SEATTLE COPS CLOSE TO SOLVING '94 DOUBLE SLAYING

SEATTLE COPS may be on the verge of solving a double murder that has been ice cold for 17 years.
Just after midnight on Jan. 27, 1994, a group of killers came up the steps of an apartment and banged on the door. The group was let in. Inside were Aalihya Brown and Nairobi Bass and it's believed that the pair knew their killers. Their bodies were found a short time later. Cops say the killers were after drugs in
the apartment. Aalihya Brown was just 16 -- and pregnant. Her boyfriend, Nairobi, was only 17. At the time of the murders, detectives interviewed the neighbors and they collected evidence from the apartment. But they still lacked that critical clue that will solve the case.
Det. Mike Ciesynski said: "We really feel that we are getting very, very close."
Nairobi's dad, Ed Bass said he hopes that something comes out of the renewed focus on the case - for his son and for himself. He said: "He deserves to get some closure. I deserve closure."
If you know anything about the case - call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS. All calls are anonymous. There's a $1,000 reward for information that leads to a conviction. SEATTLE DOUBLE MURDER CLOSE TO SOLVED?

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WAS JOSHUA WAYNE CRAWFORD KILLED FOR GUITAR?

On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, Joshua Wayne Crawford was found murdered in his apartment at 6949 Exeter Court at Kingsbrook Apartments in Frederick, Maryland. Crawford was found bound with duct tape when deputies responded at 12:42 pm. The cause of death was ruled asphyxiation and it was his 21st birthday. The crime appeared to be victim specific and upon investigation, it was determined that a Peavey 6 String Predator Electric Guitar with a hunter green base, chrome, a black neck and whammy bar was missing from the apartment. Was Crawford killed for the guitar?

His mom Terry Horman said she is convinced that someone will be prosecuted for her son's death but she has lingering

questions about his last moments.
"I do battle with the visions, the theories of how the murder went down," she said. "Did he suffer? Or was he taken instantly? I can just imagine. It stays with me every day."

If you have any information regarding these cases, please call the Sheriff’s Office Tip Line at (301) 600-4131. Every tip that is received is investigated and you may remain anonymous. If you would like to speak with an investigator concerning one of the cases, please call (301) 600-3660.

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JUSTICE FOR VIRGINIA GRACE KEGANS MURDERED IN '76?

JOHN BENJAMIN KENNEDY is a piece of work. And now, he is on trial for the sickening 1976 murder of a 17-year-old waitress in Oklahoma City. Detectives believe the 56-year-old convicted killer murdered Virginia Grace Kegans on Oct. 25, 1976. He was arrested last year after DNA linked him to the crime. It had come from the 1978 mutilation murder of a 15-year-old hooker. But now, prosecutors need to determine if there is enough evidence to go forward.
 According to The Oklahoman, the case was so old that some police reports and evidence was missing. But yesterday, an old friend of Kennedy's told the court: he kept the knife in a sheath in his car and also
carried a gun in a holster.  Jenny White, 57, said she "first saw the rifle when Kennedy dared me to ride in his trunk during a 1976 outing to a lake with two others, including my twin sister."
Kegans, was shot in the head and her throat was cut, cops said. She left a boyfriend's apartment at 4 a.m., Oct. 25, 1976, to hitchhike back to Oklahoma City. Phillip Hanlin was also originally a suspect. He admitted having sex with her the day her body was found.
Hanlin said: “Grace could not wait for a ride … she said she would hitchhike back home … and left about 4 a.m." Her body was found under a bridge that afternoon on the North Canadian River. This resumes in November. CONVICTED KILLER CARRIED A KNIFE, GUN

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CAROL ROFSTAD'S CHRISTMAS '75 UNSOLVED MURDER

CAROL ROFSTAD was just 21 when she was murdered. The Illinois State University co-ed was found beaten unconscious around noon on Dec. 23, 1975 outside her sorority house in Normal, Illinois. Cops believed the murder weapon was an 18" piece of railroad tie was located near the scene. Carol wasn't discovered until at least 12 hours after the attack and died on Christmas Eve. wo men, one of whom carried a club, were seen between 10 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. on December 22, 1975. Both were white males and between the ages
of 18 and 25. Composite of suspect 1 is on the right.

At the time of the attack, most students had already left campus for the holiday break. Instead of returning to Elk Grove Village behind to work at a retail store. Money was found in her purse and there was no evidence of sexual assault. Two women who were in the sorority house could not remember anything unusual. Anyone with information in this case can call the Normal Police Department at (309) 454-9526, or Crime Stoppers of McLean County at (309) 828-1111.

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SON SOLVES AMY ROSE HURST 1982 MURDER

JUSTICE

A SON'S refusal to give up on his mom's 1982 murder, finally paid off and cops believe that thanks to his persistence they finally have their man.  
Amy Hurst’s body was found wrapped in an afghan and tied to the block 27 miles off shore in the Gulf of Mexico almost forty years.
But with no clue as to who she was, she was classified as a Jane Doe and buried.
The body was exhumed in 2001 in an unrelated investigation and classified as a homicide by blunt force.
Then in 2009 Amy's son Jeff Early, learned about the body through the doe network and thought it matched the description of his mother.
Then in July 2011, after a series of forensic tests the Pasco Sheriff’s Office announced that the body had been positively identified as that of Amy Hurst.
They now believe her killer was actually her husband at the time, William Gary Hurst and now they've charged him.
Back in 1982, her kids were living with their father in Michigan when Amy Hurst was reported missing.
Authorities say when they asked William what happened to her, he told them she left him.
Hurst is awaiting extradition to Florida.

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EMILIO MARTINEZ: COPS SAY DAD TO BE TARGETED

EMILIO MARTINEZ left his Tampa home nine months ago to get Chinese food and root beer--his pregnant wife's obsessions. He never came home. His body was found eight days later, in his car, with multiple gunshot wounds. Cops say Emilio was targeted: but they won't say why.
His wife Kacee said: "I just remember him giving me a kiss goodbye and telling me, he'd be right back with the food and the root beer I requested. And that was the last time I saw him." MORE ON EMILIO MARTINEZ MURDER

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MASS MURDERER CARL EDER ESCAPED FROM JAIL IN '74

WHERE IS Carl Alfred Eder? On Dec. 12, 1958 the 16-year-old butchered five members of the Pendergast family of El Cajon, California. Father Thomas Pendergast had picked him up hitchhiking the month before, the boy said he was homeless so the kind man took him in until he got a job. That decision would cost Pendergast his family. Thomas was at work when the massacre occurred. Eder told detectives that Diane Pendergast, 4, was bothering him and he exploded in rage. He threw the child against a wall, then grabbed a gun and shot the mom, Lois Pendergast in the head. Cops say the crazed teen grabbed a knife from his

suitcase and then slashed the throats of Diane and her brother Allen, 2. They were stabbed so violently, they were disemboweled. Thomas Jr., 6, and David, 9, were next and killed in the same gruesome way. When Thomas got home, Elder made him drive around until he fled on foot. When he got home he made the horrifying discovery. Eder was nabbed and charged with first-degree murder three days later and received two life terms.

In 1974, he escaped from a MINIMUM security prison. he has not been seen since. Two years later a badly composed body was discovered on the Pendergast property--chained to two cinder blocks. The male had been dead two weeks but it wasn't Eder.

 If you have any information regarding this case please contact the Cold Homicide Unit of the El Cajon Police Department. coldhomicideunit@ci.elcajon.ca.us or 619-441-5530.

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