On February 8, 1978, a man broke into 19-year-old Linda Tschari’s home in Buffalo, New York and stabbed her to death. Almost 45 years later, the Erie County District Attorney’s Office has announced that John Sauberan (63) has been sentenced to 25 years to life imprisonment for killing Tschari.
63-Year-Old Man Sentenced to 25 Years to Life In the 1978 Stabbing Murder of New York Woman
On the night of her death, Linda’s brother was the one who found her dead from multiple stab wounds in the living room. John Sauberan was able to flee the scene and Tschari’s death became a cold case as 44 years passed without a suspect or significant developments.
That is until DNA evidence matched Sauberan to the murder while he was doing time in Oregon on a felony charge. On October 11, 2022, he was found guilty of second-degree murder in stabbing Linda Tschari.
While the family received Justice with this decision and the cold case has been solved, these kinds of cases and developments in cold murders raise the question of “What if there were more victims?”
After all, Sauberan was able to go unchecked for over 40 years after murdering someone. He wasn’t able to live those years completely under the radar as he was captured across the country but he avoided capture for this crime for decades.
In that time, what else did he do, and were there any unsolved murders or disappearances in locations he’d stayed in that large gap of time? What do you think: was this the only murder Sauberan committed or is some deeper digging into his history warranted here?
Let us know in the comments.
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