On April 26, 1995, two hunters found the body of 26-year-old Christopher Dailey just outside Decatur, Alabama. The group is still hoping to find the rest of Savannah’s remains and is offering a $3000 reward for any information that leads to them. She also found evidence, which is backed up by one of Savannah’s son’s, Bobby Kersey Jr, that Joe was a violent man who was often physically abusive towards Savannah. Karra Porter, the founder of the Utah Cold Case Coalition, researched Ogden police case files and found that Savannah was trying to leave Joe and move to Idaho. “No, I don’t believe it,” Said Hoskins, before abruptly hanging up on reporters.
The evidence that Allred is referring to includes incriminating statements made by Joe Hoskins, along with witness statements, and DNA evidence. “We are confident based on all the evidence that if Joe were alive today, we would be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Joe Hoskins murdered his wife, Savannah Hoskins,” said Allred. Unfortunately, Hoskins will never be charged with the murder since he is already dead. On March 2, 2020, Weber County Attorney Chris Allred announced that Hoskins’ husband, Joe Hoskins, was responsible for the murder. Her case quickly went cold.įinally, in 2019, police were able to positively identify the legs as Hoskins’ through DNA testing. For decades, police suspected they belonged to Hoskins but could never prove it. A few weeks after her disappearance, two legs were found in the Ogden River. Savannah Hoskins was a 34-year-old mother of five living in Utah when she disappeared on July 3, 1985. Now, the truths have finally been revealed. These five cases went unsolved for decades. But, for the families and friends of Savannah Hoskins, Christopher Dailey, James Essel, Mary London, and Wendy Jerome, 2020 was a year of answers. His widow at the time said she believed he killed Rogers, according to the Review.For many people, 2020 was a year that they would like to forget. James Howard Barnett, 49, was another potential suspect whose killed himself in 1960 after being arrested for alleged sex abuse of a child. Graves had been accused of inappropriate contact with women and newspaper clippings on rapes of women and children were found in his home and bits of ropes and bobby pins were found in the trunk of his car.
One possible suspect was nearby resident Alfred Graves, 50, who killed himself the day her body was found. He denied involvement in her murder and died in a Minnesota prison in 2003, according to the Review.
Grape gum found smeared on her body tenuously linked her murder to serial killer Hugh Bion Morse, who is believed to have killed at least four women and was known to chew grape gum, but a DNA sample given by Morse in 2002 didn’t match.
“It really changed the way Spokane worked back then and how children were allowed to run free or not,” Spokane Police Detective Brian Hammond told KREM-TV in Spokane of Rogers’ murder in 2007. “Some detective will solve this case someday.” In the 1990s, investigators began using DNA from her clothes to eliminate several suspects. Officials determined at the time Rogers had been raped and strangled to death with her own petticoat. Her body was found two weeks later by an abandoned rock quarry in the same area, the Spokesman-Review in Spokane reported. Law enforcement and volunteers scoured the area near her home not far from Spokane Falls Community College after she disappeared on March 6, 1959. The news conference will be livestreamed on the department’s Facebook page, according to the station. The Spokane Police Department said it will hold a press conference on Friday morning at 10 a PT, revealing who they believe is guilty of the 1959 murder of Candy Rogers, FOX 28 Spokane reported. It’s one of the oldest cases in the state’s history. Police in Eastern Washington said this week they have solved the 62-year-old cold case murder of a 9-year-old Camp Fire girl who disappeared while selling chocolates, according to reports. Mexico to deploy national guard to Cancun following shootings in tourist area Hurricane 'speed bump' constructed along Louisiana coastline NYPD search for suspect in Manhattan antisemitic attack