Added to the Crimes Against Children forum as Stephanie Sullivan was a 19 year old in high school.
Stephanie was a 19 year old who attended T.W. Josey High School. She was stabbed 47 times, which led to her death. She was found by her 13 year old sisters. The only information I could find were 2 articles from the Augusta Chronicle, the last from May 2022 and an article from the Augusta News Review, announcing her burial.
Maybe with the changes in the sheriff department (new sheriff) investigators will focus on some of the unsolved cases. This one is pretty old, and it appears no one is asking for answer nor seeking justice for Stephanie.
Forty years ago, someone murdered 19-year-old Stephanie Sullivan. Forty years later, we don’t know who, but we do know how. She was stabbed 47 times and left to die in her family’s Strother Drive home.
Augusta police said the attack probably took place after the last day of school before the Christmas break – between 3 and 5 p.m. on the Friday afternoon of Dec. 17, 1982.
Stephanie, a special-education student, who lived with Down syndrome, was remembered as a happy, joyous young woman who loved to dance and sing, and who confided to friends she wanted to marry James Brown.
On her last day of school at T.W. Josey High, she had played the snow fairy in the "Sunny Snow Bear," a play about a family of bears who didn't want to hibernate.
"She just radiated on stage," music teacher Ann Boone, would later tell The Chronicle.
Joan Howard, another of Stephanie’s teachers, called her the “kind of child no one could forget."
"She was so lovable, so much fun” Howard told a reporter. “It's hard to put into words how devastated everyone was after her murder."
Her 13-year-old twin sisters, Tareon and Tarom Williams, discovered her body.
Augusta police discovered a mystery. There was no motive or suspect.
Detective Don Lewis told The Chronicle that Sullivan was killed "by an unknown assailant who was waiting for her as she entered her home."
There were no signs of a sexual assault.
Lewis suspected the murder weapon had been a kitchen knife because of the wounds, but there were no unidentified fingerprints found in the house. Nothing was reported stolen.
"There were no witnesses, and nobody saw anyone in the neighborhood who didn't belong there," Lewis said in 1982.
Several Strother Drive residents were polygraphed "but checked out OK," police said.
Less than two months after Sullivan's slaying, her family moved, saying they no longer felt safe in the neighborhood.
"We just couldn't live there anymore,” said Stephanie’s mother, Daisy Williams. "We have no idea who did this," she said in a 1983 interview. "And that's the hardest part."
Bill Kirby has reported, photographed and commented on life in Augusta and Georgia for 45 years.
Stephanie was a 19 year old who attended T.W. Josey High School. She was stabbed 47 times, which led to her death. She was found by her 13 year old sisters. The only information I could find were 2 articles from the Augusta Chronicle, the last from May 2022 and an article from the Augusta News Review, announcing her burial.
Maybe with the changes in the sheriff department (new sheriff) investigators will focus on some of the unsolved cases. This one is pretty old, and it appears no one is asking for answer nor seeking justice for Stephanie.
Monday Mystery: 40 years later, a teen's brutal murder remains unsolved
Forty years ago, someone murdered 19-year-old Stephanie Sullivan. Forty years later, we don’t know who, but we do know how. She was stabbed 47 times and left to die in her family’s Strother Drive home.
Augusta police said the attack probably took place after the last day of school before the Christmas break – between 3 and 5 p.m. on the Friday afternoon of Dec. 17, 1982.
Stephanie, a special-education student, who lived with Down syndrome, was remembered as a happy, joyous young woman who loved to dance and sing, and who confided to friends she wanted to marry James Brown.
On her last day of school at T.W. Josey High, she had played the snow fairy in the "Sunny Snow Bear," a play about a family of bears who didn't want to hibernate.
"She just radiated on stage," music teacher Ann Boone, would later tell The Chronicle.
Joan Howard, another of Stephanie’s teachers, called her the “kind of child no one could forget."
"She was so lovable, so much fun” Howard told a reporter. “It's hard to put into words how devastated everyone was after her murder."
Her 13-year-old twin sisters, Tareon and Tarom Williams, discovered her body.
Augusta police discovered a mystery. There was no motive or suspect.
Detective Don Lewis told The Chronicle that Sullivan was killed "by an unknown assailant who was waiting for her as she entered her home."
There were no signs of a sexual assault.
Lewis suspected the murder weapon had been a kitchen knife because of the wounds, but there were no unidentified fingerprints found in the house. Nothing was reported stolen.
"There were no witnesses, and nobody saw anyone in the neighborhood who didn't belong there," Lewis said in 1982.
Several Strother Drive residents were polygraphed "but checked out OK," police said.
Less than two months after Sullivan's slaying, her family moved, saying they no longer felt safe in the neighborhood.
"We just couldn't live there anymore,” said Stephanie’s mother, Daisy Williams. "We have no idea who did this," she said in a 1983 interview. "And that's the hardest part."
Bill Kirby has reported, photographed and commented on life in Augusta and Georgia for 45 years.
