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http://www.bnd.com/news/local/article101359117.html
September 12, 2016 12:02 PM 11 years after grisly salon slayings, police think they have killer Samuel L. Johnson in 2005 photo. He served time for attempting to burglarize the salon in 2003. Terry Delaney, the Belleville chief of police at the time of the salon killings, had considered Johnson a prime suspect, but Johnson was never charged with the killings. A grand jury on Friday issued murder charges against a man believed at one time to be a prime suspect in the grisly stabbing murders of three people in a west Belleville beauty salon in 2005. Samuel L. Johnson, 50, was charged Friday with first-degree murder in connection with the slayings of Doris Fischer, 79, and her sister, Dorothy Bone, 82, and their hairdresser, Michael Cooney, 62, at Cooney’s home-based beauty salon in West Belleville on March 2, 2005. Belleville Police Department reinitiated the investigation in 2014. The indictment was unsealed Monday. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...95ebb81bd.html ![]() Samuel J. Johnson, formerly of Pagedale, was charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of three people in a Belleville hair salon in 2005. |
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https://www.kmov.com/news/man-charge...30e6ea436.html
Man charged in 2015 Belleville triple murder dies of COVID-19 Posted on Feb 21, 2021 BELLEVILLE (AP) — A man awaiting trial in the slayings of three people in a Belleville hair salon in 2015 has died of COVID-19, officials said. St. Clair County Coroner Calvin Dye Sr. said that 55-year-old Samuel L. Johnson died of complications of pneumonia and COVID-19 at Memorial Hospital in Belleville late Friday night, according to the Belleville News-Democrat. Johnson has been in custody since 2016, when he was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the March 2, 2005, stabbing deaths of hairdresser Michael Cooney and two of his customers, 79-year-old Doris Fischer and 82-year-old Dorothy Bone. The two women were sisters. Since he was charged, Johnson maintained his innocence. |
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