Tag: Athens Daily News
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Today will be a quiet day for Raymond Stone and his wife, Jo. The 76-year-old retiree will likely take a few phone calls at his Greenwood, Ind., home from friends of his slain daughter Jenny, who was murdered behind a downtown Athens bus stop nine years ago today. No one has ever been charged with…
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In a case that has seen literally hundreds of dead ends, Athens-Clarke police are largely discounting the latest tip in the eight-year-old case of a slain University of Georgia student. Last month, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation received an audiotape and letter from a private investigator in California who claimed to have information about the…
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As news of Jennifer Stone’s strangulation slaying traveled across state news wires last April, signs that Athenians were feeling its impact spread across town: • A wave of fear went through on-campus dorms, where a rumor circulated that a second body had been found in a trash can, said Connie Sampson, assistant University of Georgia…
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Jennifer Stone’s killer, or killers, remains at large. Police are diligently looking for suspects, but the case is still a mystery, and still frustrating to family, friends, and law enforcement officials. Today, we are taking a look at the Stone murder on the first anniversary of her death. [Photo credit] Janet Beckley / Staff
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Alex Heckman graduated from U.Ga. last June, keeps a plaque propped on her desk at GPTV in Atlanta naming her the recipient of The Jennifer L. Stone Memorial Award for Creativity, and doesn’t go back to Athens often. “Here I can think just about Jenny; I can think about her and I don’t have to…
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In 1986, the first use of DNA analysis in a criminal case was against a mentally unstable 17-year-old Englishman, accused of raping and killing a 15-year-old, then leaving her body to decompose in a field. When results came back, he was freed. “DNA is a great tool but it’s not going to solve all the…
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People move through the doors of the Greyhound bus station or emerge from incoming buses into the quiet Broad Street building, asking about schedules and routes. Sometimes, those who remember ask about Jennifer Stone. “A lot of times they’ll ask, ‘Did they ever catch who killed the girl who lived behind the bus station?’,” said…
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When three friends peered into Jennifer Stone’s off-campus house and found her lying dead a year ago today, the discovery set off the most massive law enforcement effort in recent years here. “There’s been a couple of 3 or 4 weeks with no information, but we still have work,” said Sgt. W.J. Smith, a [age…
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DNA evidence eliminated another suspect in the slaying of University of Georgia student Jennifer Stone this week, but investigators gathered new DNA evidence Tuesday from a man implicated by a former suspect. A man formerly charged with receiving Stone’s stolen cameras hours after her death tentatively identified a former Varsity employee as the man who…