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Unsolved homicide

Killing of James Jones

Year
1994
Where
St. Paris, Champaign County, Ohio
Source
Ohio Attorney General
Evidence
1
What the record says

James Jones was killed in St. Paris, Champaign County, Ohio, on December 31, 1994. The Ohio Attorney General lists this as an unsolved homicide, case number 49.

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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