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Profile |
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Name: John Kelly Gentry Jr.
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Race: White |
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Age Now: 55 |
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Height: 5'7" |
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Weight: 160 lbs. |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Brown
Police say sometimes he wears a full beard
He might also wear a mustache
Police say sometimes he has long sideburns |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Brown
Glasses |
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Other Physical Characteristics: Gentry has a thin to medium build |
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Wanted for :
Murder, Monroe, MI;
Apr 12, 1983
Murder, Toledo, OH;
Apr 13, 1983
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Toledo, OH
Deerfield, MI |
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Possible Location : Los Angeles, CA
Chicago, IL
Toledo, OH |
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Last Known : Toledo, OH |
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Traits |
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Police say Gentry is Bisexual |
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They also say he prefers bars with female impersonators |
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Police say Gentry dates female impersonators |
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Gentry allegedly uses
marijuana, glue and LSD |
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He is also known to drink Bacardi's 151 rum with a beer chaser |
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If he's tight on money, he drinks Wild Irish Rose and MD 20-20 |
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He smokes two packs of Kool cigarettes a day |
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He has worked as a landscaper, car wash attendant, janitor and porno book clerk |
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He frequents cemeteries |
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Gentry reads books on the occult and witchcraft |
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He enjoys heavy metal music |
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Gentry claims to be a judo expert |
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Case Story |
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Can You Help Solve This Cold Case? |
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John Kelly Gentry was serving six months in the Lucas, Ohio County jail for felonious assault when he met the young, beautiful kitchen manager, Barbara Gerber. The quick-thinker convinced Gerber that he was in jail for getting into a bar fight over a woman's honor.
In fact, he was serving time for crushing his male lover's adam's apple. When he finished serving his time, he began dating 26-year-old Barbara and was soon spending much of his time at her home in Deerfield, Michigan. |
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Gentry was playing both sides of the romantic coin. |
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What Barbara didn't know was that Gentry was romantically involved with someone else as well, 52-year-old William Veith. Veith owned a coin shop in Toledo, Ohio, and Gentry lived with him in his Toledo home.
Gentry spent his time commuting between Toledo and Deerfield, Michigan just over the Ohio-Michigan state line. By mid-April, police say, the charade was over. On April 12, Barbara's nude body was found in her home. She had been stabbed to death and sexually assaulted. When police went to Toledo, Ohio to try and find her boyfriend John Gentry, they checked the address on his probation report which listed his residence at William Veith's house in Toledo. Veith was not home, so they decided to check his coin store. When they found the store locked as well they became suspicious. Tragically, their instincts were right. Veith's body was found in the basement of his shop, a bloodied axe nearby. Police say Veith was bludgeoned to death with the blunt end of the axe. Police also found coins, diamonds, and Veith's car missing. |
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Maps and postcards show Gentry heads west. |
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On April 22, 1983, Veith's car was found in downtown South Bend, Indiana. On the seat of the car was a road map of the Ohio Indiana Turnpike to Chicago. There was also a styrofoam coffee cup on the front seat with Gentry's prints on them.
On August 29th, a warrant for Gentry's arrest was issued charging him with murdering Veith. Within the next week, Gentry sent a friend a postcard from San Diego, and his father a postcard from Los Angeles. No one has heard from him since. Four years later he was charged with the murder of Barbara Gentry as well. America's Most Wanted aired this case three times between 1990 and 1992... but Gentry is still on the run. Police hope our rerun of this cold case might shake something loose and bring out new clues to the whereabouts of John Kelly Gentry.
Hot Lead In The Cold Case?
In October 2007, hunters found human remains near a lake in Taylorsville, Ky., a southern suburb of Louisville. The remains had clearly been exposed to the elements for some time and the Spencer County coroner has ruled that the body died from self-inflicted wounds.
Tentatively, authorities say the remains might be those of John Gentry. Cops say they are anxious for any way to positively identify the body. They are seeking dental records -- or any known relatives of Gentry for DNA -- so they can find the answers. |
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