A Battle Creek Police Detective was finally able to give a Michigan family the answers they waited more than 32 years for.
The family of Gayle Barrus finally have the answers they ve waited decades for. After many failed attempts to identify the suspect, who left his DNA behind as evidence, Battle Creek Police Detective Scott Marshall was finally able to tell the family of Gayle Barrus that without a shadow of a doubt the murderer has been identified. Roger Plato, who had long been a suspect, was identified as the person who murdered the single mom.
Plato however, will not be brought to justice. He was shot dead by Battle Creek Police just days before the missing single mother s body was found in 1988. Nor will the man believed to have helped Plato in some capacity, Richard Compton. A man fitting Compton s description was seen with Plato at the time Gayle went missing. Compton however died a miserable death.. he was homeless and died of sepsis and cirrhosis of the liver some y
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Blood sample from dead suspect helps solve 1988 homicide, cops claim Storm Gifford
A random blood sample taken in the late 1980s has led to the solving of a 33-year-old homicide cold case.
Three days before the body of Gayle Barrus was discovered in Calhoun County, Mich., in October 1988, 24-year-old Roger Plato, an assault suspect in a different case, was killed.
At the time, Plato was being interviewed by cops about a different assault. While attempting to flee, he was shot dead, the Battle Creek Enquirer reported.
Investigators subsequently took a blood sample from Plato.
Barrus was 30 years old when she was last spotted at a Battle Creek, Mich., coffeeshop. Sixteen days later her raped body was found alongside a road by hunters.
Battle Creek Cold Case Murder Solved After More Than 32 Years
A Battle Creek Police Detective was finally able to give a Michigan family the answers they waited more than 32 years for.
The family of Gayle Barrus finally have the answers they ve waited decades for. After many failed attempts to identify the suspect, who left his DNA behind as evidence, Battle Creek Police Detective Scott Marshall was finally able to tell the family of Gayle Barrus that without a shadow of a doubt the murderer has been identified. Roger Plato, who had long been a suspect, was identified as the person who murdered the single mom.