Whats the oldest cold case ever solved?
It was a slow day at the Ask Yahoo! detective agency. We were about to catch some Z’s when a question glided across our desks like an angel on cloud nine. A client wanted us to find the oldest cold case ever solved. He said it was dangerous work. “Dead links everywhere,” he whispered. “What else is new?” we grumbled. Then, quicker than a Brooklyn bookie collecting a debt, we donned our trench coats and began our investigation. Yahoo! Search, our most reliable source, gave us results. All the cases were mustier than a grandmother’s attic, but two stood out. The first involved a boy who police believed was murdered in 1933. Not so. According to current forensic investigators, the boy drowned. The original autopsy missed the mark — and badly. The second case took us
