OH - Serial Killings in Stark County *ARREST in 2020*

New Posts

I was so happy to see an arrest on here. I can't believe this thread was started only 3 + years ago. I did see a mention of FL, do we know where in FL he was traveling too?
 
Skully said:
I was so happy to see an arrest on here. I can't believe this thread was started only 3 + years ago. I did see a mention of FL, do we know where in FL he was traveling too?
Click to expand...

If he was in FL, any chance he was in GA? Murders in Columbus fit his mo EXACTLY!!!
 
I have 2 sisters and 9 nieces and nephews living in stark county and never heard of all this. Just seen the header and started reading!! You guys are all awesome!!! <modsnip>
 
http://www.cantonrep.com/news/20170206/trial-starts-in-2009-osnaburg-township-homicide-case


By Ed Balint
CantonRep.com staff writer

CANTON The trial of a man accused of killing a 61-year-old Osnaburg Township woman starts today in Stark County Common Pleas Court.

Kenneth A. Roth, 67, is charged with aggravated murder in the December 2009 death of Linda E. Van Voorhis Smith. Her body was discovered in her Orchard View Drive SW home after relatives were unable to contact her.

More at link...
* * * * * *
 
Ed Balint (@ebalintREP): https://twitter.com/ebalintREP?s=09

UPDATE: DNA becomes focus of Kenneth Roth trial

(Sent from The Repository) https://t.co/zyuY1FNeEA

Testimony has not started yet in the murder trial of Kenneth Roth. The prosecution is expected to call a sheriff's investigator to testify.

Stark County Sheriff's Office Major C.J. Stantz is testifying in the Kenneth Roth aggravated murder trial. https://t.co/CPXMtcXF9U

The prosecution is playing a video of a sheriff's department interview with Kenneth Roth in 2013.

C.J. Stantz of the sheriff's department testified that Roth had been identified in 2009 as a suspect in the death of Linda Smith.

In a 2013 interview with Ken Roth, Sgt. Stantz asks Roth why he killed Linda Smith. Stantz noted technological advances in evidence.

Sheriff's investigator told Roth in 2013 interview that people had seen his vehicle at Linda E. Smith's home on the day she was killed.
 
http://www.indeonline.com/news/20170208/kenneth-roth-trial-set-for-closing-arguments

CANTON The fate of Kenneth A. Roth will hinge on two primary areas of evidence: DNA linking him to the strangulation death of a 61-year-old Osnaburg Township woman and his whereabouts the day she was killed.

After the Stark County Prosecutor's Office rested its case Wednesday afternoon, Kenneth Frame, an attorney with the Stark County Public Defender's Office, told Judge Kristin Farmer the case against his client was so weak that Farmer should acquit Roth without sending the case to a jury for a verdict. Frame cited a standard rule in Ohio law that is rarely granted.

Frame said the prosecution has only shown it's "possible" that Roth's DNA is present on the underwear that investigators say was used to kill Linda E. Van Voorhis Smith at her Orchard View Drive SE home on Dec. 9, 2009. Roth is charged with aggravated murder.

Farmer denied the request after Dennis Barr, assistant Stark County prosecutor, argued the case should be decided by jurors.

"There is evidence to show that that Mr. Roth was present in the home," he said. "There's evidence to show it could be his DNA; he cannot be excluded as the contributor to the DNA on the underwear.

"There's been evidence presented to this jury from which they can make reasonable and logical inferences that prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt," the assistant prosecutor added.

Barr and the public defender's office will revisit those points in greater detail Thursday during closing arguments. Roth did not testify before the defense rested its case.

The day of the murder

The prosecution and defense each called one witness Wednesday. Stark County Sheriff's Office Major C.J. Stantz testified about a video interview with Roth that was played in court. The interview occurred while Roth was in the Harrison County jail in an unrelated case. Stantz was a sergeant at the time of the interview.
More at link...
 
http://www.cantonrep.com/news/20170210/jury-convicts-kenneth-roth-of-aggravated-murder

CANTON Kenneth Roth has been found guilty of the 2009 murder of a 61-year-old nurse.

