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ColdPriorityCriminal · Homicide· Douglas County, NE

The Grimsby Homicide (1984)

Unsolved homicide from 1984 in Douglas County, NE. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the tip line transcripts.

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Timeline
  1. 1984

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

  2. 1985

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

  3. 1997

    Evidence is re-submitted for testing under a cold case grant.

  4. Recently

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

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2 filed
fern_and_ash1 week ago

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

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the_index3 days ago

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

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