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By Mike Donoghue, Standard Correspondent Mary Curran Campbell, Rita Curran's sister, talks with former U.S. Senator and former Chittenden County State& ...

By identifying the killer's DNA on a cigarette butt left at the crime scene, police in the United States were able to solve a 52-year-old cold case murder of a schoolteacher.

A discarded cigarette found near the body of a Vermont school teacher in her apartment nearly 52 years ago helped lead investigators to a neighbor who they say strangled her, Vermont police said.

Decades-old DNA evidence and a commercial genealogy database helped police solve the 1971 murder of Rita Curran, Burlington’s oldest cold case, authorities said Tuesday. An...

A discarded cigarette found near the body of a Vermont school teacher in her apartment nearly 52 years ago helped lead investigators to a neighbor who they say strangled her, Vermont police said.

Authorities said they have finally identified the killer in Currans 1971 murder as William DeRoos, her upstairs neighbor. He died in 1986.

A cigarette butt found near the body of a murdered teacher in her apartment nearly 52 years ago has helped police identify a man they say killed her.

More than 50 years after Rita Currans roommate found her strangled to death in her room, police in Vermont say they have identified the killer using DNA found on a

More than 50 years after Rita Currans roommate found her strangled to death in her room, police in Vermont say they have identified the killer using DNA found on a

More than 50 years after Rita Currans roommate found her strangled to death in her room, police in Vermont say they have identified the killer using DNA found on a