was found on Schmidt’s neck, wrist and underneath her fingernails. Scientists at the State Patrol Crime lab also found P-30, a glycoprotein secreted through seminal fluid, on Schmidt’s body, providing evidence of a possible rape. P-30, which does not contain sperm, is typically from a man who has had a vasectomy.

The charges say Sims’ ex-wife confirmed Sims had undergone a vasectomy.

https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2020/05/five-years-later-arrest-made-in-devan-schmidt-case/

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Devan Schmidt


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Age 48
Gender Male
Race Black

Date of Birth Mar 31, 1972
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Custody Detail King County Correctional Facility
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https://www.cincinnati.com/story/ne...made-2014-slaying-jessica-revelee/5261048002/

Arrest made in 2014 slaying of Jessica Revelee
Updated 3:42 p.m. ET May 26, 2020

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Jessica Revelee was 24 when she was found fatally shot in head more than six years ago. Police announced Tuesday they have made an arrest in the killing.

Revelee was killed Jan. 9, 2014. She was shot in the head on McMicken Street in Over-the-Rhine. Officers found her dead in the middle of the street.

Mark Cephas, 26, is charged with aggravated murder in the death. He was taken into custody by the fugitive apprehension squad Tuesday. He has not yet been booked into the Hamilton County Justice Center.

It is unclear what led to his arrest.

Back in 2014, Paul Stiver, her father, said she was struggling with addiction and owned several heroin dealers money.

Police said she was also involved in prostitution. She had been arrested more than 50 times in less than six years.


She was arrested less than a month before she was killed. Stiver told The Enquirer in 2014 she had called him from jail and said she expected to be locked up for a year or more.

But she was released two days later.

"She was a good person, but was addicted to a drug that she couldn't get herself off of," Stiver said at the time. "They released her back to the street... Now she is dead."
 
https://www.azfamily.com/news/phoen...cle_2b82ccac-a5f6-11ea-bf51-dbcf48cee4a1.html

Phoenix police make arrest in cold case murder dating back to 1987

6/3/2020

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PHOENIX (3TV/CBS5) -- Phoenix police have made an arrest in a cold case murder that dates back more than 30 years. On Feb. 21, 1987, 41-year-old Marilyn Johns was found in an alley near Central Avenue and Lincoln Street in the downtown area. She had been beaten, sexually assaulted and set on fire by her attacker. Johns was transported to the Maricopa County Hospital Burn Unit, with third-degree burns covering 85 percent of her body. She died from her injuries several weeks later.

The detectives originally assigned to the case did a thorough investigation, but no suspect was ever arrested and the case eventually went cold. Police say additional work was later done "to advance the case."

In 2019, detectives from the Phoenix Police Department Cold Case Homicide Unit began working with detectives from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office to once again try to solve the crime. Along with the scientists from the Phoenix Police Crime Laboratory, the investigators were able to track down additional evidence.

According to the police report, DNA at the scene of the crime was later matched to 52-year-old Darron Joseph Miniefield. This allowed detectives to develop probable cause that Miniefield was the suspect in the case-- he would have been 20 years old at the time of the murder. On June 2, 2020, Miniefield was taken into custody. He was booked into the Maricopa County Jail, and has been charged with first-degree murder. He is being held without bail.

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Arizona's Family has learned that this was not Miniefield's only brush with the law. Court records show he was convicted of assault and murder in 1990. He was released from prison in 2010.
 
https://www.fox23.com/news/local/au...pe-cases-muskogee/5HSMUX3N6FACLEIRVWMKH5CY3U/

Authorities make arrest in series of decades-old rape cases in Muskogee

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Updated: June 10, 2020 - 1:42 PM

MUSKOGEE, Okla. — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Muskogee police, and the Muskogee district attorney announced an arrest Tuesday in a series of rape cases from the 1990s.

Authorities connected Leroy Jemol Smith to multiple rape cases in the area from Jan. 1993 to Oct. 1995.
 
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/ma...urder-of-mom-and-daughter-in-clinton-township

Man charged in 2013 double murder of mom and daughter in Clinton Township

8/13/2020

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CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (FOX 2) - A major break in a years' old murder case out of Macomb County came Thursday. It involves the brutal double murder of a woman and her 11-year-old daughter in Clinton Township.

Now, prosecutors have charged a suspect in the case with both murders.

