The teen's killer was murdered more than a year after the girl's body was found dumped on the side of the road, police say
It’s been nearly 40 years since the body of a 17-year-old girl was found on the side of a California road, but DNA technology has finally given police a suspect.
Shortly before 8 a.m. on Jan. 15, 1981, a witness discovered the partially nude body of Mary London on a rural stretch of road in North Sacramento,Get push notifications with news, features and more.“[S]he was stabbed multiple times and died as a result of her injuries,” police wrote in aThe Sacramento Police Department refused to give up on the case, despite it being cold for decades, and turned to investigative genetic genealogy as a tool to connect a suspect to the crime.
Vernon Parker was identified as the suspect, police stated on its site. However, Parker himself was murdered in 1982, more than a year after Mary’s death. “Though this case won’t end with the suspect facing the justice system,” said police chief Daniel Hahn, “the decades of work by Sacramento Police Department Investigators, forensic personnel and the office of the Sacramento County District Attorney has resulted in what we hope will be closure for London’s family.”
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