The unsolved 2000s murders of Christina White and Jennifer Hammond share disturbing similarities, according to deputies in Saratoga County, New York.
The shocking arrest of a suspected ransom kidnapper in upstate New York has refocused attention on a pair of unsolved slayings in the same immediate area in Saratoga County. Christina White and Jennifer 'Moonbeam' Hammond, ages 19 and 18 respectively, vanished two years apart and were later found dumped in rural Greenfield, New York. White's skeletal remains were recovered a year after she vanished near Daketown Road in June 2005, and authorities said she had been stabbed in the gut.
Authorities in 2017 told local media they believed the cases may be linked, and both have received renewed attention after the nearby abduction of a 9-year-old girl named Charlotte Sena, which garnered national attention. Craig Nelson Ross Jr., the man accused of kidnapping Charlotte off of her bike in the Moreau Lake State Park Sept. 30, has spent decades living in and around such parks. Police rescued the little girl from a camper parked on his mother's property on Barrett Road Monday.
Many killers are interested in certain physical characteristics of their victims, which are usually part of their fantasy,' he told Fox News Digital. 'Both victims were found in the deep woods of upstate New York in Greenfield.' Both victims also vanished near trailer parks in the county, Kelly said.
Ross's first documented run-in with the law was a 1999 DWI conviction in the city of Saratoga Springs. That decades-ago arrest led to his capture after police say they found his fingerprints on a ransom note placed in the Sena family mailbox. After that, he was accused of a couple of misdemeanors, aggravated harassment in 2016 and domestic violence in 2017. With the new attention, Kelly said he's hopeful someone will come forward with new tips for investigators.
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