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By Inside Edition Staff Updated: 2:08 PM PST, February 01, 2021 The 1988 Michigan cold case murder of Gayle Barrus who disappeared in 1988 has finall has finally been solved thanks to a blood sample –– but police will not be filing charges because the suspect is already dead. The 1988 Michigan cold case murder of Gayle Barrus has finally been solved thanks to a blood sample –– but police will not be filing charges because the suspect is already dead. Barrus, a mother of three, disappeared on Oct. 9, 1988, while living in Battle Creek. Investigators searched for her for 16 days until s...

James Barrus was only 13 years old when tragedy stuck the family after his mother, Gayle, disappeared from Battle Creek in early October of 1988.

The Associated Press BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Police said they solved the murder of a Battle Creek woman more than 30 years later, after a newly discovered blood sample connected a man to the fatal stabbing. But no charges will be filed because Roger Plato was killed in 1988, three days before Gayle Barrus’ body was found by hunters in Calhoun County, prosecutor David Gilbert said. Nonetheless, Barrus’ family is relieved that authorities believe the case has been solved. “I am just going to exhale and pray and tell my mom it’s done,” James Barrus of Dayton, Ohio, told the Battle Cre...

Blood sample from dead suspect helps solve 1988 homicide, cops claim Storm Gifford A random blood sample taken in the late 1980s has led to the solving of a 33-year-old homicide cold case. Three days before the body of Gayle Barrus was discovered in Calhoun County, Mich., in October 1988, 24-year-old Roger Plato, an assault suspect in a different case, was killed. At the time, Plato was being interviewed by cops about a different assault. While attempting to flee, he was shot dead, the Battle Creek Enquirer reported. Investigators subsequently took a blood sample from Plato. B...