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Florida: After 36 Years, Detectives Solve Rape And Murder Case Of 78-Year-Old Woman
The victim, Mildred Matheny, had gone missing from her home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in April 27, 1985. Soon after, she was found nude and beaten near her house. She died 11 days later.
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A DNA test has led to the arrest of a suspect in the April 1985 slaying, rape and kidnapping of a 78-year-old woman who had dementia and had wandered away from her home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Mildred Matheny was 78-years-old and had dementia in 1985 when she left her home on Crestwood Boulevard in Lake Worth for the last time.
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Deputies say a man kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and beat the woman, then left along the side of a dirt road in Jupiter.
She died of those injuries 11 days later and it took almost 36 years for deputies to come up with a suspect.
“It actually brings home the fact that it does take a law enforcement judicial village for this to happen,” said Dr. Cecilia Crouse, a retired DNA expert who worked for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.