The dispatch log puts the first unit on scene before the call was logged. Either the timestamps drift or the report was filed twice.

Unsolved homicide from 1981 in Kent County, RI. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the original canvass notes.
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Body discovered near Cedar Hollow; the county opens a homicide investigation.
Initial canvass closes without a named suspect; the case goes inactive.
A tip prompts a limited re-interview of two witnesses.
Ledger contributors reopen the evidence inventory and index the public record.
The dispatch log puts the first unit on scene before the call was logged. Either the timestamps drift or the report was filed twice.
Latent prints from the scene predate the national database. Nobody has requested a modern comparison.
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