Unsolved Mysteries is back on Netflix with another batch of unsolved cases for us to obsess over.
One of the episodes, titled Lady in the Lake, explores the case of JoAnn Romain, who went missing after attending church in Michigan, US in January 2010.
The 55-year-old mother-of-three’s body was found 70 days later floating in the Detroit river, 50 miles from the church.
Her death was officially ruled a suicide, but her devastated daughter insists she was murdered.
Michelle Romain, her eldest daughter, believes there is evidence that her mother was murdered before she was found floating in the river.
According to her, JoAnn was abducted outside the church, chloroformed and left in the water.
JoAnn Romain disappeared in January 2010 (Image: CBS.news)
She told the Detroit Free Press that cops in the Grosse Pointe Farms and Grosse Pointe Woods had made grave mistakes throughout the investigation.
She and her two siblings are convinced that their mother was murdered because someone had a vendetta against one of her uncles, to whom her mother was close.
Michelle said in a press release: “My mother was murdered, pure and simple. And I will never be at peace nor will other members of my family, until this matter is properly investigated and her killer or killers are brought to justice.”
Michelle Romain believes her mother was murdered (Image: © ABC News)
In 2014 the family of JoAnn filed a lawsuit against the cities of Grosse Pointe Woods and Grosse Pointe Farms, alleging they ignored evidence she was killed.
The law suit was dismissed in 2018, and they appealed the decision.
However, in 2019 a federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of the lawsuit.
JoAnn Romain’s body was found 70 days later (Image: ABC News)
The public safety departments have always insisted that this isn’t the case, and that they believe she committed suicide, or that it was a tragic accident.
They suggested she had walked from her car and climbed over the rocks to Lake St Clair, where she drowned.
Three pathologists ruled the cause of death as drowning, but the manner of death was undetermined.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
