Murder of Marie Bridget Patrick

On November 11, 1981, 15-year-old Marie Patrick and a 16-year-old friend were in the process of running away from Cincinnati, Ohio to Texas. While hitchhiking in Cincinnati the two were picked up by a truck driver who called himself Bill at about 6:30 p.m. 

While on the I-64 at mile marker 67 in Indiana Bill began to make sexual advances and threats toward the girls. Between 10 to 10:30p.m., the girls demanded to be let out and a struggle ensued and Bill would end up stabbing Marie in the leg. Marie would shove her friend out of the moving truck, but Marie could not get out with her. Her friend would survive and someone would give her a ride to the hospital in Jeffersonville. That was when she told them what had happened. 

It wasn't until the next morning that Marie's body would be found about 5 miles down from where her friend escaped. She likely died soon after she was last seen. It's unknown if she had fallen, jumped, or shoved out of the vehicle, but had died due to head injuries from the fall. She did not have signs of sexual assault. 

Bill was driving a semi with a white cab and a silver grey trailer.

SOURCES:

Indiana State Police

Evansville Courier and Press November 12, 1981

Evansville Courier and Press November 17, 1981

Murder of Ashley Turniak

 

On November 9, 1998 16-year-old Ashley Turniak went to her  Highschool in Agawam, Massachussets. She was seen before classes and was waiting for a friend so they could skip together. She would end up skipping without the friend and getting in the car of an unidentified person. 

20 minutes later on Interstate 91 in Longmeadow near the Massachusetts/Connecticut line Ashley was seen tumbling out of a blue or tan car traveling towards Conneticut at 50 to 65 mph. It's unknown if she had been pushed or jumped out to escape the car, but had exited feet first. She had unfortantly died from her injuries. 

She was wearing a black tank top, jeans, but did not have a coat or shoes on. The same day her backpack was later found lying on a side street of the highway.

SOURCES:

Hampden District Attorney

South Coast Today

Hartford Courant 

Murder of Sonia Blanco and Evelyn Cruz

Evelyn Cruz                     Sonia Blanco

On Feb. 4, 1993, the bodies of 23-year-old Sonia Blanco and 26-year-old Evelyn Cruz were found minutes from each other. Shortly after 6 a.m. Sonia's body was located on 28 Dix Street and shortly after that Evelyn's was found on Summit Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. They seemed to have been killed and then thrown from a vehicle.

Both of them were manually strangled. The motive didn't seem to be sexual assault as they were still wearing their clothes. There was also no evidence of sexual violence. Both were well-known prostitutes in the area.

SOURCES:
City of Worcester (Sonia)
City of Worcester (Evelyn)
The Boston Globe
The Transcript 

Murder of Shelley Connolly *Update*

On Jan. 7, 1978 16-year-old Shelley Connolly went to an Anchorage bar called Chilkoot Charlie's. At some point during the night, she was seen with several men at the bar. At least one person reported seeing her at Leroy's a diner on C street. A reliable timeline is hard to determine. 

Sometime during the night Shelley was raped and beaten. At some point, she was pushed out of a moving car. Her hand had gotten stuck in the door though and she was dragged by the car. It's believed that once they noticed she was being dragged they opened the door and threw her over the side of a hill to the railroad tracks 10 miles south of Potter Marsh at McHugh Creek at milepost 109 of the Seward Highway.

There was evidence that Shelley was still alive afterward. In the snow, you could tell that she tried to climb up the hill. She had died from a ruptured spleen and exposure. The next morning two female hitchhikers found her body. 

The four men Shelley was talking to at the bar are possible suspects. The police are also looking for a man who went by "Pinkie" who may have lived in the Kenai area. 

UPDATE:

On August 30, 2019, 62-year-old Donald F. McQuade has been arrested for her murder. He is charged with both first and second-degree murder. They found a DNA Match by going through genetic genealogy. 

SOURCES:
https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Anchorages-Cold-Case-16-year-old-left-for-dead-400891401.html
https://coldcasesmaps.com/coldcase/shelley-connolly/
https://www.adn.com/crime-justice/article/one-family-last-hope-solve-unsolved-murder-nearly-40-years-old/2015/05/04/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26527057/shelley-connolly

December 10, 2017 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jane Doe *Identified* Name Not Released

Around 2 in the morning on December 10, 2017, a woman was pushed out of a silver Ford F-150  on Frankford Ave. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a woman was pushed out. She tried to cling on, but fell off and was hit by a car traveling behind the truck.

The vehicle was a silver Ford F-150. The tailgate was missing and there was a sticker in the back window.

She was a white female between 30 and 50 years old. She was 5'0" and 83 lbs. She has dark brown to black hair. She was wearing black yoga pants, grey sweatpants, a black coat, a blue coat, a black shirt and pink and black shoes with blue laces.

In August of 2019 this young woman was identified. Her name has not been released to the public.

SOURCES:
https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/17475
http://unidentified.wikia.com/wiki/Philadelphia_Jane_Doe_(2017)
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Woman-Dies-After-Being-Pushed-Out-of-Moving-Car-4631850
http://www.fox29.com/news/police-woman-pushed-from-truck-run-over-in-kensington

Murder of Nacomie Freeman

On June 24, 2004 24 year-old Nacomie Freeman was pushed out of a moving truck on W. Denton Ave. in Phoenix, Arizona. It was found that she'd not only been pushed out of a moving vehicle, but was shot  in the abdomen before being pushed out. Witnesses said the truck that was involved was dark colored and short bed, possibly a late 1990's model.

There isn't much information on this case.

SOURCES:
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22360380/nacomie_freeman_murder/
https://www.projectcoldcase.org/2015/11/29/cold-case-spotlight-nacomie-freeman-2/
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/azcentral/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=2400009
https://database.projectcoldcase.org/?name=&city=&state=Arizona&year=