DNA analysis leads to killer in Florida nurse's 1986 murder
The killer had no criminal history, officials said, but was identified through family DNA analysis.
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The killer had no criminal history, officials said, but was identified through family DNA analysis.
The killer had no criminal history, officials said, but was identified through family DNA analysis.
A nearly 37-year-old homicide in Florida has been solved and blamed on a now-deceased neighbor, the Polk County Sheriff's Office announced this week.
Teresa Scalf, 29, was slashed and killed in a sexually motivated attack nearly four decades ago, the sheriff’s office said.
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.