Courtesy photo Winks Bar & Grill, Facebook
WEST LIBERTY, Iowa (KWQC) – It’s been four years since a judge forced a second jury to reach a verdict in Annette Cahill’s trial for allegedly killing her boyfriend back in 1992.
Jurors had voted 11 to 1 to acquit in the first hung jury. Backed into a corner, the second hung jury was forced to negotiate, and settled for second-degree murder instead of first, though all wondered why there wasn’t any evidence. None. No DNA. Not a hair from Annette’s head or a fiber from her coat or vehicle matched the blood or other evidence at the scene or on the weapon.
Now, her lawyers say they are seeking to retest evidence that could exonerate her.
In October 1992, Corey Lee Wieneke, 22, was found beaten to death with a baseball bat on his bedroom floor in West Liberty. 27 years later, Cahill was arrested for his murder, and today, she’s in prison serving a 50-year sentence.
How did she get there? Twenty-five years after the crime, a former 9-year-old girl named Jessie told authorities she heard Annette confess to the crime on a dark rainy night. Jessie, however, hadn’t been eavesdropping on her own. Her longtime friend, Cahill’s niece, was right there beside her.
The two girls loved hanging out with ‘Aunt Annette’ where they could watch scary movies. Cahill’s niece, however, told officials she hadn’t heard a thing. And yes, it was true that Jessie blamed Annette for breaking up her mother and stepfather’s marriage.
On Tuesday, Oct. 10, a judge will hear a motion by Cahill’s attorneys to retest evidence already tested with not one match to Cahill.
Read more at KWQC and watch for future updates.
Jan. 16, 2020 | by Andrea Grubaugh, The Quad-City Times
MUSCATINE — A Muscatine law firm will be featured in an episode of NBC’s Dateline on Friday.
The episode, which airs at 8 p.m., centers on the 2019 trial of Annette Cahill, tried twice for the second-degree murder of her boyfriend, Corey Wieneke, in 1992.
Clemens A. Erdahl and Elizabeth A. Araguas from Nidey Erdahl Pilkington Meier & Araguas, PLC represented Cahill, of Tipton, who was tried twice. Her first trial in March 2019 ended in a hung jury. In September 2019, the jury found her guilty of second-degree murder after three days of jury deliberations.
Related: Lead Defense Attorney Clemens Allen Erdahl II, a founding partner of the law firm Nidey Erdahl Meier & Araguás, PLC, passed away “suddenly and unexpectedly” at his Solon home Oct. 2, 2019, less than two weeks after a judge pressured a dead-locked second jury to reconvene and deliberate until they could reach an unanimous decision in Annette Cahill’s fate.
Clemens Erdahl II was a tireless advocate for Iowans charged with crimes and for those incarcerated who sought new trials based on wrongful convictions, and was often and fondly called the advocate of last resort. (Courtesy photo eiowalaw.com)
Erdahl, known to colleagues and clients alike as an advocate for Iowans charged with crimes and those wrongly convicted, spent the last 23 days of his life as lead counsel in the cold case murder jury trial, prepared for and presented an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals oral argument, and had a case pending before the United States Supreme Court.
According to the law firm, Clemens was successful in obtaining the reversal of several such wrongful convictions including, in one case, a wrongful murder conviction.
Clemens also won a number of acquittals and dismissals. In 2018, he was awarded the Iowa Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ John Adams Award, recognizing his lifetime of dedication and commitment to representing “the cause of the defenseless or the oppressed.”
Clemens was often the advocate of last resort, his law firm said in a memorial tribute on their website.
Sept. 19, 2019 | by Meredith Roemerman, The Muscatine Journal
MUSCATINE — After 16 total hours of deliberations, a jury found the defendant in a local cold case homicide guilty of second-degree murder more than 25 years later.
Corey Lee Wieneke was found beaten to death Oct. 13, 1992 in his West Liberty home. A jury of nine women and three men began deliberations Tuesday afternoon after spending six days hearing testimony and arguments in court, to find Annette Cahill, now 56, guilty of killing him.
Around 4 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, the jury was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict. The jury foreperson confirmed for presiding judge Patrick McElyea that more time would not yield a verdict. McElyea ordered the jury to resume deliberations Thursday morning and around 2 p.m., they had reached a unanimous verdict.
Full Story at The Muscatine Journal
March 26, 2019 | Associated Press and The Courier
MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) — A Tipton woman accused of killing her former boyfriend in 1992 is scheduled for another trial.
