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Detectives who worked the original investigation retired or transferred.
New homicides came in and demanded immediate attention.
The DNA profile in Kotus continued to run passive searches against new entries in the database.
And year after year, the system returned nothing.
This is what going cold actually looks like.
It’s not a dramatic decision.
Nobody walks into a room and says, “We’re giving up on Naomi fails.
The leads dry up.
The phone stops ringing.
Other cases take priority.
The file migrates from the active desk to the follow-up pile to the filing cabinet to the storage room.
And the victim, who was already invisible in many of the ways that matter, becomes even more so.
Meanwhile, the neighborhood where Naomi was killed continued to deteriorate.
More houses were condemned.
More buildings were demolished.
More families left.
The Glennville that existed in 2004 was struggling.
The Glennville that existed a decade later was struggling harder.
The building on Somerset Avenue was one of thousands of vacant structures across Cleveland’s east side that the city could neither maintain nor afford to tear down.
Census data shows the area’s population has steadily declined with poverty rates ranking in the lowest percentiles nationally.
Nearly half the children in the neighborhood’s zip code live below the federal poverty line.
This is the kind of community where resources are scarce and unsolved cases stack up.
During those same 22 years, forensic DNA technology was evolving faster than most people realized.
In 2004, DNA analysis meant kotis and nothing else.
By 2015, a handful of scientists and genealogologists were experimenting with a radically different approach.
Instead of searching a criminal database for an exact match, they were using consumer genealogy databases, the kind that millions of Americans were submitting their DNA to through services like Ancestry DNA and 23 andMe to identify unknown individuals through their relatives.
The concept was elegant in its simplicity.
You don’t need the suspect’s DNA in a criminal database.
You just need a distant cousin, a third cousin, a fourth cousin, someone who shares enough genetic material to point you toward the right family tree.
From there, you build the tree outward using public records, census data, obituaries, marriage licenses.
You narrow branch by branch until you have a candidate.
Then you collect a direct DNA sample from that candidate and see if it matches the crime scene.
In April 2018, this technique made international headlines.
Investigators in Sacramento, California, working with genealogologist Barbara Ray Venttor, uploaded a crime scene DNA profile to the public database GED Match.
The profile belonged to the Golden State Killer, a serial rapist and murderer who had terrorized California communities for over a decade in the 1970s and 1980s.
Traditional DNA methods had failed to identify him for more than 40 years.
The genealogy search identified distant relatives.
The family tree led to a 72-year-old retired police officer named Joseph James D’Angelo.
A discarded item confirmed the DNA match.
He was arrested in his driveway.
The case was a seismic event in forensic science.
It proved conclusively and publicly that genetic genealogy could solve cases that were considered permanently cold.
Cases where COTUS had been useless for decades.
Cases where every traditional lead had been exhausted.
Cases where the suspect had never been arrested, never been sampled, never entered any criminal database.
Cases exactly like Naomi fails.
The floodgates opened.
Within two years of the Golden State Killer arrest, law enforcement agencies across the country were submitting cold case evidence for genetic genealogy analysis.
Laboratories specializing in the technique expanded rapidly.
The waiting list of cases grew longer than the labs could process.
After the Golden State Killer arrest, law enforcement agencies across the country began exploring genetic genealogy for their own unsolved cases.
Laboratories specializing in the technique began to grow.
Author, a company founded in 2018 in Texas, built its entire operation around the idea of recovering usable DNA from the oldest, most degraded evidence imaginable and applying genetic genealogy to cases that traditional methods couldn’t touch.
The science existed, the laboratories existed, the case files existed.
The only thing missing was the decision to connect them.
During all of this, Angelo Smith was living in Uklid, Ohio, 12 mi northeast of the crime scene, a quiet inner ring suburb of Cleveland.
He was never questioned about Naomi’s murder.
He was never named as a person of interest.
He was never connected to the case in any way.
For 22 years, the DNA that could identify him sat in a property room in Cleveland, and the man it belonged to lived less than a 20inut drive away.
If you’ve been watching Cold Cases long enough, you know the pattern.
The evidence waits.
The science catches up and someone eventually has to decide that the case is worth reopening.
For Naomi, that decision came from an office most people in Cleveland have never heard of.
