John Lemley

Crime Alert, I'm John Lemley.

We begin this hour with a compelling development out of Hurricane Idaho, where authorities have taken the rare step of reopening a cold case that has puzzled investigators for more than half a century.

Police with the Washington County Sheriff's Office say they are preparing to exhume human remains buried in a local cemetery, remains belonging to an unidentified woman discovered in 1970 and long known only as Jane Doe.

At the time of her discovery, the woman's cause of death was ruled undetermined, and she was laid to rest with a simple marker identifying her as an unknown.

The case was investigated sporadically over the years, including a 2014 attempt to recover her DNA, but that effort ultimately failed when no remains were found during excavation.

Now detectives have petitioned a judge for a new warrant and are moving forward with plans to exhume the burial site again, this time with modern forensic science on their side.

Advances in DNA technology and access to national missing person databases give investigators renewed hope that Jane Doe can finally be identified.

Records indicate that prior excavation efforts may not have gone deep enough to reach the actual burial site, leading authorities to believe the remains may still be intact beneath the surface.

With assistance from the National Cold Case Coalition, law enforcement hopes to collect viable DNA samples that could provide closure for surviving relatives whose loved ones disappeared decades ago.

The Sheriff's Office says the exhumation will take place in the coming weeks, marking a significant moment in one of the longest-running cold cases in Utah's history.

Thanks, John.

In Rhode Island, officials released new video and audio recordings from the day of the Brown University campus shooting that left two students dead and nine others wounded in December.

The footage, heavily redacted to shield victims and their families from further trauma, includes about 20 minutes of body-worn camera video from responding officers and radio traffic between campus police and municipal authorities.

The suspect in that attack, identified previously as Claudio Neves Valenti, a former graduate student at the university, is also believed to have fatally shot an MIT professor, Nuno Loreo, days after the campus attack.

Valenti was later found dead in a storage facility in New Hampshire.

Providence City officials say portions of the recordings were withheld to avoid showing more graphic content.

But the material release sheds light on the chaotic police response, including moments when officers mistook a maintenance worker for a potential suspect.

Providence Mayor Brett Smiley noted the difficult balance between transparency and protecting those affected by the tragedy, which occurred during a final exam period on campus.

Authorities continue to urge anyone with additional video footage

or information from the day of the incident to come forward.