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Friday, October 21, 2016

Dive team searches for leads in cold case

QUEEN ANNE — Residents of the Queen Anne/Hillsboro area may have noticed some unusual police activity on the Tuckahoe River Wednesday, Oct. 19. The Maryland State Police Dive Team, at the request of the Queen Anne's County Sheriff's Office, searched an area of the river north of Route 404 behind the National Guard Armory. They were looking for clues in the only cold case murder in Queen Anne's County.

Twenty-four years ago Herman “Dolly” Callahan was found shot dead in the breezeway of his home off Route 404 in Queen Anne, but the sheriff’s office hasn’t given up on the unsolved case, said Lt. Dale Patrick.

Over the years, the sheriff's office has tried different methods to generate new leads. Information and photos from the case were added to the sheriff’s office website; a copy of the case was sent to the Maryland State Police Cold Case Unit for review; several videos were filmed and shown on “Queen Anne’s Most Wanted” cable TV show, including an interview of the victim’s daughter; fliers and posters were distributed in the area; and the case was added to Fox Television’s “America’s Most Wanted” website.

Detectives got the idea it might be good to search the river, so the sheriff's office contacted MSP and asked for assistance, Patrick said. Wednesday's effort was in response to that request.

The dive team took inflatable rafts out in the river and divers searched the bottom of the river by hand, Patrick said.

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4 comments:

Zorro said...

After all this rain and flooding RECENTLY ...24 years later to start looking in the rivers.....GTFO...

Anonymous said...

23.9 years too late wtf really. Maybe try some real geewhiz stuff and re-interview some people. MSP COLD CASE UNIT in one Trooper working over 100 cold cases. Now thats the MSP way one guy working 100 murders ten troopers on 50 stopping these horrible people speeding. The shit is actually laughable.

Anonymous said...

No it's not. They probably got a tip. Hooray for the people who don't give up.

Anonymous said...

and if they stopped doing anything you people would have something to say about that. sometimes it is better to not say anything rather than give an uninformed opinion about things you know nothing of.