Decades-long 1985 hotel-murder solved as suspect indicted
TL;DR
A decades‑long cold case ended with the indictment of Randy McAllister for the 1985 killing of traveling salesman John Warren at a Middletown, Ohio hotel after investigators linked buried evidence found behind a Dalton, Georgia Cracker Barrel and the victim’s car found in Florida to him; the Warren County case, reopened in 2019, led to a grand jury charging him with aggravated murder and murder, and he remains jailed awaiting arraignment.
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