OH - Christie Mullins, 14, Columbus, 23 Aug 1975 *killer died*

Who Killed Christie Mullins? New Test Could Crack Decades Old Case


WBNS-TV in Columbus reported on the 6:00 PM local news Friday evening that there could be a possible break in the Christie Lynn Mullins murder case.

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation has begun using an improved DNA testing process called “GlobalFiler,” which works better on old, degraded DNA.

WBNS-TV reported that if the GlobalFile testing is able to extract DNA successfully in the Christie Lynn Mullins murder case, it could prove who was responsible for her murder or if a different unknown suspect is involved.


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http://www.10tv.com/content/stories...-will-crack-decades-old-cold-case-murder.html

Some of the elements of this case have close parallels with the case of Sheila and Katherine Lyon, two sisters ages 12 and 10, who went missing from Wheaton Plaza Shopping Center in Wheaton, Maryland on 25 March 1975. They are still missing 40 years later, and the case remains unsolved, although there has been some renewed interest and investigative efforts in the past year.

One similarity is that in Christie's case, there was a potential suspect claiming to be a radio disc jockey allegedly contacting one of the girls. In the Lyon case, their father was a well known Disc Jockey in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Also a man with a tape recorder and microphone approached the Lyon sisters inside the shopping mall and "interviewed" them.

Other similarities are the setting, of a shopping center and a nearby wooded area, and the fact that there were two young girls together. Also, these two crimes occurred only six months apart in 1975.There are possibly other similarities between these two cases to consider. The Lyon Sisters have their own featured topic under the Websleuths "Missing" area. Some of the possibly connected cases and potential suspects in the Lyon case should be considered as possible connections to Christie's murder.

New DNA Testing Could Bring Closure To 1975 Cold Case Murder


WBNS-TV in Columbus had an update Tuesday evening on the 6:00 PM newscast about the Christie Mullins Christie Mullins cold murder case.

Columbus cold case detectives sent evidence from the Christie Mullins murder case to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations for a new DNA testing called GlobalFiler.

It was explained that DNA appears as a chain like structure; as older DNA degrades, pieces break off. But with the new DNA testing technology, Globalfiler can read between the lines.

A BCI forensic scientist acknowledged that the new DNA testing called GlobalFiler is not a guarantee but also acknowledged that it is the best shot for families that have waited decades seeking answers in cold cases.

Source:

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories...d-bring-closure-to-1975-cold-case-murder.html


I was wondering if there are any cases that anyone know of where this new GlobalFiler DNA testing technology has been effective in solving and bringing a conviction in a cold case.

Richard said:

Some of the elements of this case have close parallels with the case of Sheila and Katherine Lyon, two sisters ages 12 and 10, who went missing from Wheaton Plaza Shopping Center in Wheaton, Maryland on 25 March 1975. They are still missing 40 years later, and the case remains unsolved, although there has been some renewed interest and investigative efforts in the past year.

One similarity is that in Christie's case, there was a potential suspect claiming to be a radio disc jockey allegedly contacting one of the girls. In the Lyon case, their father was a well known Disc Jockey in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Also a man with a tape recorder and microphone approached the Lyon sisters inside the shopping mall and "interviewed" them.

Other similarities are the setting, of a shopping center and a nearby wooded area, and the fact that there were two young girls together. Also, these two crimes occurred only six months apart in 1975.There are possibly other similarities between these two cases to consider. The Lyon Sisters have their own featured topic under the Websleuths "Missing" area. Some of the possibly connected cases and potential suspects in the Lyon case should be considered as possible connections to Christie's murder.

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I understand that an arrest has been made in the Lyons case based on DNA. Someone already in jail has been named.

Thinking of Christie Lynn Mullins today on the 40th anniversary of her murder. Christie was taken too soon from her family and her friends.

The horrible brutal crime that that was committed against Christie will always be remembered and it will never be forgotten by folks who are still seeking justice for Christie Lynn Mullins.

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2015/11/06/columbus-ohio-christie-mullins-cold-case-to-officially-close-40-years-later.html

Columbus Police Department will have a press conference today at 1:30 pm. WBNS channel 10 will stream it live.

Finally, it looks as though her family will have some closure. Its a shame this man wasn't held accountable for her murder.

This family aided and helped conceal a murder. They lied. Even worse they stood by while an innocent person stood trial!!! It may very well end up that this man killed or molested others! I'm pretty mad.

In a press conference on Friday, Columbus Police say the man who found Mullins' body - Henry Newell Jr. - was responsible for her death.

The case begins on August 23, 1975.

The body of 14-year-old Christie Mullins was found tied up and beaten to death in the woods behind Graceland Shopping Center.

