Tuesday, July 04, 2000
Parents hunt son's killer
By Sheila McLaughlin
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Temar
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SOUTH LEBANON — For the past year, Jim and Donna Temar have been so grief-stricken over their son Troy's death, they could do little to help police find his killer. But, on Monday, they decided the time had come to get involved.
“We call it a mom-and-pop crusade,” Mrs. Temar said after she and her husband erected a 16-square-foot sign three feet from the side of Mason Morrow Millgrove Road. The site is only yards from where their son was shot to death and left in a burning car a year ago today.
The Temars want answers, and closure to an ordeal that keeps them asking “Why?” “We want to know why someone would do this to our son,” Mrs. Temar said Monday.
“It's about time we started going into a different direction. I know there is still a lot of crying and stuff. That's not going to end. But if we can help things along, we will.
For Mrs. Temar, it was torture to see her 30-year-old son's face peering from the placard she and her husband placed along the road, asking for information and promoting an $11,000 reward.
It was even tougher to see the word “Murdered” printed under his picture.
Police said Monday they know what happened July 3, after Mr. Temar, a self-employed contractor from Deer Park, disappeared. But they won't talk about it, and they refuse to discuss a motive.
Detective Ken McCloud of the Warren County Sheriff's Office said he is getting closer to solving the case, but needs to gather more evidence so the homicide can be prosecuted.
For a year he has kept the case alive, chasing down a few new leads, reinterviewing people who knew Mr. Temar, and double-checking old information.
Firefighters discovered Mr. Temar's body about 4:30 a.m. July 4, 1999, in the trunk of his brother's black Mustang after a passerby reported a car on fire in front of an abandoned farmhouse.
Mr. Temar was last seen by his brother about 3 p.m. July 3, 1999, at the house they shared on Matson Avenue. The gun used to kill Mr. Temar was never found, Detective McCloud said.
A year ago today, Mr. Temar was set to park cars and sell food at the Blue Ash July 4 celebration.
Today, at the same event, Mr. Temar's friends will be handing out flyers about the homicide in the hopes the killer is arrested, Mrs. Temar said.
In the meantime, she and her husband will pass out flyers to area restaurants and businesses, while they wonder when the truth will emerge.
Anyone with information about the Troy Temar homicide is urged to call Detective Ken McCloud, of the Warren County Sheriff's Office at 925-1243 from the Cincinnati calling area, or 695-1243 from Warren County.
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