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Death Row Inmate Recently Linked To 1990 Murder Eyed In Other Cold Case Homicides
By Kevin Dolak - January 29, 2021, 3:08 PM ET
Roland "Rollie" Thomas Davis Sr., who had already been convicted and put on death row for the 2000 murder of an elderly Ohio woman, is now being looked at in multiple unsolved cases.
Cold case detectives in Florida said this week that they are eyeing a death row inmate, who late last year was connected through DNA evidence to a second, decades-old murder, as a possible suspect in other unsolved homicides and missing person cases from the 1980s and '90s.
Det. Kurt Mehl with the Charlotte County Cold Case Unit said in an interview this week that they are looking at convicted murderer Roland "Rollie" Thomas Davis Sr. in multiple unsolved cases. Davis was convicted of the murder of an elderly Ohio woman 15 years ago and was charged in November with the brutal 1990 murder of a Florida mother who was found stabbed dozens of times in her home. He was also arrested in Ohio in 2003 for severely beating a prostitute, detectives said.
Because Mr. Davis has been involved in at least two homicides and an attempted homicide of a prostitute in Columbus, Ohio, he is on our radar for unsolved cases of missing women and murdered women, Mehl said.
Davis, 68, has been on death row at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution in Ohio for over 15 years after his conviction in the stabbing death of 86-year-old Elizabeth Sheeler in her Newark, Ohio apartment in 2000. On July 11, he had entered Sheelers apartment overnight, where he stabbed her in the neck and chest multiple times, stole some cash, then fled the scene, as indicated in the state of Ohios case against him.
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https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/roland-thomas-davis-eyed-in-several-cold-case-homicides
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