The FBI is posting a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the death of Tammy Jo Alexander. The Florida teenager was found dead in a cornfield in Caledonia in 1979.
FBI Agent Adam Cohen and Livingston County Sheriff Thomas Dougherty held a news conference in Geneseo announcing the FBI reward. It was social media that finally helped identify the girl who had been buried as Jane Doe, and they’re hoping for another breakthrough.
Investigator Brad Schneider says they’ve put together some of the chain that led Alexander from her home in Florida to her death. But they lack some key pieces of evidence. They say there are three persons of interest still living…but they stress they are not “suspects” at this time. Three DNA samples of those people have been sent to the FBI lab for testing and results are awaited.
They’re asking people to come forward with anything they may have noticed back then or remember. They are also making a particular appeal to the trucking community, or people who were truckers 35 years ago and who may have seen Tammy Jo leaving her family’s diner in Florida where she was a waitress.