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Indy police adapt cold case homicide assignments
INDIANAPOLIS — The murder of Monica Pirtle 5 years ago may be a cold case to Indianapolis homicide investigators, but the death still pushes a hot button for her mother Pamela Wooden.
“I really think that with my daughter’s case, I have not given up hope,” said Wooden. “I’m not going to give up. I’ve got faith. I’m still going to speak out about it, too, because we want closure. Her daughters deserve justice.”
Pirtle was the mother of three young girls and would have celebrated her 36th birthday with them the next day when she was shot to death in a car outside her home in the 4000 block of Crabtree Court on the city’s northeast side.
“A couple of neighbors said they heard arguments,” said Wooden. “Sounded like some guys arguing.”
Both Wood and homicide detectives with the Indianapolis Metro Police Department believe the wounded man in the car with Pirtle, the father of her youngest daughter, knows who was shooting him and why.
“To be honest, I really think it had something to do with him,” said Wooden. “Why won’t he come forward and tell the whole truth? He has told detectives bits and pieces, mentioned a person’s name, then changed his story again.”
INDIANAPOLIS — The murder of Monica Pirtle 5 years ago may be a cold case to Indianapolis homicide investigators, but the death still pushes a hot button for her mother Pamela Wooden.
“I really think that with my daughter’s case, I have not given up hope,” said Wooden. “I’m not going to give up. I’ve got faith. I’m still going to speak out about it, too, because we want closure. Her daughters deserve justice.”
Pirtle was the mother of three young girls and would have celebrated her 36th birthday with them the next day when she was shot to death in a car outside her home in the 4000 block of Crabtree Court on the city’s northeast side.
“A couple of neighbors said they heard arguments,” said Wooden. “Sounded like some guys arguing.”
Both Wood and homicide detectives with the Indianapolis Metro Police Department believe the wounded man in the car with Pirtle, the father of her youngest daughter, knows who was shooting him and why.
“To be honest, I really think it had something to do with him,” said Wooden. “Why won’t he come forward and tell the whole truth? He has told detectives bits and pieces, mentioned a person’s name, then changed his story again.”
