Homicide victim found in Southern Indiana had no name for 18 years — until this DNA match

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Homicide victim found in Southern Indiana had no name for 18 years — until this DNA match
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Monroe County's only unidentified homicide victim within the past 20 years finally has a name. Now police must find his killer.

Richardson Road winds through a remote area of Indiana 45 blanketed in tall, thick trees near Lake Lemon. In early May 18 years ago, a turkey hunter walking through the wooded territory stumbled across a man's partially decomposed body, later determined to have been there between eight to 15 months. Investigators called to the scene found sparse evidence that painted a harrowing picture.

Hahn has been investigating this unsolved homicide for some years now, with his quest beginning soon after he transferred into the Monroe County Sheriff Office's investigative unit. With all other investigatory tools exhausted, Hahn tried a new method, one that he'd read about from a string of recently resolved criminal cases. ThinkNow, thanks to investigators finding a genetic link between Monroe County's"John Doe" and a close relative, Hahn has at least some answers that many have waited nearly a decade to hear., a man in his late thirties from Louisville, Kentucky, who was last seen in the Indianapolis area.

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