Chris Duron Murder Reward
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This account is to raise reward money for the Chris Duron murder case. If the reward is not collected within a year it will be donated to Chris' favorite charity... The ASPCA for abused animals. Either way, I will post a picture of the reward being awarded or the donation to ASPCA when the time comes.
Please donate if you can. Any contributions, small or large, will be most greatfully appreciated. Help us get justice for Chris. Thank you for your support.
I have reposted the story below for your review:
"Eyeglass Murder" Continues To Haunt Sheriff As An Unsolved Cold Case File.
The story reads like a script on Unsolved Mysteries. Seventeen years ago, on Friday, January 28, 2000, an ice storm was heading towards Atlanta. Christopher Duron was driving Northbound on I-75 on his way to sign a multi-million dollar contract for his tile company. At 6:15am he got into a altercation with another driver with whom he almost collided. Both men exited their vehicles in the HOV Lane, across from the Ford Plant in Hapeville, and a short scuffle began. The suspect then pulled what is believed to be a 38 or 357 revolver handgun and shot Duron 3 times, killing him on the scene.
Sheriff Victor Hill (who was then Detective Hill assigned to Robbery/Homicide Division), was awakened by his pager, early that morning, requesting him to respond to the scene. The few witnesses he could find were unable to give much. It was dark and they could only recall seeing two silhouettes struggling in the dark and a sudden muzzle flash. Several witnesses, calling into the police, described a man, in a long trench coat standing over the body. There was a vehicle description of a dark, possibly blue, Ford AeroStar or similar make van behind the victim’s vehicle which was a dark gray Chevy Tahoe.
For the next few days, Hill and other Detectives stalked I-75 looking for a vehicle fitting that description to stop for questioning, but these efforts yielded no results.
"They always leave something".
Suddenly, the direction of the investigation took a turn that would forever change its course. Now a widow, Mrs. Pat Duron came to the Clayton County Police headquarters where the Detectives were located and asked to speak to then Detective Victor Hill. Pat handed Hill a pair of Silver L’Amy Rockport brand prescription eyeglasses. The glasses were a Silver Frame bi-focals with a saddle bridge on the nose. She explained that the funeral director asked her if they wanted Christopher's glasses on him for the viewing which was odd because her husband did not wear glasses. The funeral director told her that the glasses came in with her husband's body and he was told it was lying beside him on the scene. Chris did not wear glasses and that the glasses he showed her were not his. Pat immediately knew that the glasses must belong to her husband's killer and brought the glasses to Detective Victor Hill.
Detective Hill had the glasses dusted for prints with negative results. However, the eyeglasses would prove to offer more clues about the unknown suspect than anyone ever anticipated. Detective Hill decided to take the glasses to an Optometrist to see if there was anything about the glasses that could yield more clues. Once the glasses were taken to an Optometrist, the eye doctor was able to give the young Detective a description of the suspect that no one else could. Based on the L’Amy brand glasses prescription and bridge, the optometrist told Hill that he was looking for an older white male likely to be in his fifties or older. An examination of the physical structure of the glasses being a 53/15 indicated that the murder suspect would have a small head. The Doctor also observed what he described as "face cheese" in the corner lenses of grease, oil or dirt which he stated can be indicative of the suspect's type of employment. The Doctor also determined that the prescription of the glasses is not quite as identifiable as a fingerprint but very close. The Doctor advised that if detectives could find a prescription at a doctors’ office matching the prescription of the glasses, it would be a very high probability that it would be who they were looking for. The Doctor read the prescription as 75-25 x 81 on the right lens, and 75-25-116 on the left lens.
For weeks, then Detective Hill and other investigators went to different private optometrist offices and search files to see if they could match the prescription, but were unable to come up with a match. The murder became an unsolved cold case file.
Seventeen years later, Sheriff Victor Hill got a surprise visitor to his office. "Do you remember me" she asked the Sheriff, "you worked my husband's murder seventeen years ago". Mrs. Duron wanted her husband's case reopened and asked if the Sheriff would help her do so.
Sheriff Hill contacted the DA's office "Cold Case Squad" headed by Chief Investigator Dennis Baker and he agreed to reopen the case. Baker made contact with Clayton County Police Homicide Captain Winfred Norwood for assistance as well.
The Cold Case Squad is asking anyone in the optometrist field to check the eyeglass prescription (75-25 x 81 on the right lens, and 75-25-116 on the left lens) by computer to see if they can find a match for a possible suspect. Investigators are also asking if anyone recalls anyone fitting the description during that time that came to work or home without his glasses and had facial injuries from a fight to contact them as well. DA Chief Investigator Dennis Baker can be reached at [phone redacted]. Homicide Captain Norwood can be reached at [phone redacted]. Mrs. Pat Duron can be reached by email only at [email redacted]
Please donate if you can. Any contributions, small or large, will be most greatfully appreciated. Help us get justice for Chris. Thank you for your support.
