Police Hope DNA Breakthroughs Can Help Solve a 45-Year-Old Murder

Police Hope DNA Breakthroughs Can Help Solve a 45-Year-Old Murder
DNA collected at a 1973 murder yielded these computer-generated images of what the suspect might have looked like in 1973 on the left and now. Newport Police Department
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Police in Newport Beach, California, have released sketches and the DNA profile of the chief suspect in the murder of an 11-year-old girl—which happened 45 years ago.

Eleven-year-old Linda Ann O’Keefe disappeared on July 6, 1973, on her way home from summer school. Her body was found the next day. She had been strangled and dumped in some tall brush.