The first trial of 56-year-old Annette Cahill ended in a mistrial March 12 because of a hung jury. Her second trial in Muscatine is scheduled to begin Sept. 9.
March 12, 2019 | by Meredith Roemerman, The Muscatine Journal
MUSCATINE (AP) — A hung jury has led to a mistrial in the murder trial of an Iowa woman accused in the 1992 beating death of her former boyfriend.
A judge declared the mistrial Tuesday afternoon when the jury of five women and seven men declared they could not reach a verdict. The jury began deliberating Monday in the trial of 56-year-old Annette Cahill, of Tipton.
March 6, 2019 | by Meredith Roemerman, The Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
MUSCATINE — More than 25 years ago, a man was found beaten to death in his rural home near West Liberty. The case went cold until 2017. Now a woman in her 50s stands trial for his murder.
“Actions and consequences, that’s what this case is about,” Iowa Assistant Attorney General Coleman McAllister said Tuesday to a Muscatine County jury.
A first-degree murder charge in the Oct. 13, 1992, death of Corey Lee Wieneke was brought last May against Annette D. Cahill, 56, of Tipton. McAllister laid out the state’s case in a roughly 16-minute opening statement. Wieneke and Cahill had a sexual relationship, according to the criminal complaint, and the two allegedly argued about his involvement with another woman the morning he was killed.
Full Story at the WCFCourier.com
A Cedar County woman has been charged in the 1992 bludgeoning death of a 22-year-old man in rural West Liberty, authorities said.
Photo: Special to the RegisterAnnette Dee Cahill, 55, of Tipton, was arrested Thursday [May 31, 2018] and charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Corey Wieneke, whose fiancée found him dead on his bedroom floor Oct. 13, 1992, in his Muscatine County home, police said.
A witness went to authorities last year and told them that a few weeks after the killing, Cahill made comments that she was responsible for the homicide, according to a criminal complaint. She told another person Wieneke had been killed with a baseball bat before that was public knowledge or the weapon had been recovered, officials said.
Cahill and Wieneke were in a sexual relationship, authorities said. In the early hours that morning, when investigators believe Wieneke died, Cahill got into a “heated argument” about his involvement with another woman, according to the complaint.
Corey Wieneke, 22, was found bludgeoned to death on the bedroom floor of his rural West Liberty home on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 1992. Wieneke’s fiancée, Jody Hotz, also of West Liberty, said she last saw him alive around 8:15 a.m. that morning and discovered his beaten body in his bedroom at 6 p.m. Tuesday evening.
West Liberty in Muscatine CountyWest Liberty Police, the Muscatine County Sheriff’s Department and the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation investigated the crime.
Larry Goepel of the DCI said Wieneke had been killed sometime during the day Tuesday. He encouraged anyone with information to call the Muscatine County Sheriff’s Department.
An autopsy determined Wieneke died from blunt trauma to the body. A blood-stained aluminum softball bat found one mile from Wieneke’s home was taken to the Department of Criminal Investigation’s laboratory for testing, and later confirmed as being the murder weapon.
Wieneke was an employee at Wink’s Tap, a downtown West Liberty tavern owned by his grandmother, Betty Wieneke. Corey Wieneke worked as the late shift bartender.
Courtesy Daily Iowan, Oct. 15, 1992
Muscatine County sheriff’s deputies cordoned off the area around Wieneke’s home while DCI personnel processed the murder scene, located about three miles west of West Liberty.
KCRG-TV Channel 9 news reporter Mike Wagner discovered the softball bat when he couldn’t get his vehicle started so decided to walk up the gravel road to Wieneke’s one-story house. About a mile away, he saw the metal bat on the road’s north edge.
Wagner informed law officers, who hurried from the murder scene to see the bat. DCI investigators took photographs and measurements before removing the bat from the scene.
The bat had white tape around the handle and a blue barrel with Power Flite Heavyweight in white lettering on it. The white lettering appeared to have blood stains on it. The bat also had the bar code still affixed and the corners weren’t worn, which indicated it may have been recently purchased.
In a Cedar Rapids Gazette article dated Oct. 23, 1992, Sgt. Greg Orr, an investigator for the Muscatine County Sheriff’s Department, confirmed that the bat was bought at a Wal-Mart, but didn’t indicate which one. Orr also said bats with that kind of blue color were last shipped to the area a year prior to the murder. He stated the bat could have been left over from the previous year’s inventory.
