BAY VILLAGE — One of Northeast Ohio's most high-profile kidnapping and murder investigations could be solved with the help of DNA advancements.

Amy Mihaljevic was only 10 years old when she went missing from her Rocky River home, back in the fall of 1989. She was found stabbed to death in a field in Ashland County a few months later.

In October of 2024, Bay Village Police retested Amy's clothing for DNA, and the lab found an unknown male's DNA on her clothes. Investigators testing man's DNA found on Amy Mihaljevic's clothing

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"So with the hairs that we have now, we're hoping that we can get some type of profile from there and use genealogy to solve the rest," said Sgt. Edward Chapman of Rocky River Police.

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