Both worked together at the same Colorado hospital.
The 1999 murder of a 23-year-old Colorado woman has been solved after DNA and genetic genealogy helped lead police to the alleged killer, who died in a car accident nearly two decades ago, officials said.
Two weeks prior to her death, Jennifer Watkins was hired as a dietary aide at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, authorities said. On Nov. 6, 1999, Watkins’ husband reported her missing when she did not return home from her shift. Two days later, her body was discovered under a stairwell in an area of the hospital under construction by two elevator personnel who noticed a “distinctive smell. Watkins’ body was “wrapped in plastic and bound with duct tape, officials said.
Police identify suspect in cold case rape, murder but perpetrator was killed two years later
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DNA Solves 1999 Cold Case Hospital Slaying
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