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The story of how Naomi Fails’s case was reopened starts not with her murder, but with a crisis that had been building in Kyhoga County for years.
In 2013, the Kyhoga County Prosecutor’s Office launched a sexual assault kit task force.
The reason was staggering in its scope.
Thousands of sexual assault evidence kits, the forensic packages collected from survivors during hospital examinations immediately after an assault had been sealed, stored in police property rooms across the county, and never tested.
For years, in some cases decades, the evidence sat on shelves.
Survivors had endured some of the most invasive medical procedures imaginable in the immediate aftermath of the worst moments of their lives, trusting that the evidence would be used to find the people who attacked them.
And the system had simply never processed the kits.
The problem was not unique to Cleveland.
Across the country, hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits were discovered in police storage facilities during audits in the 2010s.
The Cleveland discovery was among the largest and most high-profile.
It revealed a systemic failure that went far beyond individual negligence.
It was a failure of institutional prioritization, of funding, of the basic infrastructure required to deliver justice to survivors of sexual violence.
The task force funded substantially by grants from the US Department of Justice totaling over a million dollars began systematically testing those kits.
They entered DNA profiles into COTUS.
They got hits.
They identified serial offenders who had continued committing crimes while the evidence that could have stopped them gathered dust.
The results were both a vindication of the science and an indictment of the system that had failed to use it.
Out of that work grew something larger.
Under Kyhoga County Prosecutor Michael Ali, the office created a dedicated cold case unit with a specific mandate.
Review unsolved violent crimes, conduct follow-up investigations, and apply advanced forensic techniques to cases that had been abandoned by the traditional system.
They called it the GLD unit, genetic operations linking DNA.
The name tells you what drives the operation.
This is a unit built around the idea that DNA evidence, properly tested and properly analyzed, can solve cases that were considered permanently cold.
The unit is supervised by Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Mary Weston, and works in partnership with the Cleveland Division of Police, the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the Kyhoga County Medical Examiner’s Office, and a research team at Cleveland State University.
The unit doesn’t just grab files at random.
They use a structured process to evaluate which cases are most likely to benefit from advanced forensic techniques.
A ranking system assigns points to a case based on several factors, including the quality of the available DNA evidence, whether a suspect profile exists in Kotus, and how likely genetic genealogy is to produce a usable lead.
Cases with strong biological evidence but no COTUS match are exactly the kind of cases the unit was designed to handle.
By 2025, the gold unit had compiled a track record that few prosecutors offices in the country could match.
The office reported that 62 DNA profiles in violent crime cases had been submitted for forensic genetic genealogy or familial DNA searches.
16 offenders had been identified.
23 rape cases had been solved.
The individual cases tell the story better than the numbers.
In December 2023, the unit announced that three cold case offenders had been identified, including a man tied to a sexual assault in the year 2000 beneath the Detroit Superior Bridge in Cleveland.
In March 2025, seven more cold case sexual assaults were announced as solved with suspects who had been charged only as John Doe’s for years finally given real names and real arrest warrants.
One of those suspects had first been charged as John Doe number 112.
Another is John Doe number 180.
numbers, not names, until the gold unit’s work gave the investigation something COS never could.
These were cases where victims had waited decades for the phone call, telling them that the person who attacked them had finally been identified.
The kind of cases that most people assume will never be solved.
But there was a notable pattern in those numbers.
The solved cases were overwhelmingly sexual assaults.
The gold unit had not yet publicly announced a cold case homicide solved through forensic genetic genealogy.
Naomi Fails’ case appears to have changed that the unit picked up her file sometime around 2019, 5 years before the evidence was eventually sent to Aram.
The timeline suggests a careful, deliberate process, not a rush to apply new technology, but a methodical evaluation of what the evidence could yield.
The biological evidence from the 2004 crime scene was still preserved.
The DNA profile had never matched anyone in Cotus, and the case met the criteria that the ranking system was designed to flag.
Strong forensic evidence, no suspect, and no other viable investigative path forward.
In 2025, the gold unit made the call.
They packaged the biological evidence that Cleveland crime scene technicians had collected from the Somerset Avenue building 21 years earlier.
evidence that had been sitting in a property room through four presidential administrations, through the rise of social media, through the invention of the smartphone, through the entire transformation of modern American life.
