The News-Star from Monroe, Louisiana • 8

8A Ifw Lums Star Sunday June 12 1988 Unsolved Murders A MONROE KU Stephen Keith Parker Ace: 10 Address: Sterlington Date: April 22 1988 Circumstances: Parker and two other boys were sitting in a van parked outside a Christian television station at 500 Peach St when Parker was stabbed once in the heart The boys were attacked by two black men wielding butcher knives Keith brother Chad and another Sterlington boy Ben jamin Hobson were BE seriously injured during the attack Status: Police released a composite of one of the attackers several days after the stabbing but no arrests were made El Angie Hill Age: 26 Address: Swartz Date: Aug 1 1980 Circumstances: body was found in an industrial park in southern Monroe hear the intersection of Churchill and Ma cArthur streets by two men She had been shot three times in the head and face and may have been strangled She was taking money from the convenience store where she worked to her house on Lincoln Road when she disappeared Status: No arrests were made Unidentified woman Age: unavailable Address: unavailable Date: Oct 26 1985 Circumstances: Her skeletal remains were found in a wooded area near Pecan land Mall by two hunters Cause of death has not been determined Status: Although police never estab lished if the case was a homicide it is included in their murder statistics Where the bodies were found 1 A Oak Grove EL' WEST yz CARROLL I Lake Providence ZjWEAST 3 CARROLL Tallulah I Vmadison isboro r'') TENSAS vjsi £2 ss mi El ljVidalia Lon ri i Ufl wde) Monroe Kl 5 Ri mi The News SlarKarlTale Staff writers Paula Haynes and Cynthia Malsch began compiling un solved murder cases after what ap peared to be a string of recent area murders some of which remain under investigation They found that while the local clearance rate ex ceeds the national average by almost 20 percent 37 cases remain open in The News coverage area Technically all cases remain active Because there is no statute of limita tions in murder cases those respon sible could still be tried James Townsend Age: 13 Address: Monroe Date: Sept 28 1985 Circumstances: Townsend was beaten to death at the Ark La Miss air by a gang of youths The murder weapon was never determined but it is believed to have been a bottle Status: No arrests were made Brenda Spicer Age: 18 Address: Jena Date: March 6 1986 Circumstances: Her partially nude body was found in a trash dumpster in the Strauss Hall parking lot on the NLU cam pus Spicer a former NLU basketball play er had been strangled and possibly raped Status: ivrin Bol den was arrested and tried for the mur der He was found innocent of the charge March 12 K3 Johnnie Lee Beard Age: late 50s or early 60s Address: Baton Rouge Date: eb 1 1985 Circumstances: Beard's ice covered body was found by two young boys in a baseball dugout in a neighborhood ball park at North 26th and Olive streets Beard was beaten to death with an un known object and died of multiple head wounds Status: No arrests were made Thomas Edwards Age: unavailable Address: originally from Mauldin SC Date: Nov 4 1979 Circumstances: His body was discover ed in the Howard Motel 610 Civic Center Expressway by a maid Ed wards died from multiple stab wounds He had checked into the motel about 8 pm He was traveling from Meridan Miss to Texas and had stopped in Monroe for the night Status: No arrests were made Rhes McCook Age: 63 Address: Monroe Date: March 27 1982 Circumstances: body was found on the floor of his business Safe Co 212 Walnut St by a customer He had been bound and stabbed by either an ice pick or a screwdriver A small amount of money that he possessed had been stolen Status: No arrests were made RJ Walker Age: 74 Address: Monroe Date: Dec 25 1983 Circumstances: Walker was found stabbed to death at his residence on Adams Street Status: No weapon was found and no arrests were made SQ Hershell Armistead Age: unavailable Address: transient who bad been living at the Salvation Army Date: July 18 1984 Circumstances: body was discovered north of the Louisville Avenue bridge on the bank of the Ouachita River He had been bound and gagged and stran gled to death A girl who was going fishing found the body about 2:30 pm Status: No arrests were made EH Gwendolyn Johnson Age: unavailable Address: Monroe Date: 1986 Circumstances: Her body was found on the side of the road at South 8th Street Johnson died from a blow to the head She may have been thrown from a car Status: No arrests were made OUACHITA ED Jennifer Lynn Stuckey Age: 17 Address: Rapides Parish Date: Dec 15 1973 Circumstances: Her skeletal remains were found by a rab bit hunter in a wooded area near Horseshoe Lake Road She had disappeared from Eastgate Shopping Center Sept 2 1973 Stuckey was visiting her sister at the time of her disappear ance Status: No arrests were made a a 'MS IK tn Unidentified white male Age: unavailable Address: unavail able Date: Nov 14 1982 Circumstances: His skeletal remains were discovered in theRus sell Sage Wildlife area on US 80 east of Monroe Status: No arrests were made 5 so EQ Unidentified black woman Age: unavailable Address: unavail able Date: Aug 4 1981 Circumstances: A