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Dec 16, 2020 · The killing of 17-year-old Dawn Marie Birnbaum in 1993 was a crime that shocked the eastern United States. A troubled teenager, she had been hitching rides with truckers to find a boyfriend with...
Jul 13, 2023 · Upon questioning the company representatives, the police learned the concerned semi-truck was regularly driven by an employee named James “Jim” Robert Cruz Jr. The authorities obtained a search warrant for the vehicle and discovered one long strand of blonde hair from the truck’s passenger seat.
James Robert Cruz Jr., 36, of New Waterford, Ohio, is accused of strangling Dawn Marie Birnbaum and dumping her body along a northbound on-ramp of state Route 26 in Spring Township last March. Gricar said Cruz probably did not fight extradition because of the evidence against him.
In June 1994, a 36-year-old trucker from Ohio, James Robert Cruz Jr., was convicted in the March 1993 murder of 17-year-old Dawn Marie Birnbaum in Centre County, Pennsylvania, whose body was found along Interstate 80. The girl's body was discovered a few days after her death.
- United States
- 1981–1990
- "Ohio Prostitute Killer", "I-71 Killer"
- 9+
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Mar 6, 2015 · The Superior Court's decision, issued this week, involves an appeal James Robert Cruz Jr. first filed in 1997 over his first-degree murder conviction and life prison term for the 1993 slaying...
The story of James Robert Cruz (Jim Cruz) will be told through the experiences of Sheila Janutolo — his former wife. Cruz was convicted and sentenced to life in a Pennsylvania prison for the murder of 17-year-old Dawn Marie Birnbaum.
Fifteen years after Gail Katz Bierenbaum vanished, her husband, plastic surgeon Robert Bierenbaum, is being tried for murder. But the case is circumstantial, and full of mysteries: Bob's...
