The Warren County Sheriff's Office is resuming its search for evidence in a 22-year-old unsolved murder.
On Monday, the sheriff's office announced it was returning to the spot on Middleboro Road in Washington Twp. where the body of Dick Woods, a Columbus-area salesman, was found on Nov. 9, 1992.
Woods 41, a furniture salesman, was reported missing on Oct. 8, 1992, after calling home.
Woods called and told his wife he was headed home to Dublin, a Columbus suburb, after making a call at a store in Lebanon.
Woods was shot twice and his body was found on Nov. 9 in a ravine off Middleboro Road near the Interstate 71 exit ramp, about 1.5 miles from the rest stop where his 1990 Lexus had been found.
Investigators questioned Sam Perone, the last person reported to have seen Woods alive and a man who allegedly threatened Woods before his death.
Perone and his wife, Deborah, who owned Just Living Rooms in Lebanon, told officials they last saw Woods between 6:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., Oct. 8, 1992.
Both denied any involvement in the slaying.
Blood stains were found in the back room of Just Living Rooms, but DNA evidence was inconclusive at the time.
The case was one of those taken on by a cold-case team headed by Chief Deputy John Newsom, a former Cincinnati police detective. Newsom's teams have solved the cold-case murders of Vickie Barton and Troy Temar.
In 2006, Newsom said his team had no suspects in the Woods case and planned to reconstruct the last 72 hours of his life.
The renewed search is expected to take most of the week. The sheriff's office declined to provide further information.
