Media Summary: On Feb. 20, 1976, freshman John Zera disappeared from Franklin High School. Forty years later, the murder case remains ... Public Investigator wants to hear your tips, chase the leads and uncover the truth. Email us your tips at ... After decades of false starts and dead ends in the investigation of 14-year-old John Zera's death, police find a creepy display in ...

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On Feb. 20, 1976, freshman John Zera disappeared from Franklin High School. Forty years later, the murder case remains ... Public Investigator wants to hear your tips, chase the leads and uncover the truth. Email us your tips at ... After decades of false starts and dead ends in the investigation of 14-year-old John Zera's death, police find a creepy display in ... When 14-year-old John Zera was found dead in Whitnall Park in February 1976, days after disappearing from Franklin High ... After Daniel Acker is arrested in 2009 on charges of child molestation, detectives investigating the cold-case death of John Zera, ... In this excerpt from a 1978 WTMJ-TV news story, reporter Pete Wilson talks with a woman who found missing files about the 1976 ...

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Unsolved: A weekly serial in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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On Feb. 20, 1976, freshman John Zera disappeared from Franklin High School. Forty years later, the murder case remains ...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Public Investigator wants to help you solve problems

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Public Investigator wants to help you solve problems

Public Investigator wants to hear your tips, chase the leads and uncover the truth. Email us your tips at ...

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Unsolved: A suspect emerges

Unsolved: A suspect emerges

After decades of false starts and dead ends in the investigation of 14-year-old John Zera's death, police find a creepy display in ...

Unsolved: A small town's innocence lost

Unsolved: A small town's innocence lost

When 14-year-old John Zera was found dead in Whitnall Park in February 1976, days after disappearing from Franklin High ...

Unsolved: 'He knew too much'

Unsolved: 'He knew too much'

After Daniel Acker is arrested in 2009 on charges of child molestation, detectives investigating the cold-case death of John Zera, ...

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Unsolved: Archival TV footage about missing files from John Zera case

Unsolved: Archival TV footage about missing files from John Zera case

In this excerpt from a 1978 WTMJ-TV news story, reporter Pete Wilson talks with a woman who found missing files about the 1976 ...

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Investigating the cold-case murder of 14-year-old John Zera, police turn their attention to a full-time substitute teacher at Franklin ...

Unsolved Season 3 - The Devil You Know, our true crime podcast, begins Jan. 23

Unsolved Season 3 - The Devil You Know, our true crime podcast, begins Jan. 23

The body of Father Alfred Kunz was found on the floor of St. Michael School in Dane on March 4, 1998. Twenty years later, his ...

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Meg Jones was a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel who brought the world to Wisconsin

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Even though John Zera, 14, was killed before scientists unlocked the secrets of DNA, investigators hope recent advances in DNA ...