A man has been charged in the 2003 rape and killing of a woman after he was arrested following recent machete attacks, according to Philadelphia authorities, who say DNA evidence allegedly linked him to the cold case.
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Elias Diaz, 48, was charged on Sunday with the attacks on Pennypack Trail in Northeast Philadelphia, near a makeshift shelter he built, and cops soon realized he was a rape suspect
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Police sources tell FOX 29 that a man who was recently arrested in a series of knife attacks on a Philadelphia trail is believed to be behind one of the city's most infamous cold cases.