State Police ask for public's help in 1988 cold case

State Police are asking for the public's help in solving a 1988 double homicide in Washington County.On Sept. 12, 1988, a trapper checking his traps off of Lily Pond Road in Hartford found the body of a man and called Washington County Sheriff's deputies. When deputies investigated, they found a second man's body.An initial State Police investigation determined that the two men, Frederick Pauling, 57, and James Checkush, 37, had been dead for several days.