Beer Cans Recovered From a Dumpster Help Send Florida Man to Prison for Life

Murder solved using DNA and genetics testing after the case was cold for 25 years

An employee of Othram works with human remains at a lab in The Woodlands, Texas. Courtesy of Othram, Inc.

A Florida man has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison for stabbing an unarmed convenience store clerk 73 times.

Beer cans discarded in a public dumpster 27 years later were the keys to connecting him to the brutal murder scene.