NEW CLUE IN UNSOLVED KRISTY WESSELMAN MURDER

IT HAS been 26 long years since Kristy Wesselman, 15, was stabbed to death. A long wait for justice since there have been no arrests in the heartbreaking case. Yesterday marked the grim anniversary of the unsolved murder in DuPage, Illinois. But her mom has never given up hope.
Sandy Wesselman said: “I silently promised her I would never stop trying to find the person who killed her. My silent promise to Kristy has remained steadfast."
Now, detectives have revealed a new piece of evidence they feel could help solve the slaying. Kristy was wearing an antique pearl ring with a gold mounting when she was raped and murdered on July 21, 1985 while walking through a field on her way home from the supermarket, Sgt. Robert
Harris said. Her ring — size 4 1/2 with a small chip in the pearl— was never recovered and taken by the killer as a sick souvenir, Harris said. It never turned up

Sandy Wesselman said: “There’s a man out there who thinks he got away with murder. Please help us take away his dream. He stole all of Kristy’s.” MORE ON THE KRISTY WESSELMAN MURDER

FLA. COPS SOLVE 1971 GINA JUSTI COLD CASE MURDER

FOR NEARLY 40 years, the Justi family has desperately wondered who killed Gina Justi. Just 14-years-old when she was raped and murdered in August 1971 and left to die in an orange grove, the family now has some answers. Florida cops announced yesterday that they got a DNA hit on a man named Jerry Fletcher, now 69, who is serving a life sentence for killing another teenage girl in Illinois in 1974.
Fletcher had worked as a painter in the Tampa area at the time of the vicious slaying but his name never came up until the DNA match. When detectives interviewed him, he quickly clued into why they were there
and clammed up.

James Justi was only 12 when his sister was murdered. He said the Gina was never far from their minds but they had long given up hope that there would be an arrest.
He said: "It kind of came out of the blue. We were totally, totally shocked. We totally gave up on it."
His brother Tony told the Tampa Tribune that Gina was a typical teen and that her family just had moved to Town 'N Country from Saugerties, NY, when she left her home on Aug. 6, 1971.
She had gone out that day to look at a puppy.
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