Post by admin4laney on Aug 12, 2005 6:50:52 GMT -5
Investigators Work To Crack Cold Case
LAST UPDATE: 8/11/2005 6:25:23 PM
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"I can tell you this, in 30 days a great deal of headway with information from the public."
One of the country's top cold case detectives is hot on the trail of the person who killed a young woman seven and a half years ago. Now a special team of river investigators is helping to solve this Tri-State mystery. The murder of Laney Gwinner was seven and a half years ago, but in recent months tips have poured in. It started when Butler County's cold case investigator started reworking the case. Frank Smith has received enough new information to have an idea of what happened, and get the right people with the right equipment to help him look for a key piece of evidence.
Local 12 CrimeStoppers Reporter Deborah Dixon has Exclusive details about the new search for the car Gwinner was driving the night she was murdered.
A special team of river investigators are using a new high tech sonar system to search for Laney Gwinner's Honda Del Sol, the car she drove off in the night she disappeared after leaving the Gilmore Bowling Lanes in Fairfield. Her body was found a month later. Cold case Detective Frank Smith gave the river searchers specific locations for sonar searches based on recent tips.
Frank Smith, Butler County Sheriff's Cold Case Squad: "We've received information from as far away as Florida and Chicago. We continue to receive information on a weekly basis in the Gwinner disappearance."
The information has Laney's killer putting her in her car, then putting the car in the Great Miami or the Ohio. Laney's body was found in the Ohio River in Warsaw, Kentucky a month after she disappeared. But it was clear her body was protected for most of that time. Smith thinks she was in her car and floated out.
Tammy McWhorter, Friend of Laney's: "I want to know why and how, who to trust and who not to trust."
Tammy fears Laney's killer is someone she and other friends know. Friends who cannot forget her, organized a fundraiser for Sunday. The money goes into a reward fund . Laney's picture is the latest on Frank Smith's wall of death. The cold cases in Butler Ccounty. It's a wall he takes with him on public appearances. Laney is the face people remember.
"She was so pretty, had her whole life ahead of her."
Frank Smith calls the Gwinner case solvable. What's clear is, she's not been forgotten.
Deborah Dixon, Local 12.
A reward fundraiser is scheduled for Sunday at Receptions in Fairfield. It goes from five until nine o'clock and includes food, drink, a d-j and cornhole tournaments.
www.wkrc.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=90B9CC5E-FC7C-4DD7-804B-CDF0805C457F
LAST UPDATE: 8/11/2005 6:25:23 PM
Video
"I can tell you this, in 30 days a great deal of headway with information from the public."
One of the country's top cold case detectives is hot on the trail of the person who killed a young woman seven and a half years ago. Now a special team of river investigators is helping to solve this Tri-State mystery. The murder of Laney Gwinner was seven and a half years ago, but in recent months tips have poured in. It started when Butler County's cold case investigator started reworking the case. Frank Smith has received enough new information to have an idea of what happened, and get the right people with the right equipment to help him look for a key piece of evidence.
Local 12 CrimeStoppers Reporter Deborah Dixon has Exclusive details about the new search for the car Gwinner was driving the night she was murdered.
A special team of river investigators are using a new high tech sonar system to search for Laney Gwinner's Honda Del Sol, the car she drove off in the night she disappeared after leaving the Gilmore Bowling Lanes in Fairfield. Her body was found a month later. Cold case Detective Frank Smith gave the river searchers specific locations for sonar searches based on recent tips.
Frank Smith, Butler County Sheriff's Cold Case Squad: "We've received information from as far away as Florida and Chicago. We continue to receive information on a weekly basis in the Gwinner disappearance."
The information has Laney's killer putting her in her car, then putting the car in the Great Miami or the Ohio. Laney's body was found in the Ohio River in Warsaw, Kentucky a month after she disappeared. But it was clear her body was protected for most of that time. Smith thinks she was in her car and floated out.
Tammy McWhorter, Friend of Laney's: "I want to know why and how, who to trust and who not to trust."
Tammy fears Laney's killer is someone she and other friends know. Friends who cannot forget her, organized a fundraiser for Sunday. The money goes into a reward fund . Laney's picture is the latest on Frank Smith's wall of death. The cold cases in Butler Ccounty. It's a wall he takes with him on public appearances. Laney is the face people remember.
"She was so pretty, had her whole life ahead of her."
Frank Smith calls the Gwinner case solvable. What's clear is, she's not been forgotten.
Deborah Dixon, Local 12.
A reward fundraiser is scheduled for Sunday at Receptions in Fairfield. It goes from five until nine o'clock and includes food, drink, a d-j and cornhole tournaments.
www.wkrc.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=90B9CC5E-FC7C-4DD7-804B-CDF0805C457F
