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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Unknown William Finney Killer
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Race: White |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Brown
Brown hair with blond tips. |
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Other Physical Characteristics: Thin build |
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Wanted for :
Vehicular Homicide, Palm Bay, FL;
Sep 14, 2004
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Palm Bay, FL
North side of Emerson Drive and Coberg Avenue |
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Possible Location : Palm Bay, FL |
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Last Known : Unkown |
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Traits |
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Was in Palm Bay, Florida on September 14, 2004 |
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Case Story |
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My Story--By Lisa Gravelle Devin |
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Lisa Gravelle Devin was overjoyed the day her brother, Peter Gravelle, married his longtime girlfriend, Ann Finney. She and Ann looked forward to growing old together with their families, joking that their elderly lives should be called "The Old and the Toothless." Lisa never envisioned that her brother and his family would endure a series of tragic events that would rip this dream away, leaving his children without their grandparents and without their mother.
My sister-in-law was diagnosed with leukemia which the doctors told my brother was accelerated due to the tragic death of her parents. The following month she was placed in a coma. When she finally woke up she asked me to contact America's Most Wanted which I have done. She is no longer here with us now, but I am still fighting for justice on her behalf.
The morning of September 14, 2004 was bright and sunny -- the perfect day for a walk. William "Bill" Byron Finney, 74, left around 6:50 a.m. for a morning stroll on the north side of Emerson Drive. Palm Bay police say he had just started to cross Coberg Avenue in Palm Bay, Fla. when a car blasted through the intersection at 40 mph and viciously ran him over in the crosswalk. Bill was thrown 50 feet in the air and landed head first. |
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A Heartless Killer Flees The Scene |
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Both the driver and the passenger got out to look at Bill and then drove off leaving him in the street to die. Bill was a kind hearted man who worked his whole life for his family. Mr. and Mrs. Finney and Ann did not deserve to die this way. They still had many more years left to live.
Bill died in the middle of the road that day, and his killer is still on the loose. Witnesses who were at the scene say the pick-up truck could have been a cobalt blue, Dodge Dakota or Chevy S-10, with a silver tool box in the bed. According to their reports, the driver who got out to look at Bill laying on the ground was a white male, around 17-20 years of age, with brown hair and blond tips. |
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A Chain of Deaths |
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Thirty-four days later, Bill's wife, Edith Finney, died in her sleep of a broken heart. They had been together since they were kids. My sister-in-law Ann went to Florida to work with her only sister to try and find out who committed this tragic event with no luck. The following month, Ann was diagnosed with leukemia. Ann's physician told my brother that the tragedy of losing both her parents in such a violent way could have accelerated her illness. Ann was put into a medically induced coma to try and save her life on the same day of my brother's birthday. She woke up in March and said that only thing she remembers about the coma was her father telling her to go back because her family needs her.
Ann died soon after that. She had over 350 people at her funeral. The hardest part of Ann's death was that her daughter just recently had a wedding without her mother by her side, and her son Jimmy will be graduating in June.
If AMW could find the driver and have him prosecuted it might just help my niece and nephew , Kerry and Jimmy, start to get over the tragic year they have had in losing a mother and two grandparents; although they will never get over the death of so many of their immediate family in such a short time and in such a tragic way.
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