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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100 years later, FGCU students and professor help bring justice to Tulsa massacre victims
Published: June 3, 2021 6:05 PM EDT
Updated: June 3, 2021 6:08 PM EDT
It’s been 100 years since a white mob laid waste to the Greenwood District, home to the wealthiest Black community in the U.S. at the time.
Greenwood, Black Wallstreet as it was known, was leveled between May 31 and June 1 of 1921, 35 square blocks destroyed by a mob of people, many of them deputized and handed weapons by city leaders.
Black neighbors were killed and their businesses destroyed in the Tulsa, Oklahoma neighborhood.
Hundreds of bodies remain unidentified.
FGCU master’s students and their professor are in Tulsa to help excavate the remains of those killed and dumped in a mass grave in hopes of identifying them and telling their stories.
An FGCU professor and two graduate students were heading to Tulsa on the 100th anniversary of one of the worst chapters of racial violence in U.S. history.
Heather Walsh-Haney, a Florida Gulf Coast University associate professor, and students Cahjanae Henfield and Leslie Urgelles will continue work at an excavation site where human remains were unearthed last fall from the 1921 Tulsa race massacre.
Walsh-Haney, chair of FGCU s Department of Justice Studies, participated in the dig in October with FGCU grad student Sonya Concepcion Jones. They joined other human excavators who found at least 11 bodies in coffins in an unmarked mass grave in a Tulsa cemetery.
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