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May 20, 2026
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40 years later: DNA testing links B.C. man with Washington state cold case murder
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40 years later: DNA testing links B.C. man with Washington state cold case murder
Henry Leland of Kamloops, who died in 2007, was identified using modern forensics as the man who killed Carol Traicoff in 1986.
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By Joseph Ruttle
Published May 20, 2026
Last updated May 22, 2026
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Modern DNA analysis has helped identify the killer in a 40-year-old cold case in Wenatchee, Wash. The culprit turned out to be …
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