How did DNA evidence finally help identify the suspect in a three‑decade‑old murder of a young mother?

Investigators identified the suspect in the Celestina Perez murder case after three decades. Advances in DNA technology provided the breakthrough after thirty-one years. Perez was assaulted and murdered in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1995. Her family now knows who was responsible for the killing of the mother of four. The homicide investigation into Perezs death is now officially closed.

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