Adventure 1

 

What Are You Going, Where Have You Been

Date of Crime: 21 May 1966

Date of Cold Case review: 21 February 2013

Type of case: Assault, Rape, Kidnapping, Murder

 

Victims Name: Connie Holyfield

 

Connie a 15 year old female from Mid-Town, Ohio was reported missing from her home at 123 Early Street on the evening of Tuesday May the 21, 1966 by her mother Jane Holyfield. Mrs. Holyfield stated that the family had left that morning to go to a family barbeque and left her youngest daughter, Connie, at the family home to spend the day to herself. When they returned home the front door was open and Connie was not there. After further investigation by the Mid-Town Police Department in 1966 they found blood in the kitchen by the only phone in the house. Connie was considered a missing person until February 2^nd of 2013. The local police did an investigation but no evidence was found to support a case and there were not any suspects. However, on February 2^nd of 2013 an old warehouse was set to be destroyed in the next town over, Grand River, Ohio where a body was found. After forensic testing, the results showed that the skeletal remains were Connie Holyfield’s. There was a note found in the back pocket of the clothes that she was wearing that is believed to be written by Connie in an attempt to describe the actions leading up to her death. This is when the local law enforcement called Watson and myself to the scene.

             First I must see the crime scene…both the house and Arnold’s car…because we do not know where the car was, I issued a State wide BOLO (be on the lookout) for the car, a Gold Convertible unknown make/unknown model… as my Law Enforcement counterparts began looking for the car I paid a visit to the family home where Connie may or may not have been assaulted and stabbed. At the same time I called for my accomplice, Dr. Watson, to drive out to where Connie’s family had their get-together to pick up Connie’s mother and older sister June for questioning.

 I started by pulling all the records from local and area Law Enforcement that described vehicles that met the same description. Because all the records from 1995 and back were kept in storage, it took time to find what I was looking for. But eventually, I found a traffic ticket from the Grand River Police Department (the imaginary Town next to the one where Connie lived) that described the car to a “T”. Officer Jones pulled over a 1959 Gold Chevy convertible for speeding on 19 May 1966, just a few days before Connie went missing. In the description portion of the ticket stated the car had words scratched into the driver’s door. The drivers name was Arnold Wisenheimer, a White Male that had a history of violent crimes and burglary. We tracked him down to his current residence, Plot 126 Harlem Cemetery. He had died in May of 1999 of a heart attack. This is where we hit our final dead in. The case was closed and we could notify the family so that they could have closure.