Emma Coleman
A new statewide, searchable cold case database sparked a new lead in a 19-year-old murder investigation July 22.
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Courtesy of Mary DouthatCorrection
July 25, 2022, 11 a.m.: Gary Nolan Romano was found dead in his pickup truck on Interstate 81 in Pulaski County on June 30, 1980. That was the same day that a car was found that Gina Hall had been driving when she disappeared June 28, 1980, in the Claytor Lake area of Pulaski County. The date Romano was found and the date the two cases overlapped was incorrectly reported in the originally published version of this article, which has been updated.
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