Strangled teen babysitter case closes, remains unsolved

VIENNA TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Police are closing the case of the 1970 strangulation death of a 16-year-old girl who vanished from a home where she was babysitting in Flint and whose body was dumped on a farm.

The Flint Journal reports city police are officially closing a homicide investigation into the death of Jan Logsdon, whose body was found in Genesee County's Vienna Township.

John Henry Harrison, who lived next door to a home where Logsdon was babysitting, was arrested for first-degree murder and convicted in 1971. The murder charge against him was dismissed and his conviction set aside, however, following blood testing.

Harrison was released in 1979. He maintained his innocence and died in 2013.

Logsdon's slaying was classified as unsolved. Flint Police Sgt. Greg Hosmer says no other suspect emerged.