( WJW ) – A suspect has been identified in two brutal attacks in 1987 that left an Ohio woman dead, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI), the Attorney General’s Office and local law enforcement announced Thursday.
According to a news release, Thomas Collier Jordan, who died in 2009, is linked to both cases.
On August 10, 1987, Janice Christensen went for a jog on a park bike path in Hudson Township , Ohio. She never returned home and was reported missing.
The following day, her partially naked body was found with five stab wounds, according to a news release.
A pair of shoelaces was found next to her body. She had also been sexually assaulted, according to investigators.
Christensen’s car and car keys were missing. The car was later found abandoned in Bedford , Ohio.
Investigators now believe that Jordan was responsible for the killing.
They have also linked him to the rape of a teenager in another part of the county that happened two months before Christensen’s murder. Michelle Puett-Howard, who was 17 at the time, reported a sexual assault at a park in Cuyahoga Falls on June 16, 1987.