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Nancy's sisters: Barbara and Linda Manni
Nancy Lynn Manni. Manni was a student at the Seafarer’s Union School of Seamanship located at Piney Point, Maryland. She was there to attend upgrading courses where she and other union members would learn new skills or enhance their skill sets while serving aboard ships in the maritime industry.
Nancy arrived at a popular nightspot on Solomon’s Island, Md., located on the Patuxent River and the Chesapeake Bay. It was a Saturday and at the Tiki Bar, she met a man who invited her aboard a runabout for a trip out on the water. The boat was tied up across from the bar, in Solomon’s harbor.
The next time she was seen was the next morning when boaters spotted her body floating in the Bay. The Maryland Natural Resources Police have jurisdiction over bodies found in the State’s waters, thus instead of experienced homicide investigators of the Maryland State Police or the two nearby Sheriff’s Departments being called to handle the probe, Cpl. Dennis Leland, an NRP officer who had never before been assigned to investigate a homicide, was assigned the case. As might be expected, the case went nowhere.
The immediate suspects, her two recent boyfriends — Seafarer’s President Mike Sacco’s son Tony, who was in and out of jail on DWI, drugs, and other charges had an alibi, as did William Mesmer. Mesmer penned spooky words to Manni in his letters after she jilted him but his alibi panned out too.
On February 12, 1997, John David O'Meara, a man who reportedly has no ties to the school that Nancy was attending or the Union, was arrested and charged with her murder while serving time in a Polk County, Florida jail for an unrelated crime. An informant told the Maryland National Resources Police that O'Meara told him that he had killed a girl, and when the informant asked who the girl was, O'Meara said "the one on Unsolved Mysteries." O'Meara told police met Nancy at a bar on the night she vanished. He claimed that he took her out on a boat and that she fell over accidentally and drowned. However, when he went on trial for Nancy's murder, a jury did not believe him, and he was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
Nancy's sisters: Barbara and Linda Manni
Nancy Lynn Manni. Manni was a student at the Seafarer’s Union School of Seamanship located at Piney Point, Maryland. She was there to attend upgrading courses where she and other union members would learn new skills or enhance their skill sets while serving aboard ships in the maritime industry.
Nancy arrived at a popular nightspot on Solomon’s Island, Md., located on the Patuxent River and the Chesapeake Bay. It was a Saturday and at the Tiki Bar, she met a man who invited her aboard a runabout for a trip out on the water. The boat was tied up across from the bar, in Solomon’s harbor.
The next time she was seen was the next morning when boaters spotted her body floating in the Bay. The Maryland Natural Resources Police have jurisdiction over bodies found in the State’s waters, thus instead of experienced homicide investigators of the Maryland State Police or the two nearby Sheriff’s Departments being called to handle the probe, Cpl. Dennis Leland, an NRP officer who had never before been assigned to investigate a homicide, was assigned the case. As might be expected, the case went nowhere.
The immediate suspects, her two recent boyfriends — Seafarer’s President Mike Sacco’s son Tony, who was in and out of jail on DWI, drugs, and other charges had an alibi, as did William Mesmer. Mesmer penned spooky words to Manni in his letters after she jilted him but his alibi panned out too.
On February 12, 1997, John David O'Meara, a man who reportedly has no ties to the school that Nancy was attending or the Union, was arrested and charged with her murder while serving time in a Polk County, Florida jail for an unrelated crime. An informant told the Maryland National Resources Police that O'Meara told him that he had killed a girl, and when the informant asked who the girl was, O'Meara said "the one on Unsolved Mysteries." O'Meara told police met Nancy at a bar on the night she vanished. He claimed that he took her out on a boat and that she fell over accidentally and drowned. However, when he went on trial for Nancy's murder, a jury did not believe him, and he was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
Full story is featured on Youtube: Cold Blood - Season 5, Episode 3 - The Body In The Bay
Nancy's sisters: Barbara and Linda Manni
Nancy Lynn Manni. Manni was a student at the Seafarer’s Union School of Seamanship located at Piney Point, Maryland. She was there to attend upgrading courses where she and other union members would learn new skills or enhance their skill sets while serving aboard ships in the maritime industry.
Nancy arrived at a popular nightspot on Solomon’s Island, Md., located on the Patuxent River and the Chesapeake Bay. It was a Saturday and at the Tiki Bar, she met a man who invited her aboard a runabout for a trip out on the water. The boat was tied up across from the bar, in Solomon’s harbor.
The next time she was seen was the next morning when boaters spotted her body floating in the Bay. The Maryland Natural Resources Police have jurisdiction over bodies found in the State’s waters, thus instead of experienced homicide investigators of the Maryland State Police or the two nearby Sheriff’s Departments being called to handle the probe, Cpl. Dennis Leland, an NRP officer who had never before been assigned to investigate a homicide, was assigned the case. As might be expected, the case went nowhere.
The immediate suspects, her two recent boyfriends — Seafarer’s President Mike Sacco’s son Tony, who was in and out of jail on DWI, drugs, and other charges had an alibi, as did William Mesmer. Mesmer penned spooky words to Manni in his letters after she jilted him but his alibi panned out too.
On February 12, 1997, John David O'Meara, a man who reportedly has no ties to the school that Nancy was attending or the Union, was arrested and charged with her murder while serving time in a Polk County, Florida jail for an unrelated crime. An informant told the Maryland National Resources Police that O'Meara told him that he had killed a girl, and when the informant asked who the girl was, O'Meara said "the one on Unsolved Mysteries." O'Meara told police met Nancy at a bar on the night she vanished. He claimed that he took her out on a boat and that she fell over accidentally and drowned. However, when he went on trial for Nancy's murder, a jury did not believe him, and he was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
Nancy's sisters: Barbara and Linda Manni
Nancy Lynn Manni. Manni was a student at the Seafarer’s Union School of Seamanship located at Piney Point, Maryland. She was there to attend upgrading courses where she and other union members would learn new skills or enhance their skill sets while serving aboard ships in the maritime industry.
Nancy arrived at a popular nightspot on Solomon’s Island, Md., located on the Patuxent River and the Chesapeake Bay. It was a Saturday and at the Tiki Bar, she met a man who invited her aboard a runabout for a trip out on the water. The boat was tied up across from the bar, in Solomon’s harbor.
The next time she was seen was the next morning when boaters spotted her body floating in the Bay. The Maryland Natural Resources Police have jurisdiction over bodies found in the State’s waters, thus instead of experienced homicide investigators of the Maryland State Police or the two nearby Sheriff’s Departments being called to handle the probe, Cpl. Dennis Leland, an NRP officer who had never before been assigned to investigate a homicide, was assigned the case. As might be expected, the case went nowhere.
The immediate suspects, her two recent boyfriends — Seafarer’s President Mike Sacco’s son Tony, who was in and out of jail on DWI, drugs, and other charges had an alibi, as did William Mesmer. Mesmer penned spooky words to Manni in his letters after she jilted him but his alibi panned out too.
On February 12, 1997, John David O'Meara, a man who reportedly has no ties to the school that Nancy was attending or the Union, was arrested and charged with her murder while serving time in a Polk County, Florida jail for an unrelated crime. An informant told the Maryland National Resources Police that O'Meara told him that he had killed a girl, and when the informant asked who the girl was, O'Meara said "the one on Unsolved Mysteries." O'Meara told police met Nancy at a bar on the night she vanished. He claimed that he took her out on a boat and that she fell over accidentally and drowned. However, when he went on trial for Nancy's murder, a jury did not believe him, and he was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
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