A jury convicted Horace Van Vaultz Jr for the rape-murders of two women in the 1980s. Investigators used new DNA evidence testing in the cold cases that were not available at the time.
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Keough died of strangulation and her body was found among bushes near an apartment complex in Montclair,Duggan died of asphyxiation and her body was found in the trunk of a car in a Burbank parking lot. Damon Lamont Hobdy, Vaultz's attorney, argued the prosecution"didn't prove" his client murdered the women, CNS reported.The murders of both womenVaultz’s prosecution was the first time Los Angeles County used investigative genetic genealogy, where detectives accessed commercial DNA databases and used DNA from a relative that led them to the suspect, former Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey previously said.
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