All later emerged unharmed but Guthrie, who vanished. On Tuesday, 16 days after the group took shelter on Lillian Street, police were still sorting through a confounding puzzle of clues from ...

An Akron man apologized Friday for the role he played in the murder of an 18-year-old Akron woman. William Alexander told Samantha Guthrie’s family during his sentencing that he should have done ...

John Guthrie, Samantha’s father, said his daughter was a “compassionate, caring, loving young woman” who went out of her way to help others.

Some have told police that Guthrie was shot to death on Lillian Street, driven to a wooded area and dumped. But even if that’s true, Edwards said, police don’t know where to find her body.