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ColdPriorityCriminal · Homicide· Ada County, ID

The Unidentified Thistledown Victim (1964)

Unsolved homicide from 1964 in Ada County, ID. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the forensic lab record.

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Glass evidence vial glowing green on a dark laboratory bench
Timeline
  1. 1964

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

  2. 1965

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

  3. 1966

    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
mapsandtime2 weeks ago

The tip line transcripts were never indexed. Volunteers have digitised roughly a third and duplicate callers are already emerging.

143 agree
record_room2 days ago

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

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