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Omaha police detective works the case of his uncle's WWII plane crash
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By Steve Liewer / World-Herald staff writer Jan 15, 2017 Updated 1 hr ago
In his day job as an Omaha police detective, Tom McCaslin solves mysteries.
He pores through reports, reads eyewitness accounts, visits crime scenes, examines surveillance photographs.
For more than a year now, Detective McCaslin, 46, has been applying these skills to the central mystery in his large and prominent Omaha family: the disappearance of his namesake uncle, Army Staff Sgt. Tom McCaslin, in a World War II plane crash in France soon after the Normandy invasion.
“He’s been a dogged detective in this thing,” said Patrick McCaslin, 57, the detective’s brother, who is a retired Omaha police sergeant.
FULL story: http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/omaha-police-detective-works-the-case-of-his-
