Murder in The Mall
Some time between closing time at the Ground Round on Saturday, June 3 and the morning of Sunday around 9 AM, June 4, 2006, a suspect entered The Ground Round restaurant in the Hudson Valley mall and stabbed a 42-year-old employee approximately 33 times. Sharon Inger, night manager at the restaurant, was found early Sunday morning when another employee arrived to open the restaurant. $4000 was missing, according to night receipts. Within the area another woman's body was found around the same time. On September 21, 2006, police named a suspect as the killer of Sharon Inger. The individual had begun employment with the Ground Round just a couple of weeks earlier. Investigators believe he went to the restaurant to steal his personnel file, after giving a false name to police during a traffic stop earlier on the night of the murder, around 11:00 PM. Police believe he snapped when confronted by Inger, grabbed a knife in the kitchen, and stabbed the victim 33 times around 12:45 AM. The police have offered as evidence three circumstantial items: The fact that there was no employee file for him in the employee file cabinet, that $4000 was missing, and a bite on Inger's body that possibly matches his impression. The murder weapon was not recovered and there are two photographs taken (one from a cell phone and one from a digital camera) with time stamps within minutes of 1:30 AM, showing his holding his traffic stop ticket... with his hair, hands, and clothes clean - and dry. There has been no mention of DNA matches from either the bite nor vehicles available to him. Two weeks later, the individual died from impacted head trauma. Police concluded he jumped, while intoxicated, from a vehicle driven by a woman he was staying with, who was also intoxicated. Again, stories from witnesses were not consistent and all theories are still under investigation as there are many unanswered questions. Friends and family are working diligently to defend his innocence. The individual's name has been removed to prevent slander to a presumed innocent person.
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