KSAZ-TV.<\/a><\/p>\nIn 1989,\u00a022-year-old Susan Amy Morse was found dead in her apartment near Country Club Drive and Southern Avenue, police said. Morse lived alone and there was no sign of forced entry, according to authorities said. Her cause of death was strangulation, according to an autopsy.<\/p>\n
She had been beaten, sexually assaulted and left in her bed with the covers pulled up around her, police said. Her parents had asked for a welfare check after she failed to show up for work.<\/p>\n
One year later,\u00a0another woman was attacked at the same apartment complex. The 23-year-old woman in that case survived, after being sexually assaulted. Her attacker stole cash and a VCR before leaving, police said.<\/p>\n
She told police a man crawled through her window, held a knife to her stomach and told her he was going to rape her. She survived the attack.<\/p>\n
Both cases went cold despite the best efforts of investigators, police said. Morse’s parents have since died, but police were able to locate other relatives to tell them of the arrest. The rape survivor was also notified. “She is still alive and from what the detective told me, she is so happy that we possibly caught the suspect,” Trapani said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis case exemplifies that the passage of time does not deter law enforcement\u2019s persistence for truth and justice,\u201d the FBI said in a statement. The agency had been helping Mesa police investigate both cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The results of this cooperative effort will provide the victims and their families the long-awaited justice they deserve,” the statement said.<\/p>\n
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A suspect has been arrested in a cold case murder and a separate rape case that both date back more than 30 years and occurred in the same apartment complex, Arizona authorities said. Thomas D. Cox, 58, was extradited from Colorado to Arizona over the weekend. He has been charged with 16 felonies, including murder, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":97160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Suspect-Arrested-in-Cold-Murder-and-Rape-Cases-From-30-Plus.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}