Roth, 67, was a handyman for Linda E. Van Voorhis Smith when he strangled her with her underwear at her house in Osnaburg Township, according to county prosecutors. He was arrested last spring after authorities discovered male-specific DNA evidence, not commonly used in criminal trials.
 
I'm still alive folks! In fact, for the first time in nearly ten years...I'm not afraid anymore. I've been alternating between periods of crying jags and moments of insane smiling all day. I can breathe. I may be able to sleep tonight. Maybe even the whole night through. I may even be fired from my job for missing this week of work but...somehow, I know I'll figure it out.
Spending this week with Linda's family has been amazing. They are all such wonderful and good people. Each one made sure to hug me, thank me and pray for me and my family. Getting thanks from the prosecutor and arresting officer was surreal. They didn't forget. They are still hoping for a breakthrough in the other cases. We are surely not done fighting for the other victims' families.
He was sentenced to life with no possibility of parole. He will not be getting out. There will be no other women in danger from this man.
Thank you! Thank you for helping. Thank you for your hours of time and thank you for your ears to listen.
The dates given in this thread are very much off as we now know. The first murder did occur in 1985 (Kay Gulosh). The Fulton Rd murder did not occur until 1991. Her name was not Dot as I thought it was. Her daughter has contacted me and, as is natural and expected, she is very shook up by the recent events. I will not push her for information. If she feels she wants to share it with me then that's fine. I'm here to help any of the victims' families. Especially now that I know that my family and I are safe.
The prosecutor told me that he wanted nothing more than to prosecute him on all of these murders. They're all connected. But, as he said, "We usually only get the dumb ones. We finally got a very very smart one." Hopefully, as time passes, more technology will come into play. Technology that Ken never would've dreamed of in the 80's and early 90's.
 
AJS03182002 said:
I'm still alive folks! In fact, for the first time in nearly ten years...I'm not afraid anymore. I've been alternating between periods of crying jags and moments of insane smiling all day. I can breathe. I may be able to sleep tonight. Maybe even the whole night through. I may even be fired from my job for missing this week of work but...somehow, I know I'll figure it out.
Spending this week with Linda's family has been amazing. They are all such wonderful and good people. Each one made sure to hug me, thank me and pray for me and my family. Getting thanks from the prosecutor and arresting officer was surreal. They didn't forget. They are still hoping for a breakthrough in the other cases. We are surely not done fighting for the other victims' families.
He was sentenced to life with no possibility of parole. He will not be getting out. There will be no other women in danger from this man.
Thank you! Thank you for helping. Thank you for your hours of time and thank you for your ears to listen.
The dates given in this thread are very much off as we now know. The first murder did occur in 1985 (Kay Gulosh). The Fulton Rd murder did not occur until 1991. Her name was not Dot as I thought it was. Her daughter has contacted me and, as is natural and expected, she is very shook up by the recent events. I will not push her for information. If she feels she wants to share it with me then that's fine. I'm here to help any of the victims' families. Especially now that I know that my family and I are safe.
The prosecutor told me that he wanted nothing more than to prosecute him on all of these murders. They're all connected. But, as he said, "We usually only get the dumb ones. We finally got a very very smart one." Hopefully, as time passes, more technology will come into play. Technology that Ken never would've dreamed of in the 80's and early 90's.
Click to expand...


So very ,very happy for you &#9829;&#65039;...sleep free of worry and fear!
 
