Massachusetts cold case solved — thanks to a sweet potato
Massachusetts police made a spud-tacular break Friday in a decade-old cold-case murder — thanks to a sweet potato.
Police found three shell casings, a black cellphone, and a sweet potato with a hole through it at the scene,The murder of Todd Lampley took place on Feb. 27, 2011.“The sweet potato appears to be used as a silencer,” First Assistant District Attorney Jessica Elumba told the outlet. According to Elumba, Hampton’s location records also placed him at the lake where the gun used in the murder was discarded and later fished out by civilians.
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