How did you guess?
Posted on 05/26/2015 9:16:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Authorities say skeletal remains found in the East Bay Hills are those of a Swedish exchange student who disappeared more than 30 years ago.
The Marin Independent Journal first reported Tuesday that the remains belong to Elisabeth Martinsson, a 21-year-old studying at the College of Marin who vanished on Jan. 17, 1982.
The Marin County Sheriff held a news conference Tuesday afternoon to answer questions after intense public interest.
Investigator Jamie Scardina said they got her positive identification from dental records in November, after skeletal remains were first found in Fremont's Morrisson Canyon in 2010. But he said his agency needed more time to investigate, in trying to explain why it took so long to announce the news.
Henry Lee Coleman is considered a person of interest in the case.
"We're not going to stop until we know she's deceased," Scardina said.
Martinsson was working as a nanny and staying with a family in Greenbrae in Marin County when she went shopping for a pair of boots and never returned. Ten days later, a man and a woman were found with her car in Oklahoma.
The two – Henry Lee Coleman of Los Angeles and Sabrina Ann Johnson of Seattle – were never charged in the woman's disappearance and eventually the case went cold. Coleman is still considered a person of interest, authorities said. Sheriff's investigators are trying to determine if he is still alive.
The cause of death remains undetermined. Her ashes will be sent to her family in Sweden.
Amish responsible?
So they find her car in another state with some guy driving it and he was ‘a person of interest’ they don’t even know is still alive.
Sooo...why did they let him go to begin with?
What’s with this person of interest terminology in recent years? Is that a politically correct way of saying suspect? What’s wrong with calling someone a suspect in a criminal case???
How did you guess?
Possible he’s already met God’s justice. If not, then soon.
How did you guess?
Saying someone is a “person of interest” is “less judgemental.”
Really! Found with a car belonging to a person who disappeared! What are the odds? I wonder how he explained that.
Somebody dropped the ball bigtime. They had two person’s of interest in the girls’ car, and what? the two were simply released after telling matching lies? So sorry for her family, not knowing for all these years if their daughter was still somewhere suffering.
Either the reporter is an idiot (being a retired reporter, I worked with many) the cops need to be fired, or both.
Do you really think no crimes are ever committed by white people? A crime like this is actually more likely to have been committed by a white person. In the Bay Area since the 60s there were numerous college aged women killed by white men like Edmund Kemper or Herbert Mullin.
I suppose they could have charged them with auto theft. But not murder. There was no evidence they’d committed the murder, or indeed that the missing person was dead.
Even now they’ve found the body, in theory she could have died in other ways than being murdered by this guy.
He was sentenced to four years for auto theft. Even if they can find him, they may have trouble convicting him of murder today.
“...why did they let him go to begin with?”
Why? The Prosecutor was close to big bucks $$$ retirement! Why work?
The only good thing about this report to me.. is the family of this missing/now declared deceased beautiful girl will know she is gone. I would imagine the NOT knowing is agony... wondering every day if she was out there, hungry or cold. They can bury their “little girl” now and pray for justice but with the knowledge that their child is with the Lord. IMHO.
Um, no.
It is my understanding that black people commit every category of crime at a higher rate than white people, even white collar crime like embezzlement.
Additionally, if for some reason all people off color disappeared and only white people remained, America would have a crime rate akin to that of Norway - The part without the muslims.
A person of interest is not necessarily a suspect. For example, the police may believe that he has information pertaining to an investigation.
The first time I heard the term "person of interest" was immediately after the Nicole Brown Simpson/Ron Goldman murders. The police wanted to question O.J., but at the time the news was saying he was not a suspect.
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