Tag: Cold Case Quest
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Pamela Lee: Cold Case Quest
Pamela Lee and her 8 year old daughter, Ti’Ana, died in a house fire that was set intentionally on June 16, 2003. Investigators believe that the fire was started around 4:20 a.m. Lee and her three children lived on the South Side of Columbus. Her two other children managed to escape from the fire. The…
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Cold Case Quest: Patricia Alexander
Shortly before 8 a.m. on June 22, 2017, the body of Patricia Alexander was found by officers, who were responding to a report of a person laying near an apartment building. Alexander had passed away from a homicide, which was not specified. The police have not revealed the cause of death. They do suspect that…
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Cold Case Quest: Carla Hagwood
Carla Hagwood, 27, was found deceased due to a gunshot wound on April 10, 1993 in Alum Creek. Hagwood was found near Sunbury and Mock Road, which is 4.6 miles or 10 min drive from the E. Main St. area that she frequented as a prostitute. The police believe that her body was placed in…
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Cold Case: Sharon Warfield
The events that led up to the death of Sharon Warfield on May 31, 1990 began the night before with the theft of a video recorder and credit cards from a neighborhood home. The neighbors reported the theft to the police on the morning of the 31st. By the afternoon, there were disagreements between the…
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Cold Case Quest: Peggy Harris and Tommy Cooper
Peggy Harris, 28, and Tommy Cooper, 17, were shot outside of Harris’s apartment on January 15, 1991. The shooter ambushed them from the left. The neighbors did not hear anyone arguing before the incident. The police thought that Cooper was selling drugs from the apartment, which may have been part of the motive. Cooper lived…
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Cold Case Quest: Kimberly Ellis
Columbus resident Kimberly Ellis was found deceased close to a bike path on October 12, 2000. The 27-year-old mother of two died due to multiple stab wounds. The police believe that the homicide occurred on the evening of October 11 or the early morning of Oct. 12. Although, she was going through a rough period…
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Cold Case Quest: KayKimia Marie Ruffin
On the evening of June 1, 2020, 27-year-old KayKimia Marie Ruffin was shot by an unknown assailant. Columbus police officers were responding to a call about a shooting at the 1900 block of Maryland Avenue. Officers found KayKimia in an unresponsive state. Unfortunately, KayKimia did not recover from her injuries and passed away on the…
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Cold Case Quest: Loubna Laassadi
Columbus resident Loubna “Lucy” Laassadi was only twenty-five years old when she was killed during a drive-by shooting. On October 12, 2020, was in a car with her boyfriend when someone in a black SUV shot at their car. The boyfriend drove from the intersection of I-71 and East Broad Street to a nearby BP…
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Cold Case Quest: Anita Ruffner
Unfortunately, the homicide of 48-year old Anita Ruffner of Columbus has not been solved. The police know that she was shot during a 10 minute car ride with her husband. Ruffner was sitting on the passenger side. The husband’s story was that Anita said that she had been robbed. So the couple went out immediatley…
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Cold Case Quest: Candice Taylor
The family of Columbus resident Candice Taylor still wants to know what happened in March 2017 that led to only her legs being found in a dumpster. 21-year-old Taylor was last seen around March 17, 2017. On March 28, 2017, human legs and a boot were found at a local south side trash collecting site.…
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