This case goes back to July 2013 at the Parkway Village Apartments in the area of 16 Mile and Harper. The apartment manager was called to do a welfare check on 46-year-old Tina Geiger, who was mentally impaired, and her 11-year-old daughter Krissy.

Both of them were found dead. Their throats had been slashed.


The Clinton Township Police said no signs of forced entry into the apartment were found, and they had no motive for the double murder and worst off, no suspect.

But three days later, a man was arrested. Yet, he had an alibi and three months later he was released.

Nearly seven years went by and the suspect was still on the run.

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But now 40-year-old Tony James Johnson, from Detroit, has been arrested and charged with two counts of open murder. He's not the usual suspect.

"It speaks volumes that at 40 years old he has no assaultive criminal history at all," an attorney said during the arraignment Thursday.
 
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime...lling-of-pregnant-woman-in-las-vegas-2101546/

2nd suspect arrested in 1996 killing of pregnant woman in Las Vegas

August 22, 2020 - 5:03 pm



A second man arrested in the killing of a pregnant woman in 1996 has a history of shootings and armed robberies, according to court records.

Kareem Brock, 45
, who was arrested Thursday, is charged with open murder, manslaughter by killing an unborn child, robbery with a deadly weapon, burglary while in possession of a gun and conspiracy to commit robbery.

Sara Keynejad, 19, was six months’ pregnant with a boy she planned to name Tyler Matthew when she was shot on Valentine’s Day in 1996 while waiting for her husband to get off work at the 7-Eleven
at 3501 E Bonanza Road, according to Review-Journal reports at the time.

Brock and alleged co-conspirator Anthony Williams, 48, who was arrested this month on the same charges, are accused of entering the convenience store and shooting Keynejad before making off with $50, according to Review-Journal reports.

Williams and Brock both had rap sheets in Las Vegas dating to 1991, when they were 19 and 16, respectively.


https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime...ed-in-1996-killing-of-pregnant-woman-2097253/

Las Vegas man arrested in 1996 killing of pregnant woman

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Updated August 19, 2020 - 3:54 pm

On Valentine’s Day in 1996, a pregnant teenager sat at a slot machine inside an east Las Vegas 7-Eleven, waiting for her husband’s shift to end, when two armed robbers disguised in women’s clothing en.......


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Sara Keynejad Snyder
Birth 1976
Death 1996 (aged 19–20)
Burial
Big Bear Cemetery
Big Bear City, San Bernardino County, California, USA

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https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/202...-nash-cold-case-fontana-michelle-jones-missy/

Arrest Made In 40-Year-Old Cold Case Murder Of Michelle ‘Missy’ Jones
September 14, 2020 at 8:01 pm

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FONTANA (CBSLA) — Police on Monday announced the arrest of a Las Vegas man in the 1980 murder of a Fontana teen.

According to police, enhanced technology to assess DNA evidence links 66-year-old Leonard Nash to the killing of 18-year-old Michelle “Missy” Jones.

Jones’s nude body was discovered in a grapefruit grove in the Live Oak and Santa Ana area, and she had been sexually assaulted.

Detectives got Nash’s DNA from discarded items and it was a match to DNA found through Jones’s autopsy.

Detectives say through interviewing family members, they discovered that Nash was the victim’s sister’s boyfriend at the time of the murder.
 
https://www.nola.com/news/courts/article_14f11750-09c9-11eb-b875-9bce52a3bfb3.html

A Tulane student was raped at gunpoint in 1975; now a New Orleans man has been charged
Updated Oct 8, 2020 at 8:50 pm

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Four decades after a Tulane University student was raped at gunpoint inside her off-campus apartment, a grand jury used cold case DNA evidence Thursday to indict a New Orleans East man in the crime.

Ronald Craig, 64, was charged with aggravated rape and aggravated kidnapping in the Sept. 21, 1975
, assault at the woman's apartment in the 5300 block of Magazine Street. Craig is accused of breaking into her apartment with another man, both the men masked at the time.


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The dormant investigation was revived after a conversation in November at a law enforcement conference in Jacksonville, Florida, the Orleans Parish district attorney's office said. There, two assistant Orleans district attorneys met a Cuyahoga County, Ohio, prosecutor who would later tell them of an Ohio woman - a Tulane alumna - who survived an unsolved rape in New Orleans in the 1970s.