logging crew found the scattered skeletal remains of a human in a heavily wooded area near Morgan Hare Road and La 139 the Old Bastrop Road The body was found on orooertv owned by Cities Service Corp The body was reconstructed and determined to be a black female The time of death is be lieved to have been winter because winter clothes were found near the body Status: No arrests were made Jf Illi if EH Janice Hopkins Age: 16 Address: Monroe Date: eb 5 1978 Circumstance Hopkins was reported missing before Christ mas 1977 Her badly decomposed body was found on Prairie Road not far from US 165 She was last seen walking in the area of Wilson Street in Monroe the night of Dec 23 1977 Sg Status: No arrests were made EH Kathy Whorton Age: 19 Address: Bastrop Date: April 4 1981 Circumstances: The body of Whorton an NLU freshman was found in a wooded area off McGuire Branch Road after depu ties received an anonymous phone call She died from two gunshot wounds to the head Whorton had been killed two or three hours before her body was discover ed Her abandoned 1979 light blue Mus tang was discovered about in the 300 block of Sherrouse Avenue near the NLU campus by a Monroe Police Officer on routine patrol She had left a bottle club about 3:30 am Saturday met with some friends she had planned to spend the night with then followed them to their house Her friends said they saw her talking to some men in a car while she was parked at a red light friends told investi gators she went to the house then went to eat breakfast with a couple Of men that she had met Status: No arrests were made EQ Sherry Alford Age: 16 Address: Monroe Date: eb 2 1982 Circumstances: Al body was found beside her car in the roadway of La 139 near Swartz School Road Alford a Oua chita Parish High School student had left her house in Town and Country subdivision and was returning home She had been shot several times Status: No arrests were made El Michele Darlene Stegall Age: 19 Address: Shreve port Date: July 8 1986 Circumstances: body was found in a burned pickup truck behind Monroe Sand and Gravel Co on Downey Pines Road in West Monroe about 8 am The charred remains of her body were found on the side with the skull resting on the seat Authorities believe the murder was re lated to the murder of Jerry Dorrell Hon eycutt in Lincoln Parish Status: Authorities had suspects but no arrests were made 1 Jk CALDWELL EQ Andrew Nugent Age: 53 Address: Grayson Date: May 28 1977 Circumstances: Nugent was shot twice in the head while trying to unlock the gate outside of his house east of Grayson Nu gent had left his house to feed his dogs His body was found about 11:07 pm Status: No arrests were made CATAHOULA Daisy Smith Age: 76 Address: Jonesville Date: June 2 1987 Circumstance: body was dis covered by her neice about 12:30 pm An autopsy revealed that she had been stran gled while in her bed The pathology re port estimated that Smith had been dead about 12 hours before her body was discov ered Status: Catahoula Parish de puties arrested Greg Savage 24 of Jones ville in connection with the murder Sav age is awaiting trial: if CONCORDIA 3 covered the same day in a burned pickup truck in Ouachita Parish Status: Authorities had some suspects but no arrests were made MADISON EQ Williamson QI Ernest Stafford Age: 20 Address: 117 Gremiliion St erriday Date: eb 16 1980 Circumstances: Stafford who had been discharged recently from the US Navy was reported missing at 8 pm eb 15 1980 by his mother He was found dead in his car by a passer by about 1:15 pm the next day near Concordia Lake in erri day He was shot twice in the chest with a38 caliber pistol Status: Authorities had suspects but no arrests were made Earl Smith Age: 59 Address: Bob Clayton Road Clayton Date: April 1 1985 Circumstances: Smith was found dead about 7:30 am in his home by his brother who lived with him He was shot once with a 22 caliber pistol Nothing was taken from his home and there was no evidence of forced entry It appeared that Smith was holding the door to his bedroom closed when a shot pierced the door and entered his body under his left arm Status: No arrests were made El Charles May Age 60 Address: Cowan Addition community between erriday and Vidalia Date: Sept 11 1985 Circumstances: May was found dead in his home from a heart attack brought on by a severe beating There had been a forced entry into the home and the inside of the house had been torn up Authorities could not determine whether anything was stolen Status: No arrests were made EAST CARROLL E3 Sheryl Lynn Reed Age: 21 Address: 850' Providence St Lake Providence Date: Oct 6 1984 Circumstances: Reed a part time stu dent at Northeast Louisiana University at the time was last seen about 9 pm Oct 3 1984 Her car as found Oct 4 1984 in Lake Providence and her body was found by a hunter about 11 am Oct 6 1984 in a ditch off a gravel road north of Lake Prov idence She died from multiple traumatic injuries and manual strangulation Status: No arrests were made RANKLIN El Sam and Mary Paola Ages: 47 and 43 respectively Address: Winnsboro Date: Nov 1 1948 Circumstances: Sam Paola was found by a friend in the kitchen of his home and his wife