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Unsolved homicide

Killing of John Thomas

Year
1991
Where
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
Source
Ohio Attorney General
Evidence
1
What the record says

John Thomas was killed in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, on March 16, 1991. The Ohio Attorney General lists this as an unsolved homicide, case number 797.

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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