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Post by parkerivy on Jun 14, 2009 15:34:28 GMT -5
My sister Janette Gale Roberson was murdered 26 years ago in the basement(which was turned into a pet store) of a Gambles store in Reed city Michigan. This case is still open and "active", and I don't know why it hasn't been put into the cold files. It doesn't seem like anyone remembers the pretty blonde lady that loved animals and had 2 kids, they just remember the murder. I am very frustrated that nothing seems be going foward. What do I do?
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Post by pumpkin12903 on Jun 14, 2009 16:52:59 GMT -5
My sister Janette Gale Roberson was murdered 26 years ago in the basement(which was turned into a pet store) of a Gambles store in Reed city Michigan. This case is still open and "active", and I don't know why it hasn't been put into the cold files. It doesn't seem like anyone remembers the pretty blonde lady that loved animals and had 2 kids, they just remember the murder. I am very frustrated that nothing seems be going foward. What do I do? Dear parkerivy, I'm very sorry about your Sister. I'm glad you found this board and hope you find some comfort here. You may want to check with the group Parents of Murdered Children on what else you can do with your Sister's case. There's a link to them on here. Again, welcome to the board. Take care.
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Post by Janet-Beth's Mom on Jun 14, 2009 17:22:54 GMT -5
Hello parkerivy,
I am so sorry for your loss of your precious sister Janette. I am sure you and her other loved ones still remember her very well, maybe it is time to tell people about her, and remind them of who she was again. Perhaps a memorial happy birthday on her next birthday in your local newspaper? I do know some people who have done that, and it has helped them feel at least a bit better in some ways.
I agree with pumpkin's advice to contact Parents of Murdered Children to see what ideas or help they may have, they have much experience with this kind of thing over the years.
The only case I know details of, where the police were prompted to start checking things again after several years (I know that others have done it, but this is the only one I remember details of right now), here is what happened, if I am remembering correctly:
The sister contacted local media, and worked with one of the reporters who wrote a story about her sister. Not long after, the police pulled the case back out and ran the dna through the databases that have been building through the years, and they did find her sister's murderer-rapist. He was in jail for another crime at the time, and then was prosecuted for her sister's murder finally.
Have the police told you why it is still active, rather than moved to cold case? Have they told you they are still working on it? I hope and pray that you will be able to find some resolution of this someday. My heart goes out to you.
Janet
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Post by parkerivy on Jun 15, 2009 12:49:26 GMT -5
Thank You everyone for your kindness. I have been in touch with the P.O.M.C. I have also been in contact with the local media in that area, there was only one willing to even listen to me. I have contacted the F.B.I., Unsolved Mysteries, and any number of t.v. programs that I thought might be interested. I have had no luck. The police haven't explained anything to me because the case is still "active", and I might, as the detective said know the person who did this. Somehow I don't think so. I can get no information from anyone anywhere. My brother wants to live his own life, my older sister has mental issues due to alcohol, and my mother is in the first stages of Alzheimer's. It seems like I am alone in the world. I didn't even know that the autopsy report was available to me and even to the public.
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Post by Janet-Beth's Mom on Jun 15, 2009 20:25:22 GMT -5
That blew my mind too, that anyone could buy a copy of the autopsy report, that we had to buy it to have a copy of it ourselves. It was only like 5 or 7 dollars or so, but that was not the point. It was that we were treated like anyone else when it came to that, and that anyone else had the same right to it that we did. That just felt so creepy and sad.
They would not tell us much when the investigation was ongoing either, until they prepared us for some things right before trial, preparing us for some of what we would see and hear - then we learned a bit more.
I am so sorry you are feeling alone. My mom has altzheimers too, and yes it is so hard to see them drifting away, I know. I hope you can find some comfort here somehow, and I hope the people who do come here (some just drop by sometimes) will have more suggestions for you. You will be in my prayers.
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Post by parkerivy on Jun 16, 2009 3:13:14 GMT -5
Well I read the autopsy report yesterday, ot I should say I skimmed it over, there was so much to take in. I found myself getting very angry, and depressed. This report is 15 pages long, how can one person do that much damage to another human being? I don't want to lash out at my man, because he is very good to me, but where is the justice?
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Post by Janet-Beth's Mom on Jun 16, 2009 6:21:01 GMT -5
Dear parkerivy, That was such a horrible day, another that I wish there were never any reason for, the day I read that report of what was done to my daughter's body. That envelope just sat there until my husband was home, and then we opened it and both read it. It was devastating to have even more of an idea of how it might have happened, of how she suffered. I hardly even had the strength to walk for a while - anger, fury, rage, sadness, horror - and then somewhat back into that fog of shock again - yes all those things. I am so sorry you have just gone through that day, that part of what we walk through. It was hard for me too, to know what to do with all that fury and rage. It was not as if I could go scream at them - they who had caused it all. Like you, I did not want to displace that anger onto others who were not responsible. And for you, you don't even have a name - I would think that would be even harder to be able to focus the anger where it belongs, at the one who caused all this pain and horror. My therapist helped me to find ways to express the anger, ways that did not hurt anyone else. Sometimes I still go out and throw rocks at trees. Or stomp through the woods. Or vent here. Or write about it in my journal. It's also been very important for me through the years to have a friend who could listen, and let me vent face to face, and not judge but just let me have a place for some of it to be released. Those few who could do that are very precious to me, and always will be. Maybe you can vent here, at least, if there is nowhere else that feels safe for you. I don't think I really knew what fury or rage truly meant, until my daughter was murdered. It was so huge it actually frightened me at first. But it had to go somewhere, be let out and expressed somehow, or I would have just exploded I think. That was how my walk through that part of it seems to me anyway, and I hope there is something in my ramblings that can help you somehow. Janet
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Post by sadbigsister on Jun 17, 2009 0:23:38 GMT -5
Reading how you are hurting 26 years later is very sad...today is the one month anniversary of my baby brothers murder I see its never going to go away...siblings are also a special kind of pain. Im sorry for your loss.
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