SULLIVAN COUNTY, Ind. — Forty years after an Indiana woman's murder, there's still hope it will be solved.
Sarah "Jeanette" Benson was killed in her Farmersburg home back in January 1981.
State police and the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office have been investigating the case ever since.
Neighbors described seeing a blue sedan parked in Benson's driveway, shortly before she returned home. One witness thought the vehicle was an older Plymouth Valiant, while another witness thought it was possibly a Chevrolet. The witnesses described it as "robin egg blue," having "shiny blue paint" and was "very clean."
One neighbor said he saw a white man wearing a vest exiting the blue sedan before knocking on Benson's front door. At the time, the man was described as tall, thin and possibly in his 20s. Investigators believe this man killed Benson.
Detectives recently re-examined evidence originally collected from the crime scene using new technology like fingerprint and DNA analysis.
It gives them hope that the answer is out there.
It was just back in July of 2018 when police made an arrest in April Tinsley's murder. She was killed in 1988.
Detectives linked John Miller to that crime 30 years later after comparing DNA evidence to a public genealogy database.
Anyone with information about Benson's murder is asked to contact the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office at 812-268-4308 or the Indiana State Police at 765-653-4114.