CO CO - Donna Sue Wayne - Left Bar w/ 3 Men - Vehicle Found Abandoned - Remains Found 3 Weeks Later - June 1986

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Donna Sue Wayne​

Case Details	Victim Details
Case Type: Homicide	Height: 5' 2"
Case Status: OPEN	Weight: 105 lbs
Incident Date: 07/14/1986	Date of Birth: 07/21/1967
Agency: Aurora Police Department	Date of Death: 07/14/1986
Agency Case #: 86-1429042	Age: 18
City: Aurora	Gender: Female
County: Adams	Race: Caucasian
Judicial District: 17th Judicial District	Eyes: Blue
	Hair: Blond/Strawberry

About this Case:​

On June 14, 1986, 18 year old, Donna Wayne attended a party with multiple friends; she told her friends she was going to Shag Nasty's Bar at East 4th Avenue and Havana Street, in Aurora. She drove her own car to the party and to the bar. Donna was seen later leaving the bar with three males. On June 26, 1986, Donna's vehicle was found at 1061 North Uvalda Street in Aurora. On July 14, 1986, Donna was found at East 38th Avenue and North Picadilly Road in Aurora, Colorado, her body was skeletonized. Reports indicate Donna may have been seen trying to escape from a vehicle near Picadilly Road, but the male in the vehicle kept pulling her back inside. Anyone with information regarding this case, is asked to please contact the Aurora Police Department.

If you have any information about this case, please contact:​

Aurora Police Department, Aurora, Colorado

LINK: Colorado.gov Cold Case File

 

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Newspaper article from Jul, 1986



Clipped from

Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph,Colorado Springs, Colorado​

Thu, Jul 17, 1986 – Page 25

 

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Crime Map and Timeline

June 14, 1986 - Donna Wayne attended a party with multiple friends; she told her friends she was going to Shag Nasty's Bar at East 4th Avenue and Havana Street, in Aurora. She drove her own car to the party and to the bar. Donna was seen later leaving the bar with three males.

June 26, 1986 - Donna's vehicle was found at 1061 North Uvalda Street in Aurora, CO.

July 14, 1986 - Donna's skeletal remains were found amongst trash near East 38th Avenue and North Picadilly Road in Aurora, CO.

 

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In Jun 1986 a woman stated to the police that she had witnessed the abduction of a teenager. The teenager was later determined to be Donna Sue Wayne.

Quote from The Daily Mail Online

'Help me! Help me!': Revealed, the moment woman came to face-to-face with serial killer and his teenage victim in 1986 (but police were 'too slow' to save her) Airport worker saw serial killer in process of abducting an 18-year-old girl as she drove to work through rural Colorado in the early hours of July 14, 1986 Murder of Donna Sue Wayne, whose body was found a month later, is one of 38 unsolved killings committed by a serial killer or killers around Denver between 1975 and 1995

Quote from The Denver Post

Witness in 1986 may have given cops best shot at catching killer​

 

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Donna Sue Waynes death linked to the same Pennsylvania man who killed Julian Lawrence Domenico. Both victims were murdered after leaving the Shagnasty's bar in 1986.

Quote from Canon City Daily Record

A Pennsylvania man, who fled Colorado after an Aurora stabbing death 33 years ago, died by suicide this summer after a detective told him that blood found in the victim’s home was matched to his DNA, Aurora police said.

At the time of his death, 52-year-old John Edward Strait was the primary suspect in the stabbing of 28-year-old Julian Lawrence Domenico, who died in his one-bedroom apartment in 1986, said Steve Conner, an Aurora Police Department cold case homicide detective.

Following Strait’s death, Domenico’s case was closed, Conner said.

Conner was investigating the abduction and death of Donna Sue Wayne, an 18-year-old high school student, when Domenico’s unsolved case grabbed his interest.

Wayne was last seen alive July 14, 1986, at an Aurora bar called Shagnasty’s on the 400 block of Havana Street. Domenico was last seen alive about three weeks later also at Shagnasty’s, Conner said.

The detective said he suspected the two homicides may have been committed by the same person.

In the process of investigating the Domenico homicide, he submitted blood evidence from the victim’s home to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation for DNA testing earlier this year.

In April, a CBI employee called Conner to say that blood drops collected in Domenico’s home were matched through a national database to Strait, by then a registered sex offender living in Greencastle, Pa.

Although the DNA test didn’t lead to an arrest in the teen’s death, it led to a strong suspect in Domenico’s homicide, Conner said.

Witnesses in Domenico’s death told police that a group of acquaintances left Shagnasty’s on Aug. 3, 1986, and went to Domenico’s apartment for an after-party fueled with drugs and liquor, the detective said.

 

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A True Crime documentary TV episode featuring Donna Sue Wayne's case: -

Dark Minds Series 3 - Aurora Murders, 2014 LINKS: 1 or 2.
Go to time 29min35sec for Donna's video re-enactment.
Go to time 35min43sec for video re-enactment of the witness sighting.