A more than 40-year-old murder cold case could be solved after the authorities collected the DNA sample from under the fingernails of the murdered woman. The straight-out-of-a-fictional-book plot has transpired in reality in Las Vegas, USA where Sandra DiFelice, 25, was brutally raped and murdered on December 26, 1980.

DNA fingernail testing leads to arrest of a suspect, 42 years after the murder

DNA samples collected from victims of sexual assault are being used by the San Francisco Police Department to identify them as possible suspects in other crimes, the San Francisco district attorney charged this week, adding that he would encourage legislation to ban the practice.

Victim’s rape kit helped identify her as a suspect in another case

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DNA fingernail testing leads to arrest of a suspect, 42 years after the murder

Victim’s rape kit helped identify her as a suspect in another case