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The killing of the 24-year-old school teacher shocked the state, and became one of the most high-profile cold cases in Vermont’s recent history.

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

Rita Curran, 24, was strangled by her newlywed neighbor while home alone. Her killer later moved to Thailand and became a monk, Vermont police said.

A new team of detectives renewed the investigation in 2019 and had the DNA sent to a private genealogy database. Read more at Boston.com

Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy was a suspect at one point.

Officials say a discarded cigarette found near the body of a 24-year-old Vermont school teacher nearly 52 years ago helped lead investigators to an upstairs neighbor who they say strangled her in her apartment.

A 52-year-old cold case in Vermont has been solved thanks to DNA retrieved from a discarded cigarette butt left next to the body of the victim, police said.

Officials say a discarded cigarette found near the body of a 24-year-old Vermont school teacher nearly 52 years ago helped lead investigators to an upstairs neighbor who they say strangled her in her apartment. Burlington Police said Tuesday that DNA evidence and dogged investigative work led them to William DeRoos, the man they say killed Rira Curran in July 1971.  DeRoos, who was 31 at the time, lived two floors above Curran in a Burlington apartment building. DeRoos died in 1986 of a drug ov...

At a Tuesday morning press conference, police said advances in DNA testing helped lead them to Curran’s killer, identified as William DeRoos. Curran was found dead in her Burlington apartment on July 20, 1971. The suspect died in California in 1986, according to police.