If police ever catch the guy responsible for abducting, robbing, and holding at knife-point a woman in University City Saturday night, wouldn’t it be prudent to know what he was doing last May?
Ira Yarmolenko was last seen alive in UCity. At one point Mt. Holly police speculated she had been abducted and taken by force to banks of the Catawba River, where she was strangled. Investigators still do not have a satisfactory account of how Yarmolenko came to a secluded spot far from prying eyes when she started out in a busy parking lot 40 minutes away.
At a minimum, any suspect or suspects in the recent abduction should have their DNA tested against that which has been found in the Yarmolenko case.
