Pennsylvania police use genealogy DNA database to solve girl's 1976 killing
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April 15 (UPI) -- Investigators say they have solved the 1976 slaying of a 15-year-old girl and her unborn baby in western Pennsylvania, thanks to a DNA hit on an ancestry database.
The Pennsylvania State Police, joined by Carbon County District Attorney Michael Greek on Wednesday announced the arrest of Luis Sierra, 63, on a homicide charge for the death of Evelyn Colon 45 years ago.
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Sierra was arrested in New York City and sent to the Carbon County Correctional Facility in Nesquehoning, Pa., officials said.
Colon had been dating Sierra, who was then 19, at the time of her death.