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Detective Scott Marshall poses with some of the cold case files at the Battle Creek Creek Police Department on Nov. 3, 2019, in Battle Creek, Mich.
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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.