Mary Paola was found in the hallway between the bathroom and dining room Both had been shot with 22 caliber guns Neighbors reported hearing a scream and shots the night be fore but thought Halloween tricksters were making the noises Status: ranklin Parish Sheriff Eugene Parker said there are no records of the murders at the office but the case is technically still open MJACKSON Age: 40s Address: corner of Louisiana Street and Monroe Street Tallu lah Date: June 9 1977 Circumstances: Williamson chief dep uty at Madison Parish Office at the time was found un conscious from a se vere blow to the head in his home by an other deputy after he was reported miss ing He died June 11 1977 There was no evidence of forced entry to the house Status: Charles Brown of Tallulah was indicted by a grand jury in connection with the incident but the dis trict office threw the case but because of insufficient evidence accord ing to Madison Parish Sheriff RR Mit chell Jl: E3 RC Price ii Age: unavailable Address: Atlanta Ga Date: Oct 8 1980 Circumstances: Price was found by a passer by about 6:30 pm lying face down under the Interstate 20 bridge about 7 miles West of Tallulah He had been shot three times and it appeared he had been running when the shooting occurred Status: Atlanta police were contacted and they thought Price may have been involved in an armed robbery there No arrests were made eh Charlotte Armstrong Age: 26 Address: 608 Jackson St Bastrop Date: March 18 1984 Circumstances: Armstrong was found dead about 12:39 am by her husband Larry Armstrong in the living room of her home She died of multiple stab wounds to the face arms chest and stom ach There was no forced entry into the house and it appeared the stabbing start ed in the bedroom Status: No arrests were made EQ Dorothy Mansfield Age: 58 Address: Railroad Street Collinston Date: June 16 1983 Circumstances: Mansfield was found dead in shortly after noon by her nephew in the living room of her home She was found nude had been raped and was strangled with a piece of cloth Her neph ew was the last person to see her alive Status: Morehouse Parish Of fice had a suspect at the time but there sufficient evidence to charge the man EQ William Henry Holmes Age: 25 Address: Brunswick Ga Date: Sept 17 1981 Circumstances: Holmes was last seen in Georgia in July 1981 His skeletal remains were found by a survey crew in a wooded area west of Dunn The cause of death was never determined Status: No arrests were made WW EQ Samuel Bess Age: 36 Address: Monroe Date: June 21 1984 Circumstances: The body was found by a passing motorist about 2:50 am on the edge of a bridge on Louisiana 4 near the line dividing Jackson and Caldwell parishes He was killed by a shotgun blast to the head Bess had been arrested in connection with the shooting death of Geraldine Young at her residence on 119 Langwood Drive He was released on $50000 bond and was awaiting trial at the time of his death Status: Police had several suspects but no arrests were made El Milton Bolds Age: 30 35 Address: unavailable Date: 1982 Circumstances: body was found in a ditch on Beach Springs Road near its intersection with Leon Drive He had ap parently been hit by a vehicle and had been dead several hours when the body was found Status: No records about the incident were available and no arrests were made LINCOLN E3 Jerry Dorrell Honeycutt Age: 21 Address: Shreve port Date: July 8 1986 Circumstances: He was found in a hoilse trailer repair lot one mile east of Simsboro on Lincoln Parish Road 35 He had a bul let hole in the arm and the right side of his neck Honeycutt died shortly after ar riving at Lincoln General Hospital in Rus ton Police believe that his murder was related to the death of Michele Darlene Stegall whose charred remains were dis I 1 EQ Leon Washington Age: 39 Address: Clayton Date: Dec 25 1982 Circumstances: body was found at 2:45 am on La 571 about 10 miles west of Waterproof He had been shot five times with a 38 caliber pistol Authorities believe the shooting occurred in Concordia Parish and that Washing body was dumped in Tensas Par ish Status: No arrests were made WEST CARROLL EH Samuel Hudson Age: 24 Address: Austin Texas Date Jan 5 1979 Circumstances: body and the body of a Vicksburg Miss man were found by raccoon hunters about 10 pm two miles west of Epps Both men had been shot Authorities feel the incident was drug related according to West Car roll Parish Sheriff Gary Bennett Status: No arrests were made EH Lamar Cook Age: 28 Address: Vicksburg Miss Date: Jan 5 1979 Circumstances: body was found with body near Epps Status: No arrests were made EH Jimmy Sutherland Age: 32 Address: staying in Delhi at the time Date: May 25 1980 Circumstances: body was found by a parish road crew in a canal near Colewall in southwestern West Car roll Parish He had been shot in the chest and head Status: Davon Bush of Pioneer was ar rested in connection with the murder but a grand jury did not have sufficient evi dence to indict him said West Carroll Par ish Sheriff Gary Bennett A MONROE 31 if CONCORDIA 3 35 36 32 37 28 30 33 29 27 19 34 22 21 12 20 1 11 17 16 15 4 RANKLIN OUACHITA WEST CARROLL CALDWELL CATAHOULA.