# Philly Cold Case Update

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philly-cold-case-update/543537>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 17, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philly-cold-case-update/543537 "2010-06-17T13:13:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philly-cold-case-update/543537/1 "2010-06-17T13:13:01Z")

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Going over some of my old posts I came across this story:

> **[Homicide question](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=433795)**
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> Recently, a former police officer has died from being shot in the line of duty…forty years ago. http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=5589977 The perpetrator has already done the time for the shooting…can he now do more time for...

of an officer shot in the line of duty. The perpetrator was tried, convicted, and served his sentence.

After 40 years, the officer died from complications stemming from the shooting, and the ex-con was re-arrested for murder.

Researching the news archive, I found this:  
[http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=7457857](http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=7457857)

Discuss.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philly-cold-case-update/543537/2 "2010-06-17T13:55:20Z")

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I would like to take this opportunity to say that dial-up internet sucks.

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**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philly-cold-case-update/543537/3 "2010-06-17T15:41:55Z")

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I think the first sentence of the abclocal article give enough information…  
“\*\*\*A 74-year-old man \*\*\*who shot a Philadelphia police officer during a botched burglary in 1966 was acquitted Monday of murder and other charges filed after the officer’s death in 2007”

This guys is 74 years old! What good is putting the guy on trial for a murder this old at his age?

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**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philly-cold-case-update/543537/4 "2010-06-17T16:43:50Z")

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The guy had already served 16 years for attempted murder back when he shot the cop. How is justice be served by charging an old man 40 years later for “death by urinary tract infection”? He’s already served time related to the crime, it seems pointless.