Youngstown police still seeking leads in 2006 double homicide

YOUNGSTOWN

Sometimes too much information can be a bad thing. Even if you’re a homicide detective.

Police Detective Sgt. Ronald Rodway has such a dilemma in the unsolved 2006 double homicide of Edgar J. Davis, 22, and his girlfriend, Simone Haskins, 20, at Davis’ 1004 Valley St. home on the East Side.

Rodway said two theories have only one thing in common: An almost total lack of physical evidence.

Under one of the scenarios, Davis was killed because of his connections to the drug trade, and Haskins was killed because whoever killed Davis did not want to leave a witness behind.

The other scenario is based on the fact that Haskins was a witness in a 2005 homicide case in which all three eyewitnesses were murdered within about two years.

Rodway said sometimes too much information in a homicide case can muddle the picture and slow the investigation.

“It makes it harder to sift through,” Rodway said.

In addition, witnesses were killed, leaving police still searching for leads. Read details of the cold case in Sunday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.