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Massachusetts cold case unit wants to ID cases back to ’80s
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TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts county’s chilly case unit is working to determine a dozen unidentified our bodies or skeletal stays which have been discovered by way of the years, some relationship again practically 4 a long time.
Conventional strategies utilizing fingerprints or dental information haven’t resulted of their identification, Bristol County District Lawyer Thomas Quinn III mentioned. Not less than two instances have been decided to be homicides.
“We try to determine these stays in order that relations can have some closure and to additionally decide if a criminal offense was dedicated,” he mentioned in a information launch Friday. “Our Chilly Case Unit has been profitable in fixing a number of chilly case homicides and beforehand unsolved violent sexual assaults. The unit is now increasing its efforts to concentrate on unidentified stays. If anybody has any info associated to those instances, please contact us.”
Two of the oldest instances are child boys who have been discovered lifeless within the woods. One died of publicity in November 1983 in Freetown and the opposite, present in Mansfield in January 1985, was born alive, however died a short while later, autopsies confirmed.
The latest case is a human cranium in January 2021, discovered on the ocean flooring southwest of Fish Island in New Bedford.