Post by albion on Jan 19, 2018 1:43:01 GMT
I was just reading about this case from 2002. It happened not too far away, but I never had heard of it.
"Private investigator weighing in on Jennifer Harris cold case
Posted: Aug 19, 2015 11:15 AM CDT
FANNIN COUNTY, TX -- 13 years after a Texoma woman was murdered and her mutilated body was found discarded in the Red River her killer still hasn't been caught.
Now as her family struggles to find closure.. They're trying to get the investigation re-opened.
Jennifer Harris was 28 when she disappeared from Bonham on Mothers Day 2002.
After an exhaustive search her body turned up in the Red River found by a fisherman.
The Oklahoma City Medical Examiner’s office said all of her female organs were missing. The autopsy showed they had been forcibly removed.
Jennifer's father, Jerry Harris, believes his daughter was pregnant at the time of her death and there's a good chance that's why she was killed.
"She thought she was pregnant. Whether she was or not, we don't know," said Harris.
But the investigator Jim Holloway feels that if she was, the motive is very clear.
"The person that would have maybe got her pregnant certainly thought she was, because they went to great lengths to kill her," he said.
The Texas Rangers initially named Jennifer's ex-boyfriend, James Hamilton, as the prime suspect in the case.
But, the investigation stalled 2 years after her death when the sheriff's office announced that all of the evidence in the case had gone missing.
"Jennifers body was found in the Red River, it was transferred to the Oklahoma Medical Examiners Office. The evidence was lost once it was transferred from Oklahoma to Texas officials."
Current Sheriff Donnie Foster won't discuss the case on camera, but he told us that while he wasn't sheriff when it happened, he is protecting the evidence that still does exist.
Former Fannin County District Attorney Myles Porter says, the case cost him his office."
"Private investigator weighing in on Jennifer Harris cold case
Posted: Aug 19, 2015 11:15 AM CDT
FANNIN COUNTY, TX -- 13 years after a Texoma woman was murdered and her mutilated body was found discarded in the Red River her killer still hasn't been caught.
Now as her family struggles to find closure.. They're trying to get the investigation re-opened.
Jennifer Harris was 28 when she disappeared from Bonham on Mothers Day 2002.
After an exhaustive search her body turned up in the Red River found by a fisherman.
The Oklahoma City Medical Examiner’s office said all of her female organs were missing. The autopsy showed they had been forcibly removed.
Jennifer's father, Jerry Harris, believes his daughter was pregnant at the time of her death and there's a good chance that's why she was killed.
"She thought she was pregnant. Whether she was or not, we don't know," said Harris.
But the investigator Jim Holloway feels that if she was, the motive is very clear.
"The person that would have maybe got her pregnant certainly thought she was, because they went to great lengths to kill her," he said.
The Texas Rangers initially named Jennifer's ex-boyfriend, James Hamilton, as the prime suspect in the case.
But, the investigation stalled 2 years after her death when the sheriff's office announced that all of the evidence in the case had gone missing.
"Jennifers body was found in the Red River, it was transferred to the Oklahoma Medical Examiners Office. The evidence was lost once it was transferred from Oklahoma to Texas officials."
Current Sheriff Donnie Foster won't discuss the case on camera, but he told us that while he wasn't sheriff when it happened, he is protecting the evidence that still does exist.
Former Fannin County District Attorney Myles Porter says, the case cost him his office."
