The impact of entomology on the Johnson murder case

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The impact of entomology on the Johnson murder case

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Walter Geiger

in Crime and Arrests

Friday, July 30. 2010

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Part nine in a serialization of interviews published on the 26th anniversary of the brutal murder of Donna Johnson:

Mortician Kenny Coggins was washing murder victim Donna Johnson’s hair while preparing her body for the funeral when he noticed fly larvae.

The same debris in Johnson’s hair had been previously noted by another investigator who passed it off as sawdust and thought perhaps it indicated Johnson had been killed in a sawmill.

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#1 Anonymous on 07/30/10 at 01:29 PM

There is a murderer in our midst.

#2 Sheila Tolley on 07/30/10 at 02:14 PM

If this article does not get some comments a'flowing and some brains a'going....it is a sad world in which we live.

#3 Anonymous on 07/30/10 at 04:31 PM

Didn't the husband say she left at 9am for the dump?? I didn't know the dead drove.

#4 Sheila Tolley on 07/30/10 at 06:22 PM

One or more. Dead or alive. This is quite an interesting combination of facts, isn't it? If I were in any way involved in this deed of the devil, knew untold information or knew someone who did...........I would be making a call. My book is titled "If You Don't Want My Peaches, Don't Shake My Tree." This peach picking, peach unloading, peach story alibi is sounding like someone may have drank a little too much peach brandy before they made their calculations. Or at least they forgot to tell the flies when to show up.

#5 Sheila Tolley on 07/30/10 at 06:44 PM

"Coggins opined the body had been moved several times due to debris on it. He said some investigators speculated at least some of that debris could have come from inside a dumpster."

This above quote is from the article, maybe Donna wasn't driving but was headed to the dump?????

There is a devil(s) out there. I wonder if there is anyone they love? Jimmy and Becky want answers. Give them some.

#6 Shew this is hard to read and swallow this kind of info: on 07/30/10 at 07:23 PM

I sincerely hope the person that did this to Donna lives to be old enough to get the condition of dimentia and forgets that he has kept this secret and lie for so long and that in some early stage of dimentia blurts out how he really killed her and why. Seems like that is the only way we would know who killed her as the case should have been already solved with all this kind of info that was available at the time of prepping the lifeless body for her funeral and then with the forensics evidence to confirm what the mortician found. This is so so sad.
You know who you are and if you can still live with yourself possibly living a highty mighty lifestyle and probably a church goer everytime the doors are open I should hope you know that's the Devil messing with you and know that only God will make your final judgement and I pray for your soul now so as you shall ask for forgiveness so you shall not be delivered into the hands of the DEVIL FOR ETERNITY.

#7 Anonymous on 07/30/10 at 07:25 PM

''Since the Johnson file remains closed,''

someone on another article stated the case IS open.

''Buice and Burge were clearly frustrated when that meeting failed to lead to an indictment''

WHY didn't it??

''however, the garage burned mysteriously before it was searched.''

How did they know WHICH garage it was?

“Everybody was trying to help but they were stepping all over the evidence and did not realize it,” Coggins said.

someone on another article (comments) insisted that the area was secured and NO ONE was all over the place.

#8 Sheila Tolley on 07/31/10 at 10:10 AM

Knock. Knock.
Who's there?
Karma.
Karma who?
I'm Karming to get you.

#9 miss ironsides on 07/31/10 at 02:56 PM

why don't you just solve it sheila.you seem to know do much.

#10 Anonymous on 07/31/10 at 06:39 PM

Because they won't release the information needed to solve it.

#11 rhoda dunn on 07/31/10 at 07:24 PM

only a person with a mad dog brain or a monster could participate in such a brutal act. the same goes for the ones that know and do not come forward. just low life pile of sheeet. come forward gutless cowards.

#12 willie wonka on 08/01/10 at 09:48 AM

Who owned the garage? It was thought that an indictment was forthcoming, who was named in the indictment? Why was a used body bag used. Who knows for sure if the area was blocked off or if everyone was allowed to visit the scene? Surely there are some leaks to these questions??

#13 Sheila Tolley on 08/01/10 at 10:08 AM

I will make a deal with you Smart A$$. You convince the GBI, local or surrounding county Sheriffs, Mickey Mouse or whoever has the waist high pack of files so often referred to, to allow me to read them. I will guarantee you that I may not come out with answers but I will sure as hell come out with some questions that some damn body should have long ago asked. Is that a deal? Get on that phone, Pal. If you are scared....say you're scared.

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