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ColdPriorityCriminal · Homicide· Yakima County, WA

The Pelham Court Murders (1972)

Unsolved homicide from 1972 in Yakima County, WA. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the tip line transcripts.

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Empty rural field at dusk with a faded dirt road
Timeline
  1. 1972

    Body discovered near Pelham Court; the county opens a homicide investigation.

  2. 1973

    Initial canvass closes without a named suspect; the case goes inactive.

  3. 1976

    Evidence is re-submitted for testing under a cold case grant.

  4. Recently

    Ledger contributors reopen the evidence inventory and index the public record.

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2 filed
fieldnotes_922 weeks ago

The original canvass skipped the four houses on the far side of the tracks. Those residents were never formally interviewed.

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dockethound6 hours ago

The tip line transcripts were never indexed. Volunteers have digitised roughly a third and duplicate callers are already emerging.

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