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Baton Rouge homicide detectives take new look at 1985 murder of LSU graduate student
by maya lau The Advocate
Sept. 6, 2015; 4:24 p.m.
Melissa Montz ran the same 5-mile path each morning past the LSU golf course, a routine that didnt break until one October day almost three decades ago.
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She was missing for 51 days before police found Montzs decomposed body on Nov. 24, 1985, in a ditch between the 18th fairway of the LSU golf course and the railroad track along Nicholson Drive, near the Gourrier Avenue intersection. Montz was tied to a log and had been raped, police said. No one was arrested in her murder.
Thirty years later, Baton Rouge Police detectives are reopening Montzs case, hoping that advances in genetic testing could mean new DNA matches on items found at the scene.
We knew that there are people that know stuff about this case, said Detective Logan Collins, who is in charge of the cold-case investigation. There were people who called in information that you wouldve only known if someone that did the crime had told you. Theres no other way.
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Montz was found with ropes around her arms, neck and legs, Collins said. He believes she was strangled to death, but so much of her body had disintegrated it was nearly impossible to definitely determine a cause of death, he said. An intense rain came not long after she was left in the ditch filled with trash and debris, he said.
Montzs shorts were gone, but her shirt and shoes were found, along with a whistle, Collins said. She was also missing a ring and a watch, but detectives dont know if the items were stolen or washed away, he said.
The abduction between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. that fall day meant it was still dark when Montz was running, Collins said.
Because she kept such a reliable schedule, someone could have been tracking Montz, but the attack could easily have been random.
It appears to be more of a crime of opportunity than anything, Collins said.
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by maya lau The Advocate
Sept. 6, 2015; 4:24 p.m.
Melissa Montz ran the same 5-mile path each morning past the LSU golf course, a routine that didnt break until one October day almost three decades ago.
[...]
She was missing for 51 days before police found Montzs decomposed body on Nov. 24, 1985, in a ditch between the 18th fairway of the LSU golf course and the railroad track along Nicholson Drive, near the Gourrier Avenue intersection. Montz was tied to a log and had been raped, police said. No one was arrested in her murder.
Thirty years later, Baton Rouge Police detectives are reopening Montzs case, hoping that advances in genetic testing could mean new DNA matches on items found at the scene.
We knew that there are people that know stuff about this case, said Detective Logan Collins, who is in charge of the cold-case investigation. There were people who called in information that you wouldve only known if someone that did the crime had told you. Theres no other way.
[...]
Montz was found with ropes around her arms, neck and legs, Collins said. He believes she was strangled to death, but so much of her body had disintegrated it was nearly impossible to definitely determine a cause of death, he said. An intense rain came not long after she was left in the ditch filled with trash and debris, he said.
Montzs shorts were gone, but her shirt and shoes were found, along with a whistle, Collins said. She was also missing a ring and a watch, but detectives dont know if the items were stolen or washed away, he said.
The abduction between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. that fall day meant it was still dark when Montz was running, Collins said.
Because she kept such a reliable schedule, someone could have been tracking Montz, but the attack could easily have been random.
It appears to be more of a crime of opportunity than anything, Collins said.
much more at the link
