Rape kits from two women lead to an arrest in the 1979 murder of Patricia Carnahan.
Harold W. Carpenter, 63, was arrested after investigators found a DNA match for an unrelated crime in Washington state. He's being held without bond in the Spokane County Jail on a fugitive charge, pending extradition to California on a murder warrant, the El Dorado County D.A.'s office said in a statement.
After comparing and confirming the family's DNA to the victim, the body was released to them for proper burial.The FBI's Combined DNA Index System, known as the CODIS system, recently found that the DNA collected from a Washington victim of a 1994 rape matched the DNA evidence collected from Carnahan, identifying the suspect in her murder as Harold Carpenter.
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