Cold Case

Dental record and police sketch of unidentified man

Credit: San Diego Police Department

Medical Examiner Adds New Tech to 1981 Cold Case Effort

Feb. 19, 2021 | 3:06 PM

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The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office is putting current technology into a renewed effort to identify a man whose body was found nearly 40 years ago.

Sheriff’s Department Joins Sister of Slain Teenager to Help Solve 51-Year-Old Murder

May 1, 2018 | 1:51 PM

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Fourteen-year-old Nikki Benedict was heading home from a friend’s house on May 1, 1967, cutting through what was then just a field at Carriage and Poway Roads in Poway when someone stabbed her in broad daylight and left her to die.