Retired detective shares new details on 1997 unsolved murder of Laney Gwinner
By Jessica Schmidt | September 25, 2019
" It was December 10, 1997 when Gwinner disappeared while leaving the Gilmore Bowling Alley in Fairfield.
The 23-year-old, investigators say, walked outside to her parked Honda Del Sol around 1 a.m. and was never seen alive again.
“She had finished her finals. She was out with a friend. They were playing pool, and she was leaving to go to her boyfriend’s house, but she never made it there," Hall said".
Several local agencies, including Texas EquuSearch, have never stopped looking for the vehicle. Smith said that overall, they have spent thousands of hours searching and scanning about 150 miles of water, as recently as within the last year and a half.
“It’s the worst game of hide and seek that you can ever play," Dave Rader, the Director of the Ohio Chapter of Texas EquuSearch said. "How can one or two know what a thousand can’t find?”
Since the beginning of the investigation, detectives have said that the car is a critical piece of evidence.
“Wherever that car went in at, whoever was driving that car, it obviously wasn’t Laney, then that suspect probably knew that area very well, and by that right there, really could be a game changer for us," Smith said.
This is Laney Gwinner's car authorities are still searching for. (Source: Provided)
"Retired detective Smith believes that someday soon, there will be an arrest. He suspects the person who ends up in handcuffs will be someone who still lives nearby. He also believes the killer may have done this more than once and could, if not caught, do it again.
“I have a feeling that one of these days it will get solved," Hall said."
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the latest information they have gathered is that a witness saw Gwinner speaking to someone outside of the bowling alley the night she disappeared.
The witness told them the man was wearing a dress shirt and dress pants and was about 5 ft. 9."
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By Jessica Schmidt | September 25, 2019
" It was December 10, 1997 when Gwinner disappeared while leaving the Gilmore Bowling Alley in Fairfield.
The 23-year-old, investigators say, walked outside to her parked Honda Del Sol around 1 a.m. and was never seen alive again.
“She had finished her finals. She was out with a friend. They were playing pool, and she was leaving to go to her boyfriend’s house, but she never made it there," Hall said".
Several local agencies, including Texas EquuSearch, have never stopped looking for the vehicle. Smith said that overall, they have spent thousands of hours searching and scanning about 150 miles of water, as recently as within the last year and a half.
“It’s the worst game of hide and seek that you can ever play," Dave Rader, the Director of the Ohio Chapter of Texas EquuSearch said. "How can one or two know what a thousand can’t find?”
Since the beginning of the investigation, detectives have said that the car is a critical piece of evidence.
“Wherever that car went in at, whoever was driving that car, it obviously wasn’t Laney, then that suspect probably knew that area very well, and by that right there, really could be a game changer for us," Smith said.
This is Laney Gwinner's car authorities are still searching for. (Source: Provided)
"Retired detective Smith believes that someday soon, there will be an arrest. He suspects the person who ends up in handcuffs will be someone who still lives nearby. He also believes the killer may have done this more than once and could, if not caught, do it again.
“I have a feeling that one of these days it will get solved," Hall said."
"................
the latest information they have gathered is that a witness saw Gwinner speaking to someone outside of the bowling alley the night she disappeared.
The witness told them the man was wearing a dress shirt and dress pants and was about 5 ft. 9."
rbbm.
