Michael Rizzo, who was 62 when he died in 2011, was named as 23-year-old Roslin Kruse's killer more than 30 years after she was found dead on a roadside near Tampa, Florida, police said.
Osage County Sheriff Eddie Virden spoke exclusively with Fox News Digital Wednesday after investigators recovered ‘items of interest’ in new investigation into serial killer Dennis Rader, aka BTK. woman Roslin Kruse was strangled to death and dumped by the roadside, police finally pegged longtime suspect Michael Rizzo to her killing with a DNA swab sourced from his daughter.
Rizzo, who lived less than a mile away from the Gibsonton site where Kruse was found dead, gave her a ride on Nov. 1, the day she was last seen alive.Roslin Kruse was 23 when she was found strangled about 11 miles south of Tamp, Florida, on Nov. 1, 1993.But Rizzo insisted that he had dropped her off alive and denied involvement in her death, police said.
Rizzo, however, had already passed away at the age of 62 on March 1, 2011, and was survived by two daughters and one son, per his obituary. Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies preserved DNA samples from the crime scene on Nov. 1, 1993. Those samples matched cheek swabs provided by Rizzo's daughter in 2021.met with Kruse's surviving relatives to inform them that the murder had been solved. On Friday, the office officially closed the case.
, after he violated the terms of his probation on previous charges of cocaine possession and providing a false statement to obtain a driver's license.
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