Stranger Danger Cases

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On September 20, 1982, Kelly Ann Prosser was abducted while walking through the University District on her way home from Indianola Elementary School. On September 22, 1982, her body was discovered in a cornfield along A.W. Wilson Road in Madison County. It was determined that Kelly Ann had been beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled. Tiffany Jennifer Papesh, also known as TJ by her relatives, was a young girl of 8 years old who vanished on June 13, 1980, in Maple Heights, Ohio. She was a Caucasian child with brown hair and blue eyes, and she measured 4 feet and weighed 58 pounds. She disappeared after buying a pack of hamburger buns at Convenient Food Mart, only half a block from her home. She left the store around 2:45 p.m. and was never seen again. Her father, Frank Papesh, and her brother searched for her at the store about 20 minutes later but found no trace. The Papesh family had planned to go on a camping trip at 6:00 p.m. that day. Nearly 40 years ago, eight-year-old Kelly Prosser left her elementary school in Columbus, Ohio. She never arrived home. Two days later, she was found dead in a cornfield in a case that puzzled the community and police for decades. - USA Today On July 22, 1981, Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, Delaware, Ohio, took a report of a missing juvenile, Joanne Hebert, age 14, of Powell, Ohio. On September 29, 1981, a hunter reported discovering what appeared to be the remains of a human body while hunting in a wooded area on McKitrick Road in the area of Mitchell-Dewitt Road. Further investigation and autopsy of the remains determined it was the missing juvenile, Joanne Lynn Hebert. The cause of death was ruled a homicide. Ms. Hebert was reportedly last seen at the former Tag’s Market, a Walgreen Drug Store located on Dublin Road on State Route 745 at the intersection of Glick Road in Delaware County, where she reportedly used a pay phone. In cooperation with local law enforcement agencies, we are asking for your help in providing information that may assist in investigating the murder of Joanne Hebert. If you have any information that may help, please call Lieutenant Jeff Stiers at (937) 645-4126 or by email at [email protected]. Anonymous information may be left via voicemail on the Union County Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip Hotline at (937) 642-7653. SOURCES: Thank you to the Akron Beacon Journal's Mary Grace Poidimini for her great work in 1982. https://www.unioncountyohio.gov/media/Sheriff/Investigations%20Division/Hebert%20Homicide%20Unsolved%20Case.pdf - https://www.newspapers.com/image/153248242/?terms=Joanne%20hebert&match=1 - https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/10/13/Another-attempted-abduction-of-a-young-girl/2456403329600/ - https://www.cleveland19.com/story/9857062/denied-dna-check-on-evidence-keeps-convicted-killer-in-jail/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/me5ynw/nearly_41_years_missing_who_took_tiffany_papesh/ - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/06/26/investigators-solve-1982-murder-columbus-girl-after-nearly-40-years/3267089001/ - https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetailpre1989.aspx?caseid=282 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/329381553/?terms=Joanne%20Hebert&match=1 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/153248242/?terms=Joanne%20hebert&match=1 - http://bjretirees.blogspot.com/2004/12/catching-up-with-mary-grace-poidomani.html - https://www.newspapers.com/image/153248242/?terms=Joanne%20Hebert&match=1 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/153248539 - https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Law-Enforcement/Bureau-of-Criminal-Investigation/Investigation-Division/Cold-Case-Unit/Unsolved-Cases - https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Law-Enforcement/Bureau-of-Criminal-Investigation/Investigation-Division/Cold-Case-Unit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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