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http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/n...-homicide-still-unsolved/nkDhd/#__federated=1
Denise Chance, an 18-year-old Kenton Ridge High School graduate, disappeared from her Erter Drive residence early on the morning of Jan. 7, 1985.
She left behind her shoes, coat, purse and car keys, and left the door to the garage ajar. It was the freezing house that alerted her roommate that something was amiss that morning.
As the spring thaw set in 10 weeks later, her body was found submerged in the melting ice and snow in a drainage ditch along Baldwin Lane. Shed been strangled; her lifeless, nearly naked body left to freeze until a man looking for aluminum cans spotted her on March 20.
http://www.whio.com/news/news/decades-old-murder-case-reopened/nkCgm/
"It's just a lonely country road out there. There's nobody close by to where they would have seen anything," said retired detective Bob Kerr who was at the scene that day. "She was completely snow-covered. The ditch, I don't remember how deep it was, but deep enough you wouldn't see her driving by in a car." Denise had been under the ice and snow, unclothed except for her socks...
Springfield detectives met recently with Dena and her mother to discuss new evidence in the case. They were especially interested in a telephone call made several weeks ago to Detective R. W. Jordan. "This person started telling me some things, things they knew about that night," said Detective Jordan. "Some things were said that I think definitely require some more investigation."