Police in Vermont believe they’ve solved the decades-old murder of a teacher thanks to DNA found on a cigarette left at the crime scene.
Police in Burlington, Vermont, believe they’ve solved the decades-old murder of a teacher thanks to DNA found on a cigarette left at the crime scene.
There was no known record of DeRoos’s DNA, and a 2014 effort to identify the source of the sample in police DNA databases turned up no matches. However, law enforcement was reportedly able to infer the sample belonged to DeRoos when it tested the sample against commercial DNA databasesDeRoos died in 1986, the WCAX“We’re all confident that William DeRoos is responsible for the aggravated murder of Rita Curran,” Burlington Police Detective Lt.
The suspect, identified as William DeRoos, who was 31 at the time, had left his apartment that night for “a cool down walk.” After he returned he told his wife of two weeks not to say that he had been out. Former Sen. Patrick Leahy , who served as State’s Attorney of Chittenden County when the murder occurred, discussed the crime in an interview with WCAX.
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