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Innovation leads to a Cold Case closure with a silver lining
By Wayne Amann, OSI Public Affairs / Published January 29, 2021


QUANTICO, Va. -- Two years ago, Office of Special Investigations Special Agent Patrick Pipkins did, what his Chief of the OSI Cold Case Team called, “some amazing work,” to locate an Air Force deserter who went missing in 1984.

At the time of her disappearance it was believed the airman took off with a married man who had parentally kidnapped his 4-year-old son. Neither the airman, the man, nor the son were heard from since 1984.

The Air Force, the deserter’s family and the son’s mother were left with unanswered questions about the trio’s fate.

Fast forward to 2019, when SA Pipkins, through some innovative data mining, determined all three missing persons had assumed new identities and settled in Little Rock, Ark. Unfortunately, all three died of natural causes within a two year span dating back to 2007-2009.

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