The reward has increased to up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest in a brutal stabbing four years ago at Piedmont Park, Atlanta police said Friday.
On July 28, 2021, the body of Katie Janness was found about 100 yards inside the park entrance at Charles Allen Drive and 10th Street, according to investigators. Her dog, Bowie, was found nearby and had also been killed.
Janness had been stabbed more than 50 times and the letters “FAT” had been carved into her chest and torso, police said after her death. She was 40.
The case shocked the Midtown community, and the woman’s death was the first in the park since 2009. Although the FBI was brought in to assist with the investigation, the case remains unsolved, according to police.
“She hasn’t had justice,” Kristy Stupka, a friend of Janness, recently told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “There’s frustration, there’s anger, all that kind of stuff you work through for a semblance of peace, but I would like for everybody to have more peace with this.”
The reward for information on the case was previously at $10,000.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477, text information to 274637 or visit the Crime Stoppers website.
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