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APD says homicide unit cleared every 2023 case as detectives credit forensics, community tips
Summary
An Austin Police Department official announced the homicide unit achieved a 100% clearance rate for the 75 homicides recorded in 2023, citing NIBIN and CODIS leads, multiagency support and community tips; APD said work on unresolved matters will continue.
An Austin Police Department official announced onstage that the department's homicide unit achieved a 100% clearance rate for all 75 homicides recorded in 2023, calling the milestone "historic" and contrasting it with a national clearance rate of just under 58 percent.
Detective Bryce Bishop, of the APD homicide unit, outlined how the final arrest tied to that year unfolded. He said investigators responded to 10/14/2023 calls and found Feliciano Alvarado LaVue deceased, with the time of death pronounced at 3:43 a.m. Bishop said a NIBIN (National Integrated Ballistics Information Network) hit on 05/31/2024 and a CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) match on 02/24/2025 helped identify a suspect, and that "the subject named…
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