Who killed Teresa Scalf? After 37 years, DNA points to a neighbor, Polk sheriff says
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said DNA evidence helped identify the late Donald Douglas as the murderer of Lakeland resident Teresa Scalf in 1986.
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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said DNA evidence helped identify the late Donald Douglas as the murderer of Lakeland resident Teresa Scalf in 1986.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said a violent, decades-old murder was solved by a cold case detective tracing genealogy DNA back to an affair by a suspect's distant family member in 1949.
Scalf was just 29 years old and a nurse at Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center when her mother found her dead in her apartment on Oct. 27, 1986.
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