Right now, thousands of criminal cases are unsolved. Right here in the Coachella Valley the sheriff's office has nearly 2,000 cases still under investigation. With new technology available like DNA, detectives are hopeful that more crimes will be solved.
KMIR6 is dedicated to helping law enforcement with some of these cold cases.
Right now, we open the first CRIMESTOPPERS cold case file. Jonne Ann Boe.
Ruth Halverson/Needs Your Help: "Jonne Ann went missing on August 13th 05. She was going to come here on Monday and make some appointments for doctors and we never saw her. She never showed up. We haven't seen her since"
Jonne Ann is best known to family and friends as Froggy. It's heart wrenching reality not knowing whether a family member is dead or alive, living each day wondering if she will walk through the door, each ring of the phone a reminder that Jonne Ann is missing. Her grandmother has come to an uncomfortable reality.
Ruth Halverson/Needs Your Help: "I know if she were alive, she would call her daughter, I am positive of that I believe she is dead."
Cathedral City Police first got the call that Jonne Ann or "Froggy" was missing on that hot August day in 2005. Sergeant Ed Colon recently took on the cold case.
Ed Colon/Cathedral City Police: "She was known to be in Cathedral City, from what I remember in the report, she was in the civic center area in between Cathedral Canyon and Date Palm, 111, and the top of the cove, in that area, she was last seen"
Jonne Ann's family believes something bad happened to her in or near her home in Cathedral City Cove. They are convinced somebody saw or heard what happened to her.
Ruth Halverson/Needs Your Help: "I go by her picture and say, “you didn't deserve this sweety,” and she has an 11 year old daughter that wants to know where her mommy is."
Ruth and her family need your help. Remember, you will never be asked for your name when you call CRIMESTOPPERS; you are given a code and you use that code to receive any rewards.
If you know anything that can help investigators with this cold case, or any other crime, call CRIMESTOPPERS at 341-S-T-O-P and keep it here every Wednesday on your KMIR6 news at 6 for this exclusive series.