3 Decades Old Cold Cases That Were Solved in 2021

In the latest episode of our murder podcast, we covered the murder of nine-year-old Mae Long in 1984. This case was incredibly tragic because not only did a girl brutally lose her life, but if there had been an arrest in The weeks after her murder, they would have been spared a lot of lies, because she was murdered by an incredibly cruel serial killer who would kill more than a dozen people. You can find murder on Spotify Apple Podcast Stitcher and anywhere you listen to great podcasts, but Before we get into today's video, we just want to take a moment to talk about our awesome sponsor magellantv.

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She was one-third of a set of triplets. Barris had three children of her own. Ferris trained as a nursing assistant, but in the fall of 1988 she was working full time as a waitress. night of October 8, 1988. Varis was in a tavern in Battle Creek around 11 p.m. She was seen leaving the tavern with a blonde woman in her mid-twenties a few hours later between three and four. She was seen at a local coffee shop. She was with the same woman who was left with a man who was described as between 38 and 40 years old. He had a mustache and possibly a light beard.

Gail Barris never came home. She too. He did not contact her family, including her children, this was extremely out of character for her, so she was reported missing. Ferris' car was found parked at the coffee shop where she was last seen, the police searched for her, but for two weeks there was no sign of her. found later 16 days after her disappearance her body was found by a group of hunters she was in a rural area next to a highway that runs along the north branch of the kalamazoo river she had been sexually assaulted and stabbed several times police investigated the case and They came up with two persons of interest.

They were both friends of Barris. One was a 24-year-old man named Roger Plato. Plato had just been released from prison a few months earlier after serving time for robbery on October 22, three days before Barris' body was found. Officers confronted Plato in the parking lot of a grocery store, however, they did not confront him about Barris' disappearance, but rather he was the suspect in the kidnapping and rape of another woman that took place two days earlier. There was a fight and Plato was shot dead. The police covered up a sample of Plato's blood and he was cremated a few years later.

Plato's DNA was compared to male DNA found on Barriss' underwear. The crime lab concluded it wasn't his DNA, so the case went

cold

after 30 years. In 2019, the police decided to obtain a DNA sample from the second person of interest, the problem was that he had died ten years earlier, so they exhumed his body. It turned out that his DNA matched, so he was declared a suspect at the end of 2020. There was an audit of the evidence in the case. The investigators found the blood sample they had taken from Roger Plato. They had it analyzed again on January 5,

2021

. crime lab had the results the dna found in gail barris's underwear belonged to roger plato It turned out to be a mismatch when originally tested because the DNA technology wasn't sophisticated enough, but in the years since the initial tests were done , DNA technology had improved and definitely matched the DNA 32 years after the murder of Gail Barris. eventually closed number two sylvia may quail in the early 1980s the town of cherry hills colorado was home to about 5,000 people it is a suburb that is about 7 miles from downtown denver one of the residents was 34 years old sylvia mae quayle Quayle was a secretary at an architecture firm but her true passions were art and food in 1981 she started her own business making wedding cakes she also made pottery quail was closed with her parents in fact her house was only 150 feet from her own house drank coffee with them every morning, around 8 o'clock in the morning on August 8, 1981, her father went to the living room of his house and found something he will probably never forget: it was the body of his 34-year-old daughter. years, she was naked and lying down.

On his back on the floor, a white, bloody towel covered his face. He immediately called 911 for Sylvia Quayle. She had been brutal. She had probably been sexually assaulted. They had strangled her, stabbed her three times in the back, and shot the top of her head with a gun. .22 caliber pistol the knife was from his kitchen it was so close to his body that the weapon was not recovered the stab wounds were the cause of death and the gunshots were considered the secondary cause of death the telephone line had been cut both inside and outside At the house it appeared that the killer entered the house by removing a screen from the window, no arrests were made in the wake of the murder and it was not long before the case went

cold

, just under two years after the murder in April from 1983, at 36 years old.

The old autistic drifter named Tool was arrested on arson charges in Jacksonville, Florida. Two months later, Tulle's friend and sometime lover, Henry Lee, 48, Lucas was arrested in custody. Lucas began confessing to a series of murders that he and Tool allegedly committed and then began confessing to. several murderers one of them was the murder of 34 year old sylvia coyle seven days after quayle's murder tool was supposedly two thousand miles away in hollywood florida where he kidnapped and murdered six year old adam walsh Tool was later accused of quail killer, but he was never tried for the murder; instead, he was eventually convicted of six murders in Florida.

He was given the death penalty for two of the murders, but those sentences were later converted to life sentences, so in total he received six life sentences for the six murder convictions this year. does not include the murder of adam walsh, although odys tool was the main suspect in the murder of adam walsh, he was never charged with any crime. A decade passed and it was assumed that this whole tool had killed Sylvia Quayle, but then in 1993, tests were done on genetic material that was found on a rug in Quail's house, it didn't belong to Tool, so it was Quail's murder-related charges were dropped against Tool and the case went cold again in 2000, the DNA was submitted to the FBI's combined DNA index system, aka. as codeis, but no match was found 20 years later, in early 2020, the Cherry Hills Valley Police Department turned over the DNA sample to a genetic genealogy company called United Data Connect.

