Joy Sims

Joy Sims

Status: HOMICIDE

City: Tallahassee

State: Florida

County: Leon County

Date of death: October 22, 1966

Age: 12

Gender: Female

Race: Caucasian/White

Cause of death: Knife Stabbing

Anniversary month: October

LEA: Leon County Sheriff's Office, Tallahassee, Florida

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July 9, 2018 | By: Brianna Bartlett This story is part of a collaborative project between Project: Cold Case and a University of North Florida Journalism class. “Something terrible has happened, please come,” Norma Jeannette Sims pleaded with a Tallahassee funeral home ambulance service. She stood in her parents’ bedroom overlooking the bound bodies of her father lying on the bed while her mother and youngest sister lie on the beige carpet. On that Saturday, Oct. 22, 1966, then seventeen-year-old Sims had been babysitting for a family that attended the Florida State football game. When the game ended and the family returned, she returned home with no one there to welcome her. Read more Read More



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