Courtesy photo Chris Stewart/Cedar Rapids GazetteThe Power Flite Heavyweight bat had been relatively inexpensive; the murder weapon had a $15 retail price and was bought on sale for $13.
Authorities believed Wieneke knew his killer and said there was no evidence to suggest it was a random killing, and that they believed the person responsible was not from West Liberty but possibly from Iowa City.
Investigators also said they did not believe the murder was drug-related, and that it could be connected to a relationship Wieneke had with a woman. Wieneke was returning home from Iowa City around 7 a.m. the day of the murder.
Investigators interviewed more than 400 individuals in the months following Wieneke’s death, but in an Associated Press story dated 10 years after the murder, Sgt. Mark Kopf of the Muscatine County Sheriff’s Office said no motive had been developed and no one identified as a suspect.
“We just have to get some good information,” Kopf said. “Somebody out there knows something about this case and they need to come forward.”
Susan Wieneke said not knowing why her son died was the hardest thing to cope with.
“I can’t imagine that somebody had something as awful against him,” Susan Wieneke said in the AP story published at qconline.com Oct. 20, 2002. “We didn’t know he had any enemies at all.”
Mrs. Wieneke said she suspected that whoever killed her son knew him as well as her son’s dog, Casey.
“She was always very protective of him,” she said of her son’s golden Labrador retriever.
May 31, 2018: Annette Dee Cahill, 55, of Tipton, was arrested Thursday, May 31, 2018, and charged with first-degree murder in Corey Wieneke’s unsolved homicide.
According to a Des Moines Register story published June 4, 2018, a criminal complaint stated that a witness went to authorities in 2017 and told them that a few weeks after Wieneke’s killing, Cahill made comments about being responsible for the murder.
The complaint stated the cause of death was blunt force trauma, with one key claim: that Cahill had told an individual that Wieneke was killed with a baseball bat before that information became public. Authorities later disavowed this information, stating the claim was mistaken.
Defense attorney Clemens Erdahl was disturbed about the allegation being made publicly without any evidence, and argued the prosecution’s weak case.
Muscatine County Attorney Alan Ostergren said a witness came forward in 2017 with a news tip that helped bring the case together in the six months prior to the arrest.
According to the criminal complaint, Annette Cahill — then known as Annette Hazen — and Wieneke allegedly had a sexual relationship and were involved in a heated argument the morning of Wieneke’s death. Cahill admitted to going to his residence the day he died but denied ever seeing him and allegedly offered conflicting accounts of her whereabouts that morning.
October 3, 2018: Muscatine County District Court Judge Patrick McElyea ruled that Annette Cahill will be tried for first-degree murder on March 4, 2019, for Corey Wieneke’s 1992 killing, the Muscatine Journal reported Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018.
Cahill, 55, of Tipton, faces one count of first-degree murder and, if convicted, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
A hearing is scheduled for Dec. 7, 2018, at the Muscatine County Courthouse.
March 6, 2019: The jury trial for Annette Cahill began on Monday, March 4, 2019, in Muscatine County. Jury selection began Monday and ended Tuesday, at which time the prosecution made its opening statements.
“Actions and consequences, that’s what this case is about,” Iowa Assistant Attorney General Coleman McAllister said Tuesday to a Muscatine County jury. Full Story at WCFCourier.com
Tuesday, March 12, 2019: A deadlocked jury led to a mistrial Tuesday in the murder trial for Annette Cahill.
After nearly a full day of deliberations, a Muscatine County jury of five women and seven men could not reach a unanimous conclusion on the possible verdict — guilty of first-degree murder, guilty of a lesser charge of second-degree murder or not guilty.
In fact, in the first round of voting, the jurors voted 11 to 1 to acquit. After being instructed to return for further deliberations, the jury emerged deadlocked once again; this time with 9 jurors still holding firm to acquit and 3 to convict.
March 26, 2019: A second trial for Annette Cahill was scheduled to begin Sept. 9, 2019, in Muscatine.
Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019: After two days of deliberations, the jury returned to the makeshift courtroom and said they were deadlocked and could not reach a verdict. The judge instructed them to go home and sleep on it and return in the morning. Nobody wanted another hung jury and third trial.
The jurors returned the following morning to deliberate once again, and in an unexpected compromise, settled on a verdict to find Cahill guilty of second-degree murder in Corey Wieneke’s death.
Cahill was later sentenced to up to 50 years in prison.
Corey Lee Wieneke was born March 25, 1970 in Muscatine, Iowa, the son of James and Susan Winfield Wieneke. He was a 1988 graduate of West Liberty High School, where he played center on the football team that made it to the Class AA semifinals.
