But, after they went unsolved for more than a year, they moved into the department’s cold cases file. “By the truest definition of a cold case, they are not technically cold,” he said of Lyon County’s cold cases. Since then, Pattison has been digging into the eight unsolved mysteries.Ī cold case is a case “where all leads have been exhausted, all witnesses have been interviewed and all evidence has been tested and there is nowhere else to go,” Pattison said. Pattison set out to do the same for Lyon County, and as he assembled information on the department’s unsolved cases his interest in the county’s cold cases was renewed. Lyon County Sheriff’s Office doesn’t have a cold cases unit, but several months ago while gathering ideas for the office’s new website Pattison saw a link posted by another department to its cold cases. There are families out there who still don’t have answers and if that were me, I would want to know someone is still working these cases. “For me, I want these solved because this could be my dad, this could be my daughter. Jerry Pattison, who oversees the office's special investigations units.

“For me, this is what law enforcement is all about … We should be putting our time and effort into our murders,” said Lt. The sheriff’s office has six unsolved missing person cases, one unsolved homicide and one unidentified body from an unsolved homicide. She hasn’t been heard from since, but that doesn’t mean the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office has forgotten about her – or the seven other cold cases in the county. It’s been more than 30 years since 16-year-old Shantelle Hudson went missing from Dayton.

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