Lancaster County Attorney’s Office seeks to hire investigator for special criminal case 

For the first time, the Lancaster County Attorney’s Office will hire a temporary investigator to work on a big case that it refused to identify.

“It is for a specific case where we anticipate a great deal of background work, a lot of reports from various agencies,” Lancaster County Attorney Joe Kelly told the County Board, which unanimously approved the hire at its meeting Thursday.

Kelly would not comment after the meeting on whether this investigator would work on one of the state’s most highly publicized cases — the disappearance and death of 24-year-old Lincoln woman Sydney Loofe. Read More.