Authorities in Sunnyvale announced that a suspect has been identified in the 1979 slaying of an 18-year-old woman.
SUNNYVALE — For nearly 44 years, Estella Elena Mena’s death was a mystery. On Oct. 27, 1979, the 18-year-old woman was working as a security guard in the lobby of a Sunnyvale business when she was brutally stabbed multiple times during an attempted sexual assault, leading to her death at a hospital later that night.
Last year’s testing finally produced an identification from the original blood sample, but that person was eliminated from the suspect list. Instead, police chose to test additional pieces of evidence, including Mena’s bloodied shoes and clothing, and that testing revealed Silva as a potential suspect.
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