Found Deceased Why hasn't this case been solved? Candace Lynn Starr 1975

[Airys_01]

Candace Lynn Starr


http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/...r_candace.html

Starr lived with her boyfriend in Culver City, California in 1975. She moved back to her family's residence in Granada Hills, California in September of that year after her boyfriend was allegedly physically abusive towards her. According to her relatives, Starr had been living at her family's home for a week when her boyfriend forced his way into the family's home during the last week of September and abducted Starr at gunpoint. Starr's parents were not at the residence at the time, but one of her sisters stated that she saw Starr's boyfriend grab her around her neck and pull her over a small wall separating the family's property from the neighbor's residence. Starr has never been heard from again.

According to Starr's family, the Los Angeles Police Department took a police report shortly after Starr's abduction but never spoke to the family again. A year after Starr's disappearance, her father visited the police station to inquire as to the status of the case and was told that no incident report had been filed. The police initially refused to take a missing person's report because of the passage of time. Decades passed before they accepted the report. Starr's family continues to search for her. Her sister Shari is married, but goes by her maiden name in case Candace tries to contact her.

Who is the boyfriend? What is his name? One would think that one of the two would've resurfaced over the years

[bykerladi]

More importantly, why did the police refuse to take a police report for "Decades"? Why hasn't the police tracked this boyfriend down and arrested him for, at the very least, assault with a deadly weapon and kidnapping?

[Shadow205]

A year after Starr's disappearance, her father visited the police station to inquire as to the status of the case and was told that no incident report had been filed.

I'm having a little bit of trouble with the fact that the Father visited the police station a year after Starr's disappearance too. I would think that a parent would have been in contact with the police a little sooner after reporting their daughter was kidnapped.

[Airys_01]

If the boyfriend was dumb enough to take a young girl from her home at gunpoint Im sure he has gotten in trouble with the law since he kidnapped Candace. I wonder if the agency in charge of this case have ran his name through data banks, checked the use or lack there of, his SSN.

Does any one have know of any other info. pertaining to this case or know of a way to bring it to light again?

[Hollow]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if her body was recovered somewhere years later, and it was skeletal, there would be no way to tell there was a nose piercing, right ?? I mean, even if they found the nose jewelry, would they be able to tell what it is ??

[itsreenw]

Seems like her family was pretty openminded. She was so young to be living with her boyfriend. Just like in Camille Dardanes's case, there is no info posted about the most obvious suspect.

I would bet whoever he is has a string of abusive relationships.

What I don't understand is why the families don't ask for a report # at the time they file the report.

[Debbie Miller]

story at link:

http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/on_assi...y_200911102324

Persistence solves 1975 murder mystery

Updated: Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009, 4:19 PM MST
Published : Tuesday, 10 Nov 2009, 11:29 PM MST

• Reporter: Kim Holland
• Web Producer: Bill Diven

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - It's a type of cold case the Office of the Medical Investigator had never seen before, and it's a case that took 34 years to solve.
In Gallup in 1975 a man shot a 16-year-old girl in a convenience store and left her for dead.
Police had good leads. Witnesses said the suspect left in a green van, and someone sketched the man's face on the gas station paper towel.
Gallup police scoured the area, but the killer was still able to slip away.

The focus then turned to the young woman he murdered. She had no identification, no fingerprints on file, and police didn't know who she was.
"(We) sent out flyers to police departments across the country" Gallup Police Department Deputy Chief John Allen said. "'Is anybody missing anybody matching this description?'"
The teenager nicknamed "Jane Doe" was buried in an unmarked grave in Gallup. The case file over the years grew, but detectives did not forget about it and occasionally cracked open the file.
But recently Terry Coker, a former Gallup officer who now works for the OMI, took another look at the case.
Terry Coker found that DNA had been collected in 1975. So Coker ran it through the CODIS, the Combined DNA Index System , a national database managed by the FBI that only became fully operational in 1998.
"DNA for this case was the saving grace," Coker said. He got an initial DNA hit and also found a match on the Doe Network , a volunteer group that posts reports of missing persons and helps identify victims.
Investigators exhumed the body to collect additional DNA and finally learned their Jane Doe was Pamela Mulligan's sister, Candace Lynn Starr, 16.
"My cell phone rang," Mulligan told KRQE News 13 during an interview in her Idaho home. "When I looked at it, it was the 505 area code.
"I shook my head took a deep breath, and it was Terry Coker."
Starr's ex-boyfriend, Michael Singh, 30, snatched Starr from her Los Angeles home on Sept. 21, 1975, as two younger sisters watched helplessly.
"He grabbed her around the neck and forcibly drug her out of the house at gunpoint, with the gun at her head," Mulligan said.
Over the past four decades Mulligan said she knew her sister was dead. She just didn't know where and she didn't know if she would ever find out.
"It bothered me that she was in the desert for 34 years by herself," Mulligan said.
Singh, a military veteran, was a violent man. In 1977 he was convicted of shooting and killing his new wife and was sent to prison.
With good time he was on work release and escaped.
His killing spree continued when Singh beat his second wife to death with a shovel in 1982. Singh then was committed to the Fulton State Mental Hospital in Missouri.
But he will never face charges for Starr's murder. In 2005 another Fulton State patient killed Singh.
"Justice was served," Mulligan said.
Starr finally got the dignity she deserved when her body was returned home to California.
Her family is grateful to the Los Angeles Police Department and everyone who has helped with the investigation in New Mexico.
Donations are being taken at Wells Fargo Banks in Sandpoint, Idaho. All the money will go to the New Mexico Crime Victims Reparation Commission that helps victims of New Mexico crimes.
Donations can be mailed to:

Wells Fargo Sandpoint
The Candace Lynn Starr Memorial Fund
P.O. Box 1528
Sandpoint ID 83864