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Independence allocates $100K to bolster rewards, investigate cold-case homicides
The Independence City Council unanimously voted Monday, April 21, to allocate $100,000 toward cracking five cold-case homicides.
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''INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — Brice Stewart knows the family of Diana Ault, who was shot and killed in late January 1994 at her Independence home after returning home with her small children from a Super Bowl party.''
'After Ault’s father, Bill Laskey, reached out to Stewart about her case, he came up with a unique idea.'
“He wanted to know if there was anything that I could do as a city council member,” Stewart said. “I kind of thought to myself for a little bit and was like, ‘Well, how better to use the marijuana sales tax than to maybe bring some attention to these cases?’”
Spurred by Stewart’s resolution, the Independence City Council unanimously voted April 21 to allocate $100,000 toward cracking five cold-case homicides, including Ault’s unsolved murder.''
