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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KGPE) - Over the adjacent month, Eyewitness News volition beryllium looking into six unsolved cases successful the valley.
Anchor Mederios Babb has been moving connected the task for implicit 2 years.
Each day, transgression unfolds but erstwhile cases spell cold, galore radical hide astir the case.
“It is quality quality to heal and determination on,” Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said. “You are not the household subordinate that is feeling that pain. You are not the household subordinate that is feeling that loss.”
The archetypal 48 to 72 hours is simply a important clip successful an probe because, aft the archetypal fewer days, the likelihood of solving a transgression importantly decreases.
“Evidence leads each go stale. They go cold, arsenic successful acold case, they go dry,” Boudreaux said. “When a lawsuit goes cold, that becomes the astir hard lawsuit to solve.”
Tulare County has a acold lawsuit portion dedicated to solving cases and serving justice.
“It doesn’t substance however aged the lawsuit is. We ne'er springiness up,” Boudreaux said. “The connection we request to nonstop to the fishy is we are inactive connected your tail.”
Back successful 2022, the portion announced Ramiro Villegas arsenic the execution fishy successful the decease of 10-year-old Angelica Ramirez.
Ramirez was kidnapped from the Visalia Flea Market successful 1994.
The portion connected Villegas to the lawsuit 28 years later. He died of vale fever successful 2014.
"At slightest present we person a look to the killer," said Martinez's sister McKayla. "We don't person to interest astir this idiosyncratic doing it to idiosyncratic else."
Seargent Josh Lowry worked connected the Ramirez case.
“I took that 1 personal,” Lowry said. “We privation to cognize who committed these convulsive crimes.”
New fingerprinting technology, DNA investigating and different advancements assistance detectives much than ever. Still, for immoderate of the cases, pieces of the puzzle are inactive missing.
“A portion of grounds that you don’t cognize the value of,” Boudreaux said. “We volition not springiness up.”
Every Wednesday and Thursday successful February, Eyewitness News volition revisit a acold case.
The anticipation is that the bid volition punctual radical astir the cases, and caller accusation volition travel forward.
