Nightmare Over the Rainbow Discovery ID describes this episode as before single mom Lori Leonard settles into her upstate New York home, she vanishes without a trace and detectives don't know if she's dead or alive. Only when a couple of Average Joes make an extraordinary catch do they reel in the shark who did Lori in.
On July 24, 2005, a large truck chest was discovered floating in the
Champlain Canal near Lock 9 in Washington County. The chest was locked
and a mordant odor was emanating from it. It was thereafter revealed
that the chest, which had been weighed down with sand tubes, contained
the body of defendant's former girlfriend, who had been missing from the
Madison County area for over 10 weeks. The victim's mouth had been
gagged with a bandana and duct taped shut while her hands and feet had
been bound with handcuffs and duct tape. Her body had been wrapped in a
comforter from her bed. An autopsy revealed that she died from
asphyxia due to suffocation.
This gruesome discovery was made a
short distance from Shawn Doyle's Washington County home. Indeed, he was
the last person to have seen the victim alive on May 4, 2005 after
traveling to Central New York to help her move. Following a jury
trial, defendant was found guilty of murder in the second degree and
sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. He now appeals.
Small Town Secret Discovery ID describes this episode as when young Kari Nixon goes missing while on a snack run, no one in her upstate New York town can imagine why anyone would harm her. With no body and few clues, detectives struggle to solve the mystery until a twist leads police to an unlikely killer.
There is a facebook group to keep Mr. Jones in prison. You can view this group here.
His appeal includes:
Purser testified as follows. On the night of the murder, she was
looking out the second-floor window of her apartment. She saw two men
standing on the sidewalk below, one of whom had a bicycle. The man with
the bicycle looked up at her. Both men were standing next to a street
light and the street was bright and clear. After they talked for ten to
fifteen minutes, the man with the bicycle crossed into the street, at
which point Stone walked up to him, stopping about fifteen feet away.
They stood there for about a minute and a half before Purser heard two
"pow-pows." Trial Tr. 645. Stone ran away, and the man with the bicycle
crossed back to the other man on the sidewalk, again looking up at
Purser. The man with the bicycle then fled on his bicycle. Purser viewed
a lineup of potential shooters on September 30, 1994. She told the
detective at the lineup that Jones's "face wanted to look like the same
person [she] saw at the window there." Trial Tr. 758. Purser noted,
though, that she was "not one hundred percent sure" that the person she
picked out of the lineup was the man on the bicycle. She also identified
Jones in court, saying again that his face "wants to look like" the
face of the man on the bicycle. Trial Tr. 760.
Englebert testified as follows. Coming out of the subway station on
the night of the murder, he saw a police car rush by with its sirens and
lights on. Soon after, he saw a man speed past on a blue and white
bicycle. As he walked home, he passed a man lying on the ground,
surrounded by people. Englebert identified Jones as the man on the
bicycle at a lineup on September 30, 1994. He also identified Jones in
court as the man on the bicycle. Further, Englebert identified a photo
of a bicycle recovered from Jones's apartment as the same one that he
had seen the man riding on the night of the murder.
You can write to Robert A. Jones at:
Robert A. Jones 06A2830
Wyoming Correctional Facility
P.O. Box 501
Attica, New York 14011-0501
Deadly Intentions Discovery ID describes this episode as a tight-knit community is stunned when the body of Cynthia Epps is found stuffed into a cabinet in her Buffalo, NY neighborhood. A clever killer eludes capture for nearly two decades but new technology and dogged detective work put him behind bars.
Investigators were left to assume Epps' body parts, wrapped in a green
blanket and placed in a wooden nightstand, had been randomly dumped
in Fountain's backyard on the 100 block of Montana.. James Fountain was caught when cold case detectives tested all of the evidence linked to this case. Despite having no reason to suspect him, he was in fact the killer. He plead not guilty.
Fountain also was convicted in 1984 for sexual attacks involving 7- and 8-year-old girls in the New York City area.
You can write to James Fountain at:
James Fountain 12B2305
Attica Correctional Facility
639 Exchange St
Attica, New York 14011-0149
Murder on Hagadom Hill Road Michele Harris disappears on September 11, 2001. Would she really leave behind her children and run away from her soured marriage? When blood splatters are found in the home, police begin to suspect that Michele may have met a more sinister end. Pennsylvania
Calvin Harris was tried four times before finally being acquitted at the fourth trial. He was charged with stalking and DWI after this with a new woman. He was convicted the first two times, both verdicts were overturned. The third jury was hung.
No one else has ever been charged in Michelle's murder, nor has her body ever been found.
