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ColdPriorityCriminal · Homicide· San Diego County, CA

The Unidentified Silver Fork Victim (1979)

Unsolved homicide from 1979 in San Diego County, CA. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the original canvass notes.

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Steel bridge over dark water under a grey sky
Timeline
  1. 1979

    Body discovered near Silver Fork; the county opens a homicide investigation.

  2. 1980

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

  3. 1996

    Records are digitised and released under a public records request.

  4. Recently

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

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openrecords1 week ago

Two witness statements describe the same jacket but were taken eleven months apart by different detectives. Worth reconciling.

208 agree
secondpass2 weeks ago

Latent prints from the scene predate the national database. Nobody has requested a modern comparison.

278 agree

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