Susie Timmons (9 of Diamonds, New York)

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Deck – Susie Timmons (9 of Diamonds, New York)

Host: Ashley Flowers
Date: October 29, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode of "The Deck" centers on the cold case of 17-year-old Susie Timmons, represented as the Nine of Diamonds in the New York cold case deck. Susie was discovered brutally murdered in Rochester, New York in 1982, and her killer has remained unidentified for over four decades. In 2020, Investigator Seth Carr reopened her case with renewed hope thanks to advances in forensic technology. The episode explores the original investigation, the main suspects, witness statements, and efforts to break the case using new DNA testing—while inviting listeners to come forward with any information to finally bring Susie and her family justice.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

The Discovery of Susie Timmons and the Initial Investigation

• Timeline of Discovery

  • [02:06] First anonymous call at 11pm on July 29, 1982, reporting a woman’s body near Joseph Avenue; police were unable to find anything initially.
  • [04:00] A second call at noon the next day led police to discover Susie’s body—her remains were difficult to spot in a debris-filled lot.
  • Quote:

    "They were checking the vacant lot south of the railroad tracks and discovered the body of a young black female, face up between piles of dirt." — Investigator Carr [04:53]

• Crime Scene Details

  • Susie was found partially clothed, having suffered both blunt force injuries and over 60 stab wounds; there were signs of a rage-fueled attack but no definitive indication of sexual assault.

• Early Evidence and Leads

  • Found: a rock with blood, a shoe print, and Susie’s clothing. A second scene yielded bloody towels (one reading “psychiatric center”) and a tan T-shirt.
  • Blood typing tests were done in the 1980s but were inconclusive.
  • Quote:

    "When you see that volume of violence, that's like a fit of rage type violence." — Investigator Carr [06:08]

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Susie’s Life and Circumstances

• Personal Background

  • At 17, Susie had a young child and was married to a 24-year-old man, Roy Timmons Sr., who was incarcerated at the time.
  • She sometimes engaged in sex work to support herself and her child.
  • Susie had recently reported two separate assaults to police, involving different men.
  • Quote:

    "Records also showed that at least twice, Susie had filed complaints with the police after being assaulted… within the two months before her murder." — Ashley Flowers [08:10]

• Investigation Focus

  • Two scenarios: attack by a stranger (possibly during sex work) or by someone with a personal connection, given the violence.
  • Investigators ruled out the two men Susie had accused of assault, with one being out of state and the other deemed a less viable suspect.

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Main Suspects & Witnesses

"Anthony" (Boyfriend)

• Brought in soon after the murder, but initially lacked a solid alibi ([11:14]).
• Later, an ex-roommate provided an alibi for him, supported by family.
• Passed a polygraph test; never named as an official suspect.

"Dave" and "John" (Witness & Alleged Eyewitness)

• Dave made the first anonymous call; pointed police toward "John," who claimed to have witnessed the murder from an attic window.
• "John’s" account was inconsistent and possibly unverifiable.
• He described the attacker as Black, in his mid-20s, average build, tan work boots, wearing jeans and a blue shirt over a white T-shirt ([14:54]).
• John went on to be convicted of a sexual assault in the 1990s but died in 2023 before his DNA could be compared to evidence in Susie’s case.

"Kody" (Inmate Informant)

• In 1986, Kody (then incarcerated for burglary) contacted police claiming to have been present the night Susie died, implicating Anthony and another woman.
• His story contradicted previous evidence, including timelines and suspect statements.
• Under pressure, he uttered:

  "I did it now what." [20:49]

  • Investigator Carr interpreted this as likely sarcasm, not a confession ([21:18]).

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Reinvestigation and Forensic Advances

• DNA Testing Efforts

  • 2013: Partial DNA profiles obtained from the tan T-shirt and towels, but degraded remains from Susie could not be matched or ruled out.

  • [23:20] After reopening the case, Investigator Carr obtained a reference sample from Susie’s son and prioritized new DNA testing.

