Police dig up wrong body in effort to solve decades-old cold case

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Police dig up wrong body in effort to solve decades-old cold case
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Police say that victim who was killed in 1975 and never identified was buried in unmarked grave

as part of a decades-old cold case investigation into a 1975 murder – but dug up the wrong person.

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