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Originally posted by: Misfitdolly, moved here for discussion...
Notoriety of 1980 slaying fades, but not for family
Though a man was questioned in 1980 and again in 2000 in connection with Diane Drake's slaying, there has been no arrest, and her relatives are tormented at the thought the killer is free.
05:05 PM EDT on Monday, October 6, 2003
BY JENNY HOLLAND
Journal Staff Writer
On Friday, March 21, 1980, a strong storm was blowing through Aquidneck Island. Diane Drake, a 19-year-old Roger Williams College student, was without a car, since just a few months earlier she had finally given up on her old Volkswagen and sold it for scrap. One of her brothers, who planned on getting a new car, had offered to pass along his old one. But that hadn't happened yet.
So that miserable afternoon, she set out on foot in the rain and snow for work at a Photo Patio on East Main Road -- about a 20-minute walk from the row of small white cottages where she lived on Easton's Terrace in Middletown. Her shift began at 2:30. She never arrived.
The next morning, her naked body washed up on Easton's Beach in Newport, less than a mile from the apartment she shared with another young woman.
The cause of death was threefold, the police say. Strangulation, submersion, and blunt-force trauma... More...
Notoriety of 1980 slaying fades, but not for family
Though a man was questioned in 1980 and again in 2000 in connection with Diane Drake's slaying, there has been no arrest, and her relatives are tormented at the thought the killer is free.
05:05 PM EDT on Monday, October 6, 2003
BY JENNY HOLLAND
Journal Staff Writer
On Friday, March 21, 1980, a strong storm was blowing through Aquidneck Island. Diane Drake, a 19-year-old Roger Williams College student, was without a car, since just a few months earlier she had finally given up on her old Volkswagen and sold it for scrap. One of her brothers, who planned on getting a new car, had offered to pass along his old one. But that hadn't happened yet.
So that miserable afternoon, she set out on foot in the rain and snow for work at a Photo Patio on East Main Road -- about a 20-minute walk from the row of small white cottages where she lived on Easton's Terrace in Middletown. Her shift began at 2:30. She never arrived.
The next morning, her naked body washed up on Easton's Beach in Newport, less than a mile from the apartment she shared with another young woman.
The cause of death was threefold, the police say. Strangulation, submersion, and blunt-force trauma... More...
