40-year-old California teen murder finally solved

The 1983 killing of a 14-year-old girl in Red Bluff, California, has finally been solved — thanks in part to a single strand of hair found on the victim. Rashell Ward was abducted while taking her usual five-block walk to school on the morning of March 3, 1983. Her body was found later that day by a rancher on Pine Creek Road, a few miles west of the city, on Interstate 5 in Tehama County. Ward had been bound with tape, sexually assaulted and shot in the back of the head.

Coy was convicted of kidnapping a mother and daughter in Red Bluff in 1989, forcing them to drive out of the city at gunpoint, before sexually assaulting the 21-year-old daughter and stealing the vehicle. Coy died in prison in June 2019 while serving two life sentences for that crime. He was never previously a suspect in Ward’s case. As with the closing of many recent cold cases, a combination of DNA analysis and forensic genealogy brought justice to Ward and her family.

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