JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – On Wednesday, police from Jacksonville and Atlantic Beach spent their second day searching a Mayport pond, looking for clues in a 5-year-old murder case.
Investigators had the pond off Jasmine Street drained Tuesday, and they are back on the scene Wednesday combing the area looking for evidence against Robert Denney, who is accused of killing a 25-year-old Corey Parker in her apartment in November 1998. Her body was found on Thanksgiving Day.
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Parker was a waitress at Ragtime restaurant in Atlantic Beach. Beaches police said at the time that the murder was one of the most brutal they had ever seen.
Police questioned Denney, a neighbor of Parker's, several times, and had put him under surveillance. He wasn't arrested until two years later, after they surreptitiously obtained his DNA evidence and matched it to the crime scene.
Denney was arrested in Maryland in November 2000, and extradited to Florida about two months later.
Investigators wouldn't say what they were looking for or what they in the muddy bottom of the retention pond in a secluded area near the Intracoastal Waterway, but the were using metal detectors.
They wrapped up their search just after 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon without saying if they would be back.
Previous Stories:
- January 29, 2001: Suspect In Beaches Murder Ordered Back To Jacksonville
- November 29, 2000: Police Try For Quick Extradition Of Suspect
- November 28, 2000: Suspect Arrested In Ragtime Murder