Police charged Jack Carmen, who was mentally challenged, with murder. However, after a trial, he was acquitted of the charges.

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On Friday, Columbus Police say Newell - who died in 2013 - would have been charged with the crime if he were still alive. Police also issued an apology to the Mullins family for the lack of action taken in the case to pursue Newell as a suspect.

cont. at the link

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories...-case-to-officially-close-40-years-later.html

Nero, where are you??

bessie said:

In a press conference on Friday, Columbus Police say the man who found Mullins' body - Henry Newell Jr. - was responsible for her death.

The case begins on August 23, 1975.

The body of 14-year-old Christie Mullins was found tied up and beaten to death in the woods behind Graceland Shopping Center.

Police charged Jack Carmen, who was mentally challenged, with murder. However, after a trial, he was acquitted of the charges.

[...]

On Friday, Columbus Police say Newell - who died in 2013 - would have been charged with the crime if he were still alive. Police also issued an apology to the Mullins family for the lack of action taken in the case to pursue Newell as a suspect.

cont. at the link

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories...-case-to-officially-close-40-years-later.html

Nero, where are you??

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That's chilling and head-spinning news, bessie. All these people tormented for yrs.

While Newell will never face the consequences for his actions, there is now the chance for the family to have closure.

Christie didn't deserve the fate she suffered on that August day in 1975. She was just a teenage kid who never got a chance to live her life to the fullest. Unfortunately, Christie didn't get the justice she deserved.

Many of you have followed this case for awhile. There have been insightful post as many of us have been intrigued. Now the outcome of Newell being charged will never come to be but now the family knows. The public now knows. The family getting that chance for closure is what many of us hoped for too. Now the world knows the truth, Christie can finally be able to rest peacefully.

Shame on LE and shame on his family for keeping his horrific crime a secret all these years. I hope every day of his worthless life after murdering Christie was miserable.

How convenient. From 1975 to 2013 he was arrested zero times for her death. Now two years after his death they convict him on information that would have got him a acquitted in a court of law. Public opinion was he did it. So the LEOS decided they will say that to to close this cold case. Cold case that has been a thorn in there side for decades. Woman comes out in 2014 saying he told her he did it and that's it......NOT ONCE, did they arrest. Because they didn't have anything but hearsay, he said, she said they said etc. But now two years after his death that's good enough to close the cold case.

If he was alive today they would arrest him for murder. BULLCRAP. They say that because hes dead. Close the cold case. Congratulations to the LEOS. They finally can put this case to rest once and for all.

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How convenient. From 1975 to 2013 he was arrested zero times for her death. Now two years after his death they convict him on information that would have got him a acquitted in a court of law. Public opinion was he did it. So the LEOS decided they will say that to to close this cold case. Cold case that has been a thorn in there side for decades. Woman comes out in 2014 saying he told her he did it and that's it......NOT ONCE, did they arrest. Because they didn't have anything but hearsay, he said, she said they said etc. But now two years after his death that's good enough to close the cold case.

If he was alive today they would arrest him for murder. BULLCRAP. They say that because hes dead. Close the cold case. Congratulations to the LEOS. They finally can put this case to rest once and for all.

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Not to spoil the party but my thoughts exactly. People like to do and say things to get attention and I think there's a better than 50-50 chance this is what we have here; especially given the timing. Police then put a feather in their cap and claim they've "solved " it.

What about Christie's "friend" that may have helped the killer? What about Henry's family at the time that helped hide it? Will there be actions on these too?

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The Christie Lynn Mullins case is on the front page of the Columbus Dispatch newspaper this morning.


Police: Man who claimed to find Christie Mullins was her killer 40 years ago


One of Mullins’ sisters said that her family appreciated the present-day efforts of police but questioned how the investigation went so wrong 40 years ago.

“We knew all along it was Henry Newell,” she said. “It won’t consume us, but we want to know why” he was never charged.


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http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/11/06/Cold-case-murder-closed.html

What a travesty and miscarriage of justice this case was.

The police even had testimony in 1977 that Henry Newell had confessed to the murder.


http://www.columbuslibrary.org/cmlc...LLEN (CHRISTIE LYNN MULLINS HOMICIDE)&stype=O

My heart hurts for the Mullins family. There should be accountability on the part of those who withheld information or lied, including the newell family members, police officers and especially Carol Reeves. I read the book by Oller and am disgusted at how Carol seemed to know more than she was letting on and was portrayed as possibly involved. Now she is living her life carefree while her "friend" was killed. So much disappointment with LE who let all these lowlifes get away with what they did. As far as I'm concerned, this case isn't closed until ALL involved are brought to justice.

