unbelievable

Stories of years ago unsolved brutal murders similar to JonBenet's seem to be cycling again lately. This one, the sexual assault and murder of little 6 year old Judith Ann Roberts who like JonBenet was taken from her bed in the middle of the night is covered in NPR contributor's Stacy Horn's March release of her new book about Joseph Banks Rhine and the parapsychology lab at Duke University, titled Unbelievable--


Cold Cases and Psychics
By Stacy Horn
March 19th, 2009

"...From a Miami Herald article by Luisa Yanez: “An intruder breaks into a Miami home late at night and kidnaps a 6-year-old girl from her bed. Within hours, her body is dumped on a desolate road in Coconut Grove. She had been beaten, strangled and sexually molested. The 1954 murder of Judith Ann Roberts, just a month before her seventh birthday, was Miami’s first media-soaked, high-profile murder of a child. Call it South Florida’s version of today’s JonBenet Ramsey murder mystery. The abduction and slaying of a little girl visiting her grandparents rocked small-town Miami, where folks until then thought nothing of leaving their doors unlocked at night. Across the country, headlines trumpeted news of a sex maniac on the prowl in sunny Miami.”

Peter Hurkos said he’d crack Judith’s case within two weeks, but fifty years later Judith Ann Roberts’ murder is still unsolved and under investigation by Detective Andy Arostegui of the Miami Cold Case Squad."