Corey Wieneke is buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery in West Liberty.
(Photo courtesy MLC, findagrave.com)
He worked as a bartender at Wink’s Tap in West Liberty for several years.
Friends gathered from 2 – 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, at the West Liberty Chapel of the Barker Funeral Home, where a Christian Wake service was held at 7:30 p.m.
A funeral Mass was held at 10 a.m. Friday morning at St. Joseph Catholic Church in West Liberty with the Rev. Tim Bernamann officiating. Wieneke was buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery in West Liberty.
Survivors included his parents, James and Susan Wieneke, West Liberty; his fiancée, Jody Hotz, West Liberty; a daughter, Megan Lee; grandparents, Betty Wieneke, and Edmund and Luetta Winfield, all of West Liberty; great-grandmother, Helen Janney, West Liberty; and great-grandmother Helen Crossett, Iowa City.
When the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation established a Cold Case Unit in 2009, Corey Wieneke’s murder was one of approximately 150 cases listed on the Cold Case Unit’s new website as those the DCI hoped to solve using latest advancements in DNA technology.
Although federal grant funding for the DCI Cold Case Unit was exhausted in December 2011, the DCI continues to assign agents to investigate cold cases as new leads develop or as technological advances allow for additional forensic testing of original evidence.
The DCI remains committed to resolving Iowa’s cold cases and will continue to work diligently with local law enforcement partners to bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice for the victims and their families.
Anyone with additional information or details about Corey Wieneke’s murder is encouraged to call the Muscatine County Sheriff’s Office at (563) 263-6055 or (800) 369-9635, or contact the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation at (515) 725-6010 or email dciinfo@dps.state.ia.us.
The Cops, facts, Dateline got it right. The fantasies and admissions of Annette Cahill’s were quite Delousional of what & who she was & meant to a bartender. It so Clear she was trying to catch & trap someone for a financial future. She wasn’t at home with her kids, but trying to trap & catch someone who was 7 yrs younger, by often getting drunk & asking for a ride. Realistic Annette was just a convenient side piece and that’s all. Annette’s claims of love was lust, and her claim they were going to go look for bars and start a life!? What a fantasy! Annette is a coward, liar, a murderer. And unfortunately She wasn’t nailed & arrested & jailed 25 years sooner.
My wife and I have seen literally thousands of true crime docs and this one ranks up there in the top 3 of weakest cases ever! The other 2 were Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey. One girl has the memory, the other girl does not remember it – they cancel each other out. Was it a planted memory by a mother with a vendetta? A dream? And I’ve never heard of someone committing a perfect murder with the exception that they went home and started confessing out loud to the victim. Makes no sense. The drug addict’s story makes no sense. Why would a murderer take the bloody clothes out of the bag in plain site of others and then burn them? Wouldn’t she just throw the paper bag with the clothes still in it into the fire and burn everything at once? And why didn’t he say this 25 years earlier when questioned? He can’t be trusted. Why weren’t the hairs tested? And the judge should have allowed this to be a hung jury. It’s obvious there was no evidence. This was a guilty until proven innocent case. I don’t like to speak ill of the dead, but it sounds like this guy’s suspect list could have been longer than the Nile. This is one of those cases that leaves you thinking if she could be convicted of murder with no evidence, then anybody could.
The DATELINE episode should bring about another look at this case. Why are her appeals being denied? Unfortunately Cahill had a weak lawyer and that should be a consideration for a re-trial. The judge should be recalled. I intend to keep following this case.
I just saw Dateline on 6/18/2022 and was stunned at the conviction. When Cahill said at her arrest “you don’t know how wrong you are” something rang true to me. I looked at the facts and there was no case for a conviction. A questionable 25-year-old memory from a 9 year old girl and a drug addict saying he saw the defendant burning bloody clothes – how are these considered evidence? And neither of those testimonies were offered during the 1992 investigation. Worst of all is the second judge not accepting a hung jury for the second time, and instructing the jury to come back the next day with a different verdict. I am blown away how this guilty verdict was railroaded by the judge, the detectives and the Weineke family’s desire for a conviction. It’s possible Cahill is guilty, but this trial certainly didn’t prove that.
I couldn’t agree more. I also watched the Dateline episode and read everything I could on the alleged “evidence.” I normally don’t question law enforcement’s decision to indict, but this case left me with a “you’ve got to be kidding me sick feeling deep in my gut.
