Tag: Joan Stroer
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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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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…
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In a heated letter to Gov. Zell Miller, a state lawmaker has called for greater involvement by Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents in the investigation of the April 22 murder of Jennifer Stone. “This case has been dragging on for over five months and I want this murder solved,” wrote Charles Poag, D-Eton, in the…
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Fingerprints found in Jennifer Stone’s house after her April slaying don’t match the fingerprints of three new suspects in the case, Athens-Clarke police said Thursday. “None of the prints have come back positive,” said David Camp, bureau chief of administration. “We have no matches at all.” As of late Thursday, police had not received results…
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Three men charged with stealing Jennifer Stone’s cameras sold them four blocks from her house in the early morning hours of April 23 — the day her slain body was found, authorities said Wednesday. Investigators charged a University of Georgia employee and two homeless men with stealing two of Ms. Stone’s cameras, Police Chief Ronald…