OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Thurston County sheriff’s detectives have identified a cold case homicide victim from 1998 as a missing Pierce County, Washington, man.
Lt. Greg Elwin says Richard D. McCullom was 32 when he was killed.
The Olympian reports the man’s body was found in March 1998 on a road south of Tumwater, with no wallet or other ID. The death was classified as a homicide.
At that time, investigators had fingerprints for the unidentified body, but McCullom’s fingerprints had not been entered into a nationwide database.
By 2006, the military had entered McCullom’s fingerprints into the database. When Thurston County investigators reviewing old cases recently resubmitted the “John Doe” fingerprints, they showed a match to McCullom.
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Information from: The Olympian, https://www.theolympian.com
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