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being here today we're discussing three more soft cold cases let's get into it
number one Stacy lynchorski on the morning of December 16 1988 two State transportation
workers found the body of a very decomposed woman on the side of the interstate 59 in Dade County
Georgia close to the Alabama border by that afternoon authorities including the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation arrived at the crime scene the jbi found no identification on or
around the body they would try fingerprinting with no results there was very little evidence
found at the scene however they did find one piece of evidence that may have the Killer's
DNA on it it would be saved as there was not much they could do with evidence of this type in 1988.
the jbi believed this woman may have been hitchhiker who was picked up and then eventually
dumped on the side of the road her body would have been there for days if not weeks before it
had been found she was believed to have been 20 to 25 years old 125 pounds and five foot seven tall
she had been wearing an extra large navy blue thermal knit sweater Calvin Klein blue jeans a
navy blue bra and ankle high black boots she had worn a gold chain around her neck and a white gold
heart-shaped ring on her left pinky finger after an autopsy it was discovered that she had been
sexually assaulted before her death and had died from strangulation her death was ruled a homicide
the unknown woman would eventually be called Rising Fawn Jane Doe they would try over the
years to make updated sketches and Clay renderings of what they believed Rising Jane Doe looked like
in the hopes of identifying her authorities could not identify the rising Jane Doe for three decades
in the mid-2000s the case was reassigned these new jbi investigators would find additional evidence
that they could send to the FBI for further testing they would be able to get a DNA profile of
Rising Fawn Jane Doe and entered it to the missing person database Unfortunately they would not get
a match in 2015 Rising Fawn Jane Doe's case was reassigned this time to the jbi coal case unit it
was at this time they were able to make new clay renderings and composite images of the victim a
social media campaign was undertaken but again it did not lead to any positive identification
in March 2022 the jbi and FBI announced that they had finally identified this woman using genetic
genealogy they announced in a press conference that her name was Stacy Lynn jahorski Stacy had
been reported missing by her mother in January 1989 from Michigan Stacy was on a hitchhiking
trip through the southern states in the fall of 1988. her mother had reported her missing
after she did not come home for Christmas as planned Stacy was only 19 when she died
Stacy's mother has since identified the jewelry that was found with Stacy and her remains have
been sent to Michigan and the case doesn't end there in September the jbi and FBI announced in
a press conference that they identified Stacy's killer using the same genetic genealogy making
this the first case in Georgia where a victim and killer were identified with the same technology
Stacy's killer was identified as Henry Frederick Haas Wise Wise was a truck driver who worked a
route in the area driving through Chattanooga to Birmingham to Nashville wise was also a stunt
driver and in 1999 he died in a stunt car accident he burned to death he had a criminal history in
several states which included theft assault and obstruction of a police officer his arrests all
predated mandatory DNA testing for felony arrests on September 6 2022 the jbi press release stated
this quote Mary Beth Smith Stacy Jaworski's mother expresses gratitude to the FBI the jbi special
agent Adam James for his Relentless pursuit of this case and jbi forensic artist Marla Lawson
for her work on the composite drawings and Clay renderings she also thanks Dade County Sheriff
Ray cross all the people in Dade County who took care of Stacy as she was brought home to Norton
Shores Michigan and the Norton Shores police department for never giving up on finding her
with very little evidence the investigators in this case never stopped looking for answers
number two joette Smith on March 29 1983 a man was walking his dog on the banks of the San Lorenzo
River on the 200 block of Woodland Drive in Ben Lamont California when he saw a body floating
in the river she only wore one nylon a black Boot and a String of Pearls a navy blue Cape
was found nearby sheriff's deputies arrived at the crime scene finding several other pieces of
evidence they quickly identified the woman as joette Marie Smith she was 33 and the owner of
a popular local restaurant called Buffalo Gals Gillette was described as a remarkable woman
very hospitable happy cordial a woman just full of vigor she was always there when people needed her
she was last seen on March 28 1983. joette closed up the restaurant for the night and went across
the street to her studio apartment which she was sharing with a friend Rachel Devereaux at the time
Rachel would stay and work with joette in the winter months as her 46 acre property would be
inaccessible during the winter rainy seasons the two women watched the TV show Thunderbirds ate
some popcorn before Gillette made some phone calls joette said she was tired and Rachel went to bed
Rachel woke up at 3am to find joette not an apartment this was not unusual as joette often
went to the restaurant late at night detectives would find out that joette had left the apartment
and walked to a local bar to buy cigarettes she had tried one shop closer to home but it was
closed so she had walked to henfling's Inn a bar in downtown Ben Lamont a waitress there who knew
joette had offered her ride home but she said it was a lovely night and she wanted to walk that
would be the last known sighting of joette alive detectives believe she might have been stopped on
the bridge which was on her way home an autopsy would show that she'd been strangled to death and
that there may have been a sexual element which I haven't released her death was ruled a homicide
there was not much for authorities to go on they interviewed everyone in joette's life talked to
people who saw her that night and came up with nothing everyone they spoke to didn't
think that joette had any enemies authorities had physical evidence but nothing to compare it
to and DNA testing was not being used yet joette had moved to Ben Lamont ten years before and had
been about to celebrate the eighth anniversary of owning the restaurant and she would be planning a
big anniversary celebration she had moved from Colorado Springs but had attended College in
Kansas she was originally from Omaha Nebraska where her family still presided her mother
brought her remains back to Nebraska where she now rests there would be no leads in her case
until 1988 when detectives would have a suspect a man named Eric David Drummond he had an extensive
criminal history in California and Nevada which included sexual assault detectives would learn
that Drummond had asked Gillette out on a date and she told him no Drummond had left California
quickly after the murder they had circumstantial evidence connecting him to the crime but no case
could be brought against him without more physical evidence joint's case would eventually go cold
in 2022 our case was reopened in the hopes of using new DNA technology not available in 1983.