There are cases on this site that contain — in my opinion — more than ample evidence to charge a suspect and ensure a conviction, and yet years go by with no arrests. If someone wrote up this story as a novel, any agent would find it ludicrous and tell them not to quit the day job. Mike Z. is correct in that the possibility exists that Cahill is guilty, but I saw no credible evidence whatsoever to support even an indictment, let alone a guilty verdict at trial.
If anything, the Dateline episode illuminated the nonsensical rationale for Cahill’s arrest.
Can you say…”Salem witch trial?” Watch out Justice. And the softball bat, how many ounces was it – because to swing a bat and make perfect contact to cause unconsciousness you need skill and strength- try it out on a tree- frickin impossible unless you’re built like a weightlifter and play for the MLB- Any male suspects or just a mother of 2 kids that has the time to kill during a weekday? Oh no- somebody of this 8 billion person world, who might have a repressed memory slightly askew, and you’re going to jail for 50 years!!
I just saw an episode of Dateline about this case. It was mentioned that there were hair samples found in the victim’s hand and they were never tested with current technology..why not?
Becomes cause for concern,when personal vendetta.s whether real or imagined matters by individuals making statements known and proven False, yet lay false claims by social media and talk among themselves leading us the readers to see there are individuals determined to to see the woman accused be prosecuted and judged for a crime that of which she suffers for apparently no more reason than simply knowing the deceased.
As I read this Case let me say this You can call everyone among the deceased family .school mates community .work place just as suspect because they also knew the deceased,find record of high school students that he had altercation with accuse them as well,I read he worked at a Bar/Grill,Those who frequented Well Knew him too. Murder is a tragedy ,to accuse someone for nothing more than knowing the deceased is a grave matter,i read that false statements submitted to authorities have been stricken from admissible in this case due to being proven false shall we say[a.k.a lie?] and other statements with nothing to support them apart from hearsay or persons that likely have clouded judgement because of their proximity to the deceased_I can understand these people wanting Justice for a deceased relative ,but I am left questioning why would these be so adamant in wanting the defendant Cahill be convicted _that they lay proven false statements to her guilty yet NO EVIDENCE Supports their claims what-so-ever except that she knew Weineke. as a former girlfriend however I read a fiance is listed ,obviously also knowing him,As a former Bartender myself I can tell you very few bartenders ever can say they are without some enemies and grudges held against them, after Bartending,nor can they say they did not witness some things in their careers that have throughout time, been the very same things that that got persons killed,In these environments you have all manner of things possible contributing to alter peoples minds thoughts and cloud their perspectives whether you know it for a fact or not _it is not pleasant to hear but threats fly at bartenders who any other day may call these same friends_Threats are common For reasons often unbeknownst to any one other than the barred patrons or jealous wives husbands who feel the bartender is aiding and abetting .known or suspected cheating spouses even accusing bartenders of contributing to the destruction of their relatives by merely serving them, or adding to the problems they experience in the home because of an alcoholic patron who becomes inebriated then goes home and abuses his or her family ,then there are passers thru unknown to locals who are treated hostile or become hostile.even local altercations where threats to life and limb are frequently overheard or encountered and sworn to be carried out by hostility for a 100 different reasons in any given event..Every Bartender has known of fights that cost injury that may or may not be life threatening to the parties involved, When the Bartender must break up these or phone local law enforcement and it is not un common to result in Jail time or Charges filed on the party or parties involved-fights break out and threats fly its relatively normal that these can and do happen guns are pulled -fights and threats over money owed You name it, can and will continually be a given in this environment ,any bartender can recount of deaths either by murder ,injury or accidental and involve violence by beating -stabbing and shootings which can occur beginning in the bar and later outside or follow up to individual homes at a later time-Bars have Drive gunfire resulting in bullets put into them or property vehicles its all happened and every bartender knows of a time/times or multiple events that could be attributed to bar life and frequenting or working in these places.where you know the parties or knew of the ones involved as well as those who died _measures are taken to minimize these occasions but they still happen! If one could be accused tried and convicted of homicide for simply having known a person even dated or hated a person and then prosecuted with nothing more to prove guilt by having known that person or persons_Well I do not need to say further how empty the streets would be today!
I am more than a little Questioning how one can find someone guilty with NO HARD EVIDENCE Much less NO EVIDENCE to PROVE GUILT.I also read that the matter rests heavily on a childs testimony obviously confused by the divorce of her parents -her dads questionable habits .her moms grief and unhappiness and the entrants of other women into her life .What Kid would not wish to blame all of these parties for what she is living amidst as a result of all this,But that is not grounds to prosecute them of Murder!
