With the help of a coffee cup that contained DNA from the suspect, authorities in Pennsylvania were able to link a 68-year-old man to the decades-old murder.
Authorities have announced an arrest in the stabbing death of a 19-year-old woman in Pennsylvania almost a half-century ago, crediting advances in DNA technology and genetic genealogical research.
District Attorney Heather Adams said the case was solved with DNA “and specifically DNA genealogy, and quite honestly without that I don’t know that we would have ever solved it.”
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