Read Cold Cases Solved: True Stories of Murders That Took Years or Decades to Solve (Murder, Scandals and Mayhem Book 8) for Free Online Page B

jail.
     
    Current Status:
    A timeline established twelve years after the murder showed that over an hour passed between the shooting and when emergency responders were called. Did that gap give the family time to get their stories straight and rearrange any crucial evidence?
     
    The DA that prosecuted the case has the utmost respect for the professionals involved in the show. However, he believes that the producers were wrong in not delaying the broadcast. Had it been delayed just two weeks, he believes he could have impaneled an impartial jury. Had Hendrick been found guilty in a trial rather than taking a plea bargain, he would likely have received life in prison.
     
    Many think that were it not for the actions of Carl Bowen and Sheriff Jode Zavesky in taking a personal interest and re-opening the case, justice would never have happened for Shelly. There was no political pressure or public speculation driving the case. As far as the general population was concerned, Shelly had committed suicide. The only thing on her side was one investigator with a nagging feeling that something just wasn’t right.

Solved But Unexplained
    Victim: Sara Lynn Wineski
    Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
    Suspect: Raymond Samuels
    Date of Crime: May 22 nd , 2005
    Date Identified: 2013
     
    Backstory:
    Sara Lynn Wineski was born in San Diego, California on June 25 th , 1955 to parents Walter Wineski and Katherine McManus. Records indicate she married Edward J. Murphy on July 12 th , 1975 when she was 20 years old.
     
    The couple had two children, daughter Candace M. born May 9 th , 1976 and son Edward James born March 21 st , 1978. The marriage was not to last and they divorced on April 12 th , 1984.
     
    It’s not known what occurred in the intervening years but in 2005 Sara Lynn Wineski had born two more children and then become a homeless woman living in St. Petersburg, Florida. She had moved there from Sarasota less than two weeks before her death. She was forty-nine years old.
     
    On The Day In Question:
    On Sunday May 22 nd , 2005, Wineski’s body was found in a secluded area, under a wooden deck belonging to a Ronald McDonald House. She had been dead for less than a day when she was found.
     
    Investigation:
    Investigations revealed that Wineski had been raped and then strangled. She had been killed brutally, her body suffering significant trauma, particularly her upper body.
     
    A guest of the Ronald McDonald House recalled hearing screams around 11:00pm the night before. The deck where her body was found overlooked Roser Park, a common sleeping place for homeless people.
     
    At the time of the attack, police suspected the case was linked to an earlier violent sexual assault that had occurred near Campbell Park on May 7 th . Campbell Park was close to the scene of Wineski’s murder, and police said both crimes had “disturbing similarities” that they were not releasing.
     
    The victim of that attack (a resident, rather than homeless as Wineski had been) had survived the attack, and described the perpetrator as a black man with a dark complexion, twenty-six to thirty years old, around 5’ 7” tall, and with a thin build. Investigators were worried that a serial rapist was on the loose.
     
    Police handed out flyers at parks and shelters around the crime area, looking for people who might have seen Wineski shortly before she was killed.
     
    DNA evidence was collected at the scene of Wineski’s murder, but there was no progress on identifying a suspect.
     
    Then, in 2013, there was a sudden break in the case. The DNA from the case found a match, a man named Raymond Samuels. In 2005, he had been visiting St. Petersburg. He had then been in prison in Ohio since 2006, charged with attempted murder and kidnapping, where his DNA was recorded in the system.
     
    Samuels, who would have been twenty-three at the time of the attack, was also a transient person with no fixed address, and had been in the area for less than two