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Who killed the mom in Maumee?
Police have reopened the 1977 cold case homicide investigation of Jane Jordan.
www.wtol.com
May 9, 2023
''TOLEDO, Ohio — The Maumee Police Department is taking another crack at solving a cold case.
Jane Jordan, 31, was found killed in her apartment at 2903 Key Street on Oct. 18, 1977.
Maumee Police Detective Chris Rutledge told 11 Investigates the department re-opened the case after a call from Jordan's son on the 45th anniversary of her death, asking about the status of the investigation.
The case had been previously re-opened in 2000.
According to Rutledge, Jordan worked at the Toledo Jeep Assembly Complex as a material handler at the time of her death and had not shown up to work for three days when two coworkers, Raymond Luce and Robert Tille, were sent to check on her whereabouts by a foreman at Jeep.''
"She was brutally murdered. The manner in which she was killed was violent," Rutledge said.''
''Supplemental reports provided to WTOL 11 showed Jordan was found stabbed in her bathtub.
"Body seated in tub back to wall, feet and legs extended over edge of tub. Head turned to left shoulder. Blood smears on right and left walls, as you face body, water in commode tinted with appeared (sic) to be blood," a report of the incident reads.
"Somebody was exceptionally upset with her. That's what I'll say," Rutledge said.''
''Carlo Sommer and the Carlolites
And he would like to speak to people who were followers of Carlo F. Sommer, a magician-turned-hypnotist-turned-cult-leader and author.Sommer became fairly well known throughout northwest Ohio for his "Crusade of Love" commercial, which aired in heavy rotation on Toledo airwaves for years in the 1970s and 80s.
Sommer claimed to help thousands achieve a better life in every way with his "better life principles" and referred to himself as "The Father."
His followers referred to themselves as "Carlolites."
"I would characterize that as quasi-religious, even a cult. It's been described to me as a cult," Rutledge said.
"She had a lot of contacts with those people. That seemed to be her circle, so to speak. I would be very interested in talking to them again, not to say they didn't get talked to before, because they did, but as time goes on, people's feelings change or kids grow up and they are more willing to talk to law enforcement or enough time has passed, perhaps guilt has set in, enough anxiety, that perhaps now they'll come forward and reach out to us."