Last year I came across some stunning information into the Christie Lynn Mullins case that couldn’t be revealed at that time as it was being looked into by the cold case detective investigating Christie’s murder.

Now that the cold case investigation into the murder of Christie Lynn Mullins has been closed, I can now reveal the stunning information that I came across.

On the morning of Thanksgiving Day 1974, the body of a 15 year old Columbus girl was found murdered in a dense wooded area in Clinton Township west of Karl Road between East Cooke Road and Norris Drive.

The victim’s name was Roberta Marie Francis. She is associated with Ohio’s “Roberta’s Law”.

Roberta Marie Francis was a 15 year old sophomore who attended Brookhaven High School on the north side of Columbus. She was last seen at Brookhaven by her classmates when she left school heading towards her home after classes were dismissed at the end of the school day.

Roberta Marie Francis frequently took a shortcut through the dense wooded area where she walked between her home on Dunedin Road and Brookhaven High School.

Roberta had been missing for two days before her body was found in a pile of leaves by a family member and her boyfriend who were in a search party with the police searching for Roberta in the dense wooded area on Thanksgiving morning.

Roberta Marie Francis was murdered the same way that Christie Lynn Mullins was murdered. Roberta’s face was brutally smashed and she also had been strangled. Her blue jeans were unzipped but the rest of her clothing were intact and undisturbed. The pockets of her blue jeans contained some money, a comb, and other personal items. Two rings were still on her fingers and her school books were found near her body. A heavy blood splattered ceramic bird bath pedestal was also found near the crime scene.

Due to the fact that the body of Roberta Marie Francis was found in Clinton Township, it was the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office that handled the investigation into the murder of Roberta Marie Francis.

The dense wooded area where the body of Christie Lynn Mullins was found in August 1975 is three miles from the dense wooded area where the body of Roberta Marie Francis was found in November 1974.

The boyfriend who found Roberta’s body with the search party in the woods was Walter E. Cupp, who is now deceased. He was a suspect in Roberta’s murder but he was cleared of being a suspect in Roberta’s murder after passing a police polygraph test.

A few months after Roberta’s murder, an informant’s tip to the police sparked a narcotics investigation. The narcotics investigation later led to the arrest of Roberta’s boyfriend Walter E. Cupp on drug charges.

And it also led to the arrest of an intellectually disabled man with the IQ of a second grader in March of 1975 for the murder of Roberta Marie Francis.

The intellectually disabled man who was arrested for the murder of Roberta Marie Francis could neither read nor write. He confessed to the murder but later retracted the confession. And in June of 1975, a few days into his trial for the murder of Roberta Marie Francis, he suddenly pled guilty to the crime.

The man’s name was Paul Raymond Saultz.

Paul Raymond Saultz was represented by the same attorney that also represented and pled Jack Carmen guilty during Carmen’s first trial for the murder of Christie Lynn Mullins.

The judge and prosecutor in the Roberta Marie Francis murder trial were also the same judge and prosecutor in Carmen’s first murder trial.

Now here’s the part where it all becomes very stunning.

Pam Newell, who was the wife of Henry Newell, was also the aunt of Paul Raymond Saultz. Pam Newell was related to Paul Raymond Saultz by marriage.

Before Pam was married to Henry Newell, Pam had been married to Robert Saultz Senior. Pam’s husband Robert Saultz Senior was the uncle of Paul Raymond Saultz.

Walter E. Cupp was also the step-brother of Paul Raymond Saultz.

It is believed that Henry Newell knew Paul Raymond Saultz and that Henry Newell may have been the informant that gave the police tip which evidently led to the arrest of Walter E. Cupp on drug charges and the arrest of Paul Raymond Saultz for the murder of Roberta Marie Francis.

When the murder of Christie Lynn Mullins occurred on August 23, 1975, Paul Raymond Saultz was in prison serving out his 15 years to life prison sentence for the murder of Roberta Marie Francis.

So back in 1975, there were two intellectually disabled men in Columbus who were arrested and convicted for the murders of two high school age girls in Columbus that were found murdered under similar circumstances in two different wooded areas only a few miles apart from each other.

The sad part about all of this is that one of the intellectually disabled men, Jack Carmen, was able to get a retrial and was acquitted of murder while the other, Paul Raymond Saultz, is still behind bars to this day.

I believe that there would have been a much greater public outrage in the community had the general public been fully aware of the fact back in 1975 that not one but two intellectually disabled men were arrested and convicted for the murders of two high school age girls that they could not have committed.

My head is reeling! I have to settle in with this information for awhile. Thank you, Nero!