Juli
Dead Since 1999
TLDR: 'Krystal Beslanowitch, 17, was killed in 1995. Her body was found along the banks of the Provo River near Midway. Police believe she was beaten to death with rocks. Joseph Michael Simpson, 46, who already served time in the Utah State Prison in the 1980s for murder, was arrested in Sarasota County, Fla., on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, for investigation of murder in her death.'
quote from Deseret News:
"HEBER CITY — Todd Bonner was a sheriff's deputy when he was dispatched in the cold, morning hours of Dec. 15, 1995 to the scene of a dead body on a bank of the Provo River.
The nude body of Krystal Lynn Beslanowitch, 17, was lying face down in the rocks, bloody and broken. For two years Bonner served as the lead investigator of a team that went all over the state in hopes of solving the Salt Lake teen's murder.
"It's a case that's haunted me for almost my whole career," Bonner said."
The determined Bonner always remembered the case, never giving up hope. The case was reopened in 2006, when DNA advancements allowed them to analyze samples from the murder weapon (rock). In January 2013, a database known as CODIS found a match other than that of Krystal for a DNA sample. The matches name was Joseph M. Simpson. He had previously been sent to prison for a different murder, and was then a free man in the state of Florida. He is now sentenced to life without the chance of parole.
Krystal was a prostitute, many people did not care that her death occurred, as it is widely agreed that women who are in sex work are the scum of the Earth. All leads at the time were of so help or substance, so the case went cold for a long time.
What do you think? Do prostitutes deserve justice in their cases? Did she get what was coming to her?
quote from Deseret News:
"HEBER CITY — Todd Bonner was a sheriff's deputy when he was dispatched in the cold, morning hours of Dec. 15, 1995 to the scene of a dead body on a bank of the Provo River.
The nude body of Krystal Lynn Beslanowitch, 17, was lying face down in the rocks, bloody and broken. For two years Bonner served as the lead investigator of a team that went all over the state in hopes of solving the Salt Lake teen's murder.
"It's a case that's haunted me for almost my whole career," Bonner said."
The determined Bonner always remembered the case, never giving up hope. The case was reopened in 2006, when DNA advancements allowed them to analyze samples from the murder weapon (rock). In January 2013, a database known as CODIS found a match other than that of Krystal for a DNA sample. The matches name was Joseph M. Simpson. He had previously been sent to prison for a different murder, and was then a free man in the state of Florida. He is now sentenced to life without the chance of parole.
Krystal was a prostitute, many people did not care that her death occurred, as it is widely agreed that women who are in sex work are the scum of the Earth. All leads at the time were of so help or substance, so the case went cold for a long time.
What do you think? Do prostitutes deserve justice in their cases? Did she get what was coming to her?