MI MI - Roy LaFray, 88, Saginaw Twp, 24 June 2009

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http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2010/06/one_year_anniversary_of_unsolv.html -- Article
It is against nature. An 88-year-old is not meant to die at the hands of a murderer.

Given this fact, the sons of 88-year-old Roy Lafray Sr. are not looking for sense in his death.They are looking for justice.I won't let it rest, says Roy Lafray, who inherited his father's name.The younger Roy Lafray called police Wednesday after discovering his father's blood in his parent's garage at 4290 Midland Road in Saginaw Township. He assumed his father had hurt himself, and had driven to the hospital. He was worried, but never guessed the truth.Police found his father's body a short time later in a field in the 7700 block of McCarty Road.

Saginaw Township Police say it appears someone attacked Mr. Lafray Sr. in his garage, where he liked to sit in a lawn chair and enjoy the weather. The killer or killers then put his body in his 1996 Oldsmobile Cutlass, drove more than a mile to the field, dumped his body, and abandoned the car.This was a random act, says Lafray when asked if his father had any enemies. Somebody came along, saw an old man, a defenseless old man and took advantage of him. It was a crime of opportunity. Anyone with information is asked to call D/Lt. Gary Grauf or D/Sgt. Jack Doyle at 989-793-2310.

Source - http://nbc25news.com/news/local/murdered-88-yr-olds-family-seeks-help

They stole his wallet and wedding band. His wife would die two months later. That poor family.
 
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Roy LaFray, 88, World War II Veteran - Murdered 24 June 2009


(06/28/17) - It was eight years ago this week when 88-year-old Roy LaFray’s body was found in a Saginaw Township field.

Police believe he was murdered in his garage and later moved.

Two crime scenes, one long investigation, and still, zero arrests.

“He was always in his garage,” said Kevin Scharich, who lives across the street from where LaFray lived.

The World War II veteran was bludgeoned to death in his garage on June 24, 2009, his body put in the trunk of his own car and driven to a field about a mile away. The body was removed from the trunk and found a few feet away from the car.

Rick Herren was a detective at the time and worked on the case.

“Seemed like several acres of land that day with metal detectors, just trying to find something that the suspect, the bad guy, might have dropped,” he said.

A neighbor gave a description of a man who was talking to LaFray in his driveway that day, but the lead turned cold.

Bart Dexter was running Crime Stoppers at the time of the murder and says the tip line got about eight calls over the past eight years.

“They saw a car here, they saw something there,” he said.

The leads have dried up, however.

“We have lots of evidence, we have boxes and boxes of evidence, but it doesn't lead us anywhere,” Herren said.

Herren says the Saginaw Township Police department continually looks at the case each passing year.

“To take what we have currently and find something useful out of it, is to find a mistake that we may have made, and even putting themselves out on front street like that, and being willing to admit, ‘Hey, we might have missed something, they can't find anything we missed.”

Eight years and the question remains, who killed Roy LaFray?

“I would like to see justice for something like that, you know, it's too close to home and I have other elderly around here that we keep a close eye on, since this happened, more so,” Scharich said.

Herren wants to give the family and LaFray's neighbors closure.

“We have not given up hope,” he said.

Crime Stoppers is still taking tips on this case. It will pay $2,500 for any tip that leads to a conviction in the case...

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8 years later, no arrests in LaFray murder case
 

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