Amy Johnson is still on the case. The Washington-based private investigator, whose extensive research helped shine a big light on a cold Montrose homicide case, came to the scene this week.
Johnson had been seeking missing Washington State woman Susan Hoppes, who vanished at age 45 in 1993 under suspicious circumstances, since 2004.
Despite repeated efforts to shake loose information that would identify “Windy Point Jane Doe,” decades passed without investigators here knowing her true name.
Wednesday, Johnson, formerly a florist, brought along a bouquet she had arranged personally and placed it at the ledge of a cliff nearby, a commanding Colorado view stretching out before her under a storm-brewing sky.
“When you stand there, for me, personally, it’s a feeling like you know so much about her personally,” Johnson said.
“Just to know that she laid up there for almost an entire year — I’m grateful that they found her, but it’s pretty bittersweet, that someone so evil traipsed through there and left her, abandoned and alone.”
Johnson’s years of research pointed her toward likely suspects; however, because Montrose is investigating the case as an active homicide, she isn’t detailing all of her theories of the crime right now.
Despite what she has learned, Johnson would still like to know the final missing pieces in the Hoppes’ tragedy.
“My thing about all of this is there could be somebody out there that this spurs some recollection; some sort of connecting piece,” Johnson said.
Amy Johnson is still on the case. The Washington-based private investigator, whose extensive research helped shine a big light on a cold Montrose homicide case, came to the scene this
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