By Inside Edition Staff
Updated: 2:08 PM PST, February 01, 2021
The 1988 Michigan cold case murder of Gayle Barrus who disappeared in 1988 has finall has finally been solved thanks to a blood sample –– but police will not be filing charges because the suspect is already dead.
The 1988 Michigan cold case murder of Gayle Barrus has finally been solved thanks to a blood sample –– but police will not be filing charges because the suspect is already dead.
Barrus, a mother of three, disappeared on Oct. 9, 1988, while living in Battle Creek. Investigators searched for her for 16 days until she was found along River Road with markings of sexual abuse and stab wounds, Wood TV reported.
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BATTLE CREEK, Mich. Police said they solved the murder of a Battle Creek woman more than 30 years later, after a newly discovered blood sample connected a man to the fatal stabbing.
But no charges will be filed because Roger Plato was killed in 1988, three days before Gayle Barrus’ body was found by hunters in Calhoun County, prosecutor David Gilbert said.
Nonetheless, Barrus’ family is relieved that authorities believe the case has been solved.
“I am just going to exhale and pray and tell my mom it’s done,” James Barrus of Dayton, Ohio, told the Battle Creek Enquirer. “She can rest knowing we have the answers, and we don’t have to wait until we meet her again.”