Photo: Orange County Sheriff’s Office; Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office
After twenty years, a DNA kit helped identify the remains of a young Ohio boy who’d been murdered and dumped along a North Carolina highway. In the process, detectives also identified his mother, who had been found murdered in South Carolina around the same time.
Orange County Sheriff’s detective Major Tim Horne has been working the case from the very beginning and always believed he would find out who the boy was.
“I always felt like it would be solved and this is a real victory for an entire team of people who have worked these cases,” Horne tells PEOPLE.
Detectives tracked down that relative who told them the boy’s mother – who was also likely dead – that no one never reported her missing because they’d been told she’d taken the boy back to live in Korea where she was from.
That information helped connect and identify the boy and his mother.
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Spartanburg County deputies worked with Korean National Police and INTERPOL and used fingerprints to identify their victim as Myoung Hwa Cho.
Detectives say that led them to her husband and the boy’s father, who is currently in federal prison for armed robbery and is not eligible for parole until 2037. His name has yet to be publicly revealed.
source: people.com