  • Determined: The bloody items from the second scene did not match Susie's case; attention shifted back to crime scene DNA.

  • A new male DNA profile emerged from the original scene—suitable for CODIS submission but no matches yet, not even to Anthony or Kody ([24:47]).

  • Quote:

    "This is why we revisit cases like this, because we have technology today that we didn't have back in 1982..." — Investigator Carr [24:26]

• Elimination of Suspects

  • 2021: Kody’s DNA was tested after investigators took a cigarette he smoked during an interview—it did not match the crime scene ([26:11]).
  • John’s DNA is not in CODIS; his death complicates further comparison, though old evidence may still hold answers.

• Early Tips Revisted

  • A witness the night of the murder described seeing a man (6' tall, Black, wearing khaki pants, shirt, and hat) forcing a woman under an underpass ([28:12]).
  • Notably, none of the main suspects fit this physical description, suggesting a possible unknown perpetrator.

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The Present and Hope for Answers

• The case remains active and on Investigator Carr’s desk; Susie’s son has cooperated with renewed investigation.

• The existing DNA evidence is not yet sufficient for familial DNA tracing, but advances in technology could change that.

• Call to Action:

  • Investigator Carr makes a direct appeal:

    "Now's the time...We just need the information. We need the information because we can prove it through science if you point us in the right direction." [30:11]

• Why It Matters:

  • The emotional toll on Susie's family, especially her son—who was just a toddler when his mother was killed—is highlighted.
  • Listeners are asked to come forward with any information that could finally bring closure.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "When you see that volume of violence, that's like a fit of rage type violence. And typically that would indicate…that maybe the suspect has like an actual relationship with this person." — Investigator Carr [06:08]
• "The thinning out of the case file is a physical representation of leads drying up." — Ashley Flowers [15:01]
• "I did it now what." — Kody [20:49]
• "This is why we revisit cases like this, because we have technology today that we didn't have back in 1982." — Investigator Carr [24:26]
• "What's so heartbreaking about Susie's case, besides just how young she was, is that there's never just one victim." — Ashley Flowers [30:50]
• "Now's the time... We just need the information. We need the information because we can prove it through science if you point us in the right direction." — Investigator Carr [30:11]

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Important Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment / Key Moment | |-----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------| | 02:06 | Start of Susie Timmons case details | | 06:08 | Discussion about the nature of the attack | | 10:07 | Investigator Carr outlines key murder scenarios | | 14:54 | Eyewitness 'John' describes the murder | | 20:49 | 'Kody' responds "I did it now what" under police questioning | | 24:26 | Investigator Carr discusses advances in DNA technology | | 26:11 | Kody’s DNA is determined not to be a match | | 28:12 | Early witness describes confrontation with unidentified man | | 30:11 | Investigator Carr’s call to action for public tips | | 30:50 | Ashley reflects on the continuing impact on Susie’s family |

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Conclusion & Call to Action

The Susie Timmons case remains open and under active investigation, with new DNA evidence offering hope for the future. Investigators urge anyone with information—even anonymously—to come forward, emphasizing that scientific advances can corroborate new leads. Susie's story is a reminder of the heartbreak unsolved murders leave behind, not just for the victim, but for entire families and communities.

If you have any information:
Contact Rochester Police Major Crimes Unit at 585-428-7157 or Crime Stoppers at 585-423-9300. Anonymity is available.

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Transcript

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[Ashley Flowers]

Our card this week is Susie B. Timmons, the Nine of Diamonds from New York. It was March of 2020 when Major Crimes investigator Seth Carr was handed the unsolved case of 17 year old Susan Susie Timmons. The summer of 1982, Susie was discovered stabbed and beaten in a vacant lot north of downtown Rochester, New York. Multiple investigators had spent years trying to solve her murder without success. Now it was Investigator Carr's turn. Little did he know this time would be different because thanks to advancements in technology, he had everything he needed to make the first break in the case in close to 40 years. I'm Ashley Flowers and this is the deck. When Investigator Carr first picked up Susie Timmons case file, he was coming in fresh, not knowing anything that had come before. So he started right where you have to in Order to catch up. The beginning. The first report in the file he picked up is about an anonymous call from a man that came into police a little after 11pm on July 29, 1982.

