Overview
- Amir Jalil Ali, formerly known as Kenneth Burnell Wonsom, was arrested on August 5 and charged with first-degree murder in the September 1995 killing of Officer Denna Fredericka Campbell.
- He is being held without bond at the Montgomery County Detention Center while a bond hearing is pending.
- Investigators uncovered DNA linking Ali under Campbell’s fingernails and found no signs of forced entry, concluding she was shot with her own service weapon.
- Cold-case detectives combined fresh witness interviews with modern forensic techniques over the past year to reconstruct evidence that was dismissed in 1995.
- Campbell, a four-year MPD veteran once commended for rescuing van crash victims, had warned colleagues that she feared her boyfriend and planned to leave him.