A Missouri man was charged with murder and rape in the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old woman more than three decades after she was found dead in her Indianapolis apartment. WTHR's Marina Silva reports.
A Missouri man was charged with murder and rape in the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old woman more than three decades after she was found dead in her Indianapolis apartment, authorities said Tuesday. Dana Shepherd, 52, was arrested Aug. 20 in the 1993 killing of Carmen Van Huss after investigators used genetic genealogy — a technique that uses DNA evidence and genealogical research — to help identify her suspected killer, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said in a news release.
” “For my dad to have to find his daughter after what was brutally done to her makes this day bittersweet,” he added. “I wish he was here to see it.” Carmen Van Huss was found dead in her apartment north of downtown Indianapolis on March 24, 1993, according to the news release. After a co-worker at Pizza Hut told her father she hadn't shown up to work, he found signs of a struggle at her apartment and his daughter's body on the floor, NBC affiliate WTHR of Indianapolis reported.
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