William Comeans

Case number: 713
Incident location: Buena Vista Avenue
Columbus, Ohio - Franklin County
Incident date: 1/7/1980
Homicide date: 1/7/1980
Date of birth: 1/11/1965
Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: White
Height: 5'09"
Weight: 170lbs
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Brown
Law enforcement agency: Franklin County Sheriff's Office

Details

William Comeans was helping his father work on family car. He then went two doors down to get his sister to come from a birthday party but it wasn't over, so he came home and told his mother that he would go back to get her. His parent's never saw him again before his discovery. They filed a missing persons report and police canvassed the neighborhood. William's father and neighbor found him at the dead end of Buena Vista Ave., which was the next street over, by the railroad tracks. William died later at the hospital. The cause of death was strangulation. On two previous occasions, in September and October, William was attacked by two unknown males and was choked on both occasions.

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