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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