TN TN - Wanda Anderson, 11, Nashville, 15 July 1965

[scriptgirl]

McGee does not ever need to get out of jail.

 

[December]

The police still have the evidence, detective notes, et all from Kathy's murder. I would bet whatever evidence was collected for Wanda June, they have it.

Pat Postligone, who is quoted in one article, went through a lot of old files and read them/organized them/tried to solve them. He's retired now, but if he was talking about Wanda June to the media, he worked on her case years after it was originally worked.

To clarify, I don't mean to say the files were disorganized before because I have no reason to think this.

 

[iulia]

Hysteria broke out across Nashville when news broke about a brutal child rape.

Police canvassed neighborhoods. Parents locked doors. Stores shuttered early.

It was the third rape of its kind reported in nine months. This time, it ended a young girl's life.

It was hot the evening of July 15, 1965, when 11-year-old Wanda June Anderson visited her sister's Music Row home to babysit her six nephews and nieces. After the children fell asleep, a killer broke into the house and bludgeoned Wanda. He carried the red-headed girl outside, raped her and left her bleeding to die.

More than half a century later, neither her family nor the Metro Nashville Police Department's homicide detectives have any idea who the killer is.

The case is the coldest unsolved criminal homicide in Nashville's history.

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[JD&Bobbi]

Wanda June Anderson A little girl that I know was as Sweet and Beautiful as the 2 twin Baby girls she was babysitting that night.. Wandas June's twin niece's need Justice for the Beautiful Aunt that they never got the chance to know. I know the pain and Heartache and terror it has caused for my Aunt and her Family. Wanda June Anderson You will get Justice Beautiful Angel Justice for June

 

[Laughing]

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So sorry to learn of your family's loss!

 

[Dylansmom08]

I've been doing some digging into this case and the one person who comes to mind is Edward Joseph McGee. He lived right down the street from where Wanda was murdered at the time. Wanda was beaten to death in the same manner as the two young cousins whom McGee is convicted of killing in 1966. It just seems to me that everywhere he went death followed him.

 

[Richard]

Wanda June Anderson, age 11
Murdered 15 June 1965

 

[dotr]

March 30 2025

Wanda June Anderson is a Nashville cold case victim that likely will never see justice

The death of Wanda June Anderson in 1965 is Metro Nashville Police's longest-standing cold case. It will likely remain that way.

www.tennessean.com

''The assailant carried her out the backdoor, where she was raped, beaten again and left to die. Wanda’s sister found her near an alley still breathing. She died two days later.

Police questioned several men in Wanda’s death, two of whom were charged in other rape cases. Many signs point to Joseph Edward McGee, a teenager who lived nearby. A year after Wanda was killed, McGee sexually assaulted two girls in Shelbyville and beat them to death. He died in 2014 in Tennessee Department of Corrections custody.''

Hendersonville Police Chief Mickey Miller, left, walks with former Metro Nashville Police Department detective Pat Postiglione on Feb. 5, 2020, at the scene of the 1965 killing of Wanda June Anderson on 16th Avenue in Nashville. Postiglione and Miller worked the case, which is still unsolved. It is the coldest homicide case in MNPD's history.
Mark Zaleski/For The Tennessean

Mr. and Mrs. Howard May, left, the brother-in-law and sister of savagely beaten raped victim Wanda June Anderson, show the Metro Homicide officers the bed where the victim was struck in the head as she slept on the bed July 16, 1965. The victim was babysitting her six nieces and nephews in her sister's apartment at 1213 16th Ave. S. when the killer enter the apartment.
Bill Preston / The Tennessean

 

[Richard]

Wanda June Anderson, age 11
Murdered 15 June 1965

Bumping this thread up.