Meet Dan Conlee, the Lake County Sheriff's Office's new cold case detective
It wasn’t just any book, but a “murder book,” he says, on “a very vicious homicide.” The four-inch thick, loose-leaf binder, complete with reports and ghastly color crime scene photos, is the case file on the slaying of 13-year-old Christopher Gutierrez and his uncle, Jesus Hernando-Pantoja. They were found shot to death in the back of Hernando-Pantoja's pickup truck on Feb. 1. “It’s pretty horrible, and I’ve investigated a lot of them,” Conlee said. That the 59-year-old has investigated a lot of homicides is the reason that he's been brought out of retirement to work on th...
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