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Not just blowing smoke: Detective convinced Amy Mihaljevic’s killer can be found

Pa. cold case shows promise in advanced forensic science in getting Ohio’s most infamous cold case solved

Nov 09, 2026
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Thirty-seven years after 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic was lured away from the Bay Square shopping center in Bay Village, Ohio, the detective now leading her case refuses to accept that her killer walked away clean.

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“They weren’t thinking of safeguards to keep their DNA off of things. That wasn’t a thought. So I refuse to believe that there’s nothing there,” Det. Sgt. Edward Chapman recently revealed.

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