Yes!! My coworker brought this up the other day! Hopefully students are working on her case! Someone needs to stir up old memories!Child kidnapping, killing cold case coming to close, suspect arrested 35 years later
At least there’s good news in this old case!
Hoping for the same in Dail’s
Has anyone submitted an FOIA request for the case information?
Oh I was talking about Dail’s. I didn’t look up too much info on Jessica’s case, although I am glad her family got closure finally!Are you talking about Dail’s case or Jessica’s case?
Either way though, I don’t have an answer.
Do you remember the case getting a lot of attention?Over the years I've developed a theory about this case (I was 17 when this happened, lived in the Midlands, and this case scared the bejesus out of me). I think it was someone she knew, someone who lived in one of the apartment buildings/condos that are close to where she disappeared (there are two that I can think of). Maybe she was going to a friend's place to call for a ride, but she trusted the wrong "friend" and something happened. I do wonder, like someone mentioned above, if that "friend" either had a powerful family or was powerful themselves. If they were, that could explain why she's never been found. People are too scared to say anything. But thus is just a theory!
Do you remember the case getting a lot of attention?
I read through dozens of archived newspaper articles and there just wasn’t a lot of information in them! There were two guys who were mentioned talking to her and their sketches were in the newspaper…but then the police said one came forward when he saw his sketch and they were cleared. However, that was the first time I had ever seen that mentioned. The conversation they had with Dail wasn’t mentioned which was frustrating.
After reading through many articles, I found out that the parking garage on corner of Harden and Hampton was still under construction at the time of her disappearance. Someone several years ago on one of the forums had asked if that area was ever checked so who knows…
Right! There were quite a few articles but a lot of it focused on making the streets safer…which by all means is very important. I just can’t believe nothing has been leaked after so many years. No one has confessed. I have seen several people post about different people she talked to throughout the night but like you said, nothing is released to the public. Something someone remembers could be the key even if they don’t think it’s that important. Are they scared toI lived in the Midlands back then and the case got a ton of attention.
That being said, very little was released to the public about the actual investigation and what police were looking at. That’s understandable but it led to rumors of coverups, and led to little pop-up rumors every few years out of the blue.
After so many years, why not release the case file. Redact names if need be. Keeping It quiet after all this time still makes it seems like they are protecting someone.
Haven’t heard anything about that Gregory fellow in awhile.
i've live here in columbia all my life & i can confirm the case got a ton of attention. i was in my early teens at the time (im 43 now), but i've never forgot about this case. i can remember bumper stickers w/ her face on them....posters all over the place...etc.Do you remember the case getting a lot of attention?
What do you think happened?i've live here in columbia all my life & i can confirm the case got a ton of attention. i was in my early teens at the time (im 43 now), but i've never forgot about this case. i can remember bumper stickers w/ her face on them....posters all over the place...etc.
ive always wondered....but after following this thread the past few years, i do believe it had to be somebody in some sort of powerful position w/ political ties. way back in this thread somebody mentioned she may have been buried at a construction site not long before the concrete was poured down & building was erected. i had never thought of that before, but it makes sense to me. i mean, if she is buried under a building how would she ever be found?? who is going to say 'well we have a hunch that dail may be buried under your office, so we gonna have to tear it down to find out'....i dont see that ever happening! that, or either she was dumped in a lake/ocean dexter-style. in my mind, those are the only 2 options when it comes to a body NEVER being found after all this time.What do you think happened?
Yep that was the site that I went looking for dates on construction. The county offices at corner of harden and Hampton. The actual buildings were complete in June or July of 1992 (obviously before disappearance) but the parking garage structure wasn’t complete until 1993…which made that “rumor” more interesting…ive always wondered....but after following this thread the past few years, i do believe it had to be somebody in some sort of powerful position w/ political ties. way back in this thread somebody mentioned she may have been buried at a construction site not long before the concrete was poured down & building was erected. i had never thought of that before, but it makes sense to me. i mean, if she is buried under a building how would she ever be found?? who is going to say 'well we have a hunch that dail may be buried under your office, so we gonna have to tear it down to find out'....i dont see that ever happening! that, or either she was dumped in a lake/ocean dexter-style. in my mind, those are the only 2 options when it comes to a body NEVER being found after all this time.
now as to who specifically did it or what happened that night. i have no clue. its basically why this is only 1 of 2 threads here i have set to give me notifications for when a reply is posted. (the other is faye swetlik, but thats a pretty cut & dry case now so it rarely gets any posts any more)
back then....those bars were always packed on the wkends. 5 points as a whole was. i imagine it still is nowadays but i never go down there.The bar doesn’t look that big; then again I’m sure it was packed…
I can imagine...I only walked down in that area to see how far the Greene/Harden intersection was. I don't think this was a random snatching because my guess would be the streets were packed with people that night. I think several people would have remembered something if that were the case.back then....those bars were always packed on the wkends. 5 points as a whole was. i imagine it still is nowadays but i never go down there.
Oh good to know! I’ll have to keep an eye out. Still wonder if he is actually involved. It doesn’t seem like he knew the Dinwiddies so I am not sure she would have gotten into a car with him…however I wonder if he knows what happened to her…