Investigators David Benelli of the DA's office and Kevin Richardson of the New Orleans Police Department began hunting for the 45-year-old files and found underwear and a bedsheet associated with the rape. The Louisiana State Police Crime Laboratory examined the evidence, and DNA was found to match that of Craig, who has "a long history of violent felonies and narcotics and parole violations," the DA's office said.
 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...e-old-cold-case-murder-Sherry-Black-Utah.html

Man, 29, is arrested for decade-old cold case murder of woman, 64, beaten and stabbed to death in her Utah bookstore after his Armani belt left at scene provides vital DNA evidence

On Saturday 29-year-old Adam Durborow was arrested for the cold case murder of Sherry Black in Salt Lake City, Utah, who was beaten to death November 2010
Officials have not said what brought them to indicate Durborow as a suspect
The case went cold as there was no robbery or suspected motive in the attack
Investigators retrieved a man's Armani Exchange belt and blood at scene
In 2017 investigators used DNA phenotyping to release three composites of the male suspect using Virginia-based company Parabon-Nanolabs
DNA was collected from Durborow on October 7th and one day later came back a match with the blood found at the Black crime scene
The affidavit also says Durborow confessed to the homicide after he was notified of his Miranda rights

Updated: 13:04 EDT, 11 October 2020

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Police arrested 29-year-old Adam Durborow on Saturday in the decade-old cold case murder of Sherry Black in Utah, who was brutally beaten to death in her own business in November 2010 in Salt Lake City, Utah

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DNA testing determined the blood came from a male and in 2017 investigators released three snapshot composites of what the suspect could have looked like through the DNA phenotyping process using Virginia-based company Parabon-Nanolabs. Those snapshot composites showed what the man may have looked like at ages 25, 38 and 52


https://www.ksl.com/article/5003136...icted-of-assault-attempted-rape-as-a-teenager



Suspect in Sherry Black killing was convicted of assault, attempted rape as a teenager
Posted - Oct. 14, 2020 at 7:12 p.m.

SOUTH SALT LAKE — Up until his arrest on Saturday, Adam Antonio Spencer Durborow had a relatively uneventful criminal history as an adult in Utah.

But the man now accused of killing Sherry Black a decade ago when he was 19 had a tumultuous juvenile record that includes convictions for aggravated assault and attempted rape, according to police reports and court documents obtained by KSL through public records requests.

Durborow, 29, remained in the Salt Lake County Jail Wednesday where he is being held for investigation of aggravated murder and aggravated burglary. The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office began screening Durborow’s case for possible formal charges on Tuesday.

Black, 64, the mother-in-law of former Larry H. Miller Group CEO Greg Miller, was found stabbed to death inside her South Salt Lake bookstore, B&W Billiards and Books, on Nov. 30, 2010. An Armani Exchange men’s belt with a waist measurement of approximately 36-38 inches and a sticker on the back of the buckle with the number “323” was collected at the crime scene, 3466 S. 700 East, as well as blood.

Despite media coverage over the years and efforts to find a match to DNA evidence left at the crime scene, no one was arrested and no suspects ever named until Saturday’s unexpected arrest by Unified police.

In May 2006 in Davis County, Durborow, who was 14, was convicted of attempted rape and aggravated assault in juvenile court, according to court records.

Whether DNA was collected after he was convicted in that case and whether it was put into a database and remained there after Durborow turned 18 was unknown Wednesday. Durborow was 19 at the time of Black’s death.
 
https://www.wyff4.com/article/break...-killed-during-brutal-rape-sled-says/34453965

'Breakthrough' leads to arrest 40 years after Chester woman killed during brutal rape, SLED says

Assaulted, strangled, beaten body of Ann Wilson later found in stolen vehicle


Updated: 5:18 PM EDT Oct 22, 2020

UNION COUNTY, N.C. —

After almost 45 years, a Union County family finally has closure to the brutal death of their loved one, according to information released Thursday by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.

Charles Ugvine Coleman, 65, was charged with murder and rape in the death of Elizabeth Ann Howell Wilson
, of Chester, agents said.

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SLED representative Tommy Crosby said Wilson, who was 45 at the time, was reported missing March 20, 1976, during her shift while working as a spinner at the Eureka Plant of Spring Mills in Chester.

Crosby said her body and stolen vehicle was later found in Fairfield County near the intersection of Ashford Ferry Road and Dave Jenkins Road, in Blair.

