The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • H18

18H SUNDAY JULY 16 2017Cold Cases THE KANSAS CITY STAR As her parents slept elsewhere in the home, 16-year-old Fawn Cox was molested in her second- story bedroom. On the morning of July 26, 1989, alarm went off as she had set it, but the girl alive to turn it off. Her mother entered the room as the clock blared. She found body in the bed, clad in a nightshirt. a cold case that haunts Kansas City Sgt.

Benjamin Caldwell as much as any in his career. Updated DNA testing of evidence from the crime scene and now available on national databas- es ought to turn up a suspect when that person is charged with a felony, Caldwell said. killed her either has never been charged with a felony or is no longer he said. start killing and then quit and stay out of trouble, as if they fell off the face of the Investigators could only presume that kill- er, or killers, entered her room through an open window at the home at 4640 E. Ninth St.

He may have climbed atop a pick- up truck parked behind the house to get up there. Fawn had spoken with her parents the night be- fore, after her shift at Worlds of Fun, and retired to bed around 11 p.m. She was the only family member sleeping on the second floor, ac- cording to news accounts. Since it was a muggy night, her attacker may have been aided by the noise of room air condi- tioners on the main floor, where at least one of sisters slept to stay cool. Some electronic devices were taken from bedroom.

A junior at Northeast High School, Courtesy of the Kansas City Police Department In the early hours of July 26, 1989, Fawn Cox was attacked in her bedroom on the second floor of the Cox family home at 4640 E. Ninth St. An intruder may have entered through an upstairs window to commit burglary Teen was attacked in bedroom 28 years ago as family slept BY RICK MONTGOMERY RICK MONTGOMERY Investigative files on Fawn murder and other cold cases fill a file drawer in the office of Kansas City Police Sgt. Benjamin Caldwell. SEE COX, 19H Case file Name: Fawn M.

Cox Age: 16 Circumstances of the crime: In the early hours of July 26, 1989, Fawn was attacked in her bedroom on the second floor of the Cox family home at 4640 E. Ninth St. An intruder may have entered through an upstairs window to commit burglary. Suspect information: Three male teenagers were arrested in the weeks after the crime, but no evidence including DNA testing of hair and semen samples could place any of them at the scene. Prosecutors dropped the charges.

Anyone with information is asked to call: The Cold Case Squad at 816-234-5136..