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
The backstory:…