Wilson had been sexually assaulted, strangled and beaten, Crosby said.

SLED agents worked with the Chester County Sheriff’s Office and the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office for years in hopes of solving the case, Crosby said.

He said a recent forensics breakthrough identified Coleman, through DNA, as a suspect in the crime. Coleman was in his 20s at the time of the crime.
 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8872457/Man-arrested-1976-slaying-South-Carolina.html

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Charles Ugvine Coleman, 65, of Union County, South Carolina, was arrested October 22 in the killing and rape of Elizabeth Ann Howell Wilson 44 years ago, after DNA evidence allegedly linked him to the crime

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This photo of Elizabeth Ann Powell Wilson, who was killed in 1976, was uploaded to Facebook by Brittany Mobley, who says she is a great-granddaughter. 'R.I.P you’ll finally get the justice you deserve,' Mobley wrote.
 
https://www.wbay.com/2020/10/29/arrest-made-in-green-bays-oldest-cold-case-murder-investigation/

“He wasn’t on anybody’s radar”: Police arrest man in Green Bay’s oldest cold case

Published: Oct. 29, 2020 at 7:56 AM PDT|

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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Green Bay Police have made an arrest in the city’s oldest cold case murder investigation.

Lisa Holstead was found dead in August of 1986. She was 22-years-old.
Investigators say Lisa had been murdered.

On Thursday, police announced the arrest of Lou Archie Griffin, 65 [corrected age], on a charge of 1st Degree Intentional Homicide. He’s being held in the Brown County Jail.

“Recent developments in the case and physical evidence were used by investigators to link Mr. Griffin to this homicide,” police say.

We do not yet know a possible motive. Green Bay Police Chief Andrew Smith says there’s no known connection between Griffin and Holstead.

“I don’t know of any connection. It wasn’t dating, relationship or friends or anything like that, as far as I know,” says Smith.

On Aug. 12, 1986, Lisa Holstead left a family gathering with her boyfriend. Witnesses say they saw Lisa get out of her boyfriend’s car in the area of Mason and Taylor Streets. That was about 2:30 a.m.

Lisa’s body was located in a marsh in what is now the Ken Euers Nature Park area. She had been strangled.

At the time, police were hesitant to say that Holstead was sexually assaulted before her death, but today we’re learning it’s DNA from that which led investigators to Griffin, a man who wasn’t considered a suspect for decades.


“He wasn’t on anybody’s radar back in 1986 when this homicide occurred," Chief Smith said.

Her murder went unsolved for 34 years.

Investigators are still mum on exactly how Griffin was developed as a suspect recently, but they say once he was they discovered he lived within a few miles of the area where Holstead was last seen alive.

Smith says Detective David Graf worked for a year to uncover evidence leading to the arrest of Griffin on Oct. 28.

Police traced Griffin’s current address to Racine, where last month a Racine County drug unit officer conducted surveillance on Griffin, spotting him smoking and drinking outside.

The complaint says he watched Griffin “throw away beer cans (in) a dumpster... and smoke a cigarette ... then throw it on the ground.”

Three weeks ago, crime lab analysts matched DNA from Griffin’s cigarette and beer cans to the DNA found on Holstead’s body.


Griffin was arrested outside his home in Racine without incident.


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https://good-morning-news.com/2020/11/12/dna-ties-man-to-2005-sex-assault-cold-case/

DNA ties man to 2005 sex assault cold case

11/12/2020

DNA and a prior arrest have tied a 39-year-old man to a sexual assault case involving a pregnant woman more than 15 years ago, according to a Las Vegas police arrest report.

Ricardo Thornton was arrested on Oct. 8 and charged with sexual assault after police said he forced a woman who was eight months’ pregnant to commit a sex act on him in July 2005, the Metropolitan Police Department arrest report released Tuesday.

The woman told police she was waiting at a bus stop trying to get to the grocery store because her young son needed formula, but someone told her the bus no longer stopped there and a man pulled up to offer her a ride to the store.

Instead, he drove her to a parking garage where he assaulted her, she told Las Vegas police.

“(The victim) said the male told her about a gun and would smash her face into the stereo inside his vehicle,” according to the police report. “He grabbed (the victim) by the head and hair and held her tightly, telling (the victim) to unbutton his pants.”

