{"id":2106,"date":"2024-02-10T11:57:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T16:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paris-township.com\/WP2019\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2024-02-20T15:36:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T20:36:36","slug":"1988-paris-township-cold-case-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paris-township.com\/WP2019\/1988-paris-township-cold-case-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"1988 Paris Township Cold Case Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>A local true crime story.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Way back then, in 1988, a homicide was discovered in Paris Township. While mowing his property off of Cable Line Road a local property owner noticed something shiny in a shallow grave, and human remains were discovered there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victim was unidentifyable at that time, and the remains were buried as &#8220;John Doe&#8221; in the Paris Township Hawley Cemetery. Just this past April of 2023, 30 plus years later, <a href=\"https:\/\/porchlightonline.org\/\">The <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/porchlightonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Porchlight Projec<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/porchlightonline.org\/\">t<\/a>, an organization of support for closing cold cases; Portage County and Ohio authorities were able to use evidence of the crime to ultimately identify John Doe as David Ralph Kaziateck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portage County detectives then worked with Paris Township Trustee Ed Samec and Dean Funeral Home to obtain and place a marker for David\u2019s grave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mystery of David Ralph Kaziateck&#8217;s death isn&#8217;t solved yet though. As <a href=\"https:\/\/porchlightonline.org\/a-porchlight-project-exclusive-1988-paris-township-john-doe-identified-as-david-kaziateck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the online account about David <\/a>states &#8220;Police are left with more questions than answers at this time.&#8221; The Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking for the public\u2019s help in reporting any known information about David Kaziateck to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portagecounty-oh.gov\/sheriffs-department\/pages\/detective-bureau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Portage County Detective Bureau<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NEWS COVERAGE:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/porchlightonline.org\/a-porchlight-project-exclusive-1988-paris-township-john-doe-identified-as-david-kaziateck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Read the full story on The Porchlight Project website<\/strong> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portagecounty-oh.gov\/portage-park-district\/parks-maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>\u203a<\/strong><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/porchlightonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Find out more about The Porchlight Project <\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portagecounty-oh.gov\/portage-park-district\/parks-maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>\u203a<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.record-courier.com\/story\/news\/local\/2024\/02\/18\/man-found-dead-on-portage-county-farm-in-1988-finally-identified\/72582114007\/?fbclid=IwAR2oxduzKbZherVYIFE4QknsINXfHNw3iFk6iXlLp0DmR9q0egZnwNMGevQ_aem_AQXFxnmKmYW4m82swIbIxx4pMlUGRlOUxVIb6vmaO5PI0gxPColRu2ns0elfobIrPNM#lsruz7ne47mrxbcq8u5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read Record-Courier story coverage (paywall) \u203a<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news5cleveland.com\/news\/local-news\/oh-portage\/a-john-doe-for-35-years-digitized-records-help-identify-a-homicide-victim-in-portage-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read News 5 Cleveland story coverage \u203a<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local true crime story. Way back then, in 1988, a homicide was discovered in Paris Township. While mowing his property off of Cable Line Road a local property owner&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,61,49],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news","tag-paris-township","tag-portage-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris-township.com\/WP2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris-township.com\/WP2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris-township.com\/WP2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris-township.com\/WP2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris-township.com\/WP2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paris-township.com\/WP2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/paris-township.com\/WP2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris-township.com\/WP2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris-township.com\/WP2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris-township.com\/WP2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}