PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - The FBI and Pascagoula Police have announced they will be reopening three separate cold cases from the 1970s.
From 1975 to 1979 three Pascagoula-area women were killed, according to a statement from the agencies. Janie Sanders was killed in 1975, Debra Gunter in 1978 and Clara Turk in 1979.
The statement says investigators recently developed new information that they think links unsolved homicides in the Pascagoula area during that time.
Sanders was abducted by a man while walking home from school near the corner of Louise and Lanier Streets in East Pascagoula. Her body was found within an hour of her disappearance in a wooded area in Mobile, Alabama, according to reports from the Clarion-Ledger (https://on.thec-l.com/1RRBYQ8). Investigators discovered that she had been raped and stabbed.
Gunter was taken while working at a convenience store. She was found stabbed to death five days after she went missing, according to the Clarion-Ledger.
Turk was taken on a street not far from where Sanders was abducted. There aren’t many details on Turk’s case, the newspaper reported.
Last week, authorities began distributing flyers seeking information about a blue, 1970s model Chevrolet El-Camino that was scene in the area during the time of one of the killings.
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