Jan. 13, 2013 three people were tortured and killed before being dumped along the highway in a vehicle. Quinones King, Rodney Cottrell, and Cheryl Colquitt-Thompson were left in a silver 2010 Dodge Charger beside the road. This case has gone unsolved for over a decade until now. Keante Harris was working as an assistant principal at a local middle school when he was arrested for this murder. He was one of four men who lured the victims to a home and held them at gunpoint before torturing and killing them.
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It’s been almost 49 years since John Hill was slaughtered in his own laundromat in Ottumwa, Iowa.
On the wee hours of November 22nd, 1976, John was viciously attacked in his own business. Police found his body at 5:06 a.m. lying face down in a small room of the laundromat. He had been stabbed repeatedly and shot. He had fought hard and the scene was quite a bloodbath.
A .25 caliber pistol was near his right hand and five rounds had been fired from it. They found five bullet holes near the front door, but only four shell casings. Did he hit one of his attackers?
Two words were written in blood, the word “older”, and either “black” or “lack.” Was this written as a clue from the victim? Was it written as a taunt to the police? We may never know.
Early reports said his pockets had been turned out and they think he had been robbed of several hundred dollars. Was all of this a robbery, or was it staged by the perpetrators to throw off the police?
Two suspects appeared early on, but all the police had was circumstantial evidence and without any hard evidence arrests could not be made.
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