After a Channel 5 report detailed rumors about Miami University sophomore Beth Speidel's death in 2007, Oxford Police Department (OPD) Chief Stephan Schwein said he will meet with a private investigator hired by her parents to discuss the matter Wednesday.
"Number one, I'd like to find out what information he has that we might not, and also share with him any information we can that he might not have," Schwein said.
According to Schwein, OPD will review the findings and decide what action to take.
"After that meeting, unless anything turns up that (the investigator) has found that we haven't investigated, I'm having my detective lieutenant write me a summary report on what has happened since the investigation was spotlighted on the news," Schwein said.
Schwein then plans to meet with the Speidels to discuss the case.
Schwein said the decision to reopen the case will have to wait until the meeting on Wednesday.
"I would hope (the invesitgator) would have come forward to us before being invited to a meeting if he did have something," Schwein said. Reporting by Hunter Stenback
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