RFP Staff
♦ Over the past few months we’ve received numerous requests that the Salisbury Police post a Cold Case List (Unsolved murders) and a Most Wanted List just like the successful Rowan County Sheriff’s Office does. Readers pointed out that PBS posted a “clearance rate” for the Salisbury, N.C. Police that’s abysmal. Perhaps if they posted a Cold Case List and a Most Wanted List they might improve their clearance rate and get some dangerous people “still-at-large” off of Salisbury’s Streets.
We don’t have any connection with the “current” Salisbury Police Chief so we advise folks to contact Chief Rory Collins or City Hall about putting together a Cold Case List or a Most Wanted List. And if anyone is interested they might also request a better rate of police pay so officers don’t leave the Salisbury Police for more lucrative pastures elsewhere. It would also be a good idea to find an able replacement for Crime Scene Investigator Sherry Curry who left to work with the Norfolk Southern Railroad. And finally those police cars that were wrecked and out of service need to be replaced.
We also want to thank all those 7,000 plus persons who shared our article on Facebook across that state on Salisbury’s being rated (Per Capita) as the 9th Most Dangerous City in North Carolina. We have every confidence they will one day make it into North Carolina’s top 5 Most Dangerous Cities at the Salisbury’s present rate of free fall.
http://rowanfreepress.com/2015/04/28/salisbury-n-c-ranked-9th-most-dangerous-city-in-north-carolina/
A Letter-to-the-Editor that appeared on September 18th 2014:
“Crystal Lineberry, East Rowan
♦ I read with interest the Sheriff’s Office’s Unsolved Murders–Cold Case Files on the Rowan Free Press. The Sheriff’s Office is doing a service for the families of the murdered to post information that might lead to closure for some of the them.
I was very disappointed to discover when I visited the Salisbury Police Department website they lacked an Unsolved Murders/Cold Case File. How will they ever solve the dozens of unsolved murders in Salisbury, N.C. or assist families in healing and finding justice?
Many friends and family of Reesa Dawn Trexler, a 15 year-old high school student, still carry around the pain of the young woman’s brutal stabbing death on Bringle Ferry Road in 1984. With no listing of Unsolved Murders on the Salisbury Police Department website, murder victims are quickly forgotten and cases are given almost no chance to be opened again.
How many bodies in unquiet graves go on year after year in Salisbury with no attempt to bring their murderers to justice?
If you want to pay your respects for Reesa Dawn Trexler, who died brutally at the hands of an unknown killer, go to “Remember Reesa Dawn Trexler” on Facebook and pay your respects.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Remember-Reesa-Dawn-Trexler-RIP/312128248804065?ref=br_tf
Please go to the Salisbury Police and ask them why don’t they host an Unsolved Murder website.”
