After more than 4 decades, DNA leads to arrest in nursing student’s killing
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Police have arrested a 78-year-old man whose DNA sample matched evidence from the autopsy of a nursing student killed in 1980, Austin, Texas, police said in a press release.
One January evening in 1980, a 25-year-old nursing student began walking to a friend’s house. She never made it. Instead, a man got out of a car, grabbed her, and drove her away. Her body was found the next morning. She had been sexually assaulted, strangled and shot, police say – and their search for her killer began. More than four decades later, there’s been a breakthrough in the cold case: Police have arrested a 78-year-old man whose DNA sample matched evidence from the autopsy, Austin, Texas, police said in a press release. The Austin Municipal Court on Wednesday found probable cause to issue an arrest warrant charging Deck Brewer Jr. with murder in the death of Susan Leigh Wolfe. He already was being held by the Massachusetts Department of Corrections on unrelated charges. The turning point came this year with DNA testing, police say.
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