They shipped it to a laboratory in Texas that specializes in extracting usable DNA from exactly this kind of aged degraded material.
And they waited.
The decision itself is worth pausing on.
Among the thousands of unsolved violent crimes in Kyahoga County, among the stacks of cold case files sitting in property rooms across the region, someone inside that unit looked at Naomi Fails’ case and decided it was worth pursuing.
A woman killed inside an abandoned building in a neighborhood most of Cleveland had written off in a case that had generated no public pressure and almost no media attention for more than two decades.
Someone decided she still counted and that decision is the reason this story has a second act.
Author Incorporated was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in the suburbs outside Houston, Texas.
The company was built from the ground up with a specific mission.
Apply modern genomic sequencing technology to the kind of forensic evidence that traditional DNA labs struggle with.
old evidence, degraded evidence, samples where the DNA has broken down over years or decades of storage, the cases that Kotus cannot solve because the suspect isn’t in the system and that traditional labs cannot help with because the evidence is too damaged for standard analysis.
The company’s founder recognized a gap in the forensic landscape.
By 2018, consumer DNA testing had exploded.
Millions of Americans had submitted their genetic material to services like Ancestry DNA and 23 andMe, building an enormous pool of genetic data that could theoretically be cross-referenced against crime scene evidence.
The Golden State Killer arrest had proved the concept, but most forensic labs were not equipped to extract usable DNA from the kinds of samples that cold cases typically produce.
Evidence that had been sitting in property rooms for 10, 20, 30 years, degraded by heat, humidity, time, and the simple reality that biological material breaks down.
Aram’s solution is a proprietary process they call forensic grade genome sequencing.
The details are complex but the principle is understandable.
Traditional DNA analysis the kind used in kotus looks at a small number of specific genetic markers typically around 20 locations on the genome.
If the sample is in good condition, those 20 markers are enough to produce a profile that can be matched against a database.
But if the sample has been degraded by time, heat, humidity, bacterial contamination, or any of the other forces that break down biological material over the course of years or decades, those specific markers may be unreadable.
The analysis fails.
The lab reports that the evidence is insufficient and the case stays cold.
Oram’s approach is fundamentally different.
Instead of targeting a small number of specific markers, their technology reads across the entire genome, capturing hundreds of thousands of data points called single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNIPS.
By casting a vastly wider net, they can reconstruct a usable genetic profile even from DNA that has been fragmented and degraded to the point where traditional methods produce nothing.
This is the specific capability that makes relevant to cases like Naomi’s.
evidence that is 20 plus years old, stored in conditions that were adequate but not ideal and likely degraded well beyond what a standard forensic lab could work with.
Once author has a profile, the next step is the genealogy search.
The lab uploads the profile to public opt-in genealogy databases like GED match and family tree DNA.
These are databases where ordinary people have voluntarily submitted their DNA, usually because they’re curious about their ancestry or looking for biological relatives.
When a forensic profile is uploaded, the system searches for genetic matches not against the suspect directly, but against anyone in the database who shares enough DNA to be a relative.
The matches that come back are typically distant.
third cousins, fourth cousins, sometimes even more remote connections.
Each match represents a branch of a family tree.
From there, forensic genealogologists begin the painstaking work of building those trees outward using public records, birth certificates, marriage licenses, obituaries, census records, social media profiles.
Branch by branch, they narrow the possibilities.
They cross-reference the DNA matches against geographic information, age ranges, and other investigative details until they arrive at a small number of candidates who could be the source of the crime scene DNA.
At that point, the genealogy work stops and the police work begins.
Doesn’t identify suspects.
They provide investigative leads.
It is law enforcement’s job to collect a direct DNA sample from the candidate, either through consent, a warrant, or by recovering a discarded item like a coffee cup or a cigarette butt, and compare it against the crime scene profile.
If the direct sample matches, investigators have their confirmation.
This is the process that was applied to Naomi Fails evidence in 2025.
The crime scene material collected 21 years earlier from the vacant building on Somerset Avenue was shipped to Aram’s laboratory in Texas.
The lab applied forensic grade genome sequencing to extract usable DNA from evidence that had been sitting in storage since George W.
Bush’s shirt Bush’s first term.
They built a SNP profile.
They uploaded the profile to genealogy databases.