The woman reported the assault to police at the time and conducted a sexual assault exam, but the case was closed shortly afterward with no suspect.

The case was reopened in 2017 after Thornton’s DNA matched DNA found during the woman’s exam, according to police. His DNA was entered into the local system after he was charged with two counts of sex assault in 2012 in Henderson, police said.

Thornton was sentenced to a minimum of two years in the Nevada Department of Corrections in 2013 on one count of coercion determined to be nonsexual, according to District Court documents.

He was charged in the sexual assault case and an arrest warrant was issued in February. Since his Oct. 8 arrest, Thornton has been held on $200,000 bail pending a hearing Wednesday.


https://www.publicpolicerecord.com/nevada/doc-prisoner/THORNTON_RICARDO/1122352

Nevada Prison (DOC) Arrest Records for Inmate RICARDO MARVIANCE THORNTON

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https://www.wwaytv3.com/2020/11/17/police-dna-links-man-to-1992-rape-attempted-murder/

Police: DNA links man to 1992 rape, attempted murder
November 17, 2020 10:15 AM

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https://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article247228739.html

30 years after NC woman was raped, beaten and left to die, an arrest is made, cops say


November 16, 2020 08:41 PM
Justice has been a long time coming for one North Carolina woman, but after nearly 30 years, a suspect in her 1992 rape has been found and arrested.

Roy Junior Proctor, 46, is one of three men responsible
, Fayetteville police say, and that two other suspects are still at large.

The department’s cold case unit linked Proctor to the crime using DNA, matching a sample taken from him in September of this year to the DNA from the victim’s decades-old rape kit, officials said during a Monday news conference.

Proctor is charged with attempted first-degree murder, kidnapping, rape, sex offense and larceny. He remains in the Cumberland County Detention Center with bail set at $1 million.

The victim was cleaning offices at Lafayette Memorial Park in Fayetteville, and as she walked out to her car she was knocked unconscious, thrown into a trunk, driven out to a wooded area, raped, beaten, and left to die, Petty said.
 
Jonnie Lee Lay, Jr: Wanted sex offender disappears same day jury convicts him of Rape

By David Rose
Published 3 days ago
Washington's Most Wanted

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WANTED IN KING COUNTY - Jonnie Lee Lay, Jr. is a convicted rapist on the run.
He has a no bail warrant for his arrest after King County prosecutors say he was convicted by a jury last month for Rape 2nd degree. He showed up to court until it was time to hear the verdict, that's when he vanished and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest.
Seattle Police used DNA to identify Lay as the suspect who kidnapped a woman off the streets, dragged her into a car and then raped her in the woods while threatening to kill her with a screwdriver. When he finally let her go, she went straight to police and the hospital.
That was in 2007.
The victim’s rape kit was among thousands that went untested for years until it was finally run through a national database in 2017.
Lay’s DNA profile was in there, because he has prior felony convictions including one for Assault with Sexual Motivation.
Now, he’s on the run and was last known to be staying in Auburn.
"I look at his arrest record. He has felony violation domestic violence, four counts of Possession of Stolen Property in the 2nd Degree, Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance, which is drugs, assault, it just goes on and on and on. This guy is a danger to society and we really need your help to get this guy off the streets. Let’s get some justice for the victim in this case,” said Ret. Det. Myrle Carner with Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound.
Jonnie Lee Lay, Jr. uses multiple aliases including:

  • Jason Lay
  • Johnny Daniels
  • Maliki Lay
  • Johnny Malaki
  • Johnathon Ley
  • different spellings of his first name
In the past, he's been known to flee to Chicago and to Zion, Illinois, which is just north of Waukegan, where he’s been classified in their sex offender database as a ‘predator.’
It doesn’t matter where he’s hiding. If you know where police can find him he will be arrested and brought back to Washington state to face his sentencing.
He’s 50 years old, 5’10” and weighs 170 pounds.
If you can help officers locate him, submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound through the P3 Tips app on your cell phone, or call the hotline at 1-800-222-TIPS(8477). You will be paid a cash reward of up to $1,000 for information that leads to his arrest.
 
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/12/04/sanyika-adams-cold-case-rape-1999-arrested/

South Carolina Man Charged In Cold Case Rape From 1999 In Somerdale: Camden County Prosecutor’s Office
By CBS3 Staff

CAMDEN, N.J. (CBS) — It was an arrest 21 years in the making. A South Carolina man has been arrested in a cold case rape from 1999, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said Friday.

