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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Allen Wooten

Year
1990
Where
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
Source
Ohio Attorney General
Evidence
1
What the record says

Allen Wooten was killed in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, on March 31, 1990. The Ohio Attorney General lists this as an unsolved homicide, case number 791.

From the Ohio Attorney General’s unsolved homicide database. Records change. The source is the authority.

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What does the record establish, and what has never been explained?

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