A young gas station operator in Wisconsin was stabbed to death on June 12. Authorities have never named a suspect in the murder until now.
More than a half-century after a man was stabbed to death at a gas station in Wisconsin , authorities believe they've finally solved his murder. Several rounds of advanced forensic testing on DNA samples taken from the scene of the crime eventually led detectives to identify a suspect in the killing, the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office said.Wayne Pratt was found dead on June 12, 1963, inside of an Enco gas station formerly in operation along U.S.
Platt's murder became a cold case once the first years of investigative efforts turned up dry, and no arrests were made. There was limited information about the case after 1968, according to the sheriff.It was officially reopened in 2011, when investigators probed the evidence for potential DNA that could by then undergo meaningful forensic analyses and potentially help identify Platt's killer.
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