I have reposted the story below for your review:
"Eyeglass Murder" Continues To Haunt Sheriff As An Unsolved Cold Case File.
The story reads like a script on Unsolved Mysteries. Seventeen years ago, on Friday, January 28, 2000, an ice storm was heading towards Atlanta. Christopher Duron was driving Northbound on I-75 on his way to sign a multi-million dollar contract for his tile company. At 6:15am he got into a altercation with another driver with whom he almost collided. Both men exited their vehicles in the HOV Lane, across from the Ford Plant in Hapeville, and a short scuffle began. The suspect then pulled what is believed to be a 38 or 357 revolver handgun and shot Duron 3 times, killing him on the scene.
Sheriff Victor Hill (who was then Detective Hill assigned to Robbery/Homicide Division), was awakened by his pager, early that morning, requesting him to respond to the scene. The few witnesses he could find were unable to give much. It was dark and they could only recall seeing two silhouettes struggling in the dark and a sudden muzzle flash. Several witnesses, calling into the police, described a man, in a long trench coat standing over the body. There was a vehicle description of a dark, possibly blue, Ford AeroStar or similar make van behind the victim’s vehicle which was a dark gray Chevy Tahoe.
For the next few days, Hill and other Detectives stalked I-75 looking for a vehicle fitting that description to stop for questioning, but these efforts yielded no results.
"They always leave something".
Suddenly, the direction of the investigation took a turn that would forever change its course. Now a widow, Mrs. Pat Duron came to the Clayton County Police headquarters where the Detectives were located and asked to speak to then Detective Victor Hill. Pat handed Hill a pair of Silver L’Amy Rockport brand prescription eyeglasses. The glasses were a Silver Frame bi-focals with a saddle bridge on the nose. She explained that the funeral director asked her if they wanted Christopher's glasses on him for the viewing which was odd because her husband did not wear glasses. The funeral director told her that the glasses came in with her husband's body and he was told it was lying beside him on the scene. Chris did not wear glasses and that the glasses he showed her were not his. Pat immediately knew that the glasses must belong to her husband's killer and brought the glasses to Detective Victor Hill.
Detective Hill had the glasses dusted for prints with negative results. However, the eyeglasses would prove to offer more clues about the unknown suspect than anyone ever anticipated. Detective Hill decided to take the glasses to an Optometrist to see if there was anything about the glasses that could yield more clues. Once the glasses were taken to an Optometrist, the eye doctor was able to give the young Detective a description of the suspect that no one else could. Based on the L’Amy brand glasses prescription and bridge, the optometrist told Hill that he was looking for an older white male likely to be in his fifties or older. An examination of the physical structure of the glasses being a 53/15 indicated that the murder suspect would have a small head. The Doctor also observed what he described as "face cheese" in the corner lenses of grease, oil or dirt which he stated can be indicative of the suspect's type of employment. The Doctor also determined that the prescription of the glasses is not quite as identifiable as a fingerprint but very close. The Doctor advised that if detectives could find a prescription at a doctors’ office matching the prescription of the glasses, it would be a very high probability that it would be who they were looking for. The Doctor read the prescription as 75-25 x 81 on the right lens, and 75-25-116 on the left lens.
For weeks, then Detective Hill and other investigators went to different private optometrist offices and search files to see if they could match the prescription, but were unable to come up with a match. The murder became an unsolved cold case file.
Seventeen years later, Sheriff Victor Hill got a surprise visitor to his office. "Do you remember me" she asked the Sheriff, "you worked my husband's murder seventeen years ago". Mrs. Duron wanted her husband's case reopened and asked if the Sheriff would help her do so.
Sheriff Hill contacted the DA's office "Cold Case Squad" headed by Chief Investigator Dennis Baker and he agreed to reopen the case. Baker made contact with Clayton County Police Homicide Captain Winfred Norwood for assistance as well.
The Cold Case Squad is asking anyone in the optometrist field to check the eyeglass prescription (75-25 x 81 on the right lens, and 75-25-116 on the left lens) by computer to see if they can find a match for a possible suspect. Investigators are also asking if anyone recalls anyone fitting the description during that time that came to work or home without his glasses and had facial injuries from a fight to contact them as well. DA Chief Investigator Dennis Baker can be reached at [phone redacted]. Homicide Captain Norwood can be reached at [phone redacted]. Mrs. Pat Duron can be reached by email only at [email redacted]
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Pat Duron-Nichols
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McDonough, GA
