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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Dennis Donohue
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Wanted for :
Murder, Buffalo, NY;
Sep 09, 1993
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Case Story |
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Hero Cop Back For Encore |
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Dennis Delano is a local hero in Buffalo. The 28-year veteran of law enforcement helped to solve the Buffalo bike path rapist and serial killer case and, in the process, set an innocent man free.
Now he's on another mission. Every Sunday in church for the past year a woman named Trisha has asked him to look into her sister's murder from 1993. He's been so busy with his serial killer case he hadn't had time. Until now. Now, he has grabbed ahold of a bizarre 13-year-old crime that he says, "I will solve."
He wants AMW viewers to help. |
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Bizarre Murder Scene |
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Thirteen years ago, A South Buffalo woman was found strangled in her apartment with her daughter lying on top of her, mumbling incoherently. The victim was quickly identified as Joan Giambra. She was found dead on the morning of Sept. 9 1993, inside of her Hillside Avenue home. Two of her co-workers at the St. Simon's Episcopal Church food pantry went to check on her after Joan had failed to arrive for her 8:30 a.m. shift. The two workers found Joan's daughter Kathleen, then 11 years old, lying on top of her. Police say both mother and daughter were naked and the co-workers assumed they were both dead. But when a firefighter climbed in through the window and touched the sixth grader, she opened her eyes. Cops believe she had been strangled too, and left unconscious, but didnt die. The nightgowns of both women were never found, but Joan's underwear was found near the back door. The strange thing was, neither woman had been raped.
Homicide detectives determined that Joan Giambra had been bound and strangled and then untied. Her daughter was taken to the hospital and stayed there for a couple of weeks of psychiatric treatment. No suspects were developed at that time even though they did question Giambra's estranged husband, Samuel.
When Dennis reopened the case late last year, he thought the divorced husband and father was a prime suspect. When Dennis went looking for him, he discovered that Samuel had remarried shortly after the murder, but had committed suicide after undergoing back surgery for pain. Dennis obtained tissue samples from his autopsy and found out that his Dna did not match the Dna located at the crime scene so they eliminated him as a suspect. In fact, cops say they found DNA from three unknown males at the crime scene: one from the victim's fingernails, and two from cigarette butts found near the bodies. |
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Victim Could Have Answers |
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