Using DNA analysis, authorities in the South Bay said they have solved a cold case murder of a security guard in Sunnyvale after more than four decades.
SUNNYVALE – According to the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety and the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office, Samuel Silva of Colorado has been linked to the killing of 18-year-old Estella Elena Mena. Silva died in 2008 while in prison on federal gun charges. Authorities said he had a lengthy criminal history which included manslaughter, attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and rape, along with firearms offenses.
In the years following the murder, there were no leads and the case went cold. Mena's killer went unidentified until this year, when a DNA analysis by the Santa Clara County Crime Lab of blood found on the victim's clothing and shoes was linked to Silva. Silva's DNA had been collected and uploaded to the CODIS national DNA database in 2006, prosecutors said.
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