A 19-year-old opened a WA newspaper office in 1976. Her killer was never found

Fifty years ago, Carole Anne Bresler Tyler, 19, was murdered at her new job in the Tri-City Herald’s circulation office in downtown Kennewick, Washington.

Today, it is the oldest of Kennewick’s six unsolved homicides. The case has gone cold, but it is far from forgotten.

The Tyler investigation is open and active, said Kennewick Police Cmdr. Ryan Kelly, who recently took over from cold case investigator Al Wehner.

“Somebody out there knows something about it,” said Wehner, who in May concluded a 10-year run re-investigating nine cold cases in Kennewick at the behest of former Chief Ken Hohenberg.…

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