RF: Adolf Czojor Murder Case Part IV: A Cold Case Goes into the Deep Freeze

Detective Mark G. Ryde has discussed the Czojor case like it’s a chunk of ice. While he seeks to bring to justice whoever extinguished the life of the sausage maker. The facts all point to toxic levels of cyanide (not arsenic which was at one time recorded) found in Czojor’s system.

Time has not been kind to the investigation. Given the fact there were months between Czojor’s death and the updated autopsy regarding his slaying, Joan and Joe Reese, Theresa Lindinger have all since died.

Authorities like retired investigative detective John R. Evans declared that he had solidified a story about how Joan was unhappily married to Czojor.

Just minute details like this can offer little in the way if nabbing a suspect. Detective Ryde, who is currently responsible for dozens of cold cases, must contend with newer “higher temperature” cases that recently happened all at the same time.

The children are still broken up about their father’s death. They printed an ad in The News Journal in 2003 commemorating the legacy of the fallen, beloved man.

If any of the evidence which pointed to his smoking as a cause of death, it would need to be a high concentration of toxin cyanide to take the man out of this life. Trace amounts of the poison are common in cigarettes but not enough to cause death in a person.

Czojor would have had to smoke multiple packs a day all day for years on end to accumulate enough of the toxin to kill him. Ryder is still confident that Czojor was a victim of some nameless foe who lurked and executed with quiet malice.

Evans still holds that the death was an absolute homicide. There is no question that this case is tailor made for Unsolved Mysteries.

The understanding of how the family has been severed in some ways with the deaths of Czojor, Joan, and Joe tears away at the souls of those still living.

The sausage maker possessed such a powerful, stirring soul that he gathered enough love and devotion even as Czojor had his gambling and smoking woes.

In a state with a few people as it is, this cold case is just one of the 320 cases that line the shelves in the Delaware law enforcement files.

With the fact no one stepped forward and admitted the killing, and the idea of all the deaths that occurred over the years that could have been a solved, wrapped up case. When memories fade and people find final resting places, the thought of capturing the culprit grows dimmer and dimmer.

But the cold cases remain an interest for all time, no matter the chill that the stories give off the current moment. For the way that retired detective Evans and current investigator Ryder keep aflame Czojor’s memory and continue to offer words that could make for a better way of getting the truth, they should be saluted.

In a sense, the fight for discovering the perpetrator behind this ugly deed.

Someone somewhere knows something. To strike this man down to bring sorrow upon his family and friends was heinous and vicious. Such individual(s) ought to pay. Despite the time disparity that happened just after his death and the weird behavior of Joan, this man’s legacy deserves better. Czojor lived a simple life but he towered in character and morality. Sure, he had a penchant for smoking and gambling but that shouldn’t inhibit anyone from heating up his case.

This is the time for someone to snitch. Whoever was still living at the time, who could have had access to cyanide and started deadly force against Czojor, they should gather their reason and let authorities know the details of who killed Adolf Cjozor.