2026年7月7日 / 美国东部时间上午8:53 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
俄亥俄州当局表示，他们通过重新审查旧证据，包括最初在佐治亚州一家脆桶餐厅后方发现的物品，成功侦破了1985年一名男子的谋杀案。
沃伦县检察官戴维·福恩谢尔在一份声明中表示，1985年10月17日，汽车零部件公司的旅行推销员约翰·沃伦被发现死于俄亥俄州米德尔敦的一家假日酒店房间内。米德尔敦位于辛辛那提以东约35英里处。
福恩谢尔称，沃伦的1985款奥兹莫比尔汽车和其他一些个人物品在他的尸体被发现时已经失踪。几天后，佐治亚州道尔顿市的警方在当地一家脆桶餐厅后方找回了部分遗失的财物，这些物品当时已被丢弃。他的汽车后来也在佛罗里达州雷丁顿海滩被发现。
福恩谢尔表示，沃伦县的侦探当时追查了多条线索，但“没有足够的证据继续推进此案”。调查一直停滞不前，直到2019年案件重新开庭，来自三个犯罪现场的物品被提交至实验室进行分析。
该分析结果帮助当局确认了俄亥俄州哥伦布市的兰迪·麦卡利斯特为这起谋杀案的潜在嫌疑人。除了现年62岁的麦卡利斯特之外，他们还确认了一名已经去世的潜在共犯。福恩谢尔表示，他的办公室与警长办公室的侦探继续调查此案，就在上个月，侦探们将证据提交给了大陪审团。据该检察官透露，大陪审团已以谋杀和加重谋杀罪名起诉麦卡利斯特。
兰迪·麦卡利斯特 沃伦县检察官戴维·福恩谢尔/脸书
“‘悬案’之所以成为悬案是有原因的。很多时候都有指向嫌疑人的证据，但就是不足以推进调查。而且随着时间推移，线索会逐渐减少。”福恩谢尔说道，“但尤其是在过去五年里，沃伦县警长办公室的侦探们一直坚持不懈地调查此案，直到我们办公室认为有足够证据指控麦卡利斯特谋杀约翰·沃伦。而大陪审团也认可了这一点。”
尽管当局尚未公开麦卡利斯特所谓的作案动机细节，但哥伦比亚广播公司附属机构WKRC报道称，根据对麦卡利斯特的起诉书，他是为实施抢劫而杀害了沃伦。
Evidence found behind Cracker Barrel in Georgia helps solve 1985 cold case murder in Ohio
July 7, 2026 / 8:53 AM EDT / CBS News
Ohio authorities say they’ve solved a man’s 1985 murder by reviewing old evidence, including items that were originally discovered behind a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Georgia.
John Warren, a traveling salesman for an auto parts company, was found dead inside his room at a Holiday Inn in Middletown, Ohio, on Oct. 17, 1985, Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell said in a statement. Middletown is located about 35 miles east of Cincinnati.
Warren’s 1985 Oldsmobile car and several other personal belongings had disappeared by the time his body was found, Fornshell said. A few days later, police in Dalton, Georgia, recovered some of the lost property behind a Cracker Barrel in their area, which had been discarded. His car also popped up in Redington Beach, Florida.
Fornshell said that Warren County detectives pursued numerous leads at the time, but “there was not sufficient evidence to move forward on the case.” The investigation remained stagnant until 2019, when the case was reopened, and items from all three crime scenes were submitted to a lab for analysis.
Results of that analysis helped authorities identify Randy McAllister, of Columbus, Ohio, as a potential suspect in the murder. In addition to McAllister, 62, they also identified a potential accomplice who had already died. Fornshell said his office continued to investigate the case alongside sheriff’s detectives, who presented the evidence before a grand jury just last month. The jury indicted McAllister on murder and aggravated murder charges, according to the prosecutor.
Randy McAllister Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell/Facebook
“‘Cold case’ investigations are ‘cold’ for a reason. Many times there is some evidence that points to a suspect, but just not enough evidence to move forward. And leads diminish over time,” said Fornshell. “But particularly over the past five years, Warren County Sheriff’s Office detectives have been tenacious in their investigation of this case to get it to a point that our office believed we had sufficient evidence to charge McAllister for the murder of John Warren. And the grand jury agreed.”
Although authorities haven’t publicly shared details about what McAllister’s alleged motive could potentially have been, CBS affiliate WKRC reported that he killed Warren as part of a robbery, citing an indictment against McAllister.
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