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"description": "Body of a 4\u20136-year-old boy found battered in a cardboard box; 2023 tentative ID via genetic genealogy, details sealed."
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"case_id": "jimmy_hoffa_1975",
"name": "Jimmy Hoffa Disappearance",
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"description": "Teamsters president vanished from a restaurant parking lot where he went to meet two Mafia figures; body never found."
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{
"case_id": "zodiac_1968",
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"description": "Sirhan Sirhan convicted, but forensic/acoustic evidence fueled second-gunman claims; Sirhan maintains he was manchurian-candidated."
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"name": "Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.",
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"description": "James Earl Ray pleaded guilty then recanted; a 1999 civil jury found a government-led conspiracy; no broader charges."
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"case_id": "tylenol_1982",
"name": "Chicago Tylenol Murders",
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"case_id": "golden_state_killer_1974",
"name": "The Golden State Killer / EAR-ONS",
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"description": "50+ sexual assaults and 13 murders across California; SOLVED in 2018 via genetic genealogy \u2014 Joseph James DeAngelo, a former cop, pleaded guilty."
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"name": "Oakland County Child Killer",
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"description": "Four children abducted and murdered over 13 months; killer held victims alive for days; main suspect died; no one definitively identified."
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"case_id": "keddie_cabin_1981",
"name": "Keddie Cabin Murders",
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"description": "Three Sharp family members and a friend bludgeoned and stabbed; crime scene bizarrely staged; new DNA developed in the 2020s, no charges filed."
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"case_id": "tupac_1996",
"name": "Tupac Shakur Murder",
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"description": "Shot in a Las Vegas drive-by after a Mike Tyson fight; 2023: Duane 'Keffe D' Davis arrested and charged; trial ongoing."
},
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"case_id": "biggie_1997",
"name": "The Notorious B.I.G. Murder",
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"description": "Shot in Los Angeles six months after Tupac in a similar drive-by; no one ever charged."
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"name": "JonBen\u00e9t Ramsey",
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"description": "6-year-old beauty queen found strangled and beaten in her basement; ransom note for exactly $118,000; family cleared via touch-DNA in 2008, since re-challenged; no one charged."
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"description": "Nine hikers died on Dead Mountain; tent cut from inside, fled barefoot into -30C snow; 2021 Russian reinvestigation concluded avalanche, still contested."
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"name": "Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370",
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"description": "Boeing 777 with 239 people vanished; military radar showed a sharp westward turn then south into the Indian Ocean; only scattered debris ever found."
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"name": "Madeleine McCann Disappearance",
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