Isabel Cordle 1988 Ohio Cold Case

[NightOwl]

Interesting case, NightOwl.

I've seen the previews for Cold Justice; looking forward to the series.

Kelly Siegler is amazing in the courtroom. I'll never forget her prosecution of lying murderess Susan Wright, who stabbed her husband nearly 200 times after tying him to their bed posts.

Siegler brought a bed and a dummy into the courtroom, straddled the dummy, and stabbed it over and over. Her cross-examination was brutal as well; she called Wright out on every single lie. Wright was found guilty, of course.

And, Yolanda McCLary is a really smart investigator.

Hoping together they'll solve some of the small town cold cases covered in the show, like Isabel's.

Thanks! HairOfTheDog I watched the TNT segment with Susan & Yolanda, I was really impressed with both of these ladies "Justice Warriors".

I don't have TNT network so hope they put the show online to watch.

Hope they both present the killer. I found another article in the Bellvue Gazette Newspaper will add it below.

Anyone else think the husband probably did it?

*Basing my opinion solely on what I've read in this thread.

It sure looks like him, the Sheriff thinks it was someone in the house. I wondered why is she sleeping on the couch?

Here's the Bellvue Gazette article it's very interesting.

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Cold case reopened after 25 years by Sandusky County

The San­dusky County Sheriff’s Office has reopened a 25-year-old Belle­vue mur­der case where a woman was mur­dered in her home as she slept down­stairs on the couch with four other fam­ily mem­bers also sleep­ing in the home.
Sheriff’s Detec­tive Sean O’Connell said in 1988 on Jan. 24, Isabella Cor­dle was mur­dered with a hatchet which was found out­side the entry way to the house at 1350 W. Main St. That house — today a tri-plex — still stands, but all of Cordle’s fam­ily have moved from the area.
“We want to throw it out to the pub­lic,” O’Connell said about what hap­pened 25-years ago.
Deputies deter­mined that Isabella went to bingo on the Sat­ur­day night before her mur­der in Amherst and she returned home late.
“She sent an 11 and 14 year old up to bed,” the deputy said about the three chil­dren in the house. The third child, a 12-year-old boy, was report­edly sleep­ing with Isabella’s hus­band, Richard Cor­dle, upstairs.
“Isabella changed into her paja­mas, got some­thing to eat and went into the liv­ing room and fell asleep,” he said about the 49-year-old vic­tim. “She was found in a sleep­ing position.”
After many years and other the­o­ries being ruled out, deputies believe she was killed by some­one in the home.
Twenty-five years ago the county coro­ner deter­mined the local woman died between 1 to 2 a.m. Sun­day. Deputies stayed on the scene through the night and into the next day, accord­ing to reports from The Gazette.
The vic­tim was slain with a blow from a hatchet or “hand-ax”.
In 1988, The Gazette reported: “Cor­dle told deputies he awoke to the sound of the tele­vi­sion and came down­stairs in the white, two story-house. Accord­ing to Mr. Cordle’s state­ment, he found Mrs. Cor­dle lying on the couch in her night­clothes and the front door was wide open. “
Since reopen­ing this cold case, O’Connell said deputies have returned to the build­ing that was the Cordle’s home.
The depart­ment still has the hatchet and blood from the scene in evi­dence, he added. With new evi­dence processes, the sheriff’s depart­ment is await­ing sci­en­tific reports on what was col­lected in 1988.
“We sus­pect the obvi­ous,” O’Connell said Thursday.
The hatchet was a model that was avail­able and sold at Kmart and at a sup­plier in Nor­walk, called P&R Hard­ware, which is no longer open. That hard­ware store had a con­tract with a for­mer Nor­walk com­pany called Van­dresser – where both Richard Cor­dle and a woman named Sue Thomp­son, who later mar­ried the wid­ower, worked in 1988, accord­ing to the detective.
Cor­dle and his wife, Sue, now live in Fort Wayne, Ind., accord­ing to O’Connell.
The detec­tive is seek­ing any infor­ma­tion about the fam­ily, infor­ma­tion about Cor­dle while he worked at Van­dresser and an infor­ma­tion that has popped up in the past 25 years as to who mur­dered Isabella Cordle.

http://thebellevuegazette.com/local-news...ky-county/



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