• Publication: The Red and Black (University of Georgia student newspaper) — Weekend section
• Author: Robert Haag, Staff Writer
• Original Publication Date: Friday, December 4, 1992

Athens-Clarke County Police said blood samples from a suspect in Houston do not match those taken from the murder scene of University senior Jennifer Stone, a setback that leaves police with no other suspects.

Police have waited a month for the results after Sgt. W. J. Smith traveled to Houston to obtain the blood sample from the suspect.

Maj. Gerald Guntharp of Athens-Clarke county police said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab in Atlanta contacted him by telephone Nov. 26 with the negative results.

“They will send the official report later,” Guntharp said.

The man who returned to Houston several months ago was living in Athens during the time of Stone’s murder but the test eliminates him as a suspect completely.

“It doesn’t seem right now that he is a viable suspect,” Guntharp said. “This individual has nothing to do with it.”

Guntharp said his investigators are no closer to finding a suspect than they were months ago.

He said investigators are currently working with two men who were arrested in early July for possessing cameras stolen from Stone’s apartment at the time of her murder. Investigators are backtracking, using the men’s information, to find Stone’s murderer.

“They give us a description, a hint, and we go checking,” Guntharp said.

Guntharp voiced his frustration with the case.

“Both gave us a description of the guy but the two don’t even match,” Guntharp said. “We cannot put our hands on the third party.

“We’re looking for a ghost,” he said.

[Photo caption] Jennifer Stone (File)