They found matches.
They built family trees.
And they narrowed those trees until they had investigative leads to hand back to law enforcement.
The process is not instant.
It takes weeks, sometimes months.
The genealogy work alone can involve tracing hundreds of family connections across multiple generations.
But when it works, it produces something that 22 years of kotus searches and traditional detective work could not.
A name later confirmed that Naomi’s case was the fifth publiclyannounced case in the state of Ohio where officials leveraged their identification pipeline.
The company’s work in Ohio has also included identifying a 1987 Youngstown John Doe and a 36-year-old unidentified deedent through the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
Nationally, Author has announced hundreds of case resolutions with many more still under seal pending prosecution.
The cost of this kind of analysis is not trivial.
Forensic genetic genealogy services typically run around $8,000 per case, though prices vary.
For agencies with limited budgets, the expense can be a barrier.
The god unit’s funding through Department of Justice grants and the Kyhoga County Prosecutor’s Budget made Naomi’s case possible.
Without that institutional investment, the evidence might still be sitting in a property room waiting.
The genealogy search that conducted on Naomi Fails’s crime scene evidence produced investigative leads.
Those leads pointed not to a name, not at first, but to a family, a network of genetic connections that when traced through public records and genealogical analysis, narrowed to a specific branch and then to a specific individual.
Angelo Smith, 68 years old, a resident of Uklid, Ohio.
Uklid is a small city on Cleveland’s northeast border, an inner ring suburb that sits directly along the Lake Erie shoreline.
It is 12 mi from the intersection of Somerset Avenue and East 105th Street, 12 mi from the abandoned building where Naomi Fails was found.
In a metropolitan area where most daily life happens within a 20-minute drive, that distance is close.
Close enough that a person could travel from Uklid to Glennville in the time it takes to listen to a handful of songs on the radio.
No publicly available information connects Angelo Smith to Naomi Fails before her murder.
No prior relationship has been reported.
No known criminal history for Smith has been disclosed in any published source.
No motive has been made public.
The publicly available record tells us only that Aram’s genealogy search generated leads.
Those leads pointed investigators toward Smith and a direct DNA sample was collected and compared against the crime scene evidence.
The mechanism of that collection has not been publicly detailed.
In forensic genealogy cases, law enforcement typically obtains a suspect’s DNA through one of three methods.
A consensual sample where the individual agrees to provide one.
A court-ordered warrant compelling collection or the recovery of a discarded item, a coffee cup left at a restaurant, a cigarette butt dropped on a sidewalk, a straw thrown in a trash can.
Any of these methods can provide the reference sample needed for comparison.
Whichever method was used, the result was definitive.
The sample matched.
After 22 years, the DNA from the Somerset Avenue crime scene had a name attached to it.
What happened next followed the deliberate, methodical process that characterizes grand jury proceedings.
A grand jury is not a trial jury.
It doesn’t determine guilt or innocence.
Its job is to review the evidence presented by prosecutors and decide whether there is probable cause to believe that a crime was committed and that the accused person committed it.
If the grand jurors agree, they return an indictment, a formal charge that moves the case toward trial.
Grand jury proceedings are conducted in secret.
Witnesses testify behind closed doors.
The accused is typically not present and may not even know the proceedings are taking place.
Investigators presented their evidence to a Kyahoga County grand jury, including the genetic genealogy results and the confirmatory DNA match.
No public announcement was made while the proceedings were underway.
No press conference was held.
The evidence was presented.
The grand jurors evaluated it.
And in July 2026, they returned a sealed indictment.
The indictment remained under seal, meaning it was not publicly visible until Angelo Smith was arrested and brought to court.
The charges were severe.
One count of aggravated murder.
One count of murder.
Under Ohio law, aggravated murder carries the possibility of life imprisonment without parole.
Angelo Smith was arrested.
Consider what that moment represents.
For 22 years, the Naomi Fails homicide had no suspect, no person of interest, no name whispered in a tip line, no face on a wanted poster, no theory that pointed in any direction.
It was a case defined entirely by absence.
And now because of a DNA profile built from degraded evidence, a genealogy search that traced distant relatives through public databases, and a confirmatory sample that sealed the identification, the case had what it had never had before, a defendant.
