Suspect identified in 53-year-old cold case of Indiana woman found dead with unharmed toddler
Fred Allen Lienemann's DNA was found on Phyllis Bailer's clothing. Police said he was murdered in Detroit in 1985.
A suspect has been identified in the 1972 murder of an Indiana woman who was found in a ditch on the side of the road with her unharmed 3-year-old daughter, police said last week.
Phyllis Bailer and her daughter were traveling in a borrowed car from Indianapolis to Bluffton on July 7, 1972, to visit her parents' house, according to the Indiana State Police. They never arrived, prompting Bailer's family to report her missing to police.
Richard Bailer, Bailer's husband at the time, told NBC News he got a call from her father the next day letting him know. Richard began driving toward Bluffton in an effort to find his wife, whom he referred to by her middle name, Jean, and their young daughter, Jodi.
He said he found their car on Interstate 69, which police said had the hood up. "I called the state police right away," he said, recalling that day.
Later that day, a woman driving north of Schoaff Road in Allen County found Bailer and her daughter in a ditch along the side of the road, police said.
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