The last time Wendy Jerome was seen alive she was leaving her home in Rochester, New York, to deliver a birthday card to a friend who lived nearby. It was around 7 p.m. on Thanksgiving and Wendy, who was 14, had to be home by an 8 p.m. curfew.When Wendy didn't return by that time, her parents became
The last time Wendy Jerome was seen alive she was leaving her home in Rochester, New York, to deliver a birthday card to a friend who lived nearby. It was around 7 p.m. on Thanksgiving and Wendy, who was 14, had to be home by an 8 p.m. curfew.
Then, Thursday night, 36 years after Wendy was killed, investigators went to the home of Wendy’s mother, Marlene Jerome, and told her that they had solved the case. Speaking through tears at a news conference Friday, Jerome thanked the police for never giving up on the investigation, even as the original detectives on the case retired and the trail went cold.
The brutal rape and murder of Wendy — who fought back when she was attacked — haunted Rochester for years. The Rochester Police Department’s announcement of the breakthrough came in the midst of an extraordinarily tumultuous week. On Tuesday, the police chief and several of his highest-ranking officials resigned or were demoted, months after the death in March of Daniel Prude, a Black man who suffocated after he had been placed in a hood by Rochester police officers and pinned to the ground.
The results came back in July, with a list of potential suspects, Umbrino said. Investigators, he said, then went back and found reports and evidence from the 1990s, which helped “close our circle a little bit tighter around our suspect,” he said.
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