Post by cofw on Oct 17, 2016 4:56:25 GMT
Just found this in today's Sac Bee.
The Sacramento detectives caught a flight to the South Carolina coast.
They had a match to a bloody fingerprint that they hoped would thaw a nearly 30-year-old murder case long gone ice cold and a lead on a woman the local cops said stayed in a tent in the woods near the resort town of Myrtle Beach.
The woman lived homeless for years in the Carolina woods with her husband under her married name, Diana Creech. Years ago, in Sacramento, her name was Diana Salazar.
Sacramento police said Creech’s fingerprints matched the bloody print that officers spotted on the door window of Jimmy Lee Rowe’s abandoned pickup truck on April 26, 1986, the day they found the 32-year-old Rowe’s crumpled body face down on the floorboard, two bullets in the back of his head, near the old Wonder Bread bakery off of Business 80.
“We’re here from California. We’re here on an old case,” said Sacramento police Detective Kyle Jasperson’s voice on the recording played for jurors last week at Creech’s murder trial in Sacramento Superior Court.
Two years after that meeting in a North Myrtle Beach police interview room, Sacramento Superior Court jurors on Thursday found Creech guilty of first-degree murder in Rowe’s death, putting to end a case that went unsolved for decades.
Creech, now 54, faces a potential sentence of 25 years to life in state prison at her Nov. 10 sentencing before Sacramento Superior Court Judge Cheryl Chun Meegan.
www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article108393927.html#storylink=cpy
