Episode 45: The Hitchhiker

70-year-old woman, mother, and grandmother Dorothy Donovan was found brutally stabbed to death in her bedroom in June of 1991. Her son Charles Holden had discovered her in the middle of the night and was immediately brought to police headquarters for questioning. Charles was the likely suspect; a man in debt who was the beneficiary of Dorothy’s life insurance policy. But Charles insisted that he was not his mother’s killer, and he was about to tell an implausible story of the night’s events.

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Sources:

The News Journal; Delaware June 25, 1991

The News Journal; Delaware August 5, 1991

The News Journal; Delaware Sept 24, 1994

The News Journal:; Delaware May 12, 1995

The Daily News; Salisbury, MD, Jan 11, 1997

The News Journal; Delaware Jan 16, 2001

The News Journal:; Delaware Jan 21, 2006

22 Jan 2006, Page 6 - The Star-Democrat at Newspapers.com

The News Journal:; Delaware April 25, 2007

Unsolved Mysteries

Inmate Search: Gilbert E Cannon 00169867, Dover, Delaware (inmateaid.com)

Forensic Files

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