On a cold December evening in 1988 19-year-old Cathy Sue Swartz was beaten, strangled, and stabbed to death in her Three Rivers, Michigan apartment. Her 9-month-old daughter was in the next room.
A South Carolina man has been charged in a Michigan woman’s 1988 slaying after investigators used forensic genetic genealogy to narrow the pool of suspects to a single family, authorities said Monday.
Authorities say a South Carolina man has been charged in a Michigan woman’s 1988 slaying after investigators used forensic genetic genealogy to narrow the pool of suspects to a single family.
Robert Odell Waters, a 53-year-old man from South Carolina, has been charged in the 1988 killing of a Michigan woman. Investigators used forensic genetic genealogy to find the killer.