Fifty-six years after a Florida milkman, who was a recipient of the Purple Heart, failed to return home after his rounds, his homicide has been solved, closing the oldest cold case in Indian River County Sheriff's Office history.
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The victim's son Larry Grayam, who was 16 at the time of his father's death, said the resolution of the case has brought mixed emotions. The witness "said Mr. Grayam engaged them in conversation and announced that he would be back shortly," Flowers added. The next day, Grayam's body and truck were located in a wooded area in what was described as a "chilling scene," the sheriff's office said in a statement.
"At that point, he wasn't on anybody's radar," Larry Grayam said at the news conference. "He kind of interjected himself into the crime and became a suspect." After receiving that information, detectives tracked down the suspect's ex-wife, who also said Williams confessed to her, Flowers said.
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