John Arthur Getreu, 74, was linked to the strangling death of 21-year-old Janet Taylor in part based on DNA evidence gathered in March 1974.
John Arthur Getreu of Hayward, Calif., was arrested Nov. 20, 2018, in connection with the 1973 murder of Leslie Marie Perlov. Getreu has also been charged in the the 1974 killing of Janet Ann Taylor.
Getreu was previously charged with murder in the 1973 death of Leslie Marie Perlov, 21, whose body was found in bushes in the foothills above the Stanford campus. Prosecutors tied Getreu to that killing after cold case investigators usingconnected him to evidence at the crime scene. Taylor was hitchhiking to her home in nearby La Honda from a friend’s house in Palo Alto on March 24, 1974, when she vanished. A delivery driver who was making his way along Sand Hill Road, west of Interstate 280, saw a young woman’s body on the side of the highway. She had been strangled.
The two cases remained unsolved until investigators reopened the investigation into Perlov’s killing last year. Detectives working with DNA technicians recovered genetic evidence from an unknown man last summer. Investigators sent the genealogical material to the county crime lab and to Parabon NanoLabs,A genetic profile was created beyond those typically used for DNA matches in criminal databases and the information was submitted to a genetic genealogy database, according to officials.
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