For the first time in 22 years, someone would be required to answer the question of what happened inside that building on Somerset Avenue.
Prosecutor Michael Omali released a statement that captured both the achievement and the cost.
Forensic genetic genealogy was the key to solving this 22-year-old murder.
He said, “Without these advances in science, this case would remain unsolved.
Naomi’s family and loved ones will now have their day in court as they seek justice for her”.
That statement is worth reading twice.
Not for the part about the science, although that matters.
for the part about Naomi’s family and loved ones.
It is the only public acknowledgement in any source from any official that Naomi Fails had people who cared about her, people who presumably had been waiting 22 years for this phone call.
The record does not name them.
No family member has been quoted in any published report.
No victim impact statement has been released.
Whatever grief and relief that phone call carried, it happened in private.
away from the cameras and the press releases and the public record.
The case that had been invisible for 22 years was now visible.
The woman who had been reduced to a name, an age, and a crime scene address finally had something resembling an answer.
The next step was the courtroom.
On the morning of August 11th, 2026, Angelo Smith was brought into Kyahoga County Court of Common Please for his arraignment.
An arraignment is a procedural step.
It is the moment when a defendant is formally presented with the charges against them, enters a plea, and the court sets conditions for their release or detention pending trial.
It is not a trial.
It is not a hearing on the merits of the evidence.
It is the system acknowledging that a case exists and that the accused will be required to answer for it.
For most criminal cases, an arraignment is routine.
For a case that had no suspect for 22 years, it was anything but.
Smith stood before the judge as the charges were read.
One count of aggravated murder, one count of murder, both stemming from the March 2004 stabbing death of Naomi Fails inside a vacant building on Somerset Avenue in Cleveland.
He pleaded not guilty.
That plea is his right under the law, and it carries an important legal reality.
Angelo Smith has been charged with murder, but he has not been convicted.
The presumption of innocence applies to him fully and completely until a jury decides otherwise.
The evidence presented to the grand jury was sufficient to secure an indictment, but an indictment is not proof of guilt.
It is a determination that there is probable cause to believe a crime was committed and that the accused committed it.
The standard at trial is higher.
The prosecution will need to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
The judge set bond at $1 million.
A pre-trial hearing was scheduled for August 25th, 2026.
What happens next is uncertain, but the legal landscape for cases like this is wellestablished and growing more favorable for prosecutors every year.
Genetic genealogy evidence has been admitted in courtrooms across the country since the Golden State Killer case in 1918.
Courts have consistently held that the genealogy search is an investigative tool, not direct evidence, and that the confirmatory DNA match, the direct comparison of a suspect’s sample against crime scene evidence, is what carries the forensic weight at trial.
Confirmatory DNA matches are among the most reliable forms of forensic evidence a prosecutor can present.
The statistical probabilities involved in a full DNA profile match are typically measured in the billions or trillions, numbers so large that they effectively exclude every other human being on the planet.
Defense attorneys in genetic genealogy cases have challenged the collection methods, the chain of custody, the privacy implications of searching public genealogy databases, and the reliability of the genealogy research itself.
Some of those challenges have raised legitimate procedural questions, but the underlying science has consistently been upheld, and no genetic genealogy case has been overturned on the basis that the technology itself is unreliable.
Smith’s defense team will have the opportunity to challenge the evidence, cross-examine expert witnesses, and present their own case.
Whether this case goes to trial or resolves through a plea agreement remains to be seen.
What is certain is that for the first time since March of 2004, the legal system is actively engaged with the question of who killed Naomi fails.
For 22 years, that question had no forum, no courtroom, no defendant, no proceeding of any kind.
The file sat in a cabinet.
The evidence sat in a property room.
And the question of what happened inside that building on Somerset Avenue went unanswered.
Now it has a courtroom, a defendant, and a date on the calendar.
An arraignment is not justice.
But after 22 years of nothing, it is the closest thing Naomi Fails has ever had to it.
There is something that has to be said about this case that is difficult to say, but impossible to ignore.
We know almost nothing about who Naomi Fails was.
Across every news article, every press release, every court filing, every database entry related to this case, Naomi Fails appears as three facts, a name, an age, and a location.
She was 40 years old.
She was found inside a vacant building on Somerset Avenue.
She was stabbed to death.
That is it.
