03-07-2017, 10:24 AM
UTAH -- 40 Year Old Murder Solved
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On Dec. 5, 1977, 16-year-old ^ Sharon Schollmeyer was found dead in the bathtub in her apartment at 125 E. First Ave in Salt Lake City.
"She was in 6 inches of water, a gag in her mouth and a blindfold over her eyes," the arrest warrant states. An autopsy determined the cause of death to be "strangulation and suffocation."
Schollmeyer was discovered by her mother Sally Kadleck, who went to the apartment to check on her daughter after she did not show up for work. Patrick McCabe was the apartment manager and he let the mother into the apartment, according to the affidavit.
In 2013, the halter top that was used as the gag in Schollmeyer's mouth was finally submitted for DNA testing. In 2016, that DNA was submitted to a national sex offender database. In December, the database came up with a match to Patrick McCabe, the landlord who'd casually opened the door for Sharon's mom and let her discover her teen daughter like that. Heartless asshole.
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On Dec. 5, 1977, 16-year-old ^ Sharon Schollmeyer was found dead in the bathtub in her apartment at 125 E. First Ave in Salt Lake City.
"She was in 6 inches of water, a gag in her mouth and a blindfold over her eyes," the arrest warrant states. An autopsy determined the cause of death to be "strangulation and suffocation."
Schollmeyer was discovered by her mother Sally Kadleck, who went to the apartment to check on her daughter after she did not show up for work. Patrick McCabe was the apartment manager and he let the mother into the apartment, according to the affidavit.
In 2013, the halter top that was used as the gag in Schollmeyer's mouth was finally submitted for DNA testing. In 2016, that DNA was submitted to a national sex offender database. In December, the database came up with a match to Patrick McCabe, the landlord who'd casually opened the door for Sharon's mom and let her discover her teen daughter like that. Heartless asshole.
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