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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Charles Smith

Year
1990
Where
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
Source
Ohio Attorney General
Evidence
1
What the record says

Charles Smith was killed in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, on January 28, 1990. The Ohio Attorney General lists this as an unsolved homicide, case number 586.

From the Ohio Attorney General’s unsolved homicide database. Records change. The source is the authority.

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What does the record establish, and what has never been explained?

  • Read the source and write down every date, place and name it gives.
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  • List what has never been explained. One line each.

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