Cold case investigators with the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office have identified Gerald (Jerry) Lombard as a possible victim of a serial killer based on DNA from remains found in 1994.
According to CCSO, on Feb. 1, 1994, they received a call from a local construction company worker who reported finding a decomposing human body in the woods near Wyandotte Avenue and Tulip Street in northern Charlotte County.
There was no identification found with the body and early attempts to identify the person were not successful, so the body was given the name of “John Doe #1.” The cause of death was also undetermined.
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PULASKI COUNTY - After exactly 40 years of investigation, the Pulaski County Sheriff s Department, with help from the DNA Doe Project, have been to identify the body of Karen Kay Knippers.
Knippers was the victim of a homicide and her body was found on May 25, 1981 in a low water crossing near Dixon, Missouri.Â
At the time she was found, her body was unable to be identified. She was buried in the Waynesville Cemetery under the name Jane Doe.
In 2012, Knippers profile was entered into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. After she was entered in the system, DJ Renno, a detective with the Pulaski County Sheriff s Department, reopened the investigation.
UNSOLVED: The death of Pamela Norton Wilson
Her bones were found in the Bryceville woods in 2009, but it would be a decade before deputies knew her identity. The question remains, what happened to her? Author: Katie Jeffries Updated: 11:34 PM EDT May 5, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Sometimes getting the answer to one question can open the door to so many more.
It was April 11, 2009, when two turkey hunters were walking through the quiet, desolate woods of the Deep Creek Hunting Club in Bryceville and they found something. Something human.
A skull and leg bone were lying on the ground.
The Nassau County Sheriff’s office took possession of the bones, but no DNA matches came back. They then tried to do a facial reconstruction sketch and released it to the local news, but still, no leads came in.
Centuries of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples
Native American cultures, languages, lands and lives were all systematically and forcibly taken through colonization. Our ancestors endured genocide and assimilation for more than five centuries.
Today, there is ample evidence that genocide still occurs through the inhumane conditions on reservations, the jurisdictional issues that prevent the prosecution of non-Native perpetrators on tribal lands and ignoring the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) crisis.
The Connection to Domestic and Sexual ViolenceDomestic violence isn’t a Native American tradition; it is a symptom of colonization that continues to this day.
Through colonization, Native women were devalued by non-Native people. They were degraded, they were attacked and raped. Acts that still continue today. Tribal communities still experience high rates of rape and sexual assault, largely committed by non-Native perpetrators. Native women are sexualized in