Former candidate for ID governor investigated in 1984 Colorado cold case killing

[brooklynite]

Isaho Stateman

A former candidate for Idaho governor says he is under investigation in the cold-case killing of a 12-year-old girl in Colorado 35 years ago.

Authorities last week searched the Twin Falls home of 68-year-old Steve Pankey, serving him a warrant that said investigators had probable cause to believe he kidnapped and killed Jonelle Matthews in 1984.

Jonelle was reported missing from her home in Greeley, north of Denver, on Dec. 20, 1984, after returning from performing a Christmas concert with her classmates, according to the Denver Post. At the time, Pankey and his former wife lived about 2 miles away.

Pankey, a 2014 Constitution Party candidate for governor who also ran in the 2018 Republican primary, disclosed the investigation this week in interviews with the Idaho Statesman. The search, Pankey said, came about a month after he gave police a DNA sample.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Better late than never.

Another Militia supporter.

[Doreen]

2. Good, just because it is cold do not let it go.

I had a friend in high school and about a year after high school she was walking to a gas station to get gas and was picked up by some guys who took her out into the woods and raped and murdered her. They looked for her attackers for about a year and then put her into the back of the file cabinet. About 2 years ago I was reading our news paper and a couple of detectives decided they were going to start taking on cold cases and hers was one of the main ones they were going start investigating. I cried when I read that.


I do not know if they had any success ( I should see if I can get any info. )

We have more advanced technology for proving crimes like this even if they are cold and so it should be used.