Post by Scumhunter on Jan 25, 2016 9:24:39 GMT -5
(Above photo credit: West Virginia State Police Website)
"The West Virginia State Police Cold Case Investigations Unit and the Ohio County Sheriff's Department are requesting your help to heat up a cold case. On June 13, 1977 Roberta Elam, a Postulant Nun, was raped and murdered on the grounds of Mount Saint Joseph's Convent, near Wheeling, West Virginia. Numerous hours were put into this investigation to no avail. Recently, the investigation was heated up and new forensic evidence have been identified through DNA analysis. We are trying to locate anyone who may have information concerning this investigation. If you have information you are asked to contact your local State Police Detachment. The tip you give may help solve this horrible crime."
www.wvsp.gov/Pages/ColdCaseFiles.aspx
More information available at following links:
robertaelam.blogspot.com/
www.crimezzz.net/serialkillers/P/PENNSYLVANIA_strangler.php
Thoughts? The more info links go into more detail on this case, and apparently it's believed Sister Roberta was a likely victim of the Pennsylvania Strangler- a man who raped and murdered women mainly in Washington County, Pennsylvania between November 1976 and June 1977. It's such a tragic case. It was apparently Sister Roberta's first time at the covenant and she was said to be attacked while praying. It takes an incredibly sick and an incredibly callous man to a commit a murder like that. It's going to be hard to solve this case nearly 40 years later, but we can hope.
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