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Did Someone Close Get Away With Murder? The Killing of Amy Diesman
The nursing student was shot at her part-time job in 1987 and her death became a cold case, but police have long since had a suspect.
If there was one thing 19-year-old Amy Diesman didn’t shy away from, it was hard work. She had been an Honours student at high school in her home town of New Richmond in Ohio, and now she was single-handedly raising a baby while studying nursing on a full scholarship just over the state line in Kentucky.
So when she realised she needed a little more money to make ends meet in the early autumn of 1987, she didn’t hesitate to take a job at a convenience store working the night shift. However, little did she know that this would be the place her short life would end — and that 35 years later, her murder would remain unsolved.
Will there ever be enough evidence to secure justice for Amy?
A night like any other
Amy’s new job was at the Merwin Stop-N-Go located at Merwin 10 Mile and Ohio 125, and The Northerner reported she was only on her fourth shift on September 12th 1987. She would be left to work alone for only the second time overnight that evening, but her academic prowess meant she had had no…