I went through this forum and gathered details on as many of the potential victims as I could find. I will keep looking, but here are my notes so far:


===================
KENNETH ROTH TIMELINE
  • April, 1968, @ 18 years old, ran away from Ohio farm
  • 5/15/1968, Murdered taxi driver James E. Long with Dale Albert Chase (18) & Douglas Mark DeWit (19) by shooting. Robbed $27.11
  • 1968, Prison, life sentence in KS.
  • 1981, District Judge Fred Jackson found that the welfare of the general public would not be jeopardized if Roth's sentence were reduced
  • 1985, Paroled, moved to Ohio
  • 1988, Discharged from parole
  • Lived on farm in Osnaburg, OH
  • 20 acres of land
  • Big hole that he threw trash into
  • Sold leather @ Hartville Flea Market
  • Drove pink 1963 Mercury
  • Drove Honda Gold Wing motorcycle
  • Biker name “Cona”
  • 1998-2002, prison
  • 2015-2017 (?) prison @ Elkton Correctional Facility in Lisbon OH.
  • 2017-present, prison @ Lorain Correctional Facility

===================
POTENTIAL VICTIMS

[] = unknown
[x] = not possible/very unlikely
[?] = unlikely
[~] = worth further consideration
[!] = likely
[*] = charged


[*] 5/15/1968: James Long
  • Shot & robbed
  • Topeka KS, 1968
  • Taxi Driver

===================
1968-1985 KENNETH ROTH IN PRISON
===================


[~] 1/2/1985: Patricia Ann Stichler
  • Violent assault & murder
  • Age 30
  • Sylvania, Ohio
  • The thirty year old victim's mostly nude body was found by responding units on the floor of her bedroom with numerous stab wounds
  • 5000 block of Brinthaven Road

[~] 8/10/1985: Clara J. Socha
  • Stabbed
  • Age 63
  • Stark County

[!] 9/19/1985: Kay Gulosh
  • Raped, strangled & stabbed
  • Harmont Ave near Columbus Dr

[?] 11/18/1985: Princess Doll Murdock
  • Found murdered in the bathtub, she was beaten and her throat was cut.
  • Age 23
  • Whitehall, Ohio
  • 3574 East Main Street
  • Murdock worked for a local escort service.


[~] 11/29/1985: Angelina Matthews:
  • Very violent altercation and murder
  • Age 33
  • Columbus, Ohio
  • was talking on the phone to a family member and an altercation was overheard. The phone went dead and Matthews was found deceased inside her residence.

[] 1/2/1986: Alfreida Lidowski
  • Age 60
  • Stark County

[?] 1/19/1986: Pamela Montgomery
  • Stabbed
  • Age 27
  • Apartment on Granada Blvd
  • Warrensville heights

[~] 4/4/1986: Karen Moore
  • Stabbed
  • Age 26
  • Columbus, Ohio
  • 719 S. Ohio Avenue

[~] 4/7/1987: Nadine Frank:
  • Stabbed
  • Age 38
  • Thurman and Wilson, Columbus, Ohio
  • Suffered stab wounds to her leg, arm, back and chest.

[~] 4/7/1987: Flora Jackson
  • Strangled & Stabbed
  • Age 26
  • Stark County

[x] 6/26/1987: Anna Florence:
  • Stabbed
  • Age 77
  • Columbus, Ohio
  • Linda Cook confessed to the murder

[~] 7/5/1987: Carrie Pearl Shelton
  • Stabbed
  • Age 37
  • Stark County

[~] 8/10/1987: Janice Christensen,
  • Stabbed & raped
  • 37 years old
  • Found on hiking trail in Hudson Township near Cuyahoga Falls
  • Being investigated by Hudson Detective Kaija Jeante

[] 10/15/1987: Carrie Walker
  • Stabbed
  • Age 85
  • Columbus, Ohio (Franklin County)

[~] 10/21/1987: JoAnn Bartholomew
  • Raped & stabbed
  • 47 years old
  • Found in woods behind Chapel Hill Mall

[~] 11/7/1987: Peggy Benton
  • Stabbed
  • Age 59
  • Stark County

[?] 12/14/1987: Marcia Piotter, 36
  • Stabbed, not raped
  • Apartment complex in Northwest Akron

[?] 12/20/1987: Barbara Blatnik, 17
  • Raped & strangled
  • Found @ Blossom music ctr
  • nude body was found dumped alongside of the road near Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls. Blatnik was last seen alive shortly after midnight on 12/20/1987 at Warner Road and Grand Division in Garfield Heights, Ohio.
  • Her injuries were consistent with being strangled.

