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1 week ago | 
indeonline.com | Stephanie Warsmith |Paula Schleis |Nancy Molnar
Stephanie Warsmith, Paula Schleis and Nancy MolnarUSA TODAY Network North OhioCarol Zastudil was found slain in her Perry Township home in December 1983. Eric Hoffman, her son, lays flowers on her grave each week and still hopes for justice in her slaying. Perry Township police reopened the case but got no conclusive results. Eric Hoffman can’t take his mother to brunch or buy her a gift on Mother’s Day. Instead, the Canton man will put roses on her grave.
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1 week ago | 
the-review.com | Stephanie Warsmith |Paula Schleis |Nancy Molnar
Show Caption Hide Caption Eric Hoffman is searching for answers in the 1983 slaying of his motherAfter more than 40 years, Eric Hoffman still hopes for justice in the slaying of his mother, Carol Zastudil, in the family's Perry Township home. Carol Zastudil was found slain in her Perry Township home in December 1983. Eric Hoffman, her son, lays flowers on her grave each week and still hopes for justice in her slaying. Perry Township police reopened the case but got no conclusive results.
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1 week ago | 
beaconjournal.com | Stephanie Warsmith |Paula Schleis |Nancy Molnar
Show Caption Hide Caption Eric Hoffman is searching for answers in the 1983 slaying of his motherAfter more than 40 years, Eric Hoffman still hopes for justice in the slaying of his mother, Carol Zastudil, in the family's Perry Township home. Carol Zastudil was found slain in her Perry Township home in December 1983. Eric Hoffman, her son, lays flowers on her grave each week and still hopes for justice in her slaying. Perry Township police reopened the case but got no conclusive results.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
msn.com | Stephanie Warsmith |Paula Schleis
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Stephanie Warsmith |Paula Schleis
'That's him!' Mother raped by stranger in home gets closure 37 years laterVicki Farinacci and her daughter Tiffany Miller-Cobb at Tiffany's home on a recent morning. The mother and daughter agreed to discuss Vicki's rape in 1987 in the hopes that other victims of Thomas Collier Jordan, whom she has identified as her attacker, will come forward. Content warning: This story includes details about rape cases.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Paula Schleis |Stephanie Warsmith
The man who took Janice Christensen’s life in 1987 was a seasoned criminal known to authorities in Arizona, California, Louisiana, Michigan and at least four Ohio counties. On the day Thomas Collier Jordan stalked Christensen on her morning run in an Ohio park, the 61-year-old had spent five decades building a lengthy record that mostly included crimes like grand larceny, burglary, drug offenses and shoplifting.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Stephanie Warsmith |Paula Schleis
Vicki Miller-Cobb was raped in 1987 by a man who broke into her Akron, Ohio, home, tied her up while she held her baby, and sexually assaulted her. In 1993, the evidence in her case was destroyed. The statute of limitations for rape in Ohio is now 25 years instead of six as it was decades ago. Police departments, including Akron, are not only keeping the evidence in rape cases but also making sure that any cases with DNA evidence are tested by the state.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Stephanie Warsmith |Paula Schleis
'Saved my own life': Woman raped as teen shares story of her rape solved 37 years laterMichelle Puett-Howard was raped when she was 17 and is now in her 50s. Investigators recently determined through DNA testing that Thomas Collier Jordan, who died in 2009, was responsible for raping Michelle and then raping and murdering Janice Christensen a few months later in 1987. Content warning: This story includes details about rape cases.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
news.yahoo.com | Paula Schleis |Stephanie Warsmith
55 years and 5 states: What we know about Thomas Collier Jordan's life of crimeThomas Collier Jordan has a criminal history that spanned more than 50 years and included arrests in states from Ohio to California. Jordan, who died in Arizona in 2009, recently was tied through DNA testing to a teen's rape and another woman's rape and murder in Summit County in 1987. He's also suspected in the rape of an Akron woman that same year.
