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DNA on a cigarette butt just helped solve a 52-year-old Vermont murder

Por: The Boston Globe Nation February 22, 2023

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In July 1971, Rita Curran, a 24-year-old schoolteacher living in Burlington, Vt., was found by a roommate in their apartment, strangled. No killer was found, and the case went cold.But more than a half-century later, Burlington authorities said Tuesday they have finally identified Curran's killer as William DeRoos, Curran's upstairs neighbor, using DNA evidence obtained from a cigarette butt found next to Curran's body.In 2014,... + full article



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