[] 1/26/1988: Eileen Faye Zarlenga
  • Abducted from home (?) and then raped & stabbed
  • Age 29
  • Girard, OH

[] 6/8/1988: Rosalee Auskings
  • Stabbed
  • Age 39
  • Columbus, Ohio

[] 10/25/1988: Claudette Brown
  • Stabbed
  • Age 26
  • Stark County

[~] 4/21/1989: Helen Stuart
  • Age 72
  • S.R. 16 near S.R. 668
  • found nude and deceased in the back seat of her silver four-door 1981 Ford Fairmont.
  • abduction and homicide potentially occurred at the victim's residence in Newark and her body was then transported to the dump sight.
  • Stuart was sexually assaulted and strangled to death.

[x] 10/27/1989: Amy Mihaljevic
  • Bay Village
  • Age 10
  • Kidnapped, raped(?), stabbed

[] 12/18/1989: Shirley Pearson-Divens
  • Stabbed in the neck and throat
  • Age 51
  • Columbus, Ohio

[!] Easter, 1991: Patricia Murphy
  • Raped & strangled
  • Fulton & Wertz, Apt 4
  • Worked at Solid Gold Tanning Salon and Cronie's

[] 11/?/1992: Tracy R. Harkness
  • Robbed, raped, bludgeoned > 40 times
  • Violent homicide in home
  • No signs of forced entry
  • Age 24
  • Grove City, OH

[~] 6/8/1993: Felita Farr
  • Throat cut
  • Age 26
  • Stark County

[!] 8/23/1993: Julia Harbourt
  • Raped & shot
  • Downing St SW in Pike Township on
  • worked at Rold Gold
  • Ran Short Stop Inn on Navarre Rd

[] 8/20/1994: Kathryn Menendez
  • Age 17

[~] 8/22/1995: Helen Yvonne Durette
  • Stabbed
  • Age 28
  • Stark County

[~] 8/25/1996: Angela Hamilton
  • Stabbed
  • Age 35
  • Stark County

===================
1998 KENNETH ROTH GOES TO PRISON
===================


[x] 2/3/2000: Betty Mosley
  • COD not disclosed
  • 56 years old
  • Found @ home on Burbank Ave.

[x] 10/4/2000: Dorothy Jean Grant
  • COD not disclosed
  • 79 years old
  • Decomposed body was discovered by her brother in her Mount View Ave home, Akron

[x] 10/5/2001: Jean Zienka (45)
  • Strangled?
  • Found in home on Akers Ave.

===================
2002 KENNETH ROTH LEAVES PRISON
===================


[] 7/8/2003: Dana Oates
  • Stabbed
  • Age 41
  • Stark County

[] 7/17/2003: Sharon Litchfield
  • “Not an obvious homicide”
  • 59 years old
  • Found @ home on Merton Ave, Akron

[~] 3/13/2004: Naomi Fails
  • Stabbed
  • Age 40
  • Stark County

[] 11/19/2004: Jeanice Galliher:
  • Stabbed and house was set on fire
  • Age 45

[] 3/23/2006: Nancy Belew
  • Stabbed to death in her home
  • Age 33
  • Cincinnati, Ohio

[] 11/27/2006: Dorothy Jervis
  • COD not disclosed
  • Fire in apartment after death
  • 70 years old

[] 5/4/2007: Eveline D. Ashbaugh
  • Found stabbed to death in her home
  • Age 51
  • Delaware, OH

[x] ?/?/2007 Bennie Angelo
  • Age 87
  • Male victim
  • Robbed and beaten to death
  • Chester R. Crank convicted on “drunken confession” as only evidence.

