Kirk Leonard Wiseman, 19, and Cynthia Lynn Frayer, 17, were found dead on a frigid November day near Lake of the Woods in rural Southern Oregon in 1978. Now police in Oregon believe they have identified the killer who cruelly murdered them.
Police in Oregon believe they have identified the killer who cruelly murdered two teenagers more than four decades ago, a case that had baffled investigators and haunted deputies ever since.
Authorities now believe Ray Whitson Jr. killed the pair. They were led to him after police discovered DNA on Frayer’s clothing in 2019. The 40-year-old genetic material was initially determined only to belong to “unknown male #1,” but advanced analysis fingered Whitson as the prime suspect in 2021. A laboratory that analyzed DNA in the, Parabon Nanolabs, extracted Whitson’s identity from the DNA found on Frayer.
Whitson, who had worked in a lumber mill in nearby Klamath Falls, died in 1996. He had no criminal record.
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