Missouri AG announces charges in 2004 cold case killing

Published August 12, 2021 11:26 AM

By JIM SALTER
Associated Press

A Missouri woman has been charged with killing her live-in boyfriend 17 years ago, the second murder charge handled by a new unit that investigates cold cases. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Thursday announced that Alice Weiss is charged with second-degree murder in the death of James Summers, who died in April 2004 in the eastern Missouri town of Dittmer. Schmitt, a Republican, established the Cold Case Unit in December, and the case was the second resulting in a murder charge. The first, announced when the unit was established, charged a man with second-degree murder for a 1986 killing in Franklin County.

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