Tag: Joan Stroer


  • “Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I. You are you… Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used to… Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. It is the same as it ever was.”…

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  • As the events in the last days of slain University of Georgia student Jennifer Stone come into focus, possible clues to the identity of her killer remain shrouded in undisclosed trace evidence. Authorities will finish gathering evidence at her house today and turn the residence over to her family, while about 40 police officers continue…

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  • Further autopsy results released Saturday confirmed University of Georgia student Jennifer Stone was raped as well as strangled to death in her off-campus house. Search of the crime scene resumed early Saturday morning, ended shortly after 3 p.m. and will begin again Sunday. The ongoing investigation has revealed hundreds of pieces of evidence, among them…

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  • A wave of fear passed through on-campus dorms this weekend after unfounded rumors circulated of a second slaying. Police received more than 60 calls in 24 hours from students and parents considering withdrawing their children from school. University officials are trying to quell the tide of concern with flyers and counseling sessions. They’re considering a…

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  • Preliminary autopsy reports have confirmed that strangulation is the cause of death of University of Georgia senior Jennifer Stone. The news came to local investigators late Friday, more than 24 hours since the death of the 22-year-old journalism student from Roswell. Stone was murdered sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, police said. Her partially…

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  • Athens-Clarke police were without a suspect this morning as they continued to search for the killer of a University of Georgia student who was found slain and possibly sexually assaulted in her downtown residence Thursday. The partially-clad body of the journalism senior was found by friends around 8 p.m. in her small, one-bedroom apartment located…

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  • The partially clad body of a University of Georgia senior was found Thursday night at her Hull Street residence. Jennifer Stone, 22, of Roswell, was found dead about 8:30 p.m. at her home, a small one-bedroom apartment behind the Greyhound bus station at the corner of Broad and Hull streets, bureau chief Joseph Lumpkin said.…

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