MURDER-SUICIDE–1971/2010???

DNA technology may have  solved a 1971 Klamath County murder this month.  But the suspect killed himself.  OSP says the now-64-year old man took his own life after officers showed up at his house with a warrant for his DNA.  19-year old Joyce Cross was raped and her skull crushed in 1971.  Semen samples from her clothing were saved, so a cold-case unit began looking into the killing anew in 2008.  In 2009, an OSP detective saw an old man open a bag of peanuts with his teeth at a baseball game.  He was a 1971 suspect.  The DNA on that peanut bag matched the 1971 evidence.   Murder, 1971–Suicide, 2010???

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