[Investigator Carr]

The call taker was able to hear music in the background and it sounded like he was calling from a restaurant or a bar.

[Ashley Flowers]

The caller told police that they would find a woman's body with a brick next to her head near an underpass just off Joseph Avenue. When pressed for more information, the man hung up. Now, the old report showed that a police unit had been sent out after the call, but the responding officers ran into a problem once they arrived, they.

[Investigator Carr]

Showed up and they did not locate a victim or a complainant for that matter.

[Ashley Flowers]

Nothing more happened. And that report probably would have been a standalone forgotten about and tossed aside if not for a second call that came in around noon the next day. Now, this one seemed to be from a different caller, but it was incredibly similar. They said they'd found a body of a woman in a vacant lot.

[Investigator Carr]

They were checking the vacant lot south of the railroad tracks and discovered the body of a young black female, face up between piles of dirt. The person went to the pay phone, called the police, and then led the officers, responding officers, to the body.

[Ashley Flowers]

What no one knew in that moment was that this was 17 year old Susie Timmons. How she had been missed when law enforcement responded the night before was not exactly clear from the police reports Carr had to go off of. His best guess was that police might have looked in the wrong place. I mean, this area had a lot that could obstruct a body. And based on the crime scene photos he had in front of him, the vacant lot looked like a demolition site covered in rubble and debris. Even in the daylight, Susie was hard to spot. The photos also made it clear that Susie had been violently attacked right there, where she was found, partially clothed. The autopsy report that accompanied the crime scene photos told Carr that Susie had been beaten, which resulted in massive fractures to both her face and her head. And if that weren't enough, someone stabbed her more than 60 times. And that gave investigator Carr his first clue.

[Investigator Carr]

When you see that volume of violence, that's like a fit of rage type violence. And typically that would indicate, you know, that maybe the suspect has like an actual relationship with this person.

[Ashley Flowers]

The autopsy report mentioned a sexual assault kit being done, but the results showed that no semen was found, so strike out there. As far as evidence collected at the scene, officers didn't report finding any kind of sharp instrument like the knife that she could have been stabbed with. They also didn't find a brick like the anonymous caller mentioned, but they did find a large rock with blood on it and a shoe print. Also some random clothing items that they later determined to be what Susie was wearing. A subsequent report says that police were alerted to another vacant lot less than two miles away, where a man walking his dog had found a bloody tan T shirt and two bloody towels. One of those towels had the words psychiatric center printed on it. Now, there was nothing to definitively link this to Susie at the time, but they collected them just in case. And from what Investigator Carr could tell, those items were still in evidence and something that past investigators had gone back to to look at. The best they had gotten to over the years was blood typing, trying to see if there was a link. But all the testing that had been done came back inconclusive. However, Investigator Carr knew 2020 was a new time in DNA tech. This evidence would be a good option for new testing. Maybe it wasn't connected at all. Maybe it was and it was all Susie's blood. Or maybe, just maybe, he could connect that blood to a suspect, which he was learning. There were a few of interviews conducted with family members, both by law enforcement and newspapers show that Susie's life was complicated. At 17, she was a lot like you or I as a teen. She liked to have fun. She loved dancing and music. Sometimes she even DJed. She was also caring, especially towards her grandmother. But she also had a lot of responsibility because at 17, Susie was already married to a man who was 24 years old at the time. And almost two years prior to that, she had given birth to their son. You do the math on that. Susie was not in a good situation. And to make things worse, her husband, Roy Timmons Sr. Was in prison on an attempted forgery conviction. So Susie was left trying to figure out how to support herself and her child. As a child herself, she found a boyfriend she probably hoped would help her out some. And she was considering joining the Navy when she was old enough. But until then, she sometimes earned money through sex work. Records also showed that at least twice, Susie had filed complaints with the police after being assaulted. Susie had filed these complaints within the two months before her murder. One allegation was against a man who she said had assaulted her with a knife. And the second was against a different man who she told police had sexually assaulted her. Police records don't indicate if these two men were ever questioned about Susie's death. Now, when we asked Investigator Carr about this, he told us that one man was in Florida at the time of the murder and the other appeared to be a less viable suspect at the time. And even today, although it's unclear exactly why. But for whatever reason, that seemed to rule these two guys out for police, in investigator Carr's eyes, there were two possible scenarios. One, Susie was killed by someone she didn't know, possibly while doing sex work. Or two, she was killed by someone she knew, possibly someone she was in a relationship with.

