Stranger Danger Cases

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On September 20, 1982, Kelly Ann Prosser was abducted while walking through the University District on her way home from Indianola Elementary School. On September 22, 1982, her body was discovered in a cornfield along A.W. Wilson Road in Madison County. It was determined that Kelly Ann had been beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled. Tiffany Jennifer Papesh, also known as TJ by her relatives, was a young girl of 8 years old who vanished on June 13, 1980, in Maple Heights, Ohio. She was a Caucasian child with brown hair and blue eyes, and she measured 4 feet and weighed 58 pounds. She disappeared after buying a pack of hamburger buns at Convenient Food Mart, only half a block from her home. She left the store around 2:45 p.m. and was never seen again. Her father, Frank Papesh, and her brother searched for her at the store about 20 minutes later but found no trace. The Papesh family had planned to go on a camping trip at 6:00 p.m. that day. Nearly 40 years ago, eight-year-old Kelly Prosser left her elementary school in Columbus, Ohio. She never arrived home. Two days later, she was found dead in a cornfield in a case that puzzled the community and police for decades. - USA Today On July 22, 1981, Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, Delaware, Ohio, took a report of a missing juvenile, Joanne Hebert, age 14, of Powell, Ohio. On September 29, 1981, a hunter reported discovering what appeared to be the remains of a human body while hunting in a wooded area on McKitrick Road in the area of Mitchell-Dewitt Road. Further investigation and autopsy of the remains determined it was the missing juvenile, Joanne Lynn Hebert. The cause of death was ruled a homicide. Ms. Hebert was reportedly last seen at the former Tag’s Market, a Walgreen Drug Store located on Dublin Road on State Route 745 at the intersection of Glick Road in Delaware County, where she reportedly used a pay phone. In cooperation with local law enforcement agencies, we are asking for your help in providing information that may assist in investigating the murder of Joanne Hebert. If you have any information that may help, please call Lieutenant Jeff Stiers at (937) 645-4126 or by email at jstiers@unioncountyohio.gov. Anonymous information may be left via voicemail on the Union County Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip Hotline at (937) 642-7653. SOURCES: Thank you to the Akron Beacon Journal's Mary Grace Poidimini for her great work in 1982. https://www.unioncountyohio.gov/media/Sheriff/Investigations%20Division/Hebert%20Homicide%20Unsolved%20Case.pdf - https://www.newspapers.com/image/153248242/?terms=Joanne%20hebert&match=1 - https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/10/13/Another-attempted-abduction-of-a-young-girl/2456403329600/ - https://www.cleveland19.com/story/9857062/denied-dna-check-on-evidence-keeps-convicted-killer-in-jail/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/me5ynw/nearly_41_years_missing_who_took_tiffany_papesh/ - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/06/26/investigators-solve-1982-murder-columbus-girl-after-nearly-40-years/3267089001/ - https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetailpre1989.aspx?caseid=282 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/329381553/?terms=Joanne%20Hebert&match=1 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/153248242/?terms=Joanne%20hebert&match=1 - http://bjretirees.blogspot.com/2004/12/catching-up-with-mary-grace-poidomani.html - https://www.newspapers.com/image/153248242/?terms=Joanne%20Hebert&match=1 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/153248539 - https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Law-Enforcement/Bureau-of-Criminal-Investigation/Investigation-Division/Cold-Case-Unit/Unsolved-Cases - https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Law-Enforcement/Bureau-of-Criminal-Investigation/Investigation-Division/Cold-Case-Unit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Slow Burn Media and Evergreen Podcast presents Who Killed, a podcast that provides a voice for the voiceless. You know, You know, Thank you. All right, it's a story that captured the attention of Central Ohio.
0:55.0	Eight-year-old Kelly Ann Prosser was kidnapped, raped in the All right, it's a story that captured the attention of Central Ohio.
1:11.6	Eight-year-old Kelly Ann Prosser was kidnapped, raped, and killed, and for nearly 40 years, no arrest in the case.
1:18.6	Thanks to a DNA and match. Now the police say the case is solved.
1:22.6	Our Sean Lanier joins us live with a look at how this all came together finally.
1:31.6	That's right, Brad. It's really incredible when you think about all of the evidence that detectives had to collect nearly 40 years ago. They had to collect evidence from right here
1:36.0	at the school where Kelly and Prosser was last seen. They also had to go down to Madison
1:41.1	County and collect evidence there as well. And we spoke with the lady who said she submitted a crucial piece of evidence that led to
1:47.5	detectives finding that eight-year-old's body.
1:50.5	He was only linked to this by the new DNA test.
1:54.1	That's the power of these tests.
1:56.1	And with these databases, do we know which database was used in this investigation?
1:59.3	We don't know this one specifically, but the other high-profile cases that we mentioned was a thing called Jedmatch.
2:04.6	It's very popular. It's free, and a lot of people have put their DNA there willingly and have certainly helped police in many of these cases.
2:12.6	Really have. Amy, thank you.
2:14.6	If you've ever submitted your DNA to a genealogy database in search of relatives or information about your ancestry, something you and I have both done.
2:23.8	There is something you should know.
2:25.6	In certain cases, your DNA profile may be accessed by law enforcement to help track down criminals.
2:31.3	Local for you in Columbus, Sean Lanier, NBC4.
2:33.5	Last month, police in California arrested James Allen Neal in the 1970s. to help track down criminals. Local for you in Columbus, Sean Lanier, NBC 4.
2:34.1	Last month, police in California arrested James Allen Neal in the 1973 murder of 11-year-old
2:40.1	Linda Ann O'Keefe matching his DNA to the crime scene.
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