Connecticut police dig up wrong body in hopes of cracking cold case

Connecticut police exhumed a physique Wednesday as a part of a decades-old chilly case investigation — however the unearthed stays turned out to be the incorrect particular person.

The mishap befell at State Avenue Cemetery in Hamden by authorities investigating the 1975 case of a Jane Doe who was discovered lifeless, wrapped in tarp, in a drainage ditch behind a division retailer.

Authorities exhumed the physique of what they thought was the unidentified girl, solely to discover a male in that grave, East Haven police advised WTNH Information 8.

Police imagine the murder sufferer was buried within the cemetery after receiving a tip.

“The precise coordinates we have been initially going off appear to be incorrect,” East Haven police captain Joseph Murgo advised Information 8. “So we do have extra investigative results in observe.

“They by no means marked the grave, and that’s a part of the problem as we try to find her precise burial website.”

Police have compiled a number of suspects over the almost 50 years since her dying, however to higher goal the precise perp police must know who the sufferer was, in response to the tv station.

“Generations of detectives have labored extraordinarily laborious on this case, however they didn’t have the fashionable expertise that we now have right this moment. So we’re assured with right this moment’s developments we are able to apply it to this case, and, hopefully, determine her,” Murgo advised Information 8.

When the Jane Doe was initially discovered, there was nothing to point who she was, stated former New Haven police officer Tony Griego, who has labored the case since his retirement, Information 8 reported.  

She was buried a yr after she was discovered.

With Submit wires