GA GA - Shirley, 87, & Russell Dermond, 88, Putnam Co, 2 May 2014 - #13

[StarryStarryNight]

Hey, they found some unknown dna. @othram is helping! I hope this is the breakthrough they need!

Sheriff says new evidence could be best clue in 10 years to finding who killed Lake Oconee couple

Someone shot and beheaded Russell and Shirley Dermond in 2014. Deputies have followed hundreds of leads, but they have all led nowhere.

www.wsbtv.com

I sure hope this leads to something. It has been way too long.

 

[Kittybunny]

I'm very happy to hear that Sheriff Sill Continues to investigate and leverage other resources. And I'm especially happy to hear that one of those is @othram !

Hoping that this leads to the break that this case needs. This is one of my top five cases that I would love to be solved in my lifetime. I have my theories, of course, and would be interested in what people thought of the son's statements. I thought it was stilted and odd, but that could have been grief.

 

[MesquiteO21]

You are correct up to a point, and then you get it wrong. Just as the ring size of a fat finger must be larger than for that same finger when it was smaller, the roughly half circle resulting from printing the fat finger has a larger half circumference and will produce a wider print on flat paper than the smaller, slender finger print. Both will have the same height. By increasing the width of the print but leaving the height the same, two differing fingerprints result from the same finger, one for fat the other for slender.

but the type of print is unlikely to change, i'm pretty sure. slender or fat, if your print is a whorl it's going to stay a whorl, no?

 

[MesquiteO21]

Hey, they found some unknown dna. @othram is helping! I hope this is the breakthrough they need!

Sheriff says new evidence could be best clue in 10 years to finding who killed Lake Oconee couple

Someone shot and beheaded Russell and Shirley Dermond in 2014. Deputies have followed hundreds of leads, but they have all led nowhere.

www.wsbtv.com

oh boy....crossing my fingers this is actually something and not just random inconsequential previously unknown DNA from like a friend or neighbor that is completely unrelated to the crime.

 

[vls12345]

@othram

Here is a look at one of the labs that helped uncover new DNA evidence in Lake Oconee murder

Brand-new evidence discovered by two separate labs is offering hope in solving this case.

www.wsbtv.com

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The sheriff hopes the reward, which could possibly double if other donors come through, will spur tipsters.
“Here’s $25,000,” Sills said, addressing potential informants. “And there’s a possibility there’s another $30,000. And if you want to collect this, now’s the time to give us a call. Because if our DNA research pans out, we won’t need your call.”

The DNA that Sills referred to involved traces of cellular evidence detected on a clothing item that Russell Dermond, 88, had on at the time of his death.

On the morning of May 6, 2014, his decapitated body was found on the floor of his two-car garage in the Great Waters subdivision. It’s believed the killing took place a couple of days prior. The body of his wife, Shirley Dermond, 87, turned up May 16, 2014. It had been weighed down with concrete blocks and dumped in the water 5 miles down the lake.

New reward offered in 2014 unsolved killing of elderly couple at Lake Oconee, Georgia

More reward money is being offered for information in the unsolved deaths of Shirley and Russell Dermond, a Lake Oconee couple in their 80s who were slain in 2014.

www.ajc.com

 

[vls12345]

FBI says whoever killed elderly Putnam County couple a decade ago should be ‘nervous’

The FBI granted its first interview about the murder of Russell and Shirley Dermond in 10 years to Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne.

www.wsbtv.com

 

[dotr]

Apr 30, 2024

 

[Kittybunny]

FBI says whoever killed elderly Putnam County couple a decade ago should be ‘nervous’

The FBI granted its first interview about the murder of Russell and Shirley Dermond in 10 years to Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne.

www.wsbtv.com

From that article: But in a one-on-one interview with FBI Special Agent Andy Smith, who has been involved with the Dermond double murder for nine years, told Winne that there are new leads not just on the DNA front, but concerning cellphones too.

BBM. Oooh cellphone evidence! Even more promising!

 

[vls12345]

FBI confirms new leads connected to DNA evidence and cellphone data in disturbing killings of elderly couple on Lake Oconee

Russell Dermond was decapitated. His wife's body was found in the lake, tied to cinder blocks. Friday marks the 10-year anniversary of the double homicide.

www.11alive.com

 

[MesquiteO21]

FBI says whoever killed elderly Putnam County couple a decade ago should be ‘nervous’

The FBI granted its first interview about the murder of Russell and Shirley Dermond in 10 years to Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne.

www.wsbtv.com

"we never stop"

music to my ears

 

[stmarysmead]

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[airportwoman]

I hope this leads to some answers at long last! I have always felt that when someone's taken into custody, it's going to be very shocking to a LOT of people.

 

[MassGuy]

This is probably the strangest case I've ever followed, and I didn't have much hope because of what I thought were major errors early on. This is incredibly exciting news, as it appears they actually have something to work with. It really didn't seem like they did up until now. I'm just glad the Feds are the ones chasing this down.