Investigators relied on genetic genealogy, which has been used to help solve a number of cold cases across the country.
Eve Wilkowitz, 20, was kidnapped and killed leaving a train station in New York in 1980.Eve Wilkowitz was 20 years old in 1980 when she was kidnapped, raped and strangled to death after she took a train home to Bay Shore, New York, from her secretarial job in Manhattan. Her body was found near her apartment on Long Island.
Investigators relied on advances in DNA technology to identify the suspect as Herbert Rice, who was 29 at the time."We’ve solved the 42 year old homicide case of Eve Wilkowitz," Suffolk District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced at a news conference."This was a study in persistence, in determination to work the case no matter what."
A match was established through a relative of Rice. Investigators exhumed Rice’s body and compared DNA from his remains to the sample recovered from the initial rape kit, establishing him as the suspect.
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