Jayme Closs and Cora Jones went missing 24 years apart. But their cases share tragic similarities.
Nov. 5, 2018
"Allen Kraeger of the Waupaca County Sheriff’s Department still gets choked up when he talks about the 1994 disappearance of 12-year-old Cora Jones.
“It’s hard to talk about it,” Kraeger said about Cora, who vanished while riding her bicycle on a rural road on Labor Day weekend 24 years ago. “All the emotions come rushing back. And there was the tragedy of watching her parents suffer.”
Five days after she went missing, Cora’s body was found in a remote area of Langlade County. Serial rapist and multiple killer David Spanbauer was later convicted of her murder, but the passage of time hasn’t healed the wounds from her horrific death.
Cora’s case bears some strong similarities to the ongoing disappearance of 13-year-old Jayme Closs from the small western Wisconsin community of Barron. Jayme has been missing since Oct. 15 when her parents, Denise Closs, 46, and James Closs, 56, were found dead from gunshot wounds in their home outside Barron. Their deaths have been ruled homicides. Jayme is considered to be endangered.
Even though the cases happened 24 years apart, they both:..."
Jayme Closs and Cora Jones went missing 24 years apart. But their cases share tragic similarities.
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David Spanbauer
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Victims:...
Cora Jones
On Labor Day, September 5th, a 12-year-old Cora Jones was riding her bike on Sanders Road near her grandma's house in Daytown township. He got Cora into his car and molested her. He drove 75 miles north up to Langlade County near Kempster. Five or six hours later he finally decided to end it. He strangled and stabbed her and threw her body into a steep ditch. Police organized a search for the missing girl and hundreds of volunteers helped canvass the surrounding woods in a ten mile perimeter. The FBI also joined the case. Her body was found body five days later."
David Spanbauer - Serial Killers of Wisconsin
(Cora Jones)
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