ColdPriorityCriminal · Homicide· Erie County, NY

The Winterset Road Killing (1967)

Unsolved homicide from 1967 in Erie County, NY. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the original canvass notes.

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Rows of paper case files in a dim records archive
Source: Vermilion ledger illustration
Timeline
  1. 1967

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

  2. 1968

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

  3. 1980

    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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tidewater2 weeks ago

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

276 agree
quietmile3 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.

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