An ex-con from Florida has been busted for a heartbreaking 40-year-old cold case murder of a young mom \u2014 after he unexpectedly called police to say he had a tip about it.<\/p>\n
Gary Glowacz, 70, of Middleburg, was arrested for the brutal 1987 killing of Melissa Taylor Ellison within hours of calling cops on July 8, according to police<\/a>, who did not reveal exactly what he told them.<\/p>\n Ellison, the 20-year-old mother of a toddler, was found beaten to death in her bedroom in Jacksonville in December of that year, the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n Gary Glowacz, 70, was arrested for a 40-year-old murder after calling police with a tip for the cold case.<\/p>\n Glowacz was arrested for the 1987 Jacksonville murder of Melissa Taylor Ellison.<\/p>\n An intruder broke a window to get into the home, then hit Ellison in the head with a charred log from her fireplace, police later said.<\/p>\n Ellison\u2019s roommates heard her 13-month-old daughter crying on the couch, went to check on Ellison \u2014 and found her dead in her bed with blunt force trauma, according to police.<\/p>\n Detectives at the time reviewed the evidence and conducted interviews, but the investigation ultimately went cold.<\/p>\n Glowacz was interviewed by detectives soon after calling cops, who arrested him for the murder.<\/p>\n Details of the phone call were not immediately known, and cops didn\u2019t say why they moved quickly to arrest him.<\/p>\n Glowacz has a criminal history, including convictions in 1989 and 1996 for buying cocaine, according to<\/a> News4Jax.<\/a> <\/p>\n Glowacz was arrested within hours of calling the police on July 8,<\/p>\n He was also convicted of burglary in 1998.<\/p>\n He was charged with murder and burglary with battery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ex-con from Florida has been busted for a heartbreaking 40-year-old cold case murder of a young mom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19535,28,30,29,4538,4278],"class_list":["post-341179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-cold-cases","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-murders","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}