The murder of Kent Heitholt on November 1st, 2001, in Columbia, Missouri, remains one of the most controversial unsolved cases in the state’s history. It involved a brutal killing, a high-profile wrongful conviction, and ongoing questions about justice for the victim and those affected. Kent William Heitholt was born on January 4, 1953, and worked … More Kent Heitholt
On the morning of June 11th, 2001, Milan Pantić, a forty-six-year-old correspondent for the Belgrade daily newspaper Večernje Novosti, stepped out of his apartment building in Jagodina, central Serbia, to buy milk and a loaf of bread. He never made it back inside safely. As he entered the doorway of his building on Branka Radičevića … More Milan Pantić
On the evening of September 30th, 2001, between approximately nine thirty-five p.m. and nine fifty p.m., three unknown suspects entered a residence at 14901 Meredith Avenue in Dade City, Florida (Pasco County, north of Tampa). The home invasion quickly turned deadly during what authorities described as a robbery attempt. Thirty-six-year-old Juan Campos, who was at … More Juan Campos and Leonor Otero
On March 14th, 2001, thirty-four-year-old Claudia A. Eanes was shot in the head while locking up the Tanny-Fanny tanning salon where she worked at 6480 Central Avenue in St. Petersburg, Florida. She died six weeks later on April 27th, 2001, after a bullet remained lodged in her brain. The shooting occurred around nine thirty p.m. … More Claudia Eanes
In the early morning hours of December 4th, 2001, a fisherman casting for steelhead in the Grand River near Recreation Park in Painesville, Ohio, made a grim discovery. Shortly after three a.m., near the Mill Street parking lot (around 33 Mill St. and Latimore streets), the body of twenty-one-year-old Dustin Spaller was found. He had … More Dustin Spaller
Seventeen-year-old Christopher Courtemanche was born in Washington, D.C., but moved to Houston, Texas in 1986 and grew up in the Clear Lake area. He attended Clear Lake High School before earning his GED and worked at a local Barnes & Noble bookstore in Pasadena. Known for his artistic talents, he enjoyed drawing and playing guitar. … More Christopher Courtemanche
Judy Carol Rawlings was sixteen years old and lived with her family on Marsh Mountain Road in the rural community of Sophia, North Carolina. On the morning of October 3rd, 2001, her mother, Tammy Schmidt, left home around seven thirty a.m. for a doctor’s appointment related to cancer treatment. That was the last time Schmidt … More Judy Rawlings
Thirty-three-year-old Tina Rochelle Stallworth was at her apartment located on Warren Street in Toledo, Ohio on the evening of March 22nd, 2001. Sometime during that night, unknown assailant(s) fired shots into the residence from outside. One bullet struck Tina, inflicting a fatal gunshot wound. Emergency responders, initially dispatched by fire personnel responding to reports of … More Tina Rochelle Stallworth
On February 18th, 2001, friends arrived at the home of eighty-three-year-old Ella Mae Grant in Londonderry, Ohio, to pick her up for church services. When she did not answer the door, they entered and made a horrifying discovery: Grant had been shot to death inside her residence. Authorities described the crime as an apparent attempted … More Ella Mae Grant
Thirty-year-old Kelly Ostroski was as a talented individual with a background in the performing arts; she had been a singer and a ballroom dancer earlier in her life. However, by 2001, she was living in St. Petersburg, Florida, and her life was heavily impacted by crack cocaine addiction, which friends and reports indicated had taken … More Kelly Ostroski
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