Ann Priceman
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
No, sort of straight and out of the blue.
It was surprising this many years later.
Ken Holmgren, the son, had thought his father was murdered in Costa Rica, never to be found, never to be investigated.
A former FBI agent joined the Englewood PD, and he was picking up some cold cases and was looking at this one, trying to ID the body.
They had good autopsy photos.
They've done a decent crime scene analysis.
But that many years ago, there was not...
DNA was not where it is now.
So he opened up the case, hooked up with his old colleagues at the FBI, and they did a genealogy search.
And they found some distant cousins and eventually made their way to...
Ken Holmgren in Texas, who is the son of Elmer Holmgren.
And he, Ken, sees these autopsy photos and immediately ideas him as his dad.
They essentially, as they put it, offer a service to smaller or police departments with less resources, and the FBI offers these resources free of charge.
There we are.
I mean, I think the only difference would be they weren't โ they were not โ what's the phrase?
The digital footprint might be easier to trace in terms of โ
the money, but they were smart criminals.