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Unsolved

Yosef Alon

Year
1929
Where
Maryland
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
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What the record says

Yosef (Joe) Alon (Hebrew: יוסף (ג'ו) אלון), born Josef Plaček (July 25, 1929 – July 1, 1973), was an Israeli Air Force officer and military attaché to the U.S. who was shot and killed in the driveway of his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The killer was never identified and Alon's murder remains unsolved.

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