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ColdPriorityCriminal · Homicide· Kanawha County, WV

The Foxglove Homicide (1980)

Unsolved homicide from 1980 in Kanawha County, WV. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the witness timeline.

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Timeline
  1. 1980

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

  2. 1981

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

  3. 1983

    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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2 filed
coldfile_ann4 days ago

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

294 agree
quietmile6 hours ago

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

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