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Today in True Crime: Quick Hits
5 years ago: On May 7, 2019, Washoe County Sheriff’s Office announced they had finally identified the woman who had become known as the "Sheep's Flat Jane Doe” 37 years after her murder.
10 years ago: On May 7, 2014, corrections officer Andrew Wagner was stabbed and killed by his fiancée, Stephanie Fernandes, in their Worcester, Massachusetts, townhouse. Fernandes is currently serving an 8-10 year sentence for voluntary manslaughter.
20 years ago: On this day in 2004, 36-year-old Thomas Wayne Grammer was shot and killed in his apartment in Lakeland, Florida. The murder went unsolved until Florida Crime Stoppers Group distributed “cold case” playing cards to Polk County inmates, who eventually identified Grammer’s killers when they saw the victim’s face on a three of spades.