AAP General News (Australia)
08-27-2010
VIC:Lead in Crawford cold case collapses
A chance for police to solve one of Victoria's oldest cold cases has collapsed .. with
DNA evidence ruling out a major lead.
Victoria Police have determined that the unidentified body of an elderly man in Texas
is not ELMER CRAWFORD .. accused of murdering his wife and their three children in 1970
near Port Campbell.
Detectives have used DNA from a CRAWFORD blood relative to compare with DNA from an
unknown man .. who died of a heart attack five years ago in Texas.
The man had used fake IDs in four different names.
While facial recognition experts concluded this year that the mystery man could be
CRAWFORD .. a DNA test has ruled out that possibility .. meaning a 100 thousand reward
still stands in the 40-year case.
CRAWFORD would be 81 if he was still alive.
AAP RTV sbl/ajw/
KEYWORD: CRAWFORD (MELBOURNE)
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