Usually, when cold case investigators solve an old murder case, they’ve received a hit from the state’s DNA database, linking a suspect to a long-forgotten crime.

Not so Tuesday — when Baltimore County police said detectives closed the 1986 homicide of a homeless man, based on old-fashioned police work: Interviewing witnesses.

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