No published account describes where she grew up.
No reporter has quoted a family member describing what she was like.
No obituary appears in any index database.
No photograph has been published.
The woman at the center of this 22-year case exists in the public record as a data point, a line in a crime report, a name on a property room evidence label.
Compare that to the other names that appear in this story.
We know the name of the prosecutor.
We know the name of the forensic laboratory.
We know the name of the accused.
We know the institutional history of the cold case unit, the technical details of the DNA analysis, the procedural steps of the grand jury and the arraignment.
The system that eventually produced justice for Naomi fails is documented in granular detail.
The woman at the center of it is a shadow.
This absence is not unique to Naomi.
It is a pattern that repeats across cold cases involving victims who were living at the margins.
victims who were homeless or transient or struggling with addiction or simply living in neighborhoods where the infrastructure of documentation, the newspaper coverage, the church bulletins, the community networks that preserve a person’s story had eroded along with everything else.
When those victims die and when their cases go cold, the forgetting compounds.
The longer the case sits unsolved, the more completely the person at its center disappears.
The 22-year gap in Naomi’s case didn’t just delay justice, it erased context.
Whatever stories her family might have told, whatever memories her friends might have shared, whatever details might have filled in the picture of who she was before March 13th, 2004, those details are either locked in private grief or lost to the passage of time.
And that is its own form of injustice.
To be killed is one thing.
To be forgotten is another.
To have your case sit unsolved for so long that by the time it is reopened, there is no longer enough public information to tell the world who you were as a human being.
That is something the justice system should have to reckon with.
Prosecutor Ali said that Naomi’s family and loved ones will now have their day in court.
That sentence confirms what the rest of the record leaves out.
She had family.
She had people who loved her.
She was not just a data point.
She was someone’s daughter, maybe someone’s mother, someone’s friend.
We just don’t know the specifics.
What we do know is this.
In 2019, someone inside the Kyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office pulled Naomi’s file off a shelf and decided it was worth pursuing.
They evaluated the evidence.
They applied their ranking criteria and they determined that a 40-year-old woman stabbed to death inside an abandoned building in one of Cleveland’s most neglected neighborhoods in a case with no witnesses, no tips, no suspects, and no public pressure was worth the resources it would take to test her evidence with cuttingedge forensic technology.
That decision is the reason Angelo Smith is facing charges today.
It is the reason Naomi Fails has a courtroom and a proceeding and a prosecutor speaking her name into the public record.
And it is the reason this story exists at all.
There is a question that hovers over every cold case and it is worth asking here.
Does justice delivered 22 years late still count as justice? The honest answer is complicated.
It counts for the legal system, which can now say that a charge has been filed and a defendant is answering in court.
It counts for the investigators and scientists who did the work, who can point to a case solved and a process validated.
It may count for Naomi’s family, who now have a name in a courtroom proceeding and a date on the calendar where none existed before, but it doesn’t give Naomi back.
It doesn’t give her family the 22 years they spent without answers.
It doesn’t undo the silence that swallowed her case for more than two decades.
And it doesn’t change the fact that the system, the same system that eventually produced this indictment, is the system that let the case go cold in the first place.
What it does at a minimum is this.
It says that Naomi fails counted.
That her death mattered.
that even when the technology failed, even when the leads dried up, even when the neighborhood was too broken to produce a witness, and the system was too overwhelmed to sustain the investigation, her name was still in a file somewhere, waiting for someone to pick it up.
The building on Somerset Avenue was abandoned, but it was not empty.
Someone died there.
And after 22 years of silence, someone finally decided that mattered.
The case is not over.
Angelo Smith has pleaded not guilty.
A trial or plea proceeding lies ahead.
The legal process will take its course and the outcome is not predetermined.
What is predetermined is this.
Regardless of what happens in that courtroom, Naomi fails his name is now part of a public record that extends beyond a single line in a police report.
Her story, incomplete as it is, has been told.
and the people who decided to pull her file off the shelf to send her evidence to a laboratory in Texas to pursue genetic genealogy on a case that had no public pressure and no media attention.
Those people made a statement about who gets remembered and who gets left behind.
Naomi Fails, age 40, found March 13th, 2004.
Indictment returned 22 years later.
Arraignment held August 11th, 2026.
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