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A police detective testified Tuesday that DNA linked to a 17-year-old boy was found on the clothing of a woman found stabbed to death on a Carlsbad hiking trail last month.
Police Detective Josh Bubnis also testified that surveillance footage captured by a camera at a nearby home caught someone who looks like the teen running away from the park about 15 minutes after Lisa Thorborg, 68, was killed on Hosp Grove Trail.
The boy’s attorney said the amount of DNA was small, and the explanation could be as innocent as the two having sat on the same log.
CARLSBAD (KUSI) – The DNA of a 17-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing a 68-year-old woman last month on a Carlsbad hiking trail was found on the victim’s shorts, according to testimony heard Tuesday in San Diego juvenile court.
The teen, whose name was withheld because he is a minor, is charged with murder in the death of Lisa Thorborg, whose body was found on Hosp Grove trail on the morning of Nov. 23.
Tuesday’s hearing revealed some of the preliminary facts that led Carlsbad police to arrest the boy, who still faces the possibility of being charged as an adult.
For three weeks, there were no answers as to who had killed the grandmother.
On Dec. 14, the teenage suspect was arrested at a beach in Carlsbad in connection to Thorborg’s killing. At his arraignment last week, he denied all allegations. Police arrested a 17-year-old Carlsbad resident in connection with the deadly stabbing of a woman on a popular hiking trail. NBC 7 s Alexis Rivas has more.
Tuesday s hearing revealed some of the preliminary facts that led Carlsbad police to arrest the boy, who still faces the possibility of being charged as an adult.
Should a judge rule the teen be tried as an adult, the defendant will be eligible for life without parole.