Taken From the Intersection: The Murder of Janie Sanders
She was taken, murdered and dumped in under an hour, but her cold case spans more than 45 years.
When a friend of 16-year-old Janie Sanders from Mississippi walked home from school with her one chilly autumn day in 1975, she never could have guessed that it would be the last time the happy-go-lucky young woman was seen alive.
And even worse, her killer not only got away with the brutal murder and is still doing so, but he may have targeted other victims at around the same time.
With much of the evidence lost and a prime suspect police can’t prove did it, will Janie’s family ever get justice?
A shocking crime
Janie was a student at Pascagoula’s Colmer Junior High School in 1975 and her sister Paula Hill told WLOX she was pretty much a typical teenager from that era.
She recalled: “Janie was strong-willed, hard-headed. She was sweet, she loved God, very religious, she trusted everybody — kind of on the naïve side.”
At the end of the school day on September 24th, Janie set out to walk home as usual with her friend Robin Rivera. The two chatted as they covered the distance of their usual route before bidding each other goodbye…