[Investigator Carr]

I'm kind of looking at in this case from the beginning. I'm looking at it from all angles. But, you know, you're keeping in mind those two scenarios.

[Ashley Flowers]

Considering her husband was in prison, it looked like he was ruled out early. Her boyfriend, on the other hand, was one of the first people that police wanted to talk to.

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[Ashley Flowers]

Investigator Carr saw that Susie's boyfriend was first brought in for questioning on July 31. And while he appears in several reports in the file, he has never been named publicly as a suspect in this case. So for that reason, we'll be referring to him as Anthony. Anthony told police that he had known Susie since the late 70s, but it wasn't until March 1982 that they had started dating. In the weeks leading up to her murder, they were staying with his parents about a mile from where Suzi was eventually found. At first, it doesn't appear that Anthony could give police an alibi as to his whereabouts on the 29th, the night of the murder. He claimed that he was just hanging out in the streets and even his family couldn't pin down where he was that night. Although investigators were able to confirm from Anthony's family that Susie left the house at around 9pm to walk to her mother's house. Now, she never made it there. And that got me wondering. Could he have been the reason? Investigators talked to Anthony a few more times and it Appears that he later did establish more of an alibi. Although it's hard to interpret from what's in the case file, the reference to an alibi actually comes from the notes from a separate interview with an ex roommate of Susie's. The former roommate said that Anthony was at her House between 7:30pm to 11:45pm the night of Susie's death. Her family also confirms this, and the notes from that conversation reference that. This lines up with a statement that Anthony himself gave, though. I think it's kind of weird that he didn't mention this in the first conversation. But regardless, it definitely left investigators with more questions. I mean, so much so that later on that year, investigator Carr could see that investigators gave Anthony a polygraph, which he passed. Now, another person mentioned a good number of times in the reports was the anonymous caller who first reported Susie's body. You know, the time when even police couldn't find it, when they went looking for it. Police did their legwork back in the day, and they were able to locate the guy by honing in on all that background noise from the call. They realized that there happened to be a pool hall about two blocks away from the crime scene.

[Investigator Carr]

So they go in there, they're interviewing people, and there's somebody in there that, hey, I remember a guy coming in here saying something about a woman outside.

[Ashley Flowers]

You know, not just any guy. They knew the guy's name, but I'm just going to call him Dave. Long story short, Dave had confirmed to police that he made the call that started this whole saga. But he told investigators that it was another guy. I'll call John, that they really needed to talk to John, told him about witnessing the actual murder. Now, of course, he only knew John's first name. So based on reports, they weren't able to track John down and talk to him until September 12th.

[Investigator Carr]

Initially, he denies actually seeing anything. He heard some female screaming, but he didn't make any other observations.

[Ashley Flowers]

That story changes by the time they're done talking to him, though. The final version of events that he gives is that he had been staying with a friend in a vacant house in the area that night, and he was alone in the attic getting ready to go to sleep when he heard a woman scream. That prompted him to go look out the attic window at around 10pm and.

[Investigator Carr]

That through the window, he made observations. And what he saw was that he saw a male assaulting this woman.