Fact is Murder happens in these scenarios more frequently than most of us care to think.
It cause me considerable thought that the deceased persons family would single out Cahill and want her charged when it just as obvious that their was happenings going on that would implicate a fair amount of other likely suspects with considerably more motive and these are not tried for the same due to lack of evidence -I also Find it hard to comprehend cahill able to bludgeon a man Weinekes size as he appears in the photo and he put up no resistance that likely would have left visible signs of the incident on the perpetrator and certainly fingerprints and other evidence at the scene_This Case Bothers me From reading what is known _I cannot find anything in the facts surrounding the case that indicates any thing other than the deceased families obvious determination to blame cahill for their relatives death It even shows necessity and revenge In these scenarios it is easy to speculate what all is not being said and that’s where the hidden Truth Lies in my opinion of course a persons relatives would omit other known occasions .we know by reading they happened given what is presented,another thing that fails to surface in this is Weinekes daughter if such despite is still held against cahill -Why? even More what was the Child witnessing in her fathers behavior what was she hearing in her mothers distress over an affair and what was she hearing at her grandmothers house ,That so clearly shows a families need to cast the entire distress of the family by the events occurring Yet Not even Remotely lays blame to the childs Father for causing nor contributing to their grief -the Mother understandable favors her son but he clearly was a Large part of his familys distress -What was he telling his family that was fueling their animosity upon her to leave consideration of other suspects out of the Question. Makes me wonder who is being left out of this equation that carried out a threat- I find it hard to believe given the Known facts surrounding Mr Weinekes death that his behavior was not making quite a few enemies ,and I believe the parties who would file erroneous statements and claims that would later be determined false was hearing the same in a ongoing way We Know in a childs mind would not be discriminating as to discerning the whole truth what she was hearing,but would be accepting as fact what her relatives were saying among themselves ,We Know memories Change and given the Stress and grief of her dads death would we be hearing her family discuss and blame ,this same childwould not have reason to question what she was hearing in a judicial way -causing her memories to be more based on her understanding of what other members of her family were saying_We cannot come to a time where courts can Execute the tenets of Law on this Clearly obvious Bias-which then becomes the sole element by which to sentence a person to life with out parole and call this JUSTICE! I am Seeing Some Similarities in other cases that should be cause for everyones concern , not to mention what appears on social media to seed the public in a way we can best coin Covert manipulation,knowing full well the desired effect one who does this would be wanting to attain by using this method of poisoning the pot shall we say detracting from the Integrity of the defense in a way that clearly shows the similarity between the submission of statements that were proven false in an earlier hearing, Our Hopes and Prayers are Solely For Justice & Truth Based upon what we know so far _ Any Court that could hand down a judgement with no EVIDENCE Whatsoever to Substantiate the GUILT of the defendant in this case with the added erroneous statements made to the court -in lieu of their proven falseness! Should be cause for EVERYONES CONCERN! Personally I do understand the Deceased.s family their need for closure and they wish to see their relatives killer or killer’s brought to Justice !The Fact is 2 wrongs do not make a right nor does that in anyway resemble JUSTICE_to even consider that the lack of EVIDENCE is not COINCIDENTAL when you are accusing the wrong individual is it_IF the COURT hears the Evidence that likely still remains if the Guilty party was being tried -this also would most Likely bring new Evidence to light with guilty parties known associates. I only Pray That A grief does not cause a serious INJUSTICE before the Eyes of GOD Closure can never happen in this way And it by no means can be called JUST!
Arrest has been made:
https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/arrest-made-in-1992-murder/
Happy Angel Birthday Corey! Your memory will always be alive with WLHS Class of ’88!! I pray one day your case will be solved so peace may be granted to you and your family and friends. Thinking of you today and always!
motive is to scare others…mistaken identity..
Wasn’t this the one where a reporter found the baseball bat during a live broadcast, and some people thought it was all staged? (No, the reporter was not a suspect.)
Not during a broadcast but on a walk from his vehicle to Corey’s house for help, his vehicle wouldn’t start.
Sorry, I couldn’t remember all the details.
i think I remeber hearing about this case.
Are there any suspects?
Sounds like it was over a girl
Hope this gets solved!
Corey was a great friend, neighbor and classmate of mine. … RIP, you will never be forgotten. I keep the hope alive that someday this will be solved. Miss you friend!