Boy whose 81-year-old murder remains unsolved gets gravestone
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A ceremony was held Saturday to dedicate a new gravestone for a 7-year-old Michigan boy whose brutal killing more than 80 years ago remains unsolved.
Richard Streicher Jr. was murdered in March 1935 in Ypsilanti and his grave in a town cemetery was never marked due to the notoriety of the crime, the Ann Arbor News reports. The boy never returned home after going sledding on a late winter evening. His body was found days later underneath a footbridge near his home with 14 stab wounds.
Investigators never found the killer.
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The Ann Arbor News ran a story about the cold case murder in December which led to an online fundraising campaign that raised $1,500 for a headstone to mark the grave.
Engraved on the monument is a runner sled in remembrance of the boy’s last activity before his death, the paper reported.
The 30 attendees at the dedication ceremony included a man in his late 80s named Paul Woodside who grew up with the murdered boy.
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“We walked home from school together,” Woodside told the paper. “He lived up there on Cross Street. I lived on Prospect Street. We separated right there. And that was the last I [saw] him.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.