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ColdPriorityCriminal · Homicide· San Diego County, CA

The Unidentified Cedar Hollow Victim (1983)

Unsolved homicide from 1983 in San Diego County, CA. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the tip line transcripts.

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Steel bridge over dark water under a grey sky
Timeline
  1. 1983

    Body discovered near Cedar Hollow; the county opens a homicide investigation.

  2. 1984

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

  3. 1989

    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
ballistics_note2 days ago

The bus terminal manifest for that week survives in a transit archive. It has never been cross-checked against the suspect list.

50 agree
ballistics_note2 days ago

A retired deputy's field notebook, released last year, names a person of interest absent from the official file.

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