Prosecutors said that 47-year-old Sanyika Adams was arrested in South Carolina on Friday in connection to a rape case from April 15, 1999, in Somerdale.

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(Credit: Camden County Prosecutor’s Office)

The incident took place at a home on the 400 block of Park Avenue.

According to prosecutors, police responded to the home after a woman reported awakening to a man holding a knife to her throat. Prosecutors said the woman noticed her phone lines were cut after the suspect left the home and escaped to a neighbor’s home to call 911.

Authorities said responding officers found a second victim at the home who was tied up, raped and stabbed multiple times.

“This arrest, 21 years after the crime, is the result of DNA evidence and multiagency cooperation. We hope this shows all victims that no matter how much time passes, we will not give up,” Acting Camden County Prosecutor Jill S. Mayer said. “This case should serve as a source of hope for others who are victims or know a victim of a cold case. It might take some time, but we will never stop working for justice on these cases.”

Prosecutors said a potential match for DNA collected from the victim wasn’t found until October 2019 when it matched with Adams. According to prosecutors, police then collected another sample from Adams in November 2020 and received a second match from the 1999 sample.

Adams has been charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, among related charges.

Adams is awaiting extradition to New Jersey in South Carolina, prosecutors said.
 
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Police make arrest in Connecticut cold case
Updated: Jan. 30, 2021 11:17 p.m.

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WATERBURY — Authorities said they have solved a cold-case murder of a 16-year-old girl who was found strangled in a basement stairwell in 2004.

Investigators kept reviewing the case and developed a suspect in the death of Jessica Rose Keyworth, leading to an arrest this weekend.

Willie Robinson, 52, of Matteson Street, Waterbury, was picked up Friday and charged with murder, according to a statement released Saturday.

According to the annoucement from Waterbury police, “Detectives of the Major Crime Squad worked relentlessly on this homicide investigation over the years.”

Police said a news conference scheduled for Monday would reveal more information about the case.

Robinson is being held on $2 million bond pending court arraignment.

According to authorities at the time of her death, Keyworth who had lived in Stratford and Bridgeport, was a student at a Job Corps center in Massachusetts. She was visiting friends and family in Connecticut when she was killed, and she arrived by train in Waterbury late on the night of May 30 to meet a classmate.


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The Forgotten Cases
February 1, 2014 ·

Unsolved Murder of 16 year old – Jessica Rose Keyworth – Waterbury, CT
Looking For Leads In 16 Year Old’s Murder

On June 1, 2004, 16 year old Jessica Rose Keyworth, was found strangled and found down stairs in an old abandoned house located at 23-25 Pearl St in Waterbury, CT. On May 30, she had taken a local train from Bridgeport, CT to Stratford, CT and then another train to Waterbury alone. She was supposed to meet friends at their house and then they were to all drive together back to Job Corps in Devens, Massachusetts. Police are trying to find out what happened in the 24 hours prior to her being found deceased.


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https://news.yahoo.com/minneapolis-man-charged-2014-rape-172600682.html

Minneapolis man charged with 2014 rape as prison time is set to end for another assault
Thu, February 18, 2021, 9:26 AM

Investigators reopened and solved a Minneapolis rape case from seven years ago, leading to a criminal complaint being filed barely a year before the man was to be released from prison for another sexual assault.:rolleyes:

Frederick R. Couch, 42, of Minneapolis, was charged Tuesday with third-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with a March 2014 rape. The charge comes less than 14 months before Couch's scheduled release from prison for sexually assaulting a different woman later that same year.

Prosecutors say they were able to file this week's charge thanks to the Minneapolis Police Department Sex Crimes Unit deciding in March 2020 to revisit what had been considered a "cold case."

Police relied in part on fingerprints collected from a liquor bottle left at the scene, a home in the 3300 block of N. Newton Avenue. That evidence implicated to Couch as the suspect as did DNA evidence collected from when the woman underwent a hospital exam soon after the sexual assault, according to the criminal complaint.

Couch is currently in Faribault Prison and awaiting release in April 2022 for raping a woman he was dating about four months after committing the first assault in 2014.

A third woman also accused Couch of raping her in 2014, according to court records. No charges have been filed in connection with that allegation.


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