Friday, February 04, 2000
Butler officials reopen 4 murder cases
BY STEVE KEMME
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HAMILTON — On the morning of Oct. 25, 1982, 22-year-old Tammy Lynn King left her Price Hill apartment to go to an unemployment office and was never again seen alive by her family.
Three weeks later, the woman's partially clothed, de composing body was found in a wooded field on Dunwoody Road in Butler County's Reily Township.
Investigators determined that she had been strangled, but were not able to identify her killer.
But now Butler County authorities are hoping to change that.
Armed with new technology, the sheriff's department will begin new investigations into Ms. King's death and three other unsolved slayings from the 1970s.
Sheriff Harold Don Gabbard, who ordered the long-dormant cases reopened, will discuss details at a news conference today in Hamilton.
Technology such as DNA tests might be used to uncover the identity of the killers, said Maj. Anthony Dwyer.
DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a genetic code contained in the nuclei of cells. No two people, except identical twins, have the same DNA patterns. This test was not widely used by law-enforce ment agencies until the 1990s.
Besides applying new technology to physical evidence, Butler County investigators hope to receive information from people who have before been silent, Maj. Dwyer said.
“Time often has a way of changing people's outlooks,” he said. “Somebody who knew something 20 years ago and didn't come forward might be in a position now to talk to us.”
The department declined to identify the other three victims Thursday.
Maj. Dwyer said he would consider it a success if one of the four cases is solved.
“We'll pull the cases out,” he said, “and see if we can give them some justice.”
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