LAUDERHILL, FLA. (WSVN) – More than half a century after two ATV riders stumbled upon a body dumped on a dirt road outside Lauderhill, investigators finally know who the victim was. Now they need the public’s help to find out who killed him.
His name is Robert Freese. He was born in Nassau County, New York in 1957, and was living near the 700 block of NW 6th Street in Pompano Beach when he died. He stood 6 feet tall, weighed around 170 to 175 pounds and had blonde hair and blue eyes.
In the summer of 1975, his partially clothed body was found on a dirt road roughly four miles west of the 4400 block of North University Drive in Lauderhill, an area patrolled at the time by the Broward Sheriff’s Office. He had no ID on him, and there was little physical evidence at the scene, leading investigators to believe he had been killed somewhere else and left there…