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ColdPriorityCriminal · Homicide· Kent County, RI

The Hollowmere Road Killing (1962)

Unsolved homicide from 1962 in Kent County, RI. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the forensic lab record.

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Empty residential street at night under a streetlamp
Timeline
  1. 1962

    Body discovered near Hollowmere; the county opens a homicide investigation.

  2. 1963

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

  3. 1965

    A tip prompts a limited re-interview of two witnesses.

  4. Recently

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

Community leads
2 filed
archive_moth1 day ago

Newspaper coverage from the following month quotes a detail that never appears in any filing. Someone briefed a reporter.

56 agree
archive_mothYesterday

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

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