ColdPriorityCriminal · Unsolved homicide· Douglas County, NE

The Mill Creek Homicide (2005)

Dwight Gaines was killed near Mill Creek in Douglas County, NE in 2005. The death was ruled a homicide caused by undetermined causes, no one has been charged, and the file is still open.

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Rows of old filing cabinets in a dim municipal archive room
Source: Vermilion ledger illustration
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  1. 2005

    Deputies responded to a call at Mill Creek and found the victim already dead.

  2. 2009

    Evidence was re-submitted to the state lab; results were inconclusive.

  3. 2014

    DNA held in storage was re-tested with modern methods.

  4. Recently

    Ledger contributors indexed the public record and opened the case for review.

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