Laurel man charged with rape, murder in 40-year-old Howard County kidnapping case
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HOWARD COUNTY, Md. - On March 29, 1982, Laney McGadney left her Columbia home to go to the grocery store. Later that day, her body was found in a vacant lot after she’d been raped and stabbed to death.
Nearly 40 years later, the man who murdered the 28-year-old mother of four is being brought to justice.
Howard County police say they’ve arrested Howard Jackson Bradberry of Montgomery Street in Laurel on charges including second-degree murder, first and second-degree rape and kidnapping.
Police used DNA evidence to unlock the decades-old case.