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Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Make Arrest in 1977 Cold Case Murder
James Terry Fowler, 68, was identified as a suspect in July 2024 through advanced evidence-processing techniques after the cold case was reopened in 2021.
- On Monday, March 30, 2026, Kenosha Police Department arrested 68-year-old James Terry Fowler in Memphis, Tennessee, charging him with first-degree homicide in the 1977 killing of Ralph Ambrose Gianoli.
- Kenosha Police Department's cold case unit reopened the investigation in October 2021, then collaborated with the FBI and Wisconsin Department of Justice to identify Fowler as a suspect in July 2024.
- In September 1977, officers responded to 5310 25th Avenue and found Gianoli dead from blunt force trauma to the head and abdomen, with all investigative leads exhausted at the time.
- Officials scheduled a press conference for Tuesday, March 31, at the Kenosha Public Museum, where Gianoli's niece Carla Gianoli-Smith said police "didn't give up" on the case.
- Fowler remains in custody awaiting extradition from Tennessee to Kenosha, where he faces a first-degree homicide charge for the nearly 50-year-old killing.
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