On June 14, 1992, 17-year-old Elva Poore left a note on the kitchen table at her Delaware home stating she was riding to Ocean City with a girlfriend. She promised to call them later that week. Her parents had previously forbidden her from doing so and Elva did so anyway. But instead of going with a girlfriend like she wrote, she had left with some boys from Chesapeake City.
On June 15 a friend of Elva saw her on the boardwalk. She would be seen again by the friend the next morning at The Admiral, a low-budget motel, in the older part of Ocean City. She may have stayed in a separate room from the boys though she didn't have money to pay for it. On at least one of the nights she was gone she stayed in a baseball dugout with one of the boys.
The last time Elva was seen alive was at 3 a.m. on the boardwalk. She was seen arguing with one of the boys. It was also stated she was last seen walking towards Ocean Lodge Motel. Elva would be found dead the next day on Marl Pit Rd off of U.S. 13 Northbound in Odessa.
Elva had cocaine in her system when she had died. She had been hit in the head and it's believed that the person who killed her strangled her to death with their forearm. It's believed more than one person was involved in her death as her body would not have ended up where it was without.
Elva was said to be hanging out with men in their early 20's. These men were recreational drug users. There are suspects in this case though no arrests were made.
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Elva was actually my 2nd cousin whom I even share the same last name with, though I unfortunately never did get to meet her. This case has always been in the back of my mind and it is very sad that it has not yet been solved. My step-siblings actually did know her though, as well as the boys who were last seen with her. So I have heard a few things about her murder from different people over the years, including that at least one of the guys who were involved with her murder ended up dead and another guy was paralyzed (in separate events). Which makes it seem almost as if karma may have helped provide some justice for her. I did read a news article quite few years back now, I believe from around 2009, that the police were testing the DNA from the evidence, but no follow up article or anything related was ever published regarding the results of those tests. Now that they have genetic genealogy DNA testing that has helped solve other cold cases, I can only hope that they will move on to that or really just hope for anything else at all to be done to help solve this cold case once and for all. Elva deserves justice. I know her mother has already passed, before ever knowing the truth and that is heartbreaking. I wish there were more available details out there about her case so it could be brought back into the light and get more attention so the police would continue their work on it. Until then, may Elva and her mother rest in peace. Thank you for publishing this on your site.
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