Cigarette butt helps police unmask man who murdered a teacher more than 50 years ago

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Cigarette butt helps police unmask man who murdered a teacher more than 50 years ago
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Rita Curran was found dead after being strangled at her home in Vermont, Burlington, in July 1971. The case had remained unsolved for decades but police have now named killer as a man who fled to Thailand and became a monk.

A cigarette butt found near the body of a murdered teacher in her apartment nearly 52 years ago has helped police identify a man they say killed her.The case had remained unsolved but DNA evidence collected from a cigarette butt at the scene has led police to say an upstairs neighbour named William DeRoos killed her within a 70-minute window.

The test did compile a DNA profile of whoever had smoked the cigarette, but it did not match any samples in DNA databases compiled by law enforcement. In August 2022, Burlington detectives were told the sample, which had been traced through relatives on both sides of DeRoos's family, was pointing at him, even though he had no DNA profile on record.

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