GA GA - Donna Ogletree Johnson, 28, Barnesville, 16 Jul 1984

Georgia Bureau of Investigation Case File - Donna Ogletree Johnson

On July 16, 1984, Donna Ogletree Johnson, a 28 year old white female, left her home in rural Lamar County, Georgia, en route to a nearby dumpster to empty trash. She never returned to the residence. Her automobile and two small dogs were found parked at the dumpster a few hours later by a passerby, but Ms. Johnson was not found. According to friends and relatives of Ms. Johnson, this was both unusual and suspicious.

Law enforcement officers from the Lamar County Sheriff's Department in Barnesville, Georgia were dispatched to the abandoned car immediately. Rene M. Hood, a deputy sheriff for Lamar County, was the first law enforcement officer on the scene. She was notified at 4:40 p.m., July 16, 1984. Upon responding to the scene and being familiar with Ms. Johnson, Deputy Sheriff Hood immediately knew that something was terribly wrong.

A search party was organized shortly thereafter, consisting of Lamar County and surrounding area law enforcement authorities. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Region Six Office in Milledgeville was also called by then Lamar County Sheriff Frank Monaghan to assist in the investigation. Shortly after the discovery of the vehicle, a heavy downpour of rain began which hampered investigative and search efforts.

At 8:52 p.m., the body of Donna Ogletree Johnson was found bound and gagged in the rain filled ruts of an abandoned logging road. By the time her body was found, the heavy downpour had washed away much of the potential evidence that may have helped in the investigation.

Witnesses including neighbors, acquaintances, relatives and passersby have been interviewed over the years since Ms. Johnson's murder. However, no strong suspect has ever been developed.

Middle Georgia Cold Cases: The Routine

GBI agents are still looking for a killer who murdered a Lamar County woman in 1984.

One investigator says the weather played a role in altering this Middle Georgia Cold Case, and it’s difficult to bring closure woman’s family.

Click to expand...

“She had been bound and gagged and brutally murdered. Going forward from that time, this investigation has carried on for a number of years,” Carmichael said.

A number that’s continuing to grow as the day month turn into years. Carmichael says his agents have worked dozens of angles, leads, and interviews trying to find something.

“We’re looking for help from the public, somebody out there who knows what happened to Donna Johnson,” Carmichael said.

Investigators want to know anything — any clue — that can help solve who killed the young wife so soon as she was going through her routine.

Click to expand...

JusticeWillBeServed said:

Georgia Bureau of Investigation Case File - Donna Ogletree Johnson

On July 16, 1984, Donna Ogletree Johnson, a 28 year old white female, left her home in rural Lamar County, Georgia, en route to a nearby dumpster to empty trash. She never returned to the residence. Her automobile and two small dogs were found parked at the dumpster a few hours later by a passerby, but Ms. Johnson was not found. According to friends and relatives of Ms. Johnson, this was both unusual and suspicious.

Law enforcement officers from the Lamar County Sheriff's Department in Barnesville, Georgia were dispatched to the abandoned car immediately. Rene M. Hood, a deputy sheriff for Lamar County, was the first law enforcement officer on the scene. She was notified at 4:40 p.m., July 16, 1984. Upon responding to the scene and being familiar with Ms. Johnson, Deputy Sheriff Hood immediately knew that something was terribly wrong.

A search party was organized shortly thereafter, consisting of Lamar County and surrounding area law enforcement authorities. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Region Six Office in Milledgeville was also called by then Lamar County Sheriff Frank Monaghan to assist in the investigation. Shortly after the discovery of the vehicle, a heavy downpour of rain began which hampered investigative and search efforts.

At 8:52 p.m., the body of Donna Ogletree Johnson was found bound and gagged in the rain filled ruts of an abandoned logging road. By the time her body was found, the heavy downpour had washed away much of the potential evidence that may have helped in the investigation.

Witnesses including neighbors, acquaintances, relatives and passersby have been interviewed over the years since Ms. Johnson's murder. However, no strong suspect has ever been developed.

Middle Georgia Cold Cases: The Routine

Click to expand...

Just like Janet Carter , I do believe it would be interesting to see where Franklin Floyd and his friend were at this time, I sincerely believe he murdered many more than we know about, and that seems to be his MO

http://www.barnesville.com/archives/10337-Retired-FBI-agent-to-lead-Johnson-cold-case-probe.html

Fulfilling a campaign promise, Towaliga circuit district attorney Jonathan Adams has formed a team to launch a cold case investigation into the July 16, 1984 torture murder of Donna Ogletree Johnson. The new probe got underway in earnest Monday.

Click to expand...

35 years after torturous murder, Donna Johnson probe goes on - Barnesville.com

Three polygraph tests conducted, four warrants served for DNA testing in Donna Johnson murder case - The Pike County Journal-Reporter

The cold case's entry page with contact information of the investigators:

Unsolved Homicide: Donna Ogletree Johnson

There is a Facebook group that contains information about this case, as well as another murder from the same area, but upon request to join the group, its administrator appears to immediately ban the users who request access, and bars them from seeing the contents of the group.

Lamar County asked the newly formed squad to look at the Johnson case.

“I did the math. We bring — gosh this makes us sound old — centuries of experience to the table,” Heinen told Huddleston.

And that’s what’s needed for a case that’s been unsolved for almost four decades.

“We’ve got technology that we can bring to bear and that case and others,” Walsingham said.

“If some of these witnesses are still alive, do we need to go back and re-interview them,” Cagle said.

All three spent hours pouring over the Johnson files, marking pages with bright sticky notes to go back and review, and combing through evidence to try and find the killer before any more time passes.

“Witnesses die, people do forget things, evidence that was in certain locations degrade,” Walsingham said.

“I’ll come down here and say I’m only going to be 30 minutes and 8 hours later it’s 3 in the morning and I’m still up reading,” Heinen said.

The GBI said no unsolved murder is shelved. Current agents also work the case, but they also must work other cases. But the cold case squad looks at only case at a time.

“if we can help one family along the way, we can hold one person accountable, that’s good,” Heinen said.

But after hours of investigating, the cold case squad couldn’t find any new leads so Johnson’s killer is still out there.

“And that’s disappointing we can’t call a victim’ family, but I think we’ll get there,” Cagle said.

This horrible case must be solved...
Unbelievably brutal murder, gagged and hogtied, sexually assaulted with a metal rod, run over by a vehicle and finally hit three times on the head with'' a roofing hatchet or similar tool.''
2019

"There’s substantial entomological evidence in the Donna Marie Ogletree Johnson murder case that leads one to at least consider the fact she wasn’t killed by person or persons unknown."

I had to look that word up, because I wasn't sure what it meant and found
"entomological - the study of insects and their relationship to humans, the environment, and other organisms."

So going by this, it sounds like some kind of insect evidence pointed at someone Donna knew? What in the world could that be?

Johnson case evidence should be presented to grand jury - Barnesville.com