Milwaukee cold case, police recover dead suspect’s DNA: warrant

The Brief

  • A newly unsealed search warrant provides new details on a decades-old cold case.
  • In 1979, Nancy Radbil left for a bike ride and never returned home. She was found dead in a sewer days later.
  • The warrant states officers have recovered DNA from a dead man who was long suspected of being the primary suspect in the homicide.

MILWAUKEE A newly unsealed search warrant provides new details on a decades-old cold case in which an 18-year-old Milwaukee woman was killed.

Dead man’s DNA

What we know:

The warrant states officers have recovered DNA from a dead man who was long suspected of being the primary suspect in the homicide of 18-year-old Nancy Radbil.

Lee Kemmer died in 1980. The warrant states, in April, investigators were allowed to search Kemmer’s grave for DNA – like bones, hair and teeth.

Missing woman found dead

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