Ontario police say they have identified a woman found dead east of Ottawa in 1975 as Lalla Jewell Parchman Langford, who was 48 at the time.
Court documents obtained by The Canadian Press show that Nichols was charged in September with murdering Langford between April 22 and May 3, 1975.
“While I cannot get into the specifics that will be entered at trial, I can tell you that the accused and the victim were known to each other.”Article content The organization said a DNA profile for the victim was uploaded to genetic genealogy databases in 2020 and its team of volunteers identified Langford as a likely candidate within a few weeks.Article content
“That information was brought back to the Center of Forensic Science in Ontario and identification was confirmed through that DNA comparison work that was done,” he said. “This was a long, ongoing process, never stopping.”
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