Elyria police have reopened a nearly 30-year-old cold case that is connected to a former truck driver recently linked to a rape and four homicides.
Police are looking into Samuel Legg III’s connection to the death of his then-stepdaughter, Angela Hicks, in 1990.
Earlier this week, the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Medina County officials announced that investigators had connected Legg’s DNA to a 1997 rape in Medina County. Officials also noted his DNA was found on at least three woman who were killed decades ago.
The new revelations have led to Elyria police reopening Hicks’ cold case.
“30 years of no closure is difficult,” said Elyria police captain Christopher Constantino in an interview with WKYC Friday afternoon.
Hicks’ body was found about a month after her mom reported her missing in July of 1990. Her stepfather at the time was Legg..
Today, Legg is 49 and facing two counts of rape out of Medina County and has been linked to four homicides, including the 1992 murder of Sharon Lynn Kedzierski in Austintown.
“Samuel Legg was a person of interest during the course of the [Angela Hicks] investigation, but nothing really materialized, nothing really substantial to file any type of charges,” said Constantino.
But nearly 30 years later, the investigation is pointing back at Legg. It’s something Constantino says family and friends considered was a possibility from the very beginning.
“For her family, we have talked to her mom and her father, they’re happy that there may be some closure.”
There’s still work to be done in the investigation before formal charges are filed.