[Ashley Flowers]

Specifically, he told police that he saw this man stabbing a woman and then hitting her with some rocks. He described the man as black, mid-20s, thin build, average height, wearing tan work boots, jeans, with a blue shirt over a white T shirt. John said that he saw the man run away after killing the woman and he admitted to going to the scene and locating Susie's body. Now, it took a lot of back and forth to get all of that out of John, so his reluctance to talk was was suspicious to Carr and it was unclear to him if his final version of events are actually possible. If anyone ever went to the location of the vacant house that he was in and checked to see if he could hear or see what he said he did, all of that info has been lost to time. All he knows is that they took this guy back to the YMCA where he was staying and searched his clothes, which didn't turn up any evidence. The reports after this are kind of few and far between. The thinning out of the case file is a physical representation of leads drying up. But Detective Carr could at least see what was tried. Like when they sent some rocks from the crime scene to the FBI to test for fingerprints, but no prints came back. Six months later, a local Crime Stoppers episode aired featuring Susie's case. But nothing substantial comes from this or any major breaks in 1983. In 1984, there is one tip that made its way into Susie's file. An anonymous call came into the district attorney's office accusing Anthony and an associate of Susie's murder. Now, it doesn't seem like police took this super seriously because there's no follow up, but Carr was very interested to see that associate's name pop up again in Susie's case file in 1986 when he put himself right in the middle of her murder investigation.

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[Ashley Flowers]

Hi, I'm Ashley Flowers, and if you're like me and grew up watching America's Most Wanted and reading Nancy Drew, then hi, you're a crime junkie. And I bet that passion for solving mysteries never went away. Which is why we've assembled a team of reporters to dig deep into all the cases we still obsess over. Each Monday, my best friend Britt and I will bring you a case that you won't be able to stop thinking, thinking and talking about. So join us by listening to Crime Junkie wherever you listen to podcasts In March of 1986, police are contacted by an inmate at Collins Correctional Facility who told them that he had information about the death of Susie Timmons. Now, why this man chose to reach out to police is a mystery in and of itself, because this man, who we'll be referring to as Kody, was in prison for burglary at the time. But if he was hoping to get something for sharing his story with police that didn't make it into the report, maybe he was just tired of holding on to this secret, if the secret is legit. When police sat down with Kody, he told them that on the night of the murder, he was with Susie and Anthony at the house where the couple had been staying. Kody saw Anthony and Susie get into an argument which ended when Susie left the house at around 10pm Anthony was making threats about Susie, and while Kody tried calming him down, he couldn't. He said Anthony went into the kitchen and from the living room, Cody could hear him getting a knife. Anthony then left to go after Susie.

[Investigator Carr]

So he's claiming that he followed Anthony over to this location without Anthony understanding that he was behind him.

[Ashley Flowers]

Cody had followed in his own car. He told police that he saw Anthony flying Susie outside a bar where Anthony and another woman forced Susie into a man's car. Cody told police that he followed them and then watched while Anthony and his accomplices took Susie out of the car. Cody says he briefly got out, but then he went back to his car and rolled down the window. He didn't see anything, but he said he could hear screaming for 20 minutes. He said he left and he got home before Anthony and he watched him clean the bloody knife and burn his clothing. Now, on one hand, it is very interesting to Investigator Carr that Kody's name had been brought up before, but there were some glaring inconsistencies with what he's read in previous statements. I mean, statements from Anthony and his family don't match this. Kody even got the day wrong. He said all of this was a Friday, but Susie was killed on a Thursday. Sure, it was years later and little things like that would be easy to get wrong, but it turns out Kody was interviewed back in 82 when they were looking into Anthony, and he said none of this back then. So is he lying now? Was he lying then? Was it something in the middle? In his 86 interview, police pressed him.

[Investigator Carr]

As that interview progresses, the investigator is changing gears and looking at Cody under that scope that he. Perhaps he's talking to the killer right now and not a witness.

