A Florida murder case that remained unsolved for nearly 38 years was reopened after Gary Glowacz allegedly confessed to killing Melissa Ellison in 1987. Glowacz told authorities he entered her Jacksonville home during a burglary and struck her with a log, police said. Melissa’s daughter Casie, who was 13 months old then, received news of the arrest in July.
Melissa “Missy” Taylor Ellison’s killing remained a mystery for nearly four decades after the 20-year-old mother was found dead in her Jacksonville, Florida, home in December 1987, while her 13-month-old daughter was left crying in the living room.
For her daughter, Casie Ellison, growing up meant carrying a loss she was too young to remember but could never escape. For years, she said she tried to suppress her feelings about her mother’s death.
About 25 years after the killing, those emotions resurfaced when Casie realised her own daughter had reached the same age she was when her mother died, CNN reports.
“It just took me understanding that this is a little Casie,” she said. “I was seeing myself.”
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