Part 13 in a serialization of interviews published on the 26th anniversary of the brutal murder of Donna Johnson:
As part of his revisitation of the Donna Johnson murder case in 2005, then-sheriff Joe Buice had the victim’s body exhumed from Crystal Hill cemetery in Thomaston and examined at the GBI crime lab in Decatur.
The exhumation took place on March 17, 2005.

The image at left is a rendering of a person of interest in the Johnson case done after a witness was hypnotized shortly after the murder. In the image on the right, the same suspect is depicted as aged by the artist to show how he may have appeared in 1998. The hypnotized witnesses, tentatively identified as Linda English Brown, also remembered the suspect wore camouflage clothing and drove the green station wagon often tied to this mystery.
WHAT IS IT??
''Buice says the best hope now for DNA evidence may lie in the rope used to hogtie Johnson as she was tortured and killed.''
Well, did they find that evidence??
I can just about guarantee the killer had a lot of them as well. He would have had bruises and scratches in the days following the murder.
Well....I wonder where the knots will be by now?
So, there!
It's something like big mouth b%#%%hes: a study of non-conforming women and those that hate them.
Seems you forgot too. Do I need a resume from you.
Hmmm. Those are weighty facts. Maybe Shelia was carrying them around with her when you saw her.
Sheila Tolley
If they were smart enough to remove the prints and cover their tracks so well, don't you think they would have borrowed or stolen a green car and not used their own while staking out the area?
I wonder why anyone would dislike it??
If you know about interrogation, you know that distracting from the topic at hand is something done by those not wanting to face the questions asked.
A guilty person takes relief in that moment when the topic of the crime is distracted from.
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The person was local to that area or he would not have been comfortable enough to kill her and dump her there.
SIGNED:
KARMA
She was killed in private so the killer had the time to tie her up and torture her in peace. He wouldn't have done that on the old road. Someone could have driven up and seen him raping her with a foreign object.
I find it interesting that Ann Morgan's car was wiped down as well.
With Love,
Karma
The nephew reporting her missing stood out to me after the father in laws timeline.
Jimmy saw her that morning during the 6 am hour...Jimmy's father says he saw her a 2pm that day. Jimmy's nephew reports her missing.
There is the family common denominator.
Think about it- 2:00 PM to 4:40 PM when the car was found during a missing person search is only 2 hours 40 minutes. During that period of time, Mike Johnson recons she's missing, calls in a missing-person report,authorities start a search and her car is found. Sounds like a VERY quick sequence of events.
Normally, wouldn't it take at least a couple of hours for someone to be late returning before people get worried? Also, if you know your relative was headed to the dumpster down the road, wouldn't you just get in your car and drive there first rather than call authorities? Also, wouldn't you call that person's husband before you call authorities?
Again, I've not seen a comprehensive time line published anywhere, so I may be wrong about things. If so, please correct me.
I hope no one I know is murdered either.
Maybe this is where the law cover up for law cover up for law cover up began.
Or we could get enough signatures to have a recall vote on Milam.
Or we could wait until his next election when he can be voted out.
Did Jimmy roof? Did Jimmys dad roof? What about Jimmy's nephew?
What about the Grubby sex offender, did he roof?
Hell, everyone was roofing back then becasue of the hail storm. Was Jimmy's, donna's and jan's house having a new roof put on?
Who was doing constuction on the house?
"It wasn't his last hit that killed him and it wasn't his first hit that killed him...it was all those in between."
He still made me laugh in my young days.
I wouldn't get too tied down by the the aged illustration because it can be a stumbling block. There are so many different factors that can markedly change a person's looks over the years- Did he drink or do drugs? Did he hang out at the all you can eat buffet or work out at the gym? Did he join the hair club for men? Does baldness run in his family? Who knows what this person could look like now.