SPOKANE, Wash. — Major Crimes detectives have used genetic genealogy and DNA to solve a 45-year-old cold murder and sexual assault case in Spokane County.
Richard Vega, 59, was indicted by a Suffolk County grand jury in late August. The defendant was formally charged in early September with the cold case murder of 21-year-old Judy Chamberlain, who was sexually assaulted and then killed inside the former Fargo Building which is now an urban renewal site known as the Boston Seaport.
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