Gloria Pointer: The 29-Year Hunt for Her Killer

On the morning of December 6, 1984, 14-year-old Gloria Pointer left her Cleveland, Ohio, home and headed to school. She never made it. Gloria’s body was found in the stairwell of an apartment building on Cleveland’s east side. She had been sexually assaulted and murdered, leaving her mother, Yvonne Pointer, devastated—and determined that her daughter would not become just another forgotten cold case. Years passed. Then decades. Yvonne became an outspoken advocate for victims and refused to stop pushing investigators to find Gloria’s killer. Nearly 30 years after the murder, advances in DNA technology finally produced the break she had been waiting for. In 2013, DNA recovered from the crime was entered into Ohio’s database and matched Hernandez Warren, a convicted sex offender with a violent criminal history. Warren was arrested and charged with Gloria’s kidnapping, rape, and murder. In May 2014, Hernandez Warren pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and rape, finally bringing a measure of justice to a case that had haunted Gloria’s family and the Cleveland community since 1984. But this story is about more than the man who killed Gloria Pointer. It is about a mother who made a promise to her daughter and spent almost three decades refusing to let the world forget her name. This is the true crime story of Gloria Pointer—a 14-year-old girl murdered on her way to school, a cold case that endured for 29 years, and the DNA evidence that finally gave a determined mother the answer she had fought so long to find. Sources used for this podcast Support the show JOIN THE  HITCHED 2 HOMICIDE IN-LAWS AND OUTLAWS Send Kris and Rob a Message START KRIS CALVERT'S BOOKS TODAY FOR FREE H2H WEBSITE H2H on TWITTER H2H on INSTA Gloria Pointer, Gloria Pointer murder, Hernandez Warren, Gloria Pointer Cleveland, A Promise to Gloria, Yvonne Pointer, Cleveland cold case, Cleveland Ohio murder, 1984 murder, DNA cold case, cold case solved, teen murder case, Ohio true crime, Cleveland true crime, DNA evidence murder, Dateline Gloria Pointer, historical true crime, true crime podcast #GloriaPointer, #YvonnePointer, #HernandezWarren, #APromiseToGloria, #ClevelandTrueCrime, #OhioTrueCrime, #ColdCase, #ColdCaseSolved, #DNAEvidence, #JusticeForGloria, #TrueCrime, #TrueCrimePodcast, #TrueCrimeCommunity, #CrimeInvestigation, #Hitched2Homicide   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.