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Curran was murdered in her apartment’s bedroom on July 19, 1971, police said. Authorities are confident that William Deroos was the murderer.

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.

Over 50 years after a woman was murdered in Burlington, Vermont, police say they have solved the case.

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.

Rita Curran was violently killed in 1971. After 52 years, the case has finally been solved – with the help of DNA evidence found on a cigarette butt.

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