GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ ) – It’s now been 30 years since the body of Lisa Holstead of Green Bay, was found in the Atkinson Marsh by the Bay of Green Bay.
Holstead had been strangled and found later by construction workers in August of 1986.
Although Green Bay Police Investigations Commander, Jim Runge wasn’t on the case at the time, he and others revisit the homicide each year.
Runge takes a look back on that gruesome day.
“She had been out with her boyfriend. They had an argument the night she disappeared. The story was that she jumped out of the car and that’s the last he saw of her. It was on the west side. The next day her body turns up in the marsh,” said Runge.
Police say evidence found on Holstead could not be directly linked to her boyfriend. As time went on investigators continued interviewing friends, family and those close to her to find out more about Holstead.
“I think, in my experience in most homicides, people who know things and for whatever reason, whether they’re involved or not, they are reluctant to be truthful…and I think in this case there was a lot of untruthfulness,” Runge said.
So where is the investigation now and has new DNA technology revealed a break in the case?
Watch the entire interview with Commander Jim Runge in the latest episode of Green Bay Crime.
