Pa. man, 75, pleads not guilty to killing woman in 1969
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
SAN DIEGO (AP) A 75-year-old Pennsylvana man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to strangling a young Southern California mother in 1969.
John Sipos entered the plea in San Diego County Superior Court and was ordered held on $3 million bail.
Prosecutors and police said DNA evidence and forensic genealogy led to his arrest in the half-century-old killing of Mary Scott.
Scott, 23, was living alone in an apartment in the North Park neighborhood of San Diego on Nov. 20, 1969 when someone kicked in her door, broke her jaw during a fight, raped and killed her, prosecutors said.
North Whitehall man pleads not guilty, held in lieu of $3M bail in cold case California killing
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
A 75-year-old North Whitehall Township man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to strangling a young Southern California mother in 1969.
John Sipos entered the plea in San Diego County Superior Court and was ordered held on $3 million bail.
Prosecutors and police said DNA evidence and forensic genealogy led to his arrest in the half-century-old killing of Mary Scott.
Scott, 23, was living alone in an apartment in the North Park neighborhood of San Diego on Nov. 20, 1969 when someone kicked in her door, broke her jaw during a fight, raped and killed her, prosecutors said.
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SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – A man who allegedly murdered a City Heights woman at her home more than a half-century ago, then was identified as a suspect through forensic genealogy and arrested on the East Coast this year, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a murder charge.
John Sipos, 75, is accused in the Nov. 20, 1969, slaying of 24-year-old Mary Scott, who was found dead inside her home in the 4000 block of 39th Street, according to San Diego police.
Deputy District Attorney Chris Lindberg said Sipos broke into the woman’s home, raped and strangled her, breaking her jaw in the process.
Police and prosecutors have not commented on a suspected motive for the killing or the relationship, if any, between Sipos and Scott.
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