The Murdered Joanne Ena Lynn

The Murdered 
Joanne Ena Lynn
Hemlock, New York

🕊️🔍The Unsolved Murder of Joanne Lynn 🕊️🔍

On the morning of September 19, 1949, 11 year old Joanne Ena Lynn left her Hemlock, New York home at 8:00 a.m. to walk to school along Route 15A, a routine she followed every weekday. She was last seen greeting a neighbor before vanishing just minutes from her house. When she did not return home, an extensive search began involving local police, volunteers, bloodhounds, aircraft, and eventually the National Guard. Five days later, Joanne’s body was discovered in a rural pasture about seven miles away; evidence showed she had been abducted, sexually assaulted, and fatally shot with a 9mm pistol. Despite interviewing hundreds of suspects, issuing multi-state alerts, offering rewards, and later developing a DNA profile, the case was never solved. Advances like gun registration and modern forensic technology were not yet available, and although a traveling carnival worker was later considered a strong suspect, no arrest was ever made. Joanne’s murder remains one of New York’s most heartbreaking unsolved cases. 💔🕯️

If you have any information, please call:

New York State Police
Troop E, Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Geneseo, NY
(585) 243-4876
or
New York State Police
Troop E, Major Crimes, Canandaigua, NY
(585) 398-4100

or e-mail the information to: nysvicap@troopers.ny.gov.

Sources:
https://troopers.ny.gov/homicide-victim-lynn-joanne-ena
https://uncovered.com/cases/joanne-ena-lynn

https://websleuths.com/threads/ny-joanne-ena-lynn-11-murdered-hemlock-19-sept-1949.528263/
https://www.hemlockandcanadicelakes.com/hcl_people_lynn_joanne.htm
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97465152/joanne-ena-lynn 
https://www.newspapers.com/article/democrat-and-chronicle-murder-of-joanne/47212256/