On Wed. Jan. 12, 1972 17 yr. old St. Francis DeSales Student JoAnne Pecheone decided to walk home on an Indian Summer type day.
She was murdered taking a short cut through the woods going towards her home. The case was unsolved for many years (40) until the DA closed it after determining John Hopkins of Johnstown NY was the likely killer. Author James Tracy published a book in Mar. of 2021- Sworn to Silence - and he thinks Robert Garrow was the likely Killer of Pecheone.
We turned Utica upside down after she was killed. We had full support of the community through all of the investigations conducted. We had a composite and a vehicle discription to work on but very little of anything else.
