The killer of a California woman who was murdered in 1991 was identified after DNA was left under the victim's fingernails.
Police in Northern California have solved a gruesome cold case murder more than three decades after it happened.
Vicki Johnson was killed on Jan. 3, 1991 in Seaside, a city previously known as East Monterey. Johnson's body was found near a playground in the city's Sabado Park neighborhood after she was strangled, suffocated and set on fire, Seaside Fire and Police wrote in a "Ms. Johnsons' death shocked the Seaside community due to the details of the brutality," authorities said.
Johnson's case was"one of many" reopened by the Monterey County District Attorney's Office when it launched its cold case task force, Seaside Fire and Police said. Authorities were then able to identify a suspect in connection with the murder, after submitting additional evidence to the California Department of Justice for DNA testing.
‼️ Major Announcement ‼️ 1991 Cold Case Homicide Solved! On January 3rd, 1991, Vicki Johnson’s lifeless body was...
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