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DNA from an old razor helped police solve rape and murder California cold case
After more than 40 years, DNA evidence has linked the unsolved rape and murder of two women in California to a man who died in a Washington prison, police said Wednesday.
DNA taken from a razor used by Arthur Rudy Martinez, who died of cancer in 2014, matches DNA left by the suspect at both crime scenes in the late 1970s, according to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s cold case unit began re-investigating the case in June 2017 nearly four decades after the slayings.
The first victim, Jane Morton, was supposed to be on her way to her best friend’s house in November 1977, according to police. She was found the next day in the back seat of her car on a dirt road with her throat slit.
After more than 40 years, DNA evidence has linked the unsolved rape and murder of two women in California to a man who died in a Washington prison, police said Wednesday.
DNA taken from a razor used by Arthur Rudy Martinez, who died of cancer in 2014, matches DNA left by the suspect at both crime scenes in the late 1970s, according to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s cold case unit began re-investigating the case in June 2017 nearly four decades after the slayings.
The first victim, Jane Morton, was supposed to be on her way to her best friend’s house in November 1977, according to police. She was found the next day in the back seat of her car on a dirt road with her throat slit.
