FL FL - Carolyn Rose, 47, Murdered in Pensacola, 7 April 1978

[Richard]

Carolyn Rose


On the morning of April 7, 1978, the body of 47 year old white female Carolyn Rose was found at a residence on North Highway 297. Carolyn Rose was at the home for the purpose of showing it as a realtor. Investigation found that Carolyn Rose was the apparent victim of murder.

LINK:

COLD CASE UNIT – Escambia County Sheriff's Office

 

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ECSO closes 42-year-old cold case murder of Escambia County Realtor
Pensacola News Journal (Pensacota, FL USA)
6/9/2020

Carolyn Cox Rose, 47, was a Realtor working in Escambia County at the time of her death.

Her body was found on April 7, 1978 in a house she had been scheduled to show earlier that day off of Highway 297 A in Cantonment. When she didn’t return to her office, co-workers went to the house to check on her and found her body.

DNA evidence shows that Julius William Hill Jr. killed Carolyn Cox Rose in 1978 in Escambia County, according to the ECSO.

Hill died in prison in 2007.

'42 years of holding my breath': Family of 1978 murder victim finally exhales as case closes
Pensacola News Journal (Pensacota, FL USA)
6/15/2020

On the day of her murder, Rose left her office around 8:30 a.m. April 7, 1978, telling an assistant she had an appointment to meet a potential buyer at a $65,000 property at 2668 Highway 297A. She didn't mention the client's name.

When Rose had not returned to work by 2 p.m., two of her co-workers grew worried and drove to her last known location. They discovered her 1977 Chevrolet Caprice Classic parked at the ranch-style property and found Rose's body lying face up on the empty floor in the bedroom.

Mulhollan first learned that the ECSO had named Hill as the killer while pulling into a Walgreens parking lot in Richmond.

“My phone rang. But I don’t check my phone until I parked, and thank God,” she said. “It was my son saying that they had matched the DNA, and I am so glad I was alone. Because I became totally unglued. It washed over me."

 

[PayrollNerd]

So happy to know the family has answers. Too bad they didn't get to see justice but let's hope his life in prison was h*ll every single day.

The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office announced last week that investigators had finally closed the cold case murder after advances in the field of DNA analysis led to a suspect — Julius William Hill Jr., who died 13 years ago while in federal prison for an unrelated crime.