OH Daisy Evelyn Shelton, 43, Tipp City, Body found June 1964 in gravel pit and canal

[Betty P]

Ohio authorities close case of woman found dismembered in 1964 in gravel pit and canal channel

TROY, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in Ohio said they have closed the case on a six-decade-old homicide of a woman whose remains were found in a gravel pit and a canal channel.

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Authorities have closed the case of a murdered woman whose dismembered body was found in June 1964. One man who was a witness identified Daisy in 2017. He later named the suspect who killed her. Both men died before charges could be brought.

The sheriff’s office said the remains were identified as those of 43-year old Daisy Evelyn Shelton of Dayton, but the investigation went cold until 2017 when a witness who feared he was dying in a hospital confessed to a nurse. He later recovered and told detectives he saw someone kill Shelton by hitting her in the head with a hammer at a Dayton home. He said her body was dismembered there and discarded in bodies of water in and around Tipp City, just north of Dayton.

The person named as a suspect was interviewed by detectives and initially denied knowing Shelton despite their living on the same street and working for the same employer, but in August 2017 “reluctantly admitted” to having known the victim, the sheriff’s office said.
The suspect acknowledged that a box from his house was used to carry the victim’s remains and it was possible she was killed at his home but “asserted it was a set-up being perpetrated by the eyewitness of the crime,” the sheriff’s office said. “He admitted he looked guilty and could possibly be convicted in court,” the sheriff’s office said.

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Cold case homicide of Dayton woman solved; suspect died at age 92

The cold case homicide of a 43-year-old Dayton woman whose dismembered body parts were found in 1964 in a gravel pit and a channel of the old Miami Erie canal in Tipp City is considered solved.

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1964 cold case homicide of a Dayton woman has been closed - Miami Valley Today

TROY — The Miami County Prosecutor’s Office has approved the closing of the Daisy Shelton homicide case which occurred in 1964.

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‘What kind of animal are they?;’ Cold case solved 60 years after grisly murder of Dayton mother

The case began in June 1964, when a man fly fishing at a local gravel pit hooked a grisly catch; a human arm.

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Shelton had been hit in the head with a hammer, cut into pieces, and dumped into the water, according to Walling.

“It’s very, very shocking that a human being can do that to another human being,” Walling said.

Now nearly 60 years later, she got a phone call from the Miami County Sheriff’s Office that her family has been anticipating for decades — “we are ready to close the case.”

Daisy's granddaughter said LE told her there were 3 people involved in her murder.

The Miami County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to News Center 7 that two of the suspects in the case are dead.

Here's a link to a photo of the missing person's report filed for Daisy back in 1963. It says she left that day and said she'd be back in the evening. The person who filed the report stated they were wondering if Daisy might be the woman in the news whose body had been found in the gravel bar and canal near Tipp City. Sad it took police so long to confirm that.