\u201cIt helped our investigators piece together where Roxanne was days before to the time she died to where we\u2019re at now,\u201d Gremillion told the Associated Press. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a very large help with getting that message out to the public, and then, therefore, those witnesses getting back to us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The podcast that helped police charge four men four decades after the murder of Roxanne Sharp. Photo \/ Northshore Media Group<\/p>\n
Four men have now been charged with aggravated rape and second-degree murder: Perry Wayne Taylor, Darrell Dean Spell, Carlos Cooper, and Billy Williams jnr, who are all in their 60s, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n
Cooper and Taylor were already in prison for unrelated crimes, but Williams and Spell were arrested earlier this week, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n
Sharp\u2019s niece, Michele Lappin, issued a statement on behalf of the family, saying they appreciate the \u201chard work and love that has been shown to Roxanne Sharp\u2019s case\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope that with justice will come healing and closure for our family, her loved ones, and the community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vice-president of Northshore Media Charles Dowdy, who produced the podcast, was surprised by the level of interest.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we started the podcast, we kind of thought nobody cared – we were quickly corrected,\u201d Dowdy said, Metro reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people stepped up and said they knew Roxanne, they remembered her, they were friends with her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dowdy spent time with police as they recreated the crime scene, recording audio and detailing the exact locations where Roxanne\u2019s body and personal items were found.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt clearly showed that she\u2019d been grabbed on the street and dragged into the woods,\u201d Dowdy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cCold cases don\u2019t close themselves,\u201d Covington Police Department Chief Michael Ferrell said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey close because people show up, year after year, and refuse to quit. That is exactly what our agencies did, and, today, Roxanne and her family finally have the justice they have waited so long for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt helped our investigators piece together where Roxanne was days before to the time she died to where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[142010,1558,682,1121,13239,4509,19666,145612,6147,188516,3011,6868,42,30538,3375,11156,13620,43,1523,3800,206199,203,100935,10706,40,38,41,39,28066,3040,1299,102],"class_list":["post-399395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-142010","tag-been","tag-being","tag-case","tag-charged","tag-cold","tag-crack","tag-credited","tag-crime","tag-decadesold","tag-four","tag-girl","tag-headlines","tag-helping","tag-killed","tag-killing","tag-leading","tag-news","tag-over","tag-podcast","tag-roxanne","tag-sharp","tag-solving","tag-teenage","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-true","tag-us","tag-who","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}