As Yvonne Pointer also notes on her website, several eyewitnesses on the day that her daughter was killed described a Black male following the girl. Those witnesses even provided police with details about what that man was wearing. The man was then seen grabbing Gloria’s arm as they disappeared down an alleyway near where Gloria’s body was discovered. Try as they might police were unable to identify who that man was, though.
Over the span of 30 years, the investigation into Pointer’s death went from Cleveland city police all the way up to the FBI, to no avail. In the years intervening, DNA technology improved, and those samples recovered from Gloria’s clothing finally provided a clue as to who was responsible for killing her. And, as it turned out, the man guilty of the crime had already spent 16 years in prison on a rape conviction, as Cleveland reports.
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