TN TN- Gloria P. Johnson, 19, Fatally stabbed & set on fire, Southwest Memphis ( Missing 6 Oct' 74) Body found, 16 Oct' 74 *New Initiative*

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Police looking for new clues in 48-year-old homicide case

Note: The reward amount offered has been corrected in this story. MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Nearly fifty years after a young Memphis woman was stabbed to death and her body burned, investigators are a…

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by: Melissa Moon Jun 7, 2022
''MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Nearly fifty years after a young Memphis woman was stabbed to death and her body burned, investigators are asking for the public’s help finding her killer.

Gloria P. Johnson was just 19 years old when her remains were discovered by Memphis firefighters on October 16, 1974, in a Southwest Memphis neighborhood.''

''Firefighters were called to YMV Road, north of Fields Road, near Hicky Street, to put out what they thought was a grass fire but instead found Johnson’s body under the burning debris.

Police said Johnson was reported missing ten days earlier, and the medical examiner ruled the cause of death to be multiple stab wounds.''

''The Memphis and Shelby County Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $3,000 for information leading to the identification and arrest of the person responsible for Johnson’s death.


Johnson’s family members have also raised an additional $10,000 reward.

Johnson left behind three children. She had a brother who is now a doctor in Memphis.''

 

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June 7 2022

Who killed Gloria P. Johnson? Memphis Police search for answers in 1974 murder

A reward of up to $12,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest and prosecution of the person(s) who killed the 19-year-old in Oct. 1974.

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''Who killed Gloria P. Johnson? Memphis Police search for answers in 1974 murder​

A reward of up to $12,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest and prosecution of the person(s) who killed the 19-year-old in Oct. 1974.''

''Police said they are still actively investigating the murder, and are hoping that anyone from the area at the time may remember seeing or hearing about something that could help.
Memphis and Shelby County Crime Stoppers are offering a reward of up to $2,000 for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for Johnson’s murder. Family members have raised an additional $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and prosecution.
Anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers at 901-528-CASH, MPD’s Cold Case Unit Hotline at 901-636-2653, or MPD’s Homicide Bureau at 901-636-3300.''

 

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Michael Johnson remembers his sister as a person who was strong, assertive but caring.

“She was every person’s dream sister,” he said. “Gloria was great.”

Johnson was only a child when his sister disappeared. It was a day that no one in his family will ever forget. Memphis Police said 19-year-old Gloria Johnson was reported missing by her family on October 6, 1974.

1974 cold case reopens family wounds 48 years later

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Michael Johnson remembers his sister as a person who was strong, assertive but caring. “She was every person’s dream sister,” he said. “Gloria was gre…

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$30,000 reward offered in nearly 50-year-old cold case murder of Memphis teen

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis and Shelby County CrimeStoppers announced a $30,000 reward in a nearly half-century-old cold case murder of a Memphis teenager.

CrimeStoppers said Memphis Police Department investigators are now looking into the possibility that 19-year-old Gloria P. Johnson was the victim of a serial killer.

Firefighters putting out a brush fire near Y&MV Road and Weaver Street in southwest Memphis on October 16, 1974, found Johnson’s body. Police said she had been reported missing 10 days earlier.

Investigators said she was stabbed in the face and the chest, and they believe that happened in another location and her body was dumped in the field near YMV and Fields Roads and Hickey Street, an area still nearly abandoned as it was in 1974. They said the killer used an accelerant to start the fire.

Investigators said the bodies of three other young women were found in the same general areas from late 1974 to early 1975, each woman killed somewhere else and their bodies were dumped.

• Julia Ann Perry-Gilliland, 25, was found December 4, 1974. The medical examiner couldn’t determine how she died.
• Unis Maria Houston, 26, was found in a field near the dead end of Honduras Street January 5, 1975. She died of a gunshot wound.
• Ludionia Collins’ body was lying in a drainage ditch at Calvin and Weaver March 14, 1975. She had been stabbed in the heart.

None of the cases has ever been ever solved.

CrimeStoppers said the Johnson family has put up a reward of $28,000, which is in addition to the $2,000 available in murder cases from CrimeStoppers. It is the biggest award currently available.

Detectives believe people who knew Gloria Johnson, and perhaps the others, are still alive today and may have vital information. They ask anyone with information to call CrimeStoppers at 901-528-CASH, or the Cold Case Bureau at 901-636-3300.

Read more about the Gloria Johnson case and other cold case homicides, assaults and rapes at http://www.memphiscoldcases.org/.