DNA ties man who died in 2017 to 3 killings in Virginia in the 1980s, state police say

When 63-year-old Alan W. Wilmer Sr. died in December 2017, Virginia authorities needed to identify him and took a DNA sample – genetic material that six years later linked him to the killings of three people in the 1980s, officials said Tuesday.

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