Cuttack, July 4 -- The Odisha Crime Branch has solved a two-year-old blind murder case in which a decomposed body was found stuffed inside a sack and dumped in a well under the Udala police station limits on November 8, 2023.

DGP Crime Branch Vinaytosh Mishra said the body was so badly decomposed that investigators initially had no clues about the victim's identity.

The case was later handed over to the Crime Branch, which verified missing person reports from nearly a 100-kilometre radius but failed to get a breakthrough.

The investigation took a decisive turn after officers focused on two mismatched slippers, sizes four and five, found with the body.

The victim's son, who lives in Kerala, approached the Crime Branch after learning ab...