Announced yesterday:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-11/suspect-identified-in-1972-murder-of-11-year-old-girl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

A 47-year-old cold case murder of an 11-year-old girl resolved using genetic DNA.  The suspect had been dead for 16 years.  The first few DNA testing attempts were unsuccessful, but here the police agency kept after it.

From today’s Denver Post:

In what may be the first DNA genealogical cold-case murder solved in Colorado, a man who died seven years ago has been identified as a suspect who picked up an 18-year-old hitchhiker and bludgeoned her to death in August 1981.

Donald Steven Perea, who died in 2012, killed Jeannie Moore, 18, and dumped her body in 1981 in Genesee Park in Jefferson County, Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Shrader said.

“While we would have preferred to place handcuffs on the suspect, we hope knowing who and where he is brings them some degree of closure,” Shrader said during a news conference at the sheriff’s office in Golden.

Investigators ultimately used a DNA sample provided by Perea’s daughter to confirm that he killed and sexually assaulted Moore.

“Further investigation led investigators to identify Perea as being 3.3 trillion times more likely than anyone else to have committed the murder,” Shrader said.

Investigators used familial DNA to identify suspect in 1981 murder of teen hitchhiker

See, it’s not impossible.

Thanks to a reader for forwarding this link.  You need to read this article, DATED AUGUST 31, 2019. http://themillenniumreport.com/2019/08/jeffrey-epstein-mit-media-lab-and-the-bizarre-suiciding-of-aaron-swartz/

And while you are at it, read this, published today: https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/mit-media-lab-jeffrey-epstein-joi-ito-moral-rot.html

I wonder how N. Fox Island, Frank Shelden, the institutions he threw his money at and GM would have fared back in the day if the Internet was up and running and cell phones with photo and recording capability were available back in the 1970s.  We know the pedophile and child porn rings would have fared much better back then, but technology can be a double-edged sword.

Speaking of technology, I would love to take a photo of the facility where the MSP stores the evidence in the OCCK case–you know, the dirty blanket used to cover Mark’s body before his body was “processed,” Jill’s bike, Kris’ snow boots, Tim’s skateboard, and all of the MSP’s antiquated, undigitized files and photographs.  A picture is worth 1,000 words.  That photo would speak volumes.  It might say something like “Do not disturb.”