[Ashley Flowers]

When Investigators began to put pressure on Kody. They asked him if he was the one who stabbed Susie. And his response was, quote, I did it now what now? Problem is, Kody never appeared to clarify why he said this. I mean, was this a confession or was this something else? It might have been clear from his tone at the time, but Investigator Carr only had the written report to go on.

[Investigator Carr]

I'm reading that like it was done sarcastically, but, I mean, maybe it wasn't.

[Ashley Flowers]

However they felt about Kody leaving that interview in 1986, they couldn't do anything with those feelings. He has never been arrested or charged with any crimes relating to Susie's death. They only call him a person of interest. So police were kind of running into the same roadblocks over and over. Anthony John Cody. They looked suspicious, but there was nothing tying any of them to the crime scene. So there aren't many reports in the files from the rest of the 80s, 90s, even the early 2000s. But Detective Carr could see that Rochester PD had ordered some new testing in 2013, specifically DNA testing on items of evidence from the second vacant lot. Those towels and tan T shirt. The tan T shirt was tested and returned a partial DNA profile from a woman. The towels were tested too, and had a mixture of two separate contributors. One was a male profile and the second was inconclusive. But that's where things in 2013 stopped, because none of the DNA samples found on these items were suitable for codis. And they couldn't even rule out Susie as the contributor of the female DNA profile because blood collected from Susie in 1982 had degraded over time and couldn't be compared to any of these profiles. That's where the file ended. That's all Investigator Carr had to work with, but it was enough to get more answers. He decided to focus first on any additional DNA testing that he could have done with new technology, starting with getting a new standard sample for Susie. Now, he couldn't actually get it from her, so he reached out to her now adult son.

[Investigator Carr]

He was extremely cooperative and just really, I think, pleased that we were actually looking into the case.

[Ashley Flowers]

Then Investigator Carr had a lot of new testing done from both the crime scene where Suzi was found as well as the second location that had bloody towels and the T shirt. And this new testing revealed that the textiles from the second scene didn't have any DNA connection to Susie's case. It wasn't her blood. Now, whose blood was soaking two towels in a T shirt couldn't tell you. Once it was ruled out from Being connected to Susie, the testing just stopped. They had other things to focus on, other items that were actually at the first scene where Susie was found. Now investigators are holding back what items produced this new sample that they got, but they confirmed for us that it was from a man and it wasn't a match for the male DNA at the other scene on the towels in the shirt. And that gave them the final confirmation that those items were really weren't connected. But guess what? This new DNA profile, it was good enough to add to codis.

[Investigator Carr]

This is why we revisit cases like this, because we have technology today that we didn't have back in 1982, and we have technology today that is more advanced than it was in 2013. Once you have that kind of development in a case, I mean, you can start to narrow your focus and you start to eliminate people.

[Ashley Flowers]

A little bad news to follow. The good news, though, there have been no matches in CODIS yet, not even to Anthony, whose DNA is in the system from prior arrests. Knowing this has allowed investigator Carr to be more focused in his lines of investigation, identifying persons of interest whose DNA aren't in CODIS and trying to make contact with them too quickly, rule them in or out. People like Kody. In February of 2021, Investigator Carr and his colleague interviewed Kody again, who was no longer in jail at this point. And just like in his last conversation with police, Kody continued to suggest that Anthony killed Susie.

[Investigator Carr]

I don't know what his motivation is to try and implicate a person that didn't commit the crime. I mean, or, like, why would you try and present yourself as a witness? But sadly, he's not the only person I've ever dealt with that's done that.

[Ashley Flowers]

During this interview, Cody was offered a cigarette, which he took and smoked. Once the interview concluded, that cigarette was bagged up and sent off for testing.

[Investigator Carr]

I mean, if you think about it, the case would have been really good if it was his DNA. I mean, he described the crime. He's changed his story multiple times. And if his DNA was at the crime scene, that would have been pretty damning.