they were able to get a male DNA sample from the 1983 evidence in August of 2022 they were able to
get a sample of DNA directly from Drummond now 64 years old the DNA sample was an exact match for
the evidence sample unfortunately while detectives were working on getting an arrest warrant Drummond
committed suicide in September though there would not be Justice the friends and family of joette
now have answers they also input German's DNA into CODIS and are looking to determine if there are
any other coal cases that are linked back to him joette's sister said in a statement to the media
a long time ago I just came to the fact that they would probably never identify her killer
this announcement was a little bit of a letdown but I don't feel like we didn't get
Justice the DNA was a match and it's closure number three the package killer identified
in 1991 several murdered women were determined by FBI profiles to be the work of one person a
serial killer named the package killer on March 26 1990 a body was found between two
mattresses along the highway near silix Missouri in Lincoln County her hands were bound and her
face was covered an autopsy showed she'd been strangled to death she was identified as Robin
mahen a 19 year old who lived in St Louis Missouri she'd been living as a sex worker
on June 11 1990 a body was found in a rubber trash can near Highway 55. the body was so decomposed
that authorities could not determine the cause of death she was later identified as Donna reitmeyer
a 40 year old woman who was last seen in the stroll area of Cherokee Street in St Louis
she was also a sex worker on October 4th 1990 a woman's body was found by a jogger near Interstate
270 in a plastic trash can she had been smothered or strangled the woman remained unidentified for
months but was later identified as 27 year old Brenda Pruitt who lived on Cherokee Street St
Louis she was reported missing on May 9 1990 by her family on February 17 1991 a body was found
in a wooden box by the side of the Interstate 70 in O'Fallon Missouri and she was identified
as Sandy little who was 21 years old and had been reported missing from her home on the 2800 block
of Cherokee Street in September 1990 she was also a sex worker all of these women were mothers with
young children at home disappearing only to be found months later disposed of like garbage
on October 12 1990 the St Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper reported that police had questioned
a suspect but the evidence was thin I couldn't find any of the reports and no person was ever
charged for these crimes in 1990 these cases went cold for decades in 2008 Sergeant Jody Weber of
O'Fallon Police Department took another hard look at these cases these women were found in multiple
jurisdictions so whoever had to reach out and call each of them individually for their case files for
the next 14 years she would organize evidence witness statements and police reports detective
Weber would start sending physical evidence to Crime Labs she constantly followed up to
see if the crime Labs had any new information on April 2022 all the hard work would pay off
with new technology advancements the Saint Charles County Crime Lab was able to get a DNA match from
a tiny bit of viable evidence the match was to a convicted murderer Gary Randall muleberg who
is currently serving a life sentence in Potosi Correctional center for killing Kenneth Atchison
in 1993 over a disagreement about money he had hidden Kenneth's body in a homemade coffin in
his basement and was arrested and charged with his murder in 95. detective Weber then went to
the Potosi Correctional Center for two separate times and had showed milberg the DNA evidence
in these interviews he confessed to killing my hand Pruitt and little and gave detailed
accounts of their murders in the confession after the second interview he sent detective
Weber a letter telling her of two other murders he had committed When She interviewed him a third
time he gave detailed accounts of the murders he had written in the letters with that information
she could identify rightmeyer as one of those victims unfortunately with information given
no other cases could be tied to the unknown Jane Doe muleberg had confessed to killing
in September of 2022 after a plea deal had been made to take the death penalty off the table
Gary mielberg was charged with the murders of my hand Pruitt little and rightmeyer law enforcement
also revealed that there are more victim whose bodies had never been found or identified they
stated that muhlberg is believed to be fully cooperating with law enforcement in an article
for St Louis Public Radio Jody Weber is quoted as saying I know it was a long time coming for me
for 14 years I couldn't imagine what it was like for a family member waiting 32 years for answers
with muhlberg being incarcerated all this time it also raises questions on
if something was missed in the 1993 case he was sentenced for and why it took so
long to get a DNA hit after 30 years and so many hours on this case the package
killer from 1991 has been identified law enforcement does want to make it clear
that this case is not done it remains an ongoing investigation that they are willing to work on
I've been waiting since March 26th 1990 so 32 years decades later there is relief my
mom can rest in peace this is one of the days that shows why we do this job prosecutors in
Lincoln St Charles and St Louis County's Credit cooperation for the murder charges connected
to the 1990s strangulations of Robin my hand Brenda Pruitt Donna reitmeyer and Sandy little
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