City of Sharonville, OH

Sharonville - In 1981, Marie Wright Schuholz and Starla Burns were stabbed and beaten to death in Schuholz's Sharonville apartment. The women's families believe Schuholz's husband, Albert Schuholz Jr., hired someone to kill her after she filed for divorce; Burns just happened to be visiting when the killer arrived. Mr. Schuholz was not charged until 1999, when Hamilton County prosecutors say new evidence emerged linking him to the crime. The victims' families filed a lawsuit against the city claiming charges in the case would have come years earlier if police had handled the case properly. The suit accused police of losing or hiding evidence that would have implicated Mr. Schuholz. Sharonville city officials agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle the lawsuit that accused police of bungling the homicide investigation 25 years ago. (Sep-30-06) [THE ENQUIRER: HOMICIDE]

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