Body of a Missing Illinois Woman Is Found Decades Later — What Happened to Her?

Cold Justiceseeks to help a daughter find answers 38 years after her mother's death./p pIn the second episode of Season 7, a data-entity-href="https://www.oxygen.com/people/kelly-siegler" data-entity-title="https://www.oxygen.com/people/kelly-siegler" href="https://www.oxygen.com/people/kelly-siegler"Kelly Siegler/a joins Det. Sgt. Logan Andersen and Det. Todd Koerner of the Kankakee Police Department in the hopes of shedding light on the killing of Jannette Johnson. The then-29-year-old mother of two went missing from the Kankakee, Illinois area in August 1985 and was presumed dead for many years./p pHowever, new information came to light in 2020 when remains found in Pembroke Township, located about 20 miles southeast from Kankakee, were determined to belong to Janette. Now, theemCold Justice/emteam is hoping to help the Kankakee Police Department find answers in this unsolved mystery./p pstrongDon't miss the latest true crime news:bra href="https://www.oxygen.com/dateline-unforgettable/crime-news/principal-jenea-chance-husband-todd-now-daughters"Elementary Principal Picks Up Tips From ‘CSI’ Exhibit Before Killing Husband in Complex Murder Plot/abra href="https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/parents-of-gabby-petito-brian-laundrie-settle-civil-lawsuit"Parents of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie "Reluctantly" Reach Settlement in Emotional Distress Lawsuit/abra href="https://www.oxygen.com/dateline-secrets-uncovered/crime-news/denise-huskins-aaron-quinn-kidnapping-found-matthew-muller"The Shocking Real-Life Story Behind Denise Huskins' Brazen Kidnapping/a/strong/p div class="blog-post__faq" div class="faq--question" h2Who is Jannette Johnson?/h2 /div div class="faq--answer" pJannette Johnson, a 29-year-old mother of two, was described by her own mother, Mary Moore, as a "spicy" young woman with a fierce sense of determination, according to the Illinoisa href="https://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/the-missing-mom-years-without-a-clue/article_ba2a741d-ed9b-5017-84a5-1b74bba997d3.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emDaily Journal/em./a/p p"You know it was her way or the highway. And I know where she got that. I'm still that way," Mary told the outletem/emin June 2015./p /div /div div class="blog-post__faq" div class="faq--question" h2What happened to Jannette Johnson?/h2 /div div class="faq--answer" pJannette Johnson was reported missing from Kankakee, Illinois, on the evening of August 3, 1985. She was last seen the prior evening, when family members saw her parking her vehicle at the rear of her house, according to a press release cited by a href="https://www.daily-journal.com/news/crime/1985-kankakee-cold-case-becomes-a-homicide-investigation/article_90acebc6-05ea-11ec-a50f-33bdb2bdd7b1.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"The Daily Journal/a./p pThe following morning, Jannette's car had been moved to the front of the house, where authorities found the car window partially rolled down and her purse inside./p pThe case seemingly went cold in the decades following. It wasn't until Jannette's remains were recovered and identified through DNA in November 2020 that police launched a homicide investigation, theemDaily Journal/emreported./p pThe following summer, police, family members, and volunteers came together for a search of the Pembroke Township area where Jannette's remains were found. As a result of the search, Jannette's daughter Joretha Hampton told the a href="https://www.daily-journal.com/news/crime/search-of-murder-site-stirs-emotions-for-victims-daughter/article_030c41fc-1d57-11ec-9225-c3de71a8efed.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emDaily Journal/em/a, "One of our questions was answered — where it happened. We still need to learn the who, what, when and why.”/p /div /div pTo see what Kelly Siegler and the Kankakee Police Departmentuncover during their investigation, tune in to iCold Justice/ion strongOxygen/strong every Saturday at 8 p.m./p