Police in U.S. solve 40-year-old homicide, name now-deceased Kamloops man as lone suspect
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WENATCHEE, WAS. — Police say a deceased Kamloops man was responsible for a homicide that took place in a U.S. city 40 years ago.
In a news release issued May 14, the Wenatchee (Was.) Police Department says DNA evidence has linked the 1986 killing of Carol Traicoff to Henry Leland, who died in Kamloops in December 2007.
Traicoff’s body was found behind a convention centre in Wenatchee on May 14, 1986. For the next two years, investigators worked the case but could not identify a suspect.
In 2023, a forensic review of the case identified additional DNA of an unknown male within the evidence collected during the initial investigation. That DNA evidence was submitted to an organization specializing in forensic genetic geneaology, which identified a possible family lineage within the U.S. and Canada.
