Florida Man Arrested for Double Murder Almost 50 Years Later

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An astir 50-year-old cold case involving the treble murder of a antheral and pistillate successful Massachusetts whitethorn person had a important breakthrough.

Authorities successful Clearwater, Florida, arrested Timothy Scott Joley, 71, and charged him with 2 counts of homicide for the slayings of Theresa Marcoux, 18, and Mark Harnish, 20, who were recovered changeable dead successful 1978 adjacent a road successful Springfield, Mass.

Joley, who has not yet made a plea successful the case, was detained Oct. 30 aft an unidentified idiosyncratic tipped disconnected Massachusetts' Hampden District Attorney's Office earlier that period astir the suspect's alleged engagement successful the murders, DA Anthony Gullini said successful a connection posted to Facebook Nov. 13.

Before his arrest, authorities accidental they matched Joley's fingerprints, kept connected authorities record for astir 25 years, to a latent and seemingly bloody 1 recovered connected the truck's passenger-side vent model during the archetypal transgression country investigation.

"Investigators obtained a fingerprint recognition for Joley from the Springfield Police Department," Gullini told reporters astatine a Nov. 13 property conference, "which was connected record with that section due to the fact that Joley was fingerprinted arsenic an applicant for a taxi cab licence successful the twelvemonth 2000."

Marcoux and Harnish were some past seen live successful the aboriginal greeting of Nov. 19, 1978, leaving a enactment hosted by friends. Hours later, a West Springfield Police Department serviceman connected patrol recovered their bodies aft observing Harnish's greenish 1967 Dodge pickup motortruck parked successful a roadway remainder country adjacent Route 5.

"The serviceman saw that the driver's broadside model of the motortruck was damaged and noticed humor successful and astir the vehicle," Gullini said successful the connection to societal media. "The serviceman past discovered the remains of 2 individuals, 1 pistillate and 1 male, conscionable implicit a adjacent guardrail."

He continued, "Investigators concluded that Theresa and Mark had been changeable portion successful the rider compartment of the pickup motortruck and their bodies were moved to the country wherever their remains were aboriginal discovered. Autopsies determined that the origin of decease for each unfortunate was aggregate gunshot wounds."

While nary firearm was ever located successful oregon adjacent the area, a adjacent nonmigratory had reported to constabulary proceeding aggregate gunshots astatine astir 4:00 a.m. that greeting and spent projectiles were recovered from the victims’ remains and the rider country of the pickup truck, Gullini said.

The investigators, per the DA, determined that the fingerprint connected the motortruck originated from Joley's near thumb and besides learned that astatine the clip of the murders, Joley was surviving successful Springfield, was a licensed weapon proprietor and had purchased a colt handgun astir 1 period earlier the killings.

Joley remains successful jailhouse successful Florida and is being held without enslaved up of his arraignment. No lawyer was listed for him successful tribunal documents obtained by E! News.

"On November 5, Joley appeared earlier a circuit justice successful Pinellas County, Florida and waived extradition," Gullini said connected Facebook. "Joley volition beryllium returned to Massachusetts successful the coming weeks to look these charges."