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

Unsolved homicide from 1994 in Missoula County, MT. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the witness timeline.
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Body discovered near Lakeshore; the county opens a homicide investigation.
Initial canvass closes without a named suspect; the case goes inactive.
Records are digitised and released under a public records request.
Ledger contributors reopen the evidence inventory and index the public record.
Newspaper coverage from the following month quotes a detail that never appears in any filing. Someone briefed a reporter.
County weather records contradict the stated ground conditions in the scene report. That changes the tyre impression reading.
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