Officials to exhume girl's body for third autopsy

We are attempting to gather as much forensic information as possible Authorities will exhume the body of Janie Ward of Marshall today and perform a third autopsy and other tests in an effort to determine how she died nearly 18 years ago. via Benton County Daily Record

[xXHelenaHandbask etXx]

Is this story so old news that it doesn't even warrant one reply?

Something is very wrong in Marshall. If I knew of this story and lived in this town I would be out of there in the first daybreak.

[unknown]

Well, it is hard to get anything done about it when certain members of the town are trying so hard to cover up the truth. Several people in that town know the truth of what happened that night, but yet no one wants to speak up and tell. I think it is so pathetic.

[Guest]

What is the latest with this? I have not heard much about it since the last autopsy. I can't imagine that many more autopsies can be done.

[Tequila Sunrise]

Guest wrote:

What is the latest with this? I have not heard much about it since the last autopsy. I can't imagine that many more autopsies can be done.

I don't think the 3rd autopsy was even her body. That is some of the talk going around town.

People have apparently hidden the story for so long I think they actually believe all the lies they have told. And with the help covering up the story from (at the time) a prominent person, the people of this town did not fight it. It is a great shame.

The parent's deserve much better than this.

[past citizen]

I think your right the parents do deserve a lot better than this. I think it is funny how the facts of the night she was killed do not match the stories that were told to police that same night. I completely believe that the reason her murder has not been solved is because a certain public figure refuses to make his daughter confess what she and her friends done that night. I don't think that is right if this had happened in any other town in any other part of the country, the girls responsible for pushing her off the porch that night would be either in jail or in the ground. But since their fathers are important members of the town, her murder will never be solved. People think that just because her parents are not rich and are not prominent members of society, they don't deserve justice, but that is a load of bull. One day the truth will come out, and when it does, that town will be torn apart.

[Innocence]

I'm glad to see that some cases never get abandoned. There is still hope for unsolved murders. There are a few of them up in Thayer, Missouri and Oregon County, Missouri.

[Innocence]

have they learned anything new?

[Guest]

My thought is that they are about to run out of chances in finding new evidence. From my experience with the dead and evidence, there is only so much left. After so many exhumations and autopsies, all the evidence is going to be gone.