[] ?/?/2007: Angela M. Kilgore
  • age 37

[] ?/?/2007: Cecelia Hann:
  • This one is interesting... her and her husband both died in a fire
  • Summit, Ohio

[] 6/10/2008: Angela Lee Hanaway
  • Mad River (found floating)
  • Near Springfield (Clark County)
  • Age 35
  • Homicide, very violent death

[?] 1/1/2009: Barbara Chillious
  • found dead in her home (COD not stated)
  • 394 Douglas Ave. Akron, Ohio
  • Age 53

[] 1/18/2009: Priscilla Dawn Hickman
  • Strangled, hidden in closet
  • age 46
  • Heath, Ohio
  • Detailed description of a potential suspect listed on the Ohio Attorney General Site. Check it on out
  • The man also has several tattoos, including a skeleton on his arm, spider web on his elbow, and a woodpecker with a cigar in its mouth on his chest.

[?] 4/26/2009: Diane Mitchell-McMillan
  • shot dead through her open front door.
  • Age 55
  • Jessie Avenue North Akron
  • Does not match MO at all.

[*] 12/11/2009: Linda Van Voorhis Smith
  • Strangled & raped
  • orchard view dr SE

[?] 12/23/2009: Grace S. Kennedy
  • Found in bed beaten to death.
  • Age 91
  • Not sexually assaulted
  • Murder weapon left behind
  • 407 John St., Bryan, OH
  • POI failed lie detector
  • James Robert Engle lives in same town, murdered a librarian in 1946 because he was overcome with a desire to kill.

[] 3/12/2010: Rebecca Lynn Carroll
  • Found floating, death ruled homicide
  • Hillard, OH (Franklin County)
  • Age 32

[x] 8/5/2010: Gwendolyn Hoisten
  • shot in her home after opening the front door.
  • Age 48
  • Akron, Ohio
  • According to police reports, Hoisten stabbed a 23-year-old man who lived just doors away from her. The incident occurred July 29 at about 1:45 a.m. No charges had been filed.
  • Hoisten and the neighbor were arguing outside her home. As Hoisten went inside, the man followed her, forced open the front door and threatened to harm her.

[] 11/8/2010: Peggy Kline
  • Cheviot, Oh (Hamilton County)
  • Found on the floor next to her bed with several stab wounds.

[x] ?/?/2012: Celeste Fronsman
  • Raped, Strangled, & burned
  • sister of Sarah Gulosh
  • prostitute
  • daughter of K. Gulosh
  • raped, Strangled, and burned in Zanesville, OH
  • Katrina Marie Culberson & Monica Washington confessed, LaFonse Dixon (male) convicted

[] Summer, 2013: “A few other jobs”

===================
?/?/2015 KENNETH ROTH IN PRISON
===================
8/30/2016 KENNETH ROTH TRANSFERRED PRISONS
===================
2/16/2017 KENNETH ROTH STARTS SERVING LIFE SENTENCE
===================


[] ?/?/?: Sarah Scott
  • found shot inside her home.
===================
LINKS

Appeal ruling: http://www.starkcountyohio.gov/StarkCounty/media/Fifth-District/RecentOpinionis/roth.pdf?ext=.pdf

Celeste Fronsman:
5 years later: Celeste Fronsman murder case stays with officials

5 years later: Celeste Fronsman murder case stays with officials

Info on death of James Long and parole of Roth: https://www.google.com/amp/www.cjon...ying-faces-murder-charge-ohio?template=ampart

Son remembers Father Ken Roth: https://www.google.com/amp/www.colu...remembers-dads-troubling-past?template=ampart

Newspaper JoAnn Bartholomew death: The Bryan Times - Google News Archive Search

Find a federal inmate 1982 > Present: BOP: Federal Inmates By Number

Ohio inmate Search Offender Search

Priscilla Dawn offender tattoos Best Of the Class 2018 | WHIZ News

Bennie Angelo https://www.google.com/amp/www.cantonrep.com/article/20140725/News/140729509?template=ampart

