By Associated Press - Friday, March 24, 2017

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A reward of more than $10,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest and indictment in the 35-year-old unsolved slaying of a Buffalo-area teenager.

The Erie County District Attorney’s Office says the town of Lancaster Police Department has offered $10,000 combined with up to $1,000 from Crime Stoppers Buffalo for information in the killing of 18-year-old James Adamski, of Cheektowaga.

Investigators say he was last seen early on the morning of Oct. 31, 1982, leaving a Halloween party at a bar on Transit Road on the Lancaster-Cheektowaga town line. His body was found the day after Christmas in a ditch along a nearby road in Lancaster.



Police say he had died from head trauma.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers Buffalo at 716-867-6161.

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