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By Kent Scheidegger et al.

DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a Chilean man for the 1997 murder of University of Colorado co-ed Susannah Chase according to this Associated Press story by Ivan Moreno. Diego Olmos-Alcalde was in the Boulder County Jail for a parole violation when he was arrested for the Chase killing. He served time in prison for kidnapping in 2000 and had three other arrests on sex-related charges. Thousands of cold cases in virtually every part of the country have been solved through DNA as the number of samples in state and federal databases has increased. This report from the San Antonio Police Department provides one example. The Murder Conviction of a New Jersey man who admitted shooting his girlfriend, beheading her, and boiling her head in a pot, was overturned yesterday in a 5-2 per curiam ruling by the state Supreme Court...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on January 29, 2008 (boomark / email).