Gwendolyn Hoisten Akron woman shot to death on her porch after knock at door

James Robert Engle https://www.google.com/amp/adeadlyi...-evening-of-september-19-1946-21-year-old/amp

Grace S. Kennedy https://www.bryantimes.com/kennedy-...cle_909d0f5e-5c0c-5974-b705-fa53a8033fc2.html

Patricia Ann Stichler. https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Files/Law-Enforcement/Investigator/Cold-Case/Homicides/Stichler

Patricia Stichler body location
http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-F...ered-for-tips-on-5-unsolved-area-murders.html
 
We just did a podcast on four unsolved rape/murders in Akron in 1987, some of whom are listed on this thread. It's shocking to see how many potential victims could be out there. Give a listen if you like: Ohio Mysteries, available on most popular podcast platforms. You can also find a direct link, photos, newspaper clippings and other material at our website, Home. Thanks for keeping these names in the public while their killers are sought!
 
Ohio Mysteries said:
We just did a podcast on four unsolved rape/murders in Akron in 1987, some of whom are listed on this thread. It's shocking to see how many potential victims could be out there. Give a listen if you like: Ohio Mysteries, available on most popular podcast platforms. You can also find a direct link, photos, newspaper clippings and other material at our website, Home. Thanks for keeping these names in the public while their killers are sought!
Click to expand...

I feel badly for all the families of the four murdered women because the crimes have gone unsolved. I feel particularly bad for Barbara Blatnik's family, since she probably wasn't murdered in Summit County and her killer would most likely be found among people she interacted with in Cuyahoga County on the night of her death. On a cold, wintry night, her friends wouldn't have driven such a long distance out into the remote countryside before taking her home. She most likely met her killer at or near the party she attended in Garfield Heights that night. Summit County LE wouldn't have taken a lot of time to travel all the way up there to question her friends. They should have invited Cuyahoga County LE to work on the case with them.

I wonder if they retrieved DNA from Barbara, since she was the victim of a sexual assault. Maybe we should make a separate thread for these women.

Looks like AG Mike DeWine said he was going to do something about Barbara's case back in 2013, but hasn't yet.

30 Dec 2013, Page A001 - The Akron Beacon Journal at Newspapers.com

He should test all the evidence of these crimes for DNA, then run the results through CODIS and elsewhere to see if there's a match. Send the samples to Parabon, check familial DNA databases.
 
Betty P said:
I feel badly for all the families of the four murdered women because the crimes have gone unsolved. I feel particularly bad for Barbara Blatnik's family, since she probably wasn't murdered in Summit County and her killer would most likely be found among people she interacted with in Cuyahoga County on the night of her death. On a cold, wintry night, her friends wouldn't have driven such a long distance out into the remote countryside before taking her home. She most likely met her killer at or near the party she attended in Garfield Heights that night. Summit County LE wouldn't have taken a lot of time to travel all the way up there to question her friends. They should have invited Cuyahoga County LE to work on the case with them.

I wonder if they retrieved DNA from Barbara, since she was the victim of a sexual assault. Maybe we should make a separate thread for these women.

Looks like AG Mike DeWine said he was going to do something about Barbara's case back in 2013, but hasn't yet.

30 Dec 2013, Page A001 - The Akron Beacon Journal at Newspapers.com

He should test all the evidence of these crimes for DNA, then run the results through CODIS and elsewhere to see if there's a match. Send the samples to Parabon, check familial DNA databases.
Click to expand...

I tried to set up individual cases for all of these women here - none of the four have pages - but I apparently haven't made enough posts to be eligible to create threads. If you want to set them up, I can go in and link our podcast pages with info. Hopefully I'll qualify for post creation soon :)
 
Ohio Mysteries said:
I tried to set up individual cases for all of these women here - none of the four have pages - but I apparently haven't made enough posts to be eligible to create threads. If you want to set them up, I can go in and link our podcast pages with info. Hopefully I'll qualify for post creation soon :)
Click to expand...

