Jody Anderson Found Dead 30 Years Ago Catoosa County GA

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At the time, Fort Oglethorpe police told Ms. Green her son's death must have been a suicide.

But the body was found slouching, with the rope that supposedly hanged him dangling loosely around his neck and tied to the fence. And his brother said he saw cigarette burns on the body.

The case file sat nearly empty for more than three years. That's when Detective Jerry Morris reopened the case, convinced it was no suicide.

Over the next nine years, Detective Morris interviewed more than 100 people, exhumed Jody's body to look for additional evidence and scoured the department for any way to push the case forward.

Somebody talked.

A man who said he was there the night Jody died named those involved in his torture and killing, Detective Morris said. The witness described how he and four others picked Jody up at a gas station and took him to a secluded spot on the Chickamauga Battlefield National Military Park, where they beat him, burned him with cigarettes and stomped his fingers when he tried to climb out of a hole.

The group hanged him on the battlefield, then moved his body and staged it near the fence in Fort Oglethorpe.

But the witness who gave Detective Morris a break, who pointed the way toward potential arrests in the cold case, was deemed mentally incapable of standing trial, the detective said.

Video...New Evidence Reopens Case
http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11922284

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New Evidence Reopens 30-Year-Old Cold Case Murder
Posted: Feb 02, 2010 6:28 PM EST
Updated: Feb 02, 2010 6:57 PM EST

New evidence has Fort Oglethorpe investigators diving into a cold case that's 30 years old.

15 year old Jody Anderson was found dead with a noose around his neck in September of 1979.  His death was originally ruled as a suicide, but a detective later determined Anderson was murdered.  That he had been beaten, tortured, and hanged, then brought here and propped up to stage an apparent suicide scene.  The fence was just across the street from where Anderson's girlfriend lived.

Anderson's mother, Joan Green, says, "It's time to come forward for Jody, for us the family, nobody knows how the family can suffer, especially when it's at the hands of someone else, when you know someone was tortured, then it's hard to sleep at night."

But Joan Green may sleep better when her son's killers are brought to justice. Green says not a day goes by that she doesn't think of Jody and how his life was cut short. If you have any information, if you remember anything someone might have told you about that night and what happened to Anderson, please call Crimestoppers.  The confidential call could earn you a cash reward.  Please call 698-3333.

http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11922284