'Now that we know the individual, it gives us a sense of closure,' said the victim's brother.
Finally, with help from Eric Schubert, a 20-year-old student at Elizabethtown College who reportedly specializes in genealogy and DNA analysis, officials cracked the case.
In 2018, police had used a genealogy database to match the DNA of a then-unidentified Forte to a distant relative of Marise. With this knowledge, Schubert volunteered to help investigators solve the case, putting together an extensive family tree that eventually caused police to identify Forte as the suspect.
"This has been a day that this family had been waiting for nearly 58 years," Baron added."Even though we couldn't bring charges against Mr. Forte, I hope that this brings some type of closure for [the] family. I really do."
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