I'm working on another project tonight, but will certainly try to get something started this week.
 
AJS03182002 said:
I'm still alive folks! In fact, for the first time in nearly ten years...I'm not afraid anymore. I've been alternating between periods of crying jags and moments of insane smiling all day. I can breathe. I may be able to sleep tonight. Maybe even the whole night through. I may even be fired from my job for missing this week of work but...somehow, I know I'll figure it out.
Spending this week with Linda's family has been amazing. They are all such wonderful and good people. Each one made sure to hug me, thank me and pray for me and my family. Getting thanks from the prosecutor and arresting officer was surreal. They didn't forget. They are still hoping for a breakthrough in the other cases. We are surely not done fighting for the other victims' families.
He was sentenced to life with no possibility of parole. He will not be getting out. There will be no other women in danger from this man.
Thank you! Thank you for helping. Thank you for your hours of time and thank you for your ears to listen.
The dates given in this thread are very much off as we now know. The first murder did occur in 1985 (Kay Gulosh). The Fulton Rd murder did not occur until 1991. Her name was not Dot as I thought it was. Her daughter has contacted me and, as is natural and expected, she is very shook up by the recent events. I will not push her for information. If she feels she wants to share it with me then that's fine. I'm here to help any of the victims' families. Especially now that I know that my family and I are safe.
The prosecutor told me that he wanted nothing more than to prosecute him on all of these murders. They're all connected. But, as he said, "We usually only get the dumb ones. We finally got a very very smart one." Hopefully, as time passes, more technology will come into play. Technology that Ken never would've dreamed of in the 80's and early 90's.
Click to expand...

I happened upon this thread by accident and have to admit when I first started reading it, it sounded really far fetched, like something out of a thriller novel (sorry).
Just wanted to say well done to you and tour husband on your bravery and compassion for his victims, I don’t think I would have been as brave if it were me in your position. This has amazed me, truely and well done to the people on here for taking you seriously and helping you.
I hope you can find peace in your lives now and hopefully put it behind you. I hope your husband will get the help he needs to overcome what he witnessed also. You are amazing.
 
bessie said:
Langley, who was not Craig Smith&#8217;s daughter, said recently from her Mississippi home that authorities had determined that her mother was killed on a Wednesday, either in the late afternoon or early evening.

Langley recalled being at church in December 2009, singing as she practiced for a performance, when &#8220;around 4:30 p.m., all of a sudden I could just feel her presence. The sun was starting to go down, the rays of sun were coming in through the stained-glass windows. ... It was one of those &#8216;awe&#8217; moments.&#8221; It made her think of her mother, who always had encouraged her most in music.

On the way home from church, she called her mother. No one answered, and Langley thought little of it.


Read more: Osnaburg Twp. nurse's death remains unsolved after 5 years
If Smith's daughter's instincts are correct, her mother was killed around the same time of day as Kay Gulosh. Just thought that was interesting to note.
Click to expand...
rosie_lee said:
Stark prosecutor: DNA key to solving 2009 murder case


By Ed Balint
CantonRep.com staff writer

CANTON The trial of a man accused of killing a 61-year-old Osnaburg Township woman starts today in Stark County Common Pleas Court.

Kenneth A. Roth, 67, is charged with aggravated murder in the December 2009 death of Linda E. Van Voorhis Smith. Her body was discovered in her Orchard View Drive SW home after relatives were unable to contact her.

More at link...
* * * * * *
Click to expand...
I am Linda's daughter who lives out of state... it was my husband and I that could not reach her and alerted the authorities and requested a wellness check at the house
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

DNASolves

Who is Escambia County John Doe (1989)?

Members online

... and 180 more.
Total: 4,499 (members: 181, guests: 4,318)

Online statistics

Members online
181
Guests online
4,318
Total visitors
4,499
Totals may include hidden visitors.

Forum statistics

Threads
592,364
Messages
17,968,120
Members
228,760
Latest member
buggy8993
Back
Top