Omaha police detective works the case of his uncle's WWII plane crash

[Omaha Steve]

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.

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