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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Michael Nelson

Year
2002
Where
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
Source
Ohio Attorney General
Evidence
1
What the record says

Michael Nelson was killed in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, on April 29, 2002. The Ohio Attorney General lists this as an unsolved homicide, case number 1163.

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.
  • Find the earliest news report you can and note what it says that later accounts dropped.
  • List what has never been explained. One line each.

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