$25,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the real killer or killers
The Crime:
On June 24, 1989, at 10:06 p.m., 19-year-old Melisa Koontz left work at Cub Foods where she worked as a cashier on the Southwest edge of Springfield, Illinois. Her decomposed body was found a week later July 1, 1989, laying face-up in a cornfield approximately 1.5 miles away. She had been stabbed multiple times.
Multiple witnesses observed a suspicious young white male lurking in the employee parking lot around the time Melisa exited the store.
Less than an hour later, at 10:50 p.m., her vehicle, a black Ford Escort hatchback, was discovered abandoned on the Waverly Blacktop Road, a rural country road that led to her parent’s home in Waverly, IL, approximately 15.2 miles from Cub Foods.
There was circumstantial evidence of a sexual assault. The buttons of the victim’s shirt were torn off and the clasp of her bra was broken. Her skirt had been rolled up. DNA testing on the bra and shirt have identified a partial male DNA profile eliminating Tom McMillen as the source.
If you have information that leads to the identification of the real killer or killers of Melissa Koontz, please share this with Investigating Innocence. If you provide an item of DNA that matches the profile that was recovered from the bra leading to the arrest of the actual perpetrator, you can receive a $25,000 reward.
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