DNA Ties Man Who Died in Prison to 1984 NJ Killing, AG Says

DNA Ties Man Who Died in Prison to 1984 NJ Killing, AG Says
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The Associated Press
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TRENTON, N.J.—Authorities say DNA evidence has proven that a man who died in prison several years ago was responsible for the 1984 murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body wasn’t found for more than a decade after she disappeared from her family home in New Jersey.

The state attorney general and the Mercer County prosecutor’s office last week announced what they called “the conclusive identification” of Nathaniel Harvey, formerly of East Windsor, as the person responsible for the sexual assault and murder of Donna Macho.