The company provided police with a possible suspect, 62-year-old David Dwayne Anderson. 22 at the time of the murder lived in the Cherry Hills Valley area and had a criminal record between 1976 and 1988 was arrested eight times for robberies was sentenced to three years in state prison in early

2021

Anderson lived in Cozad Nebraska In January 2021 , the agents monitored his house and collected some garbage that he threw away. This included a can of vanilla coke, a bottle of water, a bottle of spiced rum and a can of beer. DNA found on the vanilla Coke can matched semen found at the crime scene in February. 10 2021 40 years after the murder of Sylvia Quayle David Anderson was arrested on charges of first degree murder if convicted he could be sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 20 years, which was the maximum sentence when the quail was killed number one, lori nessen in the fall of 1974, fifteen-year-old Laurie Nesson was a high school sophomore living with her family in Columbus, Ohio, on the night of September 27, 1974.

Lori attended a football game and He then went to a house party around 12:30 a.m. and started walking home. alone unfortunately she never got there early the next morning her body was found in a ditch about five miles from where she was last seen she was naked and her clothes were found scattered over a few miles the medical examiner had difficulty determining What was the cause of death was that she thought she had been poisoned but could not determine what poison was used instead of labeling her death a homicide the medical examiner said it was not determined the cause of death was asphyxiation of undetermined origin and Although it was not a homicide, not much was done to investigate his death, it was not long before the case was considered cold.

Her family knew this was a mistake because they didn't think they stripped her naked, lay in a ditch and died in 2019, 45 years after her death. Glory's family asked the police to reopen the case, they did, and the detective who took over the case noticed some problems with the autopsy report. He looked at the photos and saw unexplained bruises and cuts on her lips, so he had the medical examiner review the case. autopsy report after review in september 2020 the medical examiner changed the death from undetermined to homicide in december 2020 10tv a television station in columbus did a story about lori's death being labeled a homicide the report drew attention from an unidentified woman on March 9, 1975 The woman's cousin, Karen Adams, 17, was walking home alone in Columbus.

She told her parents that she was going to visit a friend, but in reality she met her boyfriend. Tragically she never came home. Her body was found the next day in In a ditch about four miles from her home, she had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death. The viewer thought there were missed similarities between the murders of Lori and her cousin. Both were teenagers who were kidnapped while walking home alone. Both were found. in a ditch miles away from where they were last seen, the murders also occur within five months of Karen's murder, as Laurie's had been called for

decades

, the difference was that the murder of Karen Adams finally it was re

solved

in early 2011.

Crime scene evidence was presented. At the crime lab they found DNA belonging to two men. One set of DNA matched a 71-year-old sex offender named Robert W. Meyer. Meyer had a disturbing criminal record on May 2, 1962. Meyer, who was 22 years old, broke into the apartment of an 81-year-old man named John Blevin with an accomplice Meyer beat Blevin with a hammer and then he and his accomplice They were with seventy dollars. Pleven died 11 days later in the hospital. Meyer was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. He ended up serving a 10-year prison sentence for the murder. During his time in prison, he met a man named Charles Webber.

Both men left. Prison in the early 1970s In 1977 they were arrested for kidnapping, raping and attempting to murder two women Meyer served approximately 23 years in prison for the crimes and was released in 2001. He was a registered sex offender. He was not arrested again until his DNA was linked to the murder of Karen Adams in 2011. He was arrested in September 2011, 37 years after Karen's murderer, he pleaded guilty to the murder and in May 2012 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. prison after Meyer was jailed. A detective visited him and asked him why he had killed Karen. He said that wasexactly what he did.

She went around looking for women to kidnap and sexually assault them. At that time the police did not identify his accomplice and Karen's murder but they suspected that it was Charles Webber. They did not identify him because they did not have a sample of his DNA. He had died in 1992 at the age of 53 and had been cremated after Meyer plead guilty police told the media they thought meyer and weber had committed other murders when karen nam's cousin saw the news about laurie nelson's murder and suggested looking at robert meyer, who had died in prison a few years after be sentenced For Karen's murder, police submitted evidence from Lori's murder for DNA testing.

They found two sets of male DNA. One set of DNA belonged to Robert Meyer. Police located Charles Weber's son and gave them a swab on the cheek. Tests confirmed that the second man's DNA was Webber's. They also confirmed that his DNA was found on the evidence of Karen Adams' killer. Police announced in March 2021, but after 46 years, the murder of Laurie Nessen was finally closed. Police suspect Robert Meyer and Charles Weber of further murders. who have not been linked to them said they will continue investigating them. Thank you very much for watching today's video. Don't forget to watch the latest episode of our podcast about the murder.

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