February 10, 2017 — The court’s rationale in denying the Jones brothers’ appeals

And here are the words that accompany the denial of appeals for Matthew Jones and Paul Jones for the 1989 murder of Shannon Marie Siders in Newaygo County. The brothers have the right to appeal those decisions to the Michigan Supreme Court. The high court is likely to deny certiorari (a hearing), at least that’s been its usual method of dealing with these cases.

We were in court in early December for the appeals hearing, which you can see here in its entirety.

February 9, 2017 — Jones brothers appeal come to naught

We’ve learned that the appeals by Matt and Paul Jones of their guilty verdicts for the 1989 murder of Shanon Marie Siders have been denied.

More later.

February 4, 2017 — A new report of the Melissa Simmons case. Jeffrey Willis?

Interesting that a Battle Creek television station would dig into a Scottville murder, and link it to alleged killer Jeffrey Willis. But it is what it is: Murder Mystery by Cody Combs.

 

 

February 1, 2017 — Updates in the Deborah Polinsky murder investigation

The Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department had released the full update in the investigation into the 1977 murder of Deborah Lynn Polinsky. We are running it here and we’ve update the We Remember file on the case.

 

Media Release

Deb Polinsky Cold Case Homicide Investigation

Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office #77-00010018

 

Date of Incident: Last seen 07/23/1977 at 9:00 p.m. Body Found 07/26/1977

Location: 15123 New Holland St. Holland, MI 49424- Port Sheldon Township

Victim: Deborah Lynn Polinsky, also known as “Deb”

White female D.O.B. 02/16/1957 (20 years old at time of death)

Summary: Ms. Polinsky was found in her two-story, rented farmhouse located on New Holland Street near 152nd Avenue. Her body was discovered by a co-worker after Deb failed to show up for work on Monday, 07/25/1977. Deb worked second shift at Depree Chemical Company. Ms. Polinsky was stabbed to death. There is no known motive for her death.

Ms. Polinsky was known to frequent the Holland and Saugatuck areas and had attended Holland Public Schools. She was often seen in her red, VW Beetle and in the company of her German shepherd, “Thor”.

Update: The Ottawa County Cold Case Team has been actively investigating the Polinsky homicide for the past eighteen months. The team has interviewed over 180 person since taking on the case. With that detectives have sent 40 DNA samples to the lab for comparison and over 600 latent prints have been analyzed.   Advances in technology have allowed investigators to gain valuable insight into this crime. As a result of some of those advances the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying a female that they believe was at the scene at the time of the incident.

Contact: Anonymous tips to 1-877-88 Silent (745368) or mosotips.com or contact: (616) 738-4022

Authority: Captain Mark Bennett

Deborah Lynn Polinsky at age 20