WI WI - John Zera, 14, Franklin, 20 February 1976

[Winward1]

Just searched this forum and saw this case mentioned but not in a thread of it's own. It garnered a cover story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today.

 

[Winward1]

A story on the case. Evidently the prime suspect has been arrested. The Sentinel will have another story next Wed: http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/42036987.html

 

[Rayemonde]

A really good November 2015 series of articles and podcast about John's unsolved murder:

http://jsonline.com/watchdog/unsolved-the-search-for-john-zeras-killer-b99541076z1-339934181.html

 

[pleasestandby]

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http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/2016/11/14/dna-doesnt-crack-zera-homicide-case/93594146/

Gina Barton , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel November 14, 2016

After months of testing, DNA experts at an Ohio lab have been unable to identify the person who killed 14-year-old John Zera in 1976.

“Nothing to crack the case,” said Hales Corners Police Chief Eric Cera.

 

[Brotherfudz]

James Lee Crummel seems like a pretty viable suspect in this case, not sure if he was still in Wisconsin at the time though

 

[Teamir]

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article from 11/14/2016.

“One suspect who has held investigators’ focus off and on for decades is Daniel Acker”
“In 2009, police looking into claims Acker had molested several teenage boys found model police and fire stations plastered with photos of dead and missing children in his basement. Children’s names, including John’s, were inked onto the bottoms of model cars. ”