[Ashley Flowers]

It would have been. But close to two months later, investigator Carr got those lab results back and learned that Kody's DNA was not a match. And that just leaves John. He's the guy who claimed to have witnessed the murder from a window, but police were, oh, so suspicious of his story. Years after Susie's murder, John went on to be charged with a different crime, a sexual assault from the early 90s, which he was sentenced to seven and a half years for. But New York State's DNA data bank wasn't operational until 1996 and it wasn't even until 2012 that all felons were required to submit DNA. So John wasn't in CODIS. And it doesn't appear that his DNA was ever directly compared to Susie's case either. And unfortunately, comparison now would be difficult because John passed away in 2023. That said, Detective Carr is looking into whether there is evidence from John's sexual assault case in the 90s that could be used for comparison. So TBD on that, it is very well a possibility that John's DNA won't be a match either. And maybe Susie was killed by someone who was never on police's radar. And actually there was a tip early on, one of the very first tips that Detective Carr found in the case file, that was from a man who said that at 9:30 on the night of the murder, he and his girlfriend were driving down Joseph Avenue and as they approached an underpass he saw a man and a woman in what appeared to be some kind of confrontation. The report goes on to read the.

[Investigator Carr]

Male had the female by the arms and was forcing her into the driveway alongside the railroad tracks in Joseph Avenue.

[Ashley Flowers]

The witness couldn't describe the woman. The man was blocking his view. But good news there, that meant he was able to describe the man.

[Investigator Carr]

He stated he was approximately 20 to 30 year old, male, black, 6 foot tall, average built, wearing khaki pants, a shirt that was also khaki color, it was darker brown, and he had on a khaki hat that resembled a fishing hat.

[Ashley Flowers]

Couple of things stand out to me about this one. None of the guys that I've talked about are 6ft tall. John Anthony Cody, all of them are between 5, 6 and 5, 8. What if one of the very first tips was the most accurate? Who could that man be? Now it's worth mentioning that Investigator Carr did tell us that investigators aren't focusing on the difference of a few inches. So maybe that's not important. But the second thing that stands out to me is what that guy was wearing. Khaki pants, khaki colored shirt. The bloody T shirt found at the second vacant lot was tan in color. If this tip isn't connected to Susie, what if it's connected to some other crime that happened that night? I do believe that one day we will know. When asked by our reporter where this case stands today, Detective Carr said that it is active. He said that Susie's case file hasn't left his desk since the day he first picked it up back in 2020. It's just going to take some more legwork because unfortunately, the DNA sample from Susie's murder scene to date is not sufficient for something like familial DNA testing, although investigator Carr points out that advancements in technology and changes in minimum thresholds could make that a possibility one day. But for now, that just means Investigator Carr will need to find and compare people one by one. And he's up for the task. Though it would sure be helpful if someone out there had a name for him.

[Investigator Carr]

Now's the time. In fact, in a case like this, we can take the information that you provide and we can move forward on the case without your cooperation. We just need the information. We need the information because we can prove it through science if you point us in the right direction. If somebody has information out there and they just don't want to get involved, but they want to provide the information anonymously. If they provide information anonymously on a suspect, and then we can run with that and we can include them or exclude them through testing.

[Ashley Flowers]

What's so heartbreaking about Susie's case, besides just how young she was, is that there's never just one victim. I mean, her family and friends have had to live with the pain of her murder for decades, including her son, not even 2 years old at the time. He was robbed of what should have been a lifetime of memories with his mother. And he deserves to know why this happened. And more importantly, he deserves to know who did it. So if you have any information about the murder of of Susie Timmons on July 29, 1982, in Rochester, New York, please call the Rochester Police Department's Major crimes unit at 585-428-7157 or you can email them at majorcrimesityofrochester.gov and you can also call Crime Stoppers if you want to remain anonymous at 585-423-9300. You can also submit a tip to them online. The Deck is an audio Chuck production with theme music by Ryan Lewis. To learn more about the Deck and our advocacy work, visit thedeckpodcast.com I think Chuck would approve.

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