Did they solve the case about a mentally retarted man who was harrassed and followed home by a black man who killed his mother even though he passed his home to try to fool him?

Did they solve the case about a mentally retarted man who was harrassed and followed home by a black man who killed his mother even though he passed his home to try to fool him?

You mean the Dorothy May Donovan murder? No, they never did. The most recent article related to the 1991 murder was in 2002. Here's the link:

http://www.doverpost.com/PostArchives/01-30-02/pages/donovan.html

Are you sure the victim's son, Charles Holden, was mentally ********? I don't remember the show saying anything about him being mentally challenged in any way.

I thought the show said that, but it's been so long since I've seen it.

There was also another case where a red headed retarted man disappeared at a hospital after his parents sent him there, did they ever find him?

I believe the case you're thinking of is that of Gordon Thomas Page, Jr. He was not ********, he was autistic. He is still missing. Here are some links about him:

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/p/page_gordon.html

http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/151dmmi.html

http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/ncmaprofile_all.php?A200300496W

That's the one, it's been awhile since I saw it. Too bad they never found him.

I always thought they would find Gordie.

Does anyone remember the case of a State Department man who killed his entire family while they slept with an ax and then drove to Tennessee where he abandoned his car and disappeared? A few years later a colleague of his found him in Italy of all places. I believe this happened in the 60's. That case has always freaked me out. Also, does anyone know anything about the case of the two college students from Georgia who were parked in their car near a lake at night and shot to death? That one was scary too. :eek:

Does anyone remember the case of a State Department man who killed his entire family while they slept with an ax and then drove to Tennessee where he abandoned his car and disappeared? A few years later a colleague of his found him in Italy of all places. I believe this happened in the 60's. That case has always freaked me out. Also, does anyone know anything about the case of the two college students from Georgia who were parked in their car near a lake at night and shot to death? That one was scary too. :eek:

The man accused of killing his entire family in 1976 was William Bradford Bishop. You can find wanted pictures of him through search engines (such as google.com).

As for the second case, the young couple murdered were Grant Hendrickson and Michele Cartagena. After the segment aired, Andrew Cook confessed to the murders to his father (who is a cop), and is now on death row. A motive was never established, but we can assume that the couple were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Thanks for the response. I am new here and find this site to be very interesting. And to think I thought I was the only one who wondered about the unsolved mysteries reported on the show! Seems there are many out there who still are curious about these unsolved mysteries! :)

this case always bothered me. I'm even scared reading about it right now. (i'm a chicken) But how odd for this man to know where this guy lived and then kill his mother. That's odd...I'm sure he knew her some how.

[QUOTE=Kane]You mean the Dorothy May Donovan murder? No, they never did. The most recent article related to the 1991 murder was in 2002. Here's the link:

http://www.doverpost.com/PostArchives/01-30-02/pages/donovan.html

I'm a bit surprised the FBI finds it hard to believe someone would break into a house for fear of waking up the occupants. Keep in mind the suspect on the UM case according to the son seemed to be high on drugs. With that in mind I see it very probable that a person under those conditions could do this.

Most drug addicts break into houses without any planning. IMO he probably was looking for money or a car or both and he startled the woman,panicked and under his drug induced haze committed the overkill. It can be easily done under the influence of PCP, crack.

This is sad and strange it is very possible for the man who terrorized the son killed his mother we are not certain that the hitch hiker did not know where the son lived remember in the re enactment the son got out of the truck and left the hitch hiker there so who is to say that nothing in the truck with his address present, on it. to me I think he made the connection that the son did not live that far away after all when the son got ready to put him out he said that is as" fair as I can go" ( an obvious clue that he lived in the area and did not want to past home) and if he didn't know where he lived then why would the killer go back in the opposite direction from were he needed to go it doesn't make any sense. If my memory serves correct they were able to lift prints from the house and the murder weapon, well I wonder if an investigation was ever done to see if any prints could be lifted from the son's truck since the supposed killer was in the vehicle he would have been sure to leave some type of prints behind.. Also there is no proof to support the supposed killer was a drug addict, could be that the man was just crazy. That and there may have been some truth to what the killer/hitch hiker was saying that his sister was having a baby and he needed to get to her,, I wonder if there was any investigation to see if there were any women that gave birth that night or was admitted for labor.. The man could have been just desperate for a ride that and fueled with anger because he could not get there may have been enough for him to kill....