Cold Case solved with Ballistics

     The taxi driver John Orner was shot in the head and dumped over a cliff in 1961. This crime was unsolved for four decades. Three weeks after the murder a state trooper arrested 18 year old Edward Freiburger. He was carrying a loaded .32-caliber revolver when he was taken in to custody. That was the same type of gun that was used to murder John Orner. He bought the gun at a pawn shop the day before the killing.  With the technology of 1961 the ballistic tests were inconclusive so Edward Freiburger was released. Then the case became a cold case until 1997 when a special cold case squad was created. Then in 2001 with the new ballistic technology forensic scientists were able to tie Edward Freiburger to the murder almost 40 years after it was committed. He was then sentenced to life in prison.