Tag: true crime tuesday
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Cold Case Quest: Cynthia K. Smith
20- year-old Cynthia K. Smith was shot while making a phone call at a record store in Columbus, Ohio. The incident occurred on January 24, 1993. The record store, Negus, Negast, was close to Reggae nightclub. If I understand the story correctly, the nightclub was next door to the record store. The shots came from…
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Cold Case Quest: Gladys Taylor
Columbus resident Gladys Taylor, 54, was shot in the bedroom of her home on July 26, 1987. She was home with a 10-year-old relative. On that Sunday evening, her husband had been at a church service. He found his wife when he returned at 10 p.m. There weren’t any suspects that the police mentioned. They…
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Cold Case Quest: Donna Jean Hudson
On September 5, 1972, an unknown intruder killed 20 year-old Donna Jean Hudson in front of her three young children. The situation is beyond horrible. Hudson lived in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and three children. She was pregnant with a fourth child. Her husband found her when he came home from work at 8:30…
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Cold Case Quest: Sue Ann Miller
Twenty-four-year-old Sue Ann Miller was a secretary at Ohio Dominican College. On the evening of March 22, 1976, her neighbor found Miller fully clothed in the bathtub of her home. Miller’s husband has called the neighbor because he was concerned that Miller was not answering the phone. The coroner had a difficult time determining the…
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Cold Case Quest: Brenda West & Robert Valentine
On February 3, 1987, Columbus residents Brenda West and Robert Valentine were found deceased in their living room. Both had been shot while sitting on the couch. Robbery and murder/suicide were ruled out as possible motives. West and Valentine had lived at the apartment for a little over a year. West was separated from her…
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Cold Case Quest: Janet Amar
On January 23, 1992, 35 year- old Janet Amar was found in a vacant building by the owner of the building. An aunt had filed a missing person report on January 6. The last time that her family saw her was January 1. The coroner determined that Amar had been strangled. It has not been…
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Cold Case Quest: Danita Obanion
Danita Obanion, 30, had just moved to a new apartment about a week before her murder occurred on January 23, 1989. Neighbors and police suspected that the homicide was drug-related. The only thing anyone said about the reason for suspecting was that there was a lot of traffic at the apartment. She was known to…
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Cold Case Quest: Karen Moore
Twenty-six-year-old Karen Moore was at a party on April 4, 1986. She left the party in an ambulance. Moore was not able to recover from multiple stab wounds and passed away soon afterwards. There were witnesses at this party. Moore and another person were in an argument. At some point, both Moore and the other…
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Cold Case Quest: Yvonne Norris
Whoever was responsible for the August 1989 homicide of Yvonne Norris was really and truly a monster. The person tried to cover up the murder by setting a fire, which could have killed her children and the other people in the apartment complex. Two of her children were home at the time but managed to…
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Cold Case Quest: Marilyn Wray
Columbus resident Marilyn Wray, 21, was the mother of a six-year-old daughter. On December 15, 1978, Wray was killed by strangulation. The daughter was asleep in the next room but was unharmed. At 7 a.m. the same day, Wray was found by her sixteen-year-